From: number6@milton.u.washington.edu (John Drake)
Subject: Re: Alternate universe history
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 09:57:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.010652.2665@zooid.guild.org> Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>dth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower) writes...
>DH> Several months ago, somone posted an "alternate universe" history to
>DH> this newsgroup.  This history recorded the events that took place in the
>DH> alternate universe from the "Mirror, mirror" episode, such as Edith
>DH> Keeler surviving, the Nazis winning WWI, etc.

>David, I would be rather skeptical about accepting such a timeline as being
>the "definitive" timeline where Edith Keeler survived, leading to the victory
>of the Nazis, and ultimately to a fascist dictatorship in space.
>
>Why?  If I recall the events of "City on the Edge Of Forever," the non-death
>of Edith Keeler also caused the Enterprise's "away team" to be stranded on
>the planet's surface, because the Nazis who had taken over the Earth, never
>bothered to develop space technology, or at least not the Enterprise, and
>therefore, there was no Federation in space to rescue them.
>
>In other words, I would be *very* skeptical of linking the non-death of Edith
>Keeler and the "Mirror, Mirror" episode as being causally related on the
>*same* time line, ie., Keeler's survival could *not* have brought about the
>events leading to "Mirror, Mirror".

	*sigh*  So disheartening to see such skepticism and cynicism
	in the world today.  :)

	I'm the one of the authors of the aforementioned timeline.  My 
	fanzine, _The_Tantalus_Field,_ features fiction based in the Mirror
	Universe, and we had to come up with a consistent and coherent 
	background for our stories.  It eventually turned into a complete
	history that's part of the Officer's Manual our members receive.

	We decided that it would be more dramatically valid to have the
	divergence-point of the two universes be something we already 
	saw in the series -- one of the time-travel stories.  "City on 
	the Edge of Forever" was the best example of that, with a 
	divergent timeline whose history we never learned past the 
	1940's.  This, plus the irony of the gentle Dr. McCoy being 
	indirectly responsible for creating the Empire, made using this
	episode irresistable.

	Careful examination of the episode's dialog revealed that in 
	fact all the Guardian states to the Enterprise crew is that 
	"your ship ... all that you have known ... is gone."  This 
	only means the Federation, and THEIR Enterprise, no longer 
	exists, not that nothing could have rose up to replace them.
	(The landing party was just damn lucky the I.S.S. Enterprise
	is no exploration vessel -- otherwise it might have been in 
	orbit when they tried to call their ship . . . . )

	The dialog in _City_ does strongly *imply* what you suggest,
	and that probably is what was intended.  But since it doesn't
	come right out and say it, there's room for a little creativity.

	Below is a copy of our Timeline.  See what you think of it.
	(Excuse some of the weird spacing -- it acted strange when I 
	took out the TeX commands.)

	[CHEAP, SLEAZY PLUG -- Anybody, feel free to e-mail me if you
	have questions about subscribing to the _Tantalus_Field_ and
	becoming members of Imperial StarBase Seattle!   :)  ] 

---------------------8<------*snip, snip*------------8<--------8<-------

		M I R R O R    U N I V E R S E   T I M E L I N E

	by Michael J Montoure and Doug Odell.    This may be reproduced
	electronically so long as this copyright notice remains intact.
	Hard copies are acceptable for personal use only. This document
	may not be reproduced for profit.   _Star_Trek_ and all related
	marks are trademarks of Paramount Pictures.  This is an amateur
	effort that is not intended to infringe on those rights.    
				     (c) 1992 Imperial StarBase Seattle


 -- 1939 --   Edith Keeler becomes the founder and leader of the World
	Peace Foundation, stopping U.S. aid to Europe.

 -- 1941 --   On December 7th, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and the
	U.S. enters World War II.

 -- 1942 --  In the spring, Rommel's Afrika Corps succeeds in capturing 
	the Suez Canal.

    The German Nazi Party, having completed their heavy water 
	experiments, test their first atomic bomb on London.

    In the fall, the Nazis deliver an atomic bomb on the Russian
    city of Stalingrad.

    (All atomic bombs thus far have been delivered by crude piston
    driven bomber aircraft.)
		
 -- 1943 --  In the summer, the German air force succeeds in producing the
	Me-262, the first successful jet fighter aircraft.

	In the fall, the V-2 rocket program is heralded as a success
	when a V-2 rocket is used to deliver an atomic bomb on the
	Russian capitol of Moscow.

