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Star Trek Generations Two partially-shadowed faces look at the camera. In the center, a sleek spaceship emerges from a lens flare. Theatrical release poster art Directed by    David Carson Screenplay by        Ronald D. Moore     Brannon Braga Story by        Rick Berman     Ronald D. Moore     Brannon Braga Based on    Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry Produced by    Rick Berman Starring        Patrick Stewart     Jonathan Frakes     Brent Spiner     Levar Burton     Michael Dorn     Gates McFadden     Marina Sirtis     Malcolm McDowell     James Doohan     Walter Koenig     William Shatner Cinematography    John A. Alonzo Edited by    Peter E. Berger[1] Music by    Dennis McCarthy Production company      Paramount Pictures Distributed by    Paramount Pictures Release date          November 18, 1994 Running time     118 minutes[2] Country    United States Language    English Budget    $35 million[3] Box office    $118 million[3] Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film and the seventh film in the Star Trek film series. Malcolm McDowell joins cast members from the 1960s television show Star Trek and the 1987 sequel series The Next Generation, including William Shatner and Patrick Stewart. In the film, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise-D joins forces with Captain James T. Kirk to stop the villain Tolian Soran from destroying a planetary system in his attempt to return to an extra-dimensional realm known as the Nexus. Generations was conceived as a transition from the original cast of the Star Trek films to the cast of The Next Generation. After developing several film ideas concurrently, the producers chose a script written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga. Production began while the final season of the television series was being made. The director was David Carson, who previously directed episodes of the television series; photography was by franchise newcomer John A. Alonzo. Filming took place on the Paramount Studios lots, and on location in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, and Lone Pine, California. The film's climax was revised and reshot following poor reception from test audiences. The film uses a mix of traditional optical effects alongside computer-generated imagery, and was scored by regular Star Trek composer Dennis McCarthy. Star Trek Generations was released in the United States on November 18, 1994. Paramount promoted the film with merchandising tie-ins, including toys, books, games, and a website—a first for a major motion picture. The film opened at the top of the United States box office its first week of release and grossed a total of $118 million worldwide. Critical reception was mixed, with critics divided on the film's characters and comprehensibility to a casual viewer. Plot In 2293, retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise-B. During the shakedown cruise, the starship is pressed into a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian refugee ships that have been snared by a massive energy ribbon. Enterprise is able to save some of the refugees before their ships are destroyed, but becomes trapped by the ribbon, and Kirk goes to a control room to help the ship escape. While Enterprise is freed, Kirk is presumed lost in space and dead after the trailing end of the ribbon tears open the ship's hull. In 2371, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D is in a holodeck computer simulation, celebrating the promotion of shipmate Worf to lieutenant commander. Captain Jean-Luc Picard learns his brother and nephew have been killed in a fire and is distraught that the Picard family line will end with him. Enterprise receives a distress call from a stellar observatory, where an El-Aurian, Dr. Tolian Soran, launches a probe at the nearby star. The probe causes the star to implode, creating a shockwave that destroys its planetary system. Soran kidnaps Enterprise engineer Geordi La Forge and is transported off the station by a Klingon Bird of Prey belonging to the Duras sisters. Enterprise crewmember Guinan tells Picard that she and Soran were among the El-Aurians rescued in 2293. Soran—who lost his family when their homeworld was destroyed—is obsessed with returning to the energy ribbon to reach the "Nexus", an extra-dimensional realm of wish fulfillment that exists outside of normal space-time. Picard and Data determine that Soran, unable to safely fly a ship directly into the ribbon, is altering its path by removing the gravitational effects of nearby stars. Soran plans to destroy another star to bring the ribbon to the planet Veridian III, consequently killing millions on a nearby inhabited planet. Upon entering the Veridian system, Picard offers himself to the Duras sisters in exchange for La Forge, but insists on being transported to Soran directly. La Forge is returned to Enterprise, but unwittingly exposes the ship's defense details through the transmitter installed in his VISOR device. The Duras sisters attack, and Enterprise sustains critical damage before destroying the Bird of Prey by triggering their cloaking device and firing photon torpedoes. When La Forge reports that the starship is about to suffer a warp-core breach as a result of the attack, Commander William Riker evacuates everyone to the forward saucer-section of the starship, which separates from the engineering section just before the breach occurs. The resulting shockwave sends the saucer-section crashing onto the surface of Veridian III. Picard fails to stop Soran from launching another probe. The resulting destruction of the Veridian star alters the course of the ribbon and Picard and Soran enter the Nexus before the shockwave destroys Veridian III. Picard finds himself surrounded by an idealized family, but realizes it is an illusion. He is confronted by an "echo" of Guinan left behind in the Nexus. Guinan sends him to meet James T. Kirk, safe in the Nexus. Though Kirk is initially entranced by the opportunity the Nexus offers to atone for past regrets, he realizes it lacks danger and excitement. Having learned that they can travel whenever and wherever desired through the Nexus, Picard convinces Kirk to return with him to Veridian III, shortly before Soran launches the probe. Working together, Kirk and Picard distract Soran long enough for Picard to lock the probe in place; it explodes on the launchpad and kills Soran. Kirk is fatally injured in the effort and Picard buries him at the site. Three Federation starships arrive to retrieve the Enterprise survivors from Veridian III. Picard muses that given the ship's legacy, the Enterprise-D will not be the last vessel to carry the name. Cast A light-skinned, white-haired elderly man talks with a microphone and gestures with his free hand. Malcolm McDowell (pictured in 2007) requested his character not have alien features to avoid lengthy sessions in the makeup chair. The main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation reprise their roles in Generations: Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Jonathan Frakes as Commander William Riker, LeVar Burton as Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data, Gates McFadden as Chief Medical Officer Commander Beverly Crusher, Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Commander Worf, and Marina Sirtis as ship's counselor Commander Deanna Troi. Recurring characters from the series return, including Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh as the villainous Klingon sisters Lursa and B'Etor Duras, Patti Yasutake as Enterprise nurse Lieutenant Alyssa Ogawa, and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan. Malcolm McDowell plays Tolian Soran, the film's antagonist. McDowell had worked with Stewart on stage decades earlier, and relished the chance to kill Shatner's character.[4] He liked his character's spiked hair and black ensemble, and requested that his character not have alien features to avoid lengthy makeup sessions.[5] In the film's initial script, the entire principal cast of The Original Series was featured, but only three members appear in the film: William Shatner as Kirk, James Doohan as Scott, and Walter Koenig as Chekov.[6]: 17  Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley declined to appear as their characters Spock and Leonard McCoy. Nimoy felt there were story problems with the script and that Spock's role was extraneous.[6]: 17–20  Producer Rick Berman told the press, "Both Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley felt they made a proper goodbye in the last movie."[7] Nimoy and Kelley's lines were subsequently modified for Doohan and Koenig.[8] The news that not all of the Original Series cast was in the film was not passed to all of The Next Generation actors. When Goldberg arrived on set on her first day, she immediately asked to see Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Nyota Uhura in The Original Series. When told that Nichols was not in the film, she said to Koenig, "The fans have been waiting for years to see Nichelle and me and Uhura and Guinan on screen together."[9] Patrick Stewart said that he had made an effort to ensure the original cast's involvement in the film: "I didn't want us to sail into the future just as The Next Generation cast."[10] Alan Ruck (2004) Alan Ruck plays Enterprise-B captain John Harriman. When approached for the role, Ruck assumed he would play an alien, saying, "Look, when I shave every day, I don't look in the mirror and say, 'Hey! There's a starship commander.'" Berman informed him that the character was from a wealthy and connected family, and was placed in command as a stepping stone to a political career.[11] Jacqueline Kim plays Enterprise-B helmsman Demora Sulu. Kim consulted with art supervisor Michael Okuda to make sure her hand movements and manipulations of the ships' controls were consistent and accurate.[12] Glenn Morshower played an Enterprise-B navigator; he apologized to the director for a poor first rehearsal, because as a Star Trek fan he was unused to performing along with actors he had idolized for years.[13]: 5'50"  Many of the minor characters throughout the film appeared in different roles in the television series. Tim Russ, who appears as an Enterprise-B bridge officer, played a terrorist in "Starship Mine" and a Klingon in "Invasive Procedures", and later joined the cast of Star Trek: Voyager as the Vulcan Tuvok.[14]: 318  Various background roles were played by the main cast's stunt doubles.[15] Production Development In 1992, months before the official announcement of a followup to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Paramount Pictures executives approached The Next Generation producer Rick Berman about creating another feature film.[14]: 308  Berman informed writers Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga that Paramount had approved a two-picture deal[14]: 308  approximately midway through The Next Generation's sixth season.[16] Moore and Braga, convinced Berman had called them into his office to tell them The Next Generation was cancelled and they were out of a job, were instead given the task of writing the film.[14]: 308 [17]: 241  Berman also worked with former Next Generation producer Maurice Hurley to develop possible story ideas,[18] intending to develop two film scripts simultaneously and prioritize whichever was most promising.[17]: 246  Executive producer Michael Piller turned down the opportunity to develop ideas, objecting to what he saw as a competition for the job.[14]: 308  Moore and Braga's script was ultimately chosen. The writers spent weeks developing the story with Berman, before taking a working vacation in May 1993 to write the first-draft screenplay, completed June 1.[14]: 309  Moore described Generations as a project with several required elements.[16] Berman felt that having the original cast of the previous Star Trek films felt like a "good way to pass the baton" to the next series.[14]: 308  The studio wanted the original cast to only appear in the first minutes and Kirk only recurring at the end of the film. Other requests included a Khan Noonien Singh-like antagonist, Klingons, and a humorous Data plot.[16] At one point, the writers toyed with the idea of pitting the two crews against each other. "We were obsessed with the poster image of the two Enterprises locked in combat: Kirk vs. Picard, One Must Die!" said Moore.[19] Ultimately, the writers could not come up with a plausible explanation for such a conflict, and abandoned the idea.[17]: 248  In the initial draft of the screenplay, the original series cast appeared in a prologue, and Guinan served as the bridge between the two generations. The opening shot would have been the entire cast crammed into an elevator, happy to be back together.[16] The Enterprise-D's destruction also appeared—the saucer crash had first been proposed by Moore as the conclusion to part one of a sixth-season cliffhanger story that was scrapped.[14]: 309  Kirk's death was developed in Braga, Moore, and Berman's story sessions. Moore recalled that "we wanted to aim high, do something different and big... We knew we had to have a strong Picard story arc, so what are the profound things in a man's life he has to face? Mortality tops the list." After the idea of killing off a Next Generation cast member was vetoed, someone suggested that Kirk die instead. "We all sorta looked around and said, 'That might be it,' " Moore said. The studio and Shatner had few concerns about the plot point.[14]: 309  Refining the script meant facing the realities of budget constraints. The initial proposal included location shooting in Hawaii, Idaho, and the Midwestern United States, and the total budget was over $30 million. The budget dropped to $25 million after negotiations.[14]: 309  A revised version of the script from March 1994 incorporated feedback from the producers, studio, actors, and director. The writers changed one sequence where Harriman trained his predecessors in the Enterprise-B's operation after Shatner felt the scene's joke went too far. Picard's personal tragedy was written as his brother Robert's heart attack, but Stewart suggested the loss of his entire family to add emotional impact.[14]: 310  The opening sequence took place on the solar observatory with two Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-influenced characters talking shortly before an enemy attack; Next Generation writer Jeri Taylor suggested that the opening should be something "fun", leading to the switch to the holodeck scene.[14]: 311  Nimoy turned down the chance to direct the feature.[14]: 309  The producers chose David Carson. The British director had no feature film experience, but had directed several episodes of Star Trek, including the Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" and the Deep Space Nine pilot "Emissary".[20] Design Star Trek veteran Herman Zimmerman served as production designer, collaborating with illustrator John Eaves for many designs.[14]: 312  Zimmerman's approach to realizing a vision of the future was to take existing designs and use them in a different manner to express living in the future. Taking cues from director Nicholas Meyer's approach to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Zimmerman noted that future humanity will still have the same furniture needs, so a logical approach was to start with what would remain the same and work from there.[21]: 52  Transitioning from television to film meant that sets and designs needed to be more detailed, with a higher level of polish to stand up on the big screen. Zimmerman felt obliged to improve the sets fans had watched for seven seasons, especially the bridge. Zimmerman repainted the set, added computer consoles, raised the captain's chair for a more commanding presence, and reworked the bridge's ceiling struts; he had always been unhappy with how the ceiling looked, but never had the time or money to rework it.[21]: 52–53  The script called for an entirely new location on the Enterprise-D: stellar cartography. The script described the location as a small room with maps on one wall. Finding the concept uninteresting, Zimmerman designed a three-story circular set to give the impression the actors were inside a star map dominated by screens. Zimmerman's previous work designing a crisis management center influenced the design.[21]: 54  The backlit starmaps that covered three-quarters of the wall would have been infeasible to create in the years before the rise of large-format inkjet printers and computer graphics software. The starmaps were replaced with a bluescreen for scenes where the static images would be replaced by computer-animated star maps by Santa Barbara Studios.[15] Stellar cartography was one of the largest sets ever constructed on a Paramount lot.[6]: 27  The film marked the first appearance of the starship Enterprise-B. The ship was a modification of the Excelsior, a model designed and built by Bill George and effects house Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock a decade earlier.[15] Co-producer Peter Lauritson, illustrator John Eaves, and Zimmerman designed the Enterprise-B with additions to its hull, some of which were added so that they could depict damage to the ship without harming the underlying model's surface, and to improve the look of the ship when it was filmed from angles called for in the script.[14]: 319  The ship's bridge was based on previous designs for the Enterprise-A and Excelsior sets Zimmerman had created for The Undiscovered Country, using pieces from each.[15] The surrounding spacedock for Enterprise's maiden voyage was a modification of the model created for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979),[14]: 319  refurbished and modified to better fit the film's anamorphic screen frame.[22]: 79  Like Zimmerman, George took the opportunity of the Enterprise-D's screen debut to touch up the model.[22]: 79  Because Generations featured the Enterprise-D separating into its saucer and engineering sections, the original 6-foot (1.8 m) model built by ILM for the television series was removed from storage. The model was stripped, rewired, and its surface detailed to stand up to scrutiny.[14]: 320  George changed the paint job, as he recalled they had been in a rush to prepare the model for television and its green-and-blue color scheme did not properly read on film. The paint scheme was shifted towards a "battleship grey", with glossy tiled areas reminiscent of the original feature film Enterprise.[22]: 79  While Generations made use of new sets and props, set decorator John M. Dwyer reused existing props or made new ones out of premade materials where possible, rather than spend money on new items: a torture device was created from a birthing chair, nose hair clippers, and flashlights; packing materials formed the shapes of set walls for the Bird of Prey bridge; and Soran's missile used a bird feeder and other garden store supplies for its interior elements.[15][14]: 316  The stellar observatory set was filled with props from The Next Generation, with some added in deliberate nods to past episodes.[14]: 317  Other reused sets included the Klingon bridge built for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and ribbed plastic walls in the Jefferies tubes, repurposed from the sets of The Hunt for Red October.[15] Original set pieces and props included paintings for the settings in the Nexus.[14]: 317  Robert Blackman, The Next Generation's long-serving costume designer re-designed the Starfleet uniforms which the Enterprise-D crew would wear in the film. Blackman crafted militaristic-looking uniforms with rank sleeves inspired by The Original Series, high collars, and jackets reminiscent of the uniforms developed for The Wrath of Khan. The redesign was abandoned, and the cast wore combinations of the uniforms from The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine; the only new addition was an Eaves-designed angular communications badge that replaced the previous oval shape. Time was so short that Jonathan Frakes and Levar Burton borrowed the costumes from Deep Space Nine actors Avery Brooks and Colm Meaney.[15] Also created by Blackman was a skydiving outfit worn by Shatner; though the scene was cut from the film, the costume was used in the Voyager episode "Extreme Risk".[23] Filming A white and gold antique wooden sailing ship sits in a body of water, with land behind it. Lady Washington stood in as a holodeck recreation of a sailing ship Enterprise. Berman backed Carson's choice to hire John A. Alonzo, the director of photography for Chinatown and Scarface.