Timeline for AlternaTrek

This is a timeline for an alternate Universe based on Star Trek, with large liberties taken. Star Trek and all its derivatives are owned by CBS, Paramount, Viacom, etc. Alternatrek is simply a fan-based alternate universe designed to flesh out the concept of Trek. We do not include some parts of Trek - Voyager's Warp 10 episode, Discovery and the fungus highway, Picard and its dark future, Lower Decks - but add in a lot from FASA, Franz Josef, and other fan works to give some variety. History has been altered to justify the changes and does not reflect any views of the admin or admiralty of Alternatrek.

## 1800-1899

* 1861-1865 - Several states secede from the US to form the CSA. Unlike our timeline, Stonewall Jackson survived, and Patrick Cleburne's 'Cleburne Memorial' is adopted in 1864, providing emancipation for service in the army to southern blacks. This gives the south the manpower to defeat the north and become independent.
* 1867 - Lincoln is impeached for unconstitutional actions taken during the war and removed from office. British see the possibility of issues of secession in their own empire and encourage more settlement in Africa for native British, speeding the 'Scramble for Africa' by several years by all European powers.
* 1867 - The CS purchase Alaska, and negotiate for France to leave Mexico for $25 million, a deal giving them a portion of northern Mexico.
* 1870 - The CS purchase Santo Domingo for $1.5 million. The UK purchase Patagonia up to the Colorado river in a trade agreement, providing control around South Africa and the Cape of Good Hope of world trade, spurring desire by France to construct a canal in Nicaragua.
* 1871 - The Germans conduct their coronation in Aachen, not Paris's Versailles. Napoleon III is not captured, and remains on the throne, resulting in continuance of his line.
* 1874 - The CS annex Hawaii after a failed UK-US coup; the Spanish-Confederate War results in the annexation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Mariana Islands. Spain sells the Philippines to the USA for $15 million, recouping most of the cost of the war. Napoleon IV becomes French Emperor.
* 1878 - Wilhelm I is assassinated, Frederick III becomes German Kaiser, leading to closer British-German ties. Germany does not focus on its navy, but rather on its colonies and the ground army in Europe. Frederick's policies slowly turn Germany less authoritarian, but cause tensions amongst the landed Junker class who want to keep their privileges. Polish-speaking Germans are encouraged to integrate or can practice their own language and religion in the colonies, leading to quite a few leaving for Namibia, Tanganyika, Togoland, and Kamerun.
* 1879 - as a result of the CS becoming independent, Irish troubles boil over, and the resulting protests and riots result in Irish home rule being granted within the UK. The Irish get an Irish-Parliament, linguistic autonomy within Ireland, a government with devolved powers, and a Governor-General chosen from amongst the Irish to represent the King. As a result, Irish republicanism gains almost everything it wanted, with the more republican-minded emigrating to other colonies.
* 1896 - Black Confederates gain the right to vote, ending a thirty year struggle in the southern nation. The US becomes fearful and intensifies its segregation laws, long-existing 'black codes', with the 'separate but equal' doctrine being found by the US Supreme Court.
* 1899 - Prince Henry I becomes the German Kaiser, continuing his predecessor's pro-British policies. This turns France to Russia, and to the Ottomans, countering the proposed Istanbul-Baghdad Railway they wanted to provide oil. They turn to the Confederates for oil instead. South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya are all majority European via immigration, as is Tanganyika, Namibia, Togoland, and Kamerun. France turns the Ottomans against the Germans, who wanted a Baghdad-Istanbul railway.

