Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology 1/6 Star Trek: The Next Generation Speculative Chronology Version 1.4 by Scott Hollifield Last modified on 10/1/93 NOTES: This chronology was written with the full account of information presented in the series and in _Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future_, by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda. Any exceptions will be limited to instances where the original information appears to be mistaken; such instances will be noted in the footnotes. Information that appears in [brackets] is generally NON-canon, and is presented in the spirit of fictional elaboration, to "fill in the gaps" as it were. Much of it is in fact based at least partly on trivia from the series or Okuda chronology; other information was created independently. The intent here was to provide the characters and their world with a more of a fully-developed history than the one we have now. Some information given here has been established by the series, but the year in which it happened as not been officially established. Such information also appears in [brackets]. This is a "living" chronology in that it can always be added to, or modified. If you have any suggestions or corrections for future updates, feel free to send them my way at: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com. Footnotes are indicated with a karat and parentheses, i.e. (^1), (^2), etc. With one exception, this chronology does not include information about the characters of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A DS9-inclusive revision is planned once the episodes "Homecoming", "The Circle" and "The Siege" have aired, and implications arising from the events in those episodes are made clear. 2293 The crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) is ordered to stand down. 2299 [The construction of a new Excelsior-class Enterprise, NCC-1701-B, is complete at the Antares shipyards and is commissioned. Her first commanding officer is Captain Spock.] 2301 [Amanda Grayson dies at the age of 93. Her son, Captain Spock, relinquishes command of the Enterprise, and resigns from active duty, spending the next several years living alone on Vulcan.] [Captain Vincent Cabot takes over command of the Enterprise. He proceeds to lead her on an expansive tour of exploration which rivals that of the original Enterprise.] 2302 [Dr. Leonard H. McCoy is promoted to the rank of admiral and is appointed to the position of Surgeon-General of Starfleet.] 2305 Jean-Luc Picard is born to Maurice and Yvette Picard in LaBarre, France, on Earth. 2307 [The Enterprise-B begins an eighteen-month survey of the uncharted space beyond the Gourami sector, resulting in six successful first contacts with intelligent civilizations.] 2315 [Katherine Pulaski is born to Richard and Uriel Pulaski in Saint John's, Newfoundland, on Earth.] 2311 The Tomed incident occurs. [The Romulan Empire stumbles upon a devastating new application in cloaking technology, which is used initially to "cloak away" enemy ships to a parallel dimension, but begins to inexplicably destroy lifeforms in the vicinity, Romulan and otherwise. A mad Romulan praetor embarks on a campaign of attempted genocide by using the new weapon against Federation outposts and ships in the Tomed sector, along the Federation edge of the Neutral Zone, despite evidence that the weapon's power is supplied by an uncontrollable alien force. This results in a brief but bloody skirmish in which thousands of lives are lost on both sides. Most of the crew of the ravaged USS Enterprise, including Captain Cabot, are included among the casualties. The conflict comes to an end when the praetor's power is wrested by saner internal factions on Romulus, and the praetor himself executed. The new Romulan leadership vows an isolationist policy toward the Federation which lasts for 53 years.] 2322 Jean-Luc Picard applies to Starfleet Academy, but is rejected. However, his admission test score is sufficient to allow him to reapply the following year. [Cyberneticist Dr. Noonian Soong drops out of the public eye and secretly relocates to the colony on Omicron Theta Four. He continues to submit and publish articles in cybernetics journals, as he progresses with his work on the positronic artificial brain.] 2323 Jean-Luc Picard enters Starfleet Academy on his second application. The superintendent of the Academy is a full Betazoid. As a freshman cadet, Picard passes four upperclassmen on the last hill of the 40-kilometer run on Danula Two, becoming the only freshman ever to win the Academy marathon. One of Picard's interests is archaeology, and he studies the legendary Iconians. 