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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.]
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Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology  2/6
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>>> 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.
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Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology  3/6
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>>> 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.]
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Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology  4/6
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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.]
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Subject: TNG Spec. Chronology  5/6
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[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.]
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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.


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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.

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