## 1900-1999

* 1911 - Germany undergoes a voting revolution when the Junkers' power is broken and voting becomes 1-man, 1-vote. Kaiser Henry I calms the political scene, but in France, he is seen as in a weak position, and their work in Russia to build railways into Russian Poland near Germany and arm the Russians, proceeds apace.
* 1912 - a Serbian nationalist is paid to instigate an international incident, shooting Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. By August, World War 1 begins with France and Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Soon, the Italians join the Germans, and the Turks join the French. Britain tries to stay out of the war to focus on its colonies.
* 1914 - the French instigate Mexico to join on their side, so as to try to interrupt CS oil to Germany. This results in a Mexican-Confederate front in the war for 2 years. The US stays neutral under Woodrow Wilson. The European war is stalemated in trenches. The French are holding off the Germans and Austro-Hungarians more effectively, even without the British, while the Germans begin to look to Henry for his focus on foreign relations and reform than the army. The French violate Belgian neutrality to try to swing around the side to destroy the Germans, leading to British intervention on the German side.
* 1915 - The CS enter the European War, having defeated Mexico. They send their naval fleet to Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guyana, New Caledonia, and Polynesia, capturing those colonies. The remainder go to Europe and begin coastal bombardment on the Atlantic and English Channel sides.
* 1916 - Woodrow Wilson maneuvers the US into WW1 by sending the Lusitania through French-sub-patrolled waters where it is sunk. He wins reelection handily, and the US starts sending troops by December 1 to France.
* 1917 - Russia collapses into a revolution, Lenin being allowed to travel to Russia through German territory to remove a wartime obstacle, but creating a future one. France soon collapses and sues for peace. Its monarch, Napoleon IV, abdicates in exile in Andorra. The Treaty of Versailles punishes France for starting the war (having prepared Russia before the war and instigated Mexico). Several minor revolutions and an attempted communist revolution contribute to political instability. As a result of its helping the French, Greece is given Constantinople and the Aegean coast, along with Northern Epirus and Cyprus.
* 1923 - an unstable former German officer leads an attempted Putsch in Munich and is shot and killed by the police. The German Worker's Party struggles to find its way into Parliament despite renaming itself as a national socialist party in imitation of the Italian fascists.
* 1924-1926 - Austria-Hungary collapses into civil war, after its attempted federalization fails. Hungary surrenders most of Transylvania outside of Szeklerland and a land corridor, and portions of what the Slovaks claim that was majority Hungarian. Yugoslavia united the varied southern Slavic tribes, and Austria claims the German-settled areas of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, resulting in Vierburgenland (with Odenburg as the capital and Pressburg as a major city), Teschen Silesia, Sudetenland, German Bohemia, South Tyrol, additional land in Upper/Lower Austria, and Marburg an der Drau being in Austria. The settlement is a victory for the League of Nations, which Germany and Austria both join afterward. Germany maintains its monarchy as does Austria. Hungary proclaims a republic as does Czechoslovakia.
* 1929 - The US stock market crashes due to easy money policies by the Fed, dragging down teh rest of the world into a depression.
* 1932 - FDR wins election in the US as President, continuing many Hoover policies, just more of them.
* 1930s - Kirk time travels back in time and meets Edith Keeler in the US.
* 1933 - France falls to a fascist dictatorship. It joins Italy, Poland, and Spain as fascist countries. Time and Newsweek in the US call fascism the wave of the future, and liken FDR, the US president, to the fascist leaders of Europe with his New Deal legislation. Poland's dictator, Josef Pilsudski, manages to rearm Poland, and agitate against Germany.
* 1939 - WW2 begins with Japan's attack on China and France's attack on Germany with Poland. Germany falls in 1941, and an occupation government under 'Leader' Reichhard von Amerling, a national socialist party member, takes power. Austria is also occupied after a coup by their fascist party. Turkey aids France again on promise of regaining Constantinople. It conducts another mass murder on minorities in its territory during the war.
* 1940 - Robert Taft wins the US Presidency after FDR's polio is revealed to the public and a failed fascist coup on Washington becoming public. Confederates end oil shipments to Japan, which lead to their attack on Pearl Harbor.
* 1941 - The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, the US also docking ships there under a 1940 agreement with the CS for joint Pacific operations. The CS and US enter WW2 at the same time as allies. Belgium's ruling party works with France, helping it conduct mass murder in Germany and the Netherlands.
* 1942 - CS and US planes help keep the UK free of the French; Irish nationalists working with the French discredit Irish nationalism for generations as treasonous and 'fascist.' CS and US forces begin pushing through Denmark for Berlin.
* 1943 - Berlin falls to the US, CS, and UK, who then begin pushing east/west towards Warsaw and Paris. The USSR joins the fight at this time, believing it can regain Poland. Poland attacks Belarus and Ukraine, giving the Soviets casus belli. Half of Italy falls to the Allies.
* 1944 - Normandy Invasion opens another front against Paris as the westward march is going slower than needed. Germany's capital hosts the restored monarchy, with each former province being a state in the new Germany.
* 1945 - Paris falls under the US, CS, UK, and DE assault. Warsaw falls under joint USSR, US, CS, and DE assault. Vienna falls to the allies, and their fascist leader is hung in the streets. Poland is divided between the USSR and the West, but most of Europe is divided either east or west. Italy acquires Corsica, both Savoys and Nice; Switzerland acquires Gex County. France permanently cedes Alsace-Lorraine, Belfort, Briey and all land east of the Moselle to Germany. Belgium is merged into the Netherlands; Luxemburg gains the province of the same name. France cedes Artois, Cameray, and Hanaut from France after several centuries. The newly enlarged Netherlands discourages Walloon or French in schools, business, law, media, or government to the point that by the 21st century it becomes an endangered language. Turkey is divided north/south and the northern territory is given to the Soviet sphere, while the southern is placed in the western sphere, and most of the Turks are expelled to the soviet-allied territory. Kurdistan remains western-allied, while Armenia is soviet-allied (against its will). Americans begin poaching French and German scientists in Operation Paperclip, bringing blatant fascists to the US; the CS only acquires patents and technology. The Germans declare a republic, where each former province is a state, and the German president is modeled after the Confederate President with very limited powers and a six year single term of office. For Spain's part in the war having secretly aided France, the allies take some land to form Euskadi, a Basque nation independent of France and Spain.
* 1948 - The idea of a nationalized British health service is finally defeated in Parliament, with regional health boards created for each shire to determine health care for its people, and for Wales, Scotland, and Ireland to determine their own health care reforms. The war experience, with seeing French socialized medicine, soured many who otherwise might have supported the effort, seeing the deprivations caused by government control of health care. Others saw it was used against political opponents of the government, and feared the same in the UK.
* 1949 - Chinese civil war ends, with North China separating from China, and the Korean communists failing, leaving China divided and Korea united. NATO is formed from the UK, Canada, US, CS, Portugal, and Germany. Soon, Brittany and Euskadi join.
* 1954 - Hungarian and Czechoslovakian revolutions. To avoid the threat of another war, the US convinces the CS and UK, against their judgment, to allow Hungary to remain in the Soviet sphere, but Czechia separates from Slovakia, becoming a western allied power. Anti-communist propaganda spreads in the US, UK, German, and CS, with independence movements in the UK being branded socialists.
* 1955 - France is allowed into NATO after Germany acquiesces.
* 1965 - Kenya becomes independent from the UK, as does Tanzania of Germany once they commit to full integration and civil rights for their native African minorities.
* 1966 - Rhodesia becomes independent, along with Togoland.
* 1969 - South Africa becomes independent, along with Namibia, Kamerum, and Elefantenbeinkuste.
* 1969 - the US puts a man on the moon; about the same time, the CS place a man on the moon.
* 1981 - Ronald Reagan becomes US President, leading to a surge in US patriotism and cooperation with the CSA.
* 1982 - Jack Kemp becomes CS President. He works with the US and the two end the cold war.
* 1988 - Arthur Fletcher becomes the first black CS President.
* 1989 - communism falls in East Poland and across the USSR
* 1991 - Poland reunites.

