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Events in '''bold''' refer to major incidents or the beginning of significant eras in the timeline.
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.


=='''Pre-Common Era'''==
=='''Pre-Common Era'''==
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|<nowiki>~</nowiki>11 billion years ago
|[[1989]]
|Biological life appeared in the Milky Way Galaxy.
|Two ships of the DY series were constructed in the province of Xuhan in the country of China; the start of the modern era.  
|Guide
|<ref>Guide: [[DY series (Guide)|DY series]]</ref>
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|<nowiki>~</nowiki>8 billion years ago
|DNA-based life first evident in the Milky Way Galaxy.
|Guide
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|<nowiki>~</nowiki>7.5 billion years ago
|A time-traveling culture appears to have colonized on planet [[522-IV]].
|Guide
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|<nowiki>~</nowiki>4.5 billion years ago
|Humanoids first evolve in the Milky Way galaxy.
|Guide
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|<nowiki>~</nowiki>700,000 years ago
|The Pnaii is the last FTL culture to have visited and settled (temporarily) the area of space around [[Earth]].
|Guide
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|[[1992]]
|Khan Noonian Singh and other eugenically-enhanced superhumans take over most of South and Southeast Asia on [[Earth]].
|<ref> Guide: [[DY series (Guide)|DY series]]</ref>
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=='''20th and 21st Centuries'''==
=='''20th and 21st Centuries'''==


