23rd Century

2206  Vina is born.   (speculation from "The Cage" and "Menagerie - Parts I and II"- she was listed as an adult in the Columbia's passenger list in 2236)

2209 The first case of transporter psychosis is diagnosed on Delinia II. (year given in "Realm of Fear", (TNG))

also in 2209, Rigel is admitted to the Federation.  (Star Trek Star Charts, p. 52)

2210   The is the year that Harry Kim's ancestor Jack supposedly piloted a deep space mission to Beta Capricus, while the rest of his crew is in stasis. When he finds no sign of life he turns around without waking up the crew. The ship didn't yet have a subspace transmitter ("11:59," Voyager).  This obviously was a very odd, and somewhat miserable mission.   It is uncertain why this sleeper ship would be in use at this time.  See also another entry in this timeline at 2070, which assumes Harry had the wrong date.

2214   Another spaceship disappears in the Taurean region of space, never to be heard from again.  ("Lorelei Signal" - TAS)

2215    Selcundi Drama begins to come apart, forming a asteroid belt.  (150 years before "Pen Pals")

2216    Christopher Pike is born  - he grows up in Mohave, California.   (speculation based on age of actor when "The Cage" was filmed (1964) - Mohave reference from "The Cage")

2217  The U.S.S. Valiant contacts Eminiar VII. The ship and crew become casualties of the ongoing war between Enimiar and Vendikar. ("A Taste of Armageddon", (TOS))

2218   A incident occurs which sours relations between the Klingons and the Federation (Bones indicated that the Klingons and UFP had been adversaries for 50 years in "Day of the Dove")

2219    Dr. Richard Daystrom is born.  (24 years before inventing duotronics - "Ultimate Computer")

2222   Montgomery "Scotty" Scott is born in Scotland on Earth. ("Relics", (TNG))

Pralor Unit 3947 is activated on the Pralor homeworld. (150 years before "Prototype" - VGR)

2223   Relations with the Klingon Empire further degenerate, giving rise to 70 years of unremitting hostility. (70 years before Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek Chronology).

2224   Sybok is born on Vulcan, son of Sarek and a Vulcan Princess. (Star Trek V, Star Trek Chronology)

2227  Leonard McCoy is born on Earth.  (137 years before "Encounter at Farpoint")

2229   Sarek and Amanda are married. (conjecture from "Journey to Babel", Star Trek Chronology)

Curzon Dax attempts to solve an Altonian brain teaser for the first time.  (140 years before "A Man Alone")

2230   Spock is born on Vulcan, son of Sarek and Amanda.   (sources: conjecture, Star Trek Chronology)

T'Pring is also born on Vulcan during this year.   ("Amok Time")

2231   George Samuel "Sam" Kirk is born in Iowa on Earth.  (conjecture from "Operation: Annihilate!")

March 22, 2233   James T. Kirk is born in Iowa on Earth.  (34 years before "Deadly Years")

2235  At age five, on Vulcan, young Spock plays a practical joke.  ("Yesteryear")

2234   At age 18, Christopher Pike enjoys picnicking near Mohave.  At this time he had a horse named Tango.  (speculation based on picnic sequence in "The Cage")

2236  The S.S. Columbia crashes on Talos IV. (eighteen years prior to "The Cage")   Sometime after this a threshold of velocity known as the "time barrier" is broken - which had been preventing high speed warp travel.

2237   Spock undergoes the kahs-wan ritual.  ("Yesteryear" (TAS)

Years later, Spock travels back in time to this period on Vulcan and meets himself at age seven.  ("Yesteryear" (TAS)

Spock and T'Pring are betrothed. They share each others minds in the Vulcan mind touch.  "Amok Time."