	In the winter, having been brutalized by the hands of Germany,
	Russia surrenders.

 -- 1944 --  In the spring, Germany secretly succeeds in launching a V-2
	rocket from a submerged U-boat.

	In the summer, using this tactic, an atomic bomb is delivered
	on New York harbor and the business district.   

	In September, a Japanese submarine executes a kamikaze attack
	utilizing a Nazi-built atomic bomb on the U.S. Pacific Fleet's
	anchorage at Ulithi. 

    In October, utilizing their new jet technology, the German air
    machine proceeds from Europe proper to England to Iceland to
	Greenland and initiates an invasion of Canada.

	In November, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the
	presidential election to Wilkie.  

 -- 1945 --  In January, the Japanese fleet successfully blockades, invades,
	and conquers Hawaii.

    In the spring, Canada officially surrenders to German 
	Unified Europe.

 -- 1946 --  South America through Brazil falls to Nazi control due to
	economic pressures.

 -- 1947 --  In the fall, with the assistance of the new World Nazi 
	Government, Mexico invades Texas and California simultaneously.

 -- 1948 --  In the spring, the Nazi World Government demands the U.S.
	surrender under the threat of atomic annihilation. 

	In the summer, President Wilkie surrenders to the Nazi World
	Government and is impeached.

	In the fall, the Nazi-backed American Unifying Party wins the
	November presidential election, instituting a puppet state 
	under the thriving Nazi World Government.
 
 -- 1952 --  On May 3rd, it was announced that Hitler had died of acute
	syphilis and that Goebbels has succeeded him as the Fuehrer.

 -- 1963 --  Goebbels, fearing the political strength of American Unifying
	Party leader John F. Kennedy, has him assassinated and replaced by
	Johnson.

 -- 1966.5 --     As the American space program begins its buildup, a 
	propaganda campaign is started to emphasize the importance of
	space exploration in the public mind.  At the forefront of this
	propaganda campaign is a new television series glorifying space
	travel.  It premieres on national television on September 8th.

 -- 1968 --  	The first orbital flight around the moon is accomplished
	by the Americanazi  Apollo astronauts.

 -- 1970 --  American and Japanese troops discover and storm various 
	Middle-East laboratories that have been discovered to be experimenting
	with eugenics in the hopes of creating an ``improved human'' that could
	rise up and conquer the Nazi party.  It is unknown at this time how many
	years these labs have been in operation, or indeed, if any of these
	``genetic supermen'' were ever created.

 -- 1976 --  	The unmanned probe  Fuehrer lands on Mars.

 -- 1981 --  	Japanese Space Shuttle flights begin.

 -- 1986 --  	The Japanese Shuttle  Rising Sun is shot down by
   	Americanazi missiles as it attempts to place spy satellites
	in orbit.

 -- 1991 --  	Khan Noonian Singh seizes control of several Third World
	nations in daring coup attempts to free the world from the
 	grip of Nazi domination.

 -- 1991 --    As more of the so-called ``genetic supermen'' are found
	in America, Regional Co-ordinator David Duke begins to establish 
	concentration camps for them in the southern states.

 -- 1992 --   The Soviet Union collapses as the Nazi-backed leader
	Gorbachev is overthrown by a coup.  Despite the attempts of other 
	governments to hold it together, the Union dissolves and is 
	recrystalized as the Baltic Empire under Tsar Yeltsin.

 -- 1993 --    The Eugenics Wars begin as the followers of Khan Noonian
	Singh invade Japan.

 -- 1994 --    American Assistant Secretary of War Colonel Green seizes
	control of the American Nazi Party and forges a strong military alliance
	with Canada.

 -- 1995 --   The Nazi puppet government of Africa is overthrown
	and massacred as North and South Africa unites as the African Empire.

 -- 1996 --  	The Eugenics Wars end, having  
    caused the deaths of forty-five million people.
	The Nazi party is weakened, and although they manage to 
	capture and exile Noonian Singh and his compatriots, his
	name lives on as an inspiration.

 -- 1997 --   China invades and conquers a weakened Japan, founding 
	the Eurasian Dominion.

