Star Trek Chronology
Beta VersionCompiled by Edgar Governo
Although it's not an update to this chronology, I'm pleased to announce that
my Star Trek: Enterprise short story "You Are Not In Space" will be appearing
in the upcoming anthology Strange New Worlds 10 from Pocket Books,
already available for pre-order on both Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.
2729 BC- "All Our Yesterdays" (past)
2728 BC- Zar of Sarpeidon is born.
2700 BC- Yesterday's Son (past)
2680 BC-
Time for Yesterday (past)
c300 AD- Surak's Reformation of Vulcan.
7.18.1600- Home is the Hunter (past)
4.16.1746- Home is the Hunter (past)
9. .1867- Ishmael (past)
8.13.1893- "Time's Arrow" (past)
1901- Edith Keeler is born.
1914-1918- World War I.
5. .1930- "The City on the Edge of Forever" (past)
"Past Tense" (past)
1939-1945- World War II.
11.15.1942- Home is the Hunter (past)
7. 3.1947- "Little Green Men" (past)
1962- Khan Noonian Singh is born.
1967- "Past Tense" (past)
1968- "Assignment: Earth" (past)
7.12.1969- "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (past)
10.12.1986- Star Trek IV: The
Voyage Home (past)
4.24.1987- Gabriel Bell is born.
1993-1996- The Eugenics Wars.
1996- "Future's End" (past)
1999- Voyager 6 is launched.
2009- First manned Earth-Saturn space probe.
2018- Dax is born.
8.30.2024- "Past Tense" (past)
2025- Reunification of Ireland.
2033- Zefram Cochrane is born.
2036- The New United Nations is chartered.
2043-2047- The Mind Control Revolts.
10. .2045- Strangers From the Sky (past)
4. 4.2063- Cochrane's Theory of Continuum Distortion Propulsion is formulated.
Star Trek: First Contact (past)
First contact between Earth and Vulcan.
2079- The New United Nations falls. The Post-Atomic Horror begins.
2097- Killing Time (past)
2100- The Earth Centenary Conference is assembled.
2103- Mars is colonized by humans.
2156-2160- The Earth/Romulan Wars.
2161- United Federation of Planets is incorporated.
Starfleet is established. Starfleet Academy is founded.
Part of Starfleet's original charter is Section 31, an autonomous
group concerned with searching out, identifying, and quietly
dealing with potential dangers to the Federation.
2165- "Twilight" (future)
11.17.2168- Sarek of Vulcan is born.
2199- Robert M. April is born.
2215- Christopher R. Pike is born in Mojave.
2220- Spock of Vulcan is born in ShiKahr.
2221- First contact between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
2222- Montgomery Scott is born in Linlithgow, Scotland.
Richard Daystrom is born.
2223- Relations with the Klingon Empire degenerate into hostilities.
2227- "Yesteryear" (past)
The Final Reflection ("The Naked Stars")
7.20.2227- Leonard H. McCoy is born in Georgia.
2231- The Final Reflection ("The Falling Tower")
12.28.2235- Nyota Uhura is born in the United States of Africa.
2237- James T. Kirk is born in Riverside, Iowa.
Carol Marcus is born.
2245- Final Frontier ("Space..." etc.)
2245-2248- Three-year shakedown cruise of USS Enterprise.
2246- Richard Daystrom invents duotronic computer technology.
4.20.2246- Hikaru Sulu is born in San Francisco.
2248-2253- Robert M. April's five-year mission.
2249- Pavel A. Chekov is born in Leningrad.
2253- Crisis on Vulcan
Aftershock
4.27.2253- Best Destiny ("Dead Reckoning" etc.)
9. 8.2253- Shadows on the Sun ("Ssan")
10. 2.2253- Final Frontier ("Hope and a Common Future")
2554- Beginning of Christopher Pike's first five-year mission.
Cadet Kirk
9.14.2254- "Starfleet Academy"
12. .2254- Vulcan's Glory
6.22.2255- David Marcus is born.
2257- "To Walk the Night"
"Our Dearest Blood"
"Nor Iron Bars a Cage"
"The Cage"
The Rift ("First Contact")
6.2258- James T. Kirk graduates from Starfleet Academy.
2259- End of Christopher Pike's first five-year mission.
2260- Crisis on Centaurus ("Long Ago")
2260-2265- Christopher Pike's second five-year mission.
2264- Saavik of Hellguard is born.
Tuvok of Vulcan is born.
4. .2266- James T. Kirk takes command of USS Enterprise NCC-1701.