[14]: 311  Alonzo was shown more than a dozen Star Trek episodes to familiarize himself with the franchise. He favored lighting scenes as much as possible from within the sets rather than staging lights and flags for each shot. Carson credited this approach with saving time and allowing more freedom when shooting. He later wrote that the production moved at a "TV-like" pace; principal photography concluded after 51 days.[13]: 7'10"–7'45"  Filming commenced on March 28, 1994. Generations and The Next Generation were filmed simultaneously on different soundstages on the Paramount Studios lot. Scenes that did not feature the television series regulars were filmed first,[14]: 307  starting with those in the Enterprise-B deflector room. The scenes of Harriman, Chekov, and Scott reacting to Kirk's apparent death were filmed a week later, to allow time for the deflector room to be suitably distressed to visualize the damage.[15] Stage 7 was where the Enterprise-B's bridge, deflector room, and corridors were built and filmed. The jolts and shocks of the ship in the hold of the energy ribbon were created by camera bumps and motors to shake the set. Filming of the scenes took place in April 1994, while residents were still skittish from the recent 1994 Northridge earthquake; the effects staff deliberately hid the set shakers until cameras were rolling to elicit more genuine reactions. The stellar observatory set was an elaborate redress of the Enterprise-B's bridge, with added levels and swapped walls changing the layout. Control panels styled after those in the original Star Trek series helped suggest the age of the station.[15] The cast of The Next Generation started filming their scenes for Generations four days after wrapping on the show.[24] After the filming of the series was complete, there were only six months remaining before the film's release date.[14]: 307  The Enterprise-D crash scenes were filmed mid-May 1994, and were among the last remaining shots before the existing Next Generation sets were demolished to make way for Star Trek: Voyager. As a result, the crew distressed the sets for the crash damage more than would have been normal during the series' run.[15] A view of worn, red, orange, and white rocks clustered together, with a few small outgrowths of vegetation scattered among them. High cliffs and areas like this in Valley of Fire State Park served as the alien planet Veridian III. Despite the budget cuts, Generations shot many scenes on location.[14]: 316  The rushed pace of filming meant that not all locations had been selected before the start of principal photography, and the production was still scouting locations until two weeks before the final scenes.[17]: 261  The production exhausted possible options within Los Angeles' studio zone and looked up to 150 miles (240 km) away for suitable locations.[17]: 267  The Enterprise-D promotion ceremony on the holodeck was filmed on Lady Washington, a full-scale replica of the first American sailing ship to visit Japan.[14]: 316  Carson fought hard to keep the shoot during budget trims, deciding to sacrifice other days in the schedule to keep the scene.[13]: 19'00"–20'00"  Lady Washington was anchored at Marina del Rey and sailed out a few miles from shore over five days of shooting. Some of Lady Washington's crew appeared amongst Enterprise crew members.[14]: 316  Picard's house in the Nexus was a private home in Pasadena, California; almost all the furnishings were custom props or outside items. Portions of the scene were shot in May 1994, followed by new shoots five months later. The revisions included adding Picard's nephew René to his imagined Christmas celebration with his family. The house of Kirk's Nexus recollections was located in Lone Pine, California, with the cabin filled with props to represent Kirk's career, from a Klingon bat'leth to a painting of his Enterprise.[15] Carson wanted a suitably remote and alien mountain location for the film's climax at Soran's compound.[17]: 262  The scenes were filmed over eight days on an elevated plateau in the "Valley of Fire", north-east of Las Vegas, Nevada. The rise's height and sloped sides required cast and crew to climb 160 feet (49 m) using safety ropes and carry all provisions and equipment with them. The 110 °F (43 °C) heat was difficult for all involved, especially Shatner, who wore a wool costume.[14]: 315  Safety harnesses and wires used to keep performers safe from tumbling off a precipice were removed digitally in postproduction.[15] As originally filmed, Kirk was shot in the back and killed by Soran. Test audiences reacted negatively to the death, so the scene was rewritten and reshot over two weeks[25] so that Kirk sacrifices himself by leaping across a broken walkway to retrieve Soran's control pad and de-cloak the probe. Paramount allowed the film to go over budget to $35 million for the re-shoots.[26] As the production crew had already spent weeks removing traces of their shoot from the Valley of Fire, the set had to be rebuilt under a very tight schedule, followed by effects work to remove wires and rigging in time for the footage to be included in the final cut.[15] Effects Generations' special effects tasks were split between the television series' effects vendors and ILM.[14]: 313  ILM CG Supervisor John Schlag recalled that it was easy to recruit staff who wanted to work on Star Trek; working on the film "gave me a chance to be a part of the whole Trek thing ... ILM is practically an entire company filled with Trek geeks".[22]: 88  The screenwriters filled the initial drafts with exciting—and expensive—effects. Effects supervisor John Knoll's team then storyboarded the effects sequences, figuring out how to best service the script as cheaply as possible. When even those estimates proved too costly, ILM continued cutting shots. "[We had] nothing left to cut, and we still had to cut stuff out," Knoll recalled.[22]: 78–79  Previous Star Trek films had used conventional motion control techniques to record multiple passes of the starship models and miniatures. For Generations, the effects artists began using computer-generated imagery (CGI) and models for certain shots.[22]: 78  No physical shooting models were built for the refugee ships, although George recalled that he created a quick physical miniature for CG modeler Rob Coleman to develop his ideas from, rather than try to articulate his feedback without it.[22]: 84  Other CG elements included the solar collapses and the Veridian III planet.[14]: 319  Knoll used a digital version of the Enterprise-D for the warp effect; the limitations of the motion-control programming and slitscan effect for the original meant that the effect "barely holds up", Knoll said, whereas the CG recreation could keep consistent lighting throughout.[22]: 88  While digital techniques were used for many sequences and ships, a few new models were physically built; these included the observatory, built by model shop foreman John Goodson.[14]: 320  The climactic battle between the Enterprise and the Klingons over Veridian III was accomplished using traditional motion control, but without the budget for practical explosions and special breakaway models, impacts and battle damage were simulated with practical compositing tricks and computer-generated effects. The destruction of the Bird of Prey was a reuse of footage from The Undiscovered Country. Weapons fire and energy bolts were hand-animated, but Knoll had a different idea for the photon torpedoes. A fan of the impressive, arcing look of the torpedoes from The Motion Picture, Knoll scanned in footage from the film and turned to computer-generated effects. A simulator program created a similar look that could be animated from any point the effects artists wanted, without the expense and tedium required—shining lasers through a crystal in a smoky environment—to recreate the look optically.[22]: 80–81  A close-up view of the hull of a Starship surrounded by a ribbonlike vortex of reddish-purple electric energy. The ribbon and the Enterprise in this scene are computer-generated; because the camera is following Enterprise so closely, the effects artists had to make sure the modeling held up to the scrutiny of the big screen.[22]: 86  Carson described the Nexus energy ribbon as the true villain of the film; ILM was responsible for conceiving what the ribbon would look like with no natural frame of reference.[22]: 81–82  "When creating something from scratch, it's always important to rough out the whole thing... because there are so many paths you can explore, it's easy to get bogged down," recalled effects co-supervisor Alex Seiden, who had worked as a technical director on the planetary explosion of Praxis from The Undiscovered Country.[22]: 83  Knoll decided the ribbon was a rip through universes, filled with chaotic energy, taking inspiration from images he had seen of magnetic fields around Uranus from a Jet Propulsion Laboratory simulation. The airfoil-shaped core of the undulating ribbon was enhanced with electrical tendrils.[22]: 82  To sell the ribbon's vastness in space shots where no sense of scale would be available, Seiden and George created a debris field of embers that trailed the ribbon.[22]: 83  The inside of the ribbon was conceptualized as similar to a dense electrical storm, with electricity fogging the screen.[22]: 83  Because of the complex interplay of the ribbon elements with the ships that would be trapped within it, ILM decided the refugee ships and Enterprise-B should be CG models.[22]: 85  To make the switch between computer-generated and motion-control passes of the physical model appear seamless, ILM created a wireframe of the physical model, with the computer-generated model's textures taken from photos of the physical model, shot in flat light with a long lens.[22]: 85  The tendril strike that sends Kirk into the Nexus was simulated with the layering of multiple pieces of animation, including CG explosions Knoll rendered on his personal computer and a recycled explosion effect from The Empire Strikes Back.[22]: 86  The Enterprise-D crash sequence was filmed in a 40-by-80-foot (12 by 24 m) forest floor set extended by matte paintings,[14]: 320  built outside so ILM could use natural light. A 12-foot (3.7 m) model Enterprise saucer was constructed specifically for the shots; the model's size gave it the right sense of scale for flying dirt and debris, an illusion enhanced by shooting with a high-speed camera to give the saucer the expected slow movement of a massive object.[15] ILM shot its crew members walking about their parking lot and matted the footage onto the top of the saucer to represent Starfleet personnel evacuating the saucer section.[14]: 320  Music Dennis McCarthy, the principal composer for The Next Generation, was given the task of writing Generations' score. McCarthy became the first Star Trek composer to work on both television and film projects.[27] Critic Jeff Bond wrote that while McCarthy's score was "tasked with straddling the styles of both series", it offered the opportunity for the composer to produce stronger dramatic writing. The film's opening music is a choral piece that plays while a floating champagne bottle tumbles through space. For the action scenes with the Enterprise-B, McCarthy used low brass chords. Kirk was given a brass motif accented by snare drums (a sound not used on The Next Generation), while the scene ends with dissonant notes as Scott and Chekov discover Kirk has been blown into space.[28]: 152  McCarthy expanded his brassy style for the film's action sequences, such as the battle over Veridian III and the crash-landing of the Enterprise-D. For Picard's trip to the Nexus, more choral music and synthesizers accompany Picard's discovery of his family. A broad fanfare—the film's only distinct theme—first plays when Picard and Kirk meet. This theme blends McCarthy's theme for Picard from The Next Generation's first season, notes from the theme for Deep Space Nine, and Alexander Courage's Star Trek theme. For the final battle of Kirk and Picard against Soran, McCarthy used staccato music to accentuate the fistfight. For Kirk's death, McCarthy mated lyrical strings with another statement of the Courage theme, while a shot of Picard standing over Kirk's grave is scored with more pomp. The Courage theme plays again at the film's close.[28]: 152–53  The original soundtrack was released in 1994 on cassette tape and CD.[29] In 2013, GNP Crescendo Records rereleased the soundtrack as a two-disc, expanded collector's edition including previously unheard tracks.[30] Release Marketing The marketing of Generations included a website, the first to officially publicize a motion picture. The site was a success, being viewed millions of times worldwide in the weeks leading to the film's release, at a time when fewer than a million Americans had internet access.[31] Paramount also promoted the film on the Prodigy online service.[32] Tie-in merchandise released to promote the film included collectible cups and calendars from Jack in the Box,[33] promotional kiosks at Kmart stores,[34] and action figures. Due to production timelines, these figures wore the Blackman-designed Starfleet uniforms that were ultimately unused in the film itself.[23] Other collectibles included a 600,000-run special issue of Entertainment Weekly dedicated to the film,[35] and stamps and souvenir sheets produced by Guyana.[36] A novelization of the film written by J. M. Dillard spent three weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. Paramount's licensing group estimated promotional partners could add up to $15 million in the film's support.[34] Several tie-in video games were released to tie in with the film's release. Absolute Entertainment published Star Trek VII: Generations: Beyond the Nexus for the Game Boy and the Game Gear handheld devices.[37] Three years after the film, MicroProse produced Star Trek VII: Generations, which featured the film's cast as voice actors. The game roughly followed the plot of the film with most of the game played in a first-person perspective.[38][39] Versions of the film's script leaked out in advance of the film. A bootleg script revealed the energy ribbon and Kirk's death; James Doohan confirmed the script's authenticity at a fan convention in March 1994, but his agent denied he had seen the finished script.[24] In September, another copy of the film's script leaked onto the internet.[40] As a result, news of Kirk's death was widespread.[19] Box office Star Trek VII: Generations was previewed in the United States and Canada on November 17, 1994, and grossed $3 million from 1,525 theaters.[41] The film opened to a wide release in 2,659 theaters the following day and grossed $23.1 million during the opening weekend, averaging $8,694 per theatre.[42] It was the highest-grossing film during the first week of its release in the United States, staying in the top ten for a further four weeks. The film went on to gross $75,671,125 in the United States and Canada and $42,400,000 internationally, making $118 million worldwide against a $35 million budget.[3] In the United Kingdom, Generations opened on February 10, 1995, at number one with £2,040,000.[43] In Japan, the film grossed $1.2 million its opening weekend, a large amount considering the franchise's usual poor performance in that market.[44] Given its moderate budget,[45] Generations's gross was considered a success.[46] Reception Star Trek: Generations earned mixed reviews from critics and fans. The film holds a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 57 reviews, with an average rating of 5.50/10.[47] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 55 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating average reviews.[48] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+.[49] Writing about the film decades later, Den of Geek described the film as divisive, and Tor.com noted the film had been picked apart for years by fans and the film's own writers.[46][50] In 2001, the BBC gave it 2 of 5 stars, summarizing, "Devotees may find it necessary (if depressing) viewing."[51] Critics complained the film felt like an overly-long episode of the television series.[52][53][54] The Orlando Sentinel's Jay Boyar agreed, but said the film minimized the television series' tendency to "bog down" by moving to the next scene before boredom could set in.[55] Kenneth Turan called the film safe, and said that it relied heavily on viewers' appreciation for the Star Trek television series.[56] Jay Carr of The Boston Globe described the film as "reassuringly predictable", saying that it featured elements that would be recognizable by the fans of both series but that the lack of surprises was a benefit.[57] Cinefantastique's Steve Biodrowski praised some of the big-budget touches the film brought to the franchise, but wrote that most of the attempts such as John Alonzo's cinematography seemed to backfire.[58] In contrast, Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Den of Geek's Chris Cummins praised Alonzo's work as one of the few bright spots of the film; "[Alonzo] makes the Enterprise look like an actual lived-in starship," Cummins wrote, and "for the first time ever, the crew of the Enterprise-D looked like they were truly in outer space".[59] Elizabeth Renzetti from The Globe and Mail praised the film for its special effects, but felt they were not strong enough to cover the weak plotting.[60] Opinions were divided on whether or not the film was accessible to non-Star Trek fans. Critics such as The New York Times' Janet Maslin suggested that despite being "predictably flabby and impenetrable in places" and suffering from technobabble, there was enough action and spectacle to engage others.[61][62] Boyar felt that specific plot beats would fly over the heads of casual viewers, but the film's innate sense of fun would keep them engaged.[55] Others considered the film inaccessible to neophytes, and too preoccupied with fan-focused elements that detracted from the overall story,[53][56] with Roger Ebert critiquing the movie as being "...so concerned with in-jokes and updates for Trekkers that it [could] barely tear itself away long enough to tell a story".[63] The meeting of Kirk and Picard prompted comparisons between the two respective actors; Stewart's performance was often considered superior.[54][61][62][64] James Berardinelli and Ebert wrote that Kirk's lack of presence through much of the film was still keenly felt.[53][63] Biodrowski, in contrast, wrote that Shatner's hammy acting was a better fit for the film than Stewart's subtle delivery.[58] Boyar thought Shatner did a good job playing a straight man in the final sequences and injecting more fun into the film.[55] The Baltimore Sun's Stephen Hunter considered Shatner and Stewart emblematic of two different eras of stardom, and that Stewart's commanding presence "wipes poor, saintly old Shatner off the screen".[62] Cinefantastique and others criticized the scenes between Kirk and Picard as lacking.[58] McDowell's turn as Soran received differing opinions. Berardinelli and Rickey called Soran a weak and ill-defined villain,[53] and Hunter dismissed Soran as a nemesis unworthy of the titanic meeting of Kirk and Picard.[62] People's Ralph Novak called Soran a "standard-issue Trek villain",[64] while Maslin, Newsweek's Michel Marriott, and Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum enjoyed the performance.[61][64][65] Novak wrote that Data's subplot of learning about emotions was a highlight and probably the most enjoyable part of the film for non-fans,[64] while Ebert said that the premise "could have led to some funny scenes, but doesn't".[63] Coates summed up the subplot as "dreary".[52] Home media Generations was released on LaserDisc in the United States on July 18, 1995,[66] followed by a September release in Japan.[67] It was also released on the United Kingdom in 1995 in the PAL format.[68] The film was released in the UK on VHS on 28 December 1998.[51] It was given a DVD release in 1998, with a non-anamorphic transfer and no special features.[69] A new anamorphic transfer formed the basis of a 2004 special edition, with audio and text commentaries and special featurettes.[70] It later received a British DVD release on October 2, 2000.[51] The film was released on Blu-ray in 2009 as part of a box set of The Next Generation films, along with additional material.[71][72] The four Next Generation feature films were released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on April 4, 2023, in standalone and collected formats.[73] References "Editor Peter E. 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USS Enterprise