2324 Beverly C[heryl] Howard, the future Beverly Crusher, is born in Copernicus City, Luna, to Paul and Isabel Howard. 2325 [Jean-Luc Picard's interest in archaeology is nurtured by Professor Galen, the Academy's chair of archaelogical science. The two form a close academic relationship.] 2326 [Lwaxana Troi, of Betazed, marries an human Starfleet Officer, Ian Andrew "Alex" Alexander. Alexander assumes Lwaxana's surname when married, and is thereafter known as Alex Troi. (^1)] 2327 Jean-Luc Picard graduates from Starfleet Academy. He is class valedictorian. He spends a portion of the remainder of the year on Farspace Station Earheart, awaiting assignment. While here, he is injured in a brawl with three Nausicaans which requires him to undergo an artificial heart operation. [By the end of the year, he is assigned to be a helm officer on the USS Yukawa.] [Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan takes a second human wife, Perrin Duvall of Earth. The ceremony is held privately on Vulcan.] 2328 [The Cardassian Union] (^2) begins their occupation of the Bajoran homeworld. [Leah Brahms is born to Warren and Zoe Brahms on the Federation colony world of Raitlae Two.] [Jean-Luc Picard transfers to the USS Lemnitzer and is promoted to the rank of lieutenant (j.g.).] 2329 [Lt. Picard attends the wedding of Ambassador Spock on Vulcan, as a member of the Starfleet Diplomatic Corps honor guard. Later in the year, he is promoted to full lieutenant.] [While approving of his son's choice of wife, Sarek reacts coldly to the marriage itself, believing it to be an attempt by Spock to upstage Sarek's own recent wedding. As an indirect result of the disagreement, Spock emerges from retirement and joins the diplomatic service.] >>> Continued to next message Path: newserv.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!matrix!scott.hollifield From: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology 2/6 Message-ID: <2295.3844.uupcb@the-matrix.com> Date: 2 Oct 93 17:03:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: The MATRIX - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016 Reply-To: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Lines: 147 >>> Continued from previous message [When her parents obtain a divorce, Beverly Howard is sent to live with her grandmother on Aveda Three.] 2330 [Picard transfers to the USS Marshall where he serves as as a tactical officer and the ship's Second Officer; he is also promoted to lieutenant commander.] [Admiral McCoy is forced to retire from Starfleet at long last. He is 103 years old.] 2331 [Picard is promoted to the position of First Officer and to the rank of commander.] (^3) [The USS Stargazer (NCC-2893) is commissioned. Its first commanding officer is Capt. Walker Keel.] 2332 [Cmdr. Picard transfers to the Stargazer, where he serves as First Officer under Capt. Keel. While on the Stargazer, he becomes good friends with both Keel and an officer named Jack Crusher.] 2333 Jean-Luc Picard [is promoted to the rank of captain and] assumes command of the Stargazer, embarking on a historic mission of exploration. At age 28, Picard is among the youngest officers ever to captain a starship. [He replaces Captain Keel, who takes time off from starship duty to teach classes at the Academy.] [Katherine Pulaski enrolls in Starfleet Academy medical school.] [Vash is born on Saris One, a pre-Federation human colony.] [A new line of starships, the Ambassador class, is initiated with the commissioning of a new Enterprise (NCC-1701-C), on the the 100th anniversary of James T. Kirk's birth, at Earth Station McKinley. The Ambassador class is intended primarily to be a starship of diplomacy rather than exploration, although the Enterprise-C and her crew become accomplished in both. Ambassador Spock and his wife are present at the commissioning ceremony. The Enterprise is given over to the command of Captain Rachel Garrett, who has just completed a successful five-year mission on the Nebula-class USS Yamato.] (^4) [Starfleet creates the office of Ship's Counselor to accomodate the needs of the crew on mass-personnel ships like the new Ambassador-class line. This position relieves the psychology- related duties of the Chief Medical Officer, and will become even more important when the Galaxy-class program, designed to include accomodations for entire families, becomes active 24 years later.] 