11.1 Timeline of Events — Major Events 2251–2275

MAJOR EVENTS 2251-2275

2251 • Now that the Four Years War is over, Star Fleet begins to downsize again. Large quantities of older starships will be decommissioned in the next two decades, with the Baton Rouge generation being the last to go. For every two older ships that are decommissioned, though, one new Class I starship replaces them. • Phaser and photon torpedo backfits begin for all starships that will remain in service. These will be performed on a ship-to-ship basis given yard space and duty schedule. This backfit will take almost a decade to complete. • Plans are made to remove the bowling alleys from older Class I starships so fitted and replace them with extended shuttlecraft facilities. Star Fleet needs the extra room for a wide range of new types of shuttlecraft that will be entering service in the near future. This changeover will take place on a ship-toship basis over the next two decades. • TacFleet is established as a rapid response force on the Klingon border in the event of future conflict. • The Allen's Planet Massacre is one of the most unusual Kzinti "incidents" in Federation history in that Kzinti deal justice to fellow Kzinti for the needless slaughter of some 3,000 Federation colonists. The only survivor, an infant named William S. Gerard, is taken in by the Kzinti official in charge of the border ("the Marquis") and raised as one of his own. Gerard's parents and other relatives were among those slain in the massacre. Gerard will grow to young adulthood as the only human ever reared by a Kzinti foster parent. • Half of the crew of the heavy cruiser Farragut is killed on the planet Tycho IV by a vampire cloud creature. Among the survivors is a young lieutenant named James T. Kirk, who on his first deep space posting. 252 2 • Star Fleet officially adopts the PB-47 “Titiac” circumferential warp engine for its use. It will be installed on all new build starships and backfitted onto existing compatible vessels as duty schedules and yard space permit. • Dr. Richard Daystrom builds his first working prototype multitronic computer. It will be another ten years and four iterations later before the final design, the M-5 Multitronic Unit, is ready for testing and evaluation. The M-5 will eventually fail during Star Fleet acceptance tests in 2262. Portions of it will form the basis of the Duotronic Mark III currently in use by Star Fleet.

2253 • 27 Surya class frigates are placed in the Reserve Force as part of Star Fleet's post-war reduction-inforce. They will remain there until 2264. • Captain Christopher Pike of the starship Enterprise files an official report over the current status of Orion's slave trade. The information it contains is so shocking and outrageous that the Federation Council will eventually endorse a boycott of Orion and its colonies unless it renounces the slave trade. Orion will appear to concede; however, the underground market in "green animal women slaves" will remain strong for decades to come. • The Lockheed T-4 "Work Bee" multipurpose utility vehicle enters service. • Hikaru Sulu is accepted into the Star Fleet Academy Command School. • Completion of a major naval base at Mastocal marks the return of the Klingons in force to its shared border with the Federation. A new war between the two seems inevitable in the not-too-distant future.

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2254 • The Bode class scouts are retired from service. The Detroyat class heavy destroyers are reassigned as • long-range scouts as part of Star Fleet's overall reduction-in-force. The real objective of this move is to keep these v aluable starships on active duty status ies with the Klingon in the event of renewed hostilit Empire. • he first of the old The Excalibur (NCC-1705) is t o be fully upgraded Constitution class heavy cruisers t ns. The rest of the to Bonhomme Richard specificatio eive this upgrade Constitution class starships will rec over the next six years as yard space and duty schedule permits. The Enterprise (NCC-1701) is the last of the class to receive this upgrade in late 2260.

2255 All Detroyat class heavy destroyers are reclassified as • heavy scouts and refitted as such. The only exception is the Resolution (NCC-1101). It is stricken from the class to serve as the prototype for the Avenger class heavy frigate. • PB-32 warp engine and phaser upgrades begin on the Ptolemy class transport/tugs. They are among the last “original” Class I starships so upgraded. The additional power from the new warp engines will now allow them to tow two transport containers at a time without difficulty. • All Surya class frigates still on active duty status begin receiving phaser upgrades. • Orion officially renounces its slave trade due to intense Federation diplomatic and political pressure. • The Federation class dreadnought enters service. • The Star's End colony convoy is the largest such to date, with 42 Cochrane class colonial transports ferrying over 100,000 colonists to their new home. This event marks the high point of the service career of the Cochrane class.

2256 • The S.S. Beagle (NCC-F1307) is lost somewhere near the UFC 892 (Magna Roma) system. • Drs. Mornay and Perrin begin working on transwarp theory. • Federation and Klingon forces clash over a wide of border space. This is the first major expanse conflict between the two since the end of the Four Years War. • Lt. Cmdr. James T. Kirk is promoted to commander and named as executive officer of the destroyer Alexander. He is one of the youngest starship executive officers in Starfleet.

2257 • The Avenger class heavy frigate design is evaluated using the newly converted U.S.S. Resolution as a prototype ship. • The Federation destroyer Xerxes is involved in a battle with the Kzinti over a newly discovered stasis box. This is the first incident on record regarding Kzinti interest in lost Slaver technology. The Xerxes is successful in keeping the Kzinti from the stasis box ... this time. • The heavy cruiser Potemkin (NCC-1711) is removed from fleet duty and reassigned to Star Fleet Academy as a training vessel. • The heavy cruiser Defiant (NCC-1717) recovers a damaged 4-man Klingon shuttlecraft in deep space. The event is considered something of an intelligence coup due to the data retrieved from its computer databanks.