Star Trek vehicle

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) as it appeared in promotional material for the remastered original Star Trek series

First appearance

"The Man Trap"

Star Trek

1966

Last appearance

"The Broken Circle"

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

2023

Created by Matt Jefferies

Information

Affiliation United Federation of Planets

Starfleet

Launched 2245[1]

Captain Robert April

Christopher Pike

James T. Kirk

Willard Decker

Spock

Auxiliary vehicles Shuttlecraft

General characteristics

Class Constitution[1]

Registry NCC-1701

Armaments Phasers

Photon torpedoes

Defenses Deflector shields

Propulsion Impulse drive

Warp drive

Power Matter/antimatter reaction

Mass 190,000 metric tons (210,000 short tons)[2][3]

Length 288.6 metres (947 ft)[2][3]

Width 127.1 metres (417 ft)[2][3]

Height 72.6 metres (238 ft)[2][3]

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is a starship in the Star Trek media franchise. It is the main setting of the original Star Trek television series (1966–69), and it is depicted in films, other television series, spin-off fiction, products, and fan-created media. Under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, the Enterprise carries its crew on a mission "to explore strange, new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before." The 2022 series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds depicts the Enterprise under the command of Kirk's predecessor, Captain Christopher Pike.

Matt Jefferies designed the Enterprise for television, and its core components – a saucer-shaped primary hull, two offset engine nacelles, and a cylindrical secondary hull – persisted across several television and film redesigns. The vessel influenced the design of subsequent franchise spacecraft, and the model filmed for the original Star Trek TV series has been on display for decades at the National Air and Space Museum.

Initially a vision of the potential for human spaceflight, the Enterprise became a popular culture icon. The Enterprise has repeatedly been identified as one of the best-designed and most influential science fiction spacecraft.

Development and production

Concept and initial design

Series creator Gene Roddenberry reviewed hundreds of science fiction magazines going back to 1931 to gather ideas about what he wanted Star Trek's main vessel to look like. Despite the research, he was more confident in what he did not want than what he did want.[4] He set several parameters:

We're [...] out in deep space, on the equivalent of a cruiser-size spaceship. We don't know what the mode of power is, but I don't want to see any trails of fire. No streaks of smoke, no jet intakes, rocket exhaust, or anything like that [...]. It will be like a deep space exploration vehicle, operating throughout our galaxy.[5]

An overhead and side elevation of the starship Enterprise.

The first color rendering of the Enterprise design; soon after, Jefferies would realize the design into a small wooden model.[6] Note the prototypical elements used in Enterprise redesigns, other franchise vessels named Enterprise, and numerous other Star Trek spacecraft: a disc-like primary hull, a pair of offset engine nacelles, and a cylindrical secondary hull.

Roddenberry further specified that the ship would have a crew of 100–150 and be incredibly fast.[7] Art director Pato Guzman's assistant, Matt Jefferies, was responsible for designing the ship and several of its sets.[4] Jefferies and Roddenberry did not want the vessel to look like any of the rocket ships already used by the aerospace industry or in popular culture;[8][9] many designs were rejected for being "too conventional".[10] To meet Roddenberry's requirement that the ship look believable, Jefferies tried "to visualize what the fourth, fifth or tenth generation of present-day equipment would be like".[11] Jefferies' experience with aviation let him imbue his designs with what he called "aircraft logic".[12] He imagined the ship's engines would be too powerful to be near the crew, requiring them to be set apart from the hull.[10] While Jefferies initially rejected a disk-shaped component, worried about the similarities to flying saucers, a spherical module eventually flattened into a disk.[10][13]

During a visit to Jefferies, Roddenberry and NBC staff were drawn to a sketch of the ship resembling its final configuration.[14] Jefferies had created a small model of this design that, when held from a string, hung upside-down – an appearance he had to "unsell".[14] He kept the hull smooth, with a sense that the ship's components were serviced from inside.[15] He designed the Klingon starship seen in the third season by rearranging and changing the shape of Enterprise's basic modules: a main body, two engine pods, and a neck with a head on it.[16] Some of Jefferies' rejected design concepts – such as spherical hull sections and warp engines that encircle a ship – inspired future Star Trek vessel designs.[17]

The Enterprise was originally going to be named Yorktown, but Roddenberry was fascinated by the aircraft carrier Enterprise and had "always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name."[18][19] The NCC-1701 registry stems from NC being one of the international aircraft registration codes assigned to the United States. The second C was added because Soviet aircraft used Cs, and Jefferies believed a venture into space would be a joint operation by the United States and Russia.[20][21] Jefferies rejected 3, 6, 8, and 9 as "too easily confused" on screen;[21] he eventually reasoned the Enterprise was the first vessel of Starfleet's 17th starship design, hence 1701.[22] The Making of Star Trek explains that USS means "United Space Ship" and that "Enterprise is a member of the Starship Class".[23] Licensed texts, on-screen graphics, and dialogue later describe the ship as a Constitution-class vessel.

Filming models

Leonard Nimoy poses as Spock with the 33-inch (0.8 m) first filming model

The first miniature built from Jefferies' drawings was a 4-inch (100 mm) scale model.[8] Desilu Studios, which produced Star Trek, hired Richard C. Datin to make a pre-production model.[24] Datin used a subcontractor with a large lathe for major subcomponents and otherwise worked on the model for about 110 hours in November 1964.[24] The 33-inch (0.84 m) model was made mostly of pine, with Plexiglass and brass details.[24][25] Datin made minor changes after Roddenberry's review, and he submitted the completed model – which cost about $600 – to Desilu in December 1964.[24]

The 11-foot (3.4 m) filming model, which Paramount Pictures donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1974[26]

Desilu then ordered a larger filming model, which Datin contracted to Volmer Jensen and Production Model Shop in Burbank.[25] Datin supervised the work and did detailing on the model,[27] which was constructed from plaster, sheet metal, and wood.[28] When completed, it was 135 inches (3.43 m) long, weighed 125 kilograms (276 lb), and cost $6,000.[29][27][28] The model was delivered too late to be used much for the initial pilot, "The Cage".[30] When Roddenberry was approved to film the second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966), various details of the 11-foot model were altered, and the starboard windows and running lights were internally illuminated.[30] When the series went into production, the model was altered yet again,[30] and it was regularly modified throughout its active filming.[31] Most of the fine details on the large model were not visible to television viewers.[32] Wiring for the interior lighting ran into the model on its left side, so the model could only be filmed from the right; for shots requiring the other side of the Enterprise, the footage was either flipped or filmed using the 33-inch model.[33] Because of this, some of the fine details added to the model were added only to its right side.[33]

The 11-foot model was initially filmed by Howard Anderson.[25] Anderson's team struggled to film the model in a way that suggested it was moving at tremendous speeds, as the producers wanted to avoid the cliched look of a spacecraft drifting through space.[34] Additionally, the model was so large there was little room in the filming space for the camera to move around it.[35] Anderson could not keep up with the filming and special effects needs for regular production, so producers hired several other studios to contribute effects and additional footage.[36] Motion control equipment was too expensive, so the ship was filmed with stop motion.[37] Filming was often delayed by the heat generated by the studio and model's lights.[38] Most third-season footage of the Enterprise was reused first- or second-season footage.[30] Special effects were produced as cheaply as possible.[25] Animators for Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–75) rotoscoped Enterprise footage to recreate the ship's movements, contributing to the impression of the animated series being a fourth season of the original.[39] The animated show's limited color palette could not accommodate all of the ship's various colors, so the Enterprise was depicted as a consistent gray.[40]

Sets, sounds, and fixtures

The Enterprise was meant to serve as a familiar, recurring setting, similar to Dodge City in Gunsmoke and Blair General Hospital in Dr. Kildare.[41] Reusing sets also helped address Desilu's budget concerns.[41] The bridge was monochromatic for "The Cage", but it was redecorated for "Where No Man Has Gone Before" because of the increasing popularity of color televisions.[42] The initial pilot episode's bridge set was rigid, making it difficult for cameras to move in.[43] For the series production, the bridge set was rebuilt to be modular, allowing large sections to be removed to allow easier camera movement.[43]

As production continued, standing sets like the engine room and bridge became increasingly detailed.[44] The complicated electronics that provided bridge set readouts and lights required expensive air conditioning to avoid overheating.[45] The engine room, whose sense of scale was enhanced by the use of forced perspective,[46] was redressed as the shuttlebay.[45] Others sets that were redressed to save costs included the briefing room (which also served as the recreation room and cargo deck) and Kirk's cabin (which was also Spock's).[45] A portable maintenance tunnel set was used repeatedly, and Jefferies added new details to it each time it was used.[45] The production staff called the set the "Jefferies tube" as an inside joke, and the term is used in dialogue to describe similar crawl spaces in spinoffs.[47]

Roddenberry described the ship's hallways as "Des Moines Holiday Inn Style".[48] To keep the ship from looking too sterile, Mike Minor created paintings that hung in Kirk's quarters, the recreation area, and the upper rim of the bridge.[49] Jefferies and associate producer Bob Justman walked through the production lots looking for "serendipitous items" that could be modified into set details to enhance the interiors.[50] The ship's chairs were manufactured by Burke of Dallas and were similar to the tulip chair designed by Eero Saarinen.[51][52]

Sound effects designer Doug Grindstaff created sounds for different parts of the vessel: console sound effects were often created with a Hammond electric organ or other musical instrument, and engine sounds were created in part with a noisy air conditioner.[53] Although there is no sound in space, producers thought that dramatic license required the ship to make noise during exterior shots.[54] The sound of the ship "whoosh"ing past in the main title sequence was recorded by composer Alexander Courage.[55]

Going into the show's second season, NBC executives pressed the production to have fewer episodes based on the ship, and more that occur on alien worlds. In April 1968, Roddenberry pushed back, comparing the Enterprise to the home and ranch on Bonanza, the location of some of that show's best episodes. He also said they would create new Enterprise sets to "help counteract any 'sameness' about the ship".[56] When production ended after the third season, major elements of the bridge set were donated to the UCLA Theater Arts Department, and the set was trashed.[57]

Although the interior in The Animated Series was largely recreated from the live action series, a second turbolift was added to the bridge in response to Roddenberry being asked, "What do they do if the [one turbolift's] doors get stuck?"[58] Franz Joseph designed full Enterprise interior deck plans in 1974 with approval from Roddenberry.[59]

1970s redesigns for television and film

Black-on-white drawings of the USS Enterprise

Andrew Probert submitted this art to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a "toy spaceship" in the likeness of the redesigned Enterprise in 1979. Probert was granted the patent in 1981.[60]

Shortly after the animated Star Trek went off the air, pre-production began on Star Trek: Planet of the Titans.[61] Ken Adam and Ralph McQuarrie designed a new Enterprise with a triangular hull that later inspired the appearance of the eponymous ship in Star Trek: Discovery.[61][62] Planet of the Titans was dropped in favor of a return to television with Star Trek: Phase II, for which Jefferies designed a new Enterprise.[63] He began with the original design and identified components, such as the engines, that would have been upgraded.[64] Some components, like the sensor dish, would move inside the ship to be more easily serviced.[64] Abandoning Phase II in favor of producing Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) necessitated additional Enterprise redesigns because the film medium would resolve more detail than television,[63] and one of the most difficult challenges facing the producers was recreating the Enterprise.[28] Roddenberry told Cinefantastique that the changes to the Enterprise would be explained within the story as the outcome of a major refit.[65]

When Jefferies left the project, art director Richard Taylor wanted to start over with designing the Enterprise.[66] However, Roddenberry convinced him to continue working with Jefferies' design.[66] Taylor brought on Andrew Probert to work with him on refining the ship's details.[66] Probert added items such as phaser banks, control thrusters, and hatches for saucer section landing gear; Taylor redesigned the edge of the saucer and elements of the warp nacelles.[67] Art director Joe Jennings and conceptual illustrator Mike Minor added additional details.[66] David Kimble created diagrams and deck plans for the updated Enterprise that were provided to model makers, toy companies, and other licensed product manufacturers.[68]

The Enterprise (right) and Reliant approach each other in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Though the Enterprise was heavily redesigned for film, it retains the same basic components from its television appearance. In designing the Reliant, Joe Jennings and Mike Minor rearranged those components to establish its connection to the Star Trek universe while distinguishing it from the Enterprise.[69]

Jim Dow was in charge of building the model.[70] Paramount Pictures subsidiary Magicam spent 14 months and $150,000 building the 8-foot (2.4 m), 39-kilogram (86 lb) model.[28] An arc-welded aluminum skeleton ensured parts of the ship would not sag, bend, or shake when moved.[71] While the original Enterprise model was seen in only 17 poses, the new model had five articulation points and could be shot from any angle.[28] Paul Olsen painted the "Aztec" hull pattern to provide an additional level of detail and to suggest the presence of interlocking panels providing strength.[72][73] The effect was made possible by small particles of mica in the paint, which altered its apparent color.[74] However, the paint created light flare that made it hard to discern the edge of the ship against a dark background, and bluescreen light reflected by the pearlescent paint also complicated filming.[28][75] Effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull relit the ship as if it were an ocean liner, "a grand lady of the seas at night", because there would be no external light source in deep space.[76] A 20-inch (51 cm) model was used for long shots.[71]

Production designer Harold Michelson was responsible for the ship's interior design.[77] The Enterprise interiors were designed to be distinct from the film's Klingon ship, and certain support structure designs were used throughout the Enterprise sets to convey a shared motif. A new bridge had been designed and partially built for Phase II, and Michelson largely retained the design and its consoles. Chekov's console was rotated 90 degrees to break the monotony of stations facing the wall. Designer Lee Cole brought logic and function to the console designs, though Michelson wanted to remain focused on "drama, spectacle and beauty" over accuracy and logic. Rear projection films for bridge displays came initially from Stowmar Enterprises. When production exhausted the films faster than Stowmar could supply them, production designers manufactured their own from oscilloscopes, medical imagery, and an experimental computer lab.[78]

Set designer Lewis Splittgerber described the engine room set as the most difficult to realize. Through forced perspective and small actors, the 40-foot (12 m) set was depicted as a 100-foot (30 m) engineering space.[79] Corridors were initially a straight-wall design similar to the television series, and Michelson changed them to an angular design with light radiating upward. Director Robert Wise wanted the corridors to be narrower than on the television series, and mirrors gave the impression that they were longer than they actually were.[80] Wise was also responsible for the ship's drab interior color scheme: the muted colors were meant to be comfortable across a five-year journey.[81][78]

Sequel film adjustments, destruction, and return

The Motion Picture's model was slightly refurbished for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), with its exterior shine dulled and extra detail added to the frame.[82] Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) staff found the Enterprise difficult to work with: it took eight people to mount the model and a forklift to move it.[82] Illustrator Mike Minor described the ship as a "sculpture" with an "aerodynamic shape," requiring careful filming so that its movements did not appear "silly".[83] ILM developed techniques to depict damage to the Enterprise without actually harming the model.[84]

The budget required the reuse of existing sets, but they presented challenges in realizing director Nicholas Meyer's desire for a "livelier" tone.[83] The Enterprise was given a ship's bell, boatswain's call,[84] and more blinking lights and signage to match the nautical atmosphere Meyer wanted to convey.[85][86] Rear-projection systems for bridge displays were replaced with monitors looping taped material created by graphic designer Lee Cole at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[83] The bridge set was "unbuttoned" so segments could be removed to better accommodate filming more dynamic action,[83] though filming on the 360-degree set was still challenging.[87] Further complicating the set was that it served three roles: the Enterprise bridge, the Reliant bridge, and the Starfleet bridge simulator.[87] The production crew made several "plugs" to cover consoles and alcoves, and pyrotechnics could destroy the plugs during combat sequences without damaging the underlying set.[87] The torpedo bay set is a redress of the Klingon bridge from The Motion Picture.[83] Kirk's quarters were redressed with more personal items and a more naval appearance, and the same set depicted Spock's more monastic quarters.[83] David Kimble's deck plans from The Motion Picture influenced how previously unseen interior arrangements like the torpedo bay were depicted in The Wrath of Khan.[68]

Producer Harve Bennett decided to destroy the Enterprise in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) because the story was otherwise predictable.

