I'm 51. In my day, romantic relationships weren't complicated. You
met someone, you were attracted to him or her, you got along great, and
you started dating. As in, actual dating: the guy asked the girl to
dinner and a movie, and out they went. At the end of the date, he
dropped her off at home, kissed her, and if the date went well, he would
call her the next day.
If one of the two parties wasn't "feeling it," the
relationship pretty much ended there. If they both liked each other, it
continued. At some point down the line, the relationship would either
fizzle out, or it wouldn't. If it didn't, the couple got married. The
end.
This pattern bears no resemblance to today's dating scene.
Young people today generally don't date; they "hang out," which
basically means spending time together in the same room. They don't even
have to be communicating in that room — they're likely on their
respective smartphones and watching TV. Or they might "hook up," which
can mean anything from kissing to having sex. Whatever goes on between
men and women today, particularly in college but even afterward, is
often very vague and senseless.
Smartphones and social media are in part to blame, but the
rules had already changed. As products of divorce, the modern generation
has no clue how to make a relationship work.
The sex part they have down — that part's easy. But how to
communicate, how to date, and how to love, well, it's all Greek to them.
There
are two main reasons for this sad state of affairs. The first is that
so many women lowered their standards. They no longer, as women have
always done since the beginning of time, embolden men to bond with them
before agreeing to have sex. If a woman wants love and commitment, even
before marriage, she's probably not going to get it by making herself so
sexually available. That's not how it works. Unfortunately, young women
have been taught that "having sex like a man" somehow makes them a man's "equal."
But, of course, it does just the opposite. Women don't gain power by being promiscuous — they lose it.
When it comes to love and sex, women are the gatekeepers:
Men have always followed their lead. A man can't have sex with a woman
without her permission (if he does, it's a crime); therefore, the
average romantic relationship travels along whatever path a woman walks.
If she lets a guy know he needn't put in the effort, well then, he
won't put it in the effort. But if her standards are high, if she
commands respect and makes him work to earn her love, he will rise to
the occasion.
Unfortunately, too many young women do the former rather
than the latter; which makes it hard for the women whose standards are
high. It also makes dating superfluous. With so many women putting the
cart before the horse, relationships go nowhere. They don't even get off
the ground.
The second reason dating is dead is that young people think
of marriage as the grand finale rather than the main event. This is a
huge departure from the way almost every other generation viewed
marriage: as the beginning of life. The purpose. The whole enchilada.
This earlier mindset guarantees successful dating because people don't
waste time with people they know they'd never marry. Rather, they date
with purpose: to find out if the person is a potential life match.
Without that element, you're just shooting blanks.
But here's the real problem, a largely unspoken problem,
with this new mindset: There's a huge psychological toll for moving in
and out of countless relationships that go nowhere. The idea behind
postponing marriage inevitably is that you learn about people and about
yourself and about what you ultimately want in a partner, and there's
some truth to this. But it is equally, if not more, likely you'll end up
cynical and scarred — and more wary, not less, of how to build a
relationship that lasts. This is especially true if all of those
relationships were sexual in nature, which they typically are.
Each time you invest in a relationship that doesn't last,
each time you pour out your heart and your soul and your body to him or
her, you leave just a little bit damaged. You'll then take these wounds
with you into each new relationship. By the time you do get married, if
you do, your faith in love has been shattered.
If we changed just these two things — if women start owning
their power in the realm of love and sex, and if young people view
marriage as something to aspire to rather than something to put off or
to avoid, dating will once again start carrying a lot of weight.
I don't see any evidence that young people, women in
particular, enjoy putting themselves through an endless stream of broken
relationships. None of us learns who we are until we get married, so
the idea of postponing marriage until we "know ourselves" is just
something people tell themselves. It's in the commitment that we learn
what we're capable of. It's in the commitment that we finally,
ultimately, learn how to love.
Until then, we're just killing time.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
THOUGHT: FIONA
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. It’s the book that all of
Kindle’s hardware code names came from. The book is about a character
named Fiona and her “illustrated primer,” a machine designed to look
like a book but with links to all libraries, all TV shows, and all human
knowledge. (Jeff originally wanted the Kindle code names to come from Star Trek,
since he’s such a Trekkie, but more literate minds prevailed.) The book
is a treasure trove of other code names for Kindle hardware: Nell,
Miranda, and Turing.
