History Timeline / StarTrek

* Quark, Rom, Nog, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Odo]] are sent back through time due to an anomaly and a faulty shuttle, and end up in this year, crash-landing in an army base in America. The Americans try to do research on the Ferengi, believing them to be Martians, but the Ferengi escape and the Americans [[RoswellThatEndsWell lie that it was only a weather balloon]]. ([=DS9=]: "Little Green Men")

* Aliens travel to Earth around this time and kill humans to harvest neural energy. Data gets sent back in time by accident and Picard and his crew travel back to this time to save both Data and the humans. (TNG: "Time's Arrow")

* Quark, Rom, Nog, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Odo]] are sent back through time due to an anomaly and a faulty shuttle and end up in this year, crash-landing in an army base in America. The Americans try to do research on the Ferengi (believing them to be Martians), but the Ferengi escape and the Americans [[RoswellThatEndsWell lie that it was only a weather balloon.]] ([=DS9=]: "Little Green Men")

* The officers of the late USS ''Enterprise'' travel back to this year to rescue humpback whales in order to save Earth from a probe that's vaporizing the seas. To get money, Admiral James T. Kirk sells his spectacles at a pawn shop; these glasses would later become antiques and gifted to him in the future by Dr. Leonard [=McCoy=]. The crew also pick up nuclear materials to get back to their time and, after picking up the two humpback whales Gracie and George, return to the year 2286. (''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'')

* The Eugenics Wars are fought on Earth. Several Augments, Humans genetically engineered to be stronger and smarter than normal, become petty dictators over parts of the planet, but they are eventually defeated, though Earth is left devastated; the last of the Augment tyrants, Khan Noonien Singh, escapes capture aboard the SS ''Botany Bay'' along with his most devoted followers. (TOS: "Space Seed")

* Advancements in sublight propulsion technology render sleeper ships obsolete. (TOS: "Space Seed")

* World War III begins over the issue of genetic engineering and human genome enhancement. Among the major players of the war is Colonel Phillip Green, whose actions lead to some 37 million deaths. (production art seen in ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")

* Lieutenant John Kelly commands the ''Ares IV'' on a manned Earth mission to Mars. However, ''Ares IV'' vanishes in a graviton ellipse so the two remaining astronauts on the Martian surface have to be rescued. Nevertheless, ''Ares IV'' starts a crucial step in the continued Human exploration of the planets. (VOY: "One Small Step")

* Having replaced the United Nations by this year, the New United Nations rules that citizens may not be held responsible for crimes committed by their race or forebears. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")

* The ''Enterprise'' (NX-01) from an {{alternate timeline}} emerges from a subspace corridor from the year 2154. So far back in time, the crew can do nothing but wait in the Delphic Expanse for a chance to find and destroy the Xindi superweapon prototype that attacked Earth. ''Enterprise'' thus becomes a generational ship, trading for provisions and taking on alien crewmembers to survive. By the time this NX-01 meets the present-day ''Enterprise'', T'Pol is the only remaining original crewmember still living. (ENT: "E Squared")

* Human engineer Lily Sloane begins gathering titanium for the cockpit of her friend Dr. Zefram Cochrane's warp ship, the ''Phoenix''. (''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'')

* Dr. Zefram Cochrane, with the aid of William Riker and Geordi La Forge, flies the ''Phoenix'' and becomes the first human to travel at warp speed. His flight is detected by a passing Vulcan ship that later makes a landing in Bozeman, Montana, leading to First Contact, which marks the beginning of a new era for Earth. (''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'')

* A small group of Ba'ku leave their solar system that is on the verge of self-annihilation to find a world that would be isolated from all conflicts. They eventually settle on a planet located in the Briar Patch that has unique metaphasic properties. (''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'')

* By this year, the post-atomic horror is underway on Earth with all "United Earth nonsense" being abolished and the New United Nations having ceased to exist. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint," ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")

* Earth's Space Agency plans to send a second wave of two hundred settlers to Terra Nova colony. Mark Logan leads a group of colonists opposed to the arrival of newcomers, even threatening to use force against them. After a series of hostile communications, contact with the colony ceases. Soon after, the colony is destroyed by an asteroid strike that scatters toxic debris over the region. (ENT: "Terra Nova")

* The first of the Martian Colonies is established. (VOY: "Lifesigns," "The 37's"; ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'')