2334 [Yuri Sergeyovich Rozhenko is born to Sergey and Helena Rozhenko in Babruysk, Byelorussia, on Earth. He is their only human son. Shortly after Yuri's birth, the Rozhenkos move to the farming world of Gault.] 2335 William T. Riker is born in Valdez, Alaska, on Earth. He is the son of Kyle [and Laura] Riker. Geordi La Forge is born in the African Confederation on Earth to Edward M. and Alvera K. La Forge. 2336 Deanna Troi is born on Betazed. She is the child of Lwaxana Troi and Starfleet officer [Alex] Troi. The science colony in Omicron Theta [Four] is destroyed by what is later known as the Crystalline Entity. All life-forms on the planet are absorbed or destroyed by the Entity, apparently aided by the errant android Lore. Scientist Noonian Soong, who had constructed a second android, Data, manages to record the memories of all the colonists in the new android. Soong conceals the still-dormant Data in an underground location, then escapes from Omicron Theta, although it is believed at the time that Soong was among the casualties at the colony. 2336 [Sergey Rozhenko joins the crew of the USS Intrepid as a warp field specialist.] 2337 Natasha Yar is born at the Federation colony on Turkana Four [to Ryland and Anastasia Yar]. Will Riker's mother [Laura] dies, leaving him to be raised by his father, Starfleet civilian advisor Kyle Riker. 2338 Data is discovered at the remains of the colony on Omicron Theta by crew of the Federation starship USS Tripoli. 2340 Worf is born on the Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS, the son of Mogh [and Mura]. Ro Laren is born on Bajor [to Ro Seval and Dirla Farys]. Geordi La Forge, aged five, is caught in a fire. His parents rescue him after a couple of minutes. Although he was not hurt, Geordi would later recall that these were the longest couple of minutes of his life, and that it was some time before he would allow his parents out of earshot. [Sixteen-year-old Beverly Howard moves back to Earth following the death of her grandmother.] 2341 Data enters Starfleet Academy. The Academy had ruled that Data is a sentient life-form and thus was eligible for consideration for entry, a decision objected to by [Lt.] Bruce Maddox. (^5) [Katherine Pulaski graduates with a medical degree from Starfleet Academy. Her first assignment is as a medical officer for a deep space exploration mission on the USS Chamberlain.] [Five-year-old Deanna Troi is "bonded" with an Earth boy, Wyatt Miller.] 2342 Ishara Yar, younger sister of Tasha Yar, is born on Turkana Four. Tasha Yar, aged five, is orphaned when her parents are killed by crossfire between rival gangs. She is left to care for her younger sister, Ishara. (April 9) Jean-Luc Picard stands up the future Jenice Manheim in the Cafe' des Artistes in Paris. Beverly Howard enters the Starfleet Academy medical school. 2343 Starfleet approves early design on the Galaxy-class starship development project. [First contact is made with the Pakleds, a race of technology- scavengers who do not have a regulated government of any real kind. The contact, between the Pakled vessel Rangar and the USS Rayleigh, begins well, as the Pakleds seem intent on being "friends" with the Rayleigh's crew, but ends on a sour note following an unsuccessful attempt on the Pakleds' part to steal replicator technology from the Starfleet vessel.] Geordi La Forge, aged eight, gets his first pet, a Circassian cat. 2344 The USS Enterprise (NCC 1701-C), under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett, is nearly destroyed defending a Klingon outpost on Narendra Three from a Romulan attack. A few members of the Enterprise crew are reported to have been captured by the Romulans following the battle. One of them, a 29-year-old Natasha Yar from an alternate future, is chosen as a consort by a Romulan official. >>> Continued to next message Path: newserv.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!matrix!scott.hollifield From: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology 3/6 Message-ID: <2296.3844.uupcb@the-matrix.com> Date: 2 Oct 93 17:03:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: The MATRIX - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016 Reply-To: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Lines: 147 >>> Continued from previous message Young William Riker goes fishing with his father, Kyle Riker, near their home in Valdez. The younger Riker is able to hook a big fish, but his father insists on reeling it in. The incident would bother Will for many years. [At the age of eleven, Vash leaves her homeworld by stowing away on a cargo freighter.] 