Recognizing the plot of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) was otherwise predictable, producer Harve Bennett decided to have the Enterprise destroyed.[88] Though he meant for the event to be kept secret, news leaked.[88][89] Visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston hated the Enterprise model and reveled in its destruction.[8] Rather than damage the large and expensive original model, several less expensive miniatures and modules were created and destroyed.[8] One of the destroyed models had been created by Brick Price Movie Miniatures for Star Trek Phase II.[90]

Ralston had hoped the Enterprise's destruction in The Search for Spock would lead to a new Enterprise design for sequels, but the producers of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) decided to have the crew assigned to a duplicate of their previous ship.[91] It took ILM more than six weeks to restore and repaint the model to appear as the new USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A.[91] After visiting ILM, Majel Barrett described the model as "gorgeous," and she said some of its details – such as the windows into the arboretum – were not done justice by photographs.[92]

Although its original pearlescent paint job had been covered and the ship redressed as the Enterprise-A, the eight-foot film franchise model was used as a referent for the CGI Enterprise created for the 2001 director's cut of The Motion Picture.[75] The director's cut replaced several bridge computer voices with human voices to "warm up" the film.[75] The bridge and several other Enterprise film sets were redressed for use in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994).[93]

Spinoff appearances and remaster CGI model

The original television Enterprise bridge was partially recreated for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics" (1992). The original set had long been torn down, and producers initially planned to use the film-era set. Ultimately, recreations of the captain's chair, navigation console, and engineering console were rented from fans, and the rest was filled in with archival footage and greenscreen technology.[94][95] The bridge was again partially recreated, with other parts added digitally, for the Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" (1996).[96] Mike Okuda used a computer to recreate the graphics seen on the Enterprise sets, and others were drawn by artist Doug Drexler.[97] Set designer Laura Richarz's biggest challenge was finding Burke chairs to populate the ship: she found just one, which the production team used to make molds to create more.[98]

"Trials and Tribble-ations" also required exterior shots of the Enterprise. To film these, Greg Jein created an Enterprise model exactly half the size of the 11-foot original, and it was the first production model of the starship to be built in more than 30 years.[97][99] A CGI Enterprise makes a cameo appearance at the end of the Star Trek: Enterprise series finale, "These Are the Voyages..." (2005). Artists creating another CGI Enterprise for the remastered original series had to ensure the model was not so detailed that it was incongruous with the overall 1960s production.[100]

2009 film franchise reboot

The re-conceptualized "alternate universe" USS Enterprise from the 2009 Star Trek film has the same core design as Matt Jefferies' original. It also includes elements from previous films, such as the "Aztec" paint scheme. The enlarged engine nacelles emphasize director J. J. Abrams's desire for the Enterprise to feel like a "hot rod".

The Enterprise was redesigned for the 2009 Star Trek film. Previsualization lead David Dozoretz credits the designers for overcoming the challenge of doing "a 2009 version of the '60s".[101] Director J. J. Abrams wanted Enterprise to have a "hot rod" look while retaining the traditional shape, and he otherwise gave designers leeway to create the ship. The designers wanted the Enterprise to appear as carefully crafted as a luxury car.[102] Concept artist Ryan Church retained much of the original Enterprise design and focused on the functionality behind the familiar components.[101] His initial designs were modeled and refined by set designer Joseph Hiura. This design was then given to ILM for further refinement and developed into photo-realistic models by Alex Jaeger's team.[103] ILM's Roger Guyett, recalling the original Enterprise as being "very static", added moving parts.[74] ILM retained subtle geometric forms and patterns to allude to the original Enterprise, and the model's digital paint recreated the "Aztec" hull pattern from the first films.[74] The large engine nacelles had a sleeker finish and shape compared to the original ship's otherwise simple nacelles.[74] Sean Hargreaves' redesign of the successor NCC-1701-A "beef[ed] up" the vessel's support pylons, which are depicted as vulnerabilities in Star Trek Beyond (2016).[104]

According to Abrams, recreating the original bridge would have been ridiculous and too small.[105] His enthusiasm for a new iPhone influenced Church's redesign for the bridge.[106] Sophisticated technology became a motif on the new set, with multiple displays and computer graphics.[107] The main viewscreen from the television series was kept, and giving different characters their own computer displays suggested the idea of a team working together.[107] Because the original series transporter room seemed flat to Abrams, he used swirling light and a moving camera to make the redesigned set and effects more dynamic.[108] The budget prevented the creation of a huge, functional engineering room set, and producers instead filmed in portions of a Budweiser plant.[109] Ben Burtt consulted with original series sound designed Douglas Grindstaff on sound design for the new Enterprise.[53]

Redesign for streaming series

Discovery

The Enterprise appears briefly at the end of the Star Trek: Discovery's first-season finale (2018), and occasionally in the show's second season (2019). John Eaves, Scott Schneider, and William Budge redesigned the Enterprise for Discovery, which occurs about a decade before the original Star Trek.[110] The designers had an unusually long time to work on the ship: April to October 2017, whereas they usually had only a few weeks to design a vessel.[111] Other than a few small notes, they were given no explicit direction about the ship's appearance; Schneider called the redesign project the trio's "golden hour".[112]

They briefly considered but quickly rejected a design significantly different from Jefferies' original.[112] Eaves created 10 relatively similar sketches that streamlined the original Enterprise to appear more consistent with Discovery's sleek aesthetic, and the team selected one to refine.[113] They developed the vessel with the assumption that components like the warp nacelles and impulse engines would be replaced over time; the modules for the Enterprise's appearance in Discovery are meant to appear more primitive than what is depicted in Star Trek.[113] The designers tried to incorporate elements from other ships that precede and succeed the Enterprise, such as the 21st-century Phoenix in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), the 22nd-century Enterprise in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), and the USS Enterprise-B in Star Trek Generations (1994).[114] They also included elements from the Enterprise refit for The Motion Picture.[115] One distinct challenge was the hull: Jefferies' design featured a smooth hull, but the lack of features would appear too simple on modern high-definition displays.[116] The designers added details, such as phaser banks and control thrusters, that "must have been there" on the original Enterprise but were not depicted on the Star Trek models.[117] The ship's scale also fluctuated, which meant the designers had to adjust the window sizes and patterns.[118]

Budge kept the designers in check with ensuring details and features added to the Enterprise were consistent with other Discovery ships.[115] One such feature was whether the bridge would have a window: most Discovery ship bridges have a front-facing window, but the Enterprise had never been depicted like that.[119] The solution was to depict the Enterprise bridge as having a large piece of transparent aluminum at its front that can become either transparent or opaque.[120] Eaves sent the design team's model to the visual effects team, which made further design changes.[121] Discovery producer Gretchen J. Berg said she hoped fans see the Enterprise's appearance in Discovery as a blending of old and new Star Trek.[122] Another Discovery producer, Aaron Harberts, wasn't worried whether fans were satisfied with the ship's redesign: while many of the staff who developed the new appearance were Star Trek fans, Harberts said fans rarely agree on anything.[122]

The Enterprise bridge appears in the second season's finale. Production designer Tamara Deverell and her team wanted to honor the original bridge but needed to create the set using modern techniques and to meet modern audience expectations. The production's widescreen format, as opposed to the original series' 4:3 aspect ratio, required the set design to be more "stretched out" horizontally; designers referenced Star Trek film bridges – also recorded in widescreen – to assist with designing for the different ratio. The bridge was a fully constructed set, save for greenscreen for the main viewer. The set maintained the original's layout and included references and details from Star Trek, such as Sulu's and Spock's console scanners, red bridge railings, and turbolift handles. They also created new elements, such as a corridor running behind the bridge. According to Deverell, the hardest part of designing the bridge was choosing the color palette. The bridge chairs were nearly identical to those used in Star Trek, and the captain's chair was heavily influenced by Captain Kirk's original.[123] A fan-created replica of the original bridge – later opened as museum – sent the production team hundreds of buttons for the set's consoles.[124]

Strange New Worlds

Enterprise is the main setting of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022), which depicts the ship led by Captain Christopher Pike. Anson Mount, who plays Pike, said Strange New Worlds has a "big idea of the week" like the original Star Trek, and as such the Enterprise is "the star of the show".[125] Rebecca Romjin, who plays first officer Una Chin-Riley, called the Enterprise "sexy, and groovy, and fun."[126] Producer Akiva Goldsman said the designers for Strange New Worlds "tried to evoke the experience of watching [The Original Series], but with the grammar available to us today." He said the ship is meant to be aspirational and to pull audiences into an imagined future.[127]

The Enterprise in Strange New Worlds differs slightly from its appearance in Discovery.[128] The bridge set for Strange New Worlds was more compact than the one built for Discovery to bring it closer to the size of the original series set. The sets were designed to function like a practical starship, with moving components and pre-programmed monitor graphics that reacted to the actors.[125] While the viewscreen was a visual effect in Discovery, it was physically built into the Strange New Worlds set.[129] Sickbay was an entirely new design, meant to convey a large scale and capable of accommodating many camera movements.[129] Designers relied on a massive augmented reality LED volume to depict the scale of main engineering.[129][130] Due to COVID-19, some sets were not complete when filming began; Goldsman said they were "building the Enterprise around shooting on the Enterprise."[127] Production designers also changed the color scheme, "warming" it from its Discovery palette.[129] A specific shade of red is used as a secondary color throughout the ship, complementing warm and cold off-whites.[131]

Depiction

Starfleet commissioned the Enterprise in 2245. Robert April is the Enterprise's first captain, succeeded by Christopher Pike. Pike leads the Enterprise for about a decade, and he is the commanding officer in the original pilot, the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, and in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Throughout the first live action and animated Star Trek television series, Captain James T. Kirk commands the ship and its 430-person crew on an exploration mission from 2264 to 2269. Star Trek: The Motion Picture takes place in the 2270's as the Enterprise is completing an 18-month refit overseen by its new captain, Willard Decker. Decker describes the refit vessel as "an almost totally new Enterprise" when Admiral Kirk takes command to address a threat to Earth. Star Trek novels and other media depict a second five-year mission under Kirk's command between the events of the first and second films.[1]

Captain Spock commands the Enterprise, serving as a training ship, at the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in 2285.[1] Kirk assumes command to investigate problems at space station Regula 1. The USS Reliant, hijacked by Khan Noonien Singh, seriously damages the Enterprise; Spock sacrifices his life to save the ship. Starfleet decides to decommission the Enterprise at the beginning of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Kirk and his senior officers steal the ship as part of their plan to restore Spock's life. During their mission, a Klingon attack disables the ship. Kirk lures most of the Klingons onto the crippled Enterprise, which he and his officers set to self-destruct before abandoning ship. When Kirk and his officers return to Earth, Kirk is demoted to captain and given command of a new USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A.

Reboot film series

The 2009 reboot film Star Trek and its sequels occur in a different timeline than the original Star Trek. The Enterprise first appears while under construction in Riverside, Iowa, in 2255. Captain Christopher Pike commands Enterprise on its 2258 maiden voyage to respond to a Vulcan distress call. At the film's conclusion, James Kirk is promoted to captain and receives command of the Enterprise. The vessel is destroyed in Star Trek Beyond and a new Enterprise, NCC-1701-A, is commissioned under Kirk's command.

Critical reaction

Original appearance

Like other Star Trek ships with the same name, the original Enterprise is "a character in its own right,"[15] and the ship "was just as important ... as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy".[132] According to film critic Scott Jordan Harris, the Enterprise was the franchise's most important character, pointing out:

Crucially, the famous words that begin each episode of the TV show, and that recur in the films, are not "These are the voyages of Captain Kirk..." or "These are the voyages of Starfleet..." They are "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise..."[133]

Writing in the Journal of Popular Film & Television, National Air and Space Museum curator Margaret Weitekamp identifies two distinct celebrity Enterprises: the fictional starship Enterprise as a character or popular culture icon, and the actual physical objects (for example, the filming models) as an iconic design.[134] According to Weitekamp, "The two Enterprises overlap, and are clearly related, but they do not map completely onto each other," and unpacking distinctions between them contributes to scholarly analysis of popular and material culture and of "this significant television artifact".[134]

The Enterprise's design, which influenced future starships in the franchise, is iconic.[135][136] The design came at the end of a trend for science-fiction spaceships to resemble rockets, and just as real spacecraft began to influence sci-fi designs.[137] When it first appeared on television, the Enterprise was called an "elegant and weird looking behemoth".[15] Design expert Jonathan Glancey described the "convincing and exciting" Enterprise as having the same aesthetic appeal as the Concorde jet, B-17 bomber, and Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner.[138] The interiors are also exemplars of 1960s design.[52] Popular Mechanics said the original Enterprise has the best design of the franchise's various ships named Enterprise.[139] io9 ranked the original design as the best version of the Enterprise, characterizing the original as superior to ten later versions of its namesake.[135]

Film redesign and "death"

Harris included the Enterprise as one of the 50 most significant objects to appear in film, alongside the ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz, the Maschinenmensch in Metropolis, and the Batmobile in Batman Begins.[133] Time called the ship's redesign for The Motion Picture "bold" and "handsome".[140] Conversely, Harlan Ellison called the Enterprise a "jalopy" in The Motion Picture, and The Washington Post said the Enterprise looked "like a toy boat in a lava lamp" in The Wrath of Khan.[141][142] Entertainment Weekly wrote that, after being depicted as a complicated vessel requiring detailed care in The Wrath of Khan, it seemed "a bit loony" for the Enterprise to be operable by just a handful of officers in The Search for Spock.[143] Jill Sherwin suggested that the aging Enterprise in The Search for Spock served as a metaphor for the aging Star Trek franchise.[144] io9 ranked the film appearance as the second-best design design of an Enterprise.[135]

The ship's destruction has been described as "truly iconic" and "a good way to go",[145][146] though David Gerrold wrote that it "casts a pall" over The Search for Spock that even Spock's resurrection does not displace.[147] In her biography of DeForest Kelley, Terry Lee Rioux calls the Enterprise a "mother goddess" who, consistent with "one of the oldest and highest myths" in humanity, sacrifices herself so her children, the crew, can live on.[148] David C. Fein, who produced the director's cut of The Motion Picture, described the Enterprise as Kirk's lover, and said destroying the ship meant Kirk "killed the woman that he loves more than any existing being in the world."[75] Popular Mechanics ranked the ship's destruction the 32nd greatest scene in science fiction.[149]

Spin-off television appearances

The New York Times called it "a joy" to see the original Enterprise as redesigned for Discovery's second-season premiere.[150] Engadget called the Enterprise in Strange New Worlds "gorgeous inside and out."[151] Writing for Tor.com, Keith DeCandido praised Strange New Worlds' producers for balancing the Enterprise's original 1960s look with what audiences expect from modern productions.[152] TrekCore said Strange New Worlds' set dressing and use show the Enterprise "as both a character unto herself and as a mirror reflecting the people who inhabit her."[153]

Impact

Within the franchise

The original Enterprise and 1979 film designs have affected subsequent Star Trek productions. The USS Excelsior in Star Trek III is meant to make the Enterprise "look old and out of date".[154] Model maker Bill George tried to imagine what the Enterprise would look like if it were designed by the Japanese, and he used that impression as the basis for his refinement of the Excelsior model.[154] Andrew Probert returned to Star Trek to design a new USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), which takes place 100 years after the original Star Trek. The Enterprise-D retains the hallmarks of Matt Jefferies' design for the original Enterprise: a saucer section, engineering section, and a pair of engine nacelles.[155] Probert did this in part to assuage skeptical fans who were concerned about the original Enterprise being "replaced".[156] Much of Probert's design is based on a "what if?" painting he made after finalized the 1979 film Enterprise design.[155] The USS Titan in Star Trek: Picard's third season draws inspiration from the film redesign, which producer Terry Matalas called "the best starship design ever made.[157]

Broader culture

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry (third from right, in dark brown), the Star Trek cast (with the exception of William Shatner), and NASA administrators attended the Space Shuttle Enterprise's rollout ceremony on September 17, 1976. A letter-writing campaign convinced NASA to name the shuttle Enterprise in honor of the television vessel.

