USS Forger: Timeline

2376 

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CANON EVENTS

• The Pathfinder Project establishes regular contact with the lost USS Voyager [VOY: Pathfinder – No earlier than Jan 28, no later than Sep 17, maybe May 28]
• The damage inflicted on Earth by the Breen attack of 2375 has been repaired. [VOY: Pathfinder]
• The child of Benjamin Sisko and Kasidy Yates-Sisko is born. [Kasidy is pregnant in DS9: The Dogs Of War] (Non-canon spinoff novels comics name the the child Rebecca-Jae, Sarah, or Joseph; the What We Leave Behind documentary says the writers intended Joseph Yates-Sisko.)
• The Galaxy-class USS Excalibur-A is commissioned under Captain M’k’n’zy (Mackenzie) Calhoun.
• President Min Zife of Bolarus wins a second term [NOV: Articles of the Federation]

USS FORGER

• Captain Tanar Laron is given command of the USS Forger
  • Mourad was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and assigned to USS Forger as Chief Engineer. Admiral Park pulls several strings and trades several favors for this. 
  • Chumani Maka delays retirement to serve as the ship’s Chief Medical Officer.
  • Sabin Lahl is assigned by Starfleet Command as the First Officer, overriding Tanar’s requested XO. 
  • Kertog is assigned by Starfleet Command as Chief Science Officer, overriding Tanar’s requested Science Officer.
  • Ordren is assigned by Starfleet Medical to the Forger due to his work with wounded and veterans of the Dominion War. 
  • Mahak is brought on as Chief of Security by Tanar after reviewing his records.
  • Ensign Castillo is brought on by Captain Tanar and placed as Acting Chief Flight Control Officer.  There may have been a “conversation” had with the incoming Captain of the USS [I don’t recall the name], an Akira-Class starship that was launching at the same time as the Forger, and two favor swaps. If you ask the Captain, though, she’ll deny it. 
  • Multiple Starfleet officers with less-than-stellar records are assigned to the Forger, including Ensign Alexandra Casey, Lieutenant JG May-Li Shan, Lieutenant Caraxxus Rilem, and others. 
  • Munchkin, a stowaway exocomp, is given the rank of Acting Crewman and assigned to Engineering to be Mourad’s problem to deal with.
• Andrew Park is promoted to Vice Admiral and becomes Chief of Tactical Development. 
• USS Forger launches from Utopia Planitia shipyards
  • Our first set date is the cold open in episode 4, Security And Diplomacy Part One, which is Stardate 53020.25 = early morning April 1 2376.
  • The cold open for ep.6, Swervst Contact, is April 6, and is at least one or two days before the encounter with the matryoshka brain.
  • Forger makes first contact with an Enlightened Matryoshka brain, the subspace entity known as Mercury accompanies the ship its computer.

2375

CANON EVENTS

• Dominion War: Breen Attack on Earth
• Worf son of Mogh challenges and kills Chancellor Gowron, afterwards  General Martok is proclaimed the new Chancellor of the Klingon Empire. [DS9: Tacking into the Wind]
• Dominion War: Orias III Shipyard Attack [NOV: SCE – War Stories pt1 / Wildfire]
  • Nov 04 2375 – three Starfleet ships – Sentinel, Musashi and Fredrickson, destroy a Dominion listening post to clear the way for a joint Romulan & Klingon force striking the Dominion shipyard at Orias III. Fredrickson is destroyed immediately. Musashi destroys the post in a suicide attack. Sentinel escapes back to Federation space by adjusting its emissions to match a Cardassian ship.
• Dominion War: Second Battle of Chin’toka
• Dominion War: Liberation of Betazed
• Dominion War: Battle of Cardassia [DS9: What You Leave Behind]
• Dominion War ends with the Treaty of Bajor, signed by the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Empire, the Bajoran Republic, Cardassian Union, Breen Confederacy and the Founders of the Dominion. [DS9: What You Leave Behind] The treaty stipulated:
  • A permanent end to hostilities as of Stardate 53020.25 
  • All Dominion personnel and materiel would be withdrawn from the Alpha Quadrant within 26hrs (one Bajoran day) of the end of hostilities.
  • The Female Changeling will surrender to the United Federation of Planets to be tried for war crimes. 
  • All territory occupied by the Dominion, including by treaty must be ceded to the Alpha Quadrant, including the Cardassian Union and Breen Confederacy. would be returned to their respective sovereign powers, including the Cardassian Union and Breen Confederacy.
  • All borders, sovereignty and ownership of affected territory would return to its pre-war status as of Stardate 50564.0 (2373).
• Captain Benjamin Sisko goes missing/becomes one with the Prophets/dies (depends on who you ask)
• Serial production of the Prometheus-class (limited production) starships begins.