 -- 1998 --  	The remaining members of the Nazi World Government are 
	rounded up, tried, and exiled to deep space in sleeper ships.
	The American Unifying Party, led by Colonel Green, strongest of
	the puppet governments, becomes the creator of the Empire of
	Nations:  a loose alliance of the AmeriCanadian Complex, the Baltic
	and African Empires, and the Eurasian Dominion, a partnership designed 
	to take control of the chaos left by the Eugenics Wars and fill
	the void left by the now-defunct Nazi Party.

 -- 1999 --  In an attempt to further distance themselves from the policies
	and practices of the Nazi Party in the eyes of the world, the 
	Empire of Nations publicly proclaims that all races, creeds, 
	and nationalities will be given equal status under Imperial rule.

 -- 2002 --  The Empire of Nations ``convinces'' the Eurasian Dominion 
	to surrender their fleet of DY-100 long range space shuttles for 
	Imperial use.

 -- 2005 --  	The space station  Tsiolkovsky is constructed as the first
	permanent inhabitable moonbase.

 -- 2009 --  	The Imperial Space Initiative is passed, as the Empire of 
 	Nations recognizes that the best way to pull the world's 
	people together is by turning focus outward.  Although the 
 	process of rebuilding civilization is going as well as can 
	be expected, Earth still no longer seems like a viable home
	for humanity.  The Imperial Space Initiative focuses on the
	best ways to exploit the Solar System for the use of humanity. 

 -- 2015 --  	The first Imperial Space Fleet is founded, utilizing several
	of the old Japanese space shuttles, now refitted with fusion
	drives.  The first of these upgraded vessels is christened the
	 Enterprise. 

 -- 2021 --  	Terraforming of Venus begins.

 -- 2022 --  	In hopes of discovering viable planets around other stars,
	the  Nomad series of probes is launched.

 -- 2023 --  	Terraforming of Mars begins.

 -- 2025 --  	Geon holes are discovered, and Subspace radio is invented. 
	A second series of probes with communications links using 
	this technology, the  Dominion series, is launched a few
	months later.

 -- 2029 --  	Thanks to promising reports from a  Dominion probe, a sleeper
	ship, the  Intrepid, is launched to Alpha Centauri.  Reports
	from the probe seem to indicate a civilization of some kind
	exists there.

 -- 2031 --  	Evidence is found on Titan that an alien race visited the
	Solar System thousands of years ago and may have had some
	role in the evolution of man. 

 -- 2036 --  	Due to promising reports from  Intrepid , the Imperial 
	Space Fleet refits the old DY-100 class sleeper ships with
	fusion drive, anticipating an exploration and possible conquest
	of an entirely new life form. 

 -- 2040 --  	Television as an entertainment media is outlawed by the 
	Empire of Nations, after Imperial strike forces wipe out a team of
	television investigators trying to find the truth behind the 
	government's intentions towards the Alpha Centaurians.
	 
 -- 2042 --  	The first contact with extraterrestrial life.  The  I.S.S. 
	Isabella I leads a small fleet of fusion DY-100 vessels into 
	orbit around Alpha Centauri.  Within a few days, the planet's
	government has agreed to the Fleet's demands of territoriality.

 -- 2047 --  	First contact with the Vulcans.  The Vulcans, who also claim
	a right to the Alpha Centauri system, seem at first a hostile 
	threat to the Empire of Nations, but agreements are soon
	reached for Terrans and Vulcans to settle Alpha Centauri
	together.

 -- 2051 --  The first permanent settlement of Terrans and Vulcans is
	erected on Alpha Centauri.

 -- 2057 --  	When trade routes between Earth, Alpha Centauri, and Vulcan
	grow less and less successful, the Empire of Nations suspects
	that a fourth race is undercutting Imperial Terran monopolies.

 -- 2062 --  	These suspicions are confirmed when the  I.S.S. Colonel Green 
	encounters an Orion vessel.  The Orions are a race dedicating
	to preserving fair, free, and honest trade between races, but
	their resistance quickly falls to the might of the combined
	Terran and Vulcan forces as these forces annihilate Rigel
	Three.

 -- 2070 --  	 I.S.S. Valiant disappears at edge of the galaxy, leaving 
	only mysterious accounts of a strange energy barrier.  The Terrans
	and Vulcans agree to declare the area off limits.

 -- 2074 --  	Zefrem Cochrane, an Alpha Centaurian, attempts to build a 
	new drive system called Warp Drive in hopes that he can lead his
	people away to freedom and outrun all other vessels.  He is
	successful in that he creates Warp Drive; however, he is not so
	successful in keeping its secrets from Imperial Intelligence.