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|[[1992]]
|[[2001]]
|The Eugenic supermen take over most of South & Southeast Asia.
|The (original) [[United Nations]] collapses.
|Guide
|<ref> [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/United_Nations Memory Alpha: United Nations] </ref>
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|-
|[[1996]]
|[[2011]]
|Khan Noonian Singh and several of his followers escape Earth, as the Angkor fortress is captured.
|The [[New United Nations]] convenes for the first time.
|Guide
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|-
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|[[2015]]||The United Earth Government (UEG) assumes political administration for the majority of the planet.||Guide
|[[2031]]
|-
|The United States, Eastern Coalition and European Alliance work together to divert a series of asteroids from hitting the planet, capturing six of them for resource mining.
|[[2030]]
|<ref> [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/ECON Memory Beta: ECON]</ref>
|Zephram Cochrane is born.
|Guide
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|[[2032]]
|[[2032]]
|Ares III, the sixth successful mission to [[Mars]], occurs.
|'''09 February''': Zefram Levar Cochrane was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
|Guide
|<ref> [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Zefram_Cochrane Memory Alpha:Zefram Cochrane]</ref> <ref>[http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Zephram_Cochrane Memory Beta:Zefram Cochrane] </ref>
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|[[2035]]
|[[2036]]
|The AFP-1 prototype is lost in a disaster.
|The first two of the TAU series of sublight explorers are launched.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[TAU series (Guide)|TAU series]]</ref>
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|[[2036]]-[[2039]]
|The first crewed probeships attempt flight out of the [[Sol]] system.
|Guide
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|-
|[[2045]]
|[[2045]]
|Five spaceframes of the ''Columbus'' series are ready for flight.
|A flyby survey by drone indicates the [[a Centauri]] system has seven planets, a means of producing return propellent and evidence of the presence of carbon-based life on the fourth and seventh planets of a Centauri A.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Columbus series (Guide)|Columbus series]]</ref>
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|2045
|(September) UNSS ''Columbus''<nowiki>’</nowiki> mission delayed to a fueling accident.
|Guide
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|-
|[[2046]]
|[[2046]]
|(January 21) UNSS ''Nautilus'' boosts out of Earth orbit for Tau Ceti.
|'''21 January''': ''UNSS Nautilus'' was the first ship to boost out of [[Earth]] orbit on her way to [[Tau Ceti]].
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Columbus series (Guide)|Columbus series]]</ref>
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|-
|2046
|[[2053]]
|(February 21, speculative) UNSS ''Icarus'' launches for Alpha Centauri.
|'''01 May''': World War Three breaks out.
|Guide
|<ref> [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_III Memory Beta: World War III] </ref>
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|-
|2046
|[[2053]]
|(March 21, speculative) UNSS ''Hector'' launches for Arcturus.
|The [[New United Nations]] collapses, in light of the world war.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[ Phoenix (Guide)| Phoenix series]]</ref>
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|2046
|(April 21, speculative) UNSS ''Prometheus ''launches for Epsilon Indi.
|Guide
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|2046
|(May 5) UNSS ''Nautilus'' is damaged after hitting an object.
|Guide
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|[[2049]]
|The <nowiki>’</nowiki>East<nowiki>’</nowiki> orders 5 ''Keldysh'' class cruisers built, four which are ready by [[2053]], in time for World War III.
|Guide
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|(before) [[2053]]
|UNSS ''Columbus'' is appropriated by the United States of America.
|Guide
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|2053
|''Columbus'' is destroyed by an Econ kinetic-kill missile.
|Guide
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|2053
|World War III begins.
|Guide
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|[[2055]]
|Planned FTL experiments by the United States Air Force are canceled.
|Guide
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|-
|[[2058]]
|[[2058]]
|The United States of America is building the first transorbital warships.
|During a preliminary experiment, conducted by Zefram Cochrane, to search for subspace layers, all six O'Neil asteroid habitats vanish.
|Guide
|<ref> [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Neyel Memory Beta: Neyel]</ref>
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|[[2060]]
|The White Sands Spaceport is closed and heavy-lift capability ceases.
|Guide
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|-
|[[2061]]
|[[2061]]
|First test of the continuum distortion superimpellor.
|Zefram Cochrane tested the first continuum distortion unit inside an underground Titan V/VI assembly hangar, and was able to accelerate a test payload to lightspeed.  
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Phoenix (Guide)|Phoenix]]</ref>
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|[[2062]]
|[[2063]]
|The first ''Liberty'' class cruiser attains nominal drive capacity.