2266:
0000.5-0009.8- Enterprise: The First Adventure (April 22)
[to 0276.6]
2267:
[to 0674.1]
2268:
1000.0- October 26, 2268
[to 1072.7]
2269:
1278.4-1285.22- "All Those Years Ago..." (flashback) (July 8)
1297.8- "Uhura's Story" (flashback)
1305.4- Strangers from the Sky ("Book Two")
1312.4-1313.8- "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1321.45- Starfleet changes its uniform design.
1329.1-1330.1- "Mudd's Women"
2270:
1512.2-1514.1- "The Corbomite Maneuver"
1515.1-1515.8- "The Man Trap"
1533.6-1535.8- "Charlie X"
1672.1-1673.1- "The Enemy Within"
1704.2-1704.4- "The Naked Time"
1709.1-1709.6- "Balance of Terror"
2000.0- April 6, 2270
2124.5-2126.3- "The Squire of Gothos"
2534.0- "Patterns of Force"
2712.4-2712.7- "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
2713.5-2715.0- "Miri"
2715.1-2715.4- "Dagger of the Mind"
2817.6-2818.9- "Conscience of the King"
2821.5-2823.8- "The Galileo Seven"
2947.3-2950.1- "Court Martial"
2950.3- Uhura's Song
3000.0- October 13, 2270
3001.3-3004.6- "No Compromise" (flashback)
3012.4-3013.3- "The Menagerie"
3013.4-3013.7- "A Little Seasoning"
3018.2- "Catspaw"
3025.3-3025.8- "Shore Leave"
3034.6- The Disinherited
3040.2- "Worldsinger"
3041.6- Requiem (past)
3045.6-3046.2- "Arena"
3087.6-3088.7- "The Alternative Factor"
3113.2-3114.1- "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
3125.3-3130.4- Web of the Romulans
3134.0- "The City on the Edge of Forever"
3139.3- Final Frontier
3141.9-3143.3- "Space Seed"
3156.2-3158.7- "The Return of the Archons"
3192.1-3193.0- "A Taste of Armageddon"
3196.1-3196.8- "The Devil in the Dark"
3198.4-3201.7- "Errand of Mercy"
3211.7-3219.2- "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
3219.4-3220.3- "Metamorphosis"
3287.2-3289.8- "Operation: Annihilate!"
3372.7- "Amok Time"
3417.3-3417.7- "This Side of Paradise"
2271:
3451.9-3459.1- "The Changeling"
3468.1- "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
3471.4- "Retrospect" (flashback)
3478.2-3479.4- "The Deadly Years"
3497.2-3499.1- "Friday's Child"
3547.2- "A Small Matter of Faith"
3614.9-3615.4- "Wolf in the Fold"
3619.2-3620.7- "Obsession"
3715.0-3715.6- "The Apple"
3842.3-3842.4- "Journey to Babel"
3847.5- "The Argon Affair"
3871.6- The Rings of Tautee
3894.2- The Vulcan Academy Murders
3957.1- The IDIC Epidemic
3998.6- Faces of Fire
4000.0- June 7, 2271
4040.7-4041.7- "Bread and Circuses"
4202.9- "The Doomsday Machine"
4203.5- Debt of Honor (flashback)
4211.4-4211.8- "A Private Little War"
4231.2- Devil's World
4307.1-4309.4- "The Immunity Syndrome"
4372.5- "Elaan of Troyius"
4385.3- "Spectre of the Gun"
4428.9- "Mirror, Mirror"
4496.1- The Galactic Whirlpool
4513.3- "I, Mudd"
4523.3-4525.6- "The Trouble With Tribbles"
"Trials and Tribble-ations" (past)
4598.0- "A Piece of the Action"
4657.5-4658.9- "By Any Other Name"
4719.2- Dreadnought!