 -- 2082 --  	The first warp capable vessel, the  I.S.S. Bonaventure , 
	NCC-0001, is constructed as a joint effort between Terrans and Vulcans.
	This vessel is capable of speeds of up to Warp 2.5.

 -- 2091 --   First contact with the Klingons.  The  K.F.S. Morning's Song 
	is captured by the  I.S.S. Bonaventure and is subsequently destroyed
	when its crew prefers death to subjugation.  The Klingons appear at 
	this time to be no threat to the Empire, as their peaceful, scientific
	ways seem to have never led them into war.

 -- 2092 --  Information gleaned from Orion sources reveals that the Klingons
	somehow control an alliance of several like-minded races that they have
	somehow managed to hold together through neither conquest nor threats.
	The resources that the Klingon Free States are rumored to hold seem too
	good to be true, but the Terran/Vulcan Coalition is already pushing 
	for conquest of the Klingons.

 -- 2093 - 2097 --  The Four Years War begins.  The Klingons, despite their
	reluctance to fight, manage to defend themselves admirably.  The 
	Terrans and Vulcans, finding that the rumors of Klingon wealth were 
	exaggerations, set up and maintain a Klingon Containment Zone to keep 
	Klingon ships confined to their own territory after the Battle of 
	Axanar.

 -- 2100 --  Rigel IX perishes in flames as the Orions learn the price of
	their exaggeration.

 -- 2115 --  The first signals are detected from the Andromeda Galaxy.  
	Scientists are uncertain, but the signals could mean signs of 
	intelligent life.  

 -- 2122 --  Warp drive is upgraded to speeds of Warp 5.3.  The misnomer
	``Time-Warp Drive'' is abandoned as physicists begin to better 
	understand the nature of warp field mechanics.

 -- 2124 --  The  Bonaventure II is launched, using this new generation of
	warp technology.

 -- 2132 --  First contact with the Tellarites.  A Tellarite vessel engages
	a Vulcan craft in combat, mistaking it for a ship of some other race.
	Strangely, the Tellarites thought that the Vulcan ship belonged to some
	as yet unknown peaceful race.  The Vulcans categorically deny having
	any previous contact with the Tellarites, and laugh at the idea of 
	being thought of as ``peaceful''. 

 -- 2135 --  Rumors of this unknown peacelike spacefaring race seems confirmed
	when trading goods of an unknown origin, yet similar to items of Vulcan 
	manufacture, begin to appear on the outer fringes of the Orion trading 
	worlds.  Despite widespread interrogation, the Orion traders deny all 
	knowledge of where these items came from.

 -- 2137 --  Ruins of a destroyed Klingon vessel, crashed on a Terran outpost
	during the Four Years War, reveals that the Klingons use some of this 
	``Vulcan'' equipment for their scientific research.  

 -- 2137.5 --  The Vulcan War Council argues that this is proof that the 
	``peaceful'' Klingons have been stealing from Vulcan outposts and 
	copying their designs.  Arguments that the language written on these 
	items is in Old High Vulcan and not Klingonaase fall on deaf ears.

 -- 2139 --  Negotiations with the Klingons begin to break down as the 
	Klingons deny that they have copied Vulcan designs, but will not reveal 
	where they obtained the trade goods.

 -- 2142 --  A long range scout, the  I.S.S. Brigand , while on a fact finding
	mission into Klingon space, spots a underarmed modified Vulcan vessel, 
	which subsequently disappears from the  Brigand 's scanners.  
	Although the  Brigand 's captain executes several sensor officers in
	an attempt to find one who can track down the vanished ship, it succeeds
	in eluding them.

 -- 2146 --   A top-secret meeting of the Vulcan War Council is held. 
	The Council succeeds in keeping the best efforts of Terran intelligence
	from discovering even the basic outlines of the meeting.

 -- 2148 --  	A Vulcan Bird of Prey explores the Daelus system and 
	discovers that the Romulans, a tribe of renegade Vulcans who followed
	Surak into exile to practice his ideology of peace and logic,
	still survives.  The Romulans at this point have a small
	alliance of worlds they have won over to their pacifistic ways.

 -- 2150 --  	After asking the Terrans for help garrisoning the worlds they
 	control, the Vulcans launch into a war against the Romulans.
	The Vulcan fleet is severely and surprisingly damaged by the
	Romulans, who despite their ideals of peace, manage to do quite
	well at defending themselves from attack.

