Federation History
2103
Mars is colonized by Earth.
2105
Eight women brutally knifed to death by an unknown assailant in the martian Colonies.
It is later discovered it was the same entity that committed several murders on Argelius II in 2267.
2113
A united world government is established by the inhabitants of Earth.
2117
Zephram Cochrane, now a resident of Alpha Centuri,
departs on a trip into deep space. He vanishes, and is eventually presumed
to have died in space.
2123
The Mariposa is launched for colonization of the Ficus sector, to settles colonists on Bringloid V.
It later crashes on the planet Mariposa while attempting to settle a second group of colonists.
There are only five survivors of the crash, who attempt to keep their colony viable using cloning technology.
2133
Bajoran religious leader Kai Taluno, while traveling in the Denorios Belt, experiences a serious malfunction of his spacecraft and is stranded for several days.
Taluno reports having experienced a vision in which "the heavens opened up," nearly swallowing his ship.
The Denorios Belt, located in the Bajor system, is the location where at least five of the Bajorans' Tears of the Prophets were found.
2150
Australia joins Earths world government, the
last nation state to do so.
2156
The Romulan Wars begin between Earth forces and the Romulan Star Empire. The war is fought with primitive atomic weapons, and the Romulan fleet is not even equipped with warp drive.
2160
The Romulan Wars are ended by the Battle of Cheron.
The Romulan peace treaty is signed, establishing the Romulan Neutral Zone as a buffer between the Romulus and Remus and the rest of the galaxy, violation of which is considered to be an act of war.
2161
The United Federation of Planets is incorporated.
The Federation is governed by a representative Council, located in San Francisco on Earth, and the Federation council president's office is located in Paris.
The Constitution of the Federation includes important protections of individual rights including the Seventh Guarantee, protecting citizens against self-incrimination.
2164
The drug felicium is used to halt a plague on Ornara.
It is not realized at the time that felicium, a product of Brekka, has powerfully addictive properties, making the Ornarans dependent on the drug long after the plague has been controlled.
2165
Sarek is born on Vulcan, the son of Skon and grandson of Solkar.
Deneva is colonized by Federation colonist to provide a freighting line base.
The planet is said to be one of the most beautiful in the galaxy.
Guinan has her last encounter with Q prior to 2365.
2167
The starship Archon visits Beta III in the star system C-111.
The planet's master computer, known as Landru, destroys the ship by pulling it out of orbit.
Many crew members are killed, but many more are absorbed into Beta III's computer controlled society, becoming known as "The Archons" to the planet's inhabitants.
The U.S.S. Essex, registry number NCC-173, a Daedalus class starship under the command of Captain Bryce Shumar and First Officer Steven Mullen, is caught in an electromagnetic storm and destroyed above the class M moon of the planet Mab-Bu VI. The entire crew of 229 is
lost.
2168
The Starship Horizon visits Sigma Iotia II, a
planet lying about one hundred light years beyond Federation space. The
crew leaves behind a copy of the book "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties"; unfortunately
the natives come to regard the book as a blueprint for the ideal society.
They subsequently remould their world into a close approximation of the
book.
Settlers from Earth establish a colony on Moab IV.
They create a sealed, well planned, genetically balanced biosphere in which they hope to forge a perfect society.
2169
A new type of impulse engine is adopted for Starfleet vessels.
The basic design of this sublight propulsion system remains essentially unchanged for at least two centuries.
Ancient burial vaults of the First Hebitian civilization on Cardassia are unearthed.
Grave robbers remove priceless artifacts, including many made of jevonite, described as unimaginably beautiful.
2170
The Kavis Alpha neutron star explodes. This phenomena
repeats itself every 196 years, and will occur again in 2366 when the Enterprise-D
will be present to observe it.
A group of Native Americans, seeking to preserve their cultural identity, leave their North American home to search for a planet on which they can begin a colony.
The group is led by a man named Katowa.
2172
This is the year of 9174 according to Bajoran reckoning.
Bajoran poet Akorem Laan embarks upon an interplanetary voyage aboard a traditional Bajoran solar sailing lightship.
Akorem's works included Kitara's Song, The Call of the Prophets, and Gaudaal's Lament.
A class M planet in the Teplan system, near Dominion space in the Gamma Quadrant, suffers orbital bombardment from the Jem'Hadar.
The planet's technologically sophisticated inhabitants had attempted to resist the Dominion, and the attack was intended to make an example to other worlds.
The Jem'Hadar also employ an unusually cruel form of biological warfare, infecting the humanoids population with a deadly plague that takes years to kill its victims.
2196
Starfleet withdraws the last Daedalus class starship from active duty.
2209
The first case of transporter psychosis, a disorder caused by a breakdown of neurochemical molecules during transport, is diagnosed by researchers on Delinia II.
2215
Selcundi Drema begins disintegration, forming an asteroid belt in it's solar system.
2217
The U.S.S. Valiant contacts the inhabitants of Eminiar VII in star cluster NGC 321.
The ship and its crew become casualties of the war between Eminiar and Vendikar.
2218
First contact with the Klingon Empire is made. The contact is a disaster, and leads to decades of warfare.
As a result of this disastrous initial contact, Starfleet adopts a policy of covert surveillance of newly discovered civilizations before first contact is attempted.
2219
Richard Daystrom is born.
He becomes a brilliant computer scientist, the inventor of duotronic systems, and winner of the Nobel and Zee-Magnees prizes.
2222
Montgomery Scott is born. He becomes chief engineer of the U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Captain Kirk.
Pralor Automated Unit 3947 is activated by a Builder on the Pralor homeworld in the Delta Quadrant.
Unit 3947 has been constructed for the Pralor war against the Cravic.
2223
Relations with the Klingon Empire degenerate, starting 70 years of unremitting hostility between the Klingons and the Federation until the Khitomer conference of 2293.
2224
Sybok is born (Spock's elder half-brother), the son of Sarek and a Vulcan princess. The princess, Sarek's first wife, dies shortly after Sybok's birth.
2227
Leonard H. McCoy is born. He becomes chief medical officer on the U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Captain Kirk.
2229
Sarek of Vulcan and Amanda Grayson of Earth are married. Sarek would later describe his decision to marry Amanda as a "logical thing to do."
Curzon Dax attempts for the first time to solve an Altonian brain teaser.
The puzzle would intrigue Dax for over a century, even when the Dax symbiont was joined with its next host.
2230
Spock is born, the son of Sarek and Amanda.
Spock, a Vulcan-human hybrid, becomes science officer on the Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike and later, Captain James Kirk.
He plays a crucial role in negotiating peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, and also in the effort for Vulcan/Romulan reunification.
2233
James Tiberius Kirk is born in Iowa, Earth.
2236
The S.S. Columbia crashes on Talos IV with only one survivor called Vina.
She is listed as an adult on the ship's manifest, although she appears as a youthful woman to Captain Pike 18 years later.
The severely injured Vina is cared for by the Talosians, although their ability to repair her body is limited in that they had never seen a human before.
2237
Spock, now seven years of age, causes his parents considerable concern by disappearing overnight into the Llangon mountains near his home city of ShirKahr in an effort to test himself with the traditional kahs-wan survival ordeal.
Spock is telepathically joined to T'Pring in a ritual Vulcan ceremony arranged by their parents.
Less than a marriage but more than a betrothal, the mind touch insures the two will be drawn together at the proper time once they are grown.
Hikaru Sulu is born in San Francisco on Earth. He serves a distinguished career in Starfleet, first as staff physicist and helm officer on the Enterprise, and later as captain of the U.S.S. Excelsior.
2239
Nyota Uhura is born in Africa on Earth. She becomes communications officer aboard the Enterprise, and later serves at Starfleet Command in San Francisco.
A reclusive individual known as Mr. Brack purchases Holberg 917G, a class M planet in the Omega system. Brack is later discovered to be a pseudonym for the almost immortal Flint.
2240
Montgomery Scott enters Starfleet Academy.
2242
The battle of Donatu V is fought near Sherman's Planet, in a region disputed by the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets.
2243
Montgomery Scott begins his career as a Starfleet engineer at the age of 21.
Dr. Richard Daystrom invents duotronic computer technology and is awarded the Nobel and Zee-Magnees prizes.
His revolutionary systems become the basis for the main computers used aboard the starships.
2244
Montgomery Scott graduates from Starfleet Academy.
2245
The first Enterprise, NCC-1701 is launched from the San Francisco Yards facility in orbit around Earth.
Captain Robert April assumes command of the Consittution class ship and begins a five year mission of exploration.
Pavel Andreivich Chekov is born. Chekov later becomes navigator and tactical officer on the Enterprise under the command of James Kirk, and also serves as first officer aboard the Reliant under Captain Clark Terrell.
Leonard McCoy joins Starfleet medical school.
2246
Kodos the Executioner seizes power on Tarsus
IV when a food shortage becomes critical. Kodos orders the execution of
4,000 people in order to extend food supplies for the remainder - emergency
supplies arrive too late to avoid the killings. James Kirk and Kevin Riley
are among nine witnesses to the events.
2249
Spock chooses to enter Starfleet instead of the Vulcan Science Academy, and thus alienating his father, Sarek, until the Babel conference of 2267.
Charles Evans is born.
His parents are part of an unsuccessful colonization project that ends with a disastrous crash on Thasus.
2250
James Kirk enrolls in Starfleet Academy. Mallory, father of a future Enterprise crew member, helps Kirk get into the academy.
At the academy Kirk becomes best friends with Ben Finney, an instructor. Ben will later name his daughter
Jamie after Kirk.
A Vulcan science mission reports an unusual subspace rupture in the Hanoli system.
In an effort to control the dangerous phenomenon, expedition members detonate a pulse wave torpedo at the coordinates of the tear.
The attempt fails and minutes later the rupture expands radically, destroying the expedition and the entire Hanoli system.
Ensign James Kirk serves on the U.S.S. Republic, NCC-1371. He reports an error made by his friend, Ben Finney, causing Finney to be passed over for promotion.
In Kirk's report, Kirk had relieved Finney on watch and had discovered the circuits to the atomic matter piles improperly left open, endangering the safety of the ship.
Years later Finney holds this against Kirk, believing the report to be the sole reason why he never attained the command of a starship.
Starship Captain Garth wins a major victory at
the planet Axenar. Afterwards James Kirk visits Axenar on a peace mission.
The operation is a major success, and Kirk is awarded the Palm Leaf of
Axenar for his part in the mission.
Kirk meets Gary Mitchell while teaching at Starfleet
Academy. Mitchell sets Kirk up with a blonde lab technician in order to
distract him and so have an easier time in classes.
The Enterprise, under the command of Captain Robert April, returns from it's five year voyage and begins refitting for the next mission.
Christopher Pike assumes position of the Enterprise's new captain.
2251
The Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, sets out on the ship's second five year mission.
2252
As an academy cadet, Spock begins serving aboard the Enterprise under the command of Captain Pike.
