2000s |
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| 2000 |
| •1 | On the last day of the year Shannon O'Donnell, an ancestor of Captain Janeway and one of the first female astronauts, convinces the last remaining resident of Portage Creek, Indiana, to sell his home in order to make way for construction of the Millennium Gate. The Gate will become one of Earth's largest buildings, a kilometre high and 3.2 kilometres wide at the base.1
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| 2002 |
| •2 | The Nomad probe is launched from Earth. The probe is the first Earth mission designed to search for new life forms. It will later collide with an alien craft designed to sterilize soil samples; the two probes will manage to combine themselves but in the process their programming will be distorted, causing the resultant entity to seek out and sterilize alien life forms.3
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| 2004 |
| •4 | Captain Archer and T'Pol travel in time to this year in order to prevent a Xindi-Reptilian plot to release a devastating virus on Earth.4
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| 2009 |
| •2 | Captain Shaun Geoffrey Christopher commands the first successful manned mission to Saturn.5
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2010s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2012 |
| •6 | The Dax symbiont is born on the Trill home world.6
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| 2018 |
| •7 | An advance in propulsion systems renders sleeper ships obsolete.7
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2020s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2020 |
| •8 | The American government creates the Sanctuary districts to contain those who are unemployed. The districts quickly become ghetto areas.9
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| 2024 |
| •10 | The Bell Riots begin within Sanctuary District 4 of San Francisco. The riots lead to the abolishment of the Sanctuary Districts, forcing the USA to at last begin to deal with its social problems.10
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2030s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2030 |
| •11 | Zefram Cochrane is born.11
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| 2032 |
| •12 | The command module of the Aries 4, one of Mankind's early missions to Mars, is swallowed into a subspace ellipse together with its pilot Lieutenant John Kelly on October 19th. The loss of the craft strands two astronauts on Mars for weeks, and almost derails the entire Mars program. This marks Mankind's first ever encounter with a spatial anomaly.12
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| 2033 |
| •13 | The 52nd state is admitted to the United States of America.13
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| •14 | The planet Xindus, homeworld of the Xindi, is destroyed. The Avian subspecies is rendered extinct. This marks the end of the civil war which has been raging for the last century; in the aftermath a ruling council is established comprising representatives of the five remaining subspecies.14
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| 2036 |
| •15 | The New United Nations rules that no Earth person can be held responsible for the crimes of their ancestors.15
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| •16 | Hovercars come into widespread use on Earth.16
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| 2037 |
| •17 | NASA launches the spacecraft Charybdis, commanded by Colonel Steven Richey. The third manned attempt to explore beyond the solar system, the ship is declared missing. It is discovered in 2365 in the Theta 116 solar system.17
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2040s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2040 |
| • | Lela is joined to the Dax symbiont. Lela Dax subsequently becomes a politician.18
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| •19 | Television ceases to exist as a form of entertainment.19
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| 2047 |
| •20 | The Los Angeles area is submerged under 200 metres of water by the Hermosa earthquake. The region subsequently becomes the largest coral reef on the planet Earth.20
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2050s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2050 |
| •21 | Hunting goes out of style on Earth.21
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| 2051 |
| •22 | The Vulcan ship T'Plana encounters a class 5 neutronic wavefront and is destroyed.23
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| 2052 |
| •24 | The Andorians claim the planetoid Weytahn and begin to terraform it.24
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| 2053 |
| •25 | World War III kills 600 million people and leaves very few governments on Earth.25
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| •26 | The Vulcans make first contact with the Arkonians. The initial contact goes well but the Arkonians prove hostile and difficult to deal with, and eventually contact is broken off.26
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| 2058 |
| •27 | V'Lar becomes an Ambassador.27
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2060s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2061 |
| •4 | A significant event occurs related to the depletion of fossil fuels4; most likely the development of a replacement energy source.
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| 2063 |
| •28 | Zefram Cochrane makes Humanities first faster than light journey. The flight results in First Contact between Humans and Vulcans.28
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| 2064 |
| •29 | Zefram Cochrane makes a speech in which he reveals the Enterprise-E's and Borg's participation in the events surrounding his warp flight. He later recants, and given his reputation for telling tall tales the revelation is largely forgotten.29
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| 2065 |
| •30 | SS Valiant is lost whilst exploring the outer edge of the galaxy.30
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| 2067 |
| •31 | The society on Argelius II undergoes "The Great Awakening", a significant milestone in their development towards becoming dedicated to hedonism.31
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| •32 | The probe Friendship One is launched. It is designed to transmit technical information to any alien species it meets. Earth will keep contact with the probe for another one hundred and eighty years, by which time it will be some thirty thousand light years from Earth.32
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| •33 | The Conestoga is launched for the planet Terra Nova. This marks Earth's first attempt to found a colony in a solar system other than our own. The Conestoga's journey will take nine years.33
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| 2069 |
| •34 | The Klingon Emperor dies. No successor is appointed because the Klingon High Council has grown in power to the point where it effectively controls the Empire.34
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2070s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2072 |
| •35 | One of the two Sporocystian lifeforms which have been caring for the Ocampa for the last five hundred generations leaves, taking two thousand Ocampa with her. They establish a new home on a spaceborne array several thousand light years away.36
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| •37 | Quinn is imprisoned in a cometary nucleus by the Q continuum. He will be released in 2372 by the crew of the USS Voyager.37
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| 2075 |
| •38 | Captain Vanik begins serving in the Vulcan space program.38
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| •39 | The Moneyans discover the space ocean and begin to colonise it.39
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| 2076 |
| •40 | The Conestoga arrives at Terra Nova. This ship is broken up to provide the raw materials for the colony.40
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| 2079 |
| •41 | The "post-atomic horror". The legal system assumes guilt until proven innocent, and Lawyers have fallen into disfavour.41
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2080s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2081 |
| •42 | Earth decides to send a second wave of colonists to Terra Nova, a plan the original colonists strongly disagree with. The plan is abandoned, but communication with the original colony is severed shortly afterwards. Although unknown to Earth at the time, this is because Terra Nova has been hit by an asteroid. The resultant debris in the atmosphere cuts off all communication and spreads radiation across the planet. The surviving colonists begin to live underground.42
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| 2082 |
| •43 | Colonel Steven Richey dies.43
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| 2088 |
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2090s |
| Year |
Event |
| 2097 |
| •45 | The Andorian planetoid Weytahn is captured by the Vulcans; the Andorian colonists are removed and the planetoid is renamed Pan Mokar45
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