|'''05 April''': Zefram Cochrane tests the ''Phoenix'', demonstrating warp drive by achieving Warp 1 for approximately one minute in the [[Sol]] system.
|Guide
|<ref> [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/2063 Memory Beta: 2063 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)]</ref>
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|-
|[[2063]]
|[[2063]]
|(April 4) '''Zephram Cochrane breaks the light <nowiki>'</nowiki>barrier.<nowiki>'</nowiki>'''
|'''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.
|Guide
|<ref> [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/2063 Memory Beta: 2063]</ref>  
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|2063
|[[2063]]
|(April 4) '''Vulcan scouts make first contact with Earth.'''
|'''28 April''': Zefram Cochrane releases all documents on his warp technology into the public domain.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Defiant and Valiant (Guide)|Defiant and Valiant]]</ref>
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|-
|[[2064]]
|[[2064]]
|The first ''Liberty'' class cruiser has its armament installation completed.
|Survey cruisers ''SS Defiant'' and ''SS Valiant'' were sent out on twenty-year missions to find the limits of human reach with the new drive.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Defiant and Valiant (Guide)|Defiant and Valiant]]</ref>
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|2064
|Six new ''Liberty'' class hulls are orbiting Earth.
|Guide
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|2064
|'''SS ''Defiant'' & SS ''Valiant'' depart respectively for the upper & lower edges of the galactic disk.'''
|Guide
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|2064
|(November 5) The ''Phoenix'' warp engines are recovered from orbit.
|Guide
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|2064
|The ex-''Seneca'' is towed to the (now-empty) ''Valiant'' berth, for transformation into the ''Bonaventure''.
|Guide
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|2064
|[[2065]]
|(October) ''Jules Verne'' has first successful sublight test flight.
|The first official diplomatic expedition from [[Vulcan]] arrives on[[ Earth]].
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Liberty (Guide)|Liberty]]</ref>
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|2065
|[[2065]]
|The warp surveyor SS ''Leif Eirickson'' departs for 61 Cygni. (speculative year; assumes slightly faster than 1c)  
|The Sparon-DeSoto treaty forces the national militaries to crew their armed spacecraft with international members.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Liberty (Guide)|Liberty]]</ref>
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|2065
|[[2065]]
|The Sparon-DeSota Treaty requires all armed spacecraft within 5,000 AUs of Sol to be crewed internationally.
|The [[New United Nations]] is resurrected.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Phoenix (Guide)|Phoenix]]</ref>
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|-
|2065
|[[2069]]
|The ''Phoenix'' is retired.
|The [[United Earth Defense Pact]] is signed, organizing the previously internationally-crewed armed vessels under one agency, the '''United Earth Space Fleet''', under the control of '''United Earth Space Central'''.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Liberty (Guide)|Liberty]]</ref> 
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|2065
|SS ''Defiant'' is believed to have destroyed by the Barrier Alliance in this year.
|Guide
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|2065
|(August 22) Construction starts on SS ''Conestoga'', Earth<nowiki>’</nowiki>s first colonizer.
|Guide
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|2065
|(December 14) ''Jules Verne'' has first warp run outside Uranus orbit, achieving w1.02.
|Guide
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|[[2066]]-[[2069]]
|The'' Liberty ''class system defense cruisers are the primary line of Sol system defense.
|Guide
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|2066-2069
|Full pre-WWIII industrial capacity is achieved by Earth.
|Guide
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|[[2067]]
|(early March) SS ''Conestoga'' christened.
|Guide
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|2067
|(April 4) On the 4<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Cochrane<nowiki>’</nowiki>s flight, the SS ''Conestoga'' launches for [[Eta Cassiopeiae III]], later to be named Terra Nova.
|Guide
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|[[2069]]||'''The [[United Earth Defense Pact]] (UEDP) is formed, performing as the international space defense organization of Earth until [[2089]]'''.||Guide
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|[[2070]]
|51 ''Liberty'' class cruisers are in Sol space.
|Guide
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|[[2071]]
|SS ''Spirit'', the next ''Conestoga'' colonizer, is completed.
|Guide
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|-
|[[2073]]
|[[2073]]
|SS ''Leif Erickson'' makes contact with the Tellarites on 61 Cygni V, days before a Tellarite explorer/merchantman is intercepted by a task force in the vicinity of Neptune.
|The Earth initiates first contact with [[Tellar]], when the ''SS Leif Eirickson'' arrives in orbit. A few days later, a Tellarite mining vessel is detected and captured in the [[Sol]] system.
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Liberty (Guide)|Liberty]]</ref>
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|2073
|By this year, more than 50 warp ships had departed the Sol system.
|Guide
