USS Galaxy Timeline - From 2265 AD to 2300 AD |
Legend: Credits: This timeline chronology was originally compiled by James Dixon. Modifications and additions by Liam Collins and Ian Dickson. Movie and episode summaries can be located here. Novel timeline by Geoff Trowbridge can be found here. Some liberties have been taken in aligning dates. This timeline is used in conjunction with the USS
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2265 |
| - USS Enterprise puts in for repairs at Starbase 47, a Watchtower class starbase also known as Vanguard, weeks after crossing the galactic barrier (TOS: Vanguard #1). - The Tholian Lattice is disrupted by a thought-pulse that temporarily usurps the network and every Tholian (TOS: Vanguard #1). - Uhura, Bailey and Rand are (re)assigned to the bridge crew. McCoy returns as Chief Medical Officer. Kirk delivers the eulogy at Mitchell's funeral. (My Brother's Keeper: Enterprise - TOS#87) [Note: It is inferred that Uhura, Bailey and Rand are coming aboard the Enterprise for the first time. Also, McCoy claims to have served with Kirk previously aboard the Constitution, but not the Enterprise.] - Having completely plundered the planet of Oghen, the Neyel Hegemony sends forth a fleet of ships to conquer and colonize additional worlds. (The Lost Era: The Sundered - Ch. 20) - Following a minor refit of the Enterprise and changes in uniform design, the famed "five-year mission" begins. - Ingraham B is attacked by the same parasite creatures that later decimates the population of Deneva (TOS: "Operation: Annihilate"). - After more than 100 years of isolation, a Romulan starship crosses the Neutral Zone and attacks Earth outposts, until it can be destroyed by the Enterprise. - Federation starts to log distress calls along Romulan Neutral Zone. OutPost Four reports 'brief plasma discharge of awesome power' from unknown ship surprising base, damaging outpost through full shields and under almost a mile of solid rock. Unknown ship vanishes after attack. - The Enterprise investigates a self-imposed quarantine of the planet Timshel, and discovers the citizens are enslaved to a computer that produces an artificial euphoria. (The Joy Machine - TOS#80) - The Enterprise rescues member of the Anjiri and Nykuss, but does not log the incident to protect the location of their homeworld. (War Dragons - CT#1) - McCoy's daughter Joanna turns eighteen. (The Better Man - TOS#72 - pages 62-63) - On planet M-113, a creature capable of psychic disguise makes its way onto the Enterprise and attacks the crew for their body salts. ("The Unreal McCoy," Star Trek 1) - The Enterprise crew travels to Tlaoli IV to retrieve a survey team, and discovers an ancient time portal. Kirk is inadvertently exchanged with his own self from the past, while Sulu is swapped with his future self. (The Janus Gate, Book One: Present Tense - TOS) - Thanksgiving day. The human Charles Evans, having been raised by Thasians, exhibits extraordinary telekinetic powers and is returned to Thasius to preserve the crew's safety. ("Charlie's Law," Star Trek 1) - The Enterprise and the Constellation are sent to Alpha Proxima II to investigate a plague caused by a Malkus Artifact. (The Brave And The Bold, Book One: The First Artifact) - Commander Spock and Lt. Sulu escort Prince Vikram of Angira back to his homeworld. (Shadow Lord - TOS#22) - Yeoman Vonda Figgs is nearly eaten by a carnivorous plant during her first away mission. ("Yeoman Figgs," Strange New Worlds V) - Fleet Captain Pike saves the lives of seven cadets aboard a training vessel, but is exposed to massive amounts of radiation. He soon loses all motor control and is confined to a mobile life-support carriage on Starbase 11. ("A Private Anecdote," Strange New Worlds I) |
2265, January |
| - The Enterprise returns to Earth to undergo crew rotation and refit after
the tragic events at Delta Vega. Uniforms are replaced as well, as Starfleet
had recently changed its uniform design. - The Enterprise heads out into space again, beginning a five year mission to to seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no man has gone before. - 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 (TNG: "Q Who?"). - Dr. Leonard H. McCoy is assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise as ship's surgeon to replace Dr. Mark Piper (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Corbomite Maneuver"). |
2265, May |
| - The Enterprise encounters a glowing cube in space. When
Kirk discovers that the cube will follow the ship or block its path,
he orders the cube destroyed. At this point, an enormous vessel appears,
and alien captain Balok declares that he will destroy the Enterprise
in minutes. Kirk bluffs his way out by claiming that all Federation vessels
have "corbomite"
aboard, which he will detonate if Balok threatens the crew. Balok attempts
to escape in an escape craft, but the Enterprise catches up and contacts
the real Balok - a representative of an alien race whose members, in adulthood,
look like human children. Lt. Bailey, whose emotional outbursts had been
disrupting the already fatalistic attitude on the Enterprise, agrees to
stay with Balok as an "exchange student" so he may learn more
about the diversity of life in the galaxy. - Diplomatic relations established with the alien Balok of the First Federation. |
2265, June |
| - After stealing a freighter and pushing its engines to
their limits in an effort to escape the pursuing Enterprise, Harry Mudd
and his cargo - three seemingly irresistable women - are recovered.
Although Mudd can't help but be suspicious, the women follow his instructions
to cripple the Enterprise without any questions from the male members
of the crew. The dilithium crystals powering the ship are sabotaged,
and Mudd intends to force Kirk to bargain for his crew's life when the
Enterprise arrives at a dilithium mining outpost. - As a landing party surveys a planet, a transporter malfunction splits Kirk into an aggressive aspect and a timid one. The aggressive Kirk threatens the security of the ship and crew, while the passive one tries to maintain his sanity and ability to command. In the meantime, the cause of the transporter problems haven't been determined, stranding Sulu and the team in the planet's subfreezing night temperatures while the two sides of Kirk's personality fight for control of the Enterprise. |
2265, August |
| - Visiting Professor Crater and his wife (who, before
marrying Crater, had a close relationship with McCoy), an Enterprise
landing party starts to fall prey to an unknown assailant that seems
to drain its victims of salt. Kirk is suspicious - and McCoy alarmed
- when the Craters refuse, in spite of the threat, to evacuate their
planet. The landing party returns to the Enterprise with an extra passenger
- a shape shifter who can assume the shapes of Enterprise crewmembers
and who has been living with Professor Crater in the guise of his late
wife, whom the creature killed. The creature, in search of salt, sees
the Enterprise as a promising hunting ground. (Date is conjecture,
based on the long held rule of thumb that Classic Star Trek took place
300 years after it was aired. By that basis, Man Trap, the first episode
aired, took place in September 2266, and serves as a reference point.) - A member of a landing party investigating the ruins on a collapsing planet contracts an unknown infection and returns it to the Enterprise, where it spreads rapidly by touch. Lt. Riley locks himself in engineering and shuts down the engines, which may be needed to get the ship away to avoid damage from the planet's impending destruction. Kirk slowly begins to lose control, and even Spock is affected by the infection, while the planet's final phase of collapse begins with very little warning. Time travel is first achieved by a Starfleet vessel - the U.S.S. Enterprise - in its escape from the gravity of Psi 2000. |
2265, September |
| Charlie, a young boy who reportedly grew up alone with only computer banks for company and teachers, is picked up by the crew of a starship and is transferred to the Enterprise for a trip to a starbase. During the trip, Charlie begins to learn more about human relationships and becomes infatuated with Yeoman Rand. When she tells him that he is too young for her, Charlie is enraged and begins to do away with members of the crew who he feels have been condescending to him - including Captain Kirk. |
2265, October |
| - Responding to distress calls from border outposts along
the Neutral Zone between the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire,
Kirk and the crew receive a final message from a Federation station reporting
an attack from an invisible ship. Before the station is destroyed, it
sends the Enterprise a brief view of the attacking vessel - a streamlined
fighter which appears for a second when it fires. Hurrying to the scene,
the Enterprise engages in battle with a Romulan Bird of Prey, armed with
a cloaking device and commanded by a battle-scarred and tired commander
whose crew is more eager to go into combat than he is. The Romulans,
to the Enterprise crew's amazement, bear a stunning resemblance to Vulcans,
which arouses suspicion in some, including Lt. Styles, whose father died
in a battle with the Romulans years ago. But as long as the Romulan ship
can remain invisible, the Enterprise is at a disadvantage (The Lost Era: "The
Sundered"). - The Enterprise is en route to visit Dr. Korby, a brilliant scientist working in isolation who also happens to be Nurse Chapel's fiance. Kirk and Chapel beam down and discover that Korby has used abandoned technology left behind by an extinct civilization to create android companions for himself - one of which, an attractive and very user-friendly "girl," arouses Chapel's suspicions. Korby, however, has become deranged in his isolation, and wants to take over the Enterprise so he can populate the "inferior" organic universe with androids. |
2265, November |
| - Kirk and ship's psychiatrist Dr. Noel visit a Federation
mental hospital as the Enterprise delivers supplies. But one cargo container
beamed aboard the ship contains an apparently insane stowaway from the
facility on the planet who isn't a patient, but the second in command
of the hospital's director, who has invented a device that can lock emotional
impulses in or out of the brain permanently and is apparently used his
invention without any discretion. Spock and the crew discover that Kirk
and Dr. Noel are trapped on the planet, and are probably the next victims
of the mind-altering machine. - A remarkably Earthlike planet is the home of a human-like civilization whose entire adult population was wiped out by a virulent disease. The children remain, although their growth has been slowed down to the point that Miri - a teenage girl found by Kirk and a landing party - could easily by 300 years old. Miri develops a crush on Kirk, but at the same time reports back to a gang of unruly children who plot to kidnap the landing party, beginning with Yeoman Rand. Kirk, Rand and even Miri begin to show signs of the disease, which gives Kirk a chance to prove that the disease will eventually kill all of the children - but they are unwilling to admit they need help or the "stuffy" advice of an adult. - Yeoman Janice Rand leaves the U.S.S. Enterprise. She will receive further Starfleet training and become a transporter chief aboard the refit U.S.S. Enterprise in 2271. Rand will later receive her commission and in 2290 she will serve as communications officer on the U.S.S. Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu. |
2265, December |
| - Kirk is contacted by Leighton, a friend from Kirk's stay
on the Tarsus IV colony years ago, who believes that Kodos the Executioner,
the militant dictator who gave the order for scores of people to die
on the colony during Kirk's stay, is at large once more in the guise
of touring Shakespearean actor Karidian, who, with his touring company,
has stopped over at Leighton's post for a performance. Kirk isn't convinced
until Leighton turns up dead, leaving Kirk and Lt. Riley the only remaining
living witnesses of the Tarsus IV massacre. To investigate further, Kirk
invites Karidian's company to travel on the Enterprise to their next
performance, and attempts on Kirk and Riley's lives begin immediately. - Kirk attends a Christmas party along with Dr. Helen Noel. (Dagger of the Mind) |
2266 |
| - The Enterprise unwittingly spreads a computer virus
to five planetary systems. A "virtual" alien civilization is
discovered in orbit around Tyrtaeus. Rand is still aboard. (Heart Of