* Redjac, as UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, kills eight women in the Martian Colonies. (TOS: "Wolf in the Fold")

* The Taurean system is briefly explored and a spaceship is lost near there. Over the next 164 years, a ship will disappear in this region exactly every 27.346 years. (TAS: "The Lorelei Signal")

* Jonathan Archer is born in Upstate New York, Earth, to Henry and Sally Archer. (ENT: "Broken Bow," "North Star")

* The Vulcans accuse the Andorians of an incursion on Weytahn/Paan Mokar and violating the Treaty of 2097. (ENT: "Cease Fire")

* Dr. Zefram Cochrane opens the Warp Five Complex in Bozeman, Montana as part of the NX Program devoted to developing the warp five engine. (ENT: "Broken Bow")

* On his eighth birthday, Jonathan Archer receives a copy of ''The Cosmos A to Z'' from his father Henry. (ENT: "Fusion")

* Charles Tucker III is born in Panama City, Florida, Earth, to Charles Tucker II and his wife.
* Together with his father Henry, nine-year-old Jonathan Archer builds a model spaceship. (ENT: "Broken Bow")

* The Vulcan Ministry of Security sends 109 operatives to Agaron to infiltrate various criminal organizations; however, nineteen of these operatives, including Menos, do not return. (ENT: "The Seventh")

* Hoshi Sato is born in Kyoto, Japan, Earth. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")
* A Kantare supply ship crash-lands on an uninhabited planet halfway between Kantare and Kotara Barath, stranding its only two survivors, Ezral and his daughter Liana, on the planet's surface. (ENT: "Oasis")

* Jonathan Archer competes in the North American Water Polo Regionals of this year against Princeton University, and his team's last-minute victory ensures them a place in the tournament finals. (ENT: "Vox Sola")

* T'Pol tracks down the fugitive operatives Menos and Jossen to Risa and pursues them into the planet's jungles, where she kills Jossen; Menos, however, escapes. (ENT: "The Seventh")

* Vanik assumes command of the Vulcan starship ''Ti'Mur''. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
* While attending flight school in San Francisco, Jonathan Archer becomes romantically involved with Margaret Mullin. The night before he graduates, he asks her to marry him, but she turns him down, saying she doesn't want to become a "Starfleet widow." (ENT: "Twilight")

* Emory Erickson, the inventor of Earth's teleporter, attempts to top his earlier achievement by inventing a sub-quantum teleportation device, which is intended to make his transporter obsolete. However, his invention is a failure when he loses his son, Quinn, in subspace. (ENT: "Daedalus")

* The ECS ''Horizon'' encounters a group of Deltans. Teenage Travis Mayweather finds them very attractive and very open, so he tries to overcome his feelings with a hard workout. (ENT: "Bound")

* Shran assumes command of the Andorian warship ''Kumari''. (ENT: "Babel One")

* The NX Program is threatened with cancellation by the Vulcan Advisory Council following Commander A.G. Robinson's disastrous test flight of the NX-Alpha, but an unsanctioned flight of the NX-Beta by Robinson and Commander Jonathan Archer, with assistance from Lieutenant Charles Tucker III, saves the program. (ENT: "First Flight")
* A group of ''V'tosh ka'tur'', Vulcans who wish to no longer suppress their emotions, leave Vulcan aboard the ''Vahklas''. (ENT: "Fusion")
* Phlox and his son Mettus stop speaking to each other over a disagreement on Denobulan prejudices toward Antarans. (ENT: "The Breach")
* Dr. Arik Soong raises his group of Augment children on Trialas IV during this time. (ENT: "Cold Station 12")

* Dr. Arik Soong is found and captured, leaving his Augment children to fend for themselves on Trialas IV. (ENT: "Borderland")

* T'Pol begins working at the Vulcan Compound in Sausalito, California on Earth. (ENT: "Fusion")

* Emory Erickson first attempts to re-materialize his son Quinn aboard his research ship. (ENT: "Daedalus")

* Captain Jonathan Archer is selected as commanding officer of ''Enterprise'' (NX-01) over A.G. Robinson by Admiral Maxwell Forrest, despite Captain Gardner having been considered a more suitable choice by Ambassador Soval. (ENT: "First Flight," "Shadows of P'Jem")
* Travis Mayweather's father sends a letter to Archer strongly recommending his son for helmsman on ''Enterprise''. (ENT: "Horizon")