Charles Evans, age three, is the sole survivor of a crash on Thasus.
He is cared for by the mysterious, non-corporeal Thasians, who give him extraordinary mental powers in order to survive.
Kirk becomes romantically involved with Ruth.
The humanoids known as the Sky People return to visit their Inheritors on Earth.
The Sky People are disappointed when they are unable to find any significant signs of their ancient beneficiaries, unaware that a small number of Inheritors have survived by finding new homes on distant worlds.
Kirk becomes acquainted with R.M. Merrick, a student who is eventually dropped from Starfleet Academy when he fails a psychosimulator test.
2253
Spock graduates from Star Fleet Academy.
Dr. Leonard McCoy graduates from medical school and develops an impressive technique for the creation of axonal pathways between grafted neural tissue and basal ganglia.
This procedure is later incorporated into the Starfleet database for Emergency Medical Holograms aboard Federation starships in the late 24th century.
2254
Kirk graduates Starfleet academy. He
is assigned duty on the USS Farragut under Captain Garrovick after graduation.
Three Enterprise crewman are killed and several
injured during a violent encounter on Rigel. Captain Pike blames himself
for the incident and considers resigning his commission.
The U.S.S. Enterprise, en route to the Vega colony, detects a distress call from the S.S. Columbia, which records indicate had disappeared near the Talos Star Group 18 years before.
An investigation leads to the discovery of the Columbia's crash site on Talos IV, and contact with the planet's indigenous inhabitants.
The Talosians attempt to capture Pike in an effort to insure survival of their civilization, but Pike and the crew of the Enterprise escape by convincing the Talosians of human unsuitability for captivity.
Lieutenant Kirk, commanding his first planet survey, befriends Tyree, an inhabitant of a technologically unsophisticated class M planet.
Years later Kirk returns to Tyree's planet when the Klingons intervene in a local dispute.
2255
The last contact between the Sheliak Corporate and the United Federation of Planets prior to 2366.
The two parties agree to the Treaty of Armens in which the Federation cedes Tau Cygna V to the Sheliak.
The treaty contains 500,000 words and took 372 Federation legal experts to draft.
Hikaru Sulu enters Starfleet Academy.
Leonard McCoy ends a romantic relationship with the future Mrs. Nancy Crater.
2256
The U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, completes Pike's first five year mission, the second mission for the ship, and begins a year of refit work in spacedock.
2257
Lieutenant Kirk, serving on the U.S.S. Farragut, his first assignment after graduating from Starfleet Academy, encounters a "vampire cloud" near Tycho IV.
While facing the creature, Kirk hesitates for a moment before firing phasers, and afterwards he feels responsible when the creature kills 200 people, including Farragut captain Garrovick (though it is later discovered that it would have made
no difference..).
Years later Garrovick's son serves aboard the Enterprise with Kirk in command.
The Enterprise embarks on Captain Pike's second five year mission, the third for the ship.
Nyota Uhura is admitted to Starfleet academy.
2259
Hikaru Sulu graduates from Starfleet academy.
2261
The Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, completes its second five year mission of exploration.
The ship enters spacedock for a major refit.
During this refit, the ship's crew capacity is boosted from 203 to 430.
David Marcus is born. A son of Carol Marcus and James Kirk.
Carol Marcus asks Kirk not to be involved with the boy's upbringing, he agrees and will not
see his son again until 2285.
Robert and Nancy Crater arrive at planet M-113 for archaeological research of the ancient ruins.
Nancy Crater is later killed by the last surviving native of the planet.
The last message is received from Dr. Roger Korby's archaeological expedition on Exo III.
Korby's signal describes the discovery of underground caverns.
Neither Korby nor his expedition is heard from again, and two subsequent expeditions are unsuccessful in locating them on the planet.
Korby, known as the Pasteur of archaeological medicine, is recognized for his translation of medical records from the Orion ruins, resulting in a revolution in immunization techniques.
Nyota Uhura graduates from Starfleet academy.
The exploratory ship, S.S. Beagle, a small class IV stardrive vessel, crashes on planet 892-IV after having sustained meteor damage, where
the crew is captured by the planet's inhabitants and forced to fight as Roman gladiators.
The ship's commander, Merrick, survives by becoming a strongman in local politics until 2267, when the crew of the Enterprise makes contact with the planet.
James Kirk is romantically involved with the future Janet Wallace.
The relationship does not work out because of differences in career goals.
Spock meets botanist Leila Kalomi on Earth.
Kalomi is romantically attracted to Spock, but Spock indicates he cannot return the feeling due to his Vulcan heritage.
2263
James Kirk is promoted to captain of the Enterprise and meets Christopher Pike, who is promoted to fleet captain.
Pavel Chekov enters Starfleet Academy.
Spock visits his parents on Vulcan for the last time before the Babel conference on the Coridan admission.
The visit is strained because of Sarek's disapproval of Spock's career choice.
Miners Childress, Gossett, and Benton begin work at the lithium mining operation on Rigel XII.
A group of 150 colonists under the leadership of Elias Sandoval leave Earth to settle on Omicron Ceti III.
2264
Captain James Kirk, in command of the Enterprise, embarks on a five year mission of exploration.
Tuvok is born on Vulcan.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd is convicted of purchasing a space vessel with counterfeit currency.
He is sentenced to psychiatric treatment and his master's license is revoked, effective stardate 1116.4.
Mudd had previously been convicted of smuggling, although that sentence had been suspended.
Nancy Crater is killed by the last surviving native of M-113.
The creature later assumes Nancy's form and lives with professor Robert Crater, an archaeologist studying the ruins on M-113.
The Sandoval colonists arrive on Omicron Seti
III. Unfortunately, the planet is found to have high levels of deadly Berthold
rays, threatening the lives of the colonists. They manage to survive after
being infected by a substance produced by the local plant life.
2265
Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, a psychiatrist studying crew reactions in emergency situations, joins the Enterprise crew when the ship is at the Aldebaron colony.
A bottle of Dom Perignon champagne of this year's vintage will be used in 2293 for the christening of the Enterprise-B.
The Enterprise encounters an ancient recorder buoy near the edge of the galaxy.
Investigation determines the buoy to be from the S.S. Valiant, which had disappeared in the area two centuries before.
Evidence from the buoy's record tapes suggest the ship was destroyed by the captain.
Kirk orders the crew to explore beyond the galaxy's rim, where they encounter a strange energy barrier, resulting in the deaths of nine personnel.
Gary Mitchell, Kirk's friend from his Academy days, is mutated by the barrier and gains tremendous psychokinetic powers, just
like psychiatrist Elizabeth Dehner.
An attempt to quarantine Mitchell at the Delta Vega mining facility is unsuccessful, and Kirk is forced to kill him and Elizabeth Dehner to protect the ship.
The Borg destroy Guinan's home planet.
A small number of Guinan's people, the El-Aurians, manage to survive by spreading themselves across the galaxy.
2266
McCoy joins the Enterprise as Chief Medical Officer.
The USS Enterprise encounters the Fesarius, a
vessel of the First Federation. Although they are initially wary of one
another, friendly contact is eventually established between the two cultures.
The Enterprise visits M113 on a routine stop.
Several crew members are killed by a creature native to the planet which
has been living in the guise of Nancy Crater.
While researching a collapsing planet the crew
of the Enterprise are incapacitated by a new form of virus. Dr. McCoy is
able to overcome the effects of the virus in time to save the ship. In
breaking free of the planet, the Enterprise is thrown back several minutes
in time - the first known example of time travel.
Charlie Evans is rescued from Thasus. After he
proves unable to contain his powers, the Thasians return him to the planet.
A Romulan vessel crosses the Neutral Zone for
the first time and attack several Federation outposts. The Enterprise eventually
destroys the Romulan ship.
Fleet Captain Pike is seriously injured by Delta
Rays during an accident aboard a Class J starship. badly disfigures, he
is confined to a wheelchair.
The USS Enterprise discovers what appears to
be professor Roger Korby alive and well on Exo III. However, it proves
to be an android created by ancient technology he discovered on the planet.
Klingon operatives begin supplying crude firearms
to the village people on Tyrees planet.
2267
A DY-100 class spacecraft is found with the preserved
bodies of several dozen people on board. It is soon discovered that these
are the Genetic Tyrants missing since 1996.
The USS Enterprise uncovers a Klingon plot to
gain development rights to Shermans planet. Unknownst to the crew, they
receive covert assistance from the crew of the USS Defiant, thrown back
in time from 2373.
The Enterprise is researching Murusaki-312, a
quasar-like phenomena, when the shuttlecraft Galileo is lost on the planet
Taurus II. The shuttle is able to regain suborbital height for long enough
to be retrieved by the departing Enterprise.
Chekov graduates from Starfleet Academy.
Kirk becomes the first Starship Captain ever
to be court martialled when it appears that he has been negligent in the
death of Ben Finney. Kirk is exonerated when it is discovered that Finney
is in fact alive, having faked his own death to frame Kirk.
Lieutenant Commander Spock is promoted to Commander.
Commander Spock hijacks the USS Enterprise and
uses it to return Fleet Captain Pike to Talos. Despite the regulations
against visiting Talos, Starfleet approves his actions because of the special
circumstances involved.
Whilst crossing a 'star desert' some nine hundred
light years from Earth the Enterprise encounters Trelane, a being of immense
power. Trelane is discovered to be an infant member of an advanced and
powerful civilization.
First contact with the Gorn occurs when a Gorn
ship destroys an Earth observation outpost on Cestus III. Kirk and the
Gorn captain are subsequently forced to fight one another by an advanced
species calling themselves the Metrons.
The Enterprise visits the planet Beta III, where
the Archon was destroyed in 2167. Kirk makes the Landru computer destroy
itself by forcing it to accept that it is harmful to the society is was
built to protect.
The USS Enterprise encounters the Botany Bay
drifting in space. Kirk ultimately maroons the ships crew of genetically
engineered tyrants on Ceti Alpha V.
The USS Enterprise arrives at Omicron Seti III.
Almost overcome by the effects of the local plant life, the crew manage
to break free and rescue the colonists.
The Federation and Klingon Empire go to war.
The war is stopped shortly after its outbreak by the Organians.
Spock returns to Vulcan and undergoes Pon'farr.
Romulan, Klingon and Federation governments establish
a colony on Nimbus III, "The Planet of Galactic Peace".
2268
The Enterprise destroys a colossal single-celled
organism which is threatening to invade our galaxy.
The Enterprise tests the M-5 computer. Designed
by Dr. Richard Daystrom, the M-5 is intended to allow Starships to operate
with virtually no crew on board. The system malfunctions during testing,
destroying the Starship Excalibur. The test convinces Starfleet that the
removal of human thinking from Starships is wrong in principle, and no
further moves along these lines are made.
Captain Kirk orders the Enterprise to cross the
border into Romulan space, apparently acting irrationally as a result of
the stress of his position. The ship is quickly surrounded by Romulan battlecruisers,
who order it to surrender. Kirk reveals to his crew that he is acting on
Federation orders, having faked his condition in order to allow himself
to be blamed for the mission if it failed. Kirk is successful in stealing
one of the Romulan cloaking devices and returning with it, a major intelligence
coup for the Federation.
