Canon Timeline

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The events depicted on this timeline are intended to show the major events (including the first production of series ship classes) of the Starfleet Command timeline, in order to merge the various sources used.

20th Century

Pre-Contact Era (1989-2062)

YEAR EVENT REF
1988 The Great Khanate, a rough organization of augmented Humans, begins to build influence on Earth. SFC
1989 Two ships of the DY series were constructed in the province of Xuhan in the country of China; the start of the modern era. [1]
1990 The DY-100 model begins production by the Dinyan-Yoyodyne Conglomerate. [1]
1991 The Apex DY-100 variant series enters service with the Great Khanate. [2]
1993 The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on Mars for the first time. [2]
1994 The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on Venus for the first time. [2]
1996 The Great Khanate state falls, with Khan Singh and a handful of followers escaping undiscovered on a DY-100 they had held in reserve. [1]
1996 The Great Khanate's Mars colony fails. [1]

21st Century

Pre-Contact Era (1989-2062) (continued)

YEAR EVENT REF
2000 The Korean Peninsula Crisis: Famine and then a military coup results in great strife for North Korea. The United Nation responds, though with considerable resistance from China and Russia. SFC
2001 With tremendous turmoil over the role of the United Nations in North Korea and being over-extended in humanitarian crises precipitated by the fall of the Great Khanate, the United Nations is suddenly disbanded. [3], SFC
2001 The Aphrodite series mission spacecraft enters service with NASA. [4]
2002 South Korea alone assists the people of North Korea in recovery. SFC
2002 The United States of America and the European Union formalize an economic and defense relationship with what will be called the Western Alliance by media and opponents. SFC
2003 The Korean peninsula is formally reunified under a constitutional monarchy established with North Korean expatriate and Kim Jung Il daughter, Kim Jung Noe. SFC
2008 The Western Alliance space agencies jointly conduct the Aventeur space missions. SFC
2009 The democratic nations of Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran form the Muslim Bloc. SFC
2009 The Aventeur I mission (also known as the first of the Grand Tours) launches from Earth with the Lewis and Clark, with Christopher, Fontana and O'Herlihy in deep cryosleep. [1]
2009 By this time, 6 manned orbital platforms have been assembled over Earth. [5]
2010 The Pan-African Alliance forms. SFC
2011 The New United Nations convenes for the first time. SFC
2014 The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Jupiter, with the first manned visit to the planet. [1]
2018 The NUN creates the International Space Agency (ISA), an intended effort to coordinate combined national space exploration. SFC
2018 The US Strategic Command turns over its exploration and commercial administration space mission roles to the International Space Agency (ISA). NASA remains independent of ISA. SFC
2018 The Western Alliance turns over the Aventeur space missions to the ISA. The European Union turns over all European Space Agency (ESA) operations to ISA. SFC
2020 The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Saturn, the first manned spacecraft to visit the planet. [1]
2020 The Western Alliance provides the military command structure for the NUN, giving it extraordinary political power. SFC
2020 The crew of the Lewis and Clark discovers evidence of extraterrestrial mining on the moons of Enceladus and Dione. [1]
2024 Several European nations, including France, become politically destabilized. [6]
2026 The opening conflicts of World War III break out, with factions of eco-terrorists launching attacks responsible for as many as 37 million deaths. [6]
2029 Fusion power technology is achieved; work immediately begins to make it space-capable. SFC
2030 The Ares I is Earth's first manned mission back to Mars, since the fall of the Great Khanate. [7]
2031 The Western Alliance, Pan-African Alliance, Muslim Bloc and a mix of nations from the Far East and Middle East work together to divert a series of asteroids from striking Earth, capturing and diverting six to L-5 points. [8], SFC
2031 Lee Kuan of China suggests an alliance between the (perceived) disadvantaged nations of China, India, Kazakhstan, (united) Korea, Pakistan, Singapore and Vietnam; the Eastern Coalition (ECON) is formed. [9], SFC
2032 09 February: Zefram Cochrane was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. [10]
2032 October 19th: The Ares IV mission to Mars fails when the command capsule disappears, stranding two astronauts on the surface. The Ares V launches early to perform the rescue of the stranded Ares IV astronauts. [7]
2035 The multi-national manned prototype AFP-1 experimented on an e-beam pulsed fusion detonation drive but met with a disaster, with 14 lives lost. [11]
2036 February: Tau One, the Daedalus, becomes the first manned vessel to attempt to leave the Sol system, when it launches for the heliopause. [5]
2039 The evidence of extraterrestrial mining on Saturn's moons is released to select space-exploration nations. [1]
2040 The Mediterranean Alliance forms. SFC
2040 The UNSS Columbus, first in a series of interstellar sublight explorers, launches for Saturn on a test run. [11]
2046 The three remaining in-transit vessels of the Columbus series are considered to be inevitable losses as communications with each is lost to ion storms. [11]
2052 The New United Nations sides with the Western Alliance on legal use of oil fields in the South China Sea and Antarctica. The ECON secedes from the NUN in protest. SFC
2052 A series of confrontations between the New United Nations and the ECON begin to occur over oil fields located in Antarctica and China. [6]
2053 USSS Columbus is destroyed by an ECON attack, while in orbit. [11]
2053 01 May: The climax of World War Three breaks out when the ECON strikes the NUN states first with nuclear attacks, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 600 million. [6][12]
2053 Other than military operations taking place under its banner, the New United Nations ceases to operate as a coordinated entity. [12]
2053 Late Year: The war culminated when several of Earth's governments met in San Francisco to declare a cease-fire, effectively ending the war. [6]
2054 Colonel Green slaughters his way across North America, culling the "weak" and "impure" and those afflicted with radiation-sickness from humanity's gene pool, killing millions. [6]
2055 The Eastern Coalition formally becomes a nation, subsuming the member states as political regions, and retreats within the haphazard recovery processes that help define the era known as the Post-Atomic Horror. SFC
2058 During a preliminary experiment to search for subspace layers (conducted by Zefram Cochrane), all six O'Neil asteroid habitats vanish. [13]
2058 The US begins construction of the Liberty class system defense cruiser, their first post-war transorbital warship. [14]
2062 Mars declares independence from Earth, which is peacefully accepted. [15]

