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STAR TREK HISTORY - Pre-TNG Era (2300-2362)
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USS Terra Nova / Starfleet Academy)

main - Until 1966 - 1967-2160 - 2161-2264 - 2265-2299 - 2300-2362 - 2363-2373 - 2374-2376 - 2377-Present

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YEAR MONTH EVENT
2302
Future UFP President Jaresh-Inyo begins his political career. (DS9: "Paradise Lost")

Feb. 17On Earth, in England, Richard James Arthur George, Prince of Wales, and his wife welcome their first child into the world. They name their newborn son William Henry Arthur.
(future history)
2305 July 13 Jean-Luc Picard is born to Maurice and Yvette Picard in La Barre, France on Earth. Maurice is a winemaker under the label 'Chateau Picard'. (TNG: "Coming of Age")
2311 May 2 Thousands of Federation citizens die in the Tomed Incident -- a retribution attack by the Romulans in response to a Federation attempt to obtain a Romulan cloaking device. Following the incident, the Treaty of Algeron is signed between the Federation and the Romulans in which the Federation is obliged not to develop or use cloaking technology. The Romulans subsequently go into isolation for the next 53 years. (TNG: "The Neutral Zone", TNG: "The Defector", TNG: "The Pegasus" -- date assumed, Facebook: Starfleet Academy)
2316July 1On Earth, British King James III dies a natural death. He is 89 years old. His reign as the monarch of the Commonwealth of Nations lasted 68 years -- the longest reign of any British monarch. He is succeeded by his son, Richard James Arthur George, age 51, who takes the name King Richard IV. (future history)
2318July 5The Federation institutes a new stardate system. This date becomes the "0 point", and all dates rise in number from here. Stardate 00000.0.
2319JuneThe Cardassian Union establishes a peaceful military presence on Bajor with the promise of helping the Bajoran people better develop their natural resources.
(DS9: "Emissary", DS9: "Ensign Ro", DS9: "The Circle" -- month assumed)
2320 Oct. 28 Lewis Zimmerman is born in New Jersey on Earth. (VOY: "Projections" -- date assumed)
2321
Boothby begins his career as a groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy. (VOY: "In The Flesh")
2323 Aug. After he has applied in vain a year before, Jean-Luc Picard is accepted into Starfleet Academy. He is the first freshman to win the Academy Marathon, held this year on Danula II.
(TNG: "Coming of Age", TNG: "First Duty", TNG: "Best of Both Worlds")

2324 March The Starfleet Academy team wins a parrises squares tournament over the heavily favorite team from Minsk. (TNG: "The First Duty", Facebook: Starfleet Academy)
Oct. 13Beverly Howard (later, Crusher) is born in Copernicus City on Earth's Moon.
(TNG: "Conundrum")
2327May 7Jean-Luc Picard graduates from Starfleet Academy. He will go on to become a beloved Starfleet captain and diplomat. (Facebook: Starfleet Academy)
2328
The After nine years of relatively peaceful co-existence with the Bajorans on their home planet, the Cardassian Union forcibly annexes Bajor, setting in motion a 40-year period of suppression and genocide. They establish the Bajoran Occupational Government (a puppet of the Cardassian Central Command), and intall a prefect, Gul Dukat, to oversee the planet. The Cardassians also begin to strip-mine Bajor, using the Bajoran people as slave labor.
(TNG: "Ensign Ro", DS9: "The Emissary", "The Circle", "Waltz", "Duet", "The Collaborator")
May 20Kathryn Janeway is born in Bloomington, Indiana on Earth.
(VOY: "Year of Hell", DS9: "Endgame" -- year assumed)
Sept.MIles Edward O'Brien is born in Ireland on Earth. (DS9: "Homefront", DS9: "Whispers")
2329
Duotronic circuitry on Starfleet ships is replaced with isolinear chips. (TNG: "Relics")
The Excelsior-class USS Enterprise-B is destroyed while on a deep space mission.
(Facebook: Starfleet Academy)
2332Feb. 2The Nexus passes within three light years of Earth.
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"Star Trek: Generations" -- date assumed, Facebook: Starfleet Academy)

