A Star Trek Timeline
A Star Trek Timeline
By Rob Hicks and
Many Other Star Trek Fans
Like Yourself.
THIS VERSION LAST UPDATED
Oct. 26 1996
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- -15000000000
- Big Bang.
- -4000000000
- Formation of Earth (Sol system)
First humanoid race seeds the galaxy (tng)
- -3500000000
- First live begins on Earth
- -3000000000
- An ancient race builds a series of "Planet
Killers" to combat the Borg.
- -1000000000
- Slaver Empire (spanning the galaxy) is destroyed
by a revolt, leading to a destruction of most
intelligent life in the galaxy
- -2000000
- The Preservers seed various planets with human/
humanoid life.
- -997800
- The city around the Guardian of Forever is built
- -11800
- The Klingon Senate Hall is built
- -10000
- Vulcan is at war with itself
- -2737
- Spock and McCoy end up in Sarpeidon's past
Zarabeth becomes pregnant with Spock's son (Zar)
- -869
- Kahless the Unforgettable unites the Klingons
The Bat'leth is invented
- -67
- Surak Born. He will eventually stop the fighting
on Vulcan.
- 150
- A group of 80000 Vulcans leave after losing the last war,
using sublight ships. Contact with this group is lost.
their decendants will form the Romulan Empire.
- 1368
- Kamen(aka Picard) lives a lifetime on Kataan. A probe
is launched before Kataan's sun goes Nova, and will
eventually be found by the Enterprise-D
- 1893
- Data comes to the past accidentaly, and loses his head.
- 1930
- Transported to the past by the Guardian of Forever, Kirk
stops McCoy from saving Edith Keeler.
- 1957
- Humanity begins exploration of space with launch of Sputnik
- 1986
- Kirk and co. come back in time to get some whales to
repopulate the species in the 23rd century.
"There be WHALES here!"
- 1992
- Beginning of the Eugenics Wars (sometimes called the third
world war because it starts out mainly in third world
countries).
- 1996
- The end of the Eugenics wars as Khan and the other supermen
are sent into space on the Botany Bay in suspended
animation.
- 2020
- Nomad launched
- 2024
- Reunification of Ireland
- 2042
- Baseball finishes off it's last world series which draws
an audience of only 300 people.
- 2030
- Zephram Cochrane born
- 2036
- The New UN formed
- 2047
- Mind control revolt (TMP novel)
- 2049
- First Kzinti invasion of Earth (this leads to 4 Kzinti/Earth
wars, the Kzinti lose all of them)(ref-officers manual)
- 2061
- Cochrane achieves Warp 1
- 2064
- Kzinti invasions halt (200 years before "slaver weapon")
- 2078
- Post atomic-age begins
- 2079
- All "United Earth" nonsense abolished
- 2090
- First contact with Tellarites (61 Cygni)
- 2093
- First contact with Andorians
- 2100
- First contact with Vulcans around now (though it is widely
presumed that Vulcans had been studying Earth and Humans
for decades previous to this contact)
- 2117
- Zephram Cochrane dissappears and is presumed dead
- 2155
- Earth/Romulan War begins and ends with neither side
actually seeing the other. Romulus and Remus discovered by
Earth ships 1 year before the war. Neutral Zone formed
- 2158
- Transporter invented.
- 2160
- Treaty of Algeron ends the Earth/Romulan war, a Neutral zone
is formed.
- 2161
- UFP founded (TNG Outcast) - Member worlds(Earth, Vulcan,
Tellar, Andor, Centaurus VII)
Size of federation - sphere of influence approx. 90 parsecs
in diameter. Initial 14 heavy cruiser starships
Starfleet Academy founded
Articles of Federation signed on Babel
- 2165
- Sarek Born
- 2204
- Amanda (Sarek's wife) born (born Amanda Grayson)
- 2215
- Starfleet begins development of the first Photon Torpedo
- 2218
- First contact with the Klingon Empire by the Federation
is a disaster, leading to almost a century of conflict
- 2219
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- 2220
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- 2221
- Spock Born (or 2218?)