* Humanity unofficially makes first contact with the Klingons when the Klingon warrior Klaang crash-lands in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. ''Enterprise'' (NX-01), Earth's first warp 5 starship, is launched by Starfleet on a mission to return Klaang to Kronos, and also becomes involved in the Temporal Cold War when they come into conflict with the Suliban Cabal. After the mission to return Klaang to his homeworld succeeds, ''Enterprise'' is given the go-ahead by Starfleet to begin its exploratory mission. (ENT: "Broken Bow")

* ''Enterprise'' makes first contact with the Andorians at P'Jem, where a band of Andorians, led by Commander Shran, finally uncovers the existence of a Vulcan surveillance post. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")

* ''Enterprise'' prevents the crew of the ECS ''Fortunate'' from igniting hostilities between the Nausicaans and Earth Cargo Service freighters. (ENT: "Fortunate Son")

* The Andorians destroy the facility on P'Jem, though they give sufficient warning for personnel present to evacuate first. (ENT: "Shadows of P'Jem")

* Captain Jonathan Archer is instrumental in the liberation of Detention Complex 26 on Tandar Prime which later gives him a reputation of legendary proportions as an invincible warrior. (ENT: "Detained", "Desert Crossing")
* ''Enterprise'''s first contact with the Kreetassans ends in a misunderstanding. During the Kreetassans' departure from the ship, a symbiotic life-form attaches to ''Enterprise'', then captures and assimilates four crewmembers (Archer, Commander Tucker, Rostov, and Kelly), but it's transported to its homeworld. (ENT: "Vox Sola")

* On its way to Risa, ''Enterprise'' is ordered to retrieve Vulcan Ambassador V'Lar, accused of criminal misconduct, from Mazar. It becomes the first Earth starship to reach warp 5 while fleeing from Mazarite vessels. (ENT: "Fallen Hero")

* ''Enterprise'' arrives at Risa, where some crewmembers take shore leave. Archer is approached by an attractive Tandaran agent named Keyla Terrana; Tucker and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed are robbed; Ensign Hoshi Sato flirts with an alien man. (ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights")

* ''Enterprise'' visits Tessik Prime, where Crewman Fisher comes down with a case of Rigelian fever, necessitating the inoculation of the entire crew by Dr. Phlox with a vaccine containing millions of genetically-altered microbes. (ENT: "Dead Stop")

* The first known contact between vessels representing Earth and the Romulans occurs after ''Enterprise'' encounters a minefield laid by the latter. Visual contact between crews is not made. (ENT: "Minefield")
* After the damage inflicted by the Romulan minefield, ''Enterprise'' visits a mysterious automated repair station. During the repairs, Travis Mayweather is abducted. (ENT: "Dead Stop")
* ''Enterprise'' visits Kreetassa in a failed attempt to trade plasma injectors, only to end up in another misunderstanding after Porthos "waters" their sacred Alvera trees. Archer eventually proceeds with a long and ritualistic apology, which is accepted. (ENT: "A Night in Sickbay")

* ''Enterprise'' approaches a trinary star system housing a Class IV black hole for observations. The radiation affects the behavior of the crew, except for T'Pol. When all the rest of the crew is unconscious, T'Pol revives Archer and together they pilot the ship outside the stellar influence. However, Reed's earlier obsession with the ship's security results in a system which becomes standard procedure on the ship: Tactical alert. (ENT: "Singularity")

* While testing a prototype auto-pilot, Tucker's shuttle is downed by an Arkonian pilot on one of a gas giant's 62 moons. Both men try to fix their respective ships but are stalled by the alien's distrust and hostile nature. ''Enterprise'''s search efforts are further hampered by the selenium isotope on the moons' atmospheres, but eventually Tucker manages to use the alien's transceiver to contact the ship. (ENT: "Dawn")
* During the Interspecies Medical Exchange on Dekendi III, Feezal comes aboard ''Enterprise'', where she reunites with her husband Phlox and helps Tucker install a neutron microscope, while T'Pol's Pa'nar Syndrome is revealed. (ENT: "Stigma")
* With the help of Archer as a mediator between the Andorians and Vulcans, Ambassador Soval and Commander Shran agree on a ceasefire between the Vulcans and Andorians on Weytahn/Paan Mokar. ''Enterprise'', under Tucker's command, stops an orbital conflict between the two forces. Shran and Soval end their negotiations in a positive mood, setting the stage for future negotiations. (ENT: "Cease Fire")

