2259

Multiple realities

(covers information from several alternate timelines)

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Around this year, General Order 1 is renamed the Prime Directive after the Enterprise's mission to Kiley 279.
Stardates:	1739.12-2398.3. (prime reality) 2259.55 (alternate reality)

Events

Prime reality

By starship or station

USS Archer

• Una Chin-Riley is given command of the USS Archer. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• The Archer is tasked with making first contact with the Kiley. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")

USS Cayuga

• The Cayuga is destroyed by the Gorn over Parnassus Beta. (SNW: "Hegemony")

UEF Enterprise

• In an alternate timeline, Captain James T. Kirk is the commanding officer of the UEF Enterprise. (SNW: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow")

USS Enterprise

• Stardate 1739.12
  • Christine Chapel is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a nurse. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
  • Doctor Joseph M'Benga is assigned to the USS Enterprise as chief medical officer. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
  • Erica Ortegas is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a helmsman. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
  • La'an Noonien-Singh is assigned to the USS Enterprise as acting first officer and later chief of security. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
  • Cadet Nyota Uhura is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a communications officer. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
  • The Enterprise makes official first contact with the Kiley. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• Stardate 2259.42 (February 11)
  • The Enterprise departs Starbase 1. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
  • George Samuel Kirk is assigned to the USS Enterprise as a sciences division member. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
  • Hemmer is assigned to the USS Enterprise as chief engineer. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• Stardate 2912.4. The Enterprise makes first contact with the Shepherds. (SNW: "Children of the Comet")
• Stardate 1224.3. The Enterprise travels to Hetemit IX to investigate a former Illyrian colony. During the mission, Captain Christopher Pike and Lieutenant Spock are trapped on the planet while the landing party are exposed to a light-addicting virus. (SNW: "Ghosts of Illyria")
• Stardate 3177.3-3177.9. The first known contact between vessels representing the United Federation of Planets and the Gorn Hegemony occurs after Enterprise encounters several Gorn ships after they attack the Finibus III colony. Actual contact between crews is not made. (SNW: "Memento Mori")
• Stardate 2510.6.
  • Lieutenant Hemmer commits suicide on Valeo Beta V to prevent Gorn eggs from hatching. (SNW: "All Those Who Wander")
  • Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh takes a leave of absence from Starfleet to help Oriana find her family. (SNW: "All Those Who Wander")
• Stardate 1457.9. Lieutenant Commander Chin-Riley is taken into custody for violating the Starfleet code of Conduct. (SNW: "A Quality of Mercy")
• Cadet Uhura is promoted to Ensign. (SNW: "The Broken Circle")
• Commander Pelia joins the Enterprise as chief engineer. (SNW: "The Broken Circle")
• Commander Chin-Riley is cleared of all charges against her and resumes her duties aboard the Enterprise. (SNW: "Ad Astra per Aspera")
• Stardate 1630.1. The Enterprise returns to Rigel VII under suspicion of cultural contamination, discovering and arresting former yeoman Zac Nguyen in the process. (SNW: "Among the Lotus Eaters")
• Stardate 2394.8. Captain Pike is promoted to Fleet captain. (SNW: "Lost in Translation")
• Stardate 2291.6
  • Ensigns Brad Boimler and Beckett Mariner are unwittingly transported to this time briefly (SNW: "Those Old Scientists")
  • Captain Pike celebrates his birthday (SNW: "Those Old Scientists")

USS Farragut

• The Farragut is stationed at Starbase 1. (SNW: "The Broken Circle")
• Stardate 2394.8. Fleet captain Pike is temporarily given command of the Farragut. (SNW: "Lost in Translation")
• James T. Kirk is promoted to First officer. (SNW: "Lost in Translation")

USS Peregrine

• After Crash landing on Valeo Beta V, the crew is killed by Gorn hatchlings. The Peregrine is later salvaged by the Enterprise. (SNW: "All Those Who Wander")

USS Stardiver

• The Stardiver is destroyed by the Gorn in the Shangdi system. (SNW: "Hegemony")

Other events

• The planet Cerberus is stricken by crop failure during Joanna McCoy's schooling there. Carter Winston uses his personal fortune to save the colony. (TAS: "The Survivor")

The date is approximate, given that Leonard McCoy's statement indicated that the event was "about 10 years ago" in relation to the current year of reference, 2269.

• Spock and T'Pring get engaged. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• General Order 1 is renamed the "Prime Directive". (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• A new variant of Starfleet uniform is introduced. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• A new variant of the Starfleet flag officer uniform is introduced. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• A new variant of the Starfleet communicator is introduced. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• A new variant of the Type 2 phaser is introduced. (SNW: "Children of the Comet")
• A new variant of the Starfleet tricorder is introduced. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• The Stamets-type shuttlecraft is introduced. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
• The R'ongovian Protectorate joins the United Federation of Planets. (SNW: "Spock Amok")
• A new First Servant is selected on Majalis. (SNW: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach")
• Rukiya is cured of her illness and is transformed into a state of pure energy. (SNW: "The Elysian Kingdom")