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|2073
|SS ''Valiant'' encounters the galactic barrier and self-destructs.
|Guide
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|-
|2073
| [[2073]]
|The ''Verne'' class cruiser, the first series-produced vessel, enters United Earth service.
|The ''Verne'' class survey cruiser enters service.
|Guide
|<ref>Guide: [[Verne (Guide)|Verne]]</ref>
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|-
|[[2075]]
|[[2087]]
|The 18<sup>th</sup> ''Verne'' class cruiser is built, with 16 interstellar missions for the class currently underway.
|The [[United Earth Defense Pact]] and its [[United Earth Space Fleet]] are disbanded and most of its space assets given over to a truly unified [[United Earth Starfleet|UE Starfleet]], under the aegis of the [[New United Nations]].
|Guide
|<ref>Guide: [[Liberty (Guide)|Liberty]]</ref>
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|[[2076]]
|(late year) SS ''Conestoga'' arrives in orbit of Terra Nova.
|Guide
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|[[2077]]
|USS ''Mercury ''& USS ''Banshee'' are lost to hostile actions by unknown forces (the first so lost).
|Guide
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|[[2080]]
|The [[Jupiter|Jovian]] moons of [[Ganymede]] and [[Europa]] have become important industrial and military assets.
|Guide
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|[[2081]]
|The colonists of Terra Nova, determined to be independent, threaten any future attempts by Earth to further settle the planet.
|Guide
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|2081
|Permanent human presences are established on Ganymede and Europa.
|Guide
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|[[2084]]
|The SS ''Leif Eirickson''’s message of contact with the Tellarites reaches Earth.
|Guide
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|[[2086]]
|USS ''Fletcher'' explodes in a warp drive failure, ending the tri-nacelle arrangement and resulting in the ''Verne'' class being restricted  (and re-designated) in a system-defense role.
|Guide
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|[[2086]]
|SS ''Ascender'', the third ''Conestoga'' colonizer, reaches and settles [[36 Ophiuci III]].
|Guide
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|[[2089]]
|'''The United Earth Defense Pact is reformed as the United Earth Star Fleet (UESF); the new exploration mission is handled by the UESF's United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA).'''
|Guide
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|2089
|The ''Verne'' class cruisers have operational control turned over to the UESF.
|Guide
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|2089
|USS ''Scythe'' accidentally opens fire on USS ''Hammer'' & USS ''Emnity''.
|Guide
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|[[2090]]
|(speculative) ''Verne ''class destroyers removed from active duty & delegated to training.
|Guide
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|2090-[[2130]]
|''Messier'' class ships are used to explore outside the Sol system.
|Guide
|-
|-
|[[2091]]
|[[2091]]
|'''The UESF Academy is founded, with ''Liberty ''class cruisers available as training vessels.'''
|The UESF Academy is opened.  
|Guide
|<ref> Guide: [[Liberty (Guide)|Liberty]]</ref>
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|2091
|The re-directed SS ''Spirit'' reaches and settles on Alpha Centauri A-II.
|Guide
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|2091
|The first major upgrade of the ''Messier'' class<nowiki>’</nowiki> warp engines occurs.
|Guide
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|2091
|The original ''Hercules'' (Y-100) is fielded.
|Guide
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|[[2093]]
|By this year, six extra-solar colonies had been established.
|Guide
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|[[2095]]
|(speculative) ''Verne ''class decommissioned.
|Guide
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|[[2096]]-[[2098]]
|The first series of confrontations with the Kzintis.
|Guide
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|2096-[[2099]]
|The ''Hercules'' model Y-200 is bought by the UESF.
|Guide
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|[[2098]]
|The fourth Kzinti invasion fleet retreats.
|Guide
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|[[2099]]
|Type-III cargo modules are introduced by the Terran mining industry.
|Guide
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|[[2100]]
|[[2113]]
|Twenty-five ''Messier'' class vessels have been constructed, by this year.
|By this time on [[Earth]], war, poverty, disease, and the causes thereof have been eliminated.
|Guide
|<ref> [http://memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/2113 Memory Alpha: 2113 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)]</ref>
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|[[2103]]
|(speculative) The ''Hercules'' model FY-500 is introduced.
|Guide
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|[[2112]]
|''Roanoke-Gemini'' subclass is purchased with plasma cannons.
|Guide
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|[[2115]]
|The second major upgrade of the ''Messier'' class<nowiki>’</nowiki> warp engines occurs.
|Guide
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|2115
|Zephram Cochrane<nowiki>’</nowiki>s team begins development of a new series of warp engine.
|Guide
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|-
|[[2119]]
|[[2119]]
|Zephram Cochrane leaves Alpha Centauri for deep space and is never seen again.