* ''Enterprise'' finds a small craft from the future adrift in space, and both the Suliban and the Tholians are intent on retrieving it. (ENT: "Future Tense")
* Archer and Tucker visit Keto-Enol and initiate a successful first contact with the Enolians. On their way out, they are arrested for possessing what the Enolian Guard believes to be contraband. As Archer and Tucker travel to Canamar on an Enolian transport, Kuroda hijacks the ship. With the help of an official, ''Enterprise'' finds the transport and rescues the crew. (ENT: "Canamar")

* ''Enterprise'' "rescues" three Denobulan scientists from the caves of Xantoras while it aids a ship which has problems with a reactor leak above the planet. (ENT: "The Breach")
* ''Enterprise'' makes first contact with the Vissians when they both study a supergiant, but relations are tainted by Tucker's interest in one cogenitor aboard the Vissian starship. (ENT: "Cogenitor")

* The wreckage of a Borg sphere is discovered in Earth's Arctic Circle, having been buried there for 90 years. The surviving Borg manage to steal a transport and escape Earth before they are intercepted. ''Enterprise'' (NX-01) catches up with them and manages to destroy the Borg-assimilated transport, but the Borg manage to send a subspace message to the Delta Quadrant that will take 200 years to arrive. (ENT: "Regeneration")

* ''Enterprise'' explores an uninhabited planet on which Phlox and T'Pol are contaminated. Archer is captured by Skalaar who intends to give him back to the Klingons. However, in the process, he helps him escape and return to ''Enterprise''. (ENT: "Bounty")
* The war between the various Triannon factions comes to an end with the destruction of the surface of the planet Triannon. (ENT: "Chosen Realm")

* ''Enterprise'' is recalled to Earth, where it is refitted as a warship and provided with a detachment of [=MACO=]s, and sent into the Delphic Expanse to find a superweapon being constructed by the Xindi to outright destroy Earth. (ENT: "The Expanse")

* Damron travels to Earth in the year 2004 in an attempt to wipe out the Humans, though he is foiled by the intervention of Daniels. (ENT: "Carpenter Street")

* En route to Azati Prime, ''Enterprise'' discovers a derelict Xindi-Insectoid ship and apprehends a Xindi-Insectoid shuttlecraft. The crew discovers a hatchery containing Xindi-Insectoid eggs aboard the Insectoid ship, and Archer is exposed to a neurotoxin that makes him highly obsessive about protecting the eggs. He authorizes [=MACOs=] to be put in place, until T'Pol, Commander Charles Tucker III, and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed lead a successful mutiny against Archer. Once he is cleared of the neurotoxin, though, he resumes command. (ENT: "Hatchery")

* ''Enterprise'' is apprehended by the Wisp ship, where the Wisps attempt to take over the crew to continue their existence. Phlox, advised by T'Pol, floods the ship with CO2 and frees all the crew of the Wisps' influence. ''Enterprise'' quickly pulls away from their ship and destroys it by firing two spatial torpedoes into the interior. (ENT: "The Crossing")

* Quark, Rom, Nog, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Odo]] are sent back through time due to an anomaly and a faulty shuttle and end up in this year, crash-landing in an army base in America. The Americans try to do research on the Ferengi (believing them to be Martians), but the Ferengi escape and the Americans [[RoswellThatEndsWell lie that it was only a weather balloon.]] (DS9: "Little Green Men")

* George Kirk is born to Tiberius Kirk and his wife. (''Film/StarTrek'', ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'')

* James Tiberius Kirk is born in Iowa, Earth, to George and Winona Kirk. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before," "The Deadly Years"; ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly"; ''Film/StarTrek'')

* Captain James T. Kirk assumes command of the USS ''Enterprise'' for an historic five-year mission of exploration. He is seen off by his father George Kirk, his brother George Samuel Kirk, Jr. and his family. (TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "The Menagerie"; ''Film/StarTrek''; VOY: "Q2")