The Sun - TOS#83) - Yeoman Rand becomes pregnant and takes a leave from Starfleet. (The Captain's Daughter - TOS#76) - Ensign Ingrit Tomson signs aboard. (The Lost Years) - Kirk investigates the murder of a Draqqi diplomat. ("Avenger," Enterprise Logs) - Spock is promoted to full commander. Pike is kidnapped by Spock, who diverts the Enterprise to Talos IV without authorization. Spock's court martial is dismissed when Pike chooses to remain with the Talosians, who provide him the illusion of good health. [Note: According to Spock in the television episode "The Menagerie Part I," this is thirteen years after the incident on Talos IV. In "Journey To Babel," it has been eighteen years since Spock left home for Starfleet. Subtract the one year between the episodes, and we have only four years for young Spock to have received all his academy training, promotion to full lieutenant, and assignment as Second Officer aboard the Enterprise . This is incredible, even for a Vulcan; plus, it contradicts Spock's service record given in Dorothy Fontana's Vulcan's Glory. Fortunately, since the "thirteen years" figure never appears anywhere in print, we can ignore it in good conscience] - Jean-Luc Picard arrives on Cestus III two days before the events of "Arena." (Requiem - TNG#32) - A plague destroys a third of the Romulan population. (Web Of The Romulans - TOS#10) - Klingon battlecruisers destroy a Federation hospital ship, killing the wife of Captain Androvar Drake. (The Ashes Of Eden) - The Enterprise returns to Earth for shore leave. Kirk contemplates resigning from Starfleet. (Final Frontier) - Kirk resigns from Starfleet and returns to Iowa. ("Reflections," Strange New Worlds I) - The Enterprise is caught in the gravity well of a black hole while in warp. Chekov saves the ship by plotting a spiral escape course. ("Indomitable," Strange New Worlds VII) - Chekov assigned to the bridge crew. Uhura temporarily transfers to the U.S.S. Lexington. Rithrim mercenaries raid several planets in the Xaridian system. (The Disinherited - TOS#59) - A race known as the Furies arrive with an invasion force from the far side of the galaxy to reclaim Federation and Klingon territory, including Earth, which they claim was once a homeworld. (Invasion! #1: First Strike - TOS#79) |
2266, January |
| - A shuttle commanded by Spock crash-lands on a savage
planet where members of the shuttle crew are in immediate danger from
the local life forms. The Enterprise must leave the area as soon as possible
to deliver a much needed vaccine to a plague-stricken planet, and Commissioner
Ferris insists that Kirk leave the Galileo crew for dead and get underway
to the Enterprise's next destination. Meanwhile, Spock faces a command
situation where total logic and rationality may be of no use if the crew
of the shuttle is to return to the Enterprise. - Kirk is accused of murder when the Enterprise's records officer, Lt. Commander Finney, is apparently jettisoned during a violent ion storm which threatened the ship. Kirk insists that he gave Finney even more time than safely allowed to get out of the jettisoned ion pod, yet the Enterprise computer's records show that Kirk discarded the pod, and Finney, while only at yellow alert when there was no sign of actual danger. Kirk challenges the findings of the computer and is court-martialed, with accusations that earlier rivalries with Finney when both were new officers caused Kirk to act maliciously - and even Kirk's attorney, Cogley, may not be able to convince the court that the error may have been the computer's. |
2266, February |
| - The Enterprise is summoned to Starbase 6, apparently
by Captain Pike, who commanded the ship before Kirk. Commodore Mendez
shows Kirk, Spock and McCoy, however, that Pike was recently paralyzed
in an accident and could not have signalled the Enterprise. Spock creates
false messages from Kirk and sends them to the ship, instructing the
crew that Spock and Pike will beam up immediately, the Enterprise will
be piloted by computer to its next destination, and that Kirk will be
staying behind. Kirk and Mendez follow the Enterprise in a shuttle, which
runs out of fuel when Spock refuses to slow the Enterprise down so the
shuttle can come aboard. Spock finally allows Kirk to catch up and then
places himself under arrest. Kirk is unable to disconnect the computer
from the helm, and Spock's court-martial begins. Spock offers, as evidence,
visual records of a voyage on the Enterprise on which Spock and Pike
served 13 years earlier. The bridge then informs Kirk and Mendez that
the recording is being sent to the Enterprise from Talos IV - a planet
that, according to Starfleet regulations, is absolutely off-limits to
all vessels, punishable by death. - Spock reveals that the Keeper of Talos IV has control of the viewscreen and the evidence being presented. The screen shows the events that occurred during Pike's visit to Talos IV in great detail, but Spock has difficulty convincing Kirk and Mendez of the validity of what they are seeing as well as the tremendous power of the Talosians. When the evidence suddenly stops, Mendez orders Kirk and Pike, the ranking officers forming Spock's trial board, to make their verdict, and all find Spock guilty. The final part of the record of Pike's adventure then continues, and then Commodore Mendez vanishes from the Enterprise. The Keeper himself tells Kirk that the Mendez that accompanied him in the shuttle and the trial was an illusion projected from Talos IV, and that Pike is welcome to return to the planet and be restored, as Vina was, to his former strength and health. |
2266, March |
| - McCoy recommends a layover so the crew can rest from
the constant strain of nonstop duties, and an earthlike but apparently
uninhabited planet provides a perfect opportunity for shore leave, but
when odd things begin happening on the surface, Kirk becomes suspicious.
McCoy, after telling Sulu that the planet is like a setting from "Alice
in Wonderland," spots a large rabbit followed by Alice herself.
Kirk runs into his old nemesis, Academy prankster Finnegan, while Sulu
discovers a police revolver that he doesn't have in his ancient firearms
collection and later runs into a Samurai warrior. Mysterious tracking
devices follow the crew's actions and thoughts, and whatever they happen
to be thinking of seems to become real - even if it's a deadly threat,
as McCoy discovers. - The Enterprise crew discovers that the ship cannot escape orbit of a planet that doesn't even exist on the star charts. Kirk and a landing party beam down to the surface of the mysterious planet and their captor is revealed to be the immature but powerful Trelane, who initially seems to be a student of ancient Earth history (as demonstrated by his 17th century mansion, clothes and furnishings). Kirk, discovering that Trelane's hold on the Enterprise comes from a power far beyond 23rd century technology, must try to beat Trelane at his own game, but Trelane rewrites the rules constantly to make sure he's winning. |
2266, April |
| - Arriving at a Federation planet at the request of a
starbase director, the Enterprise finds a devastated world with only
one survivor, who reveals that any summons Kirk received to visit the
planet must have been a trap. The Enterprise locates and pursues an alien
vessel right past the borders of the apparently omnipotent Metrons, who
halt the ensuing battle and force Kirk and the captain of the other vessel
- a huge, reptilian Gorn - to settle their differences in hand-to-hand
combat...a prospect which immediately leaves Kirk at a disadvantage.
Should he lose, the crew of the Enterprise will be destroyed. - The Enterprise encounters brief but intense turbulence after entering orbit above an uninhabited world. Kirk leads a landing party to the surface to investigate any possible connection between the planet and the disturbance, and they find a man named Lazarus, who, though he seems healthy and normal, claims to be fighting his own equivalent from a universe of antimatter. Lazarus proves to be a threat to the Enterprise's security, and the increasing blasts of turbulence seem to confirm Lazarus's story that he has a powerful enemy in another dimension. |
2266, May |
| - Accidentally swinging around the sun into a time warp,
the Enterprise's crew recover from their turbulent journey and find themselves
in Earth's atmosphere in the 1960s over North America. Jets are dispatched
to bring the "UFO" down, and one is caught in the ship's tractor
beam and begins to break apart. The pilot, Captain John Christopher,
is beamed out of his plane before it disintegrates and is welcomed to
the Enterprise as the crew prepares to return to the 23rd century. Kirk
tells Christopher that he cannot be returned to his own time because
he has seen too much of the future, but Spock discovers that Christopher
will have a son who will be very important to the history of the space
program and Christopher must be returned to 20th century Earth. - Sulu and another crewman are investigating a primitive but ancient-Earth-like alien culture incognito, but their disguise is blown and they're running for their lives. The Enterprise can't beam Sulu up in time, and he is hit by a weapon on the planet which leaves him under the control of something or someone called Landru. Kirk and Spock beam down, finding the planet's people engaged in unusual rituals, and also finding out from some of the locals that Landru has complete control over most everyone on the planet, aside from a small resistance effort. What begins as an effort to free the people on the planet becomes a matter of survival when Kirk and Spock become hunted by Landru's "puppets." |
2266, June |
| The Enterprise visits the twin planets of Eminiar VII and Vendikar so Ambassador Fox may approach their governments about joining the Federation. When they beam down to Eminiar 7, Kirk, Spock and the rest of their landing party are informed that the Enterprise has been struck by enemy missiles and Kirk's party, along with the rest of the crew, have been declared casualties. Investigating further, Kirk discovers that the war between the two planets is controlled by computers, which determine the damage done and the fatalities caused by the attacks, and assigns citizens to report to disintegration machines, which they do willingly. Kirk is trapped on the planet, but Ambassador Fox thinks he can remedy the situation and beams down unarmed against Scotty's advice. |
2266, July |
| The Enterprise discovers a derelict vessel which turns out to be an Earth ship dating back to a series of wars in the 1990s in which Earth's population was threatened by a group of genetically engineered superhuman beings. The inhabitants of the rogue ship, though they try to conceal the fact at every opportunity, are the only surviving oppressors from that war. Their leader, Khan, wishes to resume their reign of terror, beginning with a takeover of the Enterprise. Kirk exiles them to a lonely planet Ceti Alpha V. |
2266, August |
| - Investigating a colony whose settlers should be, but
for some reason are not, threatened by radiation, Kirk and a landing
party beam down to investigate. McCoy diagnoses the colonists as being
in fine health and none of them wish to leave, no matter how much danger
they are in. Spock, with Leila, an old acquaintance who has a crush on
him, is infested by spores from a plant while examining the colony grounds.
McCoy also soon falls victims to the spores, which leave their victims
- even Spock - in a stupor with no desire to leave... and Kirk is left
with a ship and no crew. - A mining colony reports a number of mysterious deaths just after they successfully dig to a lower level of a planetoid believed to be uninhabited. The Enterprise arrives, and Kirk, Spock and security officers from the ship begin a hunt for whoever or whatever is responsible for the growing body count. An amorphous creature capable of burning through the indigenous rock is found to be the cause of the deaths as well as a very well-thought out sabotage of the miners' life support systems. Through a mind-meld, Spock communicates with the being - known as the Horta - and finds that it is the last of its kind, a mother laying eggs in the tunnels and caves it builds for itself. But the humans have been discovering and destroying the eggs, and if the Horta cannot bring herself to negotiate with the miners, one party or the other faces extinction. |
2266, September |
| - A sudden attack by the Klingons on a vulnerable neutral
sector - a location of great strategic importance - puts the Enterprise
on red alert, as the threat of a catastrophic war between the Klingon
Empire and the Federation looms. Kirk and Spock beam down to Organia,
the planet whose security is at risk due to the Klingon threat, and find
that the inhabitants, who appear to be humans who have reached the medieval
period of sociological and technological development, are not at all
concerned that their world is currently being overrun by Klingon troops.