2345 Data graduates from Starfleet Academy with honors in exobiology and probability mechanics. [His first assignment is aboard the science vessel USS Prokhorov.] Kurn is born, son of Mogh, and brother to Worf. Sela is born on Romulus. [Dr. Pulaski rises to the rank of full lieutenant.] 2346 Mogh suspects a Klingon named Ja'rod of plotting with the Romulans against the Klingon emperor. He follows Ja'rod to the Khittomer outpost. Expecting the trip to be relatively short, Mogh arranges for family friend Lorgh to care for his younger son, Kurn. Mogh's wife and elder son, Worf, accompany Mogh to Khittomer. Romulans attack the Klingon outpost at Khittomer. The USS Intrepid, responding to a distress call, is one of the first ships on the scene to offer aid. Sergey Rozhenko, a warp field specialist on the Intrepid, rescues six-year-old Worf and adopts him as his son, to be raised on the farm world of Gault. [While the USS Stargazer is being refitted, its crew is laid over on Earth for eighteen months, during which cadet Beverly Howard is introduced to Stargazer officer Jack Crusher by Walker Keel.] [Dr. Katherine Pulaski joins the microtherapy group at the Stroycicz Reserach Station. While there, she authors a ground- breaking paper entitled "Linear Models of Viral Propogation".] 2347 Worf at seven years of age gets into trouble at school on Gault for beating up several teenage boys. Ro Laren witnesses her father's brutal torture and murder at the hands of Cardassian forces. Starfleet Command orders a change in the design of the Starfleet emblem. 2348 Starfleet officer Jack Crusher marries medical student Beverly Howard. They had been introduced by Walker Keel, a close friend of Jack Crusher and Jean-Luc Picard, although Picard would later recall that he had not yet met Beverly at this point. Jean-Luc Picard visits his family in LaBarre. It is his last trip home prior to his convalescence after the Borg encounter of 2367. [The newlywed Crushers honeymoon at Angel Falls, Venezuela, on Earth.] 2349 Wesley Crusher is born to Jack and Beverly Crusher. When Wesley is ten weeks old, Jack records a holographic message that he hopes Wesley will play when he reaches his eighteenth birthday. The alternate future Lt. Yar is executed following an attempted escape from Romulus with her daughter, Sela. [Data is transfered to the USS Compton.] [The Cardassian Union's imperialist forces make several assaults upon Federation space, prompting hostility to flare into open warfare.] [Lt. Cmdr. Ian Andrew Alex Troi, nee' Alexander, is one of twelve casualities when his ship, the USS Horizon, is fired upon by Cardassian forces.] 2350 Beverly Crusher graduates with a medical degree from Starfleet Academy. Kyle Riker leaves his son, William, at age 15. Kyle and Will do not speak again until 2365. [Captain Walker Keel returns to space as he assumes command of the USS Horatio.] [Starfleet Command orders a change in design of the Starfleet uniform.] 2351 Sergey and Helena Rozhenko, along with their adopted son, Worf, and another son, move from the farm world of Gault back to Earth. [Kyle Riker signs up with the Diplomatic Corps' civilian advisory service, and is stationed at Starbase 107.] [Data is promoted to lieutenant (j.g.).] [Dr. Crusher begins serving her first residency, on Starbase 59.] [Dr. Katherine Pulaski is transferred to the USS Spruance, where she serves as Assistant Chief Medical Officer.] 2352 Fifteen-year-old Natasha Yar escapes from the failed colony at Turkana Four. Her younger sister Ishara, who has joined one of the gangs on the planet, declines to leave with her. Shortly after Tasha's depature, the colony breaks off contact with the Federation. Beverly Crusher is transferred to Delos Four, where she serves a residency under Dr. Dalen Quaice. [At the age of sixteen, Deanna Troi enrolls in the psychology program at the University of Science on Betazed.] 2353 Starfleet civilian advisor Kyle Riker is the sole survivor of a Tholian attack on [Starbase 107]. [His was the only active life sign picked up by the rescue ship, USS Spruance.] He recovers his health under the care of [the Spruance's Asst. CMO] Dr. Katherine Pulaski, a relationship which turns to romance between the two. William Riker enters Starfleet Academy. One of his friends is fellow student Paul Rice, who would eventually command the USS Drake prior to Rice's death on Minos. The superintendent of the Academy is a native of Vulcan. Geordi La Forge enters Starfleet Academy. His major field of study is engineering. [Data is transferred to the USS Giraud, where he serves as Chief Science Officer.] [Capt. Picard and the USS Stargazer are dispatched to Cardassian space to make preliminary overtures to a peace settlement. Not ready for peace at this time, the Cardassians chase the Stargazer back to Federation territory.] [Convinced that archaeology holds the key to a life of wealth and adventure, Vash enrolls in a science academy. She receives mediocre but passing grades.] >>> Continued to next message Path: newserv.