 -- 2157 --  	The first Romulan War ends, leaving the Vulcan fleet damaged,
	but successfully confining the Romulans within an area of space
	that would come to be known as the Romulan Containment Zone.

 -- 2160 --  	Terra offers its ``protection'' to Vulcan while it rebuilds 
	its fleet; for a price.  Despite protests from Vulcan diplomats,
	steps are set into motion that will increase the strength of
	Terra.

 -- 2164 --  	At a conference on the subjugate planet Babel, due to the 
	more powerful position of the Terrans, the Terran Empire is formed.
	Despite assurances from Earth that the Vulcans are still
	considered the equals of Terrans, the Vulcan delegation remains
	unconvinced.

 -- 2165 --  	Due to the Vulcan misgivings at the Babel Conference, the
	Emperor awards the hand of Amanda Greyson, daughter of one of
	his advisors, to Ambassador Tactician Sarek in marriage.

 -- 2168 --  	The Vulcan Academy of Sciences Genetic Manipulation 
	department engineers a son between Sarek and Amanda as a further 
	symbol of unity between the Terran Empire and the Vulcan Hegemony.  
	This child is named Spock, after one of the early Vulcan warlords
	who united two disagreeing nations.

 -- 2172 --  	Ambassador Tactician Sarek surprises the Vulcan Council by
	suggesting that perhaps some of Surak's idea were correct;
	logic has proven itself to be effective, at least when applied
	to the art of warfare.

 -- 2175 --  	By Sarek's request, teaching of logic disciplines begins 
	in Vulcan early education.  One of the first pupils for this
	course is the Ambassador Tactician's son, Spock.

 -- 2179 --   Garth of Izar becomes the first non-Terran to captain an
	Imperial vessel, the  I.S.S. Yorktown .

 -- 2182 --   Captain Garth's first officer, Robert April, assassinates 
	him and uses the ship's Marines to take command of the vessel.
	This establishes a precedent for rank advancement by assassination.

 -- 2184 --  After the successful five year mission of the  Yorktown, 
	Captain April is brought up on trial before the Imperial Star Fleet
	Board of Inquiry.  He is found innocent on charges of treason for 
	assassinating his captain; in fact, his successful subjugation of
	several border worlds is considered ``extenuating circumstances.''

 -- 2190 --   Rebellions begin on several of the outer Border Worlds.

 -- 2201 --   The  I.S.S. Republic is forced to destroy the colony
	of Argelius when the colonists refuse to meet with Imperial demands.

 -- 2202 --   In the most highly publicized trial in years, Captain 
	Langstrom of the  I.S.S. Republic is defended by the Imperial Council
	for his actions at the Argelius colony.  Several people, including
	Ambassador Tactician Sarek, argue that he was correct in destroying the
	colony, and that a "balance of terror" must be maintained between the
	Empire and its subjugate worlds.  Langstrom is pardoned and returned to
	his captaincy.

 -- 2207 --   A band of terrorists calling themselves the Argelian 
	Remembrance Organization begins to stir unrest on some of the outer 
	worlds.  Imperial Intelligence begins collecting information on the 
	terrorists, although they are not yet considered to be a threat to 
	Imperial security.

 -- 2212 --  The A.R.O. make their first significant strike against the
	Empire with the bombing of Starbase 19.  Over three hundred Imperial 
	personnel are killed in the bombing.

 -- 2213 --  An Imperial News Service begins, as images of the destruction
	of Argelius are broadcast to dozens of subjugate planets.

 -- 2216 --  Imperial Marine troops storm an A.R.O. base on Ceti Alpha V,
	rendering the planet nearly uninhabitable in the process.

 -- 2228 --  The A.R.O. is finally crushed when rebel leader Roger Blake
	is executed.  The Imperial News Service carries a live broadcast of the
	five-hour long agonizer session.  The remaining A.R.O. members surrender
	within days.

 -- 2231 --   It is discovered that Captain Travis of the  I.S.S.
	Mata Hari allowed a female reporter from the I.N.S. to accompany the 
	landing party that captured Blake and his men.  Travis is stripped of
	his captaincy and the reporter, Christina Rollins, becomes the first
	civilian to receive an Imperial commendation for bravery.

 -- 2240 --  	Women are allowed to serve in the Star Fleet.