Hikaru Sulu is born in San Francisco.  (speculation, "Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home")

2239  Uhura is born in the United States of Africa on Earth.  (place of birth taken from classic Trek writer's guide)

Mr. Brack, who is later to be revealed as Flint, purchases the planet Holberg 917G.  (30 years before "Requiem for Methuselah")

2240    Scotty enters Starfleet Academy.   (conjecture - Star Trek Chronology, 1996 edition, p. 40)

2241   A starship disappears near the Taurus star system. It will be the sixth and last ship captured by the women of Taurus II.  ("Lorelei Signal")

2242    The Battle of Donatu V is fought near Sherman's Planet between Klingon and Federation forces.  (30 years before "Trouble with Tribbles")

2243    Scotty begins his career as a Starfleet engineer. (52 years prior to "Relics" - TNG)

Dr. Richard Daystrom invents duotronics, and is awarded the Nobel and Zee-Magnees prizes. (25 years prior to "Ultimate Computer:")

2244   M'Ress is born on the planet Cait.  (Curt Danhauser's animateds timeline)

Scotty graduates from Starfleet.   (Star Trek Chronology, 1996 edition, p. 41)

2245   The U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701, is assembled in the San Francisco shipyards under the watchful eye of its future commander, Captain April.  ("Counterclock Incident")  One of the designers of the Enterprise is Laurence Marvick ("Is There in Truth no Beauty?") 

Captain April will command the starship on a five-year mission of exploration. His wife Sarah April is the ship's first Chief Medical Officer.   ("Counterclock Incident", Star Trek Chronology, p. 283)

Leonard McCoy, enters medical school at the University of Mississippi. He will complete an eight-year medical program and graduate in 2253.  "The Pirates of Orion" - TAS, "Trials and Tribble-ations" - DS9)

Pavel Chekov is born in Russia on Earth.  (22 years before "Who Mourns for Adonais?")  He is an only child.  ("Day of the Dove") 

2248   Kodos the Executioner seizes power on Tarsus IV, and ultimately orders 4,000 colonists killed.   James T. Kirk, age 13, and Kevin Riley are among nine people who witness the event and survive.  His rationale for the slaughter was that there was a critical food shortage on the planet, to combat which some lives had to be sacrificed; but he apparently applied some personal theory of eugenics to decide who lived or died. Furthermore, the vital supply ships that could have saved the whole colony came much sooner than Kodos anticipated, rendering his measures unnecessary. Kodos was commonly believed to have been killed sometime later and his body burned beyond recognition, but  he escaped and assumed a new identity (20 years before "Conscience of the King")

Four Years War (aka the Axanar Conflict) between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets begins.

2249   Garth of Izar, a Starfleet Fleet Captain, wins a key victory at Axanar, which helps preserve the United Federation of Planets.   ("Whom Gods Destroy" TOS - date conjecture)

Spock chooses Starfleet over the Vulcan Science Academy, and Sarek and Spock cease to speak to each other.  (20 years prior to "Journey to Babel")

Charlie Evans is born.  (17 years prior to "Charlie X")

2250   James T.  Kirk enrolls in Starfleet Academy.   (17 years prior to series, suggested by Classic Trek writer's guide)    He is helped to enter by the father of crewman Mallory who will later serve on the Enterprise. ("The Apple")   While a midshipman, he becomes friends with Ben Finney.  ("Court Martial")    Another person who Kirk meets while at the Academy is Gary Mitchell.  (15 years prior to "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - Mitchell describes Kirk as a lieutenant, but this doesn't quite give with the other data points) 

Captain Robert April relinquishes command of the Enterprise to Captain Christopher Pike. Pike's executive officer was a female Starfleet officer whom he called "Number One."  (Star Trek Chronology, 1996 edition p.44)

Starfleet officer Robert April is promoted to Commodore and becomes a Federation ambassador-at-large.  (20 years before "The Counter-Clock Incident." - TAS).

Four Years War ends

mid-23rd century    A Vulcan science mission is lost shortly after reporting a subspace rupture in the Hanoli System. ("If Wishes Were Horses")

2251    While still a Starfleet medical student, Leonard McCoy leads a mass innoculation program on Dramia II.  Shortly after McCoy's team leaves, an Auroral Plague kills almost the entire population of Dramia II.   (19 years before "Albatross."- TAS).