* The Romulans learn of a nearby star due to go supernova and task Ambassador Spock to pilot the ''Jellyfish'' with the intent to use red matter to create an black hole that will engulf the supernova. The star goes supernova, destroying Romulus and wiping out a majority of the Romulan race, including the wife and unborn child of Nero, captain of the Romulan mining vessel ''Narada'' who blames Spock for his losses and seeks revenge on the Vulcan. Spock succeeds in launching red matter into the supernova; the resulting black hole, however, consumes the ''Jellyfish'' along with the ''Narada''. (''Film/StarTrek'')

* The USS ''Kelvin'' investigates a "lightning storm" near Klingon space which turns out to be a black hole out of which emerges the ''Narada'' from the year 2387 of the Original Timeline, resulting in the creation of the Kelvin Timeline. The ''Narada'' immediately opens fire on the ''Kelvin'', and Captain Richard Robau is killed by Nero during a brief cessation of hostilities. As most of the crew evacuates, first officer Lieutenant Commander George Kirk stays behind to give them time to escape. As shuttlecraft escapes, George's wife Winona prematurely gives birth to their son, whom they name "James Tiberius." Seconds later, George dies ramming the damaged ''Kelvin'' into the ''Narada''. (''Film/StarTrek'', ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'')

* James T. Kirk grows up a wild and reckless youth in Iowa. (''Film/StarTrek'')
* Spock grows up looked down upon by fellow Vulcans due to his mixed heritage, which sometimes leads to outbursts of anger, though he learns to control his emotions. His work eventually leads him to be within a hair's breath of attending the Vulcan Science Academy; however, upon hearing the Vulcan Council's own prejudices against him, Spock instead joins Starfleet, where he eventually rises through the ranks to become an Academy instructor. (''Film/StarTrek'')

* Pavel Chekov is born to Andrei Chekov. (''Film/StarTrek'')

* Commander Spock begins programming the ''Kobayashi Maru'' scenario. (''Film/StarTrek'')

* The USS ''Enterprise'' undergoes construction at the Riverside Shipyard in Iowa. James T. Kirk meets Starfleet cadet Nyota Uhura in an Iowa bar. Getting into a fight with several of her classmates, he gets into a conversation with Captain Christopher Pike, who tells Jim of his late father's accomplishments and [[DareToBeBadass asks if he can do better]]. Kirk ships out to Starfleet, promising Pike that he'll get his own ship in three years instead of four. On the way to Starfleet Academy, he befriends Leonard [=McCoy=] who, having lost a divorce case that left him with "[[IronicNickname nothing but my bones]]," joins Starfleet as a last resort despite his dislike of all the risks in space. (''Film/StarTrek'')

* Montgomery Scott and Keenser are stationed at a Federation outpost on Delta Vega after losing Admiral Jonathan Archer's prized pet beagle in a transwarp beaming experiment. (''Film/StarTrek'')

* ''Film/StarTrek'':

** James T. Kirk is permanently demoted to Captain and assigned command of the USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-A).

* The Dax symbiont first serves as a field docent for a Trill initiate. (DS9: "Playing God")

[[AC: 1986]]
* The officers of the USS Enterprise travel back to 1986 to rescue humpback whales in order to protect the future from a probe that's vaporizing the seas and ruining earth.
** To get money, Kirk sells his spectacles at a pawn shop. These glasses would later become antiques, and gifted to him in the future.
** They also pick up nuclear materials to get back to the future, and after picking the 2 humpbacks, eventually return to the future.

* A transporter accident sends Benjamin Sisko, Julian Bashir, and Jadzia Dax to San Francisco. Sisko and Bashir are taken to the city's Sanctuary District A, where Gabriel Bell is accidentally killed because of their presence. Fortunately, Sisko saves history by taking Bell's role in the Bell Riots, resulting in his photo being implemented as Bell's image in all future Starfleet records. ([=DS9=]: "Past Tense, Part I," "Past Tense, Part II," "Little Green Men")

* The ''Enterprise'' (NX-01) from an alternate timeline emerges from a subspace corridor from the year 2154. So far back in time, the crew can do nothing but wait in the Delphic Expanse for a chance to find and destroy the first Xindi weapon that attacked Earth. ''Enterprise'' thus becomes a generational ship, trading for provisions and taking on alien crewmembers to survive. By the time this NX-01 meets the present-day ''Enterprise'', T'Pol is the only remaining original crewmember still living. (ENT: "E Squared")

* Human engineer Lily Sloane begins gathering titanium for the cockpit of her friend Zefram Cochrane's warp ship, the ''Phoenix''. (''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'')