The starship Enterprise has had considerable cultural impact,[158] and the original ship's model is "a living cultural object".[29] Bjo Trimble said the original Star Trek received more fan letters about the Enterprise than any of the actors.[147] According to film critic Scott Jordan Harris, although the contemporaneous Apollo program prompted intellectual awareness of the possibilities of space travel, it was the Enterprise of the 1960s that sparked space travel fantasies.[133] A 1976 write-in campaign led to the first Space Shuttle being named Enterprise rather than Constitution.[159] In 2009, Virgin Galactic named its first commercial spaceship VSS Enterprise to honor the Star Trek vessel.[160] The United States Navy evaluated the efficiency of the Enterprise bridge's style and layout,[161] and the USS Independence's bridge and USS Zumwalt's Ship's Mission Center have been compared to the Enterprise bridge.[162][163] An Enterprise bridge replica created for a Star Trek fan series was later opened as a public exhibit.[164] The distinct beeps emitted by R2-D2 in Star Wars are "an offspring" of the melodic sounds created for the Enterprise's bridge console.[53] Vulcan, Alberta, created a 31-foot (9.4 m) model starship inspired by the Enterprise.[165]

A roadside replica starship atop a stone base

The visitor's center in Vulcan, Alberta, has a replica starship designed like the Enterprise.

The Enterprise design has been licensed for use in variety of games, models, and toys. AMT's 1966 Enterprise model is one of the company's highest-selling kits:[166] one million kits sold during the show's first year of production; the previous best-seller, a car from The Musters, took two years to reach one million sales.[167] Ballantine Books released a set of Enterprise blueprints in April 1975, and by December 1976 they were in their seventh printing.[168] The first run of a cutaway drawing of the Enterprise for The Motion Picture sold over one million prints.[68] In 2010, Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books published a Haynes Manual for "owners" of the USS Enterprise. The United States Postal Service has released several USS Enterprise stamps.[169] Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich has used the Enterprise as the setting for two of his illustrations for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[170][171]

Production models and props

Paramount Pictures donated the original series filming model to the Smithsonian Institution in 1974, disassembled across three crates and dirty.[27][30][29] In shipping the model, Paramount estimated the value of the model at $5,000.[172] Starting in 1976, it hung at an exhibit gallery entrance at the National Air and Space Museum before being moved to the gift shop, where it stayed for 14 years.[134] In the first of its initial restorations, the model was altered to look more like the starship Enterprise and less like a studio filming model.[173] The model underwent restorations in 1974, 1984, 1992, and 2016.[174] For much of its time on display, fans have been surprised at the differences between the model and their expectations about how the "real" spacecraft should appear.[31] A substantial, multi-year restoration culminated in 2016 with the unveiling of a new display in the Milestones of Flight Hall.[27][175] This restoration highlighted the duality of the Enterprise as both a filming model and inspirational starship.[176]

The original captain's chair prop sold at auction for $304,750.[177] In 2006, Paul Allen bought the Enterprise model created for the original Star Trek films for $240,000, and it is on display at the Museum of Pop Culture.[28] Another model of the film version is on display at aerospace company Blue Origin.[178]

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USS Enterprise model page at the National Air and Space Museum

Andrew Probert's page with photos, drawings, and notes on the Phase II and Motion Picture designs and models

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) at Memory Alpha

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (alternate reality) at Memory Alpha

Constitution class model (original) at Memory Alpha

Constitution class model (refit) at Memory Alpha

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) at Memory Alpha

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) (alternate reality) at Memory Alpha

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Star Trek

Star Trek, American television science-fiction series that ran on NBC for only three seasons (1966–69) but that became one of the most popular brands in the American entertainment industry.

Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek

Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek

George Takei in Star Trek

George Takei in Star Trek

Star Trek was created by American writer and producer Gene Roddenberry and chronicles the exploits of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise, whose five-year mission is to explore space and, as stated in the title sequence, “to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” The series takes place in the 23rd century, after a benign and advanced alien people, the Vulcans, has introduced their technologies to Earth, allowing humankind to embark on intergalactic travel at speeds faster than light. Commanded by the blustering Capt. James T. Kirk (played by William Shatner), the Enterprise engages in an altruistic research mission intended to document and observe the far reaches of space. Its crew encounters various alien life forms, not all of them as friendly as the Vulcans, most notably the Klingons, bellicose adversaries who frequently cross paths with the Enterprise. Kirk’s principal confidante is Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a half-human, half-Vulcan whose actions are ruled by logic almost entirely unsullied by emotion. The pointedly multicultural crew also includes “Bones” McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the ship’s irascible doctor; Lieut. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols); Mr. Sulu (George Takei); Ensign Chekov (Walter Koenig); and Mr. Scott (James Doohan), the engineer who controls the Enterprise’s transporter (not to be confused with the transponder, a homing device), dematerializing and rematerializing his shipmates so that they can travel instantly through space.

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Although the series gained some critical notice, it was canceled after three seasons because of low ratings. However, Star Trek retained a core following of devoted fans (Trekkies) that multiplied as wildly as tribbles, the furry creatures at the centre of one of the series’ most beloved episodes, as reruns continued to air. Eventually, the series snowballed into a phenomenon and became one of the most recognizable science-fiction brands in history. The show spawned a number of spin-off series, including Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–94), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–99), Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001), Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–05), and Star Trek: Picard (2020– ). The franchise also yielded numerous feature films, among them Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), which was followed by five further movies featuring the cast of the television show; Star Trek Generations (1994), which was the first of four movies set in the world established by the Next Generation television series; and a series of films centred on reimaginings of the original characters, including Star Trek (2009), Star Trek into Darkness (2013), and Star Trek Beyond (2016). 

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This article discusses the fictional timeline of the Star Trek franchise. The franchise is primarily set in the future, ranging from the mid-22nd century (Star Trek: Enterprise) to the early 25th century (Star Trek: Picard). However the franchise has also outlined a fictional future history of Earth prior to this, and, primarily through time travel plots, explored both past and further-future settings, including the third season onwards of Star Trek: Discovery being set in the 32nd century.

The chronology is complicated by the presence of divergent timelines within the franchise's narrative, as well as internal contradictions and retcons. The original series generally avoided assigning real-world dates to its futuristic setting, instead using the stardate system. Series from Star Trek: The Next Generation onwards defined their temporal settings in conventional form.

Series, books, and film settings

This table shows each TV series and movie, its year of release or broadcast, the year it was set in according to the prevailing Okuda chronology (see below), and the stardate range for that year. The designation Enterprise-based series are the series that featured the various incarnations of the starship USS Enterprise. In universe timeline chronological order Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT), Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS), Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG), and all 13 of the Star Trek feature films, including the three newest J. J. Abrams "reboot" films, or "Kelvin Timeline" based on the original series.[citation needed]

Year Stardates Enterprise, Strange New Worlds, The Original Series, The Next Generation, Picard, original timeline films, major events Animated series Novels and comics Deep Space Nine Voyager Discovery Reboot films (Kelvin timeline) Video games

Before the birth of the Universe "Death Wish" (1996)

3.5 billion years ago The Next Generation "All Good Things..." (1994) [primordial Earth]

~2840 BCE Star Trek "All Our Yesterdays" (1969) [primary plotline]

1893 CE The Next Generation "Time's Arrow" (1992) [primary plotline]

1930 Star Trek "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967) [primary plotline]

1944 Enterprise "Storm Front" (2004) [primary plotline]

1947 "Little Green Men" (1995) [primary plotline]

1957 Enterprise "Carbon Creek" (2002) [primary plotline]

1968 Star Trek "Assignment: Earth" (1968) [primary plotline]

1969 Star Trek "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (1967) [primary plotline]

1986 The Voyage Home (1986) [primary plotline]

1992–1996 Eugenics Wars Khan [secondary plotline] "Future's End" (1996) [primary plotline]

2000 "11:59" (1999) [primary plotline]

2004 Enterprise "Carpenter Street" (2003) [primary plotline]

2024 Picard season 2 (2022) [past timeline] "Past Tense" (1995) [primary plotline]

2032 "One Small Step" (1999) [primary plotline]

2049–2053 World War III

2054–2079 Post-atomic horror

2063 First Contact (1996) [primary plotline]

2151–2152 Enterprise season 1 (2001–2002)

2152–2153 Enterprise season 2 (2002–2003)

2153–2154 Enterprise season 3 (2003–2004)

2154–2155 Enterprise season 41 (2004–2005)

2156–2160 Earth–Romulan War

2161 Enterprise "These Are the Voyages..." (2005) holodeck simulation of the events2

Founding of the United Federation of Planets

2164 2164 (Reboot Stardate) USS Franklin goes missing: Star Trek Beyond (2016)

2233 2233 (Reboot Stardate) Star Trek (2009)3 [prologue]

2233–2258 2233–2258 (Reboot Stardates) Nero comics

2245–2250 The Constitution-class USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is launched under the command of Captain Robert April and begins its first 5-year mission.

2254 Star Trek "The Cage" (1964)

2256–2257 1207 Discovery season 1 (2017–2018)

2258–2259 2258–2259 (Reboot Stardate) Discovery season 2 (2018–2019) Star Trek (2009)

2259 2259 (Reboot Stardate) Strange New Worlds season 1 (2022) Khan [primary plotline]

2259–2260 2259–2260 (Reboot Stardate) Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

2263 2263 (Reboot Stardate) Star Trek Beyond (2016)

2265 1000–1499 Star Trek "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1965)

2266–2267 1500–3299 Star Trek season 1 (1966–1967)

2267–2268 3300–4799 Star Trek season 2 (1967–1968) "Trials and Tribble-ations" (1996) [primary plotline taking place within "The Trouble with Tribbles"]

2268–2269 4800–5999 Star Trek season 3 (1968–1969)

2269–2270 5221–5683 The Animated Series season 1 (1973–1974) Killing Time

2270 6000–6146 The Animated Series season 2 (1974)

2273 7410–7599 The Motion Picture (1979)

2275 Spock's World

2278 7818 USS Bozeman launched: "Cause and Effect" (1992)

2285 8100–8299 The Wrath of Khan (1982)

The Search for Spock (1984)

2286 8300–8399 The Voyage Home (1986)

2287 8400–8499 The Final Frontier (1989)

2293 9500–9999 The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Generations (1994) [prologue] "Flashback" (1996) [flashback taking place within The Undiscovered Country]

2298–2364 The Lost Era novels

2333–2355 10000–32999 Stargazer novels

2354–2381 31000–58999 New Frontier novels

2364 41000–41999 The Next Generation season 1 (1987–1988)

The Next Generation "All Good Things..." (1994) [past timeline]

2365 42000–42999 The Next Generation season 2 (1988–1989)

2366 43000–43999 The Next Generation season 3 (1989–1990)

2367 44000–44999 The Next Generation season 4 (1990–1991) "Emissary" (1993) [flashback to the Battle of Wolf 359]

2368 45000–45999 The Next Generation season 5 (1991–1992)

2369 46000–46999 The Next Generation season 6 (1992–1993) Deep Space Nine season 1 (1993)

2370 47000–47999 The Next Generation season 7 (1993–1994)

Enterprise "These Are the Voyages..."4 (2005) [main timeline] Q-Squared Deep Space Nine season 2 (1993–1994)

2371 48000–48999 Generations (1994) Deep Space Nine season 3 (1994–1995) Voyager season 1 (1995)

2372 49000–49999 Deep Space Nine season 4 (1995–1996) Voyager season 2 (1995–1996)

2373 50000–50999 First Contact (1996)

Dominion War

Deep Space Nine season 5 (1996–1997) Voyager season 3 (1996–1997)

2374 51000–51999 Dominion War Deep Space Nine season 6 (1997–1998) Voyager season 4 (1997–1998)

2375 52000–52999 Dominion War

Insurrection (1998)

Deep Space Nine season 7 (1998–1999) Voyager season 5 (1998–1999)

2376 53000–53999 A Stitch in Time Voyager season 6 (1999–2000)

2377–2378 54000–55599 Voyager season 7 (2000–2001)

2378–2379 55600–56399 A Time to... novels

2379 56400–56899 Nemesis (2002)

2380 57000–57999 Lower Decks season 1 (2020)

2381 58000–58999 Lower Decks season 2 (2021) and season 3 (2022)

2379–2386 56900–63999 Utopia Planitia Shipyards, Picard season 1 (2020) Titan novels

2383-2384 Prodigy season 1 (2021)

2385 Utopia Planitia Shipyards Destruction, Picard Season 1, Episode 2 (2020)

2387 64000–64999 Star Trek (2009) [flashback] Countdown

2390 "Timeless" (1998) [future timeline]

2395 72000–72999 The Next Generation "All Good Things..." (1994) [future timeline]

2399 76000–76999 Picard season 1 (2020)

2401 Picard seasons 2 and 3 (2022–23) [main timeline]

2402 Picard "The Last Generation" (2023) [epilogue]

2404 "Endgame" (2001) [future timeline]

2409-2411 Star Trek Online (2010)

2450 "The Visitor" (1995) [future timeline]

2554 Enterprise "Azati Prime" (2004) [Battle of Procyon 5]

2875 "Relativity" (1999) [future timeline]

3052 Enterprise "Shockwave" (2002) [future timeline]

3069–3089 The Burn, followed by the collapse of most of the United Federation of Planets

3074 "Living Witness" (1998)

3186 "The Red Angel" (2019)

3188-89 Discovery season 3 (2020)

3190 Discovery season 4 (2021-22)

Timeline in order of series air dates

Chronology and events

This timeline is based on the Star Trek Chronology model described below, supplemented by data from the website startrek.com.[1] The Timeline also consists of before, between, and after those events.

Note: Many of these dates are rounded-off approximations, as the dialog from which they are derived often includes qualifiers such as "over," "more than," or "less than."