Expansion Era (2063-2130)

2063 05 April: Zefram Cochrane tests the Phoenix, demonstrating warp drive by achieving Warp 1 for approximately one minute in the Sol system. [16][14][12]
2063 05 April: A passing Vulcan ship, the T'Plana-Hath, detects the warp signature and lands in Bozeman later that evening, officially making first contact with Humans. [Star Trek: First Contact] [17][12]
2064 April: SS Defiant and SS Valiant separately depart Earth orbit, on paths to the upper and lower edges (respectively) of the galactic edge. [18]
2065 A significant number of nations resurrect the New United Nations. [12]
2065 The NUN establishes the Earth Cargo Authority, the commercial oversight equivalent to the ISA. SFC
2067 The NUN forms the United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA), to help coordinate and develop human presence in interstellar space. SFC
2069 Current members of the NUN agree to the United Earth Defense Pact, a promise to put Earth's ascendancy and safety ahead of national goals. SFC
2069 As part of the UEDP, the United Earth Stellar Navy (UESN) is formed and takes control of all armed human spacecraft within 5,000 AUs of Sol. SFC
2069 The United States turns over all NASA operations to UESPA. The NUN does the same with the ISA. SFC
2069 The Utopia Planitia Base (predecessor to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards) was founded. [19]
2073 Earth makes first contact with Tellar, via the SS Leif Eirickson, a Wheeler transport subclass of the DY-500 series. A few days later, a Tellarite ship already in the immediate vicinity, is intercepted near Neptune and reports that meeting. [14]
2075 The Gibraltar Dam is completed. SFC
2078 The New United Nation ceases organized operation as nations individually deal with the Post-Atomic Horror. The UEDP membership strives to remain operational. SFC
2091 The UESN Academy is opened and supported in its training role by the assignment of a majority of the surviving Liberty class ships. [14]
2093 The United Earth Stellar Navy adopts a new shipboard uniform (speculation). SFC[20]

22nd Century

Expansion Era (2063-2130) (continued)

YEAR EVENT REF
2113 By this time on Earth, war, poverty, disease, and the causes thereof have been eliminated. [21]
2113 The UEDP, acting as a de facto world government, represents humanity's interests with the interstellar community. SFC
2117 The United Earth Stellar Navy adopts a new shipboard uniform (speculation). SFC[20]
2130 The Traité d'Unification is signed by a majority of Earth's nations, establishing the new United Earth government. [22]

Romulan War Era (2131-2160)

2132 Romulan Star Empire first begins (covert) hostilities against Earth, Andor, Tellar and other space-faring states. SFC
2133 The United Earth government orders the formation of the United Earth Starfleet. SFC
2150 The last of the independent nations join United Earth, truly uniting the planet for the first time. SFC
2151 [Star Trek: ENT 1st season]
2151 First Contact between Humans and Andorians, at the Vulcan monastery P'jem. [23]
2152 United Earth and Vulcan, along with other nations (to be determined later) agree upon a calendar dating system referred to as Stardate. SFC
2154 July: The Earth embassy on Vulcan is bombed by (covert) Romulan agents. [24]
2155 [Star Trek: ENT 4th season (continues)]
2155 Earth, Andor, Vulcan, Tellar, Alpha Centauri and minor worlds (including Axanar and Kaferia) approve the first draft of an agreement for an alliance to be formed for trade, cultural exchange, and for mutual protection. [25]
2156 The Romulan Star Empire begins attacking Earth colonies; the Romulan War begins. SFC
2157 The Romulans conduct a starship suicide attack on the planet Vulcan. [26]
2160 The Romulan War ends. SFC