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!matrix!scott.hollifield From: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology 4/6 Message-ID: <2297.3844.uupcb@the-matrix.com> Date: 2 Oct 93 17:03:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: The MATRIX - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016 Reply-To: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Lines: 146 >>> Continued from previous message 2354 Lt. Jack Crusher dies on a USS Stargazer away team mission under the command of Captain Picard. Captain Picard, aboard the USS Stargazer, visits Chalna. [Grieving over her husband's death, Dr. Crusher moves to Earth with her son Wesley, where she begins serving as a tissue specialist with the Starfleet Medical Auxilliary unit in San Francisco.] [Dr. Pulaski is promoted to Chief Medical Officer on the USS Spruance when the residing CMO, Dr. Sorenson, retires.] 2355 The Stargazer, under the command of Picard, is nearly destroyed in a conflict in the Maxia Zeta system by an unknown adversary, eventually learned to be a Ferengi spacecraft. Picard saves his crew by employing what is later termed the "Picard maneuver". The ship is abandoned, and the crew drifts in lifeboats and shuttlecraft for ten weeks before being rescued. Captain Picard is court-martialed for the loss of the Stargazer by Starfleet prosecutor Phillipa Louvois. [After Picard is exonerated of charges stemming from the Stargazer incident, he and Phillipa Louvois strike up a romantic relationship that ends when Louvois is promoted and transferred away.] Worf, aged 15, reaches the Age of Ascension. [Deanna Troi graduates with a degree in Psychological Science from the university on Betazed. She goes on to apply successfully for Starfleet Academy as well as a one-year accreditation due to her previous education.] [Dr. Beverly Crusher is promoted to the rank of full lieutenant.] (^6) 2356 [Capt. Picard signs on for a one-year tour on the USS Conestoga, where he assists in the exploration training of a class of Academy cadets.] [During a diplomatic mission to Cerebus Three, Admiral Mark Jameson acquires a youth drug used by the natives there.] [Dr. Katherine Pulaski is hand-picked for the position of Chief Medical Officer of the USS Repulse by Captain Taggart.] 2357 William Riker graduates from Starfleet Academy. [His first assignment is as a navigation officer aboard the USS Kinkaid.] Geordi La Forge graduates from Starfleet Academy with a major in engineering. [His first posting is as an engineer on the USS Tomonaga.] (^7) Worf enters Starfleet Academy. He is the first Klingon to serve in Starfleet. Worf's stepbrother also enters the Academy, but finds it not to his liking, and returns to his former home on Gault. (^8) [Tasha Yar enters Starfleet Academy.] The USS Galaxy, prototype for the Galaxy-class starship program, is commissioned. [The decision is made by Starfleet to eliminate the position of Chief Science Officer from the personnel hierarchy of all Galaxy-class ships, due to the unprecedented size of their anticipated crews; instead, a new hierarchy of semi-autonomous Science sub-departments is put into place, each with its own chief officer.] 2358 Major work progresses on the Galaxy-class starship Enterprise, under construction at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in orbit around Mars. The project is under the overall supervision of Cmdr. Orvil Quinteros. Significant contributions to the design of the warp propulsion system are made by Dr. Leah Brahms, a junior member of engineering team 7, and a graduate of the Daystrom Institue. [Deanna Troi graduates from Starfleet Academy. Her first assignment is on Betazed working as a staff psychologist for the Federation Diplomatic Corps stationed there. She also takes further classes at the University.] (^9) [Data is transferred to an Ops position on the USS Chesapeake; he is also promoted to full lieutenant.] [Dr. Crusher is promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and to the position of Chief of Surgery at the medical center.] 