Star Trek Timelines

Overview about the most important events, first contacts and when series/movies of the Star Trek universe take place

Before Common Era

The Big Bang

Quinn hides in the big bang to avoid discovery by Q.[2]

c. 6 billion years ago

The Guardian of Forever is formed.[3]

c. 4 billion years ago

A humanoid civilization seeds the oceans of many planets with genetic material, which would lead to the development of humanoids on many planets.[4]

c. 65 to 100 million years ago

The dinosaurs (the Voth civilization) from the episode "Distant Origin" are most likely descendants of Hadrosaurids who lived in the Cretaceous period of Earth's history.

c. 1 million years ago

Sargon's people explore the galaxy and colonize various planets, possibly including Vulcan.[5]

c. 600,000 years ago

The Tkon Empire, an interstellar state consisting of dozens of star systems in the Alpha Quadrant, becomes extinct.

c. 200,000 years ago

The Iconian civilization is destroyed.

c. 8,000 BCE

The Dominion may have been founded in the Gamma Quadrant by the shapeshifting race known as the Changelings around this time, possibly in a different form than is known in the modern timeline.[6]

c. 2700 BCE

A group of extraterrestrial beings land on Earth and are eventually known as the Greek gods, as established in the episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?".

1st millennium of the Common Era

c. 4th century CE

The Vulcan Time of Awakening. In the midst of horrific wars on Vulcan, the philosopher Surak leads his people, teaching them to embrace logic and suppress all emotion.[7]

The Dominion may have been founded in the Gamma Quadrant by the shapeshifting race known as the Changelings (founders) around this time.[8]

c. 9th century

Kahless the Unforgettable unites the Klingons by defeating the tyrant Molor in battle, and provides his people with teachings based on a philosophy of honor.[9]

Pre-20th century

c. 1505

The Borg are known to exist in the Delta Quadrant, 900 years prior to Voyager landing on the planet as referenced by the Vaadwaur "Dragon's Teeth" (VOY).

c. 1570

The ancient Bajorans use solar sail ships to explore their star system, and one may have reached Cardassia.[10]

18th century

The Suliban homeworld becomes uninhabitable ("Detained" (ENT)).

The Preservers transport various Native Americans to a faraway planet.[11]

c. 1864

The Skagarans abduct humans for use as slaves in their colony world (as referred to in Enterprise Season 3: "North Star").

c. 1871

The Cardassian Union is established.[12]

1888

August 31: Jack the Ripper's first victim is found murdered and mutilated in East London (as referred to in Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2: "Wolf in the Fold").

c. 1893

"Time's Arrow" (TNG).

20th century

1918

World War I ends with 6 million dead ("Bread and Circuses (TOS)").

1930

"The City on the Edge of Forever" (TOS).

1937

Several hundred humans are secretly abducted by an alien race known as the Briori and brought to the Delta Quadrant. Eight are cryogenically frozen, including long-lost pilot Amelia Earhart ("The 37's" (VOY)).

1944

"Storm Front" (ENT).

1945

World War II ends with 11 million dead ("Bread and Circuses (TOS)").

The United Nations is established in San Francisco but its headquarters moves to New York City.

1947

Three Ferengi (Quark, Rom, and Nog) crash land in the New Mexico desert, and are held by the U.S. government at a secret base for scientific study ("Little Green Men" (DS9)).

1957

A Vulcan scout ship visits Earth, according to a story told by T'Pol (presumably a true story as T'Pol examines a purse which was portrayed as used by her great-great-grandmother during the story; see episode entry) ("Carbon Creek" (ENT)).

1967

Captain Braxton's 29th century Federation timeship Aeon crashlands on Earth ("Future's End" (Voyager)).

1968

"Assignment: Earth" (TOS) past events.

1969

"Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (TOS) past events.

1986

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home past events.

1992

The Eugenics Wars (WWIII) begin.[13] (WWIII is retconned to be in the 2050s by TNG's Encounter at Farpoint and Star Trek First Contact and to being a conflict separate from the Eugenics Wars; DS9's "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" retcons the Eugenics Wars as being in the 22nd century. SNW's "Strange New World" retcons it again to taking place in the 21st century, prior to WWIII.)

1996

The Eugenics Wars end.[13] (WWIII is retconned to be in the 2050s by TNG's "Encounter at Farpoint" and Star Trek First Contact; DS9's "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" retcons the Eugenics Wars as being in the 22nd century. SNW's "Strange New World" retcons it again to taking place in the 21st century prior to WWIII.)

"Future's End" (VOY).

the SS Botany Bay is stolen by a group of about 80 or 90 augments ("Space Seed" (TOS)).

1999

Voyager 6 is launched.[14]

2000

The past events of "11:59" (VOY).

21st century

2002

The interstellar probe Nomad is launched.[1][15]

2004

The past events of "Carpenter Street" (ENT).

2009

The first successful Earth-Saturn probe takes place.[1][16]

2012

The world's first self-sustaining civic environment, Millennium Gate, which became the model for the first habitat on Mars, completed in Portage Creek, Indiana ("11:59" (VOY)).

2018

Sleeper ships are made obsolete.[17]

2024

A united Ireland is achieved (TNG "The High Ground").

The past events of "Past Tense" (DS9), namely the "Bell Riots".

The past events of Star Trek: Picard Season 2.

2026

World War III begins on Earth. Colonel Green and a group of eco-terrorists commit genocide that claimed the lives of thirty-seven million people. (ENT "In A Mirror Darkly, Part Two") (In TOS, WWIII took place in the 1990s and is established as an alternate name for the Eugenics Wars[13] while DS9's "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" had the Eugenics Wars in the 22nd century. SNW's "Strange New World" retcons the Eugenics Wars to the 21st century, but prior to the outbreak of WWIII.)

2032

Ares IV, a crewed mission to Mars is launched.[18]

Zefram Cochrane is born.

2037

The spaceship Charybdis makes an attempt to leave the solar system.[19]

2047

The Hermosa quake strikes the region of southern California surrounding Los Angeles. The land sinks under two hundred meters of water. In the ensuing centuries, the region recovers, having transformed into one of the world's largest coral reefs. These reefs become home to thousands of different marine species.[clarification needed]

2053

World War III ends and Earth is left devastated, mostly because of nuclear warfare. Most of the major cities are left in ruins with few remaining governments and the death total reaching 600 million. Scientific advancement continues, however.[20] (In TOS, WWIII took place in the 1990s and is established as an alternate name for the Eugenics Wars[13] while DS9's "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" had the Eugenics Wars in the 22nd century. SNW's "Strange New World" retcons the Eugenics Wars to the 21st century, but prior to the outbreak of WWIII.)

2062

Oldtown San Francisco is struck by an enormous earthquake, the Greater Quake, and it takes 20 years for the city to be restored.

2063

The past events of Star Trek: First Contact. Zefram Cochrane makes the first human warp flight with the Phoenix as civilization rebuilds following WWIII. This attracts the Vulcans and they make first contact with humans. (TOS "Metamorphosis" stated that Zefram Cochrane disappeared 150 years ago at the age of 87, which fits with the current timeline.)

c. 2065

The SS Valiant is launched.[1][21]

2067

The uncrewed interstellar warp probe Friendship 1 is launched.[22]

2069

The colony ship SS Conestoga is launched. It would found the Terra Nova colony.[23]

2079

Earth begins to recover from its nuclear war.[24] The recovery is aided and partially organized by a newly established political entity called the European Hegemony.[1]

2088

T'Pol is born.

22nd century

2103

Earth colonizes Mars.

2112

Jonathan Archer is born in upstate New York on Earth.[25]

2119

Zefram Cochrane, who now is residing on Alpha Centauri, sets off for parts unknown and disappears. Some had thought he was testing a new engine. After an exhaustive search, it is believed that Cochrane has died. He becomes one of the most famous missing people in history.[26]

2129

Hoshi Sato is born.[25]

2130

The United Nations preposes a new fleet must be installed to explore the wonders beyond space and creation itself and Starfleet Command is born with San Francisco as its headquarters.

2142

Warp 2 Barrier broken by Commander Robinson in NX Alpha and Warp 2.5 achieved by Commander Archer in NX Beta.

2145

Warp 3 Broken by Commander Duvall in NX Delta.

2149

The USS Enterprise (NX-01) is under construction in upstate New York.

2150

Keel laid for Enterprise (NX-01).

2151–2155

The events of Star Trek: Enterprise take place.[27]

2155

The USS Defiant, a Constitution-class vessel from the Prime Universe in 2268, travels back in time and also emerges in the Mirror Universe following its interaction with an anomaly. The abandoned Defiant is found by the Tholians. The Terran Empire learns of the ship's existence and subsequently captures it for their own use.

2156–2160

The Earth–Romulan War is fought between United Earth and its allies, and the Romulan Star Empire. The war ends with the Battle of Cheron, which results in Earth inflicting a humiliating defeat on the Romulans, to such a degree that the Empire still considers the battle an embarrassment over 200 years later. The Romulan Neutral Zone is established.[1]

2161

The United Federation of Planets is founded by Earth, Tellar, Andoria, and Vulcan.[28][29]

2165

Sarek, Federation diplomat and father of Spock, is born on Vulcan.[30]

2184

Johnathan Archer is elected as the first United Federation of Planets President.

2192

Johnathan Archer steps down as UFP President after eight years.

2195

Robert April is born.

2160s to 2196

The Daedalus class starship is active.[31]

23rd century

2222

Montgomery Scott is born in Scotland.[32]

2226

Michael Burnham is born on Earth.[33]

2227

Leonard McCoy is born in Georgia, North America on Earth.[34]

2230

Spock, the son of Sarek and the human Amanda Grayson, is born on Vulcan.[35]

2232

The events of Star Trek: Short Treks episode "The Girl Who Made the Stars" take place.

2233

James T. Kirk is born in Riverside, Iowa on Earth.[36]

2233 (alternate timeline)

Spock and the Romulan mining ship Narada, commanded by Nero, emerge from a black hole created by Spock's detonation of red matter in 2387 and arrive in the past. Nero's arrival and subsequent attack on the USS Kelvin creates the Kelvin Timeline.

James T. Kirk is born aboard a shuttlecraft from the USS Kelvin.

James T. Kirk's father, George Kirk, is killed.

2238

The events of Star Trek: Short Treks episode "The Brightest Star" take place.

2241 (alternate timeline)

Pavel Chekov born in Russia on Earth

2245–2250

The USS Enterprise, a Constitution class vessel is launched under the command of Robert April, on a five-year mission of exploration.[1] In the alternate time line created by Nero's attack on the USS Kelvin, the Enterprise is still under construction in 2255 and is not launched on its maiden voyage until 2258.

2245

Pavel Chekov is born to Russian parents.[37] In the alternate timeline created by Nero's attack on the USS Kelvin, Chekov is only eight years younger than James T. Kirk, implying a birthdate of 2241.[38]

2250

After a refit, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is launched on a second five-year mission. Command of the ship is assigned to Captain Christopher Pike.[1]

2254

The events of Star Trek: Short Treks episode "Q&A" take place.

The events of "The Cage".[39]

2256-2257

The events of Star Trek: Discovery season 1 take place, The Klingon Federation War.

2257-2258

The events of Star Trek: Discovery season 2 take place. The USS Discovery and USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) engage in a pitched battle to neutralise the rogue AI Control. The battle is a success, but the Enterprise falsely reports that the Discovery was lost, with all hands to conceal the fact that it traveled 930 years into the future in order to prevent Control from reasserting itself. The Enterprise subsequently undergoes repairs and departs for Edrin II 4 months later.

2258 (alternate timeline)

The events of Star Trek (2009 Movie) take place. Nero destroys the planet Vulcan – killing billions, including Spock's mother – as well as 9 Federation starships. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is built in the state of Iowa and is launched on its maiden voyage under Captain Christopher Pike. James T. Kirk becomes the ship's new captain shortly afterward. Henceforth, a different time line is required.

The events of Star Trek: Bridge Crew take place.

The USS Aegis is searching for a new homeworld for the Vulcans after the destruction of their planet. The ship heads for a region of space called 'The Trench', which is being occupied by Klingons.

The events of Star Trek (2013 video game) take place.

Months Later, Captain Kirk, Spock, and the crew of the USS Enterprise encounter a powerful alien race known as the Gorn.

2259 (alternate timeline)

The events of Star Trek Into Darkness take place.

2259

The events of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1 take place.

The Enterprise begins another five-year mission under Christopher Pike.

2260 (alternate timeline)

The Enterprise is launched on a historic five-year mission.

2263 (alternate timeline)

Space Station Yorktown is established by Commodore Paris.

The events of Star Trek Beyond take place. The USS Enterprise is destroyed – The USS Enterprise-A is commissioned at Starbase Yorktown as its replacement.

Ambassador Spock dies.

2261–2264

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) undergoes a major refit, increasing its crew complement from 203 to 430.[1]

2263

Boothby, groundskeeper and counselor at Starfleet Academy, is born.

2265–2270

Following the promotion of Christopher Pike, Captain James T. Kirk is assigned command of the Enterprise on a historic five-year mission.[1] (In the originally canonical Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology this was 2207 to 2212; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds contradicts this somewhat by dating Pike's accident to approximately 2268 or 2269 (per dialogue in the episode "Strange New World" stating the accident occurs 10 years in the future), but the TOS episode "The Menagerie" takes place during the first season, approximately a year into Kirk's mission rather than close to its end.)

2265

The events of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (TOS)

2266–2269

The events of Star Trek: The Original Series take place.

2269-2270

The events of Star Trek: The Animated Series take place. (There is no on-screen confirmation of this, but anecdotally TAS is believed to take place towards the end of the mission.

2270

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) returns from its five-year mission under the command of Captain James T. Kirk and enters major refit while Kirk is promoted to Admiral at Starfleet Command. Capt. Will Decker is assigned command of the vessel.

2273

The events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

2273-2278

The upgraded USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) embarks on a five-year mission under the command of Admiral James T. Kirk.[1]

2279

Around this time the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is retired from active duty and assigned as a training vessel in orbit of Earth.[1] At some point during this period, Spock is promoted to captain and assigned command of the vessel.

2284

The USS Excelsior (NX-2000) is built in San Francisco fleet yard and was later docked on the space station and was the first ship with trans warp drive, unfortunately the ship was still unfinished due many specifications and was sent to upstate New York to finish the project and was later renamed USS Excelsior (NCC-2000).

2285

The events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Kirk takes over command of the Enterprise from Captain Spock, who subsequently dies.

The events of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The original USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), having been decommissioned by Starfleet, is destroyed to prevent it from falling into Klingon hands. Spock is revived.

2286

The events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) and is launched on its maiden voyage under the command of the newly demoted Capt. James Kirk.

2287

The events of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

2293

The events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) is decommissioned shortly afterwards.

The opening events of Star Trek Generations. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) is launched under the command of John Harriman. While responding to a distress call, the Enterprise is struck by a discharge from the Nexus which breaches the hull and James T. Kirk is presumed killed in the blast. (The exact timing is uncertain and the events of Generations could take place in a later year.)

24th century

2305

Jean-Luc Picard is born in LaBarre, France on Earth.[40]

2311

The Tomed Incident.[1][41]

2319

Gary Seven is born.

2324

Beverly Howard (Crusher) is born in Copernicus City, Luna.[40]

2327

Jean-Luc Picard graduates from Starfleet Academy on Earth (2323-2327).[citation needed]

2329

Chakotay is born on a Federation colony near Cardassian space in the demilitarized zone

2332

Benjamin L. Sisko is born in New Orleans, Louisiana on Earth.[1]

2333

Jean-Luc Picard becomes captain of the USS Stargazer.[1]

2335

Geordi La Forge is born in Mogadishu, Somalia on Earth.[40]

William T. Riker is born in Valdez, Alaska on Earth.[1]

2336

Deanna Troi is born on Betazed.[40]

Kathryn Janeway is born in Bloomington, Indiana on Earth.[42]

2337

Tasha Yar is born in a failed Federation colony on Turkana IV.[1]

2340

Worf, son of Mogh, is born on the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS.[1][43]

2341

Julian Bashir is born.[44]

2343

The Galaxy class development project is officially given the greenlight by Starfleet Command.[45]

2344

The Enterprise-C, under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett, is destroyed defending a Klingon settlement on Narendra III under attack from Romulans.[1][46]

Due to the Enterprise-C's sacrifice, a new era of more open communication begins between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, leading to a formalized alliance.