|Zefram Cochrane vanishes.
|Guide
|<ref> [[Phoenix (Guide)|Phoenix]]</ref>
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|[[2120]]-[[2129]]
|[[2130]]
|The first mutual defense pacts between Alpha Centauri and resident Terran colonists are signed.
|The Traité d'Unification is signed by a majority of [[Earth]]'s nations, establishing the new [[United Earth]] government.
|Guide
|<ref> [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_d%27Unification Memory Beta: Traité d'Unification]</ref>
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|-
|[[2123]]
|[[2161]]
|DY-500s are being produced in large numbers.
|The [[United Federation of Planets]] is founded.
|Guide
|<ref>Guide: [[Introduction (Guide)|Introduction]]</ref><ref>[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/2161 Memory Alpha]</ref>
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|-
|[[2125]]
|[[2161]]
|(speculative) The ''Phoenix'' warp engines are recovered and preserved at the Smithsonian.
|The UFP [[Starfleet]] is founded.
|Guide
|<ref>Guide: [[Introduction (Guide)|Introduction]]</ref><ref>[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/2161 Memory Alpha]</ref>
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|2125
|The ''Hercules'' model FY-500 is discontinued.
|Guide
|-
|[[2132]]
|The first offensive actions by the Romulans begin with an attack on the USS ''Balboa''.
|Guide
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|2132-[[2156]]
|Phase I of the Romulan War: Romulan attacks against Terran (and others<nowiki>’</nowiki>) territories are conducted.
|Guide
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|[[2134]]
|The UESF calls for a new survey ship class.
|Guide
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|[[2135]]
|The third (and final) major upgrade of the ''Messier'' class<nowiki>’</nowiki> warp engines occurs.
|Guide
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|[[2136]]
|Four parallel development lines emerge from the original Cochrane team.
|Guide
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|[[2140]]
|(October 5) The ''Daedalus'' is destroyed in a drive chain explosion at warp 4.
|Guide
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|[[2142]]
|(January speculative) The Fleet Logistics Division of the UESF is formed.
|Guide
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|2142
|(May) The Fleet Logistics Division orders the development of a large warp transport.
|Guide
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|2142
|(March speculative) Hulls capable of mounting w3 engines are developed.
|Guide
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|[[2145]]
|USS ''Horizon'', first of the ''Daedalus'' class, is fielded.
|Guide
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|[[2146]]
|The PB-2 engines are given official clearance for w3 cruising.
|Guide
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|2146
|A convoy escorted by two Iceland class frigates is almost completely destroyed by a Romulan raiding party, though it is initially blamed on Nausicaans.
|Guide
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|[[2147]]
|Starbase One is declared operational.
|Guide
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|2147
|'''The construction of ''USS Enterprise'' begins.'''
|Guide
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|2147-[[2159]]
|About 400 <nowiki>’</nowiki>Cochrane<nowiki>’</nowiki> fighters are produced.
|Guide
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|[[2149]]
|The Nausicaan <nowiki>’</nowiki>scare.<nowiki>’</nowiki>
|Guide
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|2149
|The USS ''Hopkins'' is lost to hostile action.
|Guide
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|[[2150]]
|The Gradualist Party wins power in the [[United Earth]] Senate.
|Guide
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|2150
|Seven more ''Hopkins'' class ships are fielded.
|I-74
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|2150
|(October) Test flights of USS ''Enterprise'' begin.
|Guide
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|[[2151]]
|(April 16) A Klingon courier crashes on Earth.
|Guide
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|2151
|The fate of the silent colony on [[Terra Nova]] is discovered by the survey cruiser ''USS Enterprise''.
|Guide
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|2151
|''USS Intrepid'' is the first Earth ship to report a Rihannsu (Romulan) raid, though the attacker of the SS ''Diana'' is unidentified at the time. The ''Intrepid''<nowiki>’</nowiki>s evidence, however, is lost with the ship in the vicinity of [[Tau 1 Eridani]].
|Guide
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|2151
|The Klingon <nowiki>'</nowiki>incidents.<nowiki>'</nowiki>
|Guide
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|2151
|USS ''Enterprise'' encounters a Romulan patrol of [[Theta Eridani]].
|Guide
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|[[2152]]
|(January 1) USS ''Carronade'' survives a Romulan attack on Defense Outpost 4.
|Guide
|-
|2152
|(speculative) The ''Upholder'' class USS ''Intrepid'' is named after the recently-lost ''Messier'' class ship of the same name.
|Guide
|-
|2152
|Phased particle beam weaponry and polarizable armor is introduced.
|Guide
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|[[2153]]
|'''The Xindi strike Earth.'''
|Guide
|-
|2153
|(speculative) Some ''Messier''s are re-classified as ''Verdun'' attack cruisers.
|Guide
|-
|2153
|(speculative) Some ''Messier''s receive a fourth warp engine upgrade.