Kirk and Spock try to conceal their identities, but fail, leaving Kirk
and Klingon Captain Kor at each others' throats - until the Organians
reveal their true nature and intervene in the impending war. - McCoy accidentally receives an overdose of cordrazine as the Enterprise encounters turbulence. He beams down to an unexplored world where he enters a time-travel device known as the Guardian of Forever and changes history in the 1930s. Kirk and Spock also return to the 30s, where Kirk falls in love with peace activist Edith Keeler. When McCoy is finally located, Kirk must allow history to run its course, resulting in Edith's death, or he will leave history altered irrevocably, with no chance of returning to the future or the Enterprise. |
2266, October |
| The Enterprise witnesses a smaller ship diving into the sun of Deneva under the control of a pilot who seems to have intentionally killed himself. This confirms Kirk's worst fears, that a seemingly contagious outbreak of insanity on several other worlds has spread to Deneva, where his brother lives. On the surface, many are found to be dead - including Kirk's brother - and an unknown species of alien parasite is found to be responsible. In trying to gather data on them, Spock is attacked and taken over by one, and, like the people of Deneva and several other planets, starts to go mad. Spock's condition also presents McCoy with the first opportunity to learn more about both the creature and its victim, and Spock may have to die if the crew is to learn any more about the creatures to prevent them from spreading further into human territory. |
2266, November |
| - When a crewman from a landing party investigating the
latest planet visited by the Enterprise returns under some form of exterior
control and then dies, Kirk decides to beam down and see for himself
what caused the death. What Kirk, Spock and McCoy find on the surface
is a house of horrors right out of ancient Earth mythology, right down
to three hideous witches delivering a prophecy of doom for the crew.
Two aliens are found to be at the heart of the evil activities, and they
have no intention of letting Kirk or the Enterprise leave their world. - Taking Federation Commissioner Hedford back to the Enterprise's sick bay so McCoy can treat her for a potentially dangerous but curable ailment, the shuttlecraft containing Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Hedford is diverted by a strange energy field to a barren planet, inhabited only by Cochrane, who invented the basis for current warp engine technology decades ago and should be dead by now. Cochrane reveals, however, that an energy creature called the Companion has halted his aging process. The Companion is also concerned about Cochrane's psychological well-being, and Kirk and the others have been brought to keep Cochrane company - possibly for the rest of their lives. |
2266, December |
| - The Enterprise rushes to an underdeveloped planet in
an attempt to stop Klingon intervention in the somewhat primitive society.
The Klingon Krag is trying to convince the planet's people that an alliance
with the Klingon Empire would be beneficial, and when Kirk breaks cultural
taboos - not to mention the prime directive - by interfering with a "routine" killing
and saving a pregnant woman, it becomes all too easy for Krag to point
out that the landing party from the Enterprise have only come to usurp
the planet's ways of life. - The Enterprise is trapped in deep space by an enormous hand. Kirk and a landing party beam down to a nearby planet and find that a powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo is the one responsible for holding the Enterprise in its place - and Kirk discovers that Apollo's ability to immobilize a starship is just a small demonstration of the being's power. When Apollo demands that the crew worship him, Kirk decides that the mythical figure must be defeated - but must rely on playing with Apollo's emotions and weaknesses since the being can tamper with the Enterprise's technology. |
2267 |
| - Koloth and the
crew of the I.K.S.
Gr'oth cope with a ship full of tribbles. (In
The Name Of Honor - TOS#97 - Ch. 5) - The Enterprise transports Samuel T. Cogley to Aneher II, a colony world jointly developed by the Federation and the Klingon Empire, where Mak'tor, the Klingon commander, stands accused of murdering Daniel Latham, the Federation Administrator. (The Case Of The Colonist's Corpse) - Ceti Alpha VI explodes, throwing Ceti Alpha V out of its orbit (Star Trek: "The Wrath of Khan"). - The common colony of the Federation, the Klingons and the Romulans is established on Nimbus III ("Star Trek: The Final Frontier"). - Orions reveal existance of Klingon-Romulan Alliance, as retalitory gesture for Organian Treaty cutting into their 'profits' of passing merchanters.{SFB} - The Enterprise encounters the Enterprise-D in a time rift at black hole TNC65813. (Federation) - The Enterprise attempts to increase the rotational speed of the planet Rimillia. (Twilight's End - TOS#77) - The crew of the damaged sublight vessel Stephen Hawking is recovered, having left Earth nearly 200 years earlier but experiencing only thirty years of relativistic time. (Across The Universe - TOS#88) - A number of people are murdered at the Vulcan Academy of Science. The Enterprise spends a month in orbit to investigate. (The Vulcan Academy Murders - TOS#20) - A plague strikes the Vulcan colony Nisus. Dr. Geoffrey M'Benga signs aboard the Enterprise. (The IDIC Epidemic - TOS#38) - A diplomatic mission to the Patrian Republics uncovers a conspiracy in the planet's Mindcrime Unit. (The Patrian Transgression - TOS#69) - A lifepod filled with tribbles from the I.K.S. Gr'oth is assimilated by the Borg. ("The Trouble With Borg Tribbles," Strange New Worlds V) - The crew of the Vulcan science ship T'Pau is found dead, and the secrets of Alnath II are discovered. The Enterprise returns to Delta Canaris IV to complete a mapping mission. (The Klingon Gambit - TOS#3) - Upon completion of the mission at Delta Canaris, the Enterprise transports a diplomatic team to Ammdon and Jurnamoria. (Mutiny On The Enterprise - TOS#12) - Lt. Uhura's study of the native songs of Eeiauo lead to the discovery of a cure for ADF syndrome. (Uhura's Song - TOS#21) - A transporter malfunction swaps Kirk, Spock and McCoy with their actor counterparts in a universe where they exist only as fictional creations. ("Visit To A Weird Planet Revisited," The New Voyages) - Kirk's body becomes possessed by Yarblis Geshkerroth. (Ghost Walker - TOS#53) - The Klingon "Day Of Honor" is established to commemorate a treaty with the Narr. (Treaty's Law - DOH#4) - In a cooperative effort with the Klingons, the survivors of the Kanst Energy Experiment are rescued from the Tautee system. (The Rings Of Tautee - TOS#78) - Kylar Curran boards his sleeper ship bound for the Alpha Quadrant. The journey will take 100 years. |
2267, January |
| Spock begins acting strange - even violent - as, unknown
to the rest of the crew, he enters the Vulcan mating phase that strikes
adult male Vulcans every seven years. Kirk must divert the Enterprise
from a tight schedule to return Spock to Vulcan so his mating ritual
may be carried out. But on arriving, it is discovered that Spock must
compete with a gladiator of his prospective mate's choice - and that
turns out, on the spur of the moment, to be Kirk. - The starship Constellation is found in deep space, almost completely destroyed. The only person found aboard is Commodore Matt Decker, in a state of shock and only able to give minimal details of what happened. A gigantic ship/creature suddenly returns, well over ten times the size of the Federation vessels, capable of literally eating entire planets to replenish is colossal energy needs. Kirk is trapped on the unarmed Constellation, while Decker takes command of the Enterprise and plans to exact revenge on the huge alien vessel, no matter what the risk to Kirk's ship and crew. - Kirk records a log entry concerning Matt Decker's death (The Brave And The Bold, Book One: First Interlude). |
2267, February |
| - After suffering a head injury on the Enterprise, Scotty
is talking into shore leave with Kirk and McCoy. On the planet they are
visiting, however, a series of grisly murders of local women begins,
and all the evidence seems to point to Scotty. Kirk must contend with
the overwhelming evidence against Scotty as well as the overzealous local
constable, who is ready to have Scotty punished as soon as possible. - The Enterprise is attacked and boarded by the unusual space probe Nomad, which Spock identifies as the combined remains of an alien robot and an Earth exploration probe. Nomad's purpose - a confused mix of aliens' orders and instructions from Earth - is to seek out and sterilize all impurities, including imperfect beings like humans. The only thing preventing Nomad from obliterating the Enterprise and everyone on board is the similarity between the name of Nomad's creator and Captain Kirk, and Kirk must try to play that role as best he can while figuring out how to get rid of Nomad. |
2267, March |
| - An Enterprise landing party beams down to an paradisical
planet, where Kirk discovers that the people living there are still primitive,
all progress held in check by an enormous ancient computer known as Vaal,
which also demands sacrifices of food by the natives. Vaal detects the
Enterprise in orbit and begins to drain it of its power, and Kirk realizes
that he will have to destroy Vaal to save the Enterprise, but the surface
dwellers' lifestyles will be changed forever if Vaal is removed. - Returning to the Enterprise from an unsuccessful mission to ask the leaders of a planet for a possible mineral trade, Kirk, Uhura, Scotty and McCoy are being beamed up just as a freak accident hurls them into another reality, which still contains a USS Enterprise and a Spock and a Federation, but the other reality's versions are cruel and inhumane - the crew the alternate Enterprise is readying for a strike against the planet Kirk just left to take their mineral resources by force. Kirk and his landing party must try to cover their inexplicable identities and try to fit in, while stopping the savage alternate Enterprise from carrying its reign of terror any further. |
2267, April |
| - Conducting a survey of a planet, a landing party from
the Enterprise is contaminated with a form of radiation sickness that
accelerates aging. With the ship's entire command crew rapidly aging
and slowly losing their ability to perform their routine duties, Commodore
Stocker, who is aboard for a trip to his next starbase command, decides
he must question their competency and take the captain's chair as Kirk,
Spock and the others face an impending death of old age. - The Enterprise is taken over by Crewman Norman, who turns out to be an android in disguise. He sets the ship on a course back to his home world, a planet populated entirely by androids - and one Harry Mudd, trapped there after a crash-landing. The androids plan to move out beyond their own planet to populate the galaxy with more of their logical, efficient kind, and the Enterprise is their chosen means of transport. Kirk, although understandably suspicious of Harry, must now cooperate with the con-man if the android invasion is to be stopped. And the greatest weapon at the disposal of Kirk, his crew, and Harry is total illogic. |
2267, May |
| - The Enterprise is summoned to space station K-7 for
security duty when the station's security forces are considered inadequate
to guard a shipment of valuable grain by the standards of Federation
agriculture administrator Baris. A shipload of Klingons stops off at
the station as well, which has all parties concerned even more about
the grain consignment. Kirk orders stepped-up security, but that only
results in some of the crew - including Scotty and Chekov - instigating
a massive bar brawl with the Klingons. All the while, the seemingly harmless
huckster Cyrano Jones is trying to peddle furry tribbles off to anyone
with a few credits, and Uhura buys one and takes it back to the Enterprise,
not knowing that tribbles do only two things: eat and breed. - The Enterprise crew members make the difficult decision not to retain any tribbles as pets ("Missed," Strange New Worlds IV). - Trying to track down the crew of the downed Federation starship Beagle, Kirk, Spock and McCoy arrive on a planet populated by a society that mixes savage ancient practices with 20th century technology. Enemies of the Roman Empire-like state are rounded up and forced to participate in televised coliseum battles. Kirk and Spock briefly encounter a peaceful group of people, but all are captured and prepared for their duels - including one event which will pit Spock against McCoy. Kirk must hope that he and his landing party can survive long enough for help to arrive from the Enterprise. - Odo, Worf, Sisko, O'Brien, Bashir, and Dax travel to the time period of "Trouble with Tribbles" to halt an assassination attempt on Captain Kirk by Ambassador Darvin, whom Kirk had exposed as a Klingon agent (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"). |
2267, June |
| - Delegates from several worlds are welcomed aboard for
a trip to Babel where a Federation summit will take place, among them
Vulcan Ambassador Sarek - Spock's father, from whom he has been alienated
since childhood. Spock's human mother, Amanda, can't stop trying to bridge
the gap between her husband and son, while Spock and Sarek can't seem
to do anything but continue their rivalry. At the Babel Conference, Ambassador
Sarek manages to broker an agreement to admit Coridan to the United Federation
of Planets. Prior to the conference, the journey of the ambassadors to
Babel, aboard the starship Enterprise, was complicated by an Orion plot
to assassinate the Tellarite ambassador with agents disguised as Andorians. "Journey
to Babel" (TOS), 100 years prior to "Sarek" (TNG). - The Enterprise visits a primitive world where the Klingon Empire has armed one faction of people against another in hopes of eliminating the weaker population and allying the stronger warriors with the Klingons. Spock is seriously injured when he, Kirk and McCoy beam down, and is returned to the Enterprise for treatment as Kirk and McCoy try to make contact with the locals. Kirk is injured by an poisonous indigenous animal, but reaches, with McCoy's help, his old friend Tyree. Tyree's mystical wife Nona cures Kirk and then pursues him. Kirk and McCoy, in the meantime, may only be able to resolve the unfair advantage between the planet's two factions by arming Tyree against his people's Klingon-backed adversaries. |
2267, July |
| - A landing party beaming down to the Enterprise's latest
stop is intercepted by a more powerful, long-range transporter beam,
which hijacks Kirk, Uhura and Chekov to the planet Triskelion, where
they are immediately handed over to various "trainers" to prepare
them for their upcoming duties as gladiators to amuse the powerful rulers
of the planet. Spock orders the Enterprise to warp to Triskelion to save
the landing party but doesn't realize that the powers-that-be on the
planet may want to lure the Enterprise crew there to provide them with
even more entertainment. - While a landing party is conducting a routine survey of a planet, two crewman are killed and one badly injured by a cloudlike being Kirk suddenly believes he has encountered before. It turns out that the creature attacked a ship that Kirk had been stationed on years before and killed most of the crew, and Kirk feels that he should have been able to do more to save his former crewmates. He transfers that guilt to the surviving landing party member, who not only is considered responsible by Kirk, but is also the son of Kirk's former captain on that previous assignment. Kirk orders the Enterprise to follow the creature through space, determined to kill it - at any cost - before it can take more lives. |
2267, August |
| - Spock telepathically receives the collective death cries
of the entire all-Vulcan crew of the USS Intrepid, which has just been
destroyed by an unknown force. The Enterprise intercepts a gigantic organism,
which then surrounds the ship, beginning to cause physical and mental
illness among the crew. Kirk, Spock and McCoy surmise that this paradoxically
huge single-celled organism may be a "disease," as its course
will soon take it through inhabited star systems. The Enterprise may
turn out to be the only "antibody" capable of saving millions
from the onslaught of the enormous parasite. - The Enterprise encounters a planet recently visited by the "Horizon" and discovers that a book on the Chicago mobs of the 1920s accidentally left behind by a crew member of the previous ship has become the basis of the planet's society structure over 200 years of the planet's time (the starship having had warp drive). The intelligent but imitative inhabitants show a keen interest in replacing telephones with communicators and replacing tommy guns with phasers when Kirk, Spock and McCoy, along with their standard Starfleet landing party equipment - are captured. |
2267, September |
| - The Enterprise responds to a distress call, finding
only a trap set by a small group of aliens from the Andromeda galaxy
who are assessing the potential of the Federation's home galaxy for colonization.