2258 • All contact is lost with the Omicron Ceti III colony. • Star Fleet Command adopts a "unique ship, unique insignia" uniform policy. • A new generation of portable phaser technology enters service, beginning with an improved phaser rifle (weapons), phaser bore (mining tool), and phaser torch (cutting/welding tool). These are issued r Fleet vessels at their first immediately to all Sta available port-of-call. The Hopi class research vessel enters service. • • The Altair class merchantman enters service. • The Coronado class through-deck cruiser enters service. This is Star Fleet's first purpose-built shuttlecarrier class since the end of the Four Years War (2246-2250). • Philanthropist Carter Winston is apparently lost in space while on one of his characteristic missions of charity. No spacecraft or body is ever recovered.

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2259 • moted to fleet captain Captain Christopher Pike is pro in charge of heavy cruiser operations. His successor is Commander James T. Kirk, executive officer of the destroyer Alexander and one of Star Fleet's most promising command candidates. • becomes the James T. Kirk captain in youngest starship when he is Star Fleet history the starship given command of to wait just Enterprise. Kirk has ept his new over a month to acc , due to the command, though of the conflicting duty schedules der. Enterprise and Alexan • The Enterprise and Alexander meet for a mid-space rendezvous in order to transfer Kirk aboard for his acquainted new command. Pike helps Kirk become with his new command as the Enterprise travels back to Starbase 13 for the end of Pike's five-year mission. t starship remaining on the The Enterprise is the las Bonhomme Richard refit schedule, which is scheduled to begin at Starbase 13 as soon as it arrives. • The Enterprise has only just arrived at when it Starbase 13 is ordered back out on a special mission to the northern edge of the galaxy. There it will encounter the Galactic Barrier, becoming the first starship known to have survived the encounter. • The Enterprise returns to Starbase 13 for repairs. Its internal systems damage due to its encounter with the Galactic Barrier is found to be so great that it will be sent on ahead to Starbase 12 for a more extensive refurbishing than originally planned. The official start r while of Kirk's five-year mission is delayed by a full yea the Enterprise remains in drydock. • Captain Kirk will honor a tradition among Enterprise commanders by familiarizing himself with his ship over the next year. He does so while the ship is being rebuilt and upgraded to Bonhomme Richard ill have several specifications. He and his new crew w me, either adventures together during this ti sions that the independently or on the few occa k (for testing of Enterprise is allowed out of spacedoc various portions of its new upgrade). 2260-226 5 The Starbase 12 and newly rebuilt Enterprise leaves unde voyage under the rtakes its most famous five-year com The Enterprise will mand of Captain James T. Kirk. surpa llation as the most famous ss its sister ship Conste Class I starship of all time. Both Kirk and his bridge crew will become public celebrities due to the tales of their explo its during this five-year period.

NOTES: Some historians list 2259 as the start date for Captain Kirk’s tenure aboard the Enterprise. This in this is due to his actually receiving command year and the Enterpris e’s special mission to the galactic rim.

list Kirk as having been 31 Some historians also e received command of the years old at the time h actually reflects the start of Enterprise. This date ission in command of the Kirk’s first five-year m Enterprise, which was delayed by a full year. This r was due to the encounter with the Galactic Barrie and the ship’s subsequent upgrade to Bonhomme Richard specifications.

Kirk’s first five-year mission aboard the Enterprise was actually closer to six years. This was due to yard time for her Bonhomme Richard and later Achernar refits, as well as other times spent in various drydock to repair damage sustained in missions.

2260 • In yet another change of official policy, S tarfleet changes the form of its name from Star Fleet to Starfleet effective this year. • The building of the Epsilon class monitor stations along the border with the Klingon Empire is approved. • A new form of ablative armor is tested on the Coventry class frigate Constant (NCC-1236). This is the first use of ablative armor by Star Fleet since the Romulan War.

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• There is a marked upsurge in Federation-Klingon border incidents beginning this year. Notable incidents include an attack on the transport/tug Cassini (NCC3824) by a Klingon F-5 frigate and an assault on the old light cruiser Texas (NCC-900) by a Klingon D-7 battlecruiser while trying to rescue a stranded landing party. • A Federation-wide survey reveals that the seven Star Fleet Academy campii currently have a student population of 85,397 and a permanent faculty of 38. 14,0 • New designs for Star Fleet dress and duty uniforms, as well as anti-exposure and radiation suits, are approved. The changeover is scheduled to take place within six months (2260) once the necessary replicator patterns have been sufficiently distributed throughout the fleet. • The changeover to the new Star Fleet regular, dress, and special duty uniforms takes place during this year. The old-style uniforms will still remain in limited service for the next year until the changeover is complete. • Star Fleet holds its largest war games exercises to f 359 system. These involved three full date in the Wol fleets in a simulated invasion of Federation space. The exercise convinces many Klingon officials that Star Fleet is arming for war against the Empire. • Orion pirates destroy Deep Space Station K-4. • The light-speed breakaway factor, aka "the slingshot effect" for traveling backwards and forwards in time, is successfully employed for the first time by the 701) while trying to escape starship Enterprise (NCC-1 the gravity well of the dying planet Psi 2000. The Enterprise succeeds in its escape but is thrown three days back in time as a result. This time travel side effect was not anticipated in the original intermix formula for "cold-start" of a starship's warp engines. It will prove to be one of the most important coveries in the history of Federation accidental dis science. • The Alamo class defense stations enter service. • The Derf class fleet tender enters service. tardate 1709 marks the • The Neutral Zone Incident of s have engaged in direct first time that the Romulans Federation since the end of hostile action against the Earth outpost stations are the Romulan War. Four Vas'Hatham class P-1A War destroyed by a Romulan it is tracked down and destroyed Eagle cruiser before by the starship Enterprise. This also marks the first , the appearance of the Romulan cloaking device powerful Romulan plasma torpedo, and the first facet o-face encounter (via viewscreen) between humans and Romulans. The Vulcan ancestry of the Romulans d. This wi is thus confirme ll be known to the Romulans as the Battle of Icarus IV, so named for the comet that the commander of the Romulan ship used unsuccessfully in and effort to distract the Enterprise from its pursuit. • Star Fleet begins rebuilding its destroyed Romulan outpost stations. All of the others will be significantly d in order to withstand assault by Romulan upgrade plasma torpedoes. • The Agronska Mark 30 handheld phaser enters This is a twoservice. part weapon, consisting of a small, handheld portable unit (Type I) and a pistol-type upgrade (Type II) assembly into w hich the smaller unit . Both are issued can fit for increased firepower ssels at their first immediately to all Star Fleet ve available port-of-call. • weapons The Marfak "Sting" series of personal phaser is developed. Types 1 and 2 are somewhat similar to the Agronska Mark 30 Types I and II but have a different color scheme and are more streamlined in he design. When adopted, these will be known as t Type III and Type IV by Starfleet in order to lessen confusion with the Agronska units. Marfak will also develop the Type V, a rifle-based lock-on upgrade for the Type IV. The new Marfak units will not enter service with Starfleet until the late 2260s.