- 2222
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- 2223
- Montgomery Scott (Scotty) Born (72 years before
dissapearance)
- 2224
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- 2225
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- 2226
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- 2227
- Leonard H. McCoy (Bones) Born
- 2228
- Spock betrothed to T'Pring (7 yrs after born)
- 2229
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- 2230
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- 2231
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- 2232
- Nyota Uhura Born
- 2233
- James Tiberius Kirk Born
- 2234
- Hikaru Sulu, Christine Chapel Born
- 2235
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- 2236
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- 2237
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- 2238
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- 2239
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- 2240
- Spock enters Academy
- 2241
- Scotty enters Academy
- 2242
- Janice Rand born
- 2243
- Richard Daystrom invents Duotronics - basis for computer
systems used on the Enterprise
Scotty Enters Starfleet (52 yrs before dissapearance)
- 2244
- Pavel Chekov Born
- 2245
- Enterprise Commissioned
(originally commissioned "Starship Class", changed to
"Constitution Class" but the commissioning plaque
remains unchanged)
- 2246
- Robert April takes command of Enterprise
- 2247
- Joanna McCoy born
- 2248
- McCoy enters medical school (maybe earlier?)
- 2249
- Uhura enters Academy
Spock enters Starfleet (18 yrs before Menagerie)
- 2250
- Kirk enters Academy (as Cadet, serves on USS Republic)
Spock and Sarek stop talking for 18 years (until babel)
Kirk meets Carol Marcus
- 2251
- Sulu enters Academy, Pike takes command of the Enterprise
- 2252
- Spock transfers to Enterprise under captain Pike
- 2253
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- 2254
- Kirk graduates Academy (after beating the Kobayashi Maru),
and serves on Farragut (rank Lt.)
Enterprise (under Pike) discovers Talosians on
Talos 4 (Enterprise Crew size now - 203)
- 2255
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- 2256
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- 2257
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- 2258
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- 2259
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- 2260
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- 2261
- David Marcus (Kirk's son) Born
- 2262
- Chekov enters academy
- 2263
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- 2264
- Saavik Born
- 2265
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- 2266
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- 2267
- Kirk assumes command of Enterprise (Crew size - 428)
McCoy as CMO of Enterprise for next 27 years
5 year mission (Kirk) begins
Transporter splits Kirk into two people
First contact with the First Federation
Pike returns to Talos 4 with Spock's help
First appearance of Romulans since the Earth-Romulan
wars
First contact with the Gorn
Janice Rand transferred off Enterprise
Khan awakened
War declared between Federation and Klingon Empire
Organian peace treaty ends the war
Guardian of Forever discovered
Kirk's brother Sam dies
Peter Preston (Scotty's nephew) Born????
- 2268
- Chekov comes to Enterprise as Ensign (age 22)
Spock returns to Vulcan to get married and fights
Kirk "to the death". He doesn't get married
Nomad found, and destroyed
Mirror Universe first visited
USS Constellation destroyed by planet killer
Zephram Cochrane discovered alive
Babel conference
Tribbles discovered by Enterprise crew
Spock and Sarek meet for the first time in 18 yrs.
on route to Babel conference.
USS Intrepid (Starship manned by Vulcans) is destroyed.
by a giant space amoeba.
M5 computer on Enterprise destroys USS Excalibur.
Scotty's nephew Peter Preston born
- 2269
- Romulans form alliance with Klingons
Klingons get cloak, Romulans get warp drive
Klingons got the bad end of the deal
Romulans start using Klingon ship designs and start
phasing out their older Bird-of-Prey ship designs.
Kirk acts insane and steals Romulan cloaking device,
which Scotty installs on the Enterprise, and the Enterprise
cloaks for the first time ever.
Kirk believes he is Kirok for several months
Spock and McCoy sent thousands of years into the
past of a dying planet, Sarpeidon. Spock begins to
revert to earlier Vulcan ways (and emotion). Both
manage to get back to the future
Excalbanians first appearance
Tholians first appearance
Defiant lost interdimensionally
- 2270
- Spock revisits his youth
Uhura finally gets command of the Enterprise
New genetically engineered tribbles get fat
Shore leave planet breaks down
Kirk and Spock change to water breathers, then back again
Enterprise first encounters the Kzinti
Powerful Jihad is retrieved by Kirk and Spock
- 2271
- Enterprise's first encounter with Orion Pirates
Enterprise computer suffers a nervous breakdown
Alien claims to be aztec god Kulkukan
- - 5
- 5 year mission ends
Demora Sulu born?