THOUGHTS: THE STAR TREK TIME LINE
The Days Before Space
4.6 Billion BCE (or maybe even more):
The birth/arrival/creation of the Guardian of Forever on its ancient planet (ST:TOS S1E28, “The Guardian on the Edge of Forever”).
4 Billion BCE:
An unknown humanoid species, to quote Geordi LaForge, “scattered this genetic material into the primordial soup of at least 19 different planets across the galaxy,” explaining why most sentient species look the same (ST:TNG S6E20, “The Chase”).
3.5 Billion BCE:
The beginnings of life in the Alpha Quadrant are threatened by Q’s anomaly (ST:TNG S7E25-26, “All Good Things”).
400 CE (approximately):
Approximate time when the Changelings founded what would become the Dominion, with the Jem’Hadar
900 CE (approximately):
Kahless the Unforgettable slays the Qo’noS tyrant Molor and becomes the first Emperor of the Klingon Empire.
1505 CE:
First known sign of the Borg in the Delta Quadrant.
1600 CE (approximately):
The beginnings of Bajoran space exploration leads to first contact between the Cardassians and Bajorans. (It does not go well for them.)
1800 CE (approximately):
Establishment of the Cardassian Union.
1893:
Picard, La Forge, Troi, Riker, and Crusher arrive in San Francisco after the discovery of Data’s severed head in their century. Samuel Clemens (AKA Mark Twain) gets caught up in their efforts to save him (ST:TNG S5E26-S6E1, “Time’s Arrow”).
1930:
Kirk and Spock chase a drugged and disoriented McCoy through the time portal known as the Guardian of Forever to New York City. While there, Kirk falls in love with Edith Keeler, a social worker whose life McCoy saved, but Kirk must ultimately let die, in order to preserve the timeline and prevent Germany from winning World War II (ST:TOS S1E28, “The City on the Edge of Forever”).
1937:
The Briori abduct several hundred humans from Earth and bring them to the Delta Quadrant, including Amelia Earhart (ST:VOY S2E1, “The 37’s”).
1944 (alternate universe):
Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 crew find themselves in an altered version of World War II, where the Nazis have invaded America (ST:ENT S4E1-E2, “Storm Front”).
July 1947:
Quark, Rom and Nog crash their ship in Roswell, New Mexico and have to escape from the U.S. Military (ST:DS9 S4E8, “Little Green Men”).
1968:
The Enterprise travels back to this year to prevent an agent from interfering with events, because Starfleet had a record of them doing so. Time travel is fun that way (ST:TOS S2E26, “Assignment: Earth”).The Enterprise also went on a similar mission in 1969 (ST:TOS S1E19, “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”).
1986:
Kirk and friends, in search of humpback whales to save the future, arrive in San Francisco, where they meet marine biologist Gillian Taylor, invent transparent aluminum, and teach Spock how to swear (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
1992-1996:
The Eugenics Wars rage on (at least, according to almost all sources). When the Enterprise first discovers genetically enhanced Khan Noonien Singh (ST:TOS S1E24, “Space Seed”), Spock says that during these years, Khan had conquered most of the Earth, before fleeing the Earth with 84 of his followers to drift through space in the S.S. Botany Bay.
1996:
In this version of 1996 (perhaps because they’ve just ended?), there’s no sign of the Eugenics Wars in action when the Voyager is pulled to sunny Southern California by a 29th century time ship. Despite being featured on local news broadcasts, the Voyager and its crew manage not to damage the timeline before returning to the 24th century (ST:VOY S3E8-9, “Future’s End”).
December 27, 1999:
One of Captain Janeway’s ancestors gets caught up in the controversy surrounding the construction of the Millennium Gate tower, a self-sufficient structure built in Indiana that would become the model for the colonization of Mars (ST:VOY S5E23, “11:59”).
2004:
Archer and T’Pol arrive in Detroit to stop the Xindi from annihilating the human race with a bioweapon — they succeed (ST:ENT S3E11, “Carpenter Street).
Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2024:
Thanks to a transporter accident, Sisko, Dax and Bashir arrive in a very different San Francisco from the modern world, and get caught up in the Bell Riots, a historical event which eventually led to massive reform of America’s social issues (ST:DS9 S3E11-E12, “Past Tense”).
2026 – 2053:
World War III ravages Earth, killing six hundred million humans.
