Prime Timeline
| Year |
Event |
| 2263 |
● [1]
The USS Constellation, under the command of Commodore Matt Decker, conducts a routine investigation of the planet Ravanar IV in the Taurus Reach. Analysis of the biosamples collected from the planet reveals a mold sample with a large amount of information coded into the genome. A report is filed with Starfleet command. [2]
● [3]
Starfleet begins construction of Starbase 47 in the Taurus Reach. A Watchtower class base, Starbase 47 would normally be expected to take four years and nine months to build. Starfleet assigns high priority to finishing the base much faster than this. [2]
● [4]
Captain Christopher Pike is promoted to Fleet Captain, leaving command of the USS Enterprise. [5]
● [6]
James Kirk is promoted to Captain and assigned to command the Starship Enterprise. [7]
● [6]
Pavel Chekov enlists in Starfleet academy. [7]
● [8]
The miners Childress, Gossett and Benton begin lithium crystal mining on Rigel XII. [8]
● [9]
A group of 150 colonists under the leadership of Elias Sandoval set off from Earth for Omicron Seti III to found a colony. [10]
● [11]
Spock returns home Vulcan to visit his parents. He and his father do not talk during the visit, maintining the silence which has lasted for the last 14 years and which will last for a further four. [12]
● [13]
Gamma Tauri IV is colonised. [13]
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Kelvin Timeline
| Year |
Event |
| 2263 |
● [14]
Ambassador Spock from the Prime timeline dies, aged 162. [15]
● [14]
The USS Enterprise visits the newly completed Starbase Yorktown for resupply. Whilst there an alien arrives, reporting that her crew is stranded on a nearby planet after their ship crashed. The Enterprise takes her there, only to be ambushed by forces under the control of Krall. The Enterprise is destroyed. [14]
● [14]
Krall attacks Starbase Yorktown, almost succeeding in destroying it. The base is saved by the intervention of Captain Kirk and the Enterprise officers, and Krall is killed. [14]
● [14]
Captain Kirk is assigned as the commanding officer of the new USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A. He resumes his deep space exploration mission. [14]
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Colour key
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References
| # |
Series |
Season |
Source |
Comment |
| 1 |
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Star Trek : Vanguard, Book 1 - Harbinger |
Stated to have happened in this year, shortly before Kirk was promoted to Captain. |
| 2 |
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Star Trek : Vanguard, Book 1 - Harbinger |
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| 3 |
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Star Trek : Vanguard, Book 1 - Harbinger |
Immediately after the prologue |
| 4 |
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Star Trek Chronology |
Page 48; date in non-canon, but that it happened when Kirk took command of the Enterprise is canonical |
| 5 |
TOS |
1 |
The Menagerie, Part 1 |
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| 6 |
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Star Trek Chronology |
Page 48 |
| 7 |
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Various Original Series episodes |
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| 8 |
TOS |
1 |
Mudd's Women |
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| 9 |
TOS |
1 |
This Side of Paradise |
Sandoval says they departed four years ago |
| 10 |
TOS |
1 |
This Side of Paradise |
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| 11 |
TOS |
2 |
Journey to Babel |
Amanda stated that Spock had not been home in four years |
| 12 |
TOS |
2 |
Journey to Babel |
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| 13 |
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Star Trek : Vanguard, Book 3 - Reap The Whirlwind |
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| 14 |
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Star Trek Beyond |
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| 15 |
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Star Trek Beyond |
Age is based on his birth in 2230, living to 2387 when Romulus was destroyed, then going back in time to 2258 shortly before Vulcan was destroyed, then living to 2263. |