The aliens successfully take over the ship, reducing all aboard except
for Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty to dehydrated cubes so the ship's supply
of food and oxygen can be used by the hijackers and Kirk's command crew
for the staggering 300-year return to Andromeda. The aliens, having assumed
human form, also gain attributes such as emotions, which may be just
the weakness Kirk and the others need to attack to regain control of
the Enterprise. - The Enterprise visits a planet long thought uninhabited, and finds globes that contain the consciousness of the last survivors of the planet, Sargon, Thalassa and Henoch. The three remaining beings wish to "possess" the bodies of willing Enterprise crew members, leaving the crew members' minds in the globes briefly as Sargon and his companions use the human bodies to construct android bodies for their minds. Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Mulhall agree to this procedure, but Henoch, occupying Spock's body, has other plans than building an android frame for himself. In the meantime, Sargon and Thalassa, in the bodies of Kirk and Mulhall, fall in love all over again. One way or another, though, the humans' bodies must be vacated since their metabolism is incapable of withstanding the levels of activity taken on by Sargon and the others. |
2267, October |
| - On arrival at Ekos, the Enterprise is the target of
a nuclear missile attack, a technology which didn't exist the last time
a Federation ship visited the planet. Kirk and Spock beam down to investigate,
discovering that the government on Ekos has been transformed into a Nazi
police state which came about when Federation teacher John Gill tried
to simply increase the efficiency of the government on Ekos. Gill is
now under the control of the people he has tried to educate, and anyone
who tries to reveal the truth about Gill or rescue him - including Kirk
and Spock - are hunted men. - Kirk is ordered to relinquish command of the Enterprise to Dr. Daystrom's new M-5 computer, which, according to Daystrom, can make all the decisions that a starship captain would encounter correctly and more quickly than any human. The Enterprise, with Kirk and a few others aboard, is engaged in Starfleet wargames, but the M-5 begins to treat the other ships as a serious threat and retaliates with full salvos of phasers and photon torpedoes, destroying one ship. Believing Kirk may have lost his mind, Starfleet gives the remaining ships permission to destroy the Enterprise. |
2267, November |
| - The missing starship Exeter is spotted in orbit of an
inhabited planet. Kirk, Spock and McCoy board the Exeter, finding only
the remains of the crew, wiped out by a disease which likely affects
the boarding party now. Transporting to the planet, Kirk finds that Captain
Tracey of the Exeter escaped his crew's fate, and the atmosphere on the
planet is capable of eliminating the disease from the Enterprise landing
party's bloodstreams. But more problems arise as Tracey discards his
loyalty to the prime directive in an attempt to gain power in the planet's
government. - After warping back in time to the late 20th century (1968) for a glimpse of Earth's past, the Enterprise intercepts a mysterious man who simply calls himself Gary Seven. Although Gary and his ever-present black cat Isis appear like inhabitants of the 20th century, Gary knows what kind of ship he is on and recognizes Spock as a Vulcan, and ascertains that the Enterprise is from the 23rd century. Gary Seven evades security officers and resumes his journey to Earth. Kirk and Spock assume 20th century disguises and pursue him, finding that Gary is a time traveler from the future who is here to influence Earth's history - but whether or not his influence will be benign is another question altogether (Easter Egg: This episode was meant to introduce Gary Seven and his trustful aide Rebecca Lincoln (played by Teri Garr) as a later spinoff. The series was never picked up). - The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a probe warning the ship to stay away from the space of the Melkot; the telepathic warning is heard in the native language of each Enterprise crew member. The Enterprise is under orders to establish contact with the reclusive Melkotians at all costs, so Captain Kirk orders a course farther into Melkot space. Kirk leads a landing party to the Melkotian planet, but they find themselves trapped in a foggy environment. A Melkotian says they will be punished for disregarding the warning, and they find themselves in an incomplete simulation of Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26, 1881, the day of the gun fight at the O K Corral. |
2267, December |
| - The U.S.S. Enterprise enters the disputed Tellun star system -- near the
Klingon border -- on a top-secret diplomatic mission, and picks up Ambassador
Petri of the outer planet, Troyius, and approaches the inner planet, Elas,
to pick up Elaan, the Dohlman of Elas. The Troyian ambassador tells Captain
Kirk that the Dohlman of Elas is to be the wife of the Troyian ruler to bring
peace to the two warring planets, now that they have the capability to destroy
one another. Ambassador Petri must teach the disagreeable Elaan to be civilized
before they reach Troyius. - Captain Kirk leads a landing party to an Earthlike planet that is on a collision course with an approaching asteroid, and finds an advanced alien obelisk near a settlement of a primitive Native American tribe. Kirk accedentally triggers a hidden door on the obelisk with his communicator and falls inside, and the Enterprise crew must leave without him in order to alter the approaching asteroid's course. Kirk emerges from the obelisk with amnesia, and the native tribe believes he is a god. |
2268 |
- A Romulan colony on Chaltok IV is destroyed in
the explosion of a polaric power plant, leading to an interstellar ban
of polaric power (VOY: "Time and Again"). |
2268, January |
| - The crew of the Starship Exeter undercover a rebel plot
on the Andorian homeworld. (This was a fan-created film called "Savage
Empire". The adventures of the Starship Exeter are not part of official
Trek - this entry is simply here to acknowledge its possible place in
the timeline) - Captain Kirk is showing increasing signs of stress. He orders the Enterprise through the Neutral Zone into Romulan space, where the ship is quickly surrounded by Romulans, now using Klingon ships. The Romulan ships are using a new cloaking device, which allows them to move without being detected by Federation technology. |
2268, February |
| - The U.S.S. Enterprise crew responds to a distress call
from a science colony on Triacus, and finds Professor Starnes and the
rest of his team dead, apparently from self-inflicted injuries, but their
children are still healthy and happy. The children are taken aboard the
Enterprise, where we learn that are secretly following the orders of
an alien called the Gorgan. - The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an alien ship with ion propulsion and unique technology; a humanoid woman appears on the Bridge and incapacitates the entire crew of the Enterprise. When the crew awakens, they find Spock's body with his brain surgically removed. The Enterprise follows the ion trail to the Sigma Draconis star system, where Kirk learns that Spock's brain is being used to control a computer complex, and provide for the primitive people living on the planet. |
2268, March |
| - The U.S.S. Enterprise is assigned to convey the Medusan
ambassador to the Federation back to his home planet, whose formless
inhabitants are so hideous that the sight of one can bring total madness
to any human who sees one. Medusan Ambassador Kollos travels in a sealed
metal container so that no humanoids will see him, and is accompanied
by Dr. Miranda Jones, a human woman with telepathic abilities (Dr. Jones
was played by Diana Muldaur, who returned to Star Trek two more times.
