From: tallman%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Robert Oliver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: A Star Trek Timeline (part 1 of 2)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 14:19:11 EST
Organization: Ailanthus Project

The following is a Star Trek timeline based primarily on cannonicial 
(sp?) sources.  It was posted previously with severe warnings not to get 
get carried away with falmes for inaccuracy, etc.  The result was only
one person responded to the last post.  Therefore, please feel free to 
comment in any fashion you desire -- flames, death threats, complaints, 
corrections, etc.  Thanks and enjoy.
  
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S O U R C E S :
ST:TOS* - Star Trek: The Original Series (* = season)
ST:TMP - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
ST:TMPN - Star Trek: The Motion Picture Novelization
ST:TWOK - Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
ST:TSFS - Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
ST:TVH - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
ST:TFF - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
ST:TUC - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
ST:TNG* - Star Trek The Next Generation (* = season)
NGTM* - Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (*=page number)
ST:DS9 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
SPEC - Speculation
 
597,630 BC - Circa, The Age of Makto.  The Tkon Empire is destroyed when
             its central star goes supernova. The only known remnant of
             the empire is Portal 63 in the Delphi Ardu System.  ST:TNG1
             "The Last Outpost"
 
 47,725 BC - Bele begins his hunt for Lokai. ST:TOS3 "Let That Be Your
             Last Battlefield".
   7728 BC - The Yonadan asteroid is launched. ST:TOS3 "For the World is
             Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".
   3834 BC - Birth date of the "immortal" Flint on Earth (Mesopotamia).
             Flint existed on Earth as Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes
             Brahms and other artists/intellects before travelling to
             Holberg 917-G, where he intends to die (circa 2270.)
             ST:TOS3 "Requiem For Methuselah."
 
0700 8th Century
0765 Circa. The start of the Solari Wars on Solais 5. In 2365 the
     warring factions on Solais ask for Federation help in transporting
     the mediator Riva to their planet to negotiate for peace.  ST:TNG2
     "Loud as a Whisper".
 
0300 4th Century
0360 Circa. The Kaelonians adopt their ritual suicide The Resolution,
     dictating that every member of their race commits suicide at age
     60.  ST:TNG4 "Half a Life"
 
1300 14th Century
1367 The mythological "Contract of Arda" is made on Ventax 2.  Arda
     guarantees 1000 years of peace in exchange for the soul of every
     lifeform on the planet when the contract expires.  ST:TNG4 "Devil's
     Due".
1370 Circa. The Kataan sun goes supernova. The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-
     D, makes contact with a probe from Kataan in 2368. ST:TNG5 "The
     Inner Light".
 
1700 18th Century
1770 The start of the Eminian War. ST:TOS1 "A Taste of Armageddon".
 
1800 19th Century
1868 Circa. An unidentified alien race from the Uxmal Star System
     imprisons the consciousness of several hundred prisoners from their
     world on the moon of Mabu 6. ST:TNG5 "Power Play".
 
1893 August 12. Data arrives in San Francisco (from 2369) after being
     inadvertantly caught in a time dialation.  ST:TNG5 "Time's Arrow,
     Part 1".
 
1900 20th Century
1930 Circa. Using the Guardian of Forever, Leonard McCoy accidentally
     travels (from 2270) back in time to the 1930's and alters history.
     James Kirk and Spock follow and are able to correct the alteration
     and return to their own time. ST:TOS1 "The City On The Edge Of
     Forever".
1939 Approximate birth date of Frank Oppenhouse on Earth. ST:TNG1 "The
     Neutral Zone".
1959 Approximate birth date of Claire Raymond on Earth. ST:TNG1 "The
     Neutral Zone".
1967 An encounter with a black star sends the Enterprise back in time to
     Earth (from 2270.) After removing evidence of their appearance, the
     Enterprise is able to return to its own time. ST:TOS1 "Tomorrow Is
     Yesterday".
1968 The Enterprise travels back in time to study how the Earth avoided
     an atomic war during the 1960's (from 2271.) ST:TOS2 "Assignment:
     Earth".
1975 Circa. The Voyager 6 probe is launched from Earth. The probe
     disappeared into a "black hole" and was presumably found by an
     alien intelligence that modified the probe and sent it back to look
     for its creator on Earth. ST:TMP.
1986 The renegade Kirk and crew time travel to Earth (from 2286) to
     capture a pair of Humpback whales needed to answer the call of an
     orbiting probe that is threatening to sterilize the planet. ST:TVH.
     1992 "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties" is published. ST:TOS2 "A Piece
     of the Action". Khan Singh comes into power on Earth. ST:TOS1
     "Space Seed".
1994 Approximate date of death for Claire Raymond, Ralph Oppenhouse and
     L.Q. Sonny Bonds. ST:TNG1 "The Neutral Zone."
1995 Circa. The Eugenic Wars on Earth. ST:TOS1 "Space Seed", ST:TWOK.
1996 The SS Botany Bay, carrying Khan Singh and his followers in
     cryogenic freeze, is launched from Earth. ST:TWOK.
 
2000 21st Century
2000 Circa +. Humpback whales are hunted into extinction on Earth.
     ST:TVH.
2020 The Nomad space probe is launched from Earth, its mission to seek
     out alien life forms. The probe would eventually meet and combine
     with an alien probe named Tan-Ru. This malign combination would be
     discovered and destroyed by the Enterprise in 2271 ST:TOS2 "The
     Changeling".
2024 The Irish Unification. ST:TNG3 "The High Ground".
2030 Circa. Birth date of Zefram Cochrane on Earth. ST:TOS2
     "Metamorphosis".
2036 The New United Nations declares: "No Earth citizen can be made to
     answer for the crimes of their race or forbears". ST:TNG1
     "Encounter At Farpoint, Part 1".
2040 Circa. Television begins its decline as a popular entertainment
     medium on Earth. ST:TNG1 "The Neutral Zone."
2043-2047. The Mind Control Revolts on Earth. ST:TMPN
2050 Circa. The process of cryogenics falls out of favor on Earth.
     ST:TNG1 "The Neutral Zone."
2061 Zefram Cochrane's engineering team develops a prototype CDP
     (continuum distortion principle) engine capable of light speed
     travel.  NGTM-54.
2065 Approximate date Zefram Cochrane relocates to Alpha Centauri
     colony. NGTM-54.
2070 Circa. The galactic survey vessel Valiant is destroyed while
     attempting to leave the galaxy. ST:TOSP "Where No Man Has Gone
     Before".
2079 The New United Nations has been abolished by this time. ST:TNG1
     "Encounter At Farpoint, Part 1".
 



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