2359 [While at the Academy,] Worf meets K'Ehleyr [who is working there as a instruction assistant teaching classes about the Federation's history with the Klingon Empire]. The two have an unresolved relationship. [Will Riker is transferred to a tactical position on the USS White and is promoted to lieutenant (j.g.).] [Ro Laren enters Starfleet Academy. She is the third Bajoran to serve in Starfleet.] [Dr. Crusher receives her first starship assignment, as a medical officer on the USS New Orleans.] [Geordi La Forge transfers to the USS MacNaughton, where he serves in the engineering department.] 2360 [Will Riker is promoted to Chief Tactical Officer of the USS White.] [Data is transferred to the USS Trieste.] [While on the MacNaughton, Geordi switches specializations from engineering to navigation, for reasons unknown.] [Deanna Troi is promoted to the rank of lieutenant (j.g.).] [The Galaxy-class USS Yamato, NCC-1305-E, is commissioned and launched from Utopia Planetia. Its commanding officer is Captain Donald Varley.] [K'Ehleyr leaves her job at the Academy and joins the diplomatic service as a Federation envoy to the Klingon Empire. She is the third person ever to hold such an office, and the first Klingon to work as a Federation diplomat.] 2361 [Tasha Yar and Worf both graduate from the same Academy class and make it onto the same first assignment, as part of the security team on the USS La Gloire.] Will Riker and Deanna Troi meet on Betazed and fall in love. [Riker is stationed there for nine months working with the Federation Diplomatic Corps while waiting for another starship assignment.] He is also promoted to the rank of full lieutenant while on Betazed. Vash begins working as an assistant to Professor Samuel Estragon. The USS Potemkin makes last Federation contact with the failed colony on Turkana Four prior to the Enterprise visit in 2367. [Dr. Crusher is promoted to Assistant Chief Medical Officer on the New Orleans.] >>> Continued to next message Path: newserv.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!matrix!scott.hollifield From: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology 5/6 Message-ID: <2298.3844.uupcb@the-matrix.com> Date: 2 Oct 93 17:03:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: The MATRIX - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016 Reply-To: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Lines: 149 >>> Continued from previous message [Geordi La Forge is transferred to the USS Victory, where he serves as a helm officer.] He serves under the command of Capt. Zembata, and [frequently] works with [the ship's Second Officer,] Lt. Susanna Leijten. [Cadet Ro Laren is forced to repeat a year's worth of Academy credits as punishment for being involved in an incident where she abandoned her flight team on a test mission in order to achieve a higher score.] [Ambassador Sarek begins exhibiting nominal symptoms of Bendaii syndrome. He keeps his condition a secret initially, but wife and close associates eventually deduce the truth.] 2362 Riker leaves Betazed for a transfer to the USS Potemkin [as Chief Tactical Officer], promising to meet Deanna on Risa in six weeks. Lt. Riker was part of an USS Potemkin away team on Nervala Four when, unbeknownst to anyone, a transporter fluke created a duplicate of Riker who remained on the planet while the original left with the Potemkin. [Riker is given a promotion to lieutenant commander and decides to stay on the Potemkin instead of meeting Deanna. He later transfers to the USS Hood, where he serves as Capt. DeSoto's first officer for a year and a half.] [After her relationship with Will Riker ends, Deanna Troi rethinks her career and takes her first space assignment, as Station Counselor on Starbase 11. She is one of the first chief psychologists on a Federation space station. She is promoted to the rank of full lieutenant along with the transfer.] Dr. Dalen Quaice begins a tour of duty at Starbase 133. He remains at that posting until the death of his wife, Patricia, in 2367. [Dr. Crusher is transferred to the USS Valiant, where she serves as Chief Medical Officer for two years. She is also promoted to the rank of commander.] [Ensign Worf receives a reprimand for "overzealous behavior" while serving as a security officer on the La Gloire, and is transfered against his will to the Ops station.] [Tasha Yar is promoted to lieutenant (j.g.).] [While serving on the Victory, Ens. Geordi La Forge gets the opportunity to pilot Captain Jean-Luc Picard on an inspection tour via shuttlecraft. It is the first meeting between the two officers.] [Lt. Monroe Kosinski first meets the mysterious "Traveller" from Tau Alpha C. He takes on the Traveller as his assistant, which enables him to advance his work in warp propulsion significantly.] [Lt. Data gets the opportunity to observe a wormhole while serving on the Trieste. It is, in fact, the first unipolar wormhole (i.e. with one stable pole, or end) discovered by the Federation.] 