Once as another character in a later episode, and as a regular during
TNG as Dr. Katherine Pulaski). - The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at the second planet in the Minarian star system, whose sun is entering the nova phase, to evacuate a research station studying the dying star. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Dr. McCoy beam down to the reasearch station and find it empty, before they are transported to an underground facility by alien Vians who are studying a mute empathic woman. |
2268, April |
| - The U.S.S. Enterprise is searching for the U.S.S. Defiant,
which disappeared three weeks ago. The crew locates the missing starship
in an area of space that is phasing between dimensions. Captain Kirk
leads a landing party to the Defiant, and finds the crew dead, apparently
killed by each other. The Defiant phases out of existence while Captain
Kirk is still aboard, and members of the Enterprise crew become increasingly
agitated from the dimensional interphase effects. As the Enterprise waits
for Kirk and the Defiant to phase back into normal space, a Tholian ship
arrives and Commander Loskene claims the Enterprise is in a territorial
annex of the Tholian Assembly and orders the Enterprise to leave. - The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an asteroid 200 miles in diameter, propelled by atomic power, that is on a collision course with Daran Five, an inhabited planet with a large population. McCoy, Kirk and Spock transport inside the artificial asteroid ship, and enecounter whose inhabitants believe they are on the world of Yonada. |
2268, May |
| - Captain Kirk leads a landing party to planet Beta Twelve-A,
where a Federation colony has disappeared after signalling that it was
under attack. A Klingon ship arrives, also responding to a distress signal,
and is disabled by internal explosions. Kirk beams the surviving Klingon
crew over to the Enterprise, but the Klingon commander, Kang, blames
Kirk for attacking his ship. Unknown to the crew, an alien life force
is also beamed aboard. - The U.S.S. Enterprise answers a distress call from an unknown planet that is rich in kironide deposits, a very rare and long-lasting source of great power. The residents of the planet escaped from their native star, Sahndara, millennia ago, before it went nova; they call themselves Platonians, after the ancient Earth philosopher Plato, whom they met on Earth before coming to this planet to create a Utopian society based on ancient Greek civilization. |
2268, June |
| - While exploring an outer quadrant of the Galaxy, the
U.S.S. Enterprise answers a distress call from a city on the planet Scalos;
Captain Kirk leads a landing party to the planet, but there are no visible
inhabitants in the city, and one member of the landing party vanishes
from sight after drinking some water on the planet. After beaming up
to the ship, Captain Kirk's coffee is infected with Scalosian water,
and he is shifted to the same level as the hyper-accelerated Scalosians,
who have secretly boarded the ship, moving faster than humans can see. - The U.S.S. Enterprise finds an unusual planet that has evolved an environment similar to Earth's in only a few thousand years. As Captain Kirk leads a landing party to the surface, the Enterprise is knocked 990.7 light years away, stranding the landing party alone on the planet. A projection of an alien woman appears on the Enterprise and kills two crewmen and sabotages the warp engines, and a projection of the same woman appears on the planet, attacking members of the landing party. The landing party destroys the computer controlling the projections, and learns that the planet is a Kalandan outpost, whose people all died from a disease produced when they created the planet. |
2268, July |
| - The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to decontaminate the
planet Ariannus, when it encounters a stolen Starfleet shuttle piloted
by an alien who is white on his right side and black on the left. The
alien, named Lokai, is from Cheron, an uncharted planet in the southern-most
part of the Galaxy. An alien ship with an invisibility sheath intercepts
the Enterprise and Bele -- chief officer of the Commission on Political
Traitors on the planet Cheron -- boards the ship, claiming that Lokai
was convicted of treason and escaped (An excellent episode that brought
home the stupidity of discrimination based on colour). - The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at Elba Two, a planet with a poisonous atmosphere where the Federation maintains an asylum for the few remaining insane criminals in the Galaxy. Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beam down to the colony to deliver a new medicine to treat mental illness. They learn that the newest inmate is Garth of Izar, a former starship Fleet Captain, who has used Antosian shape-shifting techniques to take over the asylum. |
2268, August |
| - The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at the planet Gideon,
which is under negotiations for Federation membership, but has not allowed
any delegations from the Federation to visit or scan the shielded planet.
Captain Kirk has been invited to be the first Federation representative
to visit Gideon, but when he beams down, he finds himself alone inside
an exact duplicate of the Enterprise, where he meets a woman named Odona. - The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to Memory Alpha -- a planetoid set up as a central library containing the total cultural and scientific knowledge of all Federation members -- with specialist Lt. Mira Romaine aboard to supervise the transfer of new equipment from the Enterprise to Memory Alpha. Lt. Commander Scott falls in love with Lt. Romaine. The Enterprise encounters an energy storm moving at warp speed that enters the ship and causes Lt. Romaine to collapse. |
2268, September |
| - A botanical plague is threatening all vegetation on
Merak Two, and the U.S.S. Enterprise heads to another Federation member
world, Ardana, the only known source of zenite, which can halt the plague.
When Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beam down to the mine entrance
to pick up the needed zenite, they are attacked by a group of disgruntled
miners called Troglyte Disrupters. Administrators from Stratos -- a floating
city sustained by antigravity high above the surface -- drive off the
miners and offer Kirk and Spock their hospitality in the floating city
while the needed zenite is found. - The U.S.S. Enterprise is in pursuit of the stolen space cruiser Aurora, which is heading towards Romulan space. The Aurora's engines overload in the pursuit, and the Enterprise beams aboard its passengers, a group of pilgrims seeking the mythical planet Eden, including the son of the Catullan ambassador. |
2268, October |
| - The U.S.S. Enterprise crew is infected with deadly Rigelian
fever, and Captain Kirk leads a landing party to a small planet in the
Omega system to find ryetalyn, the only known antidote to the fever.
On the planet, they meet a man calling himself Mr. Flint, who lives in
a castle shielded from orbital scans, containing an extensive collection
of original artwork, including several unknown da Vinci paintings, and
an original waltz by Johannes Brahms. Flint lives with a young woman
named Rayna Kapek, but the Enterprise can find no records of either of
them. - The U.S.S. Enterprise is scanning planet Excalbia, which has a molten surface and toxic atmosphere, but there are unexplained life signs detected. As the Enterprise prepares to leave, Captain Kirk is contacted by a duplicate of Abraham Lincoln, who invites Kirk and Commander Spock to an area of Earth-like environment on the planet. There they meet Surak, the founder of Vulcan civilization. |
2269, November |
| - Three and a half hours before the star Beta Niobe is
calculated to go nova, the U.S.S. Enterprise scans Sarpeidon, the only
Class-M planet in the system. The crew finds the planet deserted, though
the planet did not have space flight capability. Captain Kirk, Commander
Spock, and Dr. McCoy beam down to a library on the planet and meet the
librarian, Mr. Atoz, and his android duplicates, who sent the world's
population into the past before the nova, using a machine called the
Atavachron. As Kirk is viewing records of a past era, he hears a woman
scream and runs into a portal to investigate; he finds himself in an
ancient city, where he is accused of witchcraft. Spock and McCoy run
through the portal after the captain, but find themselves trapped in
the Sarpeidon ice age. Soon after Spock and McCoy leave, Zarabeth gave
birth to his son, Zar. - The U.S.S. Enterprise responds to a distress call from a group of scientists exploring the ruins of a dead civilization on Camus Two; the leader of the expedition, Dr. Janice Lester, knew Captain Kirk when they were together for a year at Starfleet, but his world of starship captains doesn't admit women. When they are alone, Dr. Lester uses an alien machine on the planet to switch bodies with Kirk, and assumes his identity. - Enterprise recommissioned as Achernar class cruiser. Chekov temporarily transfers off the Enterprise. M'Ress and Arex sign aboard (TAS Launch). - Lorne McLaren is sworn in as President of the UFP. He is a former Starfleet Officer ("Articles of the Federation", "Last Unicorn Games"). |
2269 |
| - Although not known to the U.F.P. at large, Star Fleet
begins to take covert actions against the Kzinti. This "hemming-in" will
lead to the Kzinti Incursion in three years, and will later have great
affect on Star Fleet's shipbuilding schedule. [SotF] - Experimental work with single warp drive nacelles and more than two nacelles yields quick confirmation that two is the optimum number for power generation and vehicle control. [NTM] - The Klingon D-7S "K't'mara" ("Bringer Of Justice") class cruiser enters service in the Klingon fleet. [FASA] - The K-22B "Bird of Prey" class scout enters service in the Klingon fleet. [FASA] - The U.S.S. "Potemkin" (NCC-1711) and the U.S.S. "Essex" (NCC-1727) have their "Daystrom" Duotronic computer systems upgraded to "Daystrom" Duotronic II. "Tektar" and "Conus" fire control and sensor systems are also installed on the "Potemkin"--replacing the "Stalt" defensive system. [SotF] - Dr. Daniel Corrigan and Sorel perfect nerve regeneration. [TOS #39] - The "Coventry" class frigate U.S.S. "Ashanti" (NCC-1237) is used as a test ship for the Mark IV "Emperor" series multi-directional phaser cannon. The single unit mounted above the ship's impulse engines will be tested until 2274. [SotF] - The Type 2 V-30 "Winged Defender" class cruiser enters service in the Romulan fleet. [FASA] - The Klingon D6 "IKV Gnasher" raids Rita's Planet in the Neutral Zone, massacring the Federation colonists. The U.S.S. "Kongo" (NCC-1710) arrives and rescues Burt Engels, the only survivor. While transporting him to Organia to testify against Commander Karml'r, the "Gnasher" attempts to intercept the "USS Kongo." - The Lyrans produce the first war cruisers and war destroyers; ship classes that will change the galaxy. - The Federation receives plasma 'F' torpedoes from the Gorns as part of Treaty of Algeron. These are only mounted on a handful of ships (DDLs and FFLs) for test purposes. - The Argonians, about to surrender to the Romulans, develop a tracking system which can accurately plot their plasma torpedo trajectories. The Phaser-P (plasma phaser) is equipped with this system, enabling the phaser to do twice as much damage to incoming torpedoes. This discovery turns back the invasion, and the following year the Romulans will call off the attack, ending the war. The Argonians will not let this technology slip into alien hands. - The "Kongo" (NCC-1710) enters a time warp and returns, having evaded the Klingons. [SFB] - The U.S.S. "Excalibur" (NCC-1705) heavy cruiser is relaunched after being converted to "Enterprise" specs. [SotF, HCE, FRS] - The U.S.S. "Hood" (NCC-1707) heavy cruiser is drydocked at Star Fleet Division, San Francisco Yards, Earth for conversion to "Enterprise" specs. [SotF, HCE, FRS] - The U.S.S. "Monson" (NCC-2392) "Chandley" class frigate is overtaken by four Klingon K-23 class destroyers in the Outlands Triangle. They board a captured Klingon ship which self-destructs killing two marine platoons aboard and the entire Klingon ship's crew. Because of this incident, Star Fleet policy states that before marines board any enemy vessel a complete scan must be made of the vessel to determine if the destruct systems are in operation. [FASA] - Star Fleet approves the designs of new Star Fleet uniforms: Class A (Dress), Class B (Duty), Class C (Special) and Class D (Supplement). [URM, SFD]The new Star Fleet uniforms consisting of a wraparound maroon tunic, with black pants and boots, are issued. These may initially serve strictly as dress uniforms for an unspecified period of time. The duty undershirt and collar are color-coded, matching the color of the departmental stripe on the sleeve: white for admiralty/command, green for medical, gold for engineering/operations, grey for sciences/communications, black for ship's services/security, and red for cadet/trainee (with a color bar). The departmental stripe on the left sleeve is bordered with gold piping except in the cases of cadets and midshipmen. Officers, cadets, midshipmen, and chief petty officers wear a stripe at the right shoulder (clasp on front, Federation symbol on the back) and the left sleeve (8 centimeters from the cuff). Enlisted men and petty officers usually have the sleeve stripe as well as rectangular tabs at each shoulder. The sleeve stripe of a cadet being red and containing a diagonal bar of color denoting the department they are studying. The sleeve departmental stripe bears pips and bars indicating (initially at least) service length within Star Fleet with gold pips denoting years served as an officer and silver pips indicating years served as an enlisted man in one and five year terms in conjunction with bars. In later years pips and bars may be used to indicate commendations and/or citations earned in Star Fleet rather than service length. Rank is represented by means of ten variants of specialized gold (and in some cases silver) pins worn on the right shoulder, replacing the traditional sleeve mark braid. These first-issue rank pins may eventually be altered or updated in time. Flag officers have gold edging on the uniform front flap and a Flag Assignment Stripe above the rank insignia on the left sleeve. Uniform insignias are simplified and uniform, consisting of the arrowhead shield (on all uniforms except Class C): a silver inlaid gold plaque behind the gold shield denotes an officer whether commissioned or petty, while a gold shield without a plaque serves to indicate crewmen, cadets, and midshipmen (at least in the early stages of this uniform series). By the early 2290s, enlisted personnel will be required to wear name tags upon their duty uniforms. This series of uniforms will be extremely long lasting, and kept in use through the early 24th Century with slight variations including alterations and elimination of the undershirt tunic. The wrist communicator may possibly be phased out during this era also. [ST II, ST III, ST IV, ST V, ST VI, TNG 241, TNG 259, TNG 163] - The U.S.S. "Farragut" (NCC-1702) heavy cruiser is relaunched after conversion to the "Enterprise" class configuration. [SotF, HCE, FRS] - The U.S.S. "Genser," along with five other escorts accompanying a convoy of neutronic fuel carriers to the rimward frontier, scans an unidentified object travelling on a parallel course. The "Genser" breaks away from the convoy to investigate and disappears. After several minutes the "Genser" reappears, maintaining its last course and speed but doesn't respond to radio calls. Sensor scans reveal that the entire crew had disappeared. The convoy is halted and searches are made but nothing is found to solve the mystery. The mysterious object had also disappeared. The U.S.S. "Genser" is later assigned to active duty in the rimward frontier areas. [FASA] - The Cardassians attempt to make common cause with the Bekiir (literally "badger" or "digfish"--extreme xenophobes from the Gamma Quadrant) against the Klingons, but the Bekiir destroy the 3 Cardassian ships sent as emissaries. The Cardassians decide to leave them alone. A Cardassian kulukmetal security box from this time (Uta Dul dynasty) bearing a directed energy weapon and a Bekiir time key is sealed with a force shield lock. A century later it will fall into the hands of Captain Square-Deal Djonreel, a Lonatian trader, and be directly responsible for the total massacre of Deep Space 9--in an alternate timeline. [DSN #5] - Chekhov returns to the Enterprise. Arex and M'Ress depart (Conclusion of TAS). - Kirk orders a quarantine of the Danon race. (Devil World) - The Enterprise investigates the planet "Anomaly." (Planet Of Judgement) - The Enterprise is abducted by the Organian Enowil. (Trek To Madworld) - The Arachnae system is prevented from slipping into the Romulan Neutral Zone. (Vulcan!) - The Dyson Sphere "Lyra" is discovered. (The Starless World) - Contact is established with an ancient Earth colony on Perry's Planet. (Perry's Planet) - The crew is infected by spores that enhance ESP ability. (Death's Angel) - The Enterprise discovers the Chatalia "Generation" ship. (World Without End) - Kirk is killed by the being Omne and resurrected in duplicate. (Price Of The Phoenix) - Kirk is appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to an Interworld Affairs conference. (Fate Of The Phoenix) - War breaks out between the Federation and Klingons, and the Enterprise attempts to contact Organia via long-range transport by using tachyon particles. The signal is reflected back, causing duplicate Spocks. (Spock Must Die!) - Spock's mind is damaged by cephalic implants. He disables the Enterprise warp drive and beams down to the planet Kyros, where he becomes a revolutionary leader. (Spock, Messiah!) - Harry Mudd causes a Federation-wide shortage of dilithium. ("Business As Usual During Altercations," Mudd's Angels) - Following the death of her daughter, Janice Rand returns to the Enterprise. Eventually, she is promoted to Chief Petty Officer and is trained for transporter operations. (The Captain's Daughter - TOS#76) - Following patrol of the Klingon Neutral Zone and a month shore leave on Starbase 4, the Enterprise discovers the planet Mercan after being transported through a gravitational anomaly. (The Abode Of Life - TOS#6) - An accord is signed between the Federation, Romulans and Klingons. (The Trellisane Confrontation - TOS#14) - Scientists in suspended animation are rescued from Black Box Nebula Station One. (Corona - TOS#15) - Following an incident with the insane Professor Omen, the Enterprise docks at Starbase 12. (The Starship Trap - TOS#64) - During layover at Starbase 12 (perhaps to install the new sensors for detecting the gravitic anomalies), a novel of Klingon history becomes popular with the crew. Rand is aboard. (The Final Reflection - TOS#16) - A Klingon ore freighter departs Starbase 12 with Spock aboard and mysteriously vanishes. (Ishmael - TOS#23) - After departing Starbase 12, the Enterprise recovers the Sparrow, a ship with an experimental cloaking device developed by Flint the Immortal. Admiral Komack is still Fleet Commander. (The Cry Of The Onlies - TOS#46) - Spock retrieves his son Zar through the Guardian Of Forever. Following a dispute with the Romulans over claims to the Gateway planet, Zar returns to Sarpeidon's past. Masters is Chief of Security. (Yesterday's Son - TOS#11) - Historian William Harrod "accidentally" falls into the Guardian of Forever time portal. Uhura is sent in to retrieve him. ("If I Lose Thee...," Strange New Worlds III) - Kirk contracts a near-fatal bacterial infection on Theta Tau V. ("The Quick And The Dead," Strange New Worlds II) - Kirk is killed by Dr. Georges Mordreaux. Sulu is recommended for promotion. Flynn is Chief of Security. (The Entropy Effect - TOS#2) - Spock suffers psychological damage during a mission to protect Aritani from Romulan pirates. Ingrit Tomson recently promoted to Security Chief. (Mindshadow - TOS#27) - Vulcan is invaded by non-corporeal beings from Beekman's Planet. (Demons - TOS#30) - Illegal bio-warfare experiments are discovered on Tanis. (Bloodthirst - TOS#37) - The Enterprise is transported through another gravitic "gateway" into an interstellar war between the Hoshan and Zeator. Tomson is still security chief. (Chain Of Attack - TOS#32) - The U.S.S. Cochise is invaded by an entity from the gravitic gateway system. (The Final Nexus - TOS#43) - The U.S.S. Star Empire is destroyed following its theft by terrorists. (Dreadnought! - TOS#29) - Kirk is accused of stealing transwarp technology. Sulu has been promoted to Lt. Commander. (Battlestations! - TOS#31) - Earth's history is altered during tests of a new warp-powered shield technology, eliminating all human life. The Enterprise is destroyed in orbit around the Time Planet. (First Frontier - TOS#75) |
2270 |
| - [?] Zalda is fastracked into the Federation based on its strategic placement close to the Klingon border ("Articles of the Federation"). - USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 is the first ship to complete a Five Year Exploration mission, and returns to the Federation as heroes. Starfleet ends the practice of individual unit insigneas, in favour of using the Enterprise insignea to commemorate her feat. - The USS Enterprise undergoes an extensive refit in the San Francisco Fleet Yards. Capt. Decker assumes command of the ship ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture"). - The Near Side Krebiz send the Diplomatic Capsule "Dirty" attached to the cruiser "Pinch" to the Federation to apply for membership. Pacifist factions in the Federation prevent the acceptance of the Krebiz application on the grounds that the Klingons would see it as an act of aggression. The Klingons learn of the Krebiz attempt and are greatly insulted. As it is headed home, the Klingons ambush the "Dirty Pinch" in an asteroid belt and attempt to destroy it. It escapes thanks to the luck and abilities of its captain while running the gauntlet. The Klingons decide to punish the Krebiz by destroying their spaceflight capability and enslaving the Alnid system. - The uprating of two more ships to the "Enterprise" class, the U.S.S. "El Dorado" (NCC-1722) and U.S.S. "Kreiger" (NCC-1726) are approved. [SotF] - The Star Fleet Requirements Analysis Board issues a list of design parameters for the "Akyazi" class. The Category III design phase begins and 5 firms prepare design proposals. A U.F.P. Council subcommittee, assembled by Councillor Eso Procuia, questions the need for 178 ships of the perimeter action type and begins an independent investigation. [SotF2] - While undergoing acceptance trials, the U.S.S. "Excalibur" (NCC-1705) records a velocity of warp factor 18.74--the highest speed reached by a heavy cruiser class starship utilizing standard linear warp drive for its time. [SotF] - The U.S.S. "Excalibur" (NCC-1705) is recommissioned as an "Enterprise" class heavy cruiser. [SotF, HCE] - The U.S.S. "Kongo" (NCC-1710) heavy cruiser clips a cosmic string near Perseus, resulting in containment field breach. A total of 143 personnel die and a whole aft quarter of the ship is lost. [TOS #62] - Two days after the "Kongo" disaster, the "Enterprise" is assigned the task of patrolling the sector between Orion and Andor with 4 efficiency auditors onboard to monitor activities. The starship "Enterprise" battles the Orion destroyer "Umyfymu" and "Mecufi" in addition to an Orion saboteur. She suffers extensive phaser scarring and a hull breach on deck 6. "Enterprise" fatalities: Ensign Denis Sweeney (Security Officer). [TOS #62] - The Battle of Klak Dekel Braak is fought: the Klingons are victorious over the Romulans. ThoughtAdmiral Kor is involved with this battle and cheered by The Klingon Great Hall. [DSN 439] - The Kes and the Prytt end their diplomatic relations (Date conjecture within 2 years TNG: "Attached"). - Agricultural specialist Jean Czerny is abducted by Commander Kang to help the Klingon Empire fight a severe famine. Giotto (from "Devil In The Dark") temporarily returns as Security Chief. (Pawns And Symbols - TOS#26) - Three months before the end of the five-year mission. Chapel applies to the Federation Science Institute to complete her doctorate. (Crossroad - TOS#71) - The slaughter of the Singers of Taygeta V is halted. Following a confrontation with Commander Kor, the Enterprise heads for Starbase 23. (The Tears Of The Singers - TOS#19) - At Starbase 23, the Enterprise receives orders to mediate a dispute on Okeanos, a former Federation colony. 207 years after Cochrane invents warp drive. (From The Depths - TOS#66) - While considering Federation membership for Sycorax, a colony that practices genetic engineering upon its population, Kirk reviews the history of the practice on Earth. (The Eugenics Wars: The Rise And Fall Of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume One - Prologue, Chs. 24-25, 28, 35) - After saving the colony from a Klingon attack, Kirk decides to follow the advice of Gary Seven and reject Sycorax's application for Federation membership. (The Eugenics Wars: The Rise And Fall Of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two - Prologue, Ch. 7, Epilogue) - Klingons capture a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia III. Commander Kruge is promoted to Captain. Kirk meets his son, David Marcus. (Faces Of Fire - TOS#58) - Primary hull is jettisoned after explosion. Enterprise is refit at Starbase 12. Chekov is promoted to Lieutenant. Gray uniforms introduced. More refitting occurs after sustaining damage from Tomarii and Romulan warships. (Black Fire - TOS#8) - Five-year mission ends, and the Enterprise returns to spacedock. Kirk is promoted to Admiral. Uhura is promoted to Lt. Commander. Scott is promoted to Commander. McCoy and Spock request to be discharged. Spock returns to Vulcan to undergo Kolinahr. (The Lost Years) - While vacationing with Chekov on the planet Demora, Sulu meets Ling "Susan" Sui, and unknowingly fathers a child. (The Captain's Daughter - TOS#76 - Section Two: First Date) - In December, Chekov is accused of killing Dr. Mark Piper with a Klingon disruptor, while Sulu is arrested for theft of information on the Romulan cloaking device. A conspiracy is discovered to incite a war between the Klingons and Romulans. (Traitor Winds - TOS#70) |