The Dawn of the Warp Era
April 4, 2063:
The Enterprise-D arrives at Earth after chasing a Borg sphere from the 24th century, just as the Borg plan to disrupt the launch of Zefram Cochrane’s extremely important prototype warp drive flight (Star Trek: First Contact).
April 5, 2063:
Thanks to the Enterprise-D, Cochrane successfully completes his flight and, later that day, a Vulcan ship arrives on Earth, initiating first contact and beginning humanity’s journey to its future as an architect of the Federation (Star Trek: First Contact).
2103:
Colonies on Mars are established.
2119:
An elderly Zefram Cochrane vanishes, after heading out on one last space voyage (ST:TOS S2E9, “Metamorphosis”).
2151:
The Enterprise NX-01, the first starship capable of traveling at Warp 5, begins its mission to explore the galaxy. A major part of its adventures have to do with the Temporal Cold War, in which the crew found itself caught up in time travel conflicts.
March 2153:
The Xindi attack Earth, firing a blast that causes destruction from Florida to Venezuela, killing seven million people. The NX-01 refocuses its mission on trying to stop the Xindi from causing further destruction.
2155:
For the first time, Starfleet officers travel to the Mirror Universe, encountering a far darker version of their world (ST:ENT S4E18-E19, “In a Mirror, Darkly”).
Discussion of uniting various planets for some sort of… federation, perhaps, begins (ST:ENT S4E22, “These Are the Voyages…”).
2156–2160:
A four-year war with the Romulans leads to the creation of the Romulan Neutral Zone.
2161:
Captain Archer speaks to the Coalition of Planets about the need to create…
The United Federation of Planets, which is officially born that year (ST:ENT S4E22, “These Are the Voyages…”).
Starfleet Academy is also founded.
2173:
In an alternate timeline, the crew of the Defiant was sent back in time to this year, crashing on a planet called Gaia. While Kira died, the survivors eventually built a society of eight thousand people. This society, however, was wiped out of existence when the Odo living on Gaia prevented the Defiant from replicating that journey into the past, to save Kira’s life (ST:DS9 S5E22, “Children of Time”).
March 22nd, 2233:
James Tiberius Kirk is born.
In the Kelvin Timeline, Kirk is born aboard a USS Kelvin shuttlecraft as time-traveling Romulan Nero attacks the ship now being captained by James’ soon-to-be-deceased father George (Star Trek 2009).
In the Prime Timeline, Kirk is born (exact location unknown, but could have still been aboard the USS Kelvin, albeit under more peaceful circumstances), and eventually raised in Iowa by George and Winona Kirk.
2236
Michael Burnham’s family was killed at Doctari Alpha, following which Sarek brought her into his home and made her Spock’s adoptive sister (ST:DIS S2E1, “Brothers”).
2250:
The USS Enterprise, captained by Christopher Pike, launches its second five-year mission to explore the universe.
2254:
Captain Pike, Lieutenant Spock and the Enterprise visit the planet of Talos IV (ST:TOS S1E15-E16, “The Menagerie”).
May 2256:
The USS Shenzhou is called to investigate damage done to an interstellar array on the edge of Federation space, which leads to the ship being overwhelmed by an onslaught of Klingon ships. In the conflict, Captain Georgiou is killed, and Lieutenant Michael Burnham not just committing mutiny, but triggering a war between the Federation and the Klingons (ST:DIS S1E1-E2, “The Vulcan Hello”-“Battle at the Binary Stars”).
November 2256:
Michael Burnham is, via a roundabout set of circumstances, transferred from prison to the USS Discovery under the command of Captain Gabriel Lorca (ST:DIS S1E3, “Context Is For Kings”).
2257:
The Discovery arrives in the Mirror Universe thanks to Lorca, who had secretly snuck into the Prime Universe. The ship eventually returns home, but with the devious Mirror Universe version of Georgiou on board (ST:DIS S1E13, “What’s Past Is Prologue”).
By making a pact with L’Rell and stopping an attack on the Klingon homeworld, Burnham is able to end the Federation-Klingon War (ST:DIS S1E13, “What’s Past Is Prologue”).
As the Enterprise needs repairs and the Discovery needs a (temporary?) captain, Captain Pike fills in the gap, introducing the mission to discover what’s going on with the “Red Angel” who keeps appearing in multiple spots across the Alpha Quadrant (ST:DIS S2E1, “Brothers”).