|Guide
|-
|2153
|(May 25) USS ''Intrepid'' is involved in the first major Klingon confrontation, with three Birds of Prey.
|Guide
|-
|[[2155]]
|Starbase One is destroyed by a specific Romulan attack.
|Guide
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|[[2156]]
|Romulans begin to overtly attack some Earth colonies.
|Guide
|-
|2156
|USS ''Patton'' reports its own destruction by Romulan forces. The attack results in a declaration of war by Earth.
|Guide
|-
|2156
|Punitive actions begin against the Romulans.
|Guide
|-
|2156
|'''Full-scale war against the Romulans begins.'''
|Guide
|-
|2156
|Convoy tactics changed from <nowiki>’</nowiki>constant escort<nowiki>’</nowiki> to <nowiki>’</nowiki>relay.<nowiki>’</nowiki>
|Guide
|-
|2156-[[2157]]
|(June to June) Six ''Mercury'' class ships are lost.
|Guide
|-
|2156-[[2159]]
|Phase II of the Romulan War: Romulans conduct offensive towards Earth and its allies.
|Guide
|-
|[[2157]]
|Fleet actions between the UESF and the Romulans occur, most notably near Gamma Tri.
|Guide
|-
|[[2158]]
|Major concern regarding a potential Romulan invasion of Sol space is entertained.
|Guide
|-
|2158
|It is discussed that almost 100 colonies and outposts may have to be abandoned, in order to consolidate a defense of Earth<nowiki>’</nowiki>s core resources.
|Guide
|-
|[[2159]]
|Three ''Messier''s surprise & overrun a Romulan forward staging post in Sierra Sector.
|Guide
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|2159
|A UESF battle group locates and severely damages a Romulan fleet supply point.
|Guide
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|2159-[[2160]]
|(in the months before Cheron) Starbases Two & Three become operational.
|Guide
|-
|2159-[[2161]]
|Phase III of the Romulan War: the final attrition battles occur.
|Guide
|-
|[[2160]]
|The Romulan command post at Cheron is crippled.
|Guide
|-
|-
|[[2161]]
|[[2161]]
|The final Romulan <nowiki>’</nowiki>plunge<nowiki>’</nowiki> at Alpha Omega B.
|Starfleet Academy is established in San Francisco.  
|Guide
|<ref>[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/2161 Memory Alpha]</ref>
|-
|2161
|(May 24) USS ''Cavalier'' is destroyed by a Romulan attack, after the cease fire.
|Guide
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|[[2162]]
|The last ''Messier'', USS ''Braxton'', is destroyed in a warp system failure.
|Guide
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|2162
|(January 21) USS Cavalier survivors are rescured from an M-class world.
|Guide
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|2162-[[2164]]
|'''The Tarn Conflict'''
|Guide
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|[[2164]]
|After re-analyzation of SS ''Tupac Amaru''<nowiki>’</nowiki>s sensor data, the [[2146]] raid previously blamed on the Nausicaans is properly attributed to the Romulans.
|Guide
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|[[2172]]
|Dr. Helmut Kreutzer, aboard the surveyor USS Schliemann for a pre-colonization assessment mission, dates the planetwide ruins on planet [[522-IV]] as over 7.5 billion years old.
|Guide
|-
|[[2177]]
|The last ''Hercules'' model is decommissioned.
|Guide
|-
|[[2188]]
|The sublight and low-warp versions of the DY series cease production.
|Guide
|-
|2188
|The USS ''Columbia'' is destroyed by a Klingon raid.
|Guide
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|[[2190]]-[[2199]]
|All but 10 ''Roanoke''s are withdrawn from service.
|Guide
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|2201
|The re-settled Terra Nova colony thrives.
|Guide
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|2209
|The ''Conestoga'' reactor on Terra Nova is shut down.
|Guide
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|2260-2269
|The last nine of 10 ''Roanokes'', used as navigation training vessels, are withdrawn from service.
|Guide
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|2265
|The USS ''Enterprise'' uncovers the fate of the SS ''Valiant''.
|Guide
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|2266
|Khan Noonian Singh<nowiki>’</nowiki>s DY-100 is discovered in the Mutara Sector, 50 lightyears from Earth.
|Guide
|-
|2279
|USS ''Frost Ridge'', the last of the ''Roanokes'', is retired.
|Guide
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|2285
|The ''Ascender'' reactor on Terra Nova is shut down.
|Guide
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|2291
|The ''Spirit'' reactor on Terra Nova is shut down.
|Guide
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|[[2347]]||'''The Cardassian War starts.'''||Dom, ?
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|[[2353]]||'''The Tholian War begins.'''||?
|-
|[[2354]]||The [[Starfleet Command:Fleets|Taneko Fleet structure]] is introduced, as Starfleet reorganizes. (''Year is speculative.'')||?
|-
|[[2358]]||'''The Tzenkethi War starts.'''||Dom
|-
|[[2360]]||'''The Tholian War ends.'''||?
|-
|[[2362]]||'''The Tzenkethi War ends.'''||Dom
|-
|[[2365]]
|The remains of Lt. Col. Richey, USAF, of ''Charybdis'' (TAU Three), are found on [[Theta 116-VIII]] by the USS ''Enterprise''.
|Guide
|-
|[[2366]]||'''The Cardassian War ends.'''||Dom, ?
|-
|2366
|A joint UFP-Tarn survey of [[Torgu-Va]] finds descendents of the Tarn and humans (from the USS ''Verdun'') still fighting.
|Guide
|-
|[[2372]]||'''The Klingon Empire disolves the Khitomer Accords and declares war on the UFP.'''||Dom
|-
|[[2373]]||'''The Klingon War suddenly ends.''' (''Early in the year'')||Dom
|-
|[[2374]]||'''The Dominion War starts.'''||DS9, Dom, ?
|-
|[[2375]]||'''The Dominion War ends.'''||DS9, Dom, ?
|}
|}