## 2000-2099

* 2001 - George W Bush becomes US President, and after a supposed terrorist attack, launches the war on terror.
* 2006 - Jessica Howard becomes the first female CS President. She has a habit of speaking her mind in a less PC way that gets her in trouble with the US press, but endears her to her southern republic.
* 2009 - Bartholomew O'Bannon becomes the first black US President.
* 2012 - James Yen becomes the first Chinese-Confederate CS President.
* 2017 - Haley Clinton becomes the first female US President.
* 2021 - Clinton is reelected in a highly dubious election, where mail-in ballots are used despite their dubious legality. Tensions with Russia increase, and the MERS-2 virus pandemic continues.
* 2022-2024 - mass die off of humans across the planet as 1.5 billion die from cancers, heart disease, and other medical issues, resulting in the collapse of a number of governments, worldwide chaos, and new wars. Members of the WEF and other internationalist organizations continue genetic experimentation, wanting to 'Augment' the human race, resulting in Khan Noonien Singh and other 'supermen.' They believe they can control them, but the Augments rebel and begin to take over various nations.
* 2026-2053 - World War III results in 600 million deaths across Earth, largely in Asia and Africa, the two main fronts in a series of wars that are generally combined together to be labeled World War III. Genetic engineering becomes outlawed across Earth, and massive war crimes trials result in thousands of convictions, mostly of scientists and doctors who thought they had the right to play God with the human genome. Computer programmers who used AI to help the Augments are also convicted, resulting in a massive distrust of AI systems across Earth.
* 2060 - Earth has about 3.9 billion people on it as a result of the massive die-offs from war, famine, radiation, cancers, and mutations due to faulty genetic engineering.
* 2063 - April - Zefram Cochrane makes first contact with Vulcans, the first conclusive extraterrestrial contact between Earth and another planet.
* 2066 - With Vulcan help, atmospheric radiation and pollution is completely removed, and they restore the correct CO2-O2 balance.
* 2067 - Vulcan star charts show Earth dozens of unclaimed M-class planets that war-torn nations rush to claim and settle, with millions of poor and destitute people wanting to escape the Earth for a new life. Some nations, like Italy, create Nova Roma, where they intend to speak Latin and use classical architecture. India colonizes New India, using Sanskrit as a language to unite the planet together. Dozens of other planets are rushed towards, resulting in the Vulcans holding back further technology exchange with the humans, as they are on the way to causing an interstellar incident if they were to keep pushing out into space like this; this results in resentment towards the Vulcans for holding back humanity.