Alternate reality

By starship or station

USS Enterprise

• January: The crew of the USS Enterprise become involved in the Mudd Incident, leading them to confiscate a K'normian trading ship. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
• February:
  • James T. Kirk violates the Prime Directive while saving Spock's life on Nibiru, and is demoted back to Starfleet Academy. Spock is transferred to the USS Bradbury under Captain Abbott. Christopher Pike convinces Alexander Marcus to allow Kirk to continue as his first officer. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
  • Carol Marcus comes aboard the Enterprise. Montgomery Scott and Keenser resign, infuriated that they are not allowed to inspect Marcus' torpedoes. Kirk appoints Pavel Chekov to replace him as chief engineer. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
  • The USS Enterprise's warp core breaks down just after the ship has passed the Neutral Zone. Kirk leads an away team with Spock and Uhura to find and arrest Harrison. They are intercepted by Klingons patrolling the region, who respond to negotiations by trying to murder Uhura. Harrison intervenes, killing the Klingons, and allows himself to be taken captive by Kirk. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
  • On a nearby planetoid, following Harrison's suggestion, McCoy and Marcus disarm one of the long-range torpedoes, and discover a cryotube, containing a fully-preserved Human, is inside. Harrison reveals he is Khan Noonien Singh, and explains he tried to smuggle his crew from the SS Botany Bay in the torpedoes but was forced to flee when he was discovered. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
  • Meanwhile, in the Sol system, Scott, having been relayed coordinates by Kirk, discovers the secret base where the USS Vengeance has been under construction. He boards the ship before it is launched to intercept the Enterprise. As the Vengeance, captained by Admiral Marcus, crosses the Neutral Zone, Marcus demands Khan be handed over immediately. The Enterprise instead escapes at warp. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
  • The Vengeance pursues the Enterprise and attacks. Both ships drop out of warp near Luna. Marcus beams up his daughter and orders the Enterprise's destruction, but Scott deactivates the Vengeance's weapons. Kirk and Khan get on board the Vengeance with thruster suits, where they are received by Scott. Spock contacts the older Spock on New Vulcan, and after listening to his recollection of his confrontations with Khan Noonien Singh, orders McCoy to remove the cryotubes from the torpedoes. On the Vengeance's bridge, Khan overpowers Scott and Kirk and kills Admiral Marcus. Khan, now in control of the Vengeance, requests his crew in exchange for Kirk, Scott, and Carol. Spock obliges, and Khan beams back the three Enterprise crew members, and begins firing. The torpedoes beamed to the Vengeance detonate, crippling the ship. (Star Trek Into Darkness)

On stardate 2259.55, the USS Vengeance falls toward San Francisco

• Both damaged ships begin falling to Earth. Kirk enters the radiation-flooded warp core, and is able to repair it, narrowly saving the Enterprise, but at the cost of his life. Khan deliberately pilots the Vengeance towards San Francisco, crashing it in the city center. Khan survives, and flees through San Francisco. However, he is apprehended by Spock and Uhura. Due to Khan's regenerative blood cells, a blood transfusion is conducted from Khan to Kirk. (Star Trek Into Darkness)

Other events

• February 24 (stardate 2259.55): John Harrison coerces Thomas Harewood a member of Section 31 into bombing their facility under the Kelvin Memorial Archive, in London. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
• This is the year James T. Kirk was expected to graduate from Starfleet Academy after entering in 2255, assuming he took four years to do so and not three as he declared he would, and ultimately did. (Star Trek)
• As of this year, the Ketha Province has been uninhabited for decades. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
• At Starfleet Headquarters, Marcus convenes a summit to commence a manhunt for Harrison. Harrison attacks the summit, murdering Pike. Harrison escapes by transwarp beaming to the uninhabited Ketha Province of Qo'noS. Kirk receives permission to hunt down Harrison and to reinstate Spock as his first officer. Admiral Marcus orders Kirk to use seventy-two experimental long-range photon torpedoes to execute Harrison from orbit. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
• March

• Two weeks later, Kirk is fully revived. Khan is placed back in his old cryotube once more. (Star Trek Into Darkness)

The video game Star Trek is set around stardate 2259.33.

Appendices

Appearances

Episodes

• SNW:
  • "Strange New Worlds" (Season 1)
  • "Children of the Comet"
  • "Ghosts of Illyria"
  • "Memento Mori"
  • "Spock Amok"
  • "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"
  • "The Serene Squall"
  • "The Elysian Kingdom"
  • "All Those Who Wander"
  • "A Quality of Mercy" (in part)
  • "The Broken Circle" (Season 2)
  • "Ad Astra per Aspera" (in part)
  • "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (in part)
  • "Among the Lotus Eaters"
  • "Charades"
  • "Lost in Translation"
  • "Those Old Scientists" (in part)
  • "Under the Cloak of War" (in part)
  • "Subspace Rhapsody"
  • "Hegemony"

Films

• Star Trek Into Darkness

Notes

• According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 53), the planet Ardana becomes warp-capable.
• According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 33), upon becoming warp-capable, the planet Deneb V is admitted to the Federation in this year.

External link

• 2259 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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