2261 • The automated tanker Skageraak (NCC-G504) is lost in the Delta Triangle. • Starfleet General Order 7, the only one for which violation is punishable b y death, is temporarily suspended so the starship Enterprise can transport Fleet Captain Christopher Pike to Talos IV as its new Federation representative. Captain Pike had been severely handicapped due to recent and severe to delta radiation during a training accident. exposure , the In exchange for his presence among them crippled Talosians help him escape the limits of his body by means of their tremendous mental powers. Pike will eventually be granted ambassadorial status and remain with the Talosians until his death by natural causes. • The Shore Leave Planet (Omicron Delta IV) is discovered. • The Gorn Hegemony is encountered for the first time in the Cestus III Incident. The Federation colony on Cestus III is destroyed by the Gorn, who misunderstood it as an attempt to invade their space.

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The intervention of the Metrons in the affair heads off a potential interstellar war. • The starship Enterprise makes its first and most famous trip into Earth’s past when a near-encounter with a previously unknown “black star” hurtles it back in time to 1969 (Terran Old Calendar). The event, and the actions Captain Kirk and his crew take to return to are eventually ruled “a natural their own time, the sequential train of accidental occurrence in historical events.”

NOTE: This 1969 event is a well-known common point between the Prime One and Prime Two timelines (see Volume 01). It is also the first temporal event ich Federation personnel had in DTI records in wh f altering the to deal with the ramifications o r own future timestream, thus affecting thei re information existence. Midshipmen desiring mo logs of the on this event should consult the rdates 3113.2 starship Enterprise (NCC-1701), sta of to 3114.1, as well as the official DTI summation the event, via the Academy Intranet.

• The Department of Temporal Investigations (DTI) is set up to deal with future events involving interferences with the known timestream. • The DY-100 class spaceship s Botany Bay i recovered after almost two centuries adrift in space. Khan rs are almost Noonien Singh and his followe ld of Ceti Alpha V immediately exiled to the remote wor take over the after their discovery for trying to starship that rescued them from their enforced suspended animation. • The “Four Days War” between the Federation and the Klingon Empire is stopped by the Organians, a powerful race of energy beings, who impose the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty on both sides. Some 22 star systems and almost a hundred starships (on both sides) are involved in the brief but fiercely fought conflict. Starfleet loses 17 starships; however, uch higher. Klingon losses are m • The full power and import of the Time Planet is discovered by a landing party from the starship Enterprise. It will become one of the most carefully guarded secrets in the whole of the Federation, with only a few select personnel allowed on its surface in the decades that follow. • The heavy cruiser Hood is ambushed by a lone Kzinti cruiser whose crew, tired of treaty constraints, is seeking glory in battle. The Hood manages to survive the encounter, thanks largely to the quick thinking of Ensign Shiboline M’ress, a young Caitian communications officer. She will receive a promotion to full lieutenant as a reward for her bravery.

262 2 • Sheridan’s World is the first to be jointly developed by both the Federation and the Klingons under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty. • A new generation of Starfleet fighter (F-type) and attack (A-type) shuttles enters service. These include the F-types 14 and 15, as well as the A-type 10. These replace the older F-type 4 and A-type 6. • The Treaty of S’marba marks the start of a tenuous but ultimately profitable military and trade alliance between the Klingons and Romulans that benefits ent from this both. The most portentous developm treaty is a technology exchange: the Romulans get modern starship and warp engine technology (in the form of older Klingon starships) in exchange for the cloaking device and plasma weaponry. This alliance will D’Kel Brakt (the Briar last until the Battle of Klach Patch) in 2270. • An automated interg alactic s both “berserker” destroy the heavy scout Mitannic vy (NCC-1105) and the hea (NCCcruiser Constellation 1017), the class prototype and one of the most famous Class I starships in Starfleet, before it is successfully stopped by the heavy cruiser Enterprise (NCC-1701).

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• Six Cochrane class transports and their escorts, arfleet personnel and carrying manned by 1,250 St 12,500 colonists to the world of New Demios, vanish without a trace. • First contact with the “mirror universe” takes place at the planet Halka.

NOTE: First documented crossover point between the Prime One and Mirror One timelines.