USS FORGER

• Tanar Laron takes command of USS Dionysus when her Captain is killed. Tanar is promoted to Captain and the temporary command is made permanent.
• Nimony Lahl contracts a Dominion engineered virus while on Cainar IV, she dies and the Lahl symbiont is joined with Sabin Nedan, the only available Trill.
• Rick Castillo promoted to Acting Ensign before the Liberation of Betazed.
• Lieutenant Mourad transferred back to Utopia Planitia, returning to his work primarily on Akira-class vessels.
• Andrew Park is promoted to Rear Admiral and assigned to Starfleet Command as Deputy Chief of Tactical Development.

2374

CANON EVENTS

• Starfleet becomes aware that the lost USS Voyager is stranded in the Delta quadrant, when Voyager’s emergency medical hologram is transferred to the prototype USS Prometheus in the Alpha quadrant. [VOY: Message In A Bottle]. The Pathfinder long range communications project is begun. (early year)
• Dominion War: Battle of Tyra, 113 ships of the 7th fleet attack the Dominion at the Tyra system of which only 14 return.
• Dominion War: Operation Return
  • Ends due to all 2800 Dominion reinforcement ships simply disappearing. THANKS PROPHETS! [DS9: Sacrifice of Angels]
• Dominion War: Battle of Betazed
  • Three attempts are made to liberate Betazed this year. All fail.
  • USS Sentinel is involved in at least two of the liberation attempts.
• Romulan forces liberate Benzar but retain control of the planet [DS9: The Reckoning]
• The USS Voyager enters Borg Space. They take on a single borg drone, Seven of Nine, as a crewmember. [VOY: Scorpion (Parts 1 and 2)] (midyear)
• Dominion War: The Romulan Empire joins the war against the Dominion following the assassination of Senator Vreenak [DS9: In the Pale Moonlight]
• Dominion War: Liberation of Benzar
• Dominion War: First Battle of Chin’Toka
• Dominion War: Benzar captured  by the Dominion [DS9 the Reckoning]
• Jadzia Dax is killed by Gul Dukat. [DS9: Tears Of The Prophets] The Dax symbiont is saved and implanted in Ensign Ezri Tigan, becoming Ezri Dax. [DS9: Shadows and Symbols]

USS FORGER

• Tanar Laron is transferred to the USS Dionysus as her first officer.
• Tanor Laron returns briefly to Sector 001 before returning to the Dionysus. [CLASSIFIED]
• Tanar Laron and the Dionysus take part in the Battle of Tyra and are among the 14 ships to survive. 
• An increasingly desperate second selection of Starfleet Academy cadets are sent to the field for ‘accelerated training.’
  • Second year cadet Jelal Darven (Utopia Planitia Shipyards)
• Sabin Nedan is promoted to Lieutenant Commander and made first officer of the USS Centaur after Operation Return. 
• A 3rd generation of exocomps are built at Utopia Planitia and Tyrus VIIA causing their evolution to branch into the U-Series and T-Series to meet their needs in different environments. An exocomp calling itself Munchkin is created as part of the U-Series and joins the others working at Utopia Planitia. 
• Captain Andrew Park is placed as Chief of Logistics for Operation Return, and later appointed a Fleet Captain for the battle itself..

2373

CANON EVENTS

• Klingon War ends (because everyone realized the Dominion was manipulating the Klingons) 
• Battle of Sector 001 (Second Borg Incursion), a Borg cube reaches Earth. [MOV: First Contact]
  • The line of battle includes ships from Enterprise-E, Defiant, Thunderchild, and 16 assorted new anti-Borg ships, but weirdly also the USS Bozeman, a 23rd century antique that only recently came out of a 90 year time loop. [TNG: Cause And Effect, ca.2368]. Even more shocking, the Bozeman likely survives.
• Sisko prevents Bajor from joining the Federation after a vision in B’hala [DS9: Rapture]
• Dominion War starts. 
• Dominion War: Second Battle of Deep Space 9
• Dominion War: Battle of Torros III
• Starfleet formally declares the USS Voyager lost with all hands.
• (Late in the year) USS Prometheus launched from Beta Antares Shipyards.

