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Bradley Washburn HISTORY OF THE FUTURE Page 2 of 2 FOREWARD Relevant Notes WARNING: THIS FILE IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR PRINTER'S INK SUPPLY!!! [*Story(Time Before:Time Transpired:Time After)] KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS AS--The Amazing Stories AST--Animated Star Trek B5--Babylon 5 BT--The Best of Trek DS9--Deep Space Nine EL--Enterprise Logs ENT--Enterprise LD--The Lives of Dax NE--New Earth NF--New Frontier RPG--Role-Playing Games S.C.E.--Starfleet Corps of Engineers SA--Starfleet Academy SNW--Strange New Worlds sQ--seaQuest ST--Star Trek TNG--The Next Generation TNV--The New Voyages V--Voyager WLB—Gateways: What Lay Beyond Blue italics - Completely canonical. Animated and live-action movies, episodes, and their novelizations. Green italics - Officially canonical. Novels, comics, and graphic novels. Red italics – Marginally canonical. Role-playing material, source books, internet sources. For more notes, see the AFTERWORD K. Bradley Washburn HISTORY OF THE FUTURE Page 3 of 3 TIMELINE circa 13.5 billion years ago * The Big Bang. Creation of the Universe. BC ? * The Great Barrier, an energy disk around a planet in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, is constructed by an unknown alien race to imprison a non-corporeal being. [ST V:"The Final Frontier".] circa 10 billion years ago * The Galaxy is formed. 9 billion years ago * SNWII:”Reciprocity” * The Nagha, an immense super computer, is built by an unknown alien race. Millions of years later, it will evolve into thinking intelligence, enslave its creators, and exterminate them. [ST:The New Voyages 2:"The Sleeping God".] 6 billion years ago * The Guardian of Forever is built on the Forever World by an unknown alien race. [ST:"Federation". The Guardian is 6 billion years old.] 5 billion years ago * The Sharu begin to evolve in the Rafa system. They advance so far that they are later thought of as superhumanoids. [Conjecture. SW:”LC and the Mindharp of Sharu”. Their history covers uncounted 1000s of centuries.] 3.7 billion years ago * The Vedala evolve. [Conjecture. In ST:Log 5, Spock says they are the oldest space- traversing race known. This would place their evolution before the Shadows and the Vorlons.] 3.5 billion years ago * The Shadows evolve. [Babylon 5.] * The Preservers create an object which will be used by Adrik Thorsen to take over the Enterprise-D in 2366. [ST:"Federation". Data says the object is, at minimum, 3.5 billion years old.] 3 billion years ago * The continental shelf is above sea level. Over the eons, an extensive series of caves erodes into the limestone bedrock, causing a network of dangerous caverns. [Conjecture. sQ:"Bad Water". Billions of years ago.] * The Marathan system becomes stable and remains that way for at least three billion years. [ST:SA:"Crisis on Vulcan". The system has remained stable for over 3 billion years according to Spock.] * Ay-nab, the 'god' of Lyra, instructs its people to create a Dyson sphere world. [ST:"The Starless World". Curt Danhauser puts this at 2-4 billion years ago, so I have adopted James Dixon's date.] * An alien race in the Delta Quadrant builds intelligent machines to serve them. The machines revolt and kill their masters. Calling themselves the Collective, they begin to travel their portion of space destroying everything they come in contact with. [Conjecture. ST:"Progress of Assimilation". They were created millennia ago. They have existed for thousands of years.] * The Borg begin their rise to power in the Delta Quadrant. Feeling they are the last, best hope for the galaxy, an unknown alien race begins a quest to destroy the Borg. They build a series of machines that eat planets for fuel, but the prototype is the only one launched before they are destroyed. [Conjecture. ST:TNG:"Vendetta". Centuries before Deanna Troi's birth. An uncertain amount of time ago. 3 billion years ago from Dixon.] 1 billion years ago K. Bradley Washburn HISTORY OF THE FUTURE Page 4 of 4 * The Kukulkan is the only survivor of his race. [Conjecture. ST:Log 6. His race was destroyed before humans pulled themselves from the mud.] * Man leaves the ocean and begins to evolve lungs. [sQ:"The Regulator". A billion years ago.] 500 million years ago * During the last era of crater formation on the moon, debris from the asteroid belt batters the inner planets of the Sol system. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". A half billion years ago.] * Evolution begins in the seas of Europa. ["2061: Odyssey Three". A half billion years ago.] * Whales evolve on Earth. [Conjecture. ST:"Probe". They have been there for millennia.] 