The date for this event varies by several years from the perspective of the specific Prime or Mirror timeline involved. This space-time phenomena is known as the chroniton variance e passes at different principle, suggesting that tim rates in different periods across the timestreams of the multiverse in order to eventually cancel out major variances among them. It is the multiverse analog of the Blitnovich Limitation Effect.

• Sherman’s Planet is successfully claimed by the Federation after a Klingon plot is exposed to poison grain supplies to its colonists. • This year’s Babel Conference is almost disrupted by the Orions, who fail (both rtly) overtly and cove to keep the dilithiumrich planet of Coridan from joining the Federation. • A war games exercise involving Dr. Richard c computer system Daystrom’s new M-5 Multitroni goes horribly wrong, resulting in the deaths of all hands aboard the heavy cruiser Excalibur (NCC-1705) rs Hood and significant damage to the heavy cruise (NCC-1707) and Lexington (NCC-1703). The computer is successfully deactivated before it can do any more harm. Dr. Daystrom will suffer an almost total mental collapse because of this incident, from him years to recover. which it will take • The heavy cruiser Endeavour (NCC-1716), the scout 601), and the transport/tug Keppler Monoceros (NCC(NCC-3816) are all pulled from active duty status for use as test beds for linear warp technology. They are fitted with early, selfcontained LN-40 linear warp engines for performance evaluations. These three starships are chosen because they are representative of the three dominant types of design that comprise most of the Class I fleet. The LN-40 will never see widespread fleet use because at best it represents only a marginal improvement over the tried and true PB-47 circumferential warp engine. Even so, data gleaned from the LN-40 test program will aid in the development of the LN-52, LN-60/64, and subsequent linear warp engine designs shortl y thereafter. All three starships will be returned to fleet duty within two years. All will retaining their new LN-40s, thus giving the rest of Starfleet a preview of what awaits it in the near future.

2263 • The Baton Rouge class cruisers are officially removed from service effective this year. Many remain on station “unofficially” for the next three years until enough Class I starships enter service to replace them. • The last of the Anton class cruisers are decommissioned. • The Achernar class heavy cruiser enters service. lass I starships fitted These will be the last major C with circumferential warp drive. • s barred from visitors at the The Melkotian system i s. insistence of its inhabitant • reservers is confirmed by the The existence of the P reserver asteroid deflector on discovery of a working P ram III). the planet Amerind (Mi • to deploy photon torpedo The Klingons begin he Federation. technology, presumably stolen from t

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• Starfleet obtains an example of a Romulan cloaking device in the Enterprise Incident. An unexpected bonus is the capture of the Romulan fleet commander, who had attempted to prevent the theft of the device from her new D-7 battlecruiser (a The present from the Klingons). veral commander spends se olding months in a Starfleet h d to facility before being returne oner the Romulans in a pris e reveals no secrets, her exchange. Although sh ion historian Tomak voluntary discussions with Federat of Vulcan concerning the Romulan War will result in the book Why We Fight The Federation. It will be one of three key insights into Romulan history and culture in this era. • The stars Minara and Beta Niobe go nova. • The heavy cruiser Defiant (NCC-1717) is lost in a space-time interphase near Tholian space. It will not be learned until later that the mirror-Tholians were the ones responsible for creating the interphase in the first place.

NOTE: ction 31, this induced interphase According to Se is th only known fixed crossover point across the e Prime One and Two timelines, with the Mirror timelines providing the conduit.

• Memory Alpha is attacked by a group of non-corporeal life forms looking for a host body. Its memory core is onnel and visitors die burned out and all of its pers from massive brain trauma. The threat is eventually negated and the rebuilding of Memory Alpha begins. • The 84-parsec-wide charged interstellar plasma mass known as the Badlands is encountered for the first time in a previously unexplored area near Romulan space. Subsequent explorations in and around the Badlands will eventually lead to first contact with the Cardassian Union in 2276. Achernar upgrades take place for many older Class I • heavy cruisers in service. Most of these are a partial conversion, involving the installation of improved ation room bridge facilities, an early holographic recre (predecessor to the holodeck), uprated weaponry, and a redesigned shuttlecraft bay and below-deck maintenance area. • Enterprise receives new PB-47 warp engines as part rnar upgrade. This was not planned since of her Ache her current warp engines were only four years old at the time of this refit (having been installed in 2260). They are replaced anyway, due to extreme stresses placed upon them when they reached a speed of Warp 14.1 before being shut down, due to fused integrator controls near an abandoned Kalandian outpost. This will be the highest speed ever achieved by a PB-series circumferential warp engine under its own power. • Experimental life-support belts are issued this year to all Starfleet personnel for extra-curricular use in hostile environments. They will last only one year in Starfleet use, eventually withdrawn in favor of cheaper (and proven), old-fashioned EVA suits. • The research ship S.S. Aliquippa (NCC-1438) is lost in the Delta Triangle. • The LN-64 linear warp engine is developed.