2269
The Enterprise is assigned to transport Lieutenant
Mira Romain to Memory Alpha, a massive Federation information archive.
The Enterprise visits the planet Ardana, home
of the city of Stratos. Stratos is supported in the air, one of the most
impressive known feats of sustained antigravity technology.
The star Beta Niobe is destroyed in a supernova
explosion. The humanoid civilization occupying the planet Sarpeidon transports
itself into earlier periods of their history to escape the destruction.
Dr. Janice Lester uses ancient technology she
has discovered on Camus II to swap bodies with Captain Kirk. The transference
is later found to be temporary.
The USS Enterprise completes its five year mission.
Captain Kirk is Promoted to Admiral.
2270
Spock retires from Starfleet.
He returns to Vulcan to undergo the Kohlinar training in an effort to purge the remaining emotional influences from his intellect.
Leonard McCoy also retires, returns to Earth, and enters private medical practice, swearing he'll never return to Starfleet.
The Enterprise, in San Francisco orbital dry dock, begins major refitting.
Will Decker is promoted to Enterprise captain on Kirk's recommendation.
2271
The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on another five year mission of exploration under the command of James T. Kirk.
Commander Spock and Dr. McCoy both return to Starfleet duty.
The newly launched Enterprise encounters the
entity known as V'Ger. V'Ger merges with Commander Decker to become a new
life form.
Demora Sulu is born.
Klingon forces, under the command of Kor, win a stunning victory over the Romulans in the battle of Klach D'kel Brakt.
The terraforming project at Caldos is completed with the installation of weather controls and fusion systems.
It is one of the Federation's first ventures into the massive engineering required to change a planet's climate.
The colony that is later built on the planet employs architecture closely patterned on buildings from Earth cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and other parts of the Scottish Highlands.
2273
Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan begins working on a treaty with the reclusive Legarans.
He does not succeed until the year 2366.
2274
The colony ship Artemis departs on a mission to settle Septimus Minor.
The ship ultimately ends up at Tau Cygna V in the de Laure Belt, where one-third of the original colonists die from exposure to the hyperonic radiation in the area.
Though not apparent at the time, the colony at Tau Cygna is in direct violation of the Treaty of Armens which cedes the planet to the Sheliak Corporate.
2276
The Enterprise returns from a five year mission of exploration commanded by James T. Kirk.
An individual named Tressa is born on Drayan II in the Delta Quadrant.
Her people's biology has an aging process that appears to be the opposite of many other humanoid species.
2277
Commander Spock is promoted to captain, becomes a member of Starfleet Academy faculty on Earth, and accepts command of the starship Enterprise.
Leonard McCoy is promoted from lieutenant commander to commander.
Commander Pavel Chekov is assigned as first officer of the U.S.S. Reliant.
The starship Enterprise is retired from exploratory service, becoming a training vessel assigned to Starfleet Academy at San Francisco.
Starfleet abolishes the practice of maintaining a different emblem for each starship, adopting the Enterprise symbol for the entire organization.
2278
The starship Bozeman, three weeks out of starbase under the command of Captain Morgan Bateson, disappears into what is later learned to be a temporal causality loop near the Typhon Expanse.
The ship remains trapped in the causality loop until freed by the Enterprise-D in 2368.
Pardek becomes a member of the Romulan Senate, representing the Krocton Segment of Romulus.
Pardek later meets Spock at the Khitomer Conference of 2293.
He is regarded as a "man of the people" and sponsors many reforms, but is considered by the Romulan leadership to be something of a radical because of his advocacy for peace.
2279
A treaty is signed between the Navot and the Paqu groups on Bajor, settling an ancient territorial dispute.
The accord defines a border between the two groups along the river Glyrhond.
2280
The Kes and the Prytt groups of Kesprytt II sever diplomatic relations, entering a period of cold war.
2281
Saavik enters Starfleet Academy.
Kirk meets the young Demora Sulu for the last
time prior to the launch of the Enterprise-B.
James T. Kirk retires from Starfleet.
2282
James T. Kirk, at his uncle's farm in Idaho on Earth, meets a woman named Antonia and falls in love with her.
2284
Kirk returns to Starfleet as an instructor in
the Academy.
Audrid Dax dies. The symbiont is transferred
to Torias.
Torias Dax marries a woman named Nilani Kahn, a scientist who is also a joined Trill.
Dr. Carol Marcus presents the Project Genesis proposal to the Federation.
The project is funded, and her team begins work at the Regula 1 Space Laboratory.
Torias Dax is seriously injured in a shuttle accident and goes into a coma.
When Torias Dax's isoboramine levels drop to dangerous levels, the Dax symbiont is surgically removed.
The procedure eventually results in Torias's death, but it will give the Dax symbiont a chance for life.
The Dax symbiont is joined with a musician named Joran Belar,
but shortly after the joining, Joran is found to have violent tendencies that make him unsuitable as a host.
The starship Excelsior is commissioned at the San Francisco orbital yards.
The vessel serves as an experimental test bed for the unsuccessful Transwarp Development Project, but later is refitted with a standard warp drive and serves successfully as a ship of the line.
James T. Kirk, retired from Starfleet and now living in a mountain cabin on Earth, decides to return to Starfleet as an academy instructor.
Kirk's decision is a disappointment to Antonia. The two subsequently separate, much to Kirk's regret.
2285
USS Reliant, searching for a lifeless planet for use in the Genesis experiment, is seized by Khan Noonian Sing. Sing attempts to steal the Genesis Device, but is engaged in battle by the USS Enterprise under the command of Admiral Kirk. Spock is killed saving the Enterprise from destruction.
Saavik and David Marcus are assigned to the USS
Grissom to investigate the Genesis planet.
The Enterprise is destroyed whilst rescuing the
regenerated body of Spock from the Genesis planet.
Spock undergoes reeducation and retraining at his parents' home on Vulcan.
He rapidly assimilates his technical and scientific education, taught in the Vulcan way, but has difficulty with humanistic concepts taught by his mother, Amanda.
2286
The captured Klingon Bird of Prey HMS Bounty
travels back in time to 1986 in order to bring two humpbacked whales to
the present.
The new Enterprise with the registery NCC 1701-A is commissioned
and the command is assigned to Captain James T. Kirk.
The Lornak clan of Acamar III massacre all but five members of the clan Tralesta, ending a blood feud that had lasted for 200 years.
Yuta of the clan Tralesta is one of the survivors.
Her cells are altered to slow her aging so that she may have enough time to exact vengeance upon all members of the clan Lornak.
2287
The Enterprise-A travels to the centre of the
galaxy and penetrates the Great Barrier.
The Transwarp Development Project is deemed unsuccessful by Starfleet Command.
The U.S.S. Excelsior is refitted with a standard warp drive and is assigned Starfleet duty.
The ship, previously classified as an experimental vessel with an NX registry prefix, is redesignated as NCC-2000.
2288
Starfleet retires the Soyuz class starships.
2289
Federation negotiator Curzon Dax conducts difficult talks with Klingon representative Kang at the Korvat colony.
On the first day of negotiations, Dax walks out on Kang's speech, angering the Klingon, but winning his respect.
Dax gives Koloth, another member of the Klingon contingent, the nickname D'akturak, meaning "ice man," because of Koloth's cold, tough demeanor.
Kang comes to believe that Dax, unlike other Federation representatives, does understand the Klingon psyche.
2290
Hikaru Sulu is promoted to captain and placed in command of the starship Excelsior.
The ship is assigned to scientific research in the Beta Quadrant, near the Klingon neutral zone.
Three Klingon warships under the command of captains Kor, Koloth, and Kang attempt to apprehend a criminal known as the Albino.
Although most of the Albino's crew is captured, the Albino himself escapes and sends the three captains a message that he will take revenge by murdering their firstborn children.
The Albino eventually makes good on the threat, using a genetic virus.
Kang's son, one of the victims of the Albino, was the godson of, and named for, Curzon Dax.
The three warriors and Dax take a blood oath to avenge the death of the three children.
Janice Rand is assigned as Excelsior communications officer.
The U.S.S. Enterprise, U.S.S. Excelsior, and other Federation starships are outfitted with improved sensors to support a scientific project cataloging planetary atmospheric anomalies.
The Klingon sleeper ship T'Ong is launched on an extended mission of exploration under the command of Captain K'Temok.
They return in the year 2365, when there is peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
2292
The alliance between the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire collapses.
The two former allies become bitter enemies for at least 75 years.
The Klingon Defense Force develops an improved bird-of-prey spacecraft capable of maintaining limited invisibility cloak while firing torpedo weapons.
2293
Tuvok, a recent Starfleet Academy graduate, is assigned as a junior science officer to the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Sulu.
The Enterprise-A escorts Chancellor Gorkon to
Earth for a peace conference. When Gorkon is assassinated, Kirk uncovers
a plot to reverse the recent easing of tensions between the Federation
and Klingons.
As part of the Khitomer accords, the Klingon Empire relinquishes claim to Archanis IV and the Archanis sector.
Captain James T. Kirk retires from Starfleet.
The Enterprise-A is decommissioned.
Spock meets Romulan senator Pardek during the Khitomer conference.
They remain in contact, pursuing the goal of Romulan/Vulcan reunification, until 2368, when Pardek is exposed as an undercover agent for the conservative Romulan government.
The Enterprise-B is launched; the ship rescues
refugees from the Lakul on its maiden voyage. Kirk is apparently killed
on the mission, but is in fact swallowed into the Nexus.
2294
Captain Montgomery Scott retires from Starfleet and books passage to the Norpin V retirement colony aboard the transport ship Jenolen.
While en route to Norpin V, the Jenolen disappears, with the apparent loss of all crew and passengers, including Montgomery Scott.
2297
First contact with the inhabitants of Ventax II by a Klingon expedition is made.
The planet's culture is reported to be a peaceful agrarian economy, despite evidence of a technologically advanced society in centuries past.
2302
The last Federation contact with Angel One prior to 2364.
The contact is by a Federation vessel that reports the inhabitants of the planet to have a technological development level similar to mid-20th century Earth.
2304
Tuvok undergoes pon farr and marries T'Pel, abandoning his Kohlinar training. Tuvok and T'Pel raise a family together.
2305
Jean-Luc Picard is born to Maurice and Yvette Picard in LaBarre, France, on Earth.
2307
Timicin is born on Kaelon II.
He becomes a scientist and plays a key role in that planet's effort to extend the life of the star Kaelon by a helium fusion ignition process.
2309
Representatives of the Cardassian Union offer assistance to Bajor.
The Cardassian presence is initially seen as benign, even constructive, but over the next two decades it becomes increasingly oppressive.
2311
The Tomed Incident happens where thousands of Federation lives are lost to Romulan forces.