Oct. 3Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is born to Joseph and Sarah Sisko in New Orleans on Earth. He will become an integral figure in the Dominion War and the Emissary to the Bajoran people.
(DS9: "Image in the Sand")
The Ambassador-class USS Enterprise-C is launched under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett. (Facebook: Starfleet Academy)
2333
Jean-Luc Picard takes command of the USS Stargazer when the ship's captain is killed.
(TNG: "The Battle")
2335Feb. 16Geordi La Forge is born to parents Starfleet Captain Silvia La Forge and noted exozoologist Commander Edward M. La Forge in the African Confederation on Earth. Due to a birth defect, he is born blind. (TNG: "Cause and Effect")

Aug. 15 Willam T. Riker is born to Kyle and Betty Riker in Valdez, Alaska, on Earth. Kyle Riker is a civilian attache to Starfleet. Betty will die suddenly two years later, leaving young William to be raised alone by his father. (TNG: "The Icarus Factor" -- birthday assumed)
2336
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 andriod which he names Data. Soong strives to make his creation more human by programming it with the memories of all the colonists of Omicron Theta. Before he can be reactivated, though, the crystalline entity attacks, killing all the inhabitants.
(TNG: "Datalore", "TNG: "Inheritance")
March 29Deanna Troi is born to Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi and Human Starfleet officer Ian Andrew Troi near Lake El'nar on Betazed. At the time Deanna had an older sister, Kestra (six years older), although Kestra dies not long later.
(TNG: "Cost of Living -- cut scene". TNG: "Conundrum", TNG: "Dark Page")
2337
The Changeling Odo is found adrift in his natural gelatinous state in the Denorios Belt in the Bajor System. (DS9: "Emissary")
2338 Feb. 2 Data is discovered and activated by the USS Tripoli on Omicron Theta.(TNG: "Datalore")
2340Jan.17Ro Lauren is born to Ro Talia and Ro Gale on Bajor. Her childhood is spend living in refugee camps under the Cardassian occupation of Bajor.
(TNG: "Conundrum", TNG: "The Next Phase")


Starfleet reports and eyewitness accounts (that will later be classified and filed away as "unsolved" for thirty years) claim the presence of a shape-shifting entity at various locations on Earth. Three decades later, these reports will be tied to a time-traveling Dominion Changeling that entered the Guardian of Forever in 2374. (Facebook: Starfleet Academy)
2341Jadzia Idaris (later, Dax) is born on the Trill homeworld. (DS9: "Emissary")
Nov. 21Jules Bashir is born to Richard and Amsha Bashir in England on Earth.
(DS9: "Distant Voices" -- date assumed)
2340Aug.Data is accepted into Star Fleet Academy.
(TNG: "Datalore", TNG: "Measure of a Man" -- alternate)
Dec. 11Worf, Son of Mogh, is born on Qo'Nos. He will eventually become the first Klingon to serve in Starfleet. (Facebook: Starfleet Academy, TNG: "Parallels" -- alternate)
2342 May Lewis Zimmerman graduates from Starfleet Academy. (VOY: "Projections")
Aug.Beverly Howard (later, Crusher) is accepted into Star Fleet Academy.
(TNG: "Conundrum")
2343 July 28 Kira Nerys is born in Dahkur Province on Bajor. (DS9: "The Maquis", DS9: "Second Skin")
2344
The USS Enterprise-C is destroyed while defending the Klingon outpost on Narendra III from Romulan attack. This event reemphasizes the Khitomer Accords, and ensures a lasting peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. One of the survivors of the Enterprise-C is Captain Rachel Garrett. She is later executed. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" -- alternate)
On Earth, in England, William Henry Arthur, Prince of Wales, and his wife welcome their first child into the world. They name their newborn daughter Diana Mary Elizabeth.
(future history)
2345
One less infant is born on Romulus in this year. A Romulan official will never know a daughter whom he might have named Sela. (TNG: "Redemption" -- alternate)

May 3 Data graduates from Star Fleet Academy and is promoted to Ensign. He is the first artificial lifeform granted a commission by Starfleet. He graduates with honors in exobiology and probability mechanics. (TNG: "Datalore", TNG: "Measure of a Man" -- alternate)
Worf and his family move to the Khitomer colony. Worf is five years old.
(TNG: "Sins of the Father")
2346
At age 18, Miles O'Brien elists in Starfleet as a non-commissioned crewman. He is assigned to the USS Rutledge under the command of Captain Benjamin Maxwell.
(TNG: "The Wounded")
Aug.Kathryn Janeway enters Starfleet Academy. She hopes to become a science officer.
(VOY: "Caretaker", VOY: "Year of Hell", DS9: "Endgame" -- year assumed)