2264 • bserved in combat Klingon stasis field generators are o for the first time. • The galactic core is visited by a Federation starship for the first time. • The long-lost Terra Ten space colony is found on an unstable world, its descendants reduced in size due to spiroid epsilon radiation. They are eventually relocated to the Federation colony world of Verdanis. • The secret of the Delta Triangle is revealed when the starship Enterprise is temporarily trapped within. Enterprise is successful in escaping (along with the Klingon battlecruiser Klothos) thanks to a plan drawn up by First Officer Spock. • econd pelagic planet ever Argo becomes only the s discovered within Federation space. • The Kzinti fail in their second effort to secure a Slaver stasis box, this time by attempting to steal one from a Federation warp shuttle lured i nto a trap at Beta

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Lyrae. The intelligent Slaver weapon discovered inside the box eventually self-destructs to avoid capture, killing most of the Kzinti and crippling their ship. The Federation vessel and its crew escape unharmed. • Ambassador Robert April takes his last trip aboard the starship Enterprise. He was its original commander when it first launched on 4 July 2223. • The Phoenix Process of “resurrection” is discovered by Omnedon – and promptly banned throughout all of known space. • The Korezima, a Klingon D-7 battlecruiser that had been abandoned due to an encounter with the Chatalia, is found and recovered intact by w. Its the cruiser Mosco self-destruct system had failed to activate. This is a major intelligence coup for Starfleet and a major embarrassment to the Klingons. The incident will cause the Klingons to accelerate production of the new D-8 K’t’inga class battlecruisers, with the first thought to have entered service later this year. It is the Moscow’s last action prior to its decommissioning. • It is believed that the Kzinti and the Mirak Star League enter into a joint trade agreement around this time. ling The Mirak, with help from the Orions, begin smugg modern starship parts and technology to their Kzinti brethren. This will enable the Kzinti to build their first true space fleet since the end of the Earth-Kzin Wars. • The experimental dreadnought Star Empire (NCCevents of the 2116) is destroyed following the Rittenhouse Scandal. • space stations, known to most The Ournal class cks, enter service. Starfleet personnel as Spacedo • renew their trade and The Klingons and Romulans military agreements. Starfleet comes up with its own improved cloaking • device. It is superior to Klingon and Romulan versions in many respects, with the additional abilities of generating multiple sensor “echoes” with contradictory readings. The power requirements for this new cloaking device are so high that it can only be fitted in capital ships. • The discovery of the Eridam Papers at an abandoned Romulan base provides the Federation’s second key insight into Romulan history and culture in this era. • The Enterprise undergoes its last major in-service overhaul at Starbase 23 prior to the end of its fiveyear mission under Captain Kirk. • A Klingon prototype battleship is encountered in combat for the first time. The design is not much larger than a Federation dreadnought; even so, it is believed to be a predecessor of the rumored Kar’harmer class. Starfleet comes out the victor, although just barely. This incident will later be cited as an example to justify Starfleet’s linear warp upgrade program of the 2270s. • The heavy cruiser Constitution is heavily damaged in an battle in what is Starfleet’s first encounter with Klingon D-8 K’t’inga class battlecruiser. The starship manages to limp back to Starbase 27 for repairs and from returning is laid up for months. This prevents it to the Sol System in time to be the first Class I heavy cruiser to receive a linear warp upgrade.

226 5 • The long-lost L-5 traveling space city Wanderer is found in the vicinity of Polo’s Bolos, a binary pair of black holes. The craft is successfully diverted from imminent destruction. • Starfleet begins receiving intelligence that the Romulans are in the process of developing and deploying a whole new series of warp-capable starship gely to Klingon technology classes, thanks lar exchanges. • gin The Kiaga and Agilis class perimeter action ships be to be cycled in and out of the Starfleet Reserve at this for duty despite rapidly time. They are still needed approaching obsolescence. • Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Nogura orders the inception of the Class I linear refit program. The first Class I starship ol to return to the S System will be the first to undergo a total conversion to linear warp technology. This move is in response to the Klingon deployment of the improved D-8 K’t’inga class battlecruiser. Coincidentally, this upgrade will be taking place at the same time that the early Class I starships are scheduled for their second ESLP refits. This will ensure that they remain in Starfleet service for at least two more decades.

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• The starship Enterprise (NCC-1701) is the first Class I starship to return to Earth following the end of its current five-year mission. Per Fleet Admiral Nogura’s orders, it is berthed in the spacedock at the San Francisco Navy Yards normally reserved for dreadnought construction in preparation for its linear warp conversion. The deconstruction process alone, in which the ship’s individual components are separated and stripped to their trititanium frames, will take ten months. The actual rebuilding and conversion will take another eighteen (Terran) months. • James T. Kirk is promoted to rear admiral and appointed as Starfleet Chief of Operations in honor for his exploits during his historic five-year mission aboard the Enterprise. It is a promotion that his best friends, Spock of Vulcan and Dr. Leonard McCoy, are against and both try unsuccessfully to get him to refuse it for his own good. Both will resign their Starfleet commissions and leave the service after he refuses s his new rank and posting. their advice and accept • The Ranger class scout enters service. • Commander Montgomery Scott, former chief engineer of the Enterprise, is placed in charge of the ship’s linear warp upgrade. He immediately spots a number ings in the ship’s new design and of shortcom vociferously argues against them, finally appealing all the way up the chain of command to Fleet Admiral Nogura himself. Nogura will accept most, but not all, ommendations. This will of Commander Scott’s rec e of the Enterprise once her change the final appearanc al intended configuration refit is complete. The origin r the Tikopai class heavy later forms the basis fo cruiser. • cruisers are authorized for Five additional Class I heavy the same manner as linear warp upgrades, in om their current missions. Enterprise, as they return fr e Enterprise class heavy These will be known as th class in Starfleet’s new cruisers, the first starship gram. linear warp technology pro • A new warp factor scale is proposed due to the expected speed of linear warp starships. This will eventually replace the current linear scale by the turn of the century with an asymptotic table, with Warp 10 (infinity) as its maximum (and unachievable) speed. NOTE: Starfleet’s linear warp program of the 2270s and 2280s is sometimes called the Class Ib Program in certain reference works. This comes from one of Fleet Admiral Nogura’s memos on the long-term development of the linear warp technology program. “Class Ia” were the original Class I starships. “Class Ib” represented the new linear warp generation. “Class Ic” was the generation that was to follow both (Excelsior, et al).