 -- 2243 --   Rebellions on the outer planets continue as the Empire 
	discovers that discontent did not die out with the A.R.O.

 -- 2248 --  	A new class of vessel, designed to put down the growing
	rebellions on subjugate planets, is constructed.  These vessels
	are named the  Manifesto Class, and the most famous of these
	vessels was the  I.S.S. Enterprise , partially due to it being
	the first cruiser to have women aboard, and partially due to it
	being the first vessel to bear as its symbol a variation of the
	Imperial Seal.

 -- 2256 --  	The  Enterprise, after a successful shakedown cruise, 
	begins its first five year mission under Captain Christopher Pike.
	 
 -- 2257 --  	ISS Enterprise visits Talos IV.  Events of this visit are
	classified under a Red Five notation. 

 -- 2260 --   Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott invents the Mind Sifter, a 
	device which greatly speeds interrogation of captured prisoners.

 -- 2265 --  	Last message from Roger Korby on Exo III.

 -- 2267 --  	Lt. Cmdr James T. Kirk, security chief on board the
	 Enterprise, takes advantage of his position to assassinate Christopher 
	Pike when he discovers the truth of the Talos IV incident.

 -- 2268.5 --  	The  Enterprise is involved in an incident coded in 
	Imperial Intelligence files as the ``Mirror, Mirror'' event.  All 
	officers are cautioned by Internal Security Chief Sulu not to speak of
	the affair.

 -- 2269 --  	The  I.S.S. Enterprise captures the  S.S. Botany Bay, 
	which contains the frozen genetic supermen of the 1990's, who are led
	by Khan Noonian Singh.  Kirk's arrogance and ineptitude leads
	to Khan's takeover of the  Enterprise and his own exile on
	Ceti Alpha Five.  The five year mission continues . . . . with
	a different captain.  Commander Spock ``acquires'' the Tantalus
	Field, managing to keep Khan from learning of its existence by
	securing the trust of Kirk's ex-consort, Marlena Moreau.

 -- 2274 --  	The five-year mission ends.  The insignia of the  Enterprise 
	is adopted throughout Star Fleet in recognition of Admiral Khan
	Noonian Singh.

 -- 2275.5 --  	 Enterprise refit.  Spock denies a promotion to Captain, 
	as he feels he can better serve Khan at his present position and
	rank.

 -- 2276.5 --  	Captain Will Decker mysteriously vanishes in the process 
	of subduing V'Ger and is presumed dead.  The Decker name is
	stricken from the records and disallowed for use in the Empire,
	due to the incompetence of both father and son. 

	The events surrounding Decker's disappearance are classified Eyes Only 
	by Imperial Intelligence; discussion of the incident carries the death
	penalty.

 -- 2278 --  	Women are given legal equality and allowed to rise beyond 
	the rank of Lt. Commander in Star Fleet.

 -- 2280 --    Due to fears that the Security department of Star Fleet
	has become too powerful, the branch is divided into Security and
	Internal Security, the latter branch absorbing the duties of the 
	former Imperial Intelligence.

 -- 2283 --  	Spock promoted to Captain and given command of the Enterprise 
	by Admiral Singh.

 -- 2285 --  	While Admiral Singh is aboard the  Enterprise inspecting her
	latest refit and new crew, the exiled Kirk captures the  I.S.S.
	Reliant while that ship was on a survey mission of the Ceti
	Alpha system for the experimentation into the stolen Klingon
	Genesis Device under the guidance of Doctor Marlena Moreau.

 -- 2286 --  	Khan's son, Joachim, is lost during a conflict with a 
	pair of Klingon Bird of Peace scouts trying to recover the Genesis
	device and is presumed dead.  The  I.S.S. Enterprise is lost
	and Admiral Khan succeeds in capturing one of the Klingon
	scouts with the aid of the  Enterprise bridge staff; all other
	Enterprise crew are lost.  The other Bird of Peace managed to
	escape.

 -- 2286.5 --  In honor of the lost ship, and at the request of Admiral
	Singh, the  I.S.S. Executioner , another refit  Manifesto 
	class vessel, is rechristened the  Enterprise and given the
	hull numbers NCC-1701-A.