2258
Burnham learns that the Red Angel is herself, from the future, and ultimately chases that predestination paradox (ST:DIS Season 2).
The Discovery, with a limited crew, travels to the year 3186. Those who stay behind, including Pike, Spock and Number One, adhere to the pact that speaking of the Discovery or its crew ever again is a treasonable offense (ST:DIS S2E14, “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”).
2258 (Kelvin-verse):
The Prime Universe version of Spock arrives from the future — which is just what Nero has been waiting for, for 25 years (Star Trek 2009).
James Kirk is just about to finish his time at Starfleet Academy when the planet of Vulcan is destroyed by Nero. Kirk and his new crew ultimately take down Nero, and end up taking over the Enterprise for a mission of exploration (Star Trek 2009).
2259 (Kelvin-verse):
Khan Noonien Singh arises to try to tear down the Federation. Kirk dies, but does not stay dead (Star Trek Into Darkness).
2260 (Kelvin-verse):
The Enterprise sets out on its five-year mission (Star Trek Beyond).
2263 (Kelvin-verse):
Three years into said mission, the Enterprise crew saves the space station Yorktown from destruction — destroying their ship in the process, but the Enterprise-A immediately gets commissioned (Star Trek Beyond).
The Prime Universe Spock, having lived in the Kelvin timeline for seven years, passes away at the age of 162 (Star Trek Beyond).
2265:
James T. Kirk takes command of the USS Enterprise for another five-year mission, encountering Klingons, con men and more.
2267:
McCoy, after an unfortunate injection, rushes to the surface of an alien planet and escapes to the year 1930 thanks to the Guardian of Forever (ST:TOS S1E28, “The Guardian on the Edge of Forever”).
2268:
The Enterprise experiences plenty of wacky experiences, but few as memorable as a trip to Deep Space Station K-7 to handle an agricultural situation aggravated by a tribble infestation (ST:TOS S2E13, “The Trouble With Tribbles”).
After a time traveler tries to interfere with the events of DSS K-7, Captain Sisko and his crew arrive to make sure Kirk keeps the Klingons from sabotaging things (ST:DS9 S5E6, “Trials and Tribble-ations”).
2269:
The Enterprise discovers Zefram Cochrane marooned on a remote planetoid, but ultimately leaves him behind with an alien consciousness with which he is in love (ST:TOS S2E9, “Metamorphosis”).
2270:
At the end of the five-year mission, Kirk is promoted to the rank of Admiral, while Will Decker becomes captain of the USS Enterprise.
2273:
When an alien-retrofitted version of Voyager returns to Earth, Kirk resumes control over the Enterprise to save Earth (Star Trek: The Motion Picture).
2285:
The Prime Universe Khan gets his chance at conquering the galaxy. Spock dies in the successful effort to thwart him (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan).
Kirk steals the Enterprise, but Spock is successfully resurrected thanks to the planet Genesis’s extraordinary properties. They return Spock to Vulcan so he can recuperate (Star Trek III: The Search For Spock).
2286:
An alien probe broadcasting humpback whale song doesn’t get any response, and starts trying to destroy the planet Earth as a result. To prevent this, Kirk and his friends travel back in time (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
Kirk is demoted to the rank of Captain, and thus he can return to being the Captain of the Enterprise (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
2287:
The Enterprise crew goes on another adventure, which might be boiled down to this memorable incident: Captain Kirk asks the question “What does God need with a starship?” (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier).
2290:
Hikaru Sulu becomes captain of the USS Excelsior.
2293:
Kirk is framed for the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon, and he and McCoy even go to prison for that presumed crime, but their friends rescue them in time to prevent another assassination. Kirk saves the peace talks and is told to bring the Enterprise back to Earth. He might end up taking his time getting there (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).
Tuvok serves under Captain Sulu aboard the Excelsior (ST:VOY S3E2, “Flashback”).
Later that year, Kirk and other crew members are visiting the newly commissioned Enterprise-B. After an encounter with the Nexus that destroys a good part of the ship, Kirk is considered dead (Star Trek Generations).
2344:
Captain Rachel Garrett and the Enterprise-C are lost while defending a Klingon settlement, an event which proved pivotal to creating peace between the Klingons and the Federation — so pivotal that when it didn’t happen in an alternate universe, it led to a far worse future (ST:TNG S3E15, “Yesterday’s Enterprise”).
2347:
War between the Federation and Cardassian Union begins, with conflicts tapering off in the 2350s.