4720.1-4728.4- The Klingon Gambit
4729.4-4731.3- "The Ultimate Computer"
4740.5- "Star TreX"
4746.1- "The Omega Glory"
4760.9- "Assignment: Earth"
4768.3- "Return to Tomorrow"
2272:
4769.1- Mutiny on the Enterprise
4842.6-4843.6- "The Paradise Syndrome"
4925.2- Double, Double
4997.54- Corona
5000.0- March 13, 2272
5001.1- The Entropy Effect
5029.5- "And the Children Shall Lead"
5031.3- "The Enterprise Incident"
5049.2- "The Unforgiven"
5121.0- "The Empath"
5221.3-5221.8- "Beyond the Farthest Star"
5258.7- Legacy
5268.1-5269.5- "The Dream Walkers"
5302.1- Dreams of the Raven
5419.4- Windows on a Lost World
5423.4-5423.8- "Mark of Gideon"
5431.4-5432.3- "Spock's Brain"
5476.3-5476.4- "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
5521.4- "The Day of the Dove"
5630.7- "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
5693.4- "The Tholian Web"
5710.5-5710.9- "Wink of an Eye"
5717.3- "That Which Survives"
5718.3- "Whom Gods Destroy"
5725.3-5725.6- "The Lights of Zetar"
5730.2-5730.7- "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
5784.0- "Plato's Stepchildren"
5816.3- My Enemy, My Ally
5818.4-5819.3- "The Cloud Minders"
5832.3-5832.5- "The Way to Eden"
5843.7-5843.8- "Requiem for Methuselah"
5906.4-5906.5- "The Savage Curtain"
5928.5- "Turnabout Intruder"
5943.7-5943.9- "All Our Yesterdays"
2273:
5947.3- Ghost Walker
5989.6- "Message in a Bottle"
5992.4- "The Alone" (flashback)
6000.0- January 26, 2273
6000.6-6008.6- Mindshadow
6063.4- "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth"
6101.1- Black Fire
6118.2-6119.2- The Cry of the Onlies
6126.1- "To Err is Vulcan"
6132.8- Planet of Judgment
6143.3- "The Survivor"
6183.3- "Practical Joker"
6187.3- "Slaver Weapon"
6188.4- Trek to Madworld
6218.9-6221.4- "The Chosen"
6223.1- The Great Starship Race
6251.1- Crossroad
6254.4- "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"
6267.2- "Time Trap"
6275.6- "Albatross"
6324.09-6333.7- Yesterday's Son
6334.1-6336.2- "The Pirates of Orion"
6371.3- "One of Our Planets is Missing"
6373.4- "Yesteryear"
6403.6- "Bem"
6410.9- Demons
6451.3- Vulcan!
6459.4- "The Patient Parasites"
6483.7- "The Lorlei Signal"
6499.9- "The Ambergris Element"
6501.2- "The Eye of the Beholder"
6502.9- World Without End
6527.5-6537.5- The Starless World
6554.4- "The Infinite Vulcan"
6577.3- "The Terratin Incident"
6591.2- "Once Upon a Planet"
6602.0- Memory Prime
6614.1- Bloodthirst
6633.7- The Starship Trap
6648.3- How Much for Just the Planet?
6683.1- "Jihad"
6720.8- Spock, Messiah!
2274:
6769.4- The Patrian Transgression
6770.3- "The Counter-Clock Incident"
6824.5- "Ni Var"
6827.3-6848.2- Perry's Planet
6914.6- Death's Angel
6932.4- "More Tribbles, More Troubles"
6978.5- "Mudd's Passion"
6987.31- End of James T. Kirk's first five-year mission. (July 8)
2274:
6987.31- The Lost Years ("Spacedock, Earth")
7000.2- "Retrospect" (flashback)
[to 7060.4]
2275:
7063.2- The Lost Years ("Mountains of Gol")
7065.6- Traitor Winds
7164.3- A Flag Full of Stars
[to 7211.6]
2276:
[to 7363.3]
2277:
7411.4-7414.1- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (April 26)
7414.4- Debt of Honor (flashback)
7416.664-7468.55- Spock's World
7474.0- The Pandora Principle (flashback)
[to 7496.7]
2278:
7513.2- Crisis on Centaurus
7521.6-7532.8- The Trellisane Confrontation
7557.7- USS Bozeman NCC-1941 disappears.
7591.4- The Good Man
[to 7621.6]
2279:
7673.6-7674.18- "Domain of the Dragon God"
7714.3-7717.7- "Chekov's Choice"
[to 7746.5]
2280:
7774.5- The Romulan Way
7784.5- Home is the Hunter
7815.3-7816.1- The Covenant of the Crown
7823.6-7835.8- Deep Domain
7846.6- Shell Game
[to 7871.7]
2281:
7913.5- Rules of Engagement
[to 7996.6]
2282:
8000.0- January 10, 2282
8036.2- Enemy Unseen (April 26)
2282-2284:
8053.2- The Pandora Principle
8062.7-8071.6- Dwellers in the Crucible
2285:
8083.6-8097.4- Strangers From the Sky ("Book One")
8105.5- USS Excelsior NX-2000 is commissioned.