## 2100-2199

* 2151-2156 - Captain Archer conducts a five-year tour of the four nearest sectors to Earth, establishing closer contact with the Earth colonies and with Andorians, Tellarites, and other species. There is no 'temporal cold war' storyline, just more classic storytelling.
* 2156-2161 - NX-01 is refit to include a secondary hull and takes another tour; the Earth-Romulan War ends in 2160.
* 2161 - United Federation of Planets is founded between Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, Andoria, and Alpha Centauri. Various Earth colonies join within the next 40 years, leading the Klingons to believe the UFP is a 'homo sapiens only club.'

## 2200-2299

* 2230 - a new design language for Starfleet is released, resulting in what many consider a 'classic era' of starship building. These vessels have new phaser banks on their saucers and integrated photon torpedo launchers.
* 2245 - USS Enterprise NCC-1701 launched under Captain Robert April. His first mission is rescue of dozens of captive Orions, one of whom he adopts as his daughter, Kayla (who joins Starfleet).
* 2250 - April returns home and the Enterprise is transferred to Captain Pike, undergoing a 1-year refit.
* 2251-2262 - Captain Pike takes 2 5-year tours on the Enterprise, which undergoes a refit after the end of his tour.
* 2264-2269 - Captain Kirk assumes command of the Enterprise. Many of his missions are the same, though 'That Wacky Redhead' has several additional missions.
* 2270-2271 - The Enterprise undergoes refit to extend its useful life.
* 2271 - Enterpise encounters V'Ger.
* 2274 - Enterprise saves the Federation from a joint Klingon-Romulan plot in an area of space called the 'Triangle.'
* 2285 - Enterprise stops Khan at the Mutara Nebula, and discovers Carol Marcus there with his son and daughter. Kirk steals the Enterprise to return to the Genesis planet to rescue Spock. His son dies, but he rescues his daughter and reconciles with her.
* 2286 - Kirk takes the stolen Bird of Prey to Vulcan for several months, where it is repaired by the Vulcans, and returns to Earth, but discovers an alien probe ionizing the oceans. He time travels back to 1986 and rescues 2 humpback whales to communicate with it. While demoted for disobeying direct orders, Kirk is returned to command of the Enterprise in recognition for having saved the Earth.
* 2287-2293 - Kirk takes the Enterprise A on another 5-year mission under his command
* 2293 - Kirk and his crew retire from service
* 2294 - Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, and Chekov attend the launch of the Enterprise B. Sulu is unable to attend due to his command of the Excelsior in Beta Quadrant.

## 2300-2399

* 2311 - Treaty of Algeron - after the Tomed Incident, the peace treaty results in the Romulans breaking off nearly all contact with the Federation; they instead turn to the beta quadrant to expand their empire and resources. Captain John Harriman of the Enterprise-B retires, and Demora Sulu becomes captain.
* 2316 - Demora Sulu is promoted off the Enterprise-B, and Captain Jackie Fischer assumes command.
* 2325 - Ambassador Class ships launched.
* 2332 - Enterprise-C launched under Captain Richard Johnson. The Enterprise-B is retired the same year.
* 2340 - Captain Rachel Garrett assumes command of the Enterprise.
* 2364 - the Enterprise D launches under Captain Picard.
* 2371 - the Enterprise D stops Soran from destroying several planets with the Nexus, bringing Captain Kirk out of the Nexus. The stardrive is damaged, but the saucer luckily avoids impacting the planet, but is decommissioned due to structural damage.
* 2372 - Enterprise E launched under Captain Picard
* 2373 - Enterprise E thrown into the Delta Quadrant while Voyager is thrown ahead several thousand light years, continuing on their voyage. The Enterprise E encounters Species 8472 and severs Seven of Nine's connection to the collective, Picard eventually allowing her to remain on board as Annika Hansen. Data teaches her human culture, and Troi helps her cope with her Borg experiences. Many of the Voyager encounters requiring Hansen's expertise with the Borg are similarly resolved on the Enterprise, who returns to the Federation with the help of Voyager in 2376.
* 2376 - Riker takes command of the USS Titan; Data assumes the XO position on the Enterprise.
* 2377 - Picard promoted to Commodore; Data becomes captain of the Enterprise E.
* 2381 - Picard promoted to Rear Admiral.
* 2387 - a massive rebellion in the Romulan Empire leads to a fracturing of the interstellar power, one faction declaring itself the Romulan Republic. Imperial forces attack several systems, and Admiral Picard leads a fleet to assist the Republic and their refugees.
* 2394 - Enterprise E is decommissioned; Admiral Riker brings the Enterprise D saucer out of mothballs with a new stardrive section and updated weaponry and systems due to ongoing conflict with the Romulans and Klingons. The Galaxy Dreadnaught version of the Enterprise serves until 2405, when the Enterprise F is launched.