2358:
The USS Pegasus is considered missing after experimenting with phasing technology (ST:TNG S7E12, “The Pegasus”).
The Rise of Picard, Sisko, and Janeway
2364:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes command of the Enterprise, confronting a malevolent entity known as Q who is set upon judging the human race (ST:TNG S1E1-E2, “Encounter at Farpoint”).
Seven years later, Picard re-experiences this first mission, because it is revealed that the trial which Q began during the trip to Farpoint had never actually ended (ST:TNG S7E25-26, “All Good Things”).
Lieutenant Natasha Yar is killed in action (ST:TNG S1E23, “Skin of Evil”).
2365:
The Enterprise encounters the Borg for the first time, after being flung into the Delta Quadrant by Q (ST:TNG S2E16, “Q Who”).
2366:
The Enterprise-C arrives in a very changed version of the universe, 22 years after it disappeared into a temporal rift. Captain Garrett and her crew eventually return to the point of their disappearance to preserve the original timeline, with Tasha Yar (who did not die in this new timeline) returning with them (ST:TNG S3E15, “Yesterday’s Enterprise”).
2367:
Jean-Luc Picard gets abducted by the Borg, and a battle he spearheads as Locutus of Borg, known as Wolf 359, is a brutal moment for the Federation. Benjamin Sisko’s wife Jennifer is one of the many, many casualties (ST:TNG S3E26-S4E1, “The Best of Both Worlds”; ST:DS9 S1E1, “Emissary”).
With the ascension of Gowron as Emperor, the Klingon Civil War begins.
2368:
The Klingon Civil War ends, with Gowron maintaining his control over the Empire (ST:TNG S5E1, “Redemption II”).
Ambassador Spock travels to Romulus to try to reunite the Vulcans and Romulan people — unsuccessfully. (ST:TNG S5E7-8, “Redemption I-II”).
2369:
Commander Benjamin Sisko arrives at the station Deep Space Nine, where he encounters the “wormhole aliens,” AKA “the Prophets,” and devotes himself to bringing local planet Bajor into the Federation as Bajor rebuilds after Cardassian occupation (ST:DS9 S1E1, “Emissary”).
The Enterprise-D recovers long-lost Montgomery Scott from a transporter buffer, and Scotty sets out to go exploring the galaxy (ST:TNG S6E4, “Relics”).
2370:
Commander Riker, struggling to decide what to do when his old commanding officer Admiral Pressman asks for his help, uses the holodeck to look back at Captain Archer’s big speech to the Coalition of Planets (ST:ENT S4E22, “These Are the Voyages…”; ST:TNG S7E12, “The Pegasus”).
The Federation-Cardassian Treaty is signed, officially ending hostilities and creating a demilitarized zone that left several planets previously colonized by Federation citizens under Cardassian control. This leads to the creation of the Maquis, former Federation members who rebel against the Cardassians (ST:DS9 S2E20-21, “The Maquis”).
Picard begins to shift in time, from his past to his future, which lead to him discovering that Q has spent the last seven years evaluating the human race, based on the adventures of Picard and his crew. Ultimately, Picard convinces Q of humanity’s value (ST:TNG S7E25-26, “All Good Things”).
2371:
Picard learns that his brother and nephew have ben killed in a fire at his family vineyard (Star Trek Generations).
The Enterprise-D gets caught up in Dr. Soran’s attempt to reach the Nexus, a realm outside of space and time that can feel like paradise. Picard, inside the Nexus, meets Kirk, who he convinces to leave the Nexus with him to stop Soran. They succeed, but Kirk is killed and the Enterprise is destroyed (Star Trek Generations).
The USS Voyager departs Deep Space Nine to track down a missing Maquis ship, but both ships end up getting dragged 75,000 light years away from Earth. The Starfleet and Maquis crews end up working together to try to get back to the Alpha Quadrant (ST:VOY S1E1-2, “Caretaker”).
The USS Defiant, a new ship to be captained by Benjamin Sisko, arrives at Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 S3E1, “The Search, Part I”).
Odo learns that his people, the Changelings, are the Founders of the Dominion, which controls the Gamma Quadrant, and now aims to take over the Alpha Quadrant (ST:DS9 S3E1-2, “The Search, Parts I/II”).
2372:
The Enterprise-E is launched.