Afterwards, the Treaty of Algeron is signed, reaffirming the Romulan Neutral Zone.
As part of the pact, the Federation promises not to develop or use cloaking technology in its spacecraft.
The treaty is instrumental in keeping peace between the two powers for decades, although some elements of the Federation Starfleet oppose the renunciation of cloaking technology, which some regard as vital to maintaining the Federations's defenses.
2312
A life form known as a Douwd, an "immortal being of disguise and false surroundings," who has lived in this galaxy for thousands of years, assumes the form of a human named Kevin Uxbridge.
On Earth in the New Martim Vaz aquatic city in Earth's Atlantic Ocean, he falls in love with and marries a human woman named Rishon.
They eventually join the 11,000 colonists in the ill-fated Delta Rana IV colony in 2361.
2313
Gatherer Penthor Mull of Acamar III is accused of leading a raid on the Tralesta clan.
He is killed by a microvirus carried by Yuta as part of her quest to avenge the 2286 massacre of her clan.
2319
The father of Mordan IV leader Karnas is assassinated by a rival tribe. In response of his fathers death
Karnas seizes 65 passengers of a starliner, demanding that Starfleet provide weapons in exchange for the lives of the hostages.
Two Federation mediators are killed in unsuccessful attempts to resolve the situation.
Federation hostages, held by revolutionaries on Mordan IV, are freed thanks to negotiations conducted by Captain Jameson of the U.S.S. Gettysburg.
Although Jameson is credited with the peaceful resolution of the situation, it is later learned that his intervention included a weapons-for-hostages deal that resulted in a bloody 40 year civil war.
2322
Jean-Luc Picard applies to Starfleet Academy, but is rejected.
However, his admission test score is sufficient to allow him to reapply the following year.
The Bajoran wormhole undergoes a brief subspace inversion,
a spectacular natural phenomenon that occurs once every fifty years.
2323
Jean-Luc Picard enters Starfleet Academy on his second application.
2324
Beverly Howard, the future Beverly Crusher, is born in Copernicus City, Luna, to Paul and Isabel Howard.
Beverly's mother dies while she is still a child, and young Beverly is raised by her grandmother, Felisa Howard.
At the academy, Picard is particularly close to his archaeology professor, Dr. Richard Galen, who regards Picard as his most promising student. Galen is bitterly disappointed when Picard chooses starship command over archaeology, although Picard retains an interest in that science throughout his life, even publishing an occasional academic paper.
2325
Devinoni Ral is born on Earth, in Brussels, part of the European Alliance.
He is one-fourth Betazoid, which Ral uses to his advantage as an adult in his career as a professional negotiator.
2327
Jean-Luc Picard graduates from Starfleet Academy.
In later years, Picard would credit Academy groundskeeper Boothby for helping him to find the strength to make it through some difficult times.
Awaiting his first assignment at Starbase Earhart shortly after graduation, Picard, known as "Johnny" to his friends, picks a fight with three very large Nausicaans, one of whom thrusts a sword through Picard's heart.
Picard's injuries are severe enough to require the implanting of a bionic replacement heart.
In later years, Picard would regret his youthful brashness, although in truth the incident helped shape his character by helping him to realize the fragility of life and the importance of each moment.
2328
Ian Andrew Troi of Earth and Lwaxana Troi of Betazed are married.
They live in a house near Lake El'nar on Betazed.
The Cardassian Empire formally annexes the Bajoran homeworld, forcing much of the native population of Bajor to resettle elsewhere, including three planets in the Valo system on the outskirts of Cardassian territory.
2329
Isolinear optical chip technology replaces duotronic enhancer systems aboard Starfleet vessels.
Duotronic technology had originally been developed by Dr. Richard Daystrom in 2243.
Mullibok, a Bajoran national, escapes from a Cardassian labor camp on Bajor after the death of his wife at Cardassian hands.
He flees to Jeraddo, a Bajoran moon, by stowing away on a Cardassian survey vessel.
Mullibok is the first settler on Jeraddo, where he survives by becoming a farmer.
Kestra Troi is born on Betazed to Ian Andrew and Lwaxana Troi.
2331
The United Federation of Planets establishes an outpost on Boradis III.
This colony is among the thirteen settlements in the Boradis sector within potential striking range of the Klingon sleeper ship T'Ong when it returns to the area in 2365.
2332
Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is born in New Orleans on Earth.
The temporal energy phenomenon known as the nexus passes through Federation space.
It's last transit across this part of the galaxy was in 2293, 39.1 years ago.
Scientists Noonien Soong and Juliana O'Donnell are secretly married while on a four day trip to Mavala IV.
No record of their marriage is made at the colony because Juliana's mother disapproved of her involvement with the older scientist.
2333
Jean-Luc Picard takes command of the U.S.S. Stargazer when the ship's captain is killed.
Picard is subsequently promoted to captain at age 28, making him one of the youngest Starfleet officers ever to command a starship.
2335
William T. Riker is born in Valdez, Alaska, on Earth.
Dr. Noonien Soong and his wife, Juliana Soong, make their fourth attempt to create a positronic based humanoid android.
Their first three attempts had been failures because of positronic matrix failures, but this effort is successfully made operational.
They name their new creation Lore, but Lore exhibits dangerously antisocial behavior and the Soongs are forced to deactivate him.
Prior to his deactivation, Lore had evidently been in contact with the Crystalline Entity, urging it to destroy the Omicron Theta colony.
The Soongs subsequently fabricate another android, nearly identical in structure to Lore, but with different programming and without the capacity for emotions.
They name this second android Data, who, Like Lore, has been built in Noonian Soong's image.
Chakotay is born at a Federation colony near the Cardassian border.
Geordi La Forge is born in the African Confederation on Earth.
2336
Deanna Troi is born on Betazed.
She is the second child of Lwaxana Troi and Starfleet officer Ian Andrew Troi.
Noonien and Juliana Soong continue their efforts to train Data to function in human society.
As with their previous creations, they regard Data as their child, but their efforts are less than successful.
In an effort to give him more understanding of humanity they program into him all the records of the colonists at Omicron Theta.
Before Data can be reactivated, the science colony at Omicron Theta is destroyed by what is later known as the Crystalline Entity. All life forms on the planet are absorbed or destroyed by the Entity.
The dormant Data remains unharmed in storage underground, near the Soongs' laboratory.
Noonien and Juliana Soong both flee the Omicron Theta colony aboard an escape pod, although Juliana had been seriously injured in the attack.
Noonien and Juliana are believed killed by the Crystalline Entity, although they both manage to make to Terlina III.
Juliana Soong slips into a terminal comatose state shortly after arriving at Terlina III.
Just prior to her death, Noonien uses a synaptic scanning technique to transfer her memories into the positronic matrix of a new android. This new android, even more sophisticated than Data, is not only indistinguishable from the original Juliana, but she later tires of the solitude and eventually leaves Noonien.
She subsequently remarries, and Noonien would regret her departure for the rest of his life.
Much later, Juliana would admit that she had pressured her husband into leaving Data behind at Omicron Theta because she feared that Data might develop a personality similar to that Lore.
Kestra Troi, the older daughter of Ian and Lwaxana Troi, accidentally drowns during a family picnic at Lake El'nar on Betazed.
Lwaxana is so overcome with grief and guilt over her child's death that she erases her personal journal for the entire period of Kestra's life and even suppresses all memories of Kestra from her conscious memory.
2337
Natasha Yar is born at the Federation colony on Turkana IV. She eventually leaves the planet, joins Starfleet, and becomes chief of security aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise-D.
Will Riker's mother dies, leaving him to be raised by his father, Starfleet civilian adviser Kyle Riker.
Trill ambassador Odan successfully mediates a dispute between the inhabitants of the two moons of Peliar Zel, although the entity later known as Odan is at the time known as Odan's father.
Odan bridges the differences between the two adversaries by persuading their representatives to trade places for a week so that they can more clearly understand each other's position.
During the negotiations, Alpha moon representative Kalin Trose quells a plot by radicals to assassinate the Beta moon's delegation.
The government of the Federation colony on Turkana IV begins to fall apart, eventually resulting in the destruction of all the cities above ground.
2338
Data is discovered at the remains of the colony on Omicron Theta by crew members of the Federation starship U.S.S. Tripoli.
Data finds the first few months after his activation to be a difficult and disorienting learning experience.
As his systems grow in complexity, it becomes increasingly difficult to integrate new pathways into his neural net. Data even considers having his positronic matrix wiped so that he can start again, but realizes that this is tantamount to committing suicide, so he instead chooses to treat his problems as challenges to be overcome.
Archaeologist Richard Galen and Captain Jean-Luc Picard see each other for the last time for over thirty years.
Picard had been Galen's most promising student, and Galen had been bitterly disappointed when Picard chose to pursue Starfleet instead of archaeology.
2339
A bitter civil war rages on Klaestron IV.
The war is ended when Klaestron general Ardelon Tandro is murdered, so angering his troops that they win a decisive battle.
It is not known at the time that Tandro had betrayed his people, and he is posthumously honored as a national hero.
Tandro had been good friends with Federation mediator Curzon Dax, who was assigned to the planet to help resolve the war.
2340
Worf is born on the Klingon Homeworld of Qo'noS.
Ilon Tandro is born on Klaestron IV to General Ardelon Tandro and his wife, Enina Tandro.
Ardelon Tandro had been murdered months earlier by parties unknown.
Ro Laren is born on Bajor.
As an adult she serves a tour of duty aboard the starship Wellington, and is court-martialed after a disastrous incident at Garon II.
She later serves aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise-D under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Yadera Prime, located in the Gamma Quadrant, is conquered by the Dominion.
One Yaderan, a man named Rurigan, escapes his homeworld and settles on Yadera II.
There he uses a hologenerator to create a duplicate of the village where he lived.
So sophisticated is Rurigan's programming of this replica that the holographic "people" have actual sentience, arguably qualifying as bona fide life forms.
Geordi La Forge, aged five, is caught in a fire, but his parents rescue him after a couple of minutes.
Although he is not hurt, Geordi would later recall that these were the longest couple of minutes of his life, and that it was some time before he would allow his parents out of earshot.
2341
Jadzia is born on Trill.
Julian Subatoi Bashir is born.
He becomes a Starfleet physician and serves on Deep Space Nine.
Data enters Starfleet Academy.
2342
Beverly Howard Crusher enters the Starfleet Academy medical school.
Natasha Yar, a five year old child living in the collapsing colony on Turkana IV, is orphaned when her parents are killed by crossfire between rival gangs.
She is left to care for her younger sister, Ishara.
2343
Kira Nerys is born in the Dahkur Province of Bajor.
Starfleet approves early design work on the Galaxy class starship development project.
This third ship of this class will eventually become the fifth Federation starship to bear the name Enterprise.
2344
The starship Enterprise-C, under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett, is nearly destroyed defending a Klingon outpost on Narendra III from a Romulan attack.
The rendering of assistance by a Federation starship is a key development in maintaining the path to friendly relations between the Federation and the Klingons.