2345

Sela (half-romulan/half-human), daughter of Natasha Yar (alternate reality from "Yesterday's Enterprise"), is born.

2346

Worf's parents are killed by Romulans in the Khitomer massacre. Worf (age 6) is adopted by human parents.[1][47]

2349

Annika Hansen is born in Tendara Colony, to Magnus and Erin Hansen.

2355

Magnus, Erin, and Annika Hansen are assimilated by the Borg while on a research mission in the Delta quadrant.

The USS Stargazer is attacked by an unknown vessel (later discovered to be Ferengi in origin) in the Maxia Zeta system. Jean-Luc Picard wins the confrontation by devising a tactic which becomes known as the Picard Manoeuvre. However, due to damage suffered during the battle, the crew are forced to abandon ship. The Stargazer is later recovered in 2364.

2357

Worf is the first Klingon to enter Starfleet Academy.[1]

USS Galaxy (NX-70637), the prototype Galaxy class is launched.[45]

2363

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), the third Galaxy-class starship (following the Galaxy and Yamato) is launched from the Utopia Planitia shipyards in Mars orbit (under the command of Jean-Luc Picard), and becomes the Federation's new flagship.

2364–2370

The events of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

2367

The Borg assimilate Captain Jean-Luc Picard; the Battle of Wolf 359 is fought 7.7 light years from Earth in Sector 001. The battle results in the loss of 39 Starfleet vessels and over 11,000 lives. Benjamin Sisko aboard the USS Saratoga is a participant in the battle and is one of the few survivors alongside his son Jake Sisko. With the task force lost, the Borg continue to Earth. Picard is rescued and the Borg cube is destroyed via the actions of the crew of the Enterprise-D.

2369–2375

The events of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

2369

Terok Nor, a Cardassian space station orbiting Bajor, is taken over by Starfleet following the end of hostilities between Bajor and Cardassia. It is redesignated Deep Space Nine and placed under the command of Commander (later Captain) Benjamin Sisko. Soon after, the discovery of a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants leads to DS9 being relocated near the wormhole's location in order to facilitate trade, exploration and defense.

2370

The events of Star Trek: Enterprise episode "These Are the Voyages..." take place. (this is due to the story being depicted as a holodeck recreation concurrent with the events of the TNG episode The Pegasus).

The USS Defiant (NX-74205), a mothballed prototype originally designed to fight the Borg, is commissioned into active service and is assigned to Benjamin Sisko to help protect DS9. Due to the Defiant being over-powered and over-gunned for its size, several flaws in the ship's design require attention before it reaches a fully operational status. The Defiant is officially classed as an escort vessel; however, unofficially it is considered a warship built purely for combat.

2371

The "present-day" events of Star Trek Generations. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)'s stardrive section is destroyed by a warp core breach; the saucer section containing the crew makes a forced landing on Veridian III. The ship is subsequently declared a total loss. James T. Kirk reappears from the temporal continuum in which he had been since his disappearance in 2293. Kirk is killed on Veridian III.

2371–2378

The events of Star Trek: Voyager.

"Caretaker": the USS Voyager, under the command of Capt. Kathryn Janeway is stranded deep in the Delta Quadrant and faces a 75-year-long voyage back to Federation space. Janeway merges her crew with survivors of a vessel staffed by members of an organization called the Maquis that at this time are de facto enemies of the Federation.

2372

Sovereign-class USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) is launched under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (with most of his command crew from the 1701-D intact).

2373

The events of Star Trek: First Contact. The Battle of Sector 001 occurs with a Starfleet Task Force engaging in a running battle with a Borg cube en route to Earth. The USS Defiant (NX-74205) from DS9 is severely damaged but not destroyed, with the crew evacuating to the Enterprise. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) follows a Borg sphere through a temporal rift and events shift at that point to 2063.

Still unaware that the USS Voyager is stuck in the Delta Quadrant, Starfleet officially declares the ship lost with all hands.

2373–2375

Tensions between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants erupt into open warfare, igniting the Dominion War fully, with DS9 at its epicenter.

2374

Using an abandoned sensor array network, the USS Voyager detects a Federation vessel, the USS Prometheus, on the edge of the Alpha Quadrant and transmits The Doctor to the ship. After freeing the ship from the Romulans with help from the Prometheus EMH, Voyager officially re-establishes contact with Starfleet.

2375

The USS Defiant (NX-74205) is destroyed. Several weeks later, DS9 receives a replacement Defiant Class vessel, the USS Sáo Paulo. Captain Sisko is granted special permission by Starfleet to rename the vessel Defiant.

After devastating losses on both sides, the Federation, alongside the Romulan and Klingon Empire, make a final push against the Dominion, resulting in the Battle of Cardassia. The Dominion subsequently surrenders to the Federation.

The events of Star Trek: Insurrection.[48] Dialogue in this film and in the DS9 finale "What You Leave Behind" place the chronology of this film as during that episode, after the final battle of the war but before the treaty signing ceremony. Most notable in the film is Worf's ability to leave the station to join the Enterprise, as well as a line about Federation diplomats being involved in Dominion negotiations, and the Federation's willingness to work with the Son'a, who are established as a Dominion ally during the war.

2378

With the help of Admiral Janeway from an alternate timeline in which the ship's return is delayed many years with tragic results, the USS Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant. ("Endgame"). Tom Paris' and B'Elanna Torres's daughter is born. At some point after returning home (and prior to the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Janeway is promoted to admiral in the main timeline.

2379

The events of Star Trek: Nemesis, resulting in the death of Lieutenant Commander Data.[49]

Discovery of previously unknown Android named "B-4", a prototype android similar in design to Lt. Commander Data but with a notably less advanced Positronic Network.

2380

The events of Star Trek: Resurgence (2023 video game) take place.

2380-2381

The events of Star Trek: Lower Decks. [50]

2383

The events of Star Trek: Prodigy.

2385, First Contact Day

The events of Star Trek: Short Treks episode "Children of Mars" take place. The Utopia Planitia Fleetyards on Mars are sabotaged and subsequently destroyed by rogue synthetics in a surprise attack. The battle results in the loss of 92,143 lives, the planet itself being considered destroyed, its stratosphere ignited, and the destruction of the rescue armada to evacuate Romulus. In the aftermath of the attack, the Federation, unable to determine how or why the synths went rogue, bans the creation of synthetic lifeforms.

2386

Lieutenant Icheb is captured and stripped for his Borg parts by Bjayzl, and subsequently euthanized by Seven of Nine.

2387

A star in the Romulan Empire goes Supernova. Ambassador Spock attempts to counter the resulting shockwave using Red Matter, but is unable to save the planet Romulus from destruction. Spock and the Romulan mining ship Narada, commanded by Nero, are dragged into a black hole created by the Red Matter detonation and arrive in the past. Nero's arrival in 2233 and subsequent attack on the USS Kelvin creates the Kelvin Timeline.

2394

Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant in the beginning of Star Trek: Voyager series finale ("Endgame"). This sets in motion events in which Kathryn Janeway becomes dissatisfied and begins laying plans to eventually change the timeline and send Voyager home sooner.

2395

The "Future" in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale ("All Good Things...").

2399

The events of Star Trek: Picard season 1.[51]

25th century

2401

The events of Star Trek: Picard season 2 begin.

The events of Star Trek: Picard season 3 begin.

2402

The events of Star Trek: Picard season 3 begin.

2404

The original timeline split in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale (Endgame), where Admiral Janeway goes back 26 years to the Delta Quadrant and secures Voyager's earlier return to the Alpha Quadrant. This begins a new timeline (as yet unnamed).

26th century

c. 2540–2550

The Starship Enterprise-J (presumably NCC 1701-J) is commissioned and takes part in the Battle of Procyon V against the Spherebuilders as shown in Enterprise episode "Azati Prime".

27th century

Temporal Cold War (with agents from the 31st century); first established in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise and recurring until the series' fourth season premiere, it is a struggle between those who would alter history to suit their own ends and those who would preserve the integrity of the original timeline.

With the distance between them having expanded over the centuries and making travel increasingly difficult, the last crossing between the Prime and Mirror Universes occurs at some point during this century.

29th century

The Aeon-type timeship is in active service during this century ("Future's End"), as is the Wells-class timeship Relativity ("Relativity").

30th century

Around the year 2958, supplies of Dilithium in the Milky Way started to dry up, marking the beginning of an energy crisis. The United Federation of Planets began development and trials of alternatives to warp drive, though none proved to be reliable.

The Federation spends much of this century engaged in a temporal war with the objective of upholding the Temporal Accords to ensure the timeline remains unaltered.

31st century

3069

A cataclysmic galaxy-wide event referred to as "The Burn" occurs. Nearly all dilithium in the galaxy suddenly went inert, causing a massive loss of life and the destruction of every ship and facility with an active warp core. In the aftermath, the remaining dilithium became an ever more scarce resource. With few ships and warp travel severely impeded, no explanation for what happened and the uncertainty if it will happen again, the United Federation of Planets effectively collapses.

3074

The main plot of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Living Witness" takes place, and the final scene takes place "many years" after that.

3089

The Federation & Starfleet Command depart Earth for a new headquarters location. Around the same time, the United Earth government withdraws Earth from the Federation, becoming fully self-sufficient and isolating itself from the rest of the galaxy.

Episodes with time traveler Daniels from Enterprise

"Cold Front", "Shockwave", "Azati Prime"

32nd century

3186

This is the year Gabrielle Burnham arrived in after using the Red Angel suit to escape a Klingon attack on her home. (Discovery S2 E10)

3188-3190

The events of Star Trek: Discovery seasons 3 to 4.

34th Century

3374

According to Obrist, if the Krenim weapon ship continued to alter time to this point, full restoration of the Krenim Imperium would not have been achieved. (Star Trek: Voyager, "Year of Hell")

Far future

The events of Star Trek: Short Treks episode "Calypso" take place.

History of the chronology (historiography)

Several efforts have been made to develop a chronology[52] for the events depicted by the Star Trek television series and its spin-offs. This matter has been complicated by the continued additions to the Star Trek canon, the existence of time travel and multiple concurrent timelines, and the scarcity of Gregorian calendar dates given in the show (stardates instead being used).

Original series

Not many references set the original series in an exact time frame, and those that exist are largely contradictory. In the episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", a 1960s military officer says that he's going to lock Captain Kirk up "for two hundred years", to which Kirk replies, with wry amusement: "That ought to be just about right." Likewise, in the episode "Space Seed", it is said that the 1996 warlord Khan Noonian Singh is from "two centuries" ago. Both these references place the show in the 22nd century. However, in the episode "Miri", it is said that 1960 was around 300 years ago, pushing the show into the 23rd century. Finally, the episode "The Squire of Gothos" implied that the light cone of 19th century Earth has expanded to 900 light years of radius, which seems to set the show in the 28th century, since light would take nine centuries to traverse that distance.

According to notes in The Making of Star Trek, the show is set in the 23rd century, and the Enterprise was supposed to be around 40 years old. Roddenberry says in this book that the stardate system was invented to avoid pinning down the show precisely in time frame.[53] Roddenberry's original pitch for the series dated it "'somewhere in the future. It could be 1995, or maybe even 2995".[54]

Early chronologies

The Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology and FASA, a publisher of the first licensed Star Trek role-playing game, chose to take the "Space Seed figure", adding a few years to make sure the events of the Original Series were in the 23rd century. This dating system is followed by other spin-off works in the 1980s, including Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. This timeline system gives the following dates[55][56]

The sub-warp ship the UNSS Icarus makes first contact with Alpha Centauri in 2048, and there meets Zefrem Cochran [sic], who has invented warp drive.[55]

The first Earth warp ship, the Bonaventure makes its first voyage, to Tau Ceti, in 2059.[55]

The first contact with Vulcans is in 2065, when a damaged Vulcan spaceship is rescued by UNSS Amity.[55]

The Federation is formed in 2087.[55]

The Earth–Romulan War occurs in the 2100s.[55]

First contact with the Klingon Empire in 2151, who demand the return of a group of refugees from the USS Sentry.[55]

The first Constitution-class starship is launched in 2188.[55]

The USS Enterprise's five-year mission under Captain Kirk lasts from 2207 to 2212.[56]

The events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture occur in 2217.[56]

The events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan occur around 2222 (dialogue in the film says it is set "fifteen years" after the Season One episode "Space Seed").

The events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home occur on September 21, 2222.[56]

The Star Fleet Battles game was published in 1979, with a license only covering the original series. It has since diverged into an entirely separate fictional universe, new additions to which continue to be published. It does not tie into the Gregorian calendar, instead using a "Year 1" of the invention of Warp on Earth. Its version of the original series backstory is:

Y1 – Warp drive is developed on Earth.

Y4 – Federation is formed by Earth, Vulcan, Andoria, Alpha Centauri.

Y40-Y46 – Earth–Romulan War.

Y71 – Starfleet is formed.

Y126 – The Constitution-class is launched (an upgrade from the Republic-class).

Y154–159 – The events of the Original Series.

See Star Fleet Universe timeline.

TNG era and Okuda

Press materials for The Next Generation suggested it was set in the 24th century, seventy-eight years after the existing Star Trek, although the exact time frame had not yet been set in stone. The pilot had dialogue stating Data was part of the Starfleet "class of '78".[57] The pilot episode, "Encounter at Farpoint", also has a cameo appearance by Leonard "Bones" McCoy, who is said to be 137.

In the last episode of the first season, the year is firmly established by Data as 2364.[57] This marked the first time an explicit future calendar date had been attached to a Star Trek storyline, and allowed fans and writers to extrapolate further dates. For example, the established date implies McCoy was born around 2227, ruling out the Spaceflight Chronology-derived dating of the original series to the early 23rd century (though the dating had already been effectively overruled by Star Trek IV, which primarily takes place in 1986, where Kirk tells Gillian Taylor that he is from the late 23rd Century, though he does not give an exact date).

A Star Trek Chronology was published in 1993, written by production staff members Denise Okuda and Michael Okuda.[58] A second edition was issued in 1996.[1] Okuda originally drew up a timeline for internal use by writers, based on his own research and assumptions provided by Richard Arnold. The dates in the Chronology are consistent with the earlier Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.[45]

It gives the following dates:

Zephram Cochrane invents warp drive around 2061 (so that the SS Valiant can be constructed and go missing two hundred years before "Where No Man Has Gone Before", dated to 2265; the first edition gives 2061; the second edition moves this to 2063 per Star Trek: First Contact).

The Romulan War takes place in the 2150s (about a hundred years before "Balance of Terror").

The Federation is formed in 2161, after the Romulan War, on the basis that "Balance of Terror" says that it was an Earth-Romulan war, not a Federation-Romulan War.

The first Constitution-class starship is launched in 2244, followed by the Enterprise in 2245.

Kirk's five-year mission lasts from 2264 to 2269, based on the assumption that the original series is set exactly 300 years after its original broadcast.

Aired live-action Star Trek episodes are dated from 2266 to 2269. The chronology does not include the events of Star Trek: The Animated Series. This is in keeping also with Gene Roddenberry's concept (discussed in The Making of Star Trek by Roddenberry and Stephen Whitfield) that Star Trek's first season takes place after the mission has been under way for some time.

An episode of Voyager, "Q2", aired after the Chronology was published, established that Kirk's five-year mission actually ended in 2270.

The events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture take place in 2271 (Kirk has been Chief of Starfleet Operations for two and a half years, according to dialog from Kirk and Decker).