2363 Ens. Geordi La Forge is a member of the Victory away team, led by Lt. Susanna Leijten, investigating the disappearance of 49 persons at the colony on Tarchannan Three. Five years later, all five members of this away team are mysteriously compelled to return to the same planet. (^10) [At the age of 26, Tryla Scott becomes the youngest Starfleet officer in history to attain the rank of captain, due in part to both early admission to and early graduation from the Academy. She is given command of the USS Renegade.] [Tasha Yar is promoted to the positions of Chief Tactical Officer and Chief Security Officer on the La Gloire, as well as the rank of full lieutenant. Worf is promoted to the rank of lieutenant (j.g.) and begins serving under Lt. Yar's direct command in tactical and security.] [A tentative cease-fire is established between the Federation and the Cardassians, for the first time in fourteen years. It manages to last four years, until both sides can agree to an official truce.] The Galaxy-class starship Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, is launched from Utopia Planitia. Its official date of commission is 40759.5. (^11) [Ambassador Spock speaks publicly in favor of peace talks with Cardassia. His father disapproves of the open airing of Spock's opinions, believing Spock to be motivated by disrepect of Sarek's more moderate position. The dispute proves to be the final one between father and son, and Sarek breaks off all communication with Spock.] 2364 Cmdr. Will Riker (^12) is offered the opportunity to command the USS Drake but declines the assignment in order to serve on the Enterprise. Data [is promoted to lieutenant commander and] transfers to the Enterprise to serve as chief Ops officer and Second Officer. Dr. Crusher transfers to the Enterprise where she begins serving as Chief Medical Officer. Geordi La Forge transfers to the Enterprise. Deanna Troi transfers to the Enterprise as Ship's Counselor [and is promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander]. Lt. Yar and Lt. Worf both transfer to the Enterprise. [Ro Laren graduates from Starfleet Academy. Her first assignment is as a helm officer on the USS Wellington.] [Navigation records made by the USS Enterprise during an journey out of the galaxy (while under the control of a Traveller from Tau Alpha C) lead to the development of the Deep Space project, a program of specially-equipped space stations placed at remote locations to monitor frontier activity at the farthest reaches of explored space. The first, Deep Space One, is constructed in the L'louri sector, along the Enterprise's flight path toward galaxy M33.] First official contact is made with the Ferengi Alliance. 2365 Dr. Crusher accepts a position [as Administrative Chair of Exobiology] at Starfleet Medical headquarters [in Bern, Switzerland,] on Earth. She is replaced as Chief Medical Officer on the Enterprise by Dr. Katherine Pulaski. [Dr. Pulaski brings with her Dr. Selar, a Vulcan officer who serves as the Enterprise's Assistant CMO. When Pulaski leaves the ship after a year, Selar decides to remain on board.] Geordi La Forge is promoted to full lieutenant and to the position of Chief Engineer, replacing [Lt. Anthony] Logan. Worf is promoted to the rank of full lieuteant. [Ensign Ro sparks the incident at Garon Two, which results in the deaths of eight members of the Wellington's crew. She is court-martialed and sentenced to a six-year imprisonment at Jaros Two.] >>> Continued to next message Path: newserv.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!matrix!scott.hollifield From: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology 6/6 Message-ID: <2299.3844.uupcb@the-matrix.com> Date: 2 Oct 93 17:03:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: The MATRIX - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016 Reply-To: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) Lines: 116 >>> Continued from previous message 2366 Dr. Crusher returns to the Enterprise as Chief Medical Officer. [Dr. Pulaski returns to the Repulse as Chief Medical Officer following her one-year tour on the Enterprise.] Geordi La Forge is promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. The final truce between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union is signed. 