8110.1- "So Near the Touch" (flashback)
8127.4- Time for Yesterday
8130.3-8141.6- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
8142.1- "Retrospect" (flashback)
8145.3-8149.1- "The Wormhole Connection"
8163.5- "Mortal Gods"
8173.5-8174.5- "Who is Enigma?"
8180.1-8185.35- "Saavik's Story"
8210.3- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
8215.5-8223.4- "New Frontiers"
[to 8236.8]
2286:
8263.5- "The D'Artagnan Three"
8270.2- "All Those Years Ago..."
8293.6- "Rest and Recreation"
8303.24-
John M. Ford's The Final Reflection is completed.
8340.1-8341.03- "Double Blind"
8348.3- "Around the Clock"
8349.7- "The Last Word"
8351.1- "The Trouble with Bearclaw"
8352.5- "Uhura's Story"
8354.6-8356.2- "Judgement Day"
8356.2- "Vicious Circle"
8356.3-8359.4- "The Doomsday Bug"
8387.1- "The Needs of the One"
8390.0- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
2287:
8395.2-8395.6- "Choices"
8405.15- The Final Reflection
8442.5- USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A is commissioned.
8454.1- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
8467.5-8470.2- "Homeworld"
8475.3-8501.2- Probe
8510.3-8521.7- "The Return"
8524.1-8527.1- "Repercussions"
8528.3-8531.4- "Not...Sweeney!"
8535.6-8538.1- "The Trial of James T. Kirk"
8543.1-8544.6- "So Near the Touch"
8544.9- "Raise the Defiant"
8553.7-8557.4- "The Return of the Worthy"
8560.7- "Partners?"
[to 8561.0]
2288:
8564.0- "Once a Hero..."
8569.8-8570.7- "God's Gauntlet"
8575.6-8578.8- "Mission: Muddled"
8583.7- "The Tree of Life, The Branches of Heaven"
8602.8-8606.7- "Class Reunion"
8719.3-8730.6- Debt of Honor
[to 8732.3]
2289:
8827.3- "The Price of Admission"
8891.6- "Echoes of Yesterday"
[to 8903.2]
2290:
8921.2-8925.3- "When You Wish Upon a Star..."
8953.7-8954.3- "The Corbomite Effect"
8954.8- "Paradise Lost"
8965.1- "Timecrime"
8971.6- The Rift ("Second Contact")
8972.8- "Getaway"
8979.7- "Idol Threats"
8983.0- "Retrospect"
8983.2-9002.8- "Stars in Secret Influence"
9008.3-9009.2- "Veritas"
9018.2-9024.3- "The Tabukan Syndrome"
9031.1- "Runaway"
9034.6-9035.1- "A Little Adventure"
9038.4- "Acceptable Risk"
9040.3- "A Little Man-to-Man Talk"
9045.2- "Deceptions"
9046.1- "Blaise of Glory"
9057.7-9059.2- "The Peacekeeper"
9068.4- "Renegade"
9071.1- "No Compromise"
[to 9074.1]
2291:
9088.2-9093.9- "Bait and Switch"
9098.3- "Rivals"
9104.2- "Door in the Cage"
9111.2- "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing"
9172.5- "Epic Proportions"
[to 9245.0]
2292:
9246.2- "The Alone"
[to 9416.3]
2293:
9481.1-9486.2- "A Question of Loyalty"
9521.6-9529.1- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
"Flashback" (flashback)
9532.4- Best Destiny
9537.3- Sarek
9582.1-9587.2- Shadows on the Sun
9621.8- The Fearful Summons
9654.1- The Ashes of Eden
9710.1- Federation ("Ellison")
9715.0- USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B is commissioned.
Star Trek: Generations (flashback)
2294:
9723.9- The Captain's Daughter
9893.1- Captain Montgomery Scott disappears and is presumed
dead after the crash of the USS Jenolan NCC-2010.
2298- The Sundered
2306- Rachel Garrett is born.
7.13.2306- Jean-Luc Picard is born in LaBarre, France.
2310:
11611.8- Transformations
5. 9.2311- The Tomed Incident.
2314- Kira Meru is born on Bajor.
2322-2323- Starfall
2323- Jean-Luc Picard enters Starfleet Academy.
Nova Command
10.13.2324- Beverly Howard is born in Copernicus City, Luna.
2325- USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C is commissioned.
2326- Selar of Vulcan is born.
Vendetta ("Overture")
2327- Jean-Luc Picard graduates from Starfleet Academy.
"Tapestry" (past)
2328- The Cardassian Empire annexes Bajor.