The "Q2" dating for Kirk's five-year mission, moves the first film to c. 2273.

Numerous sources, including the Chronology, postulate a second five-year mission under now-Admiral Kirk's command, begun soon after the events of the first movie; in part this is to take into account the unproduced revival series Star Trek: Phase II.

The events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock take place in 2285.

The Wrath of Khan is a sequel to the episode "Space Seed", which Okuda dates to 2267. In Okuda's timeline there is a gap of eighteen years rather than the fifteen years established in dialog. The film was released in 1982, fifteen years after the episode's broadcast in 1967. The film begins on Kirk's birthday, which is semi-canonically established as March 22, the same as William Shatner's.

The events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home take place in 2286.

This places Star Trek III in late 2285, as Kirk states in his log that the Enterprise crew has been on Vulcan for "three months" since bringing Spock home.

The events of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier apparently take place soon after the events of the fourth film, as evidenced by Scotty's complaints about repairing the ship after its shakedown cruise, which was depicted at the end of Star Trek IV. Star Trek V would then take place in early 2287.

The events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country take place in 2293, based on McCoy's statement that he had served on the Enterprise for 27 years, and his absence in "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

The Kirk-era part of Star Trek Generations is set 78 years before 2371 (established by way of an on-screen caption), thus is set in 2293 and soon after Star Trek VI.

The gap between the 1986 film Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home (2286) and the 1987 first season of The Next Generation (2364) is 78 years by this timeline, matching early press materials.

A gap of 10 years passed between the broadcast of the last episode of Star Trek: The Original Series and the release of The Motion Picture. The film skirted around the fact the actors had aged, supposing that only two and a half years had passed since the end of Kirk's five-year mission, thus roughly placing it between two and four years after the events of the TV show. For Star Trek II, it was decided to acknowledge the reality of the aging actors, both by setting the film some 15 years after "Space Seed", and by having Kirk worry about getting old.[59]

Within The Next Generation era, episodes and films are easier to date. Stardates correspond exactly with seasons, with the first two digits of the stardate representing the season number. Okuda assumes the start of a season is January 1 and the end of the season is December 31.[1] The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager television series, as well as the movies, have roughly followed "real time", and are set around 377 years after their release.

Since the Chronology was published, it has been generally adhered-to by the producers of the show. The film Star Trek: First Contact and prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise both revisit the early era. In First Contact, Zephram Cochrane is confirmed as having invented warp drive on Earth, but the date is moved forward slightly to 2063, and it is revealed that Earth's official first contact with an alien species, the Vulcans, took place immediately afterwards as a result of this.

The dating of the final season of Star Trek: Voyager has presented controversy. The standard assumption about stardates, as well as the regular correspondence between seasons and in-universe years, would place the entire season in the year 2377; the season begins with stardate 54014.4 and ends with 54973.4. However, the episode "Homestead" features a celebration of the 315th anniversary of Zefram Cochrane's first contact with the Vulcans, which would set the episode on April 5, 2378. The fansite Memory Alpha thus places the final eight episodes of the season ("Human Error" through "Endgame") in 2378, with other sources following suit.

Enterprise is set in the 2150s, and ties into the Cochrane backstory. The show uses the Gregorian calendar instead of Stardates, making tracking the dating easier. Its pilot, "Broken Bow", depicts first contact with the Klingons occurring much earlier than the Okuda chronology anticipated (it suggested a date of 2218, based on a line in "Day of the Dove", noting that dialog in "First Contact" makes this problematic – though the actual line in the episode referred to hostilities between the two, and in Enterprise, Human-Klingon relations, while by no means friendly, clearly do not rise to the de facto state of war shown in TOS). It shows the opening of the Romulan war and the start of a coalition between Earth, Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar in the 2150s. The date of the founding year of the Federation, 2161, was revealed in the fifth-season TNG episode "The Outcast," based on an early draft of the Okuda timeline. The final episode of Enterprise, "These Are the Voyages...", is consistent with the establishment of 2161 as the founding year for the Federation.

No version of the Chronology or the Encyclopedia has been published since 1999. A 2006 book by Jeff Ayers contains a timeline which attempts to date all of the many Star Trek novels.[60] This timeline has The Motion Picture in 2273, to account for the two-and-a-half-year gap between the end-date of 2270 established in "Q2" and the events of the movie. The official website, StarTrek.com, still gives the date of that movie as 2271.[61]

Eugenics Wars and World War III

When the original series of Star Trek was produced, the 1990s were several decades away, and so various elements of the backstory to Star Trek are set in that era, particularly the Eugenics Wars. The references to the Eugenics Wars and to a nuclear war in the 21st century are somewhat contradictory.

The episode "Space Seed" establishes the Eugenics Wars, and has them lasting from 1992 to 1996. The Eugenics Wars are described as a global conflict in which the progeny of a human genetic engineering project, most notably Khan Noonien Singh, established themselves as supermen and attempted world domination. Spock calls them "the last of your so-called World Wars", and McCoy identifies this with the Eugenics Wars.

In the episode "Bread and Circuses", Spock gives a death toll for World War III of 37 million. The episode "The Savage Curtain" features a Colonel Phillip Green, who led a genocidal war in the 21st century. The TNG episode "Encounter at Farpoint" further establishes a "post-atomic horror" on Earth in 2079. However, the movie Star Trek: First Contact put the contact between Vulcans and humans at April 5, 2063.

The Star Trek Concordance identifies the "Bread and Circuses" figure as the death toll for a nuclear World War III, in the mid-21st century. Star Trek: First Contact firmly establishes World War III ended, after a nuclear exchange, in 2053, but with a body count of 600 million. The figure of Colonel Green is elaborated on in Star Trek: Enterprise. First Contact also deliberately describes the warring parties in World War III as "factions", not nations per se.

The Voyager episode "Future's End" saw the Voyager crew time-travel to Los Angeles in 1996, which, as the Encyclopedia notes, seems entirely unaffected by the Eugenics Wars, which ended that year. The episode acknowledges the issue only by featuring a model of Khan's DY-100-class ship on a 1996 desk.[62] Khan's spaceship is another anomaly for the timeline, which has a variety of long-lost spaceships being launched between 1980 and 2100, with inconsistent levels of technology (caused by the increasing real lifetime and also decreased optimism about the pace of space exploration).

A reference in the Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" suggests that the Eugenic Wars instead took place in the 22nd century. According to writer Ronald D. Moore, this was not an attempt at a retcon, but a mistake – when writing the episode, he recalled the already questionable "two centuries ago" line from "Space Seed" and forgot that DS9 takes place over 100 years later.[63]

Season 4 of Star Trek: Enterprise involves a trilogy of episodes ("Borderland" "Cold Station 12", and "The Augments") related to scientist Doctor Arik Soong, ancestor of Doctor Noonien Soong, and his genetic augmentations of Humans. Numerous historical details of the devastating Eugenics Wars are discussed: the death of 35–37 million people; how Earth's governments could not decide on the fate of the 1,800 genetically enhanced embryos; and how Soong had infiltrated the complex and stolen and raised 19 embryos himself. Soong maintained that he himself and humanity in general had learned the lessons of the Eugenics Wars and should not continue to hide behind those events when there was progress to be made now that the technology had matured and was much more practicable. (The actions of his "children" convince him otherwise, and at the end of "The Augments" Soong declares his interest in cybernetics, beginning the work which would one day bring about Data.)

Greg Cox's two-book series The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh develops the idea of the Eugenics Wars in the context of real-life history by representing it as a secret history, and that the truth behind the various civil wars and conflicts in the 1990s was not generally known; Los Angeles, whose appearance in "Future's End" helped bring the war's existence into question, is portrayed as an EW "battlefront", the Rodney King riots being one such calamity.

The series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which first aired in spring 2022, complicates the time line further by retconning certain dating aspects by explicitly dating the Eugenics Wars to the first half of the 21st century, following a second American Civil War and leading up to the full-scale World War III nuclear conflict described in earlier films and episodes. This differs from "Space Seed" asserting that not only did the Eugenics Wars take place in the mid-1990s but dialogue indicates that they were either concurrent with or simply were World War III.

Cochrane

In the episode "Metamorphosis", it is stated that Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri, the discoverer of the space warp, disappeared 150 years ago, at the age of 87. Based on the 2207 to 2212[56] originally given this would have put Cochrane's disappearance between 2057 and 2062 and his birth between 1970 and 1975. However, Okuda's date of 2267 for that episode, puts Cochrane's disappearance in 2117 and birth in 2030. 1980s spin-off material such as the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology posit that Cochrane was from Alpha Centauri originally, and that a sub-warp ship the UNSS Icarus arrived at Alpha Centauri in 2048 to find he had discovered the theory behind warp drive. The Icarus then relayed its findings back to Earth. The first prototype warp ship was launched in 2055.

The Star Trek Chronology does not hold with this theory, and asserts that Cochrane was an Earth native, who moved to Alpha Centauri later in life. (Even in "Metamorphosis", before Cochrane identifies himself to the landing party, Dr. McCoy had taken a tricorder scan and determined him to be human.) The first edition Chronology notes that Cochrane's invention of warp drive must have been at least 200 years before "Where No Man Has Gone Before", and suggests a date of 2061, noting that Cochrane would be 31 that year.

The film Star Trek: First Contact prominently features Cochrane's first successful warp flight. The film is set in 2063, two years after the Chronology suggestions, and therefore by the timeline Cochrane is 33. The actor who played Cochrane in that movie, James Cromwell, was 56 at the time of the film's release. The Encyclopedia notes the age issue, and claims that the Cromwell Cochrane had suffered from radiation poisoning, causing his aged appearance. Enterprise pins down Cochrane's disappearance to 2119, making Cochrane instead 31 at the time of First Contact.

See also

Outline of Star Trek

Notes

^ Except for the series finale – "These Are the Voyages..."

^ The events of "These are the voyages..." are displayed as a holodeck simulation. Episode itself takes place in 2370 (stardate 47457.1)

^ The film begins in the main timeline only to set up the alternate timeline.

^ Stardate 47457.1, parallel with The Next Generation episode "Pegasus"

References

 Okuda, Mike; Okuda, Denise (1996). Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-53610-9.

 Death Wish (Star Trek: Voyager)

 The Guardian notes in the episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" that it has existed "since before your sun burned hot in space".

 This event is the key plot point of "The Chase".

 Established in the episode "Return to Tomorrow".

 Weyoun states that the Dominion is approximately 10,000 years old in the seventh season episode "The Dogs of War".

 The seventh-season TNG episode "Gambit" says this was around 2,000 years before.

 Weyoun says the Dominion is 2,000 years old in the fourth-season DS9 episode "To the Death". Possibly this was a time of change or reform for the Dominion, transforming it from a previous incarnation into the version seen in the series.

 The sixth-season TNG episode "Rightful Heir" said this event was 1,500 years ago)

 800 years before the third-season DS9 episode "Explorers"

 The Chronology dates this by the culture seen in the episode which features the transplant, The Paradise Syndrome

 Gul Dukat says this happens five centuries before the third-season DS9 episode Defiant

 Dates are given in dialogue in "Space Seed"

 The Chronology speculates on the year, noting that Star Trek: The Motion Picture does not give an exact figure. However the movie itself does state that Voyager 6 "was launched more than three hundred years ago."

 The Chronology speculates on the year, noting the episode "The Changeling" does not give an exact figure. However, the episode does have Kirk ask "Wasn't there a probe called Nomad launched in the early 2000s?"

 The Chronology speculates on the year, noting the episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" does not give an exact year.

 According to the episode "Space Seed". The year is clearly specified by Lt McGivers, ship's historian.

 Established in the episode "One Small Step".

 The year is stated in "The Royale"

 The war ends 10 years before Star Trek: First Contact, set in 2063.

 The Chronology dates this exactly 200 years before the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

 Established in the episode "Friendship One".

 Established the episode "Terra Nova"

 "Encounter at Farpoint" features a Q-induced flashback to this era.

 From a computer screen in "In a Mirror, Darkly"

 About 150 years before "Metamorphosis" (dated by Okuda as 2267), which is shown by Enterprise to be an approximation.

 "Star Trek: Enterprise: Episodes by Season". Archived from the original on November 11, 2006. Retrieved December 31, 2006.

 The TNG episode Conundrum refers to this date, based on an early draft of the Chronology, which had proposed 2161. "These Are the Voyages..." depicts the founding ceremony and officially states the founding members.

 Although the season three Enterprise episode "Zero Hour" indicates the date as 2159

 Sarek gives his age as 102.437 in "Journey to Babel".

 In the episode "Power Play", Data gives the year 2196 as the retirement date of the Daedalus class starships, which had been active 200 years before the episode, in the 2160s.

 The episode "Relics" establishes that Scotty was born 147 years before 2369.

 Star Trek: Discovery S01E04

 McCoy is 137 years old in "Encounter at Farpoint", set in 2364.

 The Chronology dates this based on a line from an early draft script from "Journey to Babel"

 Kirk is said to be 34 in "The Deadly Years, which Okuda dates to 2267.

 Chekov is 22 in the episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?".

 In Star Trek Chekov states that he is 17 – Kirk is 25.

 Thirteen years before the events of "The Menagerie", according to dialogue.

 A biography shown in "Conundrum" establishes the birth-year and birth-place.

 This incident, the last contact between the Romulans and the Federation is said to be 53 years before "The Neutral Zone"

 Knobeloch, Payton. "'Star Trek' Monument Unveiling Rescheduled For October". News - Indiana Public Media. Retrieved 2020-05-22.

 The Chronology derives this figure from working backwards from the Khitomer massacre of 2346.

 Bashir celebrates his 30th birthday in "Distant Voices"

 Okuda, Michael; Sternbach, Rick (1991). Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-70427-3.

 This is said to occur twenty-two years before "Yesterday's Enterprise" (2366)

 The Chronology derives this figure by subtracting 20 years from 2366 ("Sins of the Father"). The Chronology notes an inconsistency, as the episode "Birthright", which it sets in 2369, gives a figure of 2344.

 "Biography: Anij". startrek.com. Archived from the original on 2010-03-23. Retrieved 2006-12-05.

 "Biography: Data". startrek.com. Archived from the original on 2010-07-10. Retrieved 2006-12-05.

 Winters, Brad [@BradinLA] (28 September 2022). "Actually… this will be the first episode to take place in 2381. All of seasons 1, 2, and 1st half of 3 are in 2380. Theres a fancy formula that I don't understand but @drerinmac does, and that's what matters" (Tweet). Retrieved 30 September 2022 – via Twitter.

 Year For Setting Of Star Trek Picard Show Established, Storyline Teased By EP

 "And now we present the complete Star Trek Canon in chronological order! ENJOY!!!". The Star Trek Chronology Project. 2009-09-19.

 Whitfield, Stephen E & Roddenberry, Gene (1968). The Making of Star Trek. Ballatine Books.

 Asherman, Allan (1987). The Star Trek Compendium. Titan Books. ISBN 0-907610-99-4.

 Goldstein, Stanley and Fred (1980). Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology. ISBN 0-671-79089-7.

 Johnson, Shane (1987). Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. Titan Books. ISBN 1-85286-028-6.

 Nemeck, Larry (2003). Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-7434-5798-6.

 Okuda, Mike; Okuda, Denise (1993). Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-79611-9.

 Terry Lee Rioux (2005). From Sawdust to Stardust. Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0-7434-5762-0.

 Ayers, Jeff (2006). Voyages of the Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion. Pocket Books. ISBN 1-4165-0349-8.

 Ayers, Jeff. "Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Synopsis". startrek.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-31. Retrieved 2006-12-04.

 Okuda, Mike; Okuda, Denise; Mirek, Debbie (1999). The Star Trek Encyclopedia. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-53609-5.

 Ronald D. Moore (1997-03-03). "Answers". Archived from the original on 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2006-12-31.

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