 - main - Until 1966 - 1967-2160 - 2161-2264 - 2265-2299 - 2300-2363 - 2364-2377 - 2378-Future - 2161 (May 8) -- The United Federation of Planets is established on Earth. Earth, Luna, Mars, Vulcan, Tellar, Andor, and Alpha Centauri are among the founding planets. Starfleet and Starfleet Academy are founded in the same year. Both are located in San Francisco. The office of the President of the Federation is located in Paris. The Prime Directive is established. (TOS: "Court-Martial", "Star Trek: "The Voyage Home", "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country", TNG: "The Outcast", "The First Duty", DS9: "Homefront", "Paradise Lost", ENT: "Zero Hour", "These Are The Voyages") 2161 -- Enterprise NX-01 is decommissioned. (ENT: "These Are the Voyages") 2162 -- Hoshi Sato invents the lingual code translation matrix. This is presumably the basis for the universal translator, which is an integral part of Federation technology from here on. (conjecture, referred to in ENT: "In a Mirror Darkly, Part Two") 2165 -- Sarek of Vulcan, Son of Skon, Grandson of Solkar is born. He will be one of the Federation's most distinguished diplomats. (TOS: "Journey to Babel", "Star Trek: The Search for Spock", TNG: "Sarek") Prior to 2167 -- Deneva is colonized by the Federation. (TOS: "Operation: Annihilate") 2167 -- The starship Archon is destroyed by Landru in the orbit of Beta III in the star system C-111. Some of the crew members are killed, but many more are absorbed into Beta III's computer controlled society. (TOS: "Return of the Archons") Prior to 2168 -- The Daedalus-class ship U.S.S. Essex NCC-173, under the command of Captain Bryce Shumar and First Officer Steven Mullen, is caught in an electromagnetic storm and destroyed above the class M moon of the planet Mab-Bu VI. There are no survivors of a crew of 229. (TNG: "Power Play") Around 2168 -- The starship Horizon visits Sigma Iotia II. A book called Chicago Mobs of the Twenties is left behind which serves as a model for the planet's new society. Briefly after leaving the ship is destroyed, and it takes 100 years for the sublight distress call to reach the Federation. (TOS: "A Piece of the Action") Around
2168 --
The genome colony on Moab IV is established and isolates itself from
the outside
world. 2169 -- A new type of impulse engine is adopted for
Starfleet vessels. The basic design of this sub light propulsion system
remains
essentially unchanged for at least two centuries. (TNG: "Relics") 2169 -- Ancient burial vaults of the First Hebitian civilization on Cardassia are unearthed. Grave robbers remove priceless artifacts, including many made of jevonite, described as unimaginably beautiful. (TNG: "Chain of Command") Around 2170 -- A group of Native Americans, seeking to preserve their cultural identity, leave their North American home to search for a planet on which they can begin a colony. They eventually settle on Dorvan V. (TNG: "Journey's End") Around 2172 -- Bajoran poet Akorem Laan embarks upon an interplanetary voyage aboard a traditional Bajoran solar sailing lightship. He disappears in the wormhole, and his fate will remain a mystery until 2372 when the prophets change the timeline and send him back. ("DS9: Accession")2178 -- Terra Nova is admitted to the Federation. (Star Trek Charts, p. 32) 2183 -- The planet Izar is discovered. The Izar Colony is founded this same year. (Star Trek Star Charts, p. 32) 2196 -- Starfleet retires the last
Daedalus-class starships. (TNG: "Power
Play") 2209 -- Rigel is admitted to the Federation. (Star Trek Star Charts, p. 52) 2217 -- While in
orbit around Eminiar VII, the starship Valiant falls victim to the war
between
Eminiar and Vendikar. 2219 -- Richard Daystrom is born. (TOS: "The Ultimate Computer") 2223 -- Relations between the
Federation and the Klingon Empire deteriorate, giving rise to 70 years
of unremitting hostility. 2230 -- Spock is born on Vulcan. (conjecture) 2233 -- James Tiberius Kirk is born in Iowa on Earth. (TOS: "The Deadly Years") 2236 -- The S.S. Columbia crashes on Talos IV. There is only one survivor, Vina, whose health can't be restored by the Talosians who have never seen a human being before. ("The Cage") 2242 -- The battle of Donatu V is fought near Sherman's Planet, in a region disputed by the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles") Around
2243 --
Richard Daystrom invents duotronic technology, for which he earns the
Nobel Prize
and Zee Magnees Prize. Around 2247 -- Contact with Friendship One is lost. (VOY: "Friendship One") Around 2250 -- James Kirk is a cadet at Starfleet Academy. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before") After 2250 -- Captain Garth of Izar wins
the Battle of Axanar, which helps preserve the Federation. 2253 -- Dr. Leonard McCoy develops an impressive technique for the creation of axonal pathways between grafted neural tissue and basal ganglia. (VOY: "Lifesigns") 2254 -- The
U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Pike, is involved in a
violent conflict on Rigel VII. Three crew members, including the
captain's yeoman, are killed, and seven are injured. ("The Cage") 2254
-- James T. Kirk graduates from Starfleet Command after becoming the
only cadet to beat the Kobayashi Maru simulation. Shortly thereafter,
he is assigned to the Starship Farrugut under Captain Garrovick. ("Star
Trek: The Wrath of Kahn") 2257 -- The Karidian Company of actors begin an intergalactic tour. (TOS: "Conscience of the King") 2261 -- The
survey vessel S.S. Beagle crashes on planet 892-IV after having
sustained meteor
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