Klingon/Romulan Alliance broken, Klingons now despise
Romulans. A new Klingon/Romulan war begins which
the Klingons will eventually win. (ref. - DS9)
Using Romulan ship designs, the Klingons design their
own Bird-of-Prey ships, which will prove a very successful
ship class for the Klingon Empire for the next century
- 2272
- Kirk promoted to admiral, head of Starfleet Operations
Spock returns to Vulcan to work on achieving Kolinahr
McCoy returns to Earth
William Decker gets Enterprise
Enterprise in drydock - Upgrades and refit begin
Uniforms changed
The Enterprise insignia is adopted by all of Starfleet
(previously each ship had their own insignia)
- 2273
- Enterprise gets 18 month refit
The design changes create the new ship class;
"Enterprise Class".
Janice Rand serves on Enterprise as Transporter Chief
Nurse Chapel promoted to Doctor, and serves on Enterprise
as it's new CMO (until McCoy comes back)
- 2274
- (ST:TMP)
Kirk assumes command of Enterprise to save earth from
probe V-ger. Former captain William Decker goes missing.
Spock and McCoy return to Starfleet
- 2275
- Kirks second 5-year mission on Enterprise
- 2276
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- 2277
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- 2278
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- 2279
- Second 5 year mission ends
Uniforms changed
Spock promoted to Captain
Spock gets command of Enterprise
Enterprise used as cadet training ship
Chekov transfers to Reliant under Captain Terrell
Chekov becomes first officer of Reliant
- 2280
- Cadet training on Enterprise begins
- 2281
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- 2282
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- 2283
- Kirk Meets Antonia and retires from starfleet
- 2284
- Project Genesis submitted to the federation by Dr. Carol
Marcus
- 2285
- Kirk tells Antonia he's going back to starfleet
(ST:II, ST:III)
Scotty promoted to Captain (of engineering)
Peter Preston(Scotty's nephew) dies
Spock dies
Khan Dies
Reliant Destroyed
Project Genesis destroyed
Trainee crew reassigned
Saavik and David Marcus transfer to Grissom
Excelsior Commissioned
Grissom Destroyed
David Marcus Dies
Enterprise Destroyed
Enterprise crew exiled on Vulcan
(this was a very BAD year)
- 2286
- (ST:IV (78 years before TNG))
Rand and Chapel both assigned to Starfleet Command in
San Fransisco
Spock Reborn
Enterprise-A commissioned
Kirk demoted to Captain
Transwarp drive testing failed. Excelsior refitted with
regular warp drive.
The Excelsior ship design was excellent though, and
Starfleet begins to construct an entire line of "Excelsior
Class" ships. They will soon be the backbone of the
Starfleet like the K't'inga class battlecruisers are for
the Klingon Empire.
- 2287
- (Star Trek V)
Relations with Klingons getting better (Klingons
allowed on board Enterprise)
- 2288
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- 2289
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- 2290
- Sulu gets command of Excelsior
Janice Rand serves on Excelsior as Communications officer
- 2291
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- 2292
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- 2293
- Ensign Tuvok begins serving on the USS Excelsior under
Captain Hikaru Sulu. Tuvok reports to Commander Janice
Rand. After serving on the Excelsior, Tuvok will leave
the Starfleet for over 50 years.
(Star Trek VI)
Klingon economy devestated by praxis explosion
Klingon/Federation relations hit a bump as the Klingon
chancellor is assasinated, but continue to improve.
Klingon technology to fire when cloaked is lost
Enterprise-A decomissioned, and the Enterprise crew soon
goes their seperate ways.
Captain Sulu continues as captain of the Excelsior with his
crew just beginning their adventures.
- 2294
- (Star Trek VII (Gen.))