Early Federation Era (2161-2200)

2161 October 11: United Earth joins Vulcan, Tellar and Andor in founding the United Federation of Planets. SFC[27]
2161 The new UFP Star Fleet adopts a shipboard uniform utilizing characteristics of the founding members' uniforms. SFC[20]

23rd Century

Early Federation Era (2161-2200) (continued)

YEAR EVENT REF
2200 Star Fleet adopts a new uniform. SFC[20]

Klingon Era (2201-2240)

2202 The last Vulcan Tshin class sublight gunboat ceases operation. [28]
2208 Star Fleet re-organizes, moving away from the five initial branches, as overseen by one of the five founding members. SFC
2225 Star Fleet adopts a new uniform. SFC[20]
2236 Archanis, Cursa and Donatu fall to the Klingons. [29]

Frontier Era (2241-2270)

2241 Technical start of the Four Years War. [29]
2245 Active end of the Four Years War. [29]
2254 [Star Trek: TOS 1st Pilot]
2255 The Sheliak Conflict quickly (starts and) ends with the drafting of the Treaty of Armens. [30][31]
2256 [Star Trek: DIS 1st season]
2257 [Star Trek: DIS 1st season (continues) - 2nd season]
2257 Star Fleet adopts a new shipboard uniform (as seen in the pilot and portions of the first season of TOS, 1st episode of DSC's second season (Pike and Enterprise crew). SFC[20]
2258 [Star Trek: DIS 2nd season (continues)]
2259 [Star Trek: SNW 1st season]
2259 [Star Trek: SNW 2nd season]
2265 [Star Trek: TOS 2nd Pilot]
2265 Star Fleet institutes a uniform change (to that seen most often in TOS). [32], SFC[20]
2266 [Star Trek: TOS 1st season]
2267 [Star Trek: TOS 1st season (continued) - 2nd season]
2267 Khan’s escape from Earth was revealed when his ship was found adrift in space in the Mutara sector, some fifty lightyears away. [1]
2267 The Treaty of Organia is thrust upon both the Klingons and the Federation, aborting what will become known as the Four Days War. [33]
2268 [Star Trek: TOS 2nd season (continued) - 3rd season]
2269 [Star Trek: TOS 3rd season (continued)]; [Star Trek: TAS 1st season]
2269 The failure of Project Omega results in subspace disruption in the Lantaru sector and the establishment of the Omega Directive. [34]
2270 [Star Trek: TAS 2nd season]

Troubled Era (2271-2300)

2271 Star Fleet adopts a major new change in uniforms (as seen in TMP). SFC[20]
2272 The huge, autonomous vessel known as V'Ger approaches Earth after passing through a portion of the Klingon Empire. [Star Trek: The Motion Picture] [35][36]
2278 Star Fleet again adopts a major new change in uniforms (as seen in TWOK and on). SFC[20]
2285 USS Reliant is hijacked by Khan Noonien Singh and the Genesis Device is employed. [Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan] [37]
2285 USS Enterprise is destroyed while defying Star Fleet's Genesis planet quarantine. [Star Trek III: The Search for Spock] [38]
2286 A probe of unknown origin which visits and devastates Earth, in an attempt to communicate with an extinct species. [Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home] [39]
2293 The Khitomer Conference, the first full peace negotiations between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, is held at Camp Khitomer, a Klingon colony on the planet Khitomer near the border with the Federation. [Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country] [40]
2293 CAPT Kirk is (believed to be) killed while attempting to save USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) from a strange energy ribbon. [Star Trek Generations] [41]

24th Century

Golden Era (2301-2335)

YEAR EVENT REF
2312 Star Fleet formally adopts the Terrance-Neltorr Graduated (TNG) warp scale. [42]

Restless Era (2336-2360)

2347 The Cardassian Wars begin. [43]
2350 Star Fleet introduces a major new shift in uniforms (as seen in the first two seasons of TNG). SFC[20]
2353 The Tholian War begins. [44]
2358 The Tzenkethi War begins. [45]
2360 The Tholian War concludes. [44]

Foundation Era (2361-2370)