USS FORGER

• Ordren finishes residency at Starfleet Medical, assigned to Starbase 2
• A selection of Starfleet Academy cadets are sent to the field under the euphemistic branding of ‘accelerated training.’
  • Third year cadet Rick Castillo (USS Sentinel), just in time for the Battle of Torros III.
  • Fourth year cadet Alexandra Casey (USS Majestic)
• Lieutenant Moraud assigned to USS Thunderchild as Deputy Chief Engineer
• [CLASSIFIED]
• Nimony Lahl is reactivated for the war effort at the rank of lieutenant commander, she is assigned to assist ship production. 
• A group of 2nd generation exocomps relocate to Utopia Planitia Shipyards to assist the Federation in the war effort by helping to build and repair ships.

2372 

CANON EVENTS

• Klingons invade Cardassia, Federation objects, Klingons break treaty, Klingon War starts.
• Serial production of the Sovereign-class starships begins, including the Enterprise-E.
• USS Saratoga-A dedication ceremony at Deep Space Nine reunites the survivors of the original Saratoga and the family members of those lost. [DS9 NOV: Saratoga]
• Akorem Laan emerges from the Wormhole, takes the role of Emissary for a short time and reinstates the d’jarra system. [DS9: Accession]
• Admiral Leyton’s coup attempt on Earth. [DS9: Homefront]
  • Leyton uses an elite group of cadets, Red Squadron, to disrupt Earth’s power grid creating the impression of a terrorist attack.
  • Despite the coup being put down, President Jaresh Inyo loses his reelection campaign to Min Zife of Bolarus. [NOV: Articles of the Federation]

USS FORGER

• [CLASSIFIED]
• May-Li Shan volunteers for ground combat in the Klingon War.
• Engineering Symposium on Starbase Earhart, featuring “The Enterprise Four” Captain Montgomery Scott, Commander Rafaele Buonarroti, Dr. Nimony Lahl and Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, attended by Sabin Nedan and Sonya Gomez among others.
• Red Squadron cadets are investigated for their involvement in Leyton’s coup.
  • Cadet Alex Casey is found to have been directly involved, is discharged and imprisoned.
  • Cadet Alexandra Casey was elsewhere on advanced studies during the coup. A thorough investigation delays her return to studies by a year before she is fully cleared of involvement.
  • Admiral Alister Casey, tainted by both his friendship with Admiral Leyton and his son Alexander’s involvement in the coup steps down as Chief of Tactical Development and is instead assigned to command a sector bordering Tholian space.

2371 

CANON EVENTS

• Enterprise D destroyed. [MOV: Generations]
• USS Voyager disappears [VOY: Caretaker].
  • A science ship USS Equinox was lost in the same region shortly before [VOY: Equinox].
• USS Defiant arrives at Deep Space Nine [DS9: The Search (Part 1)]
  • Romulans share one cloaking device with Starfleet (USS Defiant) in exchange for data on the Dominion. [DS9: The Search (Part 1)]

USS FORGER

• USS Sherman sets off under the command of Captain Park.
  • Tanar Laron is promoted to Lieutenant Commander and transferred to the Sherman as Chief of Security and Tactical.
  • Chumani Maka is assigned as the Chief Medical Officer of the Sherman.
  • Gabriel Price is assigned as the First Officer of the Sherman.
  • Caraxxus Rilem is demoted to Ensign and assigned as a Science Officer aboard the Sherman.
  • Mateo Ramirez is assigned as a Security Officer aboard the Sherman.
  • Var Chtastros is assigned as a Security Officer aboard the Sherman.
• Rick Castillo enters Starfleet Academy.

2370 

CANON EVENTS

• Kai Winn (“Pope Karen”) elected on Bajor. 
• “Borg” incursion by a breakaway group of Borg led by Data’s evil twin Lore. 
• Wreckage of the USS Pegasus and its illegal phase-cloak device are discovered in an asteroid in the Devolin system. [TNG: The Pegasus]
• USS Odyssey destroyed by Jem’Hadar. 
• Maquis founded. 
• Harry Kim graduates from Academy.
• Serial production of Defiant (limited production) and Saber class starships begins. These are the last of the “anti-Borg” crash program starships. 

USS FORGER

• The Maquis attempt to recruit Tanar Laron. This is noted by Starfleet Intelligence.
• After three years in the Starfleet Office of Personnel, Sabin is again promoted (to LT) and transferred to the USS Centaur.
• Alexandra and Alex Casey both enroll in Starfleet Academy.
• Mahak graduates from Starfleet Academy.
• Caraxxus Rilem turns himself and his fiance, James Erikson, into Starfleet Command for working with the Maquis. They both stand trial, and Erikson is sentenced to the penal colony in New Zealand, while Rilem is demoted. 
• May-Li Shan is court martialled after refusing the increasingly paranoid orders of Starbase 86’s new commander Captain Robert Stiles. She is found guilty and demoted to Lieutenant (jg) but Stiles is found unfit for command but is shuffled to administrative duties when his family steps in. May-Li is assigned to security at Outpost 67.

