2000 The Y2K bug fears prove to be groundless. Shannon O‟Donnell convinces Henry Janeway to close his bookstore so that construction of the Millennium Gate can move forward. LeVar Raymond was born. The International Space Station is inaugurated this year. 2001 January 1st: Groundbreaking for the Millennium Gate. September 11th: A massive terrorist attack is launched against the United States of America, destroying the World Trade Center and seriously damaging the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Thousands of people die in the attacks, one of whom is a firefighter whose firefighter‟s axe will become a treasured family heirloom, eventually coming into the possession of Domenica Corsi. Shaun Christopher was prevented from boarding one of the planes which crashed into the World Trade Center by Gary Seven. As a result, he survived to command the first manned mission to Saturn aboard USS Lewis & Clark in 2020, a pivotal event in the history of human space travel. 2002 Nomad, Humanity‟s first true interstellar probe, designed by Jackson Roykirk, is launched by NASA. In 2153, the only map of early 21st century Detroit in the database of the NX-01 Enterprise will come from this year. 2003 On January 29th, US President George W. Bush gives his State of the Union Address. He speaks about his plans to remove Iraq‟s leader Saddam Hussein from power, introducing hydrogen cars, abortion and fighting AIDS in Africa. A contemporary news article about this event by Jake Tapper appeared in the Daniels‟ 31st century database. Lieutenant McMillan was scheduled in 1999 to be the co-pilot on a joint mission between NASA and the Europeans for a four month tour on the International Space Station that began in 2003. 2004 Loomis, a worker at a blood donor clinic in Detroit, abducts people for a group of Xindi-Reptilians who have travelled from the 22nd century to secretly develop a bioweapon to wipe out Humanity. Captain Jonathan Archer and T‟Pol, also from the 22nd century, manage to stop the Xindi before the weapon is completed. Loomis is arrested by local law enforcement. A Thalassa colony is destroyed by the combined forces of earthquakes and the eruptions of volcanoes. 2005 Marina Raymond was born in London. 2007 Jonathan Raymond was born. 1 2008 December 24th: Roberta Lincoln and her family visit the Smithsonian. En route she stops at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to mourn her long dead former lover Curtis A. Wellborn, and meet with her old friend and colleague, Isis. 2009 Denise Raymond was born. 2011 Wil Raymond was born. 2012 On Earth, after eleven years of construction, the Millennium Gate is finally completed atop the former location of Portage Creek, Indiana. Covered in highly-reflective solar panels, the kilometer-high structure was built as a self-contained biosphere with its own ecosystem. It pioneered many new technologies and scientific principles which lead it to serve as a model for the first colony on Mars. Cheryl Raymond and Brent Raymond were born. Rory Christopher is born to Shaun Christopher and his then-wife, Debbie Lauderdale. 29th February: Davy Jones dies. 5th June: Ray Bradbury dies. 23rd July: Sally Ride dies. 25th August: Neil Armstrong dies. 2013 According to one account, Zefram Cochrane was born this year. 2015 On Earth, the London Kings baseball team has a good year, bolstered by the performance of rookie Buck Bokai. 2016 Donald Raymond dies on Earth. 2018 Advancements in sublight propulsion technology make sleeper ships obsolete. The Dax symbiont is born on the planet Trill. 2019 Buck Bokai begins his first year in the Planetary Baseball league with the Crenshaw Monarchs. 2020 Buck Bokai is the key figure traded to the Gotham City Bats in a pivotal twelve player trade with the Crenshaw Monarchs. He hits 34 home runs that year for Gotham City. 2 Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher commands the first manned mission to Saturn on the UNSS Lewis and Clark. 2021 Buck Bokai plays his last season for the Gotham City Bats hitting nineteen home runs. 2022 Buck Bokai plays a season for a Tanis baseball team and hits thirteen home runs. Henry Garcia moves to San Francisco to work in a brewery. 2023 Buck Bokai plays his first season of baseball for the Seibu team. He hits an impressive twenty-one home runs this season. 