Thanks to Changeling infiltration at the highest levels of government, war erupts between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Worf joins the crew of Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 S4E1-2, “The Way of the Warrior”).
2373:
After the Battle of Sector 001, in which the Borg gets close to attacking the Earth, the Enterprise-E launches into action, following a Borg Sphere back into the past (Star Trek: First Contact).
When the Changeling impersonating General Martok is revealed, war between the Federation and the Klingons ends (ST:DS9 S5E1, “Apocalypse Rising”).
The Federation first learns about the existence of the non-corporeal Pah-wraiths, enemies of the Bajoran Prophets, when one of them takes over the body of Keiko O’Brien (ST:DS9 S5E5, “The Assignment”).
Bashir, without anyone’s knowledge, is replaced by a Changeling, which is not uncovered for a month (ST:DS9 S5E14-15, “In Purgatory’s Shadow”/”By Inferno’s Light”).
The Cardassian Union officially joins the Dominion, which invades the Alpha Quadrant (ST:DS9 S5E14-15, “In Purgatory’s Shadow”/”By Inferno’s Light”).
The Dominion, as part of the deal, helps Cardassia completely eliminate the Maquis.
To avoid war with the Dominion, the Bajorans sign a non-aggression treaty (ST:DS9 S5E26, “Call to Arms”).
The Dominion takes over the Bajor sector as the Federation departs, beginning the Dominion War (ST:DS9 S5E26, “Call to Arms”).
2374:
Voyager assists the Borg in fighting off Species 8472, and a drone known as Seven of Nine gets marooned on their ship (ST:VOY S4E1, “Scorpion, Part II”).
Meanwhile, crew member Kes leaves the ship to explore her psychic abilities (ST:VOY S4E2, “The Gift”).
The Dominion War is fought on multiple fronts, with Kira leading a resistance effort on Deep Space Nine while Sisko and the Defiant battle to eventually retake the station (ST:DS9 S6E6, “Sacrifice of Angels”).
Gul Dukat’s daughter Ziyal is killed by Damar during the battle over DS9 (ST:DS9 S6E6, “Sacrifice of Angels”).
Worf and Jadzia Dax get married (ST:DS9 S6E7, “You Are Cordially Invited…”).
First major appearance of Section 31 (in the Prime timeline), as an agent attempts to recruit Bashir (ST:DS9 S6E18, “Inquisition”).
Thanks to Sisko working with the ruthless Garak, the Romulans join the war against the Dominion (ST:DS9 S6E19, “In the Pale Moonlight”).
Dukat, having snuck onto DS9, kills Jadzia Dax and releases a Pah-wraith which closes the Bajoran wormhole permanently (ST:DS9 S6E26, “Tears of the Prophets”).
2375:
The Dax symbiont is joined with a Trill named Ezri (ST:DS9 S7E1, “Image in the Sand”).
After having left DS9 for a short time, Sisko recovers the Orb of the Emissary, and returns to reopen the wormhole (ST:DS9 S7E2, “Shadows and Symbols”).
Dukat now leads a cult devoted to the worship of the Pah-wraiths (ST:DS9 S7E9, “Covenant”).
The Enterprise-E crew, including Worf, work together to reconcile the Son’a and Ba’ku people after a century of distrust (Star Trek: Insurrection).
Sisko makes plans for life after the Dominion War, and also marries long-time girlfriend Kasidy Yates (ST:DS9 S7E18, “‘Til Death Do Us Part”).
Kira, Odo and Garak go to Cardassia to help Damar, now in open rebellion against the Dominion, lead a resistance movement. Odo learns that he has been infected by the virus killing the Changelings, which was created by Section 31(ST:DS9 S7E21, “When It Rains…”).
The Defiant is destroyed by the Breen, and a new ship is renamed in its honor (ST:DS9 S7E24, “The Dogs of War”).
Odo, having been cured of Section 31’s disease, returns to his people to spread the cure to them (ST:DS9 S7E26, “What You Leave Behind”).
Dukat, having surgically altered himself to resemble a Bajoran, becomes a confidante of Kai Winn and manipulates her into helping him unlock the power of the Pah-wraiths in the Fire Caves on Bajor. Sisko arrives in time to stop him, but all three of them are considered dead (ST:DS9 S7E26, “What You Leave Behind”).
The Dominion War ends (ST:DS9 S7E26, “What You Leave Behind”).
2376:
The USS Voyager continues its journey home.