U.S.S. Stargazer captain Jean-Luc Picard meets medical student Beverly Howard.
Although the two are attracted to each other, Howard has already met her future husband, Stargazer officer Jack Crusher.
The last attempt to make diplomatic contact with the Jarada prior to 2364.
The attempt is dramatically unsuccessful because of the mispronunciation of a single word.
2345
Data graduates from Starfleet Academy with honors in exobiology and probability mechanics.
Kurn is born, son of Mogh, and brother of Worf.
The criminal known as the Albino finds sanctuary on Secarus IV, hiding from Klingon warriors Kang, Kor, and Koloth, and Federation official Curzon Dax.
Years ago, the Albino had murdered the firstborn child of each of the three warriors, and they, along with Dax, had subsequently sworn a blood oath to kill the Albino to avenge the deaths.
Sela is born on Romulus.
She later claims to be the child of former Enterprise-D crew member Tasha Yar and a Romulan official.
2346
Mogh suspects Ja'rod, a member of the powerful Duras family, of plotting with the Romulans against the Klingon emperor.
He follows Ja'rod to the Khitomer outpost. Mogh expects the trip to Khitomer to be relatively short, so he arranges for family friend Lorgh to care for his younger son, the infant Kurn. Mogh's wife and elder son, Worf, accompany Mogh to Khitomer.
Kira Nerys' mother, an icon painter from the Dahkur province on Bajor, dies of malnutrition in the Singha refugee camp.
The Kazon people, living as second class citizens on the Trabe homeworld in the Delta Quadrant, overthrow their oppressors in a bloody revolt.
During the uprising, Kazon forces capture several Trabe spacecraft, which later become the Kazon fleet.
The revolution is engineered by Jal Sankur, who united all the Kazon sects to fight against their common enemy.
The average Trabe citizen was unaware that the Trabe government had subjected the Kazon to brutal conditions, and that they had encouraged the Kazon to fight among themselves as a means of making them easier to control.
Prior to the revolt, the Trabe had been among the most culturally and technologically advanced people in the Delta Quadrant.
Romulan forces attack the Klingon outpost at Khitomer.
The attack is successful because a Romulan collaborator had given the attackers access to secret Klingon defense codes, because of that betrayal gour thousand Klingons died at Khitomer.
Twenty years later, Worf's father, Mogh, is posthumously accused of providing the defense codes to the Romulans, but it is ultimately learned that Ja'rod, the father of council member Duras, is guilty of the crime.
The Federation starship U.S.S. Intrepid, responding to a distress call from Khitomer is one of the first ships on the scene to offer aid.
One of the survivors is a six year old Klingon child named Worf, who is rescued by Intrepid warp field specialist Sergey Rozhenko.
Rozhenko finds the child buried under a pile of rubble and left for dead. He adopts Worf as his son to be raised on the farm world of Gault with his wife, Helena, and their biological son, Nikolai.
The only other survivor, Worf's nursemaid, Kahlest, is treated on Starbase 24 and later returned to the Klingon Homeworld.
The Klingon High Command, unaware that Worf's brother, Kurn, is living with a family friend, informs Rozhenko that Worf has no living relatives, and Worf remains unaware that he has a living biological brother.
Unknown to Klingon authorities, nearly a hundred Klingon warriors from a perimeter outpost near Khitomer are taken prisoner after the battle.
Rather than execute all these people as his government demands, Romulan officer Tokath establishes a secret prison camp in the Carraya system, an extraordinary humanitarian gesture toward his enemies that costs Tokath his career in the Romulan Guard.
Tokath's Klingon prisoners believe themselves to have suffered a great dishonor in having been captured in battle, and thus willingly accept the fact that their families believe all of them to have died at Khitomer.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard becomes romantically involved with Miranda Vigo while he spends two weeks on Earth for shore leave.
Jason Vigo is born.
The boy's mother, Miranda Vigo, had been involved with Jean-Luc Picard, but years later, genetic tests would show that Picard was not the boy's father.
War breaks out between the Talaxians and the Haakonians in the Delta Quadrant.
2347
Ro Laren witnesses her father's brutal torture and murder at the hands of Cardassian forces.
Cardassian forces, fearing a massive attack will be launched from Setlik III, launch a preemptive strike against the Federation colony there.
The crew of the starship Rutledge, commanded by Captain Benjamin Maxwell, responds to the attack, but is too late to prevent the massacre of nearly a hundred civilians, including Maxwell's wife and children.
Miles O'Brien operates a transporter for the first time, successfully jury-rigging the unit so that he and thirteen other Starfleet personnel are able to avoid Cardassian capture.
Afterwards, O'Brien is promoted to Rutledge tactical officer.
Rutledge crew member Raymond Boone is taken prisoner by the Cardassians, but is apparently released. It is not realized at the time that Boone had been killed in captivity, and that he had been replaced by a Cardassian agent, surgically altered to resemble Boone.
Starfleet Command orders a change in the design of the Starfleet emblem. The new, simplified design features an elliptical background field and a slightly redrawn arrowhead.
2348
Starfleet officer Jack Crusher marries medical student Beverly Howard.
Jean-Luc Picard visits his family in his hometown of Labarre, France, on Earth.
This is his last trip home prior to his convalescence after the Borg encounter of 2367.
2349
Curzon Dax and Benjamin Sisko meet for the first
time.
Curzon takes young Ben Sisko under his wing and teaches him to appreciate life, guiding his education and values.
Wesley Crusher is born to Jack and Beverly Crusher.
Tuvok returns to Starfleet after an absence of over five decades.
In his youth he had found it difficult to accept Starfleet's multicultural environment, the experience of having raised a family helped him realize that there are still many things he can learn from other species.
Harry Kim is born.
Former Enterprise-D security officer Tasha Yar is reportedly executed following an attempted escape from Romulus with her daughter, Sela.
Kobliad security officer Ty Kajada begins tracking Rao Vantika, who is accused of causing the death of others to keep himself alive.
2350
Beverly Crusher graduates with a medical degree from Starfleet Academy.
Benjamin Sisko enters Starfleet Academy.
Chakotay, a young man living at a Federation settlement near the Cardassian border, applies for acceptance to Starfleet Academy.
Chakotay's application is sponsored by Captain Sulu, a Starfleet officer patrolling the Cardassian border.
The Romulan science vessel Talvath departs Romulus on a mission to sector 1385.
The ship is commanded by Telek R'Mor of the Romulan Astrophysical Academy.
Kyle Riker leaves his son, William, at age 15.
The younger Riker bitterly resents being "abandoned," and the two do not speak again until 2365.
2351
Chakotay enters Starfleet Academy.
The Cardassian military constructs a mining station, designated Terok Nor, in orbit around Bajor.
The Romulan science vessel Talvath, investigating a microscopic wormhole, makes contact with the Federation starship Voyager, 70,000 light years distant and 20 years in the future.
Talvath commander Telek R'Mor briefly transports through the wormhole to the Voyager.
He returns with a computer chip containing messages intended to be delivered in 20 years to the families of the Voyager crew.
Quark reaches his Age of Ascension and leaves his homeworld of Ferenginar, to seek fortune on his own.
His brother, Rom, remains home for ten more years.
Julian Bashir, aged ten, is trapped along with his father in a remote region of Ivernia II by a severe ionic storm. Also trapped by the storm is a young Ivernian girl who suffers from a deadly illness.
The storm makes it impossible to send for medical help and the girl dies.
Later, Julian learns that a common Ivernian herb could have saved her.
The incident inspires Julian to aspire to the medical profession.
Amanda Rogers is born to two members of the Q Continuum, living in human form on Earth.
When the Continuum becomes displeased with their decision to live among mortals, the Continuum causes a tornado to destroy their home in Topeka, Kansas, killing both parents.
Amanda is subsequently raised by foster parents, unaware of her heritage as a Q.
2352
A new era of peace begins between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets.
Fifteen year old Natasha Yar escapes from the failed colony at Turkana IV.
Her younger sister, Ishara, who has joined one of the gangs on the planet, declines to leave with her.
Tasha eventually joins Starfleet and becomes Enterprise-D security chief.
Shortly after Tasha's departure, the colony breaks off contact with the United Federation of Planets.
Scientists at the Darwin research station on Gagarin IV conduct an ambitious genetic experiment designed to give their children extraordinary powerful immune systems.
2353
Solar flares cause dramatic weather shifts on a class M planet in the Delta Quadrant, resulting in a sudden ice age.
A few of the planet's technologically sophisticated inhabitants survive by placing themselves in a state of artificial hibernation.
The system is designed to revive them in 15 years, when the ice age is predicted to end.
William Riker enters Starfleet Academy.
One of his friends is fellow student Paul Rice, who would eventually command the U.S.S. Drake, although Riker would later recall that he felt at odds with everyone during his first year.
Geordi La Forge enters Starfleet Academy at age 18.
His major field of study is engineering.
2354
Benjamin Sisko graduates from Starfleet Academy.
While awaiting his first posting, Sisko meets his future wife, Jennifer, at Gilgo Beach on Earth.
Jeremy Aster is born to Marla Aster.
Jeremy's mother later becomes a crew member aboard the Enterprise-D and is killed in 2366 on an archaeological research mission when an ancient artifact explodes.
Enterprise-D security officer Worf adopts the orphaned boy into his family through the Klingon R'uustai ceremony.
Lieutenant Jack Crusher dies on a U.S.S. Stargazer away team mission under the command of Captain Picard.
2355
Kira Nerys joins the Bajoran underground, fighting the Cardassians for the liberation of her homeworld.
The U.S.S. Stargazer under the command of Captain Picard, is nearly destroyed in a conflict in the Maxia Zeta star system by an unknown adversary, eventually learned to be a Ferengi spacecraft.
Picard would later recall that an unidentified ship suddenly appeared and fired twice on the Stargazer at point blank range, disabling the Stargazer's shields.
Picard saved his crew by employing what is later termed the "Picard Maneuver."
Captain Picard is routinely court martialed for the loss of the U.S.S. Stargazer by Starfleet prosecutor Phillipa Louvois.
Jake Sisko is born to Benjamin and Jennifer Sisko.
Worf, aged 15, reaches the second Age of Ascension, an important step in the coming of age of a Klingon warrior.
2356
The war between the Talaxians and the Haakonians is ended when the Haakonians conquer the Talaxian homeworld.
The decisive end to the decade long war comes when a weapon of mass destruction called the metreon cascade is used against Rinax, a moon in the Talaxian system, killing 300.000 Talaxians.
In the aftermath of the Metreon cascade attack on Rinax, Haakonian scientist Ma'Bor Jetrel feels terrible remorse at the death wrought by his work.
In an effort to assuage his conscience, Jetrel begins developing a process he calls regenerative fusion that could theoretically restore some of the people of Rinax who were disintegrated by the metreon cascade.
It is a difficult project, and one that wins little support from the Haakonian government, which is anxious to put the war behind it.