Jim Kirk becomes romantically involved with Ruth (fifteen years before "Shore Leave")

2252    Spock begins serving aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise (11 years, 4 months service with Captain Pike from "The Menagerie")

Charlie Evans, aged 3, is the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on Thasus  (14 years prior to "Charlie X")

2253       Sometime in here, Kirk is promoted to Ensign, and serves on the U.S.S. Republic.  During this time, his friendship with Finney ends when Kirk put Finney on report for failing to close the circuits to the atomic matter piles.  ("Court Marital").  Also, around this time, James T. Kirk goes on his first mission, as a Starfleet cadet: a peace mission to Axanar  (speculation from "Whom Gods Destroy" TOS)    

Leonard McCoy develops an impressive technique for creating axonal pathways between grafted neural tissue and basal ganglia.  (year given in "Liefsigns" - VGR)

2254    Crew of the Enterprise visits Rigel VII - which is undergoing a violent conflict.   (2 weeks before "The Cage")

Later in 2254    Events of The Cage, the original Star Trek pilot, which featured Captain Pike.    

Ten years before James T. Kirk takes command of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Captain Christopher Pike and his starship crew receive a distress signal from the planet Talos IV and beam down to investigate. Tracking the beacon, the landing party discovers crash survivors from a missing scientific expedition; among the survivors is a beautiful human female, Vina. Pike is concerned for the woman's safety, yet allows himself to become distracted by her beauty and is subsequently captured by the Talosians who live beneath the planet's surface. The distress signal and expedition survivors, except for Vina, are revealed to be but illusions created by the Talosians to lure the Enterprise and Pike to the planet.

The Talosians are a strong race, yet after decades of illusory indulgence, they have physically atrophied and need sturdy beings to rebuild and repopulate their barren planet. In Pike, with Vina, the Talosians hope they have finally found the one being who can serve as their breeding stock for a healthier and even more powerful race.

The Talosians use their power of illusion to interest Pike in Vina, presenting her in various disguises: a Rigellian princess in distress, a green Orion animal woman, and a loving, compassionate companion. When Pike resists, the Talosians lure Pike's female first officer and yeoman from the Enterprise to offer further temptation. By then, however, Pike has discovered that primitive human emotions neutralize the Talosians' ability to read minds, and he eventually escapes to the surface of the planet along with his fellow prisoners.

The Talosians confront Pike and the three prisoners before they can beam up, but the captain refuses to negotiate, threatening to kill himself and the others rather than submit to the Talosians' demands. Frightened at losing their only source of repopulation, the Talosians inspect the U.S.S. Enterprise's records and discover that the human race is far too independent to be of adequate service to them.

Faced with no other choice, the Talosians release the humans. After the first officer and yeoman beam up, Pike remains behind with Vina, urging her to leave with him. Despite her growing attraction to the captain, Vina is unable to leave the planet. It is revealed that an expedition had indeed crash landed on Talos IV. Vina, the only survivor, was greatly injured and disfigured. With the aid of the Talosians' illusions, however, she is able to appear beautiful and feel healthy.

The Talosians pledge to continue to provide Vina with the appearance of health and beauty while allowing her to roam the planet free of intervention. Realizing that she will be in good hands after all, Pike returns to the U.S.S. Enterprise. The Talosians, in an act of good will, send the captain an image of Vina on the starship's viewscreen. Not only is she beautiful again, aided by the Talosians' illusory powers, but by her side is another illusion — that of the handsome Christopher Pike.  (13 years before "The Menagerie")

Also in 2254, Jim Kirk graduates from Starfleet Academy after beating the Kobayashi Maru simulation.   (date conjecture, "Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan")   Shortly thereafter, Jim is assigned to the Starship Farrugut under Captain Garrovick ("Obsession" - Garrovick was Kirk's "commanding officer from the day I left the Academy")   On his first planet survey on Neural, Kirk befriends Tyree. ("A Private Little War")

2255  Last contact between the Federation and the Sheliak Corporate prior to 2366.   (111 years prior to "Ensigns of Command")

Sulu enters the Academy (conjecture, Star Trek Chronology)