2369

CANON EVENTS

• Spock’s attempt at Vulcan/Romulan reunification [TNG: Unification pt.1&2]
• Serial production of Steamrunner and Norway class starships begins.
• Apollo 11 Quadricentennial celebration. (Harry Kim gets a participation trophy for something related to this.)
• The Cardassians abandon Terok Nor, ending 60 years of Bajoran occupation. At the request of the Bajoran Provisional Government, the Federation re-uses the station, commissioning as Deep Space Nine as a base of operations for Bajoran aid, but it is soon moved to the Bajoran wormhole. [DS9: Emissary]
• Bajor’s spiritual leader Kai Opaka asks to be taken through the Celestial Temple (the Bajoran wormhole). She was killed on a world where prisoners constantly fought each other and were reanimated by native microbes, upon which the reanimated become dependent. Unable to survive leaving the planet, she remains, hoping to teach the prisoners peace. [DS9: Battle Lines]
• Captain Montgomery Scott is discovered crashed on the outer surface of the “Jenolan” Dyson Sphere in the Beta Quadrant. 
• Exocomps are judged to be sentient by the Federation. [TNG: Quality of Life]

USS FORGER

• Rick Castillo helps organize a shuttle rally to Earth and back in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing.
• The two surviving exocomps request supplies to upgrade themselves and produce more exocomps, in exchange they agree to continue to help Doctor Farallon develop her  particle fountain technology. 

2368

CANON EVENTS

• Serial production of Akira-class starships begins.
• Design and development of the Sovereign-class starships begins.
• An accident at Starfleet Academy with their Nova Squadron sparks an investigation on a flight near Saturn. One cadet dies. Wesley Crusher, Nick Locarno, Jean Hajar, Sito Jaxa sit in trial, and Crusher ultimately admits to the team’s wrongdoing. Locarno is expelled, the rest of the team is held back a year.  [TNG: The First Duty]
• Klingon Civil War. A Federation fleet blockading the Klingon/Romulan border proves that Romulans had been supporting the Duras faction of the Klingon succession. Without their support, the Duras are defeated, and Gowron becomes chancellor. [TNG: Redemption pt.2]

USS FORGER

• Tanar Laron, by this time promoted to Lieutenant, is transferred to the USS Monitor.
• Günter Wendt High School (go Miners!) attends the All Lunar Parrises Squares Tournament. Wendt defender Rick Castillo comes down on the dividing wall and cracks a rib during the quarter final against New Auckland. Wendt loses to Tycho City Prep in the semifinal, placing fourth – short of qualifying for the Cislunar Championship but enough to move up to second division for the following season. During the tournament, Wendt’s mascot Ivanda is ejected for unspecified reasons.

2367

CANON EVENTS

• Battle of Wolf 359 / First Borg Incursion [TNG: The Best of Both Worlds (Parts 1 and 2)]
  • Additional sites are found with the similar patterns of damage to those seen two years earlier on the Federation/Romulan border.
  • 40 ships make a last stand against a single Borg cube. It defeats them and continues on to Sector 001 (Sol/Earth).
  • The second Akira-class prototype, USS Kaneda, is rushed out of dock to join the fleet at Wolf 359 and is among the 29 ships destroyed. [STO game]
  • The Borg cube reaches Earth orbit, where it is destroyed by the USS Enterprise D.
• Cardassian treaty establishes demilitarized zone (Ex-Fed colonies in DMZ will form Maquis)
• Officer Exchange Program
  • J’Dan, a Klingon spy, uses the program to steal information about the Enterprise-D for provision to the Romulans. [TNG: The Drumhead]
• Klingon Civil War. Chancellor K’mpec of the Klingon Empire is slowly assassinated by means of poisoned wine. Two factions, the houses of Gowron and Duras, compete for succession. [TNG: Reunion, Redemption pt.1]

USS FORGER

• Battle of Wolf 359 / First Borg Incursion
  • USS Saratoga is destroyed. Like many in the 40 Ship Fleet, Sabin is promoted (to LtJG) and transferred to shore duty for recovery.
  • Rick Castillo watches the battle in Earth orbit from the surface of the Moon. He is on a school camping trip and is unable to reach hard shelter when the emergency is declared.
• Apollo and Artemis Byrne graduate from Starfleet Academy.
• Later in the year, Mourad transferred to Utopia Planitia and began to work on helping finish building the USS Akira.
• May-Li Shan is promoted to Lieutenant and made Starbase 86’s chief of security.

