2259

== Events ==
=== Prime reality ===
==== By starship or station ====
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* Una Chin-Riley is given command of the USS Archer. ()
* The Archer is tasked with making first contact with the Kiley. ()
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* The Cayuga is destroyed by the Gorn over Parnassus Beta. ()
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* In an alternate timeline, Captain James T. Kirk is the commanding officer of the . ()
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* Stardate 1739.12
** Christine Chapel is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a nurse. ()
** Doctor Joseph M'Benga is assigned to the USS Enterprise as chief medical officer. ()
** Erica Ortegas is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a helmsman. ()
** La'an Noonien-Singh is assigned to the USS Enterprise as acting first officer and later chief of security. ()
** Cadet Nyota Uhura is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a communications officer. ()
** The Enterprise makes official first contact with the Kiley. ()
* Stardate 2259.42 (February 11)
**The Enterprise departs Starbase 1. ()
**George Samuel Kirk is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a sciences division member. ()
**Hemmer is assigned to the USS Enterprise as chief engineer. ()
* Stardate 2912.4. The Enterprise makes first contact with the s. ()
* Stardate 1224.3. The Enterprise travels to Hetemit IX to investigate a former Illyrian colony. During the mission, Captain Christopher Pike and Lieutenant Spock are trapped on the planet while the landing party are exposed to a light-addicting virus. ()
* Stardate 3177.3-3177.9. The first known contact between vessels representing the United Federation of Planets and the Gorn Hegemony occurs after Enterprise encounters several Gorn ships after they attack the Finibus III colony. Actual contact between crews is not made. ()
* Stardate 2510.6.
** Lieutenant Hemmer commits suicide on Valeo Beta V to prevent Gorn eggs from hatching. ()
** Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh takes a leave of absence from Starfleet to help Oriana find her family. ()
* Stardate 1457.9. Lieutenant Commander Chin-Riley is taken into custody for violating the Starfleet code of Conduct. ()
* Cadet Uhura is promoted to Ensign. ()
* Commander Pelia joins the Enterprise as chief engineer. ()
* Commander Chin-Riley is cleared of all charges against her and resumes her duties aboard the Enterprise. ()
* Stardate 1630.1. The Enterprise returns to Rigel VII under suspicion of cultural contamination, discovering and arresting former yeoman Zac Nguyen in the process. ()
* Stardate 2394.8. Captain Pike is promoted to Fleet captain. ()
* Stardate 2291.6
** Ensigns Brad Boimler and Beckett Mariner are unwittingly transported to this time briefly ()
** Captain Pike celebrates his birthday ()
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* The Farragut is stationed at Starbase 1. ()
* Stardate 2394.8. Fleet captain Pike is temporarily given command of the Farragut. ()
* James T. Kirk is promoted to First officer. ()
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* After Crash landing on Valeo Beta V, the crew is killed by Gorn hatchlings. The Peregrine is later salvaged by the Enterprise. ()
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* The Stardiver is destroyed by the Gorn in the Shangdi system. ()
==== Other events ====
* The planet Cerberus is stricken by crop failure during Joanna McCoy's schooling there. Carter Winston uses his personal fortune to save the colony. ()
* Spock and T'Pring get engaged. ()
* General Order 1 is renamed the "Prime Directive". ()
* A new variant of Starfleet uniform is introduced. ()
* A new variant of the Starfleet flag officer uniform is introduced. ()
* A new variant of the Starfleet communicator is introduced. ()
* A new variant of the Type 2 phaser is introduced. ()
* A new variant of the Starfleet tricorder is introduced. ()
* The Stamets-type shuttlecraft is introduced. ()
* The R'ongovian Protectorate joins the United Federation of Planets. ()
* A new First Servant is selected on Majalis. ()
* Rukiya is cured of her illness and is transformed into a state of pure energy. ()
=== Alternate reality ===
==== By starship or station ====