Enterprise-B commissioned with Captain John Harriman
Guinan and other El-aurian refugees rescued by
Enterprise-B with Kirk, Scotty and Chekov
Kirk presumed dead
- 2295
- Scotty Disappears
- 2296
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- 2297
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- 2298
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- 2299
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- 2300
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- 2301
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- 2302
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- 2303
- Jean-Luc Picard Born (or 2305)
- 2304
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- 2305
- Lwaxana Troi Born???
- 2306
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- 2307
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- 2308
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- 2309
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- 2310
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- 2311
- No further contact with Romulans for next 53 years
- 2312
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- 2313
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- 2314
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- 2315
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- 2316
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- 2317
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- 2318
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- 2319
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- 2320
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- 2321
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- 2322
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- 2323
- Beverly Crusher Born(born Beverly Howard)
- 2324
- Picard enters Academy
- 2325
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- 2326
- Picard gets his artificial heart after attacked by
Naussicans
- 2327
- Picard Graduates academy (and begins on ? USS Stargazer?)
- 2328
- Cardassian Union annexes Bajor
- 2329
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- 2330
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- 2331
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- 2332
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- 2333
- Picard begins serving on Stargazer (he will one day take
command of the ship when the captain is killed and shortly
after will be promoted to Captain of the Stargazer sometime
before 2354)
- 2334
- William T. Riker Born
- 2335
- Deanna Troi Born
Geordi LaForge Born
- 2336
- Tasha Yar Born
Data Constructed
- 2337
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- 2338
- Data found by USS Tripoli and re-activated
- 2339
- Worf Born
- 2340
- Ro Laren born
- 2341
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- 2342
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- 2343
- Beverly Crusher enters medical school
- 2344
- Enterprise-C destroyed defending Klingon outpost
from Romulan attack, Klingon/Federation relations
improve.
Yar had come aboard Enterprise-C from alternate
dimension Enterprise-D 22 years in the future.
- 2345
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- 2346
- Worf's (real) parents killed (Khitomer massacre)
- 2347
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- 2348
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- 2349
- Wesley Crusher Born
Tasha (II) _supposedly_ killed by Romulans
by now, Sela is just a couple of years old.
- 2350
- Tasha escapes Turkana IV
Beverly Crusher graduates Medical School
- 2351
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- 2352
- Riker, Geordi enter academy (did Troi ever go?)
- 2353
- Tasha enters academy
- 2354
- Jack Crusher dies
- 2355
- Uniforms changed
Stargazer almost destroyed in Battle of Maxia
- 2356
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- 2357
- Riker graduates academy and serves on USS Pegasus
Babylon 5 becomes operational.
Oops! Wrong timeline!
- 2358
- Geordi graduates academy
Ro enters academy?
- 2359
- Troi graduates academy
Riker serves on USS Pegasus
- 2360
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- 2361
- Worf graduates academy
Riker serves on Starship Potemkin, divided into 2 Rikers
in a transporter accident.
- 2362
- Geordi serves on USS Victory
- 2363
- Enterprise-D (launched)
- 2364
- Picard commands Enterprise-D (crew size - 1014)
McCoy visits Enterprise-D
First encounter with Q
Enterprise leaves Galaxy and returns later
First encounter with Ferengi
Lore re-activated
Wesley fails academy exam
Tasha dies
Alien parasites create a conspiracy through starfleet
Romulans make first appearance in 53 years
- 2365
- Crusher leaves enterprise to be the head of Starfleet
medical on Earth
Dr. Katherine Pulaski replaces Crusher on Enterprise as CMO
Troi has alien baby
Moriarty comes alive in Holodeck
Riker serves on Klingon ship (exchange program)
Data declared sentient
First encounter with Borg
K'Ehleyr mates with Worf
Alexander (Worf's kid) born
- 2366
- The first Romulan defector to the federation can't get
back, so commits suicide rather than live in federation
Q becomes human for a short time
Alternate dimension Yar sent back in time 22 years to
Enterprise-C
Worf meets brother Kurn and accepts discommodation
Battle of Wolf 359
Picard transformed to Locutus(borg)
Riker promoted to Captain of Enterprise-D
Riker demoted to Commander
- 2367
- K'Ehleyr dies, Worf meets Alexander
Wesley enters Academy
Miles O'Brien married to Keiko
Geordi almost transformed into an alien
Barkley gets smart and sends Enterprise to center of Galaxy
Klingon power struggle, Romulans interveening
- 2368
- Ensign Ro Laren comes aboard Enterprise
Crystalline Entity destroyed
Molly O'Brien born (to Miles and Keiko)
Sarek dies
Spock, Picard, Data on Romulus stop Romulan invasion of
Vulcan
Alexander comes to live with Worf on Enterprise
Wesley almost kicked out of Academy, hates Picard
Captured borg (Hugh) gets individuality and sent back to
the borg collective
Borg collective begins to get affected, and cuts off a
portion of the borg (who are infected with individuality)
from the rest of the collective
Picard lives the life of someone on a long since destroyed
alien world(Kataan). Picard Starts playing his flute
Data loses his head in the past, and a 500 year old one
is now attached to his body.
