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The STAR TREK Annotated Timeline by Win Scott Eckert From Official Starfleet Archives, Memory Alpha Substation, Aldrin City, Luna, Sol System, UFP 12 September 2403 The STAR TREK Annotated Timeline by Win Scott Eckert (c] 2001-2003 All rights reserved. The text and design of The STAR TREK Annotated Timeline is © 2001-2003 by the author, Win Scott Eckert, except as otherwise specified. No copying or reproduction of this work or any portions thereof in any form whatsoever is permitted without prior written permission and consent of the author. Star Trek™®, Star Trek: The Next Generation™®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine™®, Star Trek: Voyager™®, and Enterprise™® are registered trademarks of Paramount Pictures. ii The STAR TREK Annotated Timeline by Win Scott Eckert (c] 2001-2003 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. IV KEY #1: MEDIA SOURCE/CODES ...................................................................................................VII KEY #2: ALPHABETICAL CODES/MEDIA SOURCE .............................................................................. X OVERVIEW OF THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE...................................................................................XII STAR TREK TIMELINE..................................................................................................................1 Pre-20th Century ......................................................................................................................1 The 20th Century......................................................................................................................1 The 21st Century......................................................................................................................5 The 22nd Century .....................................................................................................................7 The 23rd Century....................................................................................................................13 The 24th Century....................................................................................................................56 The 25th Century..................................................................................................................126 The 26th Century..................................................................................................................126 The 27th Century..................................................................................................................126 The 29th Century..................................................................................................................126 The 31st Century.................................................................................................................127 The 44th Century..................................................................................................................127 The 123rd Century................................................................................................................127 The 523rd Century................................................................................................................127 APPENDIX #1: THE ALTERNATE MIRROR UNIVERSES ...................................................................128 APPENDIX# 2: ALPHABETICAL TITLES/CODES ..............................................................................134 iii The STAR TREK Annotated Timeline by Win Scott Eckert (c] 2001-2003 Introduction This Timeline began in the late 1970s as an effort to place the original Star Trek novels published by Bantam Books, and the Star Trek Log books by Alan Dean Foster, into a logical chronology with the televised episodes of the original series. Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance was heavily used as a reference in back in those days, in which this Timeline was a hand-written work. Throughout the years, I have continued to follow all forms of Star Trek literature, in addition to the various television series and films. When actual calendar dates were finally used in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Neutral Zone, I was surprised to find that the dates in my own Timeline actually worked. That episode takes place in the year 2364. Moving backward somewhat less than a year, the premiere episode Encounter at Farpoint can be placed in late 2363. In that episode, Admiral McCoy is said to be 137 years old. Thus, McCoy was born in about 2226. If McCoy were in his 40s at the time of the original series, then the original series would take place in the mid-to-late 2260s. From this single point, the remainder of the dates in this Timeline are derived, although, since then, many other calendar dates have been provided in the various series and stories. Since the Star Trek Chronology by Michael and Denise Okuda published by Pocket Books follows this same logic, this Timeline can be viewed as a supplement to theirs. All attempts have been made to follow that work, while at the same time including material that was excluded from that work. However, in a work of this scope, there are bound to be some differences in interpretation. See below for a few ways in which this Timeline may differ from the Okuda Chronology. This Timeline may be seen as a comprehensive guide to all Star Trek fiction that has been authorized and licensed by Paramount, including, but not limited to, novels, comics and short stories. There are a few exceptions: • The short story ‘‘Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited,’’ published in Star Trek: The New Voyages (volume 1). ‘‘Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited,’’ wherein Kirk, Spock and McCoy trade places with Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley, is more fanciful pastiche than true Star Trek fiction, and thus is not included in this Timeline. • "The Man Who Sold the Sky," from Strange New Worlds (volume 1) features Star Trek characters in a deathbed tribute to Gene Roddenberry, and is also excluded. • “JubHa’” (Strange New Worlds, volume 3) is excluded because I don’t read Klingon. • The Captain Proton stories (“Captain Proton and the Orb of Bajor,” Strange New Worlds volume 4; “The Adventures of Captain Proton, Chapter 1: The Space Vortex of Doom,” Star Trek: The Amazing Stories; and Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth) are excluded as not in Star Trek continuity. • Fan fiction that has been published or otherwise disseminated by non-licensees, i.e. fiction published in ‘‘fanzines,’’ is not included in this Timeline. Events are placed in this chronology using the following information: production order and season of televised episodes; references to past events and the number of years since said past events occurred; time periods described; style of uniform and equipment in use; age, rank and position of characters; and specific calendar dates given. Stardates are generally a secondary source and need not be determinative. iv The STAR TREK Annotated Timeline by Win Scott Eckert (c] 2001-2003 Information taken from televised episodes and movies takes precedence over contradictory information in novels, short stories, comics, etc., although every effort is made to reconcile the two through hypotheses and suppositions. This rule is broken in two places: (1) In the “Log’’ written adaptations of the animated Star Trek episodes: the stardates given in the episodes would intersperse the episodes throughout the episodes of the original three-year series; however, the “Log” books are written in such a way that each episode immediately follows the last. The “Log” books are highly regarded and I have chosen to follow their interpretation. Therefore I have placed all the animated episodes after the episodes comprising the three seasons of the original Star Trek series. (2) Many times in the early Star Trek novels, there are references to past events of the television series which have the effect of rearranging the order of the original series episodes as given in the Okuda Chronology. I have chosen to follow the novels in these instances, as I feel that the effect of rearranging the order of some of the original series episodes is relatively harmless. Stardates for Classic Star Trek episodes are generally ignored, as they do not assist in determining the order of events during this period, and more often than not lead to contradictions with documented sequences of occurrences. Example 1: The animated episode THE MAGICKS OF MEGAS-TU has a stardate of 1254.4, while the second pilot, WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE, is stardated 1312.4. However, WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE (older uniforms and equipment) obviously takes place before THE MAGICKS OF MEGAS-TU (updated uniforms and equipment). Example 2: The stardate for PATTERNS OF FORCE (2534.0) would place it at the beginning of the first season. However, Ensign Chekov is in this episode, and he did not join the bridge crew until approximately the end of the first season or the beginning of the second season. Therefore, the stardate given is not useful in placing the episode. Stardates for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager are more consistent (except for the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where the stardates are very inconsistent and must be ignored); they are supplied in instances where they are useful in placing novels and comics, and where they help to provide a chronology of alternating episodes of two or more concurrent series. In instances

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