2366 

CANON EVENTS

• A Romulan admiral defects to the Federation; neither he nor the Federation know this was foreseen, and the Romulan government had been feeding him false info for months as a means of spreading misinformation to the Federation.
• Open hostilities between the Federation and the Cardassian Union come to an end.
• Officer Exchange Program
  • Kurn, second son of Mogh, is posted to the Enterprise-D [TNG: Sins Of The Father]
• Doctor Farallon develops prototype exocomps on Tyrus VIIA. [TNG: Quality of Life]

USS FORGER

• Tanar Laron graduates from Starfleet Academy and is assigned to the USS Grissom.
• Sabin Nedan graduates in the top third of his class from Starfleet Academy and is assigned to the USS Saratoga.
• Mourad graduates from Starfleet Academy

2365

CANON EVENTS

• Borg first contact. The powerful entity Q sends the Enterprise-D to a far corner of the galaxy where they encounter a Borg cube. Q returns the Enterprise to its own space before it is destroyed, but warns that the Borg are coming. [TNG: Q Who]
  • Crash programs are begun to prepare.
• Officer Exchange Program begins between allied navies.
  • William Riker is temporarily posted to the Klingon ship IKS Pagh [TNG: A Matter Of Honor]
  • Benzite Ensign Mendon is posted to the Enterprise-D [TNG: A Matter Of Honor]
• Is Data legally sentient or not? [TNG: Measure of a Man]
• A world of pre-warp proto-Vulcans (Mintaka III) is found. They are observed by a hidden Federation anthropological team. [TNG: Who Watches The Watchers]
• Ancient Iconian homeworld found, Enterprise D’s sister ship Yamato destroyed. [TNG: Contagion]

USS FORGER

• Ordren enters Starfleet Academy on the medical track.
• The Academy Parrises Squares team, including Sabin, defeats the Andorian Defense Institute.

2364 

CANON EVENTS

• Enterprise D departs on her first mission.
• Ferengi first contact. [TNG: The Last Outpost]
• Beta Magellan, a star near the Bynar homeworld, explodes. [TNG: 11001001] 
• All hands aboard the SS Tsiolkovsky are lost when crew intoxicated by an infection open an emergency hatch to space. [TNG: The Naked Now]
• First Romulan contact in 53 years when colonies on the Federation/Romulan border are destroyed by an unknown party. The colonies are damaged in an unusual way, as if they were scooped up off their planets, a feat neither the Federation nor Romulans are capable of. [TNG: The Neutral Zone]
• Commander Tryla Scott is promoted to captain and given command of the USS Renegade, becoming the youngest captain in Starfleet history at age 32. [TNG: Conspiracy] [NOV: Biography of Benjamin Sisko]
• Parasitic creatures infest and control high-ranking members of Starfleet Command. [TNG: Conspiracy]
• The Tzenkethi War ends. [NOV: Articles of the Federation]

USS FORGER

• Rick’s mother Emma Castillo dies aboard the SS Tsiolkovsky. 
• Captain Alister Casey of the USS Yamaguchi is promoted to the admiralty for his actions in the Cardassian and Tzenkethi wars following the parasitic creatures’ infiltration of Starfleet Command.

2363

CANON EVENTS

• Construction of the Enterprise D is completed, shakedown trials begin, and Captain Picard begins selecting his crew.

USS FORGER

• Rick Castillo, his younger sibling Bailey and their father Brandon move to Earth’s Moon when his mother Emma departs aboard the science vessel SS Tsiolkovsky to observe a star expected to nova.
• May-Li Shan is assigned to Starbase 86.

2362

CANON EVENTS

• Setlik III Massacre. Cardassian forces, believing that a Federation colony is a staging ground for an assault on Cardassian space, attack and kill most of its inhabitants.
• Ro Laren graduates from Starfleet Academy.

USS FORGER

• Sabin applies a third time to Starfleet Academy and is successful.
• Mourad begins attending Starfleet Academy under their “unusual backgrounds” initiative.

2361 

CANON EVENTS

• Lewis Zimmerman begins work on “Holo-Doc,” a program that will become the Emergency Medical Hologram Mk.1
• Obsidian Order (Cardassian intelligence) operative Iliana Ghemor volunteers for surgical and memory alteration to help her infiltrate the Bajoran Resistance.
• Kira Nerys is active in the Shakaar resistance cell.