* A Borg sphere arrives from the year 2373 in an effort to prevent First Contact. The USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-E) arrives minutes later and destroys the sphere before it can do too much damage. The ''Enterprise'' crew then work to preserve the timeline by aiding Zefram Cochrane in repairing the damaged ''Phoenix'' and fighting off a detachment of Borg drones aboard the ''Enterprise''-E. (''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'')

* Zefram Cochrane, with the aid of William Riker and Geordi La Forge of the ''Enterprise''-E, flies the ''Phoenix'' and becomes the first human to travel at warp speed. His flight is detected by a passing Vulcan ship that later makes a landing in Bozeman, Montana, leading to First Contact, which marks the beginning of a new era for Earth. (''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'')

* Zefram Cochrane first says "Don't try to be a great man; just be a man and let history make its own judgments." (''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'')

* The first human colony on Mars is established, marking the start of the Martian Colonies. (VOY: "Lifesigns," "The 37's"; ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'')

* Zefram Cochrane opens the Warp Five Complex in Bozeman, Montana as part of the NX Program. (ENT: "Broken Bow")

* Jonathan Archer competes in the 2134 North American Water Polo Regionals against Princeton University, and his team's last-minute victory ensures them a place in the tournament finals. (ENT: "Vox Sola")

* Emory Erickson attempts to top his earlier achievement by inventing a sub-quantum teleportation device, which is intended to make his transporter obsolete. However, his invention is a failure when he loses his son, Quinn, in subspace. (ENT: "Daedalus")

* The NX Program is threatened with cancellation following Commander A.G. Robinson's disastrous test flight of the NX-Alpha, but an unsanctioned flight of the NX-Beta by Robinson and Commander Jonathan Archer, with assistance from Lieutenant Charles Tucker III, saves the program. (ENT: "First Flight")

* Jonathan Archer and Charles Tucker III participate in the Omega training mission on Titan. Archer saves Tucker's life when the latter's environmental suit malfunctions. (ENT: "Strange New World", "Unexpected")

* The Eugenics Wars are fought on Earth. Several Augments, Humans genetically engineered to be stronger and smarter than normal, become petty dictators over parts of the planet, but they are eventually defeated, though Earth is left devastated; the last of the Augment tyrants, Khan Noonien Singh, escapes capture aboard the SS ''Botany Bay'' along with his most devoted followers.

* The Xindi homeworld is destroyed. (ENT: "The Xindi")

* The ''Enterprise'' (NX-01) from an alternate timeline emerges from a subspace corridor from the year 2154. So far back in time, it can do nothing but wait in the Delphic Expanse for a chance to find and destroy the first Xindi weapon. ''Enterprise'' becomes a generational ship, trading for provisions and taking on alien crew to survive. By the time this NX-01 meets the present-day ''Enterprise'', T'Pol is the only remaining original crewmember still living. (ENT: "E Squared")

* World War III ends on Earth. Six hundred million people are dead, numerous major cities are destroyed or heavily damaged, and most of the planet's major governments are in ruins. (''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', ENT: "Terra Prime")

* Zefram Cochrane, with the aid of William Riker and Geordi La Forge, flies the ''Phoenix'' and becomes the first human to travel at warp speed. His flight is detected by a passing Vulcan ship that later makes a landing in Bozeman, Montana, leading to First Contact, which marks the beginning of a new era for Earth. (''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'')

* Jonathan Archer is born in Upstate New York, Earth, to Henry and Sally Archer.

* Phlox and his son Mettus stop speaking to each other over a disagreement on Denobulan prejudices about Antarans. (ENT: "The Breach")

* En route to Azati Prime, ''Enterprise'' discovers a derelict Xindi-Insectoid ship and apprehends a Xindi-Insectoid shuttlecraft. The crew discovers a hatchery containing Xindi-Insectoid eggs aboard the Insectoid ship, and Archer is exposed to a neurotoxin that makes him highly obsessive about protecting the eggs. He authorizes MACOs to be put in place, until T'Pol, Commander Charles Tucker III, and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed lead a successful mutiny against Archer. Once he is cleared of the neurotoxin, though, he resumes command. (ENT: "Hatchery")