Nov. 9 A surprise Romulan attack on the Khitomer outpost kills 4,000 Klingons, including the entire Mogh family with the exception of young Worf (and Kurn who was not on the planet). The Excelsior-class USS Intrepid responds to the distress call, but arrives a little too late to help defend the outpost. Worf is rescued by Starfleet engineer Sergey Rozhenko, who adopts the young Klingon as his own. Unknown until later, the Romulans transfer nearly a hundred Klingon survivors to a secret prison camp in the Carraya System.
(TNG: "Sins of the Father", TNG: "Birthright")


The Cardassian military begins work on a ore processing and refining station, designated Terok Nor, in orbit above the planet Bajor. (DS9: "Babel")
2347Jun 23The Federation-Cardassian Wars begin when the Cardassians attack the Federation colony on Setlik III. Over one hundred civilians are killed in what will become known as the Setlik III massacre. Classified reports from this time (discovered thirty years later) suggest the presence of a shape-shifting entity who may have been part of military events during this time. Three decades later, these reports will be tied to a time-traveling Dominion Changeling that entered the Guardian of Forever in 2374. (DS9: "Babel" -- date assumed; Facebook: Starfleet Academy)
July 18Admiral Hikaru Sulu dies on Earth. He is 110 years-old. (Facebook: Starfleet Academy)
2348July 30Wesley Crusher is born to Jack and Beverly Crusher on Earth. Unfortunately, Jack dies five years later while serving under the command of Jean-Luc Picard on the USS Stargazer.
(TNG: "Coming of Age". TNG: "Family" -- birthday assumed)
Sept. 12On Earth, British King Richard IV dies. He is 83 years old. His reign as the monarch of the Commonwealth of Nations lasted 32 years. He is succeeded by his son, William Henry Arthur, age 46, who takes the name King William VIII. (future history)
Nov.At age 7, Jules Bashir is proving to be an extraordinarily bright light boy.
(DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" -- alternate)
2350Feb. 18Garrett Jonathan Andrews is born on Earth in the American city of Milwaukee.
(Terra Nova RPG)
MayBeverly Crusher (married in 2348) graduates from Star Fleet Academy. She completed her four years at the Academy, as well as two additional years of medical training.
(TNG: "Conundrum")
MayKathryn Janeway graduates from Starfleet Academy. She is promoted to Ensign, and assigned as a science officer on the USS Al-Batani under the command of Captain Owen Paris.
(VOY: "Caretaker", VOY: "Year of Hell", DS9: "Endgame")
Aug.Benjamin Sisko enters Starfleet Academy. He pursues studies in engineering.
(DS9: "Homefront")
Kalev Remont is born on the New Estonia Colony near the Klingon border.
(Terra Nova RPG)
2351
The Cardassian ore processing station, Terok Nor, is completed in orbit around Bajor. It has the capacity to provide housing for 7,000 people. (DS9: "Babel", DS9: "Sanctuary")
2353
A new era of peace begins between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets.
(DS9: "Way of the Warrior")

Aug. William T. Riker enters Starfleet Academy. (TNG: "Conundrum", TNG: "The Next Phase")
Aug.Georgi La Gorge enters Starfleet Academy. ("Star Trek: First Contact")
2354Jan. 9The Arie-class USS Raven -- a Starfleet ship on loan to the Federation Council on Exobiology, departs Earth to investigate the rumors of a cybernetic species of alien we now know as the Borg. The civilian-operated vessel is commanded by Magnus Hanson and has a small crew. Also aboard are Magnus' wife Erin and their four-year-old daughter Annika. The vessel disappears shortly thereafter, and is never heard from again.
(VOY: "The Raven" -- alternate, VOY: "Dark Frontier" -- alternate)

