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Revision as of 10:45, 13 July 2014

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

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]
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

YEAR EVENT REF
2001 The (original) United Nations collapses. [3]
2001 The Afrodite series mission spacecraft enters service with NASA. [4]
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]
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 US Strategic Command turns over its exploration and commercial administration space mission roles to the International Space Agency (ISA). SFC
2020 The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Saturn, the first manned spacecraft to visit the planet. [1]
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]
2030 The Ares I is Earth's first manned mission back to Mars, since the fall of the Great Khanate. [7]
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. [8]
2032 09 February: Zefram Cochrane was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. [9]
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. [10]
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 UNSS Columbus, first in a series of interstellar sublight explorers, launches for Saturn on a test run. [10]
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. [10]
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 Columbus is destroyed by an Econ attack, while in orbit. [10]
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][11]
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]
2058 During a preliminary experiment to search for subspace layers (conducted by Zefram Cochrane), all six O'Neil asteroid habitats vanish. [12]
2058 The US begins construction of the Liberty class system defense cruiser, their first post-war transorbital warship. [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][13][11]
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][11]
2069 The Utopia Planitia Base (predecessor to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards) was founded. [16]
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. [13]
2087 The United Earth Defense Pact and its United Earth Space Fleet are disbanded, replaced by a truly unified UE Starfleet. [13]
2091 The UESF Academy is opened and supported in its training role by the assignment of a majority of the surviving Liberty class ships. [13]

22nd Century

YEAR EVENT REF
2113 By this time on Earth, war, poverty, disease, and the causes thereof have been eliminated. [17]
2130 The Traité d'Unification is signed by a majority of Earth's nations, establishing the new United Earth government. [18]

23rd Century

YEAR EVENT REF
2250 The Federation colony on Archanis IV is attacked, resulting in the death of 112 Federation citizens by attackers unknown. [19]
2251 Captain Garth of the USS Xenophon, investigating the attack upon Archanis IV, finds a disabled Klingon cruiser inside Federation space. This leads him to discover the presence of a Klingon garrison on the nearby Federation protectorate world of Axanar. Klingon Admiral Kkorhetza declines the opportunity to surrender the garrison on Axanar. [19]
2252 The Four Years War breaks out when Klingon forces attempt to break through the containment of Axanar. [19]
2255 The Sheliak Conflict quickly (starts and) ends with the drafting of the Treaty of Armens. [20][21]
2256 The Four Years War concludes with a draw and the establishment of a Klingon neutral zone. The long 'cold war' period with the Klingon Empire starts at this point. [19]
2266 Khan’s escape from Earth was revealed when his ship was found adrift in space in the Mutara sector, some fifty lightyears away. [1]
2273 The huge, autonomous vessel known as V'Ger approaches Earth after passing through a portion of the Klingon Empire. [22]
2275 The practice of letter codes in registries was abandoned before the fielding of the Daring class this year. [23]

24th Century

YEAR EVENT REF
2312 Starfleet formally adopts the Terrance-Neltorr Graduated (TNG) warp scale. [24]
2358 The Tzenkethi War begins. [25]
2362 The Tzenkethi War ends. [25]
2372 The Second Federation-Klingon War begins. [26]
2373 The Second Federation-Klingon War ends. [26]
2373 The Dominion War begins. [27]
2375 The Dominion War ends. [27]



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: Afrodite
  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
  8. ↑ Memory Beta: ECON
  9. ↑ Memory Alpha: Zefram Cochrane
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Guide: Columbus
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Guide: Phoenix
  12. ↑ Memory Beta: Neyel
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Guide: Liberty
  14. ↑ Memory Beta: 2063 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)
  15. ↑ Memory Beta: 2063
  16. ↑ Star Trek: Star Charts, p. 39
  17. ↑ Memory Alpha: 2113 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)
  18. ↑ Memory Beta: Traité d'Unification
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Memory Beta: Four Years War
  20. ↑ Memory Beta: 2255
  21. ↑ Memory Alpha: 2255
  22. ↑ Memory Alpha: V'Ger
  23. ↑ Guide: Corvettes, Couriers, Escorts, Perimeter Ships & Light Scouts
  24. ↑ DITL: Warp Scales
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Memory Beta: Tzenkethi War
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Memory Beta: Federation-Klingon War (2372-73)
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Memory Beta: Dominion War
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