2357
William Riker graduates from Starfleet Academy.
Riker's first assignment is as helmsman aboard the U.S.S. Pegasus under the command of Captain Erik Pressman.
Worf enters Starfleet Academy, the first Klingon to serve in the Federation Starfleet.
The freighter S.S. Odin is disabled by an asteroid collision.
Some of the survivors escape on lifeboats, drifting for five months before ultimately ending up on Angel One.
The Shakaar resistance group is successful in liberating the notorious Gallitep labor camp, the site of numerous atrocities committed against Bajorans imprisoned there.
Geordi La Forge graduates from Starfleet Academy with a major in engineering.
One of his early assignments is aboard the starship Victory.
2358
Major system work progresses on the Galaxy class starship Enterprise-D, under construction at Starfleet's Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in orbit around Mars.
The project is under the overall supervision of Commander Quinteros.
Significant contributions to the design of the warp propulsion system are made by Dr. Leah Brahms, a junior member of engineering team 7 and a graduate of the Daystrom Institute.
The experimental starship Pegasus explodes near the Devolin system, killing nearly everyone on board.
It is not revealed that the Pegasus had been engaged in a top secret research mission in violation of the Treaty of Algeron at the time of the mutiny.
2359
A Starfleet Judge Advocate General's report on the Pegasus incident concludes that a mutiny did in fact take place aboard the Pegasus just prior to its destruction.
The report also concludes that the surviving Pegasus crew had withheld information from the inquiry and recommends further investigation.
Starfleet officer William T. Riker, formerly of the U.S.S. Pegasus, is assigned to a new posting on Betazed.
Julian Bashir enters Starfleet medical school.
Worf and K'Ehleyr have an unresolved romantic relationship.
Professor Richard Galen, one of the century's most noted archaeologists, makes a discovery in micropaleontology so profound that he devotes the rest of his life to gathering evidence to support his theory.
A bitter civil war on Mordan IV is concluded.
The conflict had lasted for 40 years and had been exacerbated by the improper intervention of Starfleet officer Mark Jameson in local affairs in 2319.
2360
The Federation personnel transport ship Santa Maria, en route to deliver colonists to Gemulon V, develops serious life support problems and is forced to land on a planet in the Orellius Minor system.
No one aboard suspects that colony leader Alixus has engineered the crash as part of her plan to create a new society according to her technophobic philosophies.
A Bajoran resistance stronghold at Lunar V is hit by Cardassian forces.
Just before the attack, the resistance fighters are successful in hiding a few sub-impulse raider aircraft underground, where they escape damage.
Bajoran resistance leader Li Nalas is believed killed.
2361
Worf graduates from Starfleet Academy.
Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge arrive at the Delta Rana IV colony.
Rishon does not suspect that her husband, Kevin, is in reality an immensely powerful member of a civilization called the Douwd, traveling in disguise as a human.
The colony is later destroyed and all the colonists, except Kevin, are killed in a Husnok attack.
Reacting in anger and grief, Kevin responds by using his extraordinary powers to destroy the entire Husnok race.
Archaeologist Vash begins working as an assistant to Professor Samuel Estragon, who has spent much of his career searching for a device called the Tox Uthat, an artifact from the 27th century, sent back in time for safekeeping.
Estragon never finds the Uthat, although Vash uses his notes after his death to locate the device on Risa.
The starship Potemkin makes it's last Federation contact with the failed colony on Turkana IV prior to the U.S.S. Enterprise-D visit in 2367.
Lieutenant William Riker, assigned to a Starfleet facility on Betazed, accepts a posting to the starship Potemkin.
The starship Potemkin is at Nervala IV to assist in the evacuation of scientists from a research station on the planet's surface when a dangerous energy distortion field covers the planet.
Lieutenant Commander William Riker breaks his date with Deanna Troi to meet on Risa because of the career opportunities presented by his recent promotion.
The incident marks the end of their romantic relationship.
2362
Klingon forces conduct a raid against Federation territory.
Despite the treaties and accords between the two powers, the incident illustrates the fragility of the peace.
Dr. Beverly Crusher decides to undergo the Starfleet training course to qualify her for advancement to the rank of commander, despite the fact that this is not required for her to serve as chief medical officer aboard a starship.
Ensign Geordi La Forge serves aboard the U.S.S. Victory under the command of Captain Zimbata.
On stardate 40164.7 he and fellow Victory crew member Susanna Leijten are part of an away team investigating the disappearance of 49 persons at the colony on Tarchannen III.
Five years later all members of this away team are mysteriously compelled to return to the same planet.
2363
The Galaxy class starship Enterprise-D, Starfleet registry number NCC-1701-D, is launched from the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards orbiting Mars, charged with the mission "to boldly go where no one has gone before."
The Federation starship Tsiolkovsky begins its last science mission, it is destroyed after its crew is killed by a variant of the Psi 2000 virus.
Cardassian official Gul Dukat meets Odo, a shape shifter of unknown origin, at a reception at the Bajoran Center for Science.
Quark installs the first holosuite at his bar on the Promenade of Terok Nor.
Gul Darhe'el, known as "The Butcher of Gallitep," dies in his sleep of a massive coleibric hemorrhage.
He is buried under one of the largest military monuments on Cardassia with full honors.
2364
Captain Jean-Luc Picard travels via shuttlecraft to his command on the Galaxy class starship Enterprise-D.
Commander William Riker is offered the opportunity to command the starship Drake, but declines the assignment in order to serve on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D.
Admiral Leonard McCoy travels aboard the U.S.S. Hood to rendezvous with the Enterprise-D at Farpoint Station.
Also aboard the Hood are Commander William T. Riker, serving as first officer, Lieutenant Junior Grade Geordi La Forge, Dr. Beverly Crusher, and her son Wesley Crusher, all en route to assignments on the Enterprise-D.
Enterprise-D security chief Tasha Yar is killed by Armus.
The Vulcan ship T'Pau is decommissioned and sent to the surplus depot Zed-15 orbiting Qualor II.
The ship is later surreptitiously dismantled and smuggled out of the yard by Romulan operatives as part of a plan to place Vulcan under Romulan rule.
First Contact with the Q continuum.
Jadzia, a young woman on Trill, enters the Trill initiate program, working toward her goal of becoming a host for a Trill symbiont.
The Borg make their first attack on the Federation,
destroying several outposts near the Romulan border. The Romulans re-establish
diplomatic ties with the Federation.
2365
Geordi La Forge is promoted to the rank of full lieutenant and is assigned as Enterprise-D chief engineer.
Lieutenant Worf is promoted to permanent chief of security, replacing the late Tasha Yar.
Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher is assigned regular bridge duty, serving as flight controller (conn).
Captain Picard recruits an old friend, Guinan, to serve as hostess of the Ten Forward lounge.
Quark arrives at the Cardassian mining station Terok Nor, orbiting the planet Bajor.
2366
A single Borg vessel launches an invasion of
the Federation. Whilst attempting to escape the ship, Captain Picard is
captured and assimilated.
Dr. Katherine Pulaski completes her assignment on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D and is replaced by Dr. Beverly Crusher, who returns after a year at Starfleet Medical.
Geordi La Forge is promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander.
Worf is promoted to full lieutenant.
Starfleet begins development of a new type of starship. While officially classified as an escort, the new Defiant class vessels will be heavily armed and are specifically designed to meet the Borg in battle.
2367
The Battle of Wolf 359 occurs. Thirty nine Federation
Starships and eleven thousand personnel are lost in the battle. In the
aftermath, the Enterprise manages to rescue Captain Picard and use his
link to the Borg collective to destroy the ship.
The U.S.S. Brattain issues a distress call, the last known signal from the ship. it is later learned that the Miranda class starship was trapped in a Tyken's Rift.
Curzon Daz dies.
The Dax symbiont is transplanted into Jadzia. She is the first female host that Dax has had in nearly eight decades.
Gowron is confirmed as leader of the Klingon
High Council. The Klingon civil war begins when the Duras family challenges
Gowron. Worf resigns his Starfleet commission in order to join Gowrons
side in the war.
2368
After discovering that the Romulans are assisting
the Duras family, Starfleet sends a fleet to the Romulan-Klingon border.
The fleet is successful in preventing Romulan border crossings. Gowrons
forces defeat the Duras family, although the sisters Lursa and B'Etor escape.
Worf returns to Starfleet service.
Datas head is discovered in a cave under San
Francisco, apparently left there approximately 500 years before. Analysis
of artefacts found near the head suggest that they originate from Devidia
II in the Marrab sector. Whilst investigating the planet, Data discovers
that alien life forms are travelling back in time to Earth in order to
prey on the inhabitants. The android is thrown back in time to the ninteenth
century. The Enterprise's senior crew follow him back in time.
2369
Datas head is severed from his body as he returns
to the present from 19th century Earth. Geordi LaForge attaches the head
found under San Francisco to his body successfully. The Enterprise crew
is successful in destroying the aliens on Devdia II.
The Cardassians retreat from the Bajoran system,
abandoning the Terok Nor ore processing facility in orbit of the planet.
The Bajoran Provisional Government asks Starfleet to take over the running
of the station. Commander Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is appointed as commanding
officer. Shortly after he takes command, Sisko discovers a stable wormhole
in the Bajoran systems Denorios belt. The wormhole has existed for at least
10,000 years in a stable state, apparently due to the influence of aliens
who live within it. Sisko is successful in convincing the wormhole aliens
to allow traffic to use the wormhole.
A Borg vessel is detected in Federation space.
The ship is discovered to be operating outside the influence of the Borg
collective, under the control of the android Lore. Lore manages to disable
Datas ethical subroutine and convince him to join forces with the Borg.
He also captures several of the senior officers of the Enterprise also.
2370
Dr. Beverly Crusher, in command of the Enterprise
during the absence of Captain Picard, is successful in destroying the Borg
vessel. Lieutenant Commander LaForge manages to reinitiate Datas ethical
subroutine; Data disables and then dismantles Lore.
Jean-Luc Picard convinces the Q to allow Humanity
to continue to exist by demonstrating that we are capable of understanding
"the limitless possibilities of existence". The experience involves Picard
visiting alternate timelines created by Q, which draws the Captain closer
to his crew and leads to him joining the regular senior officers poker
game for the first time.
The Dominion destroy the USS Odyssey.
2371
USS Voyager is dragged into the Delta Quadrant
by the Caretaker; the Caretakers Array is destroyed, stranding the ship
over 70,000 light years from home.
The Amagosa star system is destroyed by Dr. Tolian
Soran. The Enterprise-D is destroyed whilst attempting to prevent Dr. Soran
from similarly destroying the Veridian system.
Voyager discovers Amelia Earhart alive in the
Delta Quadrant.
2372
The USS Enterprise, NCC 1701-E, is launched.
Thomas Eugene Paris becomes the first known Human
being to achieve Warp 10 and travel at infinite speed.
Quinn, a member of the Q continuum, commits suicide
despite warnings that the disruption to the continuums philosophy could
result in chaos. The Q civil war begins some time afterwards.