USS FORGER

• Sabin applies again to Starfleet academy and is again not accepted.
• Tanar Laron passes the Starfleet Entrance exams and begins attending Starfleet Academy.
• Andrew Park is promoted to Captain and takes command of the USS Hector

2360 

CANON EVENTS

• War between the Federation and Tzenkethi begins [DS9: Paradise Lost]
• Gul Dukat is given command of Terok Nor, the station that will become Deep Space Nine.
• The Bajoran resistance is active.
  • Li Nalas is captured, presumed dead, but actually taken to a labor camp on Cardiassia IV.
  • Before a Cardassian strike against a lunar base, the resistance hides several sub-impulse raider ships underground.

USS FORGER

• Sabin applies to Starfleet Academy but is not accepted.

2359 

CANON EVENTS

• Deanna Troi graduates from Starfleet Academy.

USS FORGER

• Sabin is enrolled in a Federation Preparatory Education Program.

2358

CANON EVENTS

• The USS Pegasus is said to have been lost as a result of an accident in engineering. Investigations remark that it’s clear the surviving crew are hiding something but there’s no proof. Further reports are suppressed by Starfleet Intelligence. [TNG: The Pegasus]
  • The ship had been performing a test of a phase-cloaking device, violating the treaty with the Romulan Empire. Much of the crew mutinied in protest. The captain and eight others escaped, and thought they saw the ship explode soon after.

USS FORGER

2357

CANON EVENTS

• Willilam Riker and Geordi La Forge graduate from Starfleet Academy.
• Worf, son of Mogh, aka Worf Rozhenko, enters Starfleet Academy.
• On Bajor, the Shakaar resistance cell liberates the Gallitep labor camp. [DS9: Duet]
• Galen Border Conflicts with the Talarians end with a treaty signed between the Federation and the Talarian Republic. [TNG: Suddenly Human]

USS FORGER

• May-Li Shan is graduates Starfleet Academy and volunteers for duty on the Cardassian front.

2356

CANON EVENTS

• Kira Nerys joins the  Shakaar resistance cell. [DS9: The Darkness And The Light]
• Julian Bashir discovers that he was genetically enhanced. [DS9: Doctor Bashir, I Presume]

USS FORGER

• Gabriel Price graduates with honors from Starfleet Academy

• Twins Alexandra and Alex Casey are born on Mars.
• Caraxxus Rilem graduates top of his class in Science from Starfleet Academy
• James Erikson graduates from Starfleet Academy

2354

CANON EVENTS

• Benjamin Sisko and Solok graduate from Starfleet Academy. [DS9: Take Me Out To The Holosuite] Benjamin meets his future wife Jennifer on Gilgo Beach, Long Island, New York. [DS9: Emissary]
• The training ship USS Benjamin Franklin, a 175 year old Daedalus-class ship, makes one final tour of the Sol system asteroid belt and is retired to museum display.
• Galen Border Conflicts begin with the Talarian Republic. [TNG: Suddenly Human]

USS FORGER

• Sabin is found by Trill authorities. The children of the Neo-Purist commune are removed and placed with foster families.
• Rick Castillo is born on Jupiter Station.

2353

CANON EVENTS

• Jack Crusher is killed on an away mission. Jean-Luc Picard delivers the news to his wife Dr. Beverly Crusher and son Wesley on Starbase 32. [TNG: Encounter at Farpoint]
• William Riker and Geordi La Forge enroll in Starfleet Academy.
• Tholians destroy a Federation starbase. William Riker’s father Kyle is the only survivor. [TNG: The Icarus Factor]
• Tora Ziyal, daughter of Gul Dukat and a Bajoran woman Tora Naprem, is born. [DS9: Indiscretion]

USS FORGER

• May-Li Shan enrolls in Starfleet Academy

2347

CANON EVENTS

• The Federation-Cardassian War begins with a series of border skirmishes.
• The Hansen family departs in the research ship USS Raven to study a rumored race of cybernetic beings beyond the Romulan Neutral Zone. They encounter a Borg cube eight months later. They are discovered and assimilated after studying the Borg for three years.

USS FORGER

• Ordren born on Risa.
• Cardassians raid Tianting Zhijia colony, Wen-Li Shan is killed repelling the invaders.
• During a battle with two Cardassian vessels, Lieutenant (JG) Andrew Park takes command of the Miranda-class USS Sherman and manages to defeat the attackers, albeit at a high cost.

2346

CANON EVENTS

• The first California-class support ships are launched.

USS FORGER

• Taraia Trevan is born on Velkar Vi.

2345

CANON EVENTS

• Data graduates from Starfleet Academy; Miles O’Brien joins Starfleet as an enlisted crewman.
• Sela, daughter of temporally shifted human Tasha Yar and a Romulan general, is born on Romulus.