- 2369
- Scotty reappears
First dyson sphere discovered by Enterprise
Scotty is given an Enterprise Shuttle
Cardassians withdraw claim to Bajor and withdraw from
Bajoran space and Deep Space 9
O'Brien transferred to Deep Space (station) Nine
Stable wormhole discovered near planet Bajor
Picard and others changed into children
Captain Jellico takes temporary command of Enterprise
Picard captured by Cardassians and tortured
Moriarty brought back
More romulans defect thanks to Troi
Q lets Picard relive academy days
Other Riker found (from 2361) - Thomas Riker
- 2370
- Ancient Vulcan weapon found
USS Pegasus found with federation cloaking technology
Wesley turns into god (don't forget your mittens)
Ro joins the maquis
Picard passes another Q test of humanity and is shown a
possible future
- 2371
- USS Defiant commissioned. Built to battle the Borg, this
is the first Federation ship built with a Romulan cloaking
device. (Kirk's Enterprise had one temporarily)
Star Trek VII (Generations) (78 years after E-B comissioned)
Picard's brother and nephew killed in fire
Kirk reappears and dies?
Enterprise-D destroyed
Lursa and B'Etor dead
Uniforms changed
USS Voyager disappeared
The Romulans and Cardassians team up and mobilize a fleet to
try to destroy the Founders (shapeshifters) homeworld, to
end the Dominion threat, but the attack failed leaving the
Klingons and the Federation as the only ones left who are a
threat to the Dominion in the Alpha Quadrant.
- 2372
- Worf transferred to DS9
A brand new klingon ship design is now in use
Klingons invade Cardassia
Peace between Klingons and Federation is over
Klingons attack DS9 while the DS9 crew attack klingon
ships who are attacking cardassian ships.
Worf's brother "Kurn" has his memory erased
the Voyager crew says "so much for that warp 10 limit thing"
A transporter accident causes Tuvok and Neelix to merge into
a single being 'Tuvix'.
Kira acts as surrogate mother for Keiko's 2nd baby.
Odo loses his changeling abilities
Gowron (Klingon leader) begins hostilities with the
Federation
- 2373
- The New conflict (war) between the Federation and the
Klingons continue until Gowron discovers that the Dominion
want the fighting to continue to weaken the Klingon Empire
and the Federation.
Conflicts between the Federation and Klingons DO continue
and lots of people get killed. Wow, how original.
Oh no! It's revenge of the tribbles for the DS9 crew!
ST:VIII First Contact
Enterprise-E Commissioned
Geordi finally gets rid of his visor
Defiant nearly destroyed fighting the Borg
- 2374
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- 2375
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- 2395
- In an alternate possible future, Picard and Bev. Crusher
have been married and are now divorced, she kept the name
Beverly Crusher, and she's the captain of the USS Pasteur -
a medical ship.
Riker is now an admiral, Troi is dead, Worf is unpopular in
the Klingon empire (now the klingons and federation not yet
at war do fire on each others ships). The klingons have
recently won their latest war with the Romulans but this
time, the Romulans have been totally defeated. The
Enterprise-D has been refitted with a 3rd nacelle, and a
larger phaser gunport, although by now the Enterprise-D is
30 yrs old and Riker had to save it from the scrap heap.
Hans-Wolfgang Loidl <hwloidl@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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