2377:
Tom Paris and B’Elanna Torres get married (ST:VOY S7E3, “Drive”).
2378:
Neelix leaves Voyager to join a Talaxian community (ST:VOY S7E23, “Homestead”).
With the help of a time-travelling Admiral Janeway, Voyager successfully uses the Borg transwarp network to get back to Earth (ST:VOY S7E25, “Endgame”).
Miral Paris is born (ST:VOY S7E25, “Endgame”).
2379:
William Riker and Deanna Troi get married (Star Trek: Nemesis).
The Enterprise-E discovers that Data’s creator, Dr. Soong, had created an early prototype of Data known as B-4, which is more primitive than Data. Data tries to help by transferring his memories into B-4.
Picard comes to Romulus after a military coup puts Shinzon, a clone of Picard created by Romulans who ended up becoming the leader of the Remans. In the ensuing fight, Picard kills Shinzon, but Data is killed saving his crew (Star Trek: Nemesis).
The Future Is a Dark Place
2386:
Jean-Luc Picard puts Data’s Daughter painting into storage at the Starfleet Archive Museum (ST:PIC S1E1, “Remembrance”).
2387:
When a star near Romulus goes supernova, the entire planet is destroyed, despite Spock’s attempt to stop the explosion by injecting the star with Red Matter and creating a black hole. The black hole instead brings both his ship and the nearby Romulan mining vessel containing Nero into the past (Star Trek 2009).
2388-89 (approximate):
In the wake of the destruction of Romulus, the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards of Mars are destroyed by rebellious synthetic workers on First Contact Day (April 5), killing thousands and leaving Mars ablaze for years to follow (ST:ST “Children of Mars,”ST:PIC S1E1, “Remembrance”).
2394:
The original year that the Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant, prior to Janeway’s temporal interference (ST:VOY S7E25, “Endgame”).
2395:
While the future that Picard saw during his final confrontation with Q was eventually rewritten, this would have been the year in which Picard reunited his old crew to work together to stop the anomaly (ST:TNG S7E25-26, “All Good Things”).
2399:
Jean-Luc Picard, having left Starfleet years ago after the destruction of Romulus, meets a frightened young woman with a mysterious connection to Data. She inspires to pull himself out of retirement and investigate further (ST:PIC S1E1, “Remembrance”).
2404:
Admiral Janeway, having spent years figuring out a plan, leaves her original timeline to travel to the year 2378 and change the past (ST:VOY S7E25, “Endgame”).
3186:
The USS Discovery arrives in an uncharted future. What happens next is totally unknown (ST:DIS S2E14, “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2,” ST:DIS Season 3).
3200s (or potentially more):
1000 years into the future of the Discovery, the abandoned ship (run by a now-sentient computer) rescues an escape pod and forms a bond with its occupant (ST:ST “Calypso”).
4.6 Billion BCE (or maybe even more):
The birth/arrival/creation of the Guardian of Forever on its ancient planet (ST:TOS S1E28, “The Guardian on the Edge of Forever”).
4 Billion BCE:
An unknown humanoid species, to quote Geordi LaForge, “scattered this genetic material into the primordial soup of at least 19 different planets across the galaxy,” explaining why most sentient species look the same (ST:TNG S6E20, “The Chase”).
3.5 Billion BCE:
The beginnings of life in the Alpha Quadrant are threatened by Q’s anomaly (ST:TNG S7E25-26, “All Good Things”).
400 CE (approximately):
Approximate time when the Changelings founded what would become the Dominion, with the Jem’Hadar
900 CE (approximately):
Kahless the Unforgettable slays the Qo’noS tyrant Molor and becomes the first Emperor of the Klingon Empire.
1505 CE:
First known sign of the Borg in the Delta Quadrant.
1600 CE (approximately):
The beginnings of Bajoran space exploration leads to first contact between the Cardassians and Bajorans. (It does not go well for them.)
1800 CE (approximately):
Establishment of the Cardassian Union.
1893:
Picard, La Forge, Troi, Riker, and Crusher arrive in San Francisco after the discovery of Data’s severed head in their century. Samuel Clemens (AKA Mark Twain) gets caught up in their efforts to save him (ST:TNG S5E26-S6E1, “Time’s Arrow”).