2256    Leonard McCoy has a relationship with Nancy Crater.  (ten years before "The Man Trap")

2258   Katie Wesley is born, she is the daughter of Robert Wesley, future captain of the Constitution-class U.S.S. Lexington.  (11 years before "One of Our Planets is Missing."  - TAS)

2259  The planet Cerberus is stricken by crop failure during Joanna McCoy's schooling there. Carter Winston uses his personal fortune to save the colony.  (10 years before "The Survivor" - TAS)

2264  Christopher Pike ends his service as Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise and hands over command to James T. Kirk.    (Star Trek Chronology)   In the Mirror Universe, Kirk-2 becomes Captain of the I.S.S. Enterprise after assassination Christopher Pike-2.  (Mirror, Mirror)

Carter Winston crashes his spacecraft on the planet Vendor. Winston is nursed by a Vendorian, but will die a year later of his injuries.  (5 years before "The Survivor"- TAS)

Tuvok is born.  He will later serve aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior under Captain Sulu, and the U.S.S. Voyager under Captain Janeway.  ("Flashback" VGR)

Joran Belar is born.  He will later become a composer, and be the sixth host to the Dax symbiont.  He dies in 2285 after fleeing the scene of a murder he committed.    ("Equilibirum" - DS9)

May 10, 2265 U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) departs on a five year exploration mission under Captain James T. Kirk.

February 12, 2267 (Stardate 1709.1) Romulan Star Empire tests a new cloaking device on a deep penetration raid against the Federation. The raider is tracked down and destroyed by the U.S.S. Enterprise. (Balance of Terror TOS)

June 12,  2268 (Stardate 2817.6) Kodos the Executioner was discovered using the alias Anton Karidian on the Benecia Colony. He is killed during attempts by Starfleet to apprehend him.

July 28 2268 (Stardate 2947.3) James T. 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. Samuel Cogley, Esq. is able to prove that Lt. Finney doctored the computer record in an attempt to frame Kirk and faked his own death.

May 26 2268 (Stardate 3087.6) First contact with the Gorn Assembly at Cestus III

June 30 2268 (Stardate 3141.9) U.S.S. Enterprise recovers the S.S. Botany Bay carrying Khan Noonien Singh and his henchmen into exile. They are marooned on Ceti Alpha V at their own request.

July 20, 2268 (Stardate 3196.1) First Contact with the Horta of Janus IV

July 21, 2268 (Stardate 3198.4) Abortive Organian Conflict is ended when the Organians imposed the Organia Treaty on both the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

August 22, 2268 (Stardate 3287.2) Earth colony on Deneva is attacked by Neural Parasites. Infestation is cleared due to the timely reaction of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

September 11, 2268 (Stardate 3372.2) Altair VI is re-unified following a devastating civil war

October 28, 2268 (Stardate 3468.1) U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a superbeing who was once worshipped as the Greek god Apollo.

November 7, 2268 (Stardate 3497.2) Teer Leonard James Akaar is born on Capella IV after Starfleet foils a coup attempt instigated by the Klingon Empire.

February 14, 2269 (Stardate 3842.3) Orion pirates attempt to disrupt the Fifth Babel Conference, convened to consider the admission of Coridan to the Federation. During the Orion action, Ambassador Gav of Tellar is murdered by an Orion agent surgically altered to look like an Andorian who took the nom d'guerre Thelev and infiltrated the Andorian diplomatic corps.

July 23, 2269 (Stardate 4202.9) U.S.S. Constellation (NCC-1017) is lost with all hands destroying a Planet Killer device built by a now extinct alien race.

November 17, 2269 (Stardate 4523.3) Klingon Imperial Intelligence attempts to sabotage Federation efforts to develop Sherman's Planet. The plot is uncovered but the timely (albeit unwitting) action of Cyrano Jones. (The Trouble With Tribbles TOS)

May 5, 2272 (Stardate 6987.1) U.S.S. Enterprise returns to Earth completing her historic mission. Starfleet begins a major overhaul of the Enterprise which takes 30 months during which time the Enterprise chronometers are stopped but not reset since Starfleet wants to build on the PR bonanza the Enterprise has become. The chronometers are restarted May 29, 2274 when Enterprise is recommissioned. Spock leaves Starfleet to pursue Kohlinar on Vulcan while McCoy returns to private practice in rural Georgia.