 -- 2287 --  A malignant probe invades the Terra system, ionizing the 
	atmosphere of Terra and sending a meaningless signal towards the oceans.  
	V'Ger, still in it's ``sleep'' mode in one of the Lagrange points, is 
	remembered by Admiral Noonian Singh, then returning to Earth in his 
	prize, the Klingon Bird of Peace scout.  Admiral Singh and his crew 
	travel back to Earth's Nazi-dominated twentieth century to recover 
	the missing V'Ger command codes.  Unfortunately, due to problems in 
	returning to the present, the Bird of Peace is damaged beyond repair, 
	including the valuable Cloaking Device.  Singh uses the codes to see 
	that V'Ger is awakened and dispatched to deal with this new threat.
	V'Ger succeeds
    V'Ger succeeds in destroying the probe, but it too is lost in the battle.

 -- 2292 --   The  I.S.S. Enterprise is destroyed while helping a Vulcan 
	armada hold back a border raid by the Romulans.  The Vulcans offer
	to help Terra replace the vessel; the Terrans greedily accept, having
	found no other way to devote resources to the building of the 
	proposed  Excelsior class battlecruisers.

 -- 2293 --  	Vulcan petitions Star Fleet for assistance in conquering
	Romulan space as their own.  Fleet Admiral Singh denies the
	request, saying that the annexed Romulan space would belong to
	the Empire, and not to Vulcan.

 -- 2293.5 --  The  Excelsior class  Enterprise-B is launched
	on its shakedown cruise under Captain Sulu.

 -- 2294 --  	While visiting the new Enterprise, Fleet Admiral Singh 
	mysteriously vanishes, and Commodore Spock succeeds him as Fleet Admiral.

 -- 2294.5 --   Fleet Admiral Spock, with the permission of Emperor Heihachiro
	Nogura, grants the Vulcan request for assistance in conquering
	the Romulan Confederation.

 -- 2295 --  	Vulcan annexation and colonization of Romulan space begins 
	with the launching of the improved Vulcan Armada, led by the  V.H.V.
	Moralasasi stelam (Nova) battleship.

 -- 2296 --   A surgical strike against the Klingon moon of Praxis
	successfully destroys that satellite and its power generating plant,
	effectively forcing the Klingons to cease providing aid to the Romulans.

 -- 2297 --   Fleet Admiral Spock engineers the Khitomer Conference,
	allegedly to discuss peace and reparations with the Klingon Free States,
	but it is instead a ploy to assassinate Chancellor Gorkon and capture
	a new Klingon prototype -- a vessel capable of firing while cloaked.
	Although Rear Admiral Cartwright, working with the Klingons, prevented
	the capture of the prototype, enough was learned about cloaking 
	technology to build the Empire's first working Cloaking Device.  Captain
	Sulu assassinated Admiral Cartwright and took his place as head of 
	Internal Security.

 -- 2297.5 --   The  I.S.S. Enterprise is the first Imperial 
	Vessel equipped with a fully-functional Cloaking Device.
		
 -- 2298 --  	Fleet Admiral Spock gives the Klingon Cloaking device to the
	Vulcan Colonial Armada, which allows them to turn the tide
	against the Romulans.

 -- 2311 --  	The last remaining Romulan resistance is crushed. 

 -- 2312 --  	Vulcan petitions the Terran Empire to allow the newly annexed
	Romulan space to become known as the Vulcan Colonies, and for
	the majority of the Vulcan Armada to be stationed there.  The
	Empire agrees.  As a token of faith, three Vulcan vessels are
	reclassified as Imperial starships, and a new era of
	cooperation begins.

 -- 2315 --  	New ShiKahr is established as the new capital of Romulus.

 -- 2317 --  The Enterprise-B is lost while attempting to track down a
	mysterious new race that has been reopening the old Orion
	underground trading routes.  A new  Alaska class vessel being
	built at the Halkan shipyards is hastily modified in mid-construction
	and is named  Enterprise. 

 -- 2318 --  The  I.S.S. Vlad Tepes is exploring the abandoned colony of
	Exo III when it finds Roger Korby, cyberneticist, who claims to have
	been trapped there in cryogenic suspension by Captain James T. Kirk
	of the original  I.S.S. Enterprise .  

	Korby is found to be, in fact, a cunning android replica of the real
	Roger Korby, who died more than fifty years ago.  The android is 
	dismantled and returned to Fleet Command, where it is examined by
	a fascinated Admiral Spock.

 -- 2324 --   Reports trickle in to Fleet Command that some new cybernetic
	race has been encountered beyond the Vulcan Colonies.  Vulcan is strangely
	silent about this matter.