MayBenjamin Sisko graduates from Starfleet Academy. (DS9: "Emissary")
2355
The USS Stargazer is nearly destroyed in an encounter with an unknown vessel. The battle is won through the "Picard Maneuver", but Picard and his crew have to abandon the ship. It is later discovered that this unknown vessel was a Ferengi Maurader. (TNG: "The Battle")
Jake Sisko is born to Benjamin and Jennifer Sisko.
(DS9: "Move Along Home", DS9: "The Abandoned")
Aug.At age 19, Deanna Troi is accepted into Star Fleet Academy. (TNG: "Conundrum")
2356At age 15, Jules Bashir changes his first name to Julian. He likes the sound of it better than Jules. His parents support his decision. (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" -- alternate)
Odo is brought to the Bajoran Institute for Science on Bajor, and is studied by Doctor Mora Pol. Initially not recognizing Odo as a sentient being, Mora subjects him to a long series of experiments, many of which are not pleasant. (DS9: "The Alternate")
2357 March 10 The USS Galaxy, the first Galaxy-class starship, is commissioned in orbit of Mars.
(Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual)
MayWilliam Riker graduates from Starfleet Academy. He is ranked 8th in his class.
(TNG: "Chain of Command")
MayGeordi La Forge graduates from Starfleet Academy.
("Star Trek: First Contact")

Aug. 28 Worf Rozhenko enters Starfleet Academy. He is 17 years old.
(TNG: "Conundrum", TNG: "Homeward")
Dec.William Riker is assigned to his first starship posting, the USS Pegasus, under the command of Captain Erik Pressman. Ensign Riker is a young conn officer.
(TNG: "Chain of Command")
2358June 29The Oberth-class USS Pegasus is reported destroyed as the result of an explosion while testing top-secret equipment. Captain Erik Pressmen and Ensign William Riker are serving aboard the ship at the time. The ship is listed as lost, and further records on the incident are classified by Starfleet. Available records indicate that there may have been a mutiny aboard just prior to the ship's destruction. (TNG: "The Pegasus")
Aug.Ro Lauren is accepted into Star Fleet Academy. She is eighteen years old.
(TNG: "Datalore", TNG: "Measure of a Man" -- alternate)
In the Gamma Quadrant, the Paradans (who are experts in creating replicants) begin using these replicants in a planetary civil war. (DS9: "Whispers")
2359MayDeanna Troi graduates from Starfleet Academy. She has a major in psychology.
(TNG: "Conundrum")
Aug.Jadzia Idaris (later, Dax) enters Starfleet Academy. (DS9: "Playing God")
Aug.Julian Bashir enters Starfleet Academy. He intends to pursue a career in medicine.
(DS9: "Explorers" -- assumed)
2360
A pair of Tellerite and Bolian geologic researchers examining an era of land near the American city of Beloit, in Wisconsin, on Earth, come across a previously undiscovered section of underground caverns. There they find a twenty foot cube of "frozen time". The researchers inadvertantly reactivate an alien device, and time "returns to normal". They find a 14 year-old boy named Steve Baker, who has been "frozen" unaware for 358 years. (Terra Nova RPG)
Data is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. (TNG: "Datalore")
2361 May 2 Worf Rozhenko graduates from Starfleet Academy. He is the first Klingon to do so.
(TNG: "Conundrum")
June 1183-year-old Starfleet Admiral Jameson negotiates a treaty on Cerberus II. In appreciation of Jameson's work, the natives provide him with a drug that rejuvenates aged bodies. He recieves two doses of this drug to be administered over two years -- one dose for himself, the other for his elderly wife. (TNG: "Too Short A Season" -- date assumed)


During a USS Potemkin rescue mission on Nervala IV, operations officer Lieutenant William Riker's transporter pattern is doubled in a transporter accident. It is not known at the time, but a second Riker materializes on the planet's surface and is left there alone.
(TNG: "Second Chances")


Lewis Zimmerman is assigned to the Holo-Programming Center on Jupiter Station. He begins developing what he refers to as the "Holo-Doc" -- a holographic doctor intended to assist in medical emergencies. (VOY: "Projections")
2362 Feb. 18 The Excelsior-class USS Furious is launched from Utopia Planetia Fleet Yards, Sol System.
(Terra Nova RPG)
May 4Ro Lauren graduates from Starfleet Academy, and is promoted to the rank of Ensign.
(TNG: "Conundrum", TNG: "The Next Phase")
Nov. 24The Galaxy-class USS Enterprise-D is launched from drydock in orbit of Mars.
(USS Enterprise-D dedication plaque)


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