• Tests begin on the new LN-64 linear warp engines intended for use with the linear warp program. • The “Tandem” series shuttlecraft, accessories, and warp booster sleds enter service. • The Pearl class warp-powered mobile spacedock enters service. • sters 28 At this time Starfleet Command admini starbases, 17 deep space stations, and 741 outpost/monitor/auxiliary stations with a total complement of about 800,000.

2266 • Following successful component deconstruction, the rebuilding of the Enterprise with linear warp technology begins. ost The Romulans obtain photon torpedo technology, m • likely from the Klingons. They will make little use of it, though, maintaining their preference for plasma-based weaponry. • The Gagarin class corvette enters service. • Starfleet once again changes uniform styles, this time in reflection of the impending changes coming to the fleet. Improved fabricators will be installed on all Starfleet Class I and Class II starships in the years to come, allowing Starfleet personnel to have their clothing directly materialized on them. These fabricators will be integrated into new sonic showers in crew and personnel quarters in all Starfleet facilities and starships. • Starfleet reverts to a standardized division insignia badge for all uniforms. The design chosen is the arrowhead of the heavy cruiser Enterprise (NCC1701), in honor of the fame and prestige its exploits under Rear Admiral James T. Kirk have brought Starfleet. The old-style, ship-specific emblems will be maintained on an unofficial basis by the Friends of ps Starfleet, the Starfleet Association, and civilian grou that support specific Starfleet vessels

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• The “tribble ship” S.S. Mundy is found adrift and abandoned in the vicinity of Starbase 21. • The heavy cruiser Essex is severely damaged while making a port call to the Rigel system. Explosives are placed at critical points on the outer hull by Orion pirates disguised as dockyard workers and then detonated by remote control. The structural damage to her primary hull, shuttlecraft bay, and warp engine support pylons is so great that she has to be towed to the nearest Starfleet facility for repairs. Essex will Instead, never rejoin the fleet in a frontline capacity. she will be repaired sufficiently for use as a fleet auxiliary training ship, providing relief for the Potemkin as needed. • The Klingons and Romulans engage in a major battle within the Triangle . It region of space e is lat r declared “a g;” misunderstandin however, it is the first indication that all is not going well with their shaky alliance against the Federation. Long range scans of this encounter provide Starfleet mulan fleet in action, its first glimpses of the new Ro plus several Klingon starship classes previously undocumented. • Rear Admiral Kirk enters into a one-year marriage contract with , Vice Admiral Lori Ciana a close friend and confidant since his promotion to the Admiralty. She will be, in a real sense, his surrogate Enterprise during this time. The marriage will not survive the expiration of the contract. d for all Class I • Linear warp upgrades are authorize for their next starships in service as they return I starships that scheduled ESLP refit. Those Class will be removed have already had a recent ESLP refit eir next periodic from service and upgraded during th s. This steppingservice overhaul in between mission up of the linear warp program is in response to data gleaned on the new Klingon and Romulan starship classes observed in action in the Triangle.

2267 • Starfleet Command places an unusual request with the Starship Design Bureau. It asks for two different groups of shuttlecarrier designs, one based on upgraded Class I components and the other comprised of new builds. Two esigns must be specifications are laid down. First, all d able to support current Starfleet shuttlecarrier must be operational procedures. Second, all designs able to support Starfleet Marine ground assault operations. This program marks the inception of the “modern” shuttlecarrier programs of today. • A new interstellar coordinate system goes into effect within Federation space. • Operation Dixie takes place. This intelligence gathering effort into Klingon space yields little data beyond confirming the existence of the Klingon’s B-1 battleship program. All intelligence operatives and starships involved in the operation are lost, with the fate of their crews unknown. Starfleet will officially operation in later years. disavow the • The heavy cruiser Kon go (NCC-1710) is converted into as part of Project Citadel. This a command cruiser will later form the basis for experimental conversion n class command cruisers. The the Citadel and Balso voked by the Klingons near the Bezwell Incident, pro the first test for the converted Treaty Zone, provides ties. Kongo’s new capabili • Project Grey Ghost is initiated by Starfleet Intelligence in order to gain as much information on new Romulan starships, technology, and fleet deployment and capabilities as possible.

• The Vejur Crisis represents the greatest threat to known space in the recent history of all major spacefaring cultures. It is put to an end only by the premature launch of the upgraded starship Enterprise. Rear Admiral James T. Kirk is returned to command of the Enterprise following the disappearance of Captain Willard Decker. Returning with him is most of his old command staff (including both Spock of Vulcan and Dr. Leonard McCoy) and many of his former crewmen, all by their own request. Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Christopher Pike, Kirk will command the rebuilt Enterprise on back-to-ba ck five-year missions. ogy is perfected and • Megaphaser cannon technol use. quickly accepted for Starfleet

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NOTE: Admiral Kirk temporarily demoted Captain Decker to the rank of commander when he assumed e Vejur command of the Enterprise during th Crisis. The rank was posthumously restored by Decker’s sacrifice. Admiral Kirk in honor of

2268 • The Lotus Flower class freighter enters service. • The Gibraltar Accord brings about an understanding of sorts between the Federation and the Romulans. For the first time in Federation history a Romulan ambassador is dispatched to represent his people’s interests within Federation-controlled border space.