2271 |
| - Capt. James T. Kirk, USS Enterprise is promoted to admiral,
and heads Starfleet Operations ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture"). - Admiral Kirk meets Captain Carmen Ikeya, the first woman to command a starship. [TOS #39] - Plasma phasers are implemented by the Argonians after receiving information from what would be called the Delta Quadrant via a small cannister sent back through the collapsing wormhole--which collapses completely. - Dr. Jebediah Quick later uses the Argonian variant as the basis for his own 'Plasma Phaser Cannon' in 2379.(GAL:TNG) - The Krebiz destroyer "Suckerpunch" is captured by pirates, which leads to the deployment of Krebiz pirate destroyers in some fleets (Orion, Bolaar, and Corporate Aggressors). - The Klingons deliver the promised command cruiser to the Romulans and receive the cloaking protoype. - The U.F.P. begins to refit their starships and other races will soon follow suit. - The Klingon D7 "Purgatory" is attacked by Orion Pirates in an attempt to rescue pirate leader Hamilcar's son. - The Lyrans begin production of trimaran hulled ships, including the first of the war cruiser classes, and war destroyers. - A Lyran prince is killed in battle with the Kzinti, straining the relations in the Outlands. - The Orion base station "Paradisia" is converted into a battle station. The Orion commence heavy raids on all shipping in the Outlands Region. The OK6 combination Orion and Klingon starship" Conquest Falcon" begins is pirate career under Captain Deth O'Day. For his first act, O'Key steals a Shuttle prototype from the Federation in Sector 001--and they are pursued by U.F.P. police forces - While undergoing acceptance trials, the U.S.S. "Constitution" (NCC-1700) will reportedly achieve warp factor 16--and still be accelerating--when the ship's captain orders reduced speed because of the super-extraordinary stress placed on the ship's substructure. [SotF] - The Caldos colony, one of the Federation's first 'Second Generation' full terraforming projects, is established during this era. The founders model the colony on Scotland, though the planet is some 200 light years from Earth. [TNG 266] - The U.S.S. "Lexington" (NCC-1703) "Enterprise" class heavy cruiser is recommissioned. [SotF, HCE] - The Krantinese launch the sublight generation/sleeper ship "Hope of Krantin" commanded by Koralus with a complement of 10,000. Five other ships are also built and launched to escape the nebular Plague. A seventh ship is destroyed by workers before completion. Their crews will be known as the Deserters by the remaining Krantinese who seal themselves within cities. Meanwhile during this era on the alternate Krantin ruled by the Directorate, the properties of dilithium are discovered. The Directorate begins a serious effort to learn where over 400 years' worth of refuse had gone. [TNG #36] - The U.S.S. "Hornet" (NCC-1714) heavy cruiser is drydocked at Newport News Shipbuilding/Starcraft Assembly, Virginia, Earth for conversion to "Constitution (II)" specs. [SotF, HCE] - The U.S.S. "Hood" (NCC-1707) "Enterprise" class heavy cruiser is recommissioned and the U.S.S. "Eagle" (NCC-1719) "Endeavor" class heavy cruiser is relaunched--23 days ahead of schedule, before many of her subsystems are installed, and immediately assigned to Fleet on classified status. As a result she will never be listed as the lead ship of the class. After declassification it will later be revealed that the "Eagle" provided command and control coordination in the successful Cabria Bay operation. [SotF, HCE] -The U.S.S. "Endeavor" (NCC-1716) heavy cruiser is drydocked at Star Fleet Division, San Francisco Yards, Earth for drastic refitting. [SotF, HCE] -The U.S.S. "Yorktown" (NCC-1704) heavy cruiser is relaunched as a "Constitution (II)" class starship. [SotF, HCE] -The uprated U.S.S. "Constitution" (NCC-1700) heavy cruiser is recommissioned as the "Constitution (II)" class starship. This first variation on the "Enterprise" class utilizes LN-60 warp engines and is capable of only warp 11, has a complement of only 435, and is armed with twelve phasers and two torpedo banks. Seven ships will form this scaled-down "Enterprise" class, all rebuilt from older heavy cruisers. [SotF, HCE] - A new type of photon torpedo is made operational by Star Fleet. Employing variable amounts of matter and antimatter, broken into many thousands of minute packets and mixed upon detonation command, the annihilation surface area is increased by three orders of magnitude. [NTM] - A Jibetian warp ship meets a far-reaching U.F.P. starship. The legend of the lost ship "Nibix" spreads throughout known space. Curzon Dax will be on two "Nibix" salvage missions, both will turn out to be ghost ships not the "Nibix." In a century, the Federation Council will pass an edict to protect and return the "Nibix" in its entirety if found. [DSN #14] -The U.S.S. "Kongo" (NCC-1710) heavy cruiser is drydocked at Star Fleet Division, San Francisco Yards, Earth for "Constitution (II)" class conversion. [SotF, HCE] - Kirk and McCoy visit the Cochrane monument on Titan. (Federation) - Demora Sulu is born ("Serpents Among the Ruins," The Lost Era). |
2271, May 17 |
| "Iron Mike" paris is born on Altair IV in the Hume Township ("Serpents Among the Ruins," The Lost Era). |
Around 2271 |
| - Klingon forces, under the command of Thought Admiral Kor,
win the Battle of Klach D'kel Brakt against
the Romulans (DS9: "Blood Oath").This is most likely the time when the
Klingon-Romulan alliance ends too. - The terraforming project on Caldos is finished with the installation of the weather modification net. (TNG: "Sub Rosa"). - The Klingon Empire relinquishes its claim to the Archanis sector (DS9: "Broken Link"). |
2271, April |
| The Enterprise crew goes on six months shore leave. (Lost Years novelization). |
2271, July |
| Admiral Nogura goes to the Kirk farm in Iowa and offers Jim a job as a Starfleet Admiral. (3 months into shore leave, "The Lost Years" novel) |
2271, October |
| Kirk meets with Ciana at Starfleet Operations, where she outlines the duties of the new position. Kirk agrees to take on the job, a fateful decision that would haunt him later. |
2271, November |
| - Shore leave completed, the crew of the Enterprise take
on new assignments. Kirk begins his new job, and becomes an Admiral. - Willard Decker is selected as Captain for the U.S.S. Enterprise, to oversee her refit and command her when she is returned to duty. (Lost Years novel, nine months before events of Flag Full of Stars novel) - Spock returns to Vulcan to study Kohlinahr, Bones leaves Starfleet. |
2272 |
| - The Interstellar Organian Concordium fleet decimates a
Gorn battlegroup and encroaches on Gorn space, in their first Alpha Quadrant
appearance. - The Federation scout "Bowie" (NCC-597) is disabled and drifts into Tholian territory, precipitating a crisis. - Ambassador Kosnett arrives aboard the U.S.S. "Kongo" (NCC-1710) to negotiate. - In the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, the Andromedan star base shimmers into existence, precipitating crisis amongst Alpha Quadrant races. - The Romulans attack and disable a spy ship carrying Federation officials on a tour of the border areas. ---The Romulans test new fighters against the Gorn. - This year, the Kaltic Freestates (Frax) become semi-independent of the Klingon Empire. The Klingon Northern Fleet is given to the Kaltics, who have a loose treaty with the Klingons for mutual defense against Kzinti aggression. The battle stations in the Kaltic Freestates belong to the Kaltics. The Klingons do not build additional Battle Stations south of the Frax (as this would dissolve the political fiction that the Kaltics are still part of the Empire). - The Rigellian Colonial Consortium, representing the Rigellian colonies is admitted to the Federation, provided that the slave trade on Rigel VIII (Orion) ends.[SFB] - The Bajoran wormhole again undergoes subspace inversion. [DSN 476] - The U.S.S. "Merrimac" (NCC-1715) heavy cruiser is relaunched as a "Constitution (II)" class starship. [SotF, HCE] - Limited AEGIS electronic warfare systems are deployed in Starfleet. - Light carriers, F-4 "Phantom" and F-8 "Crusader" fighters are all in service. The light carrier is a conversion of the galactic survey cruiser U.S.S. "Discovery" allowing it to carry F-4 "Phantoms" in an enlarged hangar bay. The first light carriers will also be used for the initial demonstrations of fighter/carrier technology to the Gorns. - As tensions begin to mount along the Federation-Klingon Neutral Zone, one of the key areas of tension is the Adanerg system. Early in the year the Klingons decided to attempt to seize it with a minimum-force assault. The F5G commando frigate "IKV Korl" was sent to eliminate the Federation colony. The U.F.P., detecting the attack and wanting to respond with similar force, sent out the commando frigate U.S.S. "Kripney." After a fierce skirmish, the Klingons are forced to concede control of Adanerg to the Federation, at least for the time being. - Orion Pirate Lord Deth O'Kay II's Orion cruiser "Hammerfield" and another Orion Q-ship, attack U.F.P. convoys in clear violation of the 'Armed MErchantman." Concords. - The Tholians deploy a dreadnought by welding together the hulls of three patrol corvettes. - The Klingons launch the C8 'Voor'cha' class dreadnought on the Kzinti border, and the C9 dreadnought on the Federation border. While launched simultaneously, the C8 proves to be the better dreadnought, though the design is nearly the same as the C9, save for the C8 being armed with six drone racks instead of four, and having two extra defensive phasers The loss of the cargo bay on the C8 for extra firepower is accepted as satisfactory. - The Klingons also employ the Z-1 assault fighter for use against enemy ships. This is the first fighter fielded by the Zegurnii Design Bureau for starship combat, and will also be made available to the Lyran Star Empire (the Lyrans would field only Klingon fighter designs for many decades). The Z-1, code-named the "Zoran," will become infamous in reputation. The Klingon Empire converts several D6 K'Tinga cruisers battlecruisers into carriers. The D6V, unlike most other races fleet carriers, carries only 10 fighters in two bays. The Klingons will soon regret the 2 fighters the D6V lacked when the ship first sees combat against another carrier. - Commander Ardak Kumerian serves in the Imperial Deep Space Fleet. He destroys the Tholian 3rd Patrol Squadron after it forms the first Tholian Pinwheel, and is promoted to Commodore in charge of the Tholian Investigation Squadron, aboard his flagship "Darkslayer." - Ardak Kumerian leads a Klingon task force against Tholian Stronghold space. He is detected by the Tholians and soundly defeated. Kumerian is criticized for not sending the lower quality ships on the deception mission and using the better ships against the base. Thelvis Kren, an officer under Kumerian's command, starts an another incident with the Tholians which backfires, during this mission. Needing a scapegoat to quiet U.F.P. complaints, the Klingon Empire picks Kumerian. He is stripped of his position as Commodore, but allowed to keep the rank of Captain and is given command of his original ship, the D6 "IKV Destruction." The ship is sent