300 million years ago * There are reports of starships disappearing in the Delta Triangle region. [Conjecture. ST:Log4. There are reports from ancient times.] * An alien vessel is pulled of course by a malevolent magnetic organism on a dead star. It will remain in orbit around the dead star for three hundred million years. [ST:Log1. Spock says the ship has been orbiting the star for 300 million terran years.] 65 million years ago * An asteroid impact on Earth wipes out the dinosaurs. Mankind miraculously survives. [ST:"Probe". 65 million years ago. That mankind was around at this time is conjecture based on the evidence in sQ:"The Regulator".] 50 million years ago * Dolphins walk on land for a time then return to the sea. [sQ:"The Regulator". 50 million years ago.] 14 million years ago * The Earth undergoes a terrible drought that lasts for ten million years. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". 10 million years before the man-apes are visited by the monolith.] 10 million years ago * The planet Faramond ceases to have volcanic activity. [ST:"Best Destiny". April says it hasn©t had volcanic activity for 10 million years.] * The first Kazh man evolves on the planet Kazh. [Conjecture. BT#1:"The Klingons: Their History and Empire". Life has been the same there for millions of years.] * Fearing a race that preys on advanced civilizations, the ancient Sharu disappear, leaving behind the Toka, a sub-intelligent humanoid race. They also leave behind the Mindharp, a giant computer system that will let them know when it is safe to return. [Conjecture. SW:ºLC and the Mindharp of Sharuº. Millions of years in the past.] 4 million years ago * The Firstborn leave their planet on a voyage of discovery. ["3001: The Final Odyssey". A thousand years before they reach Earth.] * The man-ape Moon Watcher is born. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". 25 years before the man- apes are visited by the monolith.] * The Firstborn, an unknown alien race, send a monolith to Earth to test the different creatures and help them evolve. The man-apes who show great promise are taught a great many things, including the use of clubs and fire. The Galacticans refer to the Firstborn as the Mother Race. [*"2001: A Space Odyssey". The Dawn of Time. "2010: Odyssey Two", "2061: Odyssey Three". 4 million years ago. BG Berkley Timeline simply says this was in the beginning, but that it occurred on Kobol. Perhaps the Galacticans simply believe it happened on Kobol.] 3.9 million years ago * The first wave of the Ice Ages begins on Earth. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". A hundred thousand years after the man-apes are visited by the monolith.] K. Bradley Washburn HISTORY OF THE FUTURE Page 5 of 5 3.7 million years ago * The second wave of the Ice Ages begins on Earth. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". 200 thousand years after the last wave.] 3.5 million years ago * The third wave of the Ice Ages begins on Earth. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". 200 thousand years after the last wave.] 3.3 million years ago * The fourth and last wave of the Ice Ages begins on Earth. During the Ice Ages, the man-apes become extinct, but they leave behind descendents: the first true men. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". 200 thousand years after the last wave.] 3 million years ago * The Watcher, another monolith, is buried on Earth©s moon to alert the Firstborn when it is uncovered. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". 3 million years ago.] * The Andorians evolve on the planet Andor. [Conjecture. ST:"My Brother©s Keeper: Enterprise". They have evolved over millions of years.] 2.9 million years ago * Speech evolves in humans. ["2001: A Space Odyssey". A million years after the Ice Ages begin.] 2.5 million years ago * The rings of Saturn are created. [Conjecture. "2001: A Space Odyssey". 2 or 3 million years ago.] 2 million years ago * The Winnowing. An asteroid hit the home planet of the Probe, causing the extinction of the Erisians living on the planet. The Erisian colonists on the other planets in the system escape in ships to other planets throughout the galaxy. The creators of the Probe survive the asteroid and live in peace for several millennia. [ST:"Probe". The civilization has been extinct for 2 million years.] 1 million years ago * Mankind invents the drum to recapture the drumming rhythms given off by the monolith.