• At the same time that the Gibraltar Accord is being formalized, the Romulans sell the Klingons several of their new S-11 “Bird of Prey” patrol ships. The Klingons are so impressed by the capabilities of the “Bird of Prey” that they quickly adapt it for their own use. They will produce both patrol ship and cruise r sized versions of it in the years to come, much to the irritation of the Romulans. The D-11/D-12 “Bird of Prey” will eventually become so associated with the Klingon Empire that most will either forget or be unaware of its Romulan origins. • The Pershing class automated transport enters service. • The command cruiser Balson enters service. • The Enterprise sets an unofficial space speed record when it achieves warp factor 17.863 (old scale) while testing the maximum capabilities of its new engines. • The projected high cost of the linear warp upgrade program across 104 starship classes and 1,907 vessels causes Starfleet Command to begin looking for less expensive alternatives to speed up the process. Two solutions are eventually devised: a straightforward, engines-only upgrade utilizing the self-contained LN-52 warp engine, and a partial conversion built around the LN-60, a close cousin to the LN-64. These two additional upgrade programs will proceed in parallel to the original refit program until all Starfleet vessels are upgraded with linear warp technology.

NOTE: This three-track parallel upgrade process is the reason why not all Class I starships of the linear warp generation have common components. of its Starfleet was under pressure to upgrade all starship classes in order to counter the new shipbuilding programs of the Klingons and Romulans. This was the only way it could finish upgrading its entire fleet in time.

• Representatives of the Federation, the Klingons, and the Romulans agree to jointly develop the Neutral Zone world of Nimbus III “in the interests of galactic peace.” • The Star League design represents the first proposed configuration for upgrading the Federation class dreadnoughts with linear warp technology. It will be rejected at this time in favor of a simplified, less costly, and more militaristic design. It will resurface again near the end of the century and be used for the last three conversions due to Federation Council pressure.

2269 • By this point in time all Starfleet starship classes are in the process of undergoing linear warp upgrades. The speed at which they rejoin the fleet is dependent on which of the three upgrade tracks they have been selected to follow. • Starfleet Intelligence learns of the existence of the Romulan V-11 Stormbird, a rebuilt Klingon D-7 battlecruiser equipped with new engines and plasma weaponry. In theory it is more powerful that a Klingon D-8 K’t’inga, although it will prove to be ile in combat. more frag dents on • In response to the increasing number of inci the Klingon and Romulan borders, Starfleet is granted permission to commence a new perimeter action ship lis program to replace the obsolete Kiaga and Agi classes. These are the first new build starships ’s linear warp program, authorized under Starfleet on will be delayed for years. although actual constructi • promotion to full admiral. Rear Admiral Kirk receives a At the same time, Spock of Vulcan receives a promotion to the rank of captain. He declines an offer of his own command, instead electing to remain with Admiral Kirk as First Officer of the Enterprise.

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• The Rita’s Planet Massacre serves to incite growing hostilities between the Klingons and the Federation. A Klingon occupation force takes over the planet and massacres its entire population, with no intervention by the Organians. • A new series of Starfleet uniforms (the current “redjacket” series) is authorized to replace the unisex uniforms ordered into service by Fleet Admiral Nogura only three years before. The older uniforms had proven to be extremely unpopular with Starfleet personnel due to their drab st communicators colors and unibeing nature. The wri and personal bioscan monitors that were also introduced at that time are likewise withdrawn, replaced by newer “retro” designs. • The Oberth class research ship enters service. • The Antares class freighter enters service.

2270 • The Hippocrates class medical frigate enters service. • The Al Rashid and Moncrief class transport/tugs enter service. • The Huntington class deuterium tanker enters service. • The Orca class gunboat and Jester class corvette ce. enter servi • The Oriskany class through-deck cruiser enters service. • The Whorfin class transport enters service. • The Jenghiz is the first uprated Class I single-nacelle starship to return to service. Its prior problems with warp field instabilities above s to the power of its Warp 6 have disappeared thank tical results will be new LN-64 linear warp engine. Iden s of other singlereported from linear warp upgrade nacelle designs, such as the Siva and Ares classes. • Political maneuvering within the Federation Council puts Starfleet’s planned perimeter action ship program on indefinite hold. • The uprated heavy cruiser Excalibur breaks the warp velocity record set by its sister ship Enterprise during its shakedown cruise. Its achievement of and ability to maintain a speed of warp 18.74 will remain the official Federation warp speed record for years. • The Romulans begin construction of a second wave of allnew starship designs. These are the “Hawk” series are (Sparrowhawk, Skyhawk, Firehawk, etc.) and among the most powerful starships of their time. 2271 • The keel of the first Ariel class shuttlecarrier, Starfleet’s second modern shuttlecarrier class and starship designs ever built by the one of the largest Federation, is laid down in a specially constructed spacedock at the San Francisco Navy Yards at Terra. • The Constitution (II) class heavy cruiser, an alternate upgrade to the Enterprise class utilizing LN-60 based technology, enters service. • The Citadel class command cruiser enters service. • Starfleet Intelligence notes the deployment of new shuttlecarriers by the Klingons. • Operation Cambria Bay takes place. • A new type of har d-cased photon torpedo is approved for Starfleet use. ng near • The command cruiser Kongo clips a cosmic stri the Perseus system, resulting in a containment breach. Fully one-fourth of the aft quarter of the ship is lost (along with one of her warp engines) and 143 personnel are killed as a result. The Kongo manages to Terra under its own power, where it is to return immediately put into spacedock for conversion to Constitution (II) specifications.