 -- 2339 --   During an investigation of Klingon claims that there are
	still living Romulans in hiding, the  Enterprise-C is mysteriously lost.

 -- 2341 --  Spock's first experiment in building an android is unsuccessful,
	as the prototype is far too human in its outlook and is much too 
	compassionate too report on the activities of others in an unbiased
	manner.  The prototype, codenamed ``Lore,'' is scrapped.

 -- 2342 --  The second attempt is much more successful, as Spock and his new
	assistant, Dr. Noonian Soongh, manage to build an android with the
	capability to store an immense amount of Internal Security data.  
	This second android is codenamed ``Data'' and is slated for release
	as an autonomous Internal Security Officer on board a starship, but
	only after several years of testing.

 -- 2343 --  Dr. Soongh disappears mysteriously after he transmits a half-
	garbled message to Star Fleet Command stating that Spock built 
	Data for the purpose of housing some undisclosed weapon.  The 
	Imperial News Services officially state that Dr. Soongh was 
	probably suffering from a nervous breakdown when he made this
	statement.

 -- 2343.5 --  After Dr. Soongh's disappearance, in a routine check of all
	related security material, the ``Lore'' android is found to be
	missing.

 -- 2346 --  After some investigation, the Empire discovers that someone
	seems to be opening up the old Orion trade routes, seriously undercutting
	Imperial trading.

 -- 2348 --   The  I.S.S. Stargazer , in a routine expeditionary
	procedure, finds an unarmed trading vessel from an unknown race.  Captain
	Picard seriously damages the vessel in combat, which subsequently
	self-destructs.  Picard reports the existence of this ship to Star Fleet
	Command.

 -- 2351 --   Intelligence that has fallen into the hands of the Empire
	shows that the unknown race the  Stargazer encountered is known as
	the Ferengi, and has indeed been trying to cut Imperial economic ties
	with some of its more loosely controlled planets.

 -- 2352 --   A Ferengi vessel encounters the  I.S.S. S'Task.  The
	 S'Task manages to capture the contents of the Ferengi ship's cargo
	hold as well as several living captive before destroying the vessel.

 -- 2357 --   The ``Data" android completes its testing, and Imperial
	Intelligence certifies it for use on Imperial starships.

 -- 2360 --   Recognizing the need for a stronger, more menacing design
	for the fleet's flagship, Fleet Admiral Spock orders that a new  
	Galactic Conqueror design be built.  The Kobayashi Design Bureau 
	immediately bids for the rights to design the new vessel.

 -- 2362 --  Construction of the first of these vessels, the  I.S.S.
	Enterprise, begins.

 -- 2364 --   The  Enterprise is completed and is launched on the
	shakedown phase of its fifteen year mission under Captain Jean-Luc 
	Picard.

 -- 2365 --   As the  Enterprise pulls into Spacedock One for minor
	refitting after the first successful year of its mission, construction 
	is already underway on the second vessel of this class, the  I.S.S. 
	Noonian Singh. 

 -- 2367 --   The  I.S.S. Noonian Singh is launched under Fleet
	Captain Dale W. Brentanos.

 -- 2368 --   While pursuing a Klingon vessel at high-warp speeds, the
	 Singh uses transwarp drive in the middle of an ion storm and finds
	itself in a parallel timestream -- one where the Terran Empire never
	existed, and is replaced by a ``United Federation of Planets.''  The 
	current time in this new timestream appears to be only about the late
	twenty-third century.

 -- 2368.5 --  Recognizing the potential of this discovery for new
	conquests and expansion, Fleet Admiral Spock grants the  Singh's 
	Captain and First Officer a field promotion to Rear Admiral and places
	them in charge of annexing the so-called ``Federation.''  This project
	is dubbed ``Operation: Looking - Glass'', and several ships are to
	be placed at its disposal.

 -- 2269 --   With the help of the Terran Empire's  new allies, the Klingon 
	Empire, StarBase 01 becomes fully operational in the new universe
	as a headquarters for Operation: Looking - Glass.  It is concealed inside
	an asteriod orbiting an unstable star suitable  as an ion/transwarp 
	transfer point.  The facility is larger than any other StarBase ever
	constructed by the Empire.  This is deemed necessary as it is the only
	permanent Imperial installation in this ``Federation'' timeline. 

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