Voyager is briefly captured by the Kazon.
2373
Voyager is re-taken by Paris and a small group
of Talaxians. Seska is killed during the operation.
The Q civil war ends when Voyager crew members,
using Q weapons, capture several important members of the continuum.
The Borg launch an attack on the Federation,
culminating in a fierce battle in Sector 001. The Borg ship is destroyed,
but manages to send a vessel back in time to assimilate Earth in 2063.
the USS Enterprise follows and restored the timeline to normal.
Starfleet mines the entrance to the Bajoran Wormhole.
The Dominion attacks and captures the station, while Starfleet and Klingon
forces destroy Dominion shipyards in Cardassian space.
The Dominion war begins.
Voyager becomes involved in a war between the
Borg and Species 8472, who have invaded Borg space in retaliation for the
Borgs attempts to assimilate them.
2374
Voyager, armed with Borg weapons, inflicts a
major defeat on Species 8472. They retreat to their own dimension, effectively
ending the war. A Borg drone called "Seven of Nine, tertiary adjunct to
unimatrix zero one" is captured by Voyager crew members when she attempts
to assimilate the ship after the victory.
Kes undergoes a transformation into a higher
life form. Her last act in our universe is to hurl Voyager some 10,000
light years toward Earth.
Starfleet and Klingon forces win a major victory
over the Dominion at the "Valley of Death", and recapture Deep Space Nine.
Voyager encounters the Krenim, a species who
use temporal technology in weapons applications. The encounter passes peacefully.
Voyagers EMH is transferred to the Alpha Quadrant
by an alien communications array. Starfleet learns of the ships predicament
for the first time. First Contact with the Hirogen.
The Romulans join the war against the Dominion.
The first Allied offensive captures the Chin'Toka
system from the Dominion.
Jadzia Dax is killed by Gul Dukat, who seals
the entrance to the Wormhole. The Dax symbiont develops life-threatening
comlications whilst on its way home to Trill; to save its life it is transplanted
into the only available host, Ezri Teegan.
2375
Ben Sisko uses the Orb of the Emissary to reopen
the Bajoran Wormhole.
Voyager crosses a 2,500 light year wide gulf
in space - possibly the gap between two galactic arms.
Voyager attempts to use an enhanced Slipstream
drive to return home in a matter of seconds. The attempt fails, but does
succeed in moving the ship some 10,000 light years further on its journey.
Afterward it becomes clear that interference from the future saved the
ship from destruction.
Voyager steals a transwarp coil from the Borg.
In the process, Seven of Nine is captured by the collective. She is rescued
by Janeway. Voyager uses the transwarp coil to get a further 20,000 lightyears
closer to home - a good fifteen years off their trip.
The Breen become Dominion allies.
A Breen fleet launches an attack against Earth,
destroying Starfleet Headquarters and badly damaging the San Francisco
area. The Breen suffer heavy losses in the attack.
The Chin'toka system is retaken by Dominion and
Breen forces. The USS Defiant is destroyed during the battle.
The Cardassian population rises up against the
Dominion. The Dominion destroy a city of 2 million people in retaliation.
The Cardassian fleet switches sides, helping
the Allies to inflict a major defeat on the Dominion and Breen forces.
The Dominion surrender, ending the war.
Captain Sisko defeats the Pah-Wraiths, sealing
them into the fire caves forever. Sisko joins the Prophets in the Bajoran
Wormhole.
Odo returns to the Great Link.
USS Voyager encounters the USS Equinox in the
Delta Quadrant.
2376
Dominion forces, following a rebellion by Cardassian civilians, begin exterminating all Cardassians. Total Cardassian casualties are in excess of 1 billion.
The Dominion War ends when the Allied Fleet surrounds Cardassia Prime and forces surrender of Dominion forces.
The Allies and Dominion sign a treaty requiring all Dominion forces in the Alpha Quadrant to return to the Gamma Quadrant. Travel through Bajoran wormhole is strictly controlled by both powers.
The Breen Confederacy begins a period of total isolation and rebuilding following their expulsion from the Dominion.
In honor of the ascension of the Bajoran Emissary (Ben Sisko) to the Celestial Temple, Bajor accepts an offer to become a member of the Federation. DS9 returned to Bajor orbit and a Federation Starbase begins construction at DS9's former location guarding the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole.
Allied assault fleets are officially disbanded upon confirmation of total Dominion withdrawal from Alpha Quadrant. Federation starships involved in war effort undergo repairs and refits to return them to their pre-war duties. All Federation warships are pulled back to Sector 001 for future use in the event of a Borg Incursion or other emergency situation. The Federation Council creates a commission to evaluate and make recommendations involving Starfleet's military readiness after concerns are raised due to the slow mobilization and early heavy losses to Dominion forces. Remaining Klingon and Romulan ships return to their own respective territories.
In addition to the refits and repairs of Federation ships, several new classes begin development, including the Nightshade Class and the Frontier Class.
Having witnessed the effectiveness of the Cardassian automated orbital defense platforms in the Chin’toka system during the Dominion War, the Federation approves construction of similar arrays around several Federation core worlds. Earth’s antiquated defenses are ordered first in line for the upgrade.
2377
USS Voyager, lost in the Delta Quadrant for 7 years, returns home. Federation scientists are astonished by all the technological discoveries Voyager has made. Trill scientists are especially interested in Slipstream Technology, seeing a possible way to utilize it in their quest to create artificial wormholes.
The tattered remains of the Cardassian Union, almost defenseless following their losses in the Dominion War, are on the verge of being over-run by raiders as well as plunging into anarchy due to internal strife. With no where else to turn, the Cardassians are forced to look to the Federation for assistance.
Significant reforms underway in the Klingon Empire due to the leadership of Chancellor Martok. A second attempt by the Romulans to spark a Klingon Civil War is put down by forces loyal to Martok. The incident causes hostilities between the two powers to grow to dangerous levels. Fortunately, neither party is in any shape to wage war against the other.
2378
The Cardassian Union joins the Federation, much to the dismay of most of the Alpha Quadrant. Although unexpected, the new Cardassian members are met warmly, even by the Bajorans, thanks to the Cardassian’s great sacrifice to help end the Dominion War.
2379
Starfleet completes construction of 4 new fleetyards for use in accelerating reconstruction of the fleet. One of the new yards, Wolf 359 Memorial Fleetyards, is dedicated to the brave men and women who gave their lives in the ill-fated attempt to stop the Borg invasion in 2366.
The Reunification Movement on Romulus begins to gain public support. Unfortunately, in retribution for Romulan interference in Klingon affairs, a prominent Romulan official is attacked and killed by Klingon forces. The movement is significantly slowed, but is not disrupted. Outraged by Klingon actions, the Federation withdraws its assistance towards the Klingon fleet rebuilding effort.
2380
The Starfleet Military Readiness Commission submits its report to the Federation Council. Among its recommendations is to separate Starfleet into 2 autonomous but coordinated entities: one for defense and rescue efforts, the other for exploration and diplomatic duties. Approving of the recommendation, the Council creates The Starfleet Exploratory Division (SFED) and the Starfleet Tactical Division (SFTD). Although the new system places heavier emphasis on the military aspect of Starfleet, the original mission of exploring new worlds remains true. As such, 75% of the fleet are incorporated into the SFED to continue exploration and diplomatic activities, leaving the remaining 25% to be dedicated to defense. Ship Classes are distributed among the different divisions according to capabilities as well as individual ship histories. Each division is given control of their own ship development and building efforts, but both are still controlled by Starfleet Command. The restructuring of the fleet is greeted warmly by Federation member worlds thanks to the increasing of defense resources.
The new planetary defense arrays go online over 10 of the Federation’s core worlds, including Earth. 2500 orbital platforms combine Starfleet’s latest defense advances into a nearly unbreachable barrier over the planet beneath them.
2381
Utilizing the resources formerly donated towards the Klingon Empire's rebuilding effort, Starfleet begins a massive fleet-wide rebuilding project. Although Starfleet as a whole has almost rebuilt to pre-war numbers, newly added territories, including the former Cardassian Union, require more ships to effectively patrol. The newly formed SFED and SFTD divisions take the opportunity to refit ships under their control to better suit each ship's new duties.
Various rumors spread about the Breen, most of them claiming that Breen ships encountered and were destroyed by an unknown race in an area located close to the galactic core. Given the rather unlikely situation that Breen ships could have traveled all the way to the galactic core in the first place, the Federation council dismisses the rumors as false, pending proof.
2382/2383
2 years of relatively quiet events are enjoyed by most Alpha Quadrant powers. Relations between the Romulans and Klingons are hostile, but no conflict takes place. Federation scientists continue to analyze the Voyager technologies and information.
Grand Nagus Rom gives Ferengi women the right to engage in commerce and to vote. Ferengi males are outraged.
2384
Trill scientists announce breakthrough in Artificial Wormhole Creation and Slipstream technology. Although still years in the future, the Trill are certain that the 2 technologies can be successfully combined to create a revolutionary method of propulsion. Another team of scientists, lead by Dr. Annika Hansen, who were also working on Slipstream technology, redirect their own efforts towards developing new weapon systems for the SFTD.
2385
Most Alpha and Beta Quadrant powers are totally recovered from wartime losses. However, the Federation is wary of Klingon/Romulan relations, since both empires now have powerful fleets again and relations between them are still decidedly negative.
The Ferengi Alliance undergoes a quick and uncharacteristically violent revolution against the leadership of Grand Nagus Rom, who advocated changing Ferengi society from greed-based to a more Federation-like approach. Due to the chaos of the following struggle for the leadership position among the male Ferengi votership, a female Ferengi, Trasn, is elected unanimously by the female votership. Realizing the profit possibilities of the female markets, the males simply go along with the new leadership. A female’s latinum IS latinum, after all...
2386
During excavation of the ruins of an ancient, highly advanced, civilization on Delta Pavonis IV, Federation archeologists make a remarkable discovery: a partially constructed alien ship which utilizes technologies and materials before thought impossible by Federation scientists. Engineers at Starfleet R&D rush to utilize these new technologies in the latest designs of the SFED and SFTD.
A Klingon spy is caught trying to steal the newly discovered technological breakthroughs, seriously damaging relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. The Romulans take the opportunity to gloat.
2387
The first of the new experimental ships utilizing the improved M/ARA, USS Columbus, is launched from Utopia Planitia. On it's first flight, it achieves Warp 9.995 with the warp core at only 52% output. Starfleet engineers, shocked by the performance of the new systems, boast that "the galaxy just got a whole lot smaller".
2389
Having proven the new warp technologies onboard USS Columbus, Starfleet Command orders all ships to be refitted with the improved systems during their next scheduled refit.
A Ferengi spy, in a daring spy operation deep inside Federation space at the Antares Shipyards, steals technical readouts and specs for the improved warp systems and sells them to anyone willing to pay. As a result, a good portion of Alpha Quadrant powers acquire the new technologies, thus, leveling the playing field for the Federation.