2024 The Earth nation of Ireland is unified after over a century of violence. The reunification is considered to be largely the result of the use of terrorism as a political instrument. Unrest among students across Europe causes many to avoid France as a tourist destination. The “Neo-Trotsyists” have recently unseated the “Gaullists” from power, but this as had no noticeable effect on curbing the civil unrest. A contemporary in the United States remarked that “Europe is falling apart”. Buck Bokai plays his second season of baseball with Seibu. During this year, he is considered the first Solar system-wide batting champion. August 30th – September 3rd: A transporter accident sends Starfleet officers Benjamin Sisko, Julian Bashir and Jadzia Dax to the San Francisco of this year. Sisko and Bashir are taken to the city‟s Sanctuary District A, where Gabriel Bell is accidentally killed because of their presence. Sisko saves history by taking Bell‟s role in the later-named eponymous Bell Riots, resulting in his photo being implemented as Bell‟s image in all future Starfleet records. 2025 Buck Bokai once again begins playing with the London Kings. He is also again awarded the title of Solar System-wide batting champion. He misses breaking Joe DiMaggio‟s consecutive game hitting streak by two games. 2026 World War III begins over the issue of genetic engineering and Human genome enhancement. Among the major players of the war is Colonel Phillip Green, whose actions led to some 37 million deaths. The Planetary Baseball League publishes a series of baseball cards, “Greatest Heroes of the Planetary Baseball League”. Buck Bokai, a shortstop for the London Kings, breaks Joe DiMaggio‟s baseball record for most hits in consecutive games in a season. 2030 A rating of “G” on the industrial scale corresponds with an industrial level equal to that of Earth‟s this year. 3 According to a historical library computer file seen in ENT: “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II”, Zefram Cochrane was born on Earth this year. However, according to TOS: “Metamorphosis”, Cochrane was 87 years old when he arrived to the Companion‟s homeworld. According to ENT: “Broken Bow”, Cochrane was still on Earth in 2119, suggesting he was actually born later in the 2030s. According to Star Trek: Star Charts, on page 38, Ares I launches from Earth. This mission successfully lands humans on Mars. 2031 An international effort over the last few years successfully diverts some asteroid fragments from striking the Earth. The fragments are eventually diverted to Earth‟s L- 5 point and hollowed out to create six O‟Neill-style space habitats. The Ares III mission successfully places Humans on the surface of Mars. 2032 A manned Earth mission to Mars, the Ares IV, takes place under the command of Lieutenant John Kelly. However, the orbital module of the mission, along with Lt. Kelly, vanishes in a graviton ellipse so the two remaining astronauts on the Martian surface have to be rescued. Nevertheless, Ares IV starts a crucial step in the continued Human exploration of the planets. Ares V rescues the Ares IV mission specialists, Rose Kumagawa and Andrei Novakovich, from Mars. The New York Yankees win the World Series in six games. Alleged birth of Zefram Cochrane. 2033 July 4th: The American flag is updated to have 52 stars. 2035 The Tellarite Space Elevator‟s construction is completed. 2036 Having replaced the United Nations by this year, the New United Nations rules that citizens may not be held responsible for crimes committed by their race or forebears. 2037 July 23rd: The Earth spaceship ESS Charybdis, commanded by Colonel Stephen G. Richey, is launched as the third attempt to explore beyond the Sol system. The Enterprise NX-01 from an alternate timeline emerges from a subspace corridor from the year 2154. So far back in time, the ship can do nothing but wait in the Delphic Expanse for a chance to find and destroy the first Xindi superweapon. The ship becomes a generational ship, trading for provisions and taking on alien crew to survive. By the time this NX-01 met up with the present day Enterprise, T‟Pol was the only remaining original crew member still living. 2038 The colony ship Stephen Hawking, under the command of Leander Cortés, leaves Earth for a previously uncharted star system. 4 2039 The Lunar Colonies are founded on the Moon. 2040 On Earth, television was said to not have lasted long beyond this year. 2042 On Earth, the final game of the World Series baseball championship is attended by only 300 spectators. It is won by the London Kings and their baseman, Buck Bokai. 2044 The Earth spaceship reaches the Theta 116 system. An unknown alien species creates an artificial environment based on the book The Hotel Royale for Colonel Stephen G. Richey, who piloted the starship, after accidentally destroying the Charybdis in the orbit of the planet Theta 116 VIII. 2047 The Hermosa Earthquake strikes the western coastline of North America, causing parts of the city of Los Angeles to sink under 200 meters of water. According to Buck Bokai who was created by Jake Sisko‟s imagination, he could have played fine until this year if people had not lost interest in baseball. 2048 Miles O‟Brien and Kira Nerys briefly appear in San Francisco while attempting to locate the timeframe that Benjamin Sisko, Jadzia Dax and Julian Bashir materialized in.