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STAR TREK HISTORY - Pre-TNG Era (2300-2363)

2311 -- Thousands of Federation citizens die in the Tomed Incident. Following the incident, the Treaty of Algeron is signed between the Federation and the Romulans, in which the Federation is obliged not to develop cloaking technology. The Romulans subsequently go into isolation. (TNG: "The Neutral Zone", "The Defector", "The Pegasus")

2319 -- The multiplex pattern buffer is invented which eradicates transporter psychosis. (TNG: "Realm of Fear")

2319 -- The father of Mordan IV leader Karnas is assassinated by a rival tribe, leading to a crisis that involves the Federation and is resolved with an illegal weapons deal by Admiral Jameson. (TNG: "Too Short a Season")

2322 -- The Bajoran wormhole undergoes a brief subspace inversion. (DS9: "The Visitor")

Around 2323 -- After he has applied in vain a year before, Jean Luc Picard is admitted to Starfleet Academy. He is the first freshman to win the Academy Marathon. (TNG: "Coming of Age", "The First Duty", "Best of Both Worlds")

2324 -- The Starfleet Academy team wins a parrises squares tournament over the heavily favored team from Minsk.
(TNG: "The First Duty")

2327 -- Jean-Luc Picard graduates from Starfleet Academy. Before taking his first assignment, he is severely hurt in a fight with Nausicaans on Starbase Earhart. His natural heart is replaced with an artificial one. (TNG: "The First Duty", "Tapestry")

2328 -- The Cardassian Union annexes Bajor, beginning a 40-year period of suppression and genocide. (TNG: "Ensign Ro")

2329 -- Duotronic circuitry on Starfleet ships is replaced with isolinear chips. (TNG: "Relics")

2331 -- The Federation establishes an outpost on Boradis III. (TNG: "The Emissary")

2332 -- Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is born in New Orleans on Earth. (DS9: "Image in the Sand")

2333 -- Sarah Sisko, who is possessed by a Bajoran Prophet, leaves her husband Joseph. (DS9: "Image in the Sand")

2333 -- Jean-Luc Picard takes command of the U.S.S. Stargazer when the ship's captain is killed. (TNG: "The Battle")

2335 -- William T. Riker is born in Valdez, Alaska, on Earth. (TNG: "The Icarus Factor")

Around 2335 -- After three failed attempts to create an android with a positronic brain, Dr. Noonien Soong creates Lore, but he soon exhibits a dangerous behavior and has to be deactivated. Some time later he builds another, less emotional android which he names Data. Soong strives to make his creation more human by programming the memories of all the colonists of Omicron Theta into him, but before he can be reactivated, the crystalline entity attacks, killing all the inhabitants.
(TNG: "Datalore", "Inheritance")

2336 -- Deanna Troi is born. During a family picnic, her sister Kestra drowns in Lake El'nar on Betazed.
(TNG: "Conundrum", "Dark Page")

2336 -- Sarah Sisko dies in a hovercraft accident. (DS9: "Image in the Sand")

2336 -- A devestating civil war renders the planet Britannia uninhabitable. Half the planet's population dies in the conflict.

2337 -- Natasha Yar is born on Turkana IV. (TNG: "Legacy")

2337 -- William Riker's mother dies, and the boy is raised by his father. (TNG: "The Icarus Factor")

2337 -- A spacecraft reports an encounter with an unknown lifeform in the Denorios Belt in the Bajor system. (DS9: "Emissary")

Around 2337 -- The government of Turkana IV collapses, leaving the planet ruled by terrorist factions fighting each other.
(TNG: "Legacy")

2338 -- Data is discovered by the USS Tripoli on Omicron Theta. (TNG: "Datalore")

2340 -- Worf, Son of Mogh, is born. (TNG: "The Bonding")

Around 2340 -- Medical researcher Nathaniel Teros conducts groundbreaking work with neuromuscular adaptation for low gravity species. (DS9: "Melora")

2341 -- Jadzia is born on Trill. (DS9: "Emissary")

2341 -- Data enters Starfleet Academy. (TNG: "Conundrum")

2341 -- Julian Subatoi Bashir is born. (DS9: "Emissary")

2343 -- Kira Nerys is born in the Dahkur Province of Bajor. (DS9: "The Maquis", "Second Skin")

2344 -- The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-C is destroyed by Romulan forces attacking the Klingon outpost on Narendra III. However, although they ultimately fail, the honor of the Enterprise crew impresses the Klingons, and leads to strengthened ties between the galactic powers. The survivors of the attack are captured by the Romulans. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")

2346 -- While the Mogh family (except for Kurn) visits Khitomer to find evidence for a treacherous plot by the Duras family, the Romulans attack the outpost. Four thousand Klingons are killed, including the whole Mogh family, with the exception of young Worf. The USS Intrepid, following a distress call, arrives too late, but Worf is rescued by Starfleet engineer Sergey Rozhenko who adopts the orphan. The Romulans transfer nearly a hundred Klingon prisoners to a secret camp in Carraya System.
(TNG: "Sins of the Father", "Birthright")

2347 -- Julian Bashir undergoes an illegal genetic alteration to improve his mental and physical abilities.
(DS9: "Dr. Bashir, I Presume?")