August 14, 2272 Admiral Kor leads a Klingon fleet to victory over the Romulans at the battle of Klach D'kel Brakt. (100 years before 'Blood Oath' TNG)

December 2272  The terraforming project at the planet Caldos is completed.  The planet is a Scottish colony.  (nearly a century before "Sub Rosa TNG)

2273    Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan begins working on a treaty with the Legarans.  (93 years prior to "Sarek" TNG)

October 31, 2274 (Stardate 7412.4) An "energy cloud" of unknown origin and intent has carved a path of destruction through the galaxy on a direct course for Earth, having destroyed a flotilla of Klingon ships as well as Federation communications relay station Epsilon 9.   Charged with investigating the cloud, Admiral Kirk convinces Starfleet to give him command of the recently refit starship Enterprise, displacing its new Captain, Willard Decker, to the position of first officer. The source of the cloud turns out to be the errant NASA probe Voyager 6. Enterprise is able to divert the V'ger cloud (ST:TMP)

October 31, 2278  (Stardate 11412.4) Enterprise returns from a 4 year goodwill mission under Admiral Kirk and is reassigned to the training fleet attached to Starfleet Academy under the command of Captain Spock. Kirk is promoted to chief of Starfleet Operations. With her reassignment, the Enterprise chronometers are reset in accordance with standard Starfleet procedures.  (conjecture)

2280    At the battle of Caleb-IV, Klingon forces led by Kang and Kor win a great victory over Federation forces.   This was one of the first uses of the Klingon cloaking device in combat, and was used aboard the old D-5 class Klingon cruisers.   Kor was commanding the Klothos at the time.   (date is speculation based on events mentioned in "Once More Into the Breach" - placing this event here may help explain the level of hostility between UFP and Klingon forces in Star Trek III)

2281 Admiral Kirk retires from Starfleet (ST: Gen)

September 10, 2281 Saavik enters Starfleet Academy (conjecture)

2284 Kirk, staying at his uncle's farm in Iowa, meets Antonia.  The two fall deeply in love. Antonia dies, heartbroken Kirk returns to Starfleet the following year  (eleven years before the 23rd century segment in Star Trek Generations)

2285  Kirk returns to Starfleet as an instructor at Starfleet Academy.  He moves back to San Francisco from Iowa.  (date is conjecture based on Star Trek Generations, Star Trek II)

2285    Torias Dax, who had been living as a joined Trill for less than a year, is killed in a fatal shuttle accident.   The Dax symbiont survived, and was joined with Joran Belar, the sixth host, to become Joran Dax.  Joran had been previously deemed unsuitable as a host but was mistakenly accepted by the Trill Symbiosis Commission as an initiate.      ("Equilibirum" - DS9)

 December 16, 2285 - March 20, 2286 (Stardate 8130.4-8390.0) Events of Star Trek II, III and IV (Star Trek IV was set 78 years prior to the events of Encounter at Farpoint (TNG) according to next generation promotional material).

January 14, 2286 (Stardate 8210.3) U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) is lost off Genesis Planet

March 20, 2286 (Stardate 8390.0) After living on Vulcan under asylum protection arranged by Ambassador Sarek for nearly 3 months, Admiral Kirk and his co-conspirators agree to return to Earth to face charges. On the way, they engage in a temporal jump to retrieve a breeding pair of humpback whales from late 20th century Earth to prevent an alien probe from destroying the Earth's ecosphere. Kirk is demoted to captain and assigned to the newly commissioned U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701A).

September 26, 2295 (Stardate 9521.6) Praxis, a minor satellite of Klinzhai, explodes forcing the Klingon Empire to seek detente with the Federation at the First Khitomer Conference.

October 31, 2295 (Stardate 9617.42) After only 9.6 years of active service, Enterprise-A is decommissioned and paid off. The name is reassigned to a new Excelsior-class vessel before year's end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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