USS FORGER

• Tanar Laron is born on Valo II.
• Artemis and Apollo Byrne born on Denobula
• Andrew Park graduates from Starfleet Academy and is assigned to the USS Sherman

2344

CANON EVENTS

• Battle of Narendra III. The USS Enterprise-C is destroyed while defending a Klingon colony against a Romulan attack. This act of honor impresses the Klingon Empire, eventually leading to a new peace treaty with the Federation. [TNG: Yesterday’s Enterprise]
  • It is presumed all hands are lost aboard, but several prisoners are taken. In 2368 it becomes known that a Romulan general had become enamored with one of the Starfleet officers, Natasha Yar, and agreed to spare the other prisoners from execution if she became his consort. Yar was herself executed following an escape attempt in 2349; the fate of the other prisoners is not known. [TNG: Redemption II]

USS FORGER

• Mourad born on an independent Orion trader ship in Orion space.
• Battle of Narendra III
  • LtJG Richard Castillo, helm officer, is presumed killed aboard the Enterprise-C. He is survived by his wife Eliana and their son Brandon.
  • Lieutenant Nimony Lahl, Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise-C is recalled to Trill on Symbiosis Commision business and is not aboard the Enterprise-C when she’s destroyed. Feeling considerable survivor’s guilt, she resigns her commission and begins work as a civilian consultant to the Fleet’s shipyards.

2341

CANON EVENTS

• Data enters Starfleet Academy.
• Jadzia, future host of the Dax symbiont, is born on Trill.
• Julian Bashir is born on Earth.

USS FORGER

• Sabin, son of the leader of a group of Neo-Purists (luddite & anti-symbiosis activists) and future host of the Lahl symbiont, is born on Trill.
• Andrew Park enters Starfleet Academy after passing his second attempt at the entry exams.

2336

CANON EVENTS

• Noonien Soong constructs his second humanoid android, Data, on Omicron Theta. [TNG: Datalore]. Noonien and his wife Juliana move their laboratory to the jungles of Terlina III later that year [TNG: Brothers]
• Deanna Troi is born on Betazed. Later that year, while their mother Lwaxana is tending to infant Deanna, her older sister Kestra drowns in Lake El’nar. [TNG: Dark Page]

USS FORGER

• Aden Lahl dies of a coronary on Trill. Starfleet ensign Nimony Serranis is chosen as Lahl’s next host.

2334

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• May-Li Shan is born on Tianting Zhijia colony. 

2327

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER 

• Aden Lahl is captured by Starfleet and serves nine years of a  ten year sentence in a penal colony on Trill before his death.

2322

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• Andrew Park is born on Earth
• Resk Lolani is born to Aden Lahl and Orion Syndicate operative, T’rana Lolani on Farius Prime.

2320

CANON EVENTS

• Cardassian occupation of Bajor begins [DS9: Duet]
• USS FORGER

2319

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• After 4 years of pirate hunting on the borders of Orion space, a child, a divorce and developing a stim addiction, Aden defects to the Orion Syndicate. He serves as a pilot and  smuggler based out of Farius Prime.

2316

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• Miranda Weaver is born, to Aden Lah and Jennifer Weaver.

2315

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• Aden Lahl graduates at the top 2% of his class but discipline issues see him assigned to the USS Madrid instead of a more prestigious assignment. He elopes with a classmate before shipping out.

2314

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• Cadet Aden Lahl sets a record on the Jupiter run that stands until 2333.
• Nimony Serranis is born on Trill.

2311

CANON EVENTS

• Tomed Incident: A battle between Federation and Romulan forces costs thousands of lives. The Treaty of Algernon is signed, banning the Federation from researching cloaking technology. The Romulans are not heard of again for 53 years (2363). [TNG: The Neutral Zone]

USS FORGER

• Prajin Lahl dies in bed. Starfleet Academy hopeful Aden Ravos is chosen as the next host of the Lahl symbiont.

2293

CANON EVENTS

• Federation and Klingon Empire sign the Khitomer Accords establishing a Klingon-Federation alliance. [MOV: Final Frontier]
  • Conspirators in both Starfleet and the Klingon High Command along with the Romulan ambassador to the Federation conspire to stop the signing of the Accords.
  • Klingon Chancellor Gorkon is murdered and Federation President Raghoratreii narrowly escapes assassination. 

• Enterprise-B launches under the command of John Harriman. [Mov: Generations]
  • James T Kirk is presumed dead after his part in saving 47 El-Aurian refugees from an energy ribbon during Enterprise-B’s maiden voyage.