2348 Around a hundred Federation citizens, including Capt. Maxwell's family, are killed in a Cardassian attack on their colony. USS Rutledge crew member, Boone, is taken prisoner, but later killed and replaced with a surgically altered Cardassian spy.
(TNG: "The Wounded", DS9: "Tribunal")

2348 -- Annika Hansen, daughter of Magnus and Erin Hansen, is born in the Tendara Colony. (VOY: "The Gift")

Around 2349 -- Dr. Paul Manheim's theories begin to gain acceptance in the Federation scientific community.
(TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris")

Around 2349 -- Curzon Dax and Benjamin Sisko meet for the first time. (DS9: "Dax")

2350 -- Miles O'Brien considers attending a musical academy, but then decides to enter Starfleet instead. (DS9: "Shadowplay")

2350 -- Benjamin Sisko enters Starfleet Academy. (DS9: "Emissary")

2350 -- A group of Native American humans settles on Dorvan V, near the Cardassian border. (TNG: "Journey's End")

2351 -- Amanda Rogers is born to two renegade members of the Q continuum on Earth. (TNG: "True Q")

2351 -- The Romulan science vessel Talvath, investigating a microscopic wormhole, makes contact with the USS Voyager, 20 years in the future, and in the Delta Quadrant. Commander Telek R'Mor receives a computer chip containing messages intended to be delivered to the families of the Voyager crew 20 years later. (VOY: "Eye of the Needle")

2351 -- Benjamin Sisko is captain of the Starfleet Academy wrestling team. (DS9: "Apocalypse Rising")

Around 2352 -- A new era of peace begins between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets.
(DS9: "Way of the Warrior")

2352 -- Scientists at the Darwin research station on Gagarin IV conduct an ambitious genetic experiment to give their children powerful immune systems. (TNG: "Unnatural Selection")

2353 -- Tora Ziyal is born. (DS9: "Indiscretion")

2353 -- Geordi La Forge enters Starfleet Academy. (TNG: "Cause and Effect")

2353 -- The message that the reactivated Borg drones on Earth sent from 2153 is finally received in the Delta Quadrant.
(ENT: "Regeneration")

2354 -- The Hansens leave for their research mission on the starship Raven. (VOY: "The Raven", "Dark Frontier")

2354 -- After graduating from Starfleet Academy, Sisko meets his future wife, Jennifer, at Gilgo Beach.
(DS9: "Emissary")

2355 -- The USS Stargazer is nearly destroyed in an encounter with a yet unknown Ferengi vessel. The battle can be won through the "Picard Maneuver", but Picard and his crew have to abandon the ship. (TNG: "The Battle")

2355 -- Kira Nerys joins the Shakaar resistance group on Bajor. (DS9: "The Circle", "Shakaar")

2356 -- After following the Borg for nearly three years, the Hansens are assimilated. Their ship is partially assimilated but later abandoned. (VOY: "Scorpion", "The Raven", "Once Upon a Time", "Dark Frontier")

2357 -- Geordi La Forge graduates from Starfleet Academy. (TNG: "Conundrum")

2357 -- The Talarians attack the Federation colony on Galen IV, killing most of the population except for young Jeremiah Rossa. (TNG: "Suddenly Human")

2357 -- The Shakaar resistance group liberates the notorious Gallitep labor camp, the site of numerous atrocities committed against Bajorans imprisoned there. The camp commandant is Gul Darhe'el. (DS9: "Duet")

2358 -- A mutiny takes place onboard the USS Pegasus when Captain Pressman tests an illegal phase cloaking device. Pressman and a few loyal officers, among them Lt. William Riker, are forced to leave the ship. Shortly thereafter, the Pegasus drifts into an asteroid where the cloak fails and materializes inside solid rock. (TNG: "The Pegasus")

2358 -- The deadly Fostossa virus sweeps across Bajor causing a devastating epidemic. At least 8,000 are recorded dead planet-wide. The infamous Cardassian Doctor Crell Moset conducts research on Bajorans during this time.

2359 -- The civil war on Mordan IV ends. (TNG: "Too Short a Season")

2360 -- The Federation starship Tombaugh is assimilated by the Borg. (VOY: "Infinite Regress")

2360 -- A pair of Tellerite and Bolian geologic researchers examining an area of land near the American city of Beloit on Earth, come across a previously undiscovered section of underground caverns. There they find a twenty foot cube of "frozen time". They inadvertantly reactivate and alien device, and time "returns to normal". ... They also find a 14 year-old boy named Steve Baker, who has been"frozen" unaware for 358 years. His frieghtened scream causes the two timid researches to turn tail and run.

2361 -- Worf graduates from Starfleet Academy. He is the first Klingon to do so. (TNG: "Conundrum")

2361 -- Lt. William Riker, previously assigned to a Starfleet facility on Betazed, accepts a posting to the starship Potemkin. He breaks up with Deanna Troi. (TNG: "Second Chances")

2361 -- During a rescue mission on Nervala IV, Lt. Riker's patterns are doubled in a transporter accident. It is not known until eight years later that a second Riker materializes on the planet's surface. (TNG: "Second Chances")

2362 -- While serving on the USS Victory under Captain Zimbata, Geordi La Forge is in an away team to examine the disappearance of the outpost personnel on Tarchannen III. (TNG: "Identity Crisis")

Prior to 2363 -- Prof. Gegen first publishes his Distant Origin Theory. (VOY: "Distant Origin")