*** Further, Uhura, Sulu and McCoy are permitted to keep their commands.

** Bringing their intel to Pike, Jim is temporarily allowed to stay on the ship, while thanks to her high language proficiency, Uhura is given a field promotion to communications lieutenant. As they ease out of hyperspace, they discover the fleet decimated, and Nero drilling down to Vulcan's core with a giant drill.
*** After the first round of fire, McCoy inherits chief medical officer position due to his superior dying.
*** In order to try and help buy Vulcan time to evacuate or protect the planet, Kirk volunteers alongside Sulu to try and destroy the drill. Despite the difficulties, they manage to do so, though not before the drill reaches Vulcan's core, allowing Nero to drop Red Matter to Vulcan's core.
*** Ensign Checkov helps to rescue Sulu and Kirk when they start free falling onto the planet, demonstrating a utility in both transporter operation and navigation.
*** At the same time, Pike tries to go to Nero's ship to negotiate, only to be captured. He turns command over to Spock, but also makes Kirk 1st officer.
** Evacuating Vulcan's leaders personally, Spock gets most of the council out safely, but a sudden collapse in the planet causes his mother to die with the planet.
*** Following this, they determine that they now truly live in an alternate timeline, but a disagreement over tactics leads Kirk to be marooned on Delta Vega. Fortunately, Prime Spock rescues him, informing him of Nero's true motives, and directing him to a service station headed by Montgomery Scott (Scotty) and his friend Keenser.
*** Handing over his future transwarp formula to him, Spock Prime gives Scotty the means to beam ALL of them to the enterprise. He declines to go on account of potentially causing a paradox, but he assures Kirk before going that Spock IS emotionally compromised, and that Kirk needs to prove it by provoking him to anger.

** The USS ''Enterprise'' stops off at Starbase Yorktown for re-supply. While there, they receive a "refugee" ship speaking of a lost ship out past a nebula. Investigating, the ''Enterprise'' is attacked by a swarm of ships that are so numerous, conventional weapons cannot stop them. Despite multiple attempts to fight or flee, the crew is eventually forced to abandon ship. The majority of the ''Enterprise'' crew is captured, but several members manage to escape: Spock and Leonard [=McCoy=] crash an enemy ship in a canyon, James T. Kirk and Pavel Chekov manage to land in a nearby forest, and Montgomery Scott manages to barely escape in a wooded but also cliffed area. Divided and without good information, the four groups begin seeking answers and each other.
** Spock and [=McCoy=] blunder though the canyon, though Spock is wounded. While together, they affirm their care for each other despite everything, as well as Spock telling [=McCoy=] about his desire to rejoin New Vulcan to make up for Ambassador Spock's death.
** Scott is rescued by the survivor Jayla, who takes him to the old USS ''Franklin'', which he begins repairing.
** Hikaru Sulu and Nyota Uhura learn more about their attacker, Krall. They learn how he contacted Yorktown, as well as his plans to destroy it as a mockery of their unity. He plans to do so with the use of a superweapon, which the ''Enterprise'' happened to be carrying the last piece of.
** Chekov and Kirk force Kalara to take them back to the remains of the ''Enterprise'' before she reveals herself as a traitor rather than a victim of Krall. They eventually join up with Scott and Jayla to start planning how to rescue the rest of the ''Enterprise'' crew. Beaming [=McCoy=] and Spock aboard the ''Franklin'', the crew makes plans to use a distraction in order to rescue the crew using holograms, a motorcycle, and the transporters. Working together, Jayla gets closure fighting Krall's lieutenant Manas and the crew is rescued. However, Krall then takes his "bees" to attack Yorktown. To pursue, the ''Franklin'' is re-launched under Kirk's command.
** Krall begins his attack on Yorktown. Using sound to jam their sensors, Kirk's crew and Yorktown disrupt the bees and destroy the majority of the swarm. Krall, however, manages to make it inside. Crashing into the ''Franklin'' during pursuit, Krall escapes, now in his true form; namely, as Uhura recognizes, he's in fact Balthazar Edison, a former MACO who was made a Starfleet captain after the Xindi and Romulan wars ended and the Federation was founded. Kirk pursues, trying to stop Edison from using his bio-weapon on Yorktown. Edison and Kirk engage in hand-to-hand combat; after a grueling battle, Edison is launched into space and destroyed by his own weapon.
** Kirk politely declines a promotion to vice admiral, deciding that the adventure with Edison gave him new purpose and love for the job. Jayla, as a consolation prize, is given a trip to Starfleet to give herself new purpose.