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* January: The crew of the become involved in the Mudd Incident, leading them to confiscate a K'normian trading ship. ()
* February:
** James T. Kirk violates the Prime Directive while saving 's life on Nibiru, and is demoted back to Starfleet Academy. Spock is transferred to the under Captain Abbott. convinces to allow Kirk to continue as his first officer. ()
** comes aboard the Enterprise. and Keenser resign, infuriated that they are not allowed to inspect Marcus' torpedoes. Kirk appoints to replace him as chief engineer. ()
** The USS Enterprises warp core breaks down just after the ship has passed the Neutral Zone. Kirk leads an away team with Spock and to find and arrest Harrison. They are intercepted by Klingons patrolling the region, who respond to negotiations by trying to murder Uhura. Harrison intervenes, killing the Klingons, and allows himself to be taken captive by Kirk. ()
** On a nearby planetoid, following Harrison's suggestion, McCoy and Marcus disarm one of the long-range torpedoes, and discover a cryotube, containing a fully-preserved Human, is inside. Harrison reveals he is Khan Noonien Singh, and explains he tried to smuggle his crew from the in the torpedoes but was forced to flee when he was discovered. ()
** Meanwhile, in the Sol system, Scott, having been relayed coordinates by Kirk, discovers the secret base where the has been under construction. He boards the ship before it is launched to intercept the Enterprise. As the Vengeance, captained by Admiral Marcus, crosses the Neutral Zone, Marcus demands Khan be handed over immediately. The Enterprise instead escapes at warp. ()
** The Vengeance pursues the Enterprise and attacks. Both ships drop out of warp near Luna. Marcus beams up his daughter and orders the Enterprises destruction, but Scott deactivates the Vengeances weapons. Kirk and Khan get on board the Vengeance with thruster suits, where they are received by Scott. Spock contacts the older Spock on New Vulcan, and after listening to his recollection of his confrontations with Khan Noonien Singh, orders McCoy to remove the cryotubes from the torpedoes. On the Vengeances bridge, Khan overpowers Scott and Kirk and kills Admiral Marcus. Khan, now in control of the Vengeance, requests his crew in exchange for Kirk, Scott, and Carol. Spock obliges, and Khan beams back the three Enterprise crew members, and begins firing. The torpedoes beamed to the Vengeance detonate, crippling the ship. ()
:* Both damaged ships begin falling to Earth. Kirk enters the radiation-flooded warp core, and is able to repair it, narrowly saving the Enterprise, but at the cost of his life. Khan deliberately pilots the Vengeance towards San Francisco, crashing it in the city center. Khan survives, and flees through San Francisco. However, he is apprehended by Spock and Uhura. Due to Khan's regenerative blood cells, a blood transfusion is conducted from Khan to Kirk. ()
==== Other events ====
* February 24 (stardate 2259.55): John Harrison coerces Thomas Harewood a member of Section 31 into bombing their facility under the Kelvin Memorial Archive, in London. ()
* This is the year was expected to graduate from Starfleet Academy after entering in 2255, assuming he took four years to do so and not three as he declared he would, and ultimately did. ()
* As of this year, the Ketha Province has been uninhabited for decades. ()
* At Starfleet Headquarters, Marcus convenes a summit to commence a manhunt for Harrison. Harrison attacks the summit, murdering Pike. Harrison escapes by transwarp beaming to the uninhabited Ketha Province of Qo'noS. Kirk receives permission to hunt down Harrison and to reinstate Spock as his first officer. Admiral Marcus orders Kirk to use seventy-two experimental long-range photon torpedoes to execute Harrison from orbit. ()
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:* Two weeks later, Kirk is fully revived. Khan is placed back in his old cryotube once more. ()
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=== Notes ===
* According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 53), the planet Ardana becomes warp-capable.
* According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 33), upon becoming warp-capable, the planet Deneb V is admitted to the Federation in this year.
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