USS FORGER

• Aden Ravos is born on Trill

2285

CANON EVENTS

• The Genesis device is detonated in the Mutara Nebula leading to the creation of the Genesis Planet. [MOV: Wrath of Khan]
  • Death of Khan Noonien Singh
  • Death and resurrection of Spock
  • Death of David Marcus,
  • Collapse of the Genesis Planet.

USS FORGER

2271

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• Maela Torel is born to Prajin Lahl and Gana Torel on Sherman’s Planet. 

CANON EVENTS

• The Federation settles Sherman’s Planet in the disputed territories with the approval of the Organians and the use of quadrotriticale grain.[TOS: The Trouble With Tribbles] [TAS: More Tribbles More Troubles] [DS9 Trials and Tribblations]
• First Federation encounter with Tribbles [TOS: The Trouble With Tribbles]

USS FORGER

• Prajin Lahl serves as senior botanist for the Sherman’s Planet project under Nils Baris. While working on the project he marries Trill scientist Gana Torel.

2267

CANON EVENTS

• A brief border war between the Federation and Klingon Empire is stopped by the powerful non-corporeal Organians who force both powers to accept the Treaty of Organia which dictates how future Federation-Klingon relations should proceed. [TOS: Errand of Mercy]

USS  FORGER

2251

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• Azala Lahl dies and gifted botanist Prajin Kallan is selected as the next host of the Lahl symbiont.
  • The Symbiosis Commission and Starfleet Intelligence Office of Government Affairs cooperate to block certain memories from Azala’s tenure as Chief of Staff in the Lahl symbiont to protect classified information. 

2241

CANON EVENTS

• Madza Bral retires after her second term as President of the UFP deciding not to run for a third term.[NOV: Articles of the Federation]

USS FORGER

• Azala Lahl stays on in an advisory role for the new administration’s first year, but personality conflicts see her frozen out of major decisions forcing her retirement from Federation politics. Azala, however, remains a force within Trill politics until her death.

2236

CANON EVENTS

• Klingons raid Doctari Alpha, Michael Burnham’s parents are believed killed along with the other colonists. The top secret research project codenamed Daedalus based on Doctari Alpha, ends. [Disc: Perpetual Infinity]

CANON EVENTS

• Madza Bral of Trill is elected as the first President of the UFP not from one of the five founding worlds. [NOV: Articles of the Federation]

USS FORGER

• Azala Lahl is appointed as President Bral’s chief of staff.

2226

CANON EVENTS

• Lela Dax dies at the age of 114 and the Dax symbiont is joined with Tobin. [DS9: Rejoined]
• Michael Burnham is born on Earth. [DIS: The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry]

USS FORGER

• Prajin Kallan is born on Trill

2217

CANON EVENTS 

USS FORGER 

• Asora Tren born to Azala Lahl and Jozan Kol.

2202

CANON EVENTS

• Philippa Georgiou is born on Earth. [DIS: The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry]
• The United Rigel Colonies are admitted to the Federation.

USS FORGER

• Azala Tren is selected as the first host of the Lahl symbiont. 

 2180

CANON EVENTS

USS FORGER

• Azala Tren is born on Trill

2075

CANON EVENTS 

• L’Dira Incident forces the Trill out of isolation and join the United Federation of Planets.  [NOV: Lives of Dax]

USS FORGER

• While the Federation is aware of symbionts the details are kept shielded behind Trill custom and tradition. (because DS9/Discovery made the idea that the Trill kept symbiosis a secret until the 2360’s impossible.)

2161

CANON EVENTS

The Federation is founded on Earth.

USS FORGER

Members of the Castillo, Casey and Byrne families are on hand for the signing. 

2160

CANON EVENTS

Earth-Romulan War ends with a victory for the Earth allied Coalition of Planets (Andoria, Vulcan, Tellar, Denobula), the treaty signed at war’s end establishes the Romulan Neutral Zone. [ENT: These are the Voyages]

USS FORGER

2156

CANON EVENTS 

• Start of the Earth-Romulan War. [TOS: Balance of Terror]

USS FORGER 

• Members of the Castillo and Casey families take part in the war. 

2052

CANON EVENTS 

• First Contact between the Vulcans and Trill. [NOV: The Lives of Dax]

USS FORGER

312,976BCE (approx)

CANON EVENTS

First humans evolve on Earth

USS FORGER

497,624BCE (approx)

CANON EVENTS

• The advanced Arretan civilization is destroyed by a civil war, the survivors store their consciousness in orbs below the surface of their devastated homeworld. [TOS: Return to Tomorrow]
• First Bajoran cultural golden age.

USS FORGER

• Beings calling themselves The Enlightened create Matryoshka brains to house their civilization as they convert their minds into data. Each of the four brains explore the universe.