227 2 • ests several prototypes of the Cheetah Starfleet t r service, class fast cruiser. Although it will never ente the Cheetah’s unusual four-nacelle configuration will directly inspire the des ign of the Constellation class . star cruiser of the 2290s • nages to end the political Persistent lobbying ma stalemate that is holding up Starfleet’s new perimeter action ship program. Three one-third scale prototypes are authorized for construction. • The Hornet class experimental carrier enters service. • The Kzinti Incursion (also as the Fifth known Earth-Kzin War and the Six Week War) manages to catch Starfleet by complete surprise. Considerable resources have to be pulled from other fronts in order to put it down. A Starfleet task force under the command of Admiral James T. Kirk is ultimately successful in defeating the of the “Zetarian Squeeze,” Kzinti through the use forcing the Kzinti fleet into the gravity well of a black tarfleet losses total at 11 Class I starships, sun. S facilities, and hundreds of lives (a several dozen ground include thousands of civilian figure that does not sses are far greater, with almost casualties). Kzinti lo r captured, along with the all of their ships destroyed o ent will go down in current Kzinti Patriarch. This ev Kzinti history as “The-Last-Stand-of-the-Heroes.” • Dr. Carol Marcus is granted funding for work on what will become the Genesis Project. - 18 -

• uninhabited The Regula I space station is built near an planetoid near the Mutara Nebula as part of Project Genesis.

2273 • The Surya class frigate Avenger is removed from service for conversion to linear warp technology along the lines of the successful Miranda class cruiser. A number of improvements to the base Miranda design during the upgrading process will result in the Avenger class heavy frigate. • to The three perimeter action ship prototypes fail perform up to design specs and the program is temporarily shelved once again. • retired. The Cahuya class survey cruisers are • The Endeavour class uprated heavy cruiser enters s the third and simplest approach service. It represent to upgrading Class I starships, utilizing self-contained LN-52 linear warp engines and a minimum of conversions to the rest of the ship. • The uprated heavy cruiser Truxtun, a starship of the Endeavour class, is l aid down inside a spacedock at the orbital spaceyards of Cosmadyne Corporation, Terra. It is the first new build Class I heavy cruiser of the linear warp generation.

NOTE: sister ships (Confiance, The Truxtun and her three Bunker Hill, and La Vengeance) are widely considered to be the last “original” Class I starships ever built despite their LN-52 linear warp engines. This is because their primary and secondary hulls were built in accordance with rnized) Class I design original (albeit mode specifications.

• An official request by the Starfleet Marines for a dedicated starship class to replace its aged Texas class converted commando cruisers is flatly rejected by Starfleet Command. The major design obstacle is how to produce a Class I starship capable of a planetary landing, something that Starfleet is unwilling to do at this time given its other priorities. Major General K’tanga, the Marine Corps Commandant, resigns in protest. Starfleet will eventually convert a number of Miranda class cruisers for the exclusive use ure, of the Starfleet Marines as a compromise meas although the “commando cruisers” remain in service. • The Abbe class torpedo destroyer enters service. • se Starfleet covert The Cammel IV revelations expo activities against the Kzinti dating back to 2270, actions that almost certainly brought about the Kzinti in response. As punishment the Federation Incursion Council cuts Starfleet’s procurement budget in half and a public investigation is conducted. Several ranking Starfleet flag officers are forced to resign or take early retirements. Starfleet’s linear warp upgrade program is frozen at current fleet levels for the time being.

2274 • The Belknap class strike cruisers enter service. These are immediately pressed into service as patrol units n borders, assisting along the Klingon and Romula lack of frigates and other fleet units to cover for the modern perimeter action ships. • The Kearsarge class light cruisers are removed from service. • The Daedalus class starship Carolina is discovered intact in the Xii system. It had been welded to an a s steroid and used a colonists whose ancestors had a habitat module for mmissioned starship decades purchased the deco before. The Starfleet Association arranges to purchase the Carolina and provide adequate nists, including a new habitat compensation for the colo module as a replacement. The restored Carolina is eventually donated to the Starfleet Museum at Memory Alpha, which had no Daedalus class starships in its museum fleet. • Project Genesis yields its first success under controlled laboratory conditions. • A storm of controversy erupts when Sarek of Vulcan sponsors the half-Romulan, half-Vulcan Saavik for entrance into Starfleet Academy. Many still see her n and she has to bear with constant as an enemy alie prejudice as a result. Nevertheless, her half-Romulan background will provide the Federation with its third key in understanding Romulan culture. • the Work begins on converting hts to Federation class dreadnoug The linear warp technology. set original Star League proposal is impler aside in favor of a s conversion along Enterprise class lines. This conversion program shares components with the Tikopai class heavy cruisers, which are under construction at this time.

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2275 • The Avenger class heavy frigate enters service. lsior • Authorization is given for construction of the Exce class space control ship as the Federation Council begins to loosen the reins on Starfleet funding. • The Tikopai class heavy cruiser enters service. • Starfleet authorizes the first of its limited sales of older, unconverted Baton Rouge, Class I, and Class II starships and starship components (pre-2245) to local sector fleets and the private sector. This initiates one of the greatest and most memorable starship auctions in history, providing Starfleet with badly needed) funding for its various additional (and linear warp programs. The fact that agents from many of the Federation’s enemies are present at the auction, both major and minor, is quietly ignored by Starfleet so long as they attempt no purchases. • The Soyuz class attack frigate enters service.

n older Class I heavy cruiser approaches Starbase One A

eadnoughts in action during the Four Da Dr ys War (2262) hip bowling alley. These were removed in the 2260s to A stars om for additional shuttle maintenance facilities. It was make ro ractice to still refer to the area as “the bowling alley.” common p

The upgraded Enterprise in spacedock, shortly before her emergency launch in 2267 to deal with the Vejur Crisis

Border clash between Klingon and Federation starships

EVA outside of an uprated Class I heavy cruiser

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