The Ferengi spy uses the latinum from selling the new warp technologies to buy the Risa system. The Federation can do nothing, as the Ferengi Alliance gave the spy diplomatic immunity and threatened reprisal should anything unfortunate happen to the spy.
2390
The SFTD breaks its one big fleet into 10 smaller fleets, which are based at strategic locations within Federation space. Fleet Prime, the largest of the 10 fleets, is assigned to patrol the heart of Federation space, including Sector 001.
Families once loyal to the House of Duras assassinate Chancellor Martok. Civil War is adverted when a virtually unknown warrior, K'tuk, is accepted by both sides as the new Chancellor. The Federation, disturbed by actions within the Klingon Empire, attempts to secure good relations with the new Chancellor by offering that the Federation/Klingon Alliance be amended to give the Klingons mining rights to Fortact II, a world on the boarder, rich in several minerals. The Federation is totally shocked when, in response to the proposal, Chancellor K'tuk not only rejects the offer, but cancels the alliance. Rumors abound concerning K'tuk, most of them assert that he's either insane or has a serious grudge against the Federation.
2391
The SFTD formally requests that a Command ship to be built for the purpose of leading and coordinating each of the 10 SFTD fleets in battle.
The Klingon Fleet begins raiding Romulan border worlds. Several minor skirmishes result between each race's fleets. Given the hatred between the 2 powers, and the rumors concerning the Klingon Chancellor, the Federation and most other races fear that a war may unavoidable.
2392
The Archangel-class Battlecruiser begins development at the Wolf 359 Memorial Fleetyards.
Dr. Hansen's research team makes a weapon breakthrough. The Wide Area Phaser Point-Defense System (WAPPDS) undergoes its first successful tryouts. Utilizing a new, high-energy compound named Hansium, WAPPDS arrays actually have a greater energy output then the energy input required to fire them. WAPPDS are quickly incorporated into the new Archangel Project.
2395
In a surprising chain of events, the Cardassian Union cedes its former territory from the Federation and begins attacking all Federation vessels, bases, and colonies in the resurrected Cardassian territory. These attacks result in the death of nearly 4,000,000 Starfleet officers and Federation citizens. Meanwhile, on the other side of Federation space, five Romulan warbirds attack and destroy the Federation Starbase Epsilon, which sparks the beginning of the First Galactic War.
Trill scientists suffer a failure in their first test of their Artificial Wormhole prototype, but report that it's only a minor problem that they should had solved soon.
2396
Trill scientists finally discover the secret of Artificial Wormhole Creation, and, due to an extremely fortunate accident during the second test of the Artificial Wormhole Projection System (AWPS), they also discover rudimentary Zero-Point Energy Extraction (ZPEE). Where as the alien warp technologies greatly increased speeds of warp drives, these 2 new technologies not only smash speed records, but totally rewrite the book on how interstellar travel works.
The Romulans lose several crucial battles to Klingon forces. Starfleet believes that defeat may be inevitable for the Romulans. Within a year, they may have no choice but to surrender.
2397
The planet Khitomer is attacked by a Romulan task force and taken over by the Romulan Empire. This marks the first slaughter of Klingon citizens by a Romulan invasion since 2344.
The SFTD formally requests that companions to the Archangel Class be built for the purpose of serving as escorts to the larger Archangel Classes, as well as incorporating refinements to technology during the Archangel Project's development.
2398
The Federation, battered and weakened by recurrent attacks by Romulan forces, turns to the one source they vowed not to implore, the Klingon Empire. The Klingons accept the alliance and the combined forces began planning for various incursions of Romulan Space. The first of these attacks is on the planet Khitomer, which is claimed by the Federation after the attack ceases.
The Sioux-Class Destroyer begins development at Wolf 359 Memorial Fleetyards.
The Diligence-Class Destroyer begins development at Wolf 359 Memorial Fleetyards.
2399
Rumors again spread concerning Breen space being invaded by an armada of ships from an unknown race. 2 Breen officers are rescued by the USS Envoy when the Breen’s heavily damaged ship drifts into Federation space. The Breen officers attempt to warn the Envoy’s captain about a dangerous new race before later triggering suicide implants to avoid capture. Starfleet begins taking the rumors of this hostile alien race seriously, and dispatches several starships to the Breen boarder to observe.
2400
The Star Date format is again revised so that the system is capable of covering a 100-year span correctly.
The Romulan Star Empire sickly decides to celebrate the new century by killing thousands of people in the destruction of Deep Space 12. The Federation is outraged by this action and responds by attacking an undefended Romulan colony, killing an equal amount of innocent civilians.
After two years of calm at the planet Khitomer, the Federation begins repairing the Starbase there in hopes of establishing a permanent outpost at Khitomer.
2401
Klingon fleets begin massing for a second invasion of Romulan space. Faced with likely defeat, the Romulan government asks the Federation for an alliance to attack and overrun the Klingon Empire. The Federation interprets this as a twisted joke, and begins preparing their own fleet to attack Romulan space.
SFED constructs subspace telescope outside of Breen territory for use in investigating the validity of the rumors concerning a hostile race invading the region. The Breen, despite their xenophobic attitude, make no complaints about the telescope scanning their space.
2402
The First Galactic War ends at the Battle of Romulus. The Romulan fleet that has terrorized the Alpha Quadrant is destroyed and the Romulan Emperor is killed aboard the fleet's flagship. The Romulan Senate is forced to sign the treaty papers, bringing forth the end of the war. The Federation calculates their losses at approximately 10,283,746 Federation citizens and 3,289,124 Starfleet officers. The Romulan Neutral Zone is reestablished in its location prior to the war, and Romulan ships are forbidden to enter it.
The subspace telescope on the Breen boarder makes a stunning discovery: the existence of the second known stable wormhole in the Alpha Quadrant, just 22 light years outside of Breen space. Further investigation reveals that the wormhole, like the Bajoran wormhole, is artificial in nature. Curious as to the wormhole’s origins, the Federation asks the Breen what they know about it. The Breen government makes no response, but a Yrridian trader informs the Federation that a Breen contact he has said that the wormhole is a Breen creation, using Dominion technology they received during their brief alliance, as well as pieces of information they had gotten from spies of the Trill Wormhole project. The Breen had hoped to be able to create a stable wormhole to Dominion space, allowing Dominion forces to re-enter the Alpha Quadrant. However, the Breen made a mistake when directing the wormhole’s path and it ended up leading to a region of space in the Gamma Quadrant near the galactic core.
Taking the Yrridian’s story as truth, Starfleet grows very concerned about the rumoured hostile race that apparently lives at the end of the Breen wormhole. Hoping that the Federation might be able to avoid another incident like first contact with the Dominion, and ignoring the warnings of the Breen not to enter Breen space, the SFED assembles a Diplomatic Taskforce to travel through the wormhole and attempt to establish positive relations with the unknown aliens.
2403
Federation first contact with the Sss'akra takes place on the far side of the Breen Wormhole by the Federation Diplomatic Taskforce, led by the USS Enterprise-E. Shortly after arriving at the terminus of the wormhole, a Sss’akra fleet approaches the Taskforce. The alien ships have something resembling shields raised, but no weapons are detected. Taking this as a good sign, the Enterprise transmits a standard greeting in all known languages. Unknown to the Federation ships, the reason no weapons are detected is because Sss’akran weapons are subspace-based, operating on a carrier wavelength similar to that of Federation hailing frequencies. The Sss’akran fleet considers the Federation standard greeting to be an attack, and opens fire on the Taskforce. Totally unprepared for the nature of the attack, 11 of the 12 ships, among them the Enterprise-E, are destroyed. The 1 surviving ship, USS Zeus, manages to escape through the wormhole before being destroyed.
Upon the Zeus’ limping arrival back in Alpha Quadrant space, the crew sends a subspace message to Starfleet informing them of the massacre. Shortly after the message is sent, the Sss’akran fleet pours through the wormhole, and destroys the Zeus.
2404
As news of the Taskforce’s massacre leaks into civilian channels via the Federation News Network, a phenomena public outcry ensues. Several Federation member worlds demand retribution. A vote is held among the Federation Council to determine the next step. The outcome, by an overwhelming majority spurred on by public anger and fear, is a formal declaration of war against the Sss’akran butchers.
The SFTD mobilizes for war.
2405
A Klingon task force arrives at the planets Khitomer, claiming that the planet is rightfully theirs. After a long standoff, Captain Leonard Kane, the Commanding Officer of Starbase Rapture, convinces delegates of the Klingon Empire to settle the dispute peacefully. During the conference, however, an outraged Klingon attacks Captain Kane and kills him. This event sparks new hostilities between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.
2406
3rd Borg Incursion occurs. 8 Cubes, utilizing some new unknown form of propulsion, suddenly appear in the heart of Federation space and assimilate 8 colonies before the 6th SFTD Fleet, consisting of 424 ships, can intercept. After a furious battle, in which 226 Federation ships are lost, 5 surviving Borg Cubes break through and set a course for Sector 001. Dr. Annika Hansen, formerly the Borg Drone 7 of 9, steals the small testbed ship her team used as a prototype for the WAPPDS project, and sneaks onboard one of the Borg Cubes. Exactly what Dr. Hansen did is currently unknown, but miraculously, all five Borg ships dropped out of warp and turned on each other. In pursuit, only minutes behind the Borg ships, the remaining ships of the 6th Fleet watched in amazement as the Cubes destroyed themselves. Dr. Hansen’s sacrifice was later honored when the Federation Council awarded her the Cochrane Medal of Honor, posthumously.
2407/2409
For the first time in decades, there is peace in the Alpha Quadrant. This peace allows the Federation valuable rebuilding time from the recent war.
2410
4th Borg Incursion of the Alpha Quadrant occurs. 3 Cubes, in a change of strategy, invade Romulan space. Estimates of Romulan losses places 53% of the Romulan fleet destroyed, and 2.3 billion Romulans dead or assimilated. After establishing a base of operations in Romulan space consisting of 2 captured Romulan colony worlds, the Borg quickly construct several smaller Borg ships using the Romulan population and invade Federation Space. The SFTD had been mobilizing for the Borg to return ever since it's founding, and it confronts the Borg in the Bolius system with an amassed fleet of 342 ships. The SFTD's existence is justified in the following battle, as a combination of new weaponry and excellent training allows for the first true victory against a Borg invasion fleet. All 9 Borg vessels are destroyed with only 15 Federation ships lost.
The Federation remains unsympathetic for the Romulans, because of their previous crimes during GW1. However, the Romulan Emperor contacts President Tarek and begs for a cessation of the hostilities between the Romulan Star Empire and the Federation
USS Archangel, first of the Archangel-class Battlecruisers, is launched from the Wolf 359 Memorial Fleetyards and immediately placed as the flagship of Rapture Fleet, foregoing shakedowns on the several untried technologies onboard. Rapture Fleet is dispatched to Khitomer and the Romulan border.
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