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Incredible Tales - Jan 53

The January 1953 issue of Incredible Tales

January was the first month of the Human year.

Events by day[]

January 1st
In 2001, the Millennium Gate begins construction in Portage Creek, Indiana. (VOY: "11:59")
Amanda Grayson in labor

Amanda Grayson giving birth to Spock on January the 6th

January 6th
In 2230, Spock is born to Amanda Grayson and Sarek in the city of ShiKahr on the planet Vulcan. (TAS: "Yesteryear"; TOS: "Amok Time"; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Star Trek Beyond)
January 8th
In 2154, while en route to the Azati Prime system, Enterprise NX-01 recovers a Xindi-Insectoid shuttle. (ENT: "Hatchery")
January 13th
During the year 2155 in the mirror universe, Commander Jonathan Archer mutinies against Captain Maximilian Forrest in order to take the ISS Enterprise into Tholian space to capture the USS Defiant from the regular universe. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")
January 17th
In 2340, Ro Laren is born. (TNG: "Ensign Ro", "The Next Phase")
January 21st
In 2024, an issue of the Los Angeles Times is published. (PIC: "Watcher")
January 28th
In 2003, George W. Bush gives his State of the Union Address. (ENT: "Future Tense")

Alternate reality[]

January 4th
In 2233, James T. Kirk is born on Medical shuttle 37 in space. (Star Trek)

Other events[]

1953
The January issue of Incredible Tales magazine contains the science fiction stories "Quantity of the Monster" (by Herbert Rossoff) and "1001: First Odyssey" (by Albert Macklin). (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
1958
The Vulcan starship D'Vahl rescues T'Mir and Stron, who had been stranded on Earth since October of 1957. (ENT: "Carbon Creek")
2152
A strange, fibrous alien creature wreaks havoc aboard Enterprise, feeding off crew members, after using a docking port to gain entry to the ship. (ENT: "Vox Sola")
2153
Both the ECS Horizon and the ECS Constellation are attacked by pirates. (ENT: "Horizon")
Travis Mayweather visits his family for the first time in four years after taking a leave from his tour of duty on Enterprise. (ENT: "Horizon")
2154
Enterprise arrives at Azati Prime. (ENT: "Azati Prime")
Doctor Phlox, on Enterprise, belatedly responds to a letter sent to him by Doctor Jeremy Lucas on Denobula. (ENT: "Doctor's Orders")
After developing romantic feeling over a period of time, T'Pol and Trip Tucker sleep together for the first time. (ENT: "The Xindi", "Harbinger", "")
2155
Terra Prime seizes the Martian verteron array and uses it to fire a verteron energy beam at Luna as a demonstration of their power, pursuant to their demand for all non-Humans to leave the Sol system. (ENT: "Demons")
Comet Burke impacts on Mars' northern polar icecap. (ENT: "Terra Prime")
T'Pol and Trip Tucker discover that they have a daughter who had been created from their stolen DNA by Terra Prime. After rescuing the child, they name her Elizabeth. (ENT: "Demons")
2372
The Klingons invade space station Deep Space 9 in the First Battle of Deep Space 9. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")

Appendices[]

Background information[]

Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 39) notes the whiskey scene in ENT: "These Are the Voyages..." is set in January 2161, though this was not mentioned in the episode.

Apocrypha[]

Some of the events in the Eugenics Wars novel The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two take place in January 1996 with the SS Botany Bay being launched on January 5th, 1996.

The events in the novel Warpath take place in January of 2377.

Many of the events in the novel Articles of the Federation take place in January of 2380.

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