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Revision as of 15:27, 1 March 2008

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.

Pre-Common Era

YEAR EVENT REF
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]
1992 Khan Noonian Singh and other eugenically-enhanced superhumans take over most of South and Southeast Asia on Earth. [2]

20th and 21st Centuries

YEAR EVENT REF
2001 The (original) United Nations collapses. [3]
2011 The New United Nations convenes for the first time.
2031 The United States, Eastern Coalition and European Alliance work together to divert a series of asteroids from hitting the planet, capturing six of them for resource mining. [4]
2032 09 February: Zefram Levar Cochrane was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. [5] [6]
2036 The first two of the TAU series of sublight explorers are launched. [7]
2045 A flyby survey by drone indicates the a Centauri system has seven planets, a means of producing return propellent and evidence of the presence of carbon-based life on the fourth and seventh planets of a Centauri A. [8]
2046 21 January: UNSS Nautilus was the first ship to boost out of Earth orbit on her way to Tau Ceti. [9]
2053 01 May: World War Three breaks out. [10]
2053 The New United Nations collapses, in light of the world war. [11]
2058 During a preliminary experiment, conducted by Zefram Cochrane, to search for subspace layers, all six O'Neil asteroid habitats vanish. [12]
2061 Zefram Cochrane tested the first continuum distortion unit inside an underground Titan V/VI assembly hangar, and was able to accelerate a test payload to lightspeed. [13]
2063 05 April: Zefram Cochrane tests the Phoenix, demonstrating warp drive by achieving Warp 1 for approximately one minute in the Sol system. [14]
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. [15]
2063 28 April: Zefram Cochrane releases all documents on his warp technology into the public domain. [16]
2064 Survey cruisers SS Defiant and SS Valiant were sent out on twenty-year missions to find the limits of human reach with the new drive. [17]
2065 The first official diplomatic expedition from Vulcan arrives onEarth. [18]
2065 The Sparon-DeSoto treaty forces the national militaries to crew their armed spacecraft with international members. [19]
2065 The New United Nations is resurrected. [20]
2069 The United Earth Defense Pact is signed, organizing the previously internationally-crewed armed vessels under one agency, the United Earth Space Fleet, under the control of United Earth Space Central. [21]
2073 The Earth initiates first contact with Tellar, when the SS Leif Eirickson arrives in orbit. A few days later, a Tellarite mining vessel is detected and captured in the Sol system. [22]
2073 The Verne class survey cruiser enters service. [23]
2087 The United Earth Defense Pact and its United Earth Space Fleet are disbanded and most of its space assets given over to a truly unified UE Starfleet, under the aegis of the New United Nations. [24]
2091 The UESF Academy is opened. [25]

22nd Century

YEAR EVENT REF
2113 By this time on Earth, war, poverty, disease, and the causes thereof have been eliminated. [26]
2119 Zefram Cochrane vanishes. [27]
2130 The Traité d'Unification is signed by a majority of Earth's nations, establishing the new United Earth government. [28]
2161 The United Federation of Planets is founded. [29][30]
2161 The UFP Starfleet is founded. [31][32]
2161 Starfleet Academy is established in San Francisco. [33]

23rd Century

YEAR EVENT REF


24th Century

YEAR EVENT REF



References

  1. ↑ Guide: DY series
  2. ↑ Guide: DY series
  3. ↑ Memory Alpha: United Nations
  4. ↑ Memory Beta: ECON
  5. ↑ Memory Alpha:Zefram Cochrane
  6. ↑ Memory Beta:Zefram Cochrane
  7. ↑ Guide: TAU series
  8. ↑ Guide: Columbus series
  9. ↑ Guide: Columbus series
  10. ↑ Memory Beta: World War III
  11. ↑ Guide: Phoenix series
  12. ↑ Memory Beta: Neyel
  13. ↑ Guide: Phoenix
  14. ↑ Memory Beta: 2063 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)
  15. ↑ Memory Beta: 2063
  16. ↑ Guide: Defiant and Valiant
  17. ↑ Guide: Defiant and Valiant
  18. ↑ Guide: Liberty
  19. ↑ Guide: Liberty
  20. ↑ Guide: Phoenix
  21. ↑ Guide: Liberty
  22. ↑ Guide: Liberty
  23. ↑ Guide: Verne
  24. ↑ Guide: Liberty
  25. ↑ Guide: Liberty
  26. ↑ Memory Alpha: 2113 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)
  27. ↑ Phoenix
  28. ↑ Memory Beta: Traité d'Unification
  29. ↑ Guide: Introduction
  30. ↑ Memory Alpha
  31. ↑ Guide: Introduction
  32. ↑ Memory Alpha
  33. ↑ Memory Alpha
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