2362 The Tzenkethi War ends. [45]
2363 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is commissioned. [46]
2364 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) investigates the origin of Farpoint Station. [Star Trek: The Next Generation 1st season] [47]
2366 Star Fleet makes some minor modifications to its uniform (as seen starting in the 3rd season of TNG). SFC[20]
2366 The Cardassian Wars conclude. [43]
2369 Star Fleet introduces a notable change in the duty uniform, and a new combadge to go with it (as seen on DS9 and VOY). [48], SFC[20]
2369 The Bajoran Provisional Government requests Star Fleet assistance in maintaining the mining station Terok Nor, and it is renamed Deep Space 9. [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1st season] [49]
2370 [Star Trek: TNG 7th season]]

Dominion War Era (2371-2375)

2371 USS Voyager (NCC-74656) goes missing in the Badlands. [Star Trek: Voyager 1st season] [50]
2371 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is destroyed over Veridian III. [Star Trek Generations] [41]
2372 The Second Federation-Klingon War begins. [51]
2373 The Second Federation-Klingon War ends. [51]
2373 The second major Borg incursion, the Battle of Sector 001, takes place. [Star Trek: First Contact] [52]
2373 The Dominion War begins. [53]
2375 [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 7th season]
2375 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) exposes a Sona-Star Fleet plot to force the resettlement of the Ba'ku. [Star Trek: Insurrection] [54]
2375 The Dominion War ends. [53]

Uncharted Era (2376-)

2377 [Star Trek: Voyager 7th season]
2378 [Star Trek: Voyager 7th season (continued)]
2378 The destruction of one (of six) of the Borg's transwarp hubs also results in the return of USS Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant. [55]
2379 A coup d'état on Romulus brings a new praetor, Shinzon, to power, and his threat to Earth. [Star Trek Nemesis] [56]
2380 [Star Trek: LD 1st season]
2381 [Star Trek: LD 2nd & 3rd seasons]
2383 [Star Trek: PRO 1st season]
2384 [Star Trek: PRO 1st season (continues)]
2387 The Romulan star supernovas, destroying Romulus.[57]
2399 [Star Trek: PIC 1st season]

25th Century

YEAR EVENT REF
2401 [Star Trek: PIC 2nd & 3rd seasons]
2402 [Star Trek: PIC 3rd season (continues)]

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Guide: DY sublight series
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Guide: Apex
  3. ↑ Memory Alpha: United Nations
  4. ↑ Guide: Aphrodite
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Guide: TAU
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Memory Beta: World War III
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Guide:Ares (Mars mission class)
  8. ↑ Memory Beta: ECON
  9. ↑ Guide: Eastern Coalition
  10. ↑ Memory Alpha: Zefram Cochrane
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Columbus
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Guide:Phoenix
  13. ↑ Memory Beta: Neyel
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Guide: Liberty
  15. ↑ Federation Spaceflight Chronology, v4
  16. ↑ Memory Beta: 2063 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)
  17. ↑ Memory Beta: 2063
  18. ↑ Guide:Defiant and Valiant
  19. ↑ Star Trek: Star Charts, p. 39
  20. ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 Ranks & Uniforms
  21. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2113" (source: Star Trek: First Contact)
  22. ↑ Memory Beta: "Traité d'Unification"
  23. ↑ Memory Alpha: "The Andorian Incident (episode)"
  24. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2154"
  25. ↑ Guide: 2130-2161 - Into The Romulan War
  26. ↑ Guide: Kahs'khiori
  27. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Federation History (background)"
  28. ↑ Guide: Tshin
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Guide: 2200-2240 - Way of the Warrior
  30. ↑ Memory Beta: 2255
  31. ↑ Memory Alpha: 2255
  32. ↑ Memory Alpha: Star Fleet uniform (2250s-2260s) (mentioned in opening paragraph)
  33. ↑ Memory Alpha: Treaty of Organia
  34. ↑ Memory Alpha: Omega Directive
  35. ↑ Memory Alpha: V'Ger
  36. ↑ Guide: Federation
  37. ↑ Memory Alpha: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  38. ↑ Memory Alpha: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
  39. ↑ Memory Alpha: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  40. ↑ Memory Alpha: Khitomer Conference
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Memory Alpha: "Star Trek Generations"
  42. ↑ DITL: "Warp Scales"
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 Memory Alpha: "Federation-Cardassian War"
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 Memory Beta: "Tholian War"
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 Memory Beta: "Tzenkethi War"
  46. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2363"
  47. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Encounter at Farpoint (episode)"
  48. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Starfleet uniform (late 2360s-early 2370s)"
  49. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2369"
  50. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2371"
  51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 Memory Beta: Memory Alpha: "Federation-Klingon War (2372-73)"
  52. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: First Contact"
  53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 Memory Alpha: "Dominion War"
  54. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: Insurrection"
  55. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2378"
  56. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: Nemesis"
  57. ↑ [Memory Alpha: "2387"
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