to the Western Fleet on the Hydran border. Commodore Korath replaces Kumerian in command of the Tholian border squadron. - The Lyrans begin using Klingon Z-1 assault fighters. Over the next three years they will begin deploying Expanding Sphere Generator Capacitors (a spin-off of technology designed to make the Hydran Hellbore less effective against more resistant ESGs). - The Romulans continue to receive their first D7 battlecruisers from the Klingons, and begin operating the K7R on the Federation border. These operate as a single squadron under Romulan Commander Dion Charvon. It is from this squadron that Deth O'Key will manage the theft of a cloaking device. The Romulans attempt, with Klingon help, to ambush the Gorn heavy cruiser "Reptilicon" but the plan fails when Federation command cruiser U.S.S. "Lexington" (NCC-1703) shows up and intervenes. - The Andromedan Androids "Rattler" class attack ships are first spotted in the Milky Way. - The Klingons receive "Mauler" technology from the Romulans. [SFB] - The U.S.S. "Yorktown" (NCC-1704) "Constitution (II)" class heavy cruiser is recommissioned. [SotF, HCE] - The Klingon warship "Hakkarl" ("Vanguard," KL 1017), an uprated "K't'inga" class heavy battlecruiser (fully automated) is launched with Captain Kasak sutai-Khornezh in command, via a Klingon Bird of Prey scout ship, "Tazhat" (IKV 1018). The renegade Klingon heads for Dekkanar (4725 Cancri IV) to trigger a war--and is destroyed by the "USS Enterprise". [TOS #48] - The Kzinti Incursion: forces from Kzin attack Tau Ceti and begin a 6-week offensive action against U.F.P. forces. Admiral Kirk, aboard the U.S.S. "Enterprise" (NCC-1701), commands a large task force against the Kzinti and employs the "Zetarian Squeeze" maneuver to force the enemy fleet into a neutron star. The starships "Astrad" (NCC-1739) and "Alfr" (NCC-1741) track down and capture the Kzinti patriarch's flagship. By September the Kzinti are defeated, after 11 Class 1 starships and dozens of Kzinti vessels are lost. [SotF, FRS, SotF2] - The "Hornet" (NCC-9700) class fighter-carrier is instrumental in the liberation of the home worlds of the Tellar system (61 Cygni) during the Kzinti Incursion. This class of ship was built to quell the rising tide of outlaw activity in the Orion star system and the Deneb/Rigel commerce zones. Built to be manned by a 50% Rigellian crew, these ships have a higher deck height and increased oxygen atmospheres. The "Hornet" is also unique for possessing no secondary hull but instead a sensor/ deflector platform attached to a fractional primary hull disc--the predecessor of the late 2280s' "Akula" class perimeter action ship. "Hornet" class fighter-carriers deploy 10 "Hornet" class (warp 3 capacity) fast attack craft to track Orion smuggler ships into asteroid field bases (the predecessor of "Killer Bee" assault craft) and with their own warp 8 capacity speeds and complements of 172, they are formidable starships. Ten vessels comprise this class (NCC-9700-NCC-9709) and each is armed with 10 phaser emplacements and 2 photon torpedo tubes. [STD2] - The Duotronic III series computer system is developed. [HCE, SotF] - The Klingons relinquish their claim to Arcanis IV. [DSN 498] - This is the era of the rise of the Crescent Order in the Cardassian Empire. The strongest order ever created in the Cardassian hierarchy, the Crescent Order is almost unanimous in endorsement and is led by the High Gul--one of the founders of the Cardassian Empire. [DSN #13] - Eighteen months following the end of thefive-year mission. G'Dath, a Klingon instructor working on Earth, is kidnapped by Klingons following his discovery of a new propulsion system. (A Flag Full Of Stars - TOS#54) - Captain William Decker discovers two Romulan operatives among the crew completing the Enterprise refit. ("Night Whispers," Enterprise Logs) - Nine year-old Tuvok's sehlat, Wari, is euthanized following a severe injury. (The Lost Era: The Sundered - pp. 47-49) |
2272, July |
| - On Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk has married. - Kirk meets a scientist named G'dath who is on the brink of perhaps the greatest scientific discovery in a century. G'dath's invention could mean tremendous strides in Federation technology, or -- in the wrong hands -- the subjugation of countless worlds (TOS #54: Flag Full of Stars). - Captain William Decker discovers two Romulan operatives among the crew completing the Enterprise refit. ("Night Whispers," Enterprise Logs) - The refitted Enterprise encounters a huge cloud heading for Earth. Lt. Ilia is absorbed by the entity calling itself "V'ger" and returns as an android. "V'ger" turns out to be a machine built for the sole purpose of seeking for the Creator of their distant relative, the space probe Voyager 6 that was launched from Earth a long time ago. V'ger, in the form of Ilia, and the Creator in the form of Capt. Decker finally merge into a new lifeform ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture"). - The Enterprise undergoes a brief shakedown cruise. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) |
2273 |
| - Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan begins working on a treaty
with the reclusive Legarans, which doesn't succeed until 2366 (TNG: "Sarek"). - The Omega molecule is first synthesized over a hundred years ago by a Starfleet physicist named Ketteract (VOY: "The Omega Directive") - The Cammell IV revelations concerning Star Fleet's covert operations against the Kzin prior to the Kzinti Incursion result in massive cutbacks in Fleet programs. The Council temporarily freezes all Class 1 starship construction. - The "Enterprise" class heavy cruisers have their six primary hull RIM-9 phaser banks upgraded to RIM-12C systems. [SotF] - The U.S.S. "Monitor" (NCC-1713) heavy cruiser is drydocked at Star Fleet Division, San Francisco Yards, Earth for "Constitution (II)" refitting. [SotF, HCE] - The U.S.S. "Kreiger" (NCC-1726) "Enterprise" class heavy cruiser is recommissioned. [SotF, HCE] - The "Soyuz" (NCC-5300) class attack frigate is authorized for construction. 20 ships of this class are proposed, designed to increase the accuracy of the megaphasers while the craft is engaged in combat through the use of 2 megaturrets. In addition to phaser cannon, the "Soyuz" is armed with 12 standard phaser emplacements and 2 megaphasers on the lower navigational dome. 21 ships of this class are proposed (NCC-5300NCC-5320) although the number of ships and their NCCs are debatable at this early stage of development. Each ship will have a complement of 429 and a maximum speed of warp 9. [JRM] - The U.S.S. "El Dorado" (NCC-1722) heavy cruiser is drydocked at Star Fleet Division, San Francisco Yards, Earth for upgrading to "Enterprise" class specs. [SotF, HCE, FRS] - Kirk, Scott, Sulu and Chekov are stranded in the Hohweyn system aboard the shuttlecraft Halley. (The Kobayashi Maru - TOS#47) - The Enterprise encounters the alien Weyland during a conflict with the Klingons. (Home Is The Hunter - TOS#52) - Commander Spock takes a two-week leave on Vulcan while the Enterprise transports a diplomatic party of Kaldorni. (Enemy Unseen - TOS#51) - Spock rescues Saavik from Hellguard, and extends his leave to a full year to help assimilate Saavik into Vulcan culture, eventually preparing her for training at the Academy. (The Pandora Principle - TOS#49) |
2273, January |
| Star Fleet decides to assign the past names of vessels only to vessels not classified as heavy cruisers, thus instigating the name changes of the replacement heavy cruisers originally designated "Constellation II," "Defiant II," "Intrepid II," and "Valiant II". [SotF] |
2274 |
| - The colony ship S.S. Artemis departs on a mission to settle
Septimus Minor, but ends up at Tau Cygna V in the de Laure Belt, a territory
given to the Sheliak (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command"). - Spock utilizes a mind meld to help bring his cousin Elizabeth Fitzhugh out of a comatose state. ("Family Matters" Strange New Worlds III) - The Empyreans renew their treaty with the Federation. McCoy meets his second daughter, Anna. (The Better Man - TOS#72) - Planetwide mental illness strikes the planet Nordstral due to an over-harvesting of magnetic plankton. (Ice Trap - TOS#60) |
2274, January |
| - USS Enterprise's second 5 Year mission begins under
Admiral Kirk. - Spocks undergoes Pon Farr (7 Years after Amok Time). |
2275 |
| - The Son'a, a Renegade Ba'ku faction, joins with offlanders
in attempt to gain control of the salubrious Ba'ku homeworld, whereupon
they are banished from the planet ("Star Trek: Insurrection"). - The Romulan space station Reltah drifts into Federation space, disabled by an energy-consuming parasite. (Shell Game - TOS#63) - The Enterprise battles two Orion destroyers and a saboteur in the sector between Orion and Andor. (Death Count - TOS#62) - Harry Mudd agrees to stop altering the habitat of the Saganicus gas-giant floaters in return for Spock and Uhura's assistance in creating an Enterprise simulator ("A Sucker Born," Strange New Worlds VII). - Kirk finds himself aboard a Klingon vessel and is told that he has travelled into the future. (Timetrap - TOS#40) - The Enterprise is selected to test the new inversion drive propulsion system. Lia Burke is trained in sickbay as Chapel begins work on her doctoral thesis. Colin Matlock serves as Security Chief while Chekov returns to Navigation. (The Wounded Sky - TOS#13) - The Enterprise rescues Vulcan prisoners from a Romulan research lab with the assistance of Ael t'Rllaillieu, a Romulan defector. (Rihannsu #1: My Enemy, My Ally - TOS#18) |
2276 |
| - McCoy's fiftieth birthday. Eighteen years after Kirk's
extended mission on Shad. (The Covenant Of The Crown - TOS#4) - Christine Chapel leaves to complete her doctorate. Lia Burke replaces her as head nurse. Ingrit Tomson returns as head of Security. Kirk has recently celebrated a birthday. (Doctor's Orders - TOS#50) - After two years in the field (presumably since the return of Spock in 2274), the Enterprise returns to Earth for a month-long retrofit. A proposal among Vulcans to secede from the Federation is narrowly defeated. Kirk meets K's't'lk for the first time. Death of T'Pau. (Spock's World) - McCoy, ago 50, is abducted from the U.S.S. Vega by Romulans. One "standard" year after My Enemy, My Ally, and seven years after "The Enterprise Incident." (Rihannsu #2: The Romulan Way - TOS#35) - Xintal Linojj's homeworld is invaded, leaving four thousand dead ("Serpents Among the Ruins," The Lost Era). |
2276, October 31 |
| New red Starfleet uniforms are introduced. (Wagon Train To The Stars - TOS#89) [Note: The text gives the year as 2272, and the cover blurbs support this date by placing the "New Earth" series shortly after the V'ger incident. However, the details of the story clearly support a much later date: Spock is a captain, Kirk is an instructor, the Enterprise is a training vessel, Chekov is about to be transferred, etc. Furthermore, the uniform alterations would not occur so soon after the change in ST:TMP. Nonetheless, we must contend with several problems, including the whereabouts of Sulu's daughter and the fact that Chekov hasn't yet received the promotion to First Officer of the Reliant as mentioned in Deep Domain.] |
2276, November |
| Onset of the Second Romulan War. (Rihannsu #4: Honor Blade - TOS#96) |
Prior to 2277 |
| The great-grandfather of the Klingon Kohlar finds a sacred text, telling to embark on a journey to a distant region of the galaxy. |
2278 |
| - Prelate Pardek becomes a member of the Romulan Senate, representing
the Krocton Segment of Romulus (TNG: "Unification") - Saavik enters Starfleet Academy. A Romulan warbird is discovered adrift in Federation space. (The Pandora Principle - TOS#49) - The renegade Klingon Captain Kasak sutai-Khomezh attempts to trigger a war with the Federation. Admiral Randolph Morrow has become Starfleet Chief of Operations. (Rules Of Engagement - TOS#48) - After crash-landing a shuttle on Mars resulting in the death of Lt. Mears, McCoy meets Irum, who sends McCoy back in time to avoid the crash. His action spawns a genetic mutation called Irumodic Syndrome that will eventually affect Jean-Luc Picard. ("The Name Of The Cat," Strange New Worlds IV) - The Akkalla-Chorym Alliance is formed. Chekov is offered assignment as First Officer of the U.S.S. Reliant. Kirk decides to become an instructor at the Academy. The Enterprise is recommissioned as a training vessel under command of Spock (soon to be promoted to Captain). (Deep Domain - TOS#33) - Sulu meets his daughter Demora following Ling Sui's death. He refu |