2368 Ro Laren is released early from prison by Admiral Kennelley, and transfers to the USS Enterprise, where she assists in a crucial diplomatic mission invoving Bajoran terrorists. Picard requests a stay of duty for her on the Enterprise. The Cardassian occupational forces on Bajor are finally driven off by the Bajoran resistance. Though chaotic and unstable, a new Bajoran government is installed on the planet. (^13) 2369 The Federation, with the cooperation of the Bajoran government, begins administration of an orbiting station around Bajor, which the Federation rename Deep Space Nine. It is commanded by Commander Benjamin Sisko. ---------------------------------- FOOTNOTES: (^1) This explains why we've been given two seemingly conflicting names for Deanna Troi's father, Ian Andrew ("The Child") and Alex ("Conundrum"). (^2) The Okuda chronology refers to the "Cardassian Empire", but in "Chain of Command", the actual Cardassian soveriegn entity is referred to as the Cardassian Union. (^3) Picard's highly accelerated rate of promotion is made necessary by the established fact that he made captain at the age of 28, six years after graduating from the Academy. (^4) There have been six ships to bear the name Yamato in Starfleet history to date; the sixth, NCC-1305-E, was the Galaxy-class sister ship to the Enterprise-D. Its predecessor, the Nebula- class NCC-1305-D, is the Yamato referred to here. (^5) Bruce Maddox is a commander in "The Measure of a Man", but since the hearings at which he was present for the question of Data's sentience happened over twenty years earlier, Maddox was undoubtedly of lower rank. (^6) Graduates of the eight-year medical program at Starfleet Academy typically emerge with a rank of lieutenant (j.g.) at the time of graduation. (^7) The Okuda chronology specifies that "one of" Geordi's "first assignments is aboard the USS Victory", but there's no evidence that the Victory was one of his first postings. In fact, evidence seems to point toward the Victory as being Geordi's *last* ship before the Enterprise. (^8) If Worf's human foster brother traveled with his parents, which is a safe assumption, then his home would be on Earth, not Gault. The show specifies neither. (^9) This explains why Troi was a "psychology student" when she met Riker, as established in "Menage a Troi". Without further information, this knowledge alone would seem to suggest that she had not yet entered Starfleet; yet, given the continuity from "Second Chances", Troi would have had to enter the Academy at an unusually late age, and undergone an unusually rapid level of promotion, under those circumstances. Ocaam's Razor prevails in this chronology. (^10) The Okuda chronology places this event in 2362 instead of 2363. This is incorrect if one goes by the Okuda's chronology's assumption that the beginning of each season (41000.0, 42000.0, etc.) coincides with the beginning of a calendar year. The justification for the Okuda date is Susanna Leijten's remark that the original Tarchannan mission took place five years prior, when it would have been four years going by the "1000 stardates=1 year" system. (^11) The pre-"Farpoint" Enterprise mission to Carnel, where Picard meets Tasha for the first time ("Legacy"), is regarded as out-of-continuity for the purposes for this chronology, even though the Okudas regard it as canon. Such an assumption would require the Enterprise to have gone on a mission before Riker, LaForge and the Crushers came aboard. This chronology works with the premise that "Farpoint" was the Enterprise's first mission. (^12) "The Icarus Factor" establishes that Riker was a lieutenant commander when approached by Picard to be a first officer on the Enterprise. Presumably, some time passed between Picard's offer and Riker's final transfer to the Enterprise, during which he was both promoted to commander and also offered the command of the Drake. (^13) This date is largely conjectural. It is established that the Federation presence at Bajor (at the beginning of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is put into place shortly after the Bajorans regain power on the planet; it stands to reason that the provisional government would have to be present at least six months or so before the Federation would feel it prudent to install representation. This would place the overthrow of the Cardassians in the previous calendar year, 2368. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com "So... worry much about Western civilization? Collapsing, or hadn't you . noticed? -- Elizabeth Perkins, _About Last Night..._ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-