1930:
Kirk and Spock chase a drugged and disoriented McCoy through the time portal known as the Guardian of Forever to New York City. While there, Kirk falls in love with Edith Keeler, a social worker whose life McCoy saved, but Kirk must ultimately let die, in order to preserve the timeline and prevent Germany from winning World War II (ST:TOS S1E28, “The City on the Edge of Forever”).
1937:
The Briori abduct several hundred humans from Earth and bring them to the Delta Quadrant, including Amelia Earhart (ST:VOY S2E1, “The 37’s”).
1944 (alternate universe):
Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 crew find themselves in an altered version of World War II, where the Nazis have invaded America (ST:ENT S4E1-E2, “Storm Front”).
July 1947:
Quark, Rom and Nog crash their ship in Roswell, New Mexico and have to escape from the U.S. Military (ST:DS9 S4E8, “Little Green Men”).
1968:
The Enterprise travels back to this year to prevent an agent from interfering with events, because Starfleet had a record of them doing so. Time travel is fun that way (ST:TOS S2E26, “Assignment: Earth”).The Enterprise also went on a similar mission in 1969 (ST:TOS S1E19, “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”).
1986:
Kirk and friends, in search of humpback whales to save the future, arrive in San Francisco, where they meet marine biologist Gillian Taylor, invent transparent aluminum, and teach Spock how to swear (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
1992-1996:
The Eugenics Wars rage on (at least, according to almost all sources). When the Enterprise first discovers genetically enhanced Khan Noonien Singh (ST:TOS S1E24, “Space Seed”), Spock says that during these years, Khan had conquered most of the Earth, before fleeing the Earth with 84 of his followers to drift through space in the S.S. Botany Bay.
1996:
In this version of 1996 (perhaps because they’ve just ended?), there’s no sign of the Eugenics Wars in action when the Voyager is pulled to sunny Southern California by a 29th century time ship. Despite being featured on local news broadcasts, the Voyager and its crew manage not to damage the timeline before returning to the 24th century (ST:VOY S3E8-9, “Future’s End”).
December 27, 1999:
One of Captain Janeway’s ancestors gets caught up in the controversy surrounding the construction of the Millennium Gate tower, a self-sufficient structure built in Indiana that would become the model for the colonization of Mars (ST:VOY S5E23, “11:59”).
2004:
Archer and T’Pol arrive in Detroit to stop the Xindi from annihilating the human race with a bioweapon — they succeed (ST:ENT S3E11, “Carpenter Street).
Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2024:
Thanks to a transporter accident, Sisko, Dax and Bashir arrive in a very different San Francisco from the modern world, and get caught up in the Bell Riots, a historical event which eventually led to massive reform of America’s social issues (ST:DS9 S3E11-E12, “Past Tense”).
2026 – 2053:
World War III ravages Earth, killing six hundred million humans.
The Dawn of the Warp Era
April 4, 2063:
The Enterprise-D arrives at Earth after chasing a Borg sphere from the 24th century, just as the Borg plan to disrupt the launch of Zefram Cochrane’s extremely important prototype warp drive flight (Star Trek: First Contact).
April 5, 2063:
Thanks to the Enterprise-D, Cochrane successfully completes his flight and, later that day, a Vulcan ship arrives on Earth, initiating first contact and beginning humanity’s journey to its future as an architect of the Federation (Star Trek: First Contact).
2103:
Colonies on Mars are established.
2119:
An elderly Zefram Cochrane vanishes, after heading out on one last space voyage (ST:TOS S2E9, “Metamorphosis”).
2151:
The Enterprise NX-01, the first starship capable of traveling at Warp 5, begins its mission to explore the galaxy. A major part of its adventures have to do with the Temporal Cold War, in which the crew found itself caught up in time travel conflicts.
March 2153:
The Xindi attack Earth, firing a blast that causes destruction from Florida to Venezuela, killing seven million people. The NX-01 refocuses its mission on trying to stop the Xindi from causing further destruction.
2155:
For the first time, Starfleet officers travel to the Mirror Universe, encountering a far darker version of their world (ST:ENT S4E18-E19, “In a Mirror, Darkly”).
Discussion of uniting various planets for some sort of… federation, perhaps, begins (ST:ENT S4E22, “These Are the Voyages…”).
2156–2160:
A four-year war with the Romulans leads to the creation of the Romulan Neutral Zone.
2161:
Captain Archer speaks to the Coalition of Planets about the need to create…
The United Federation of Planets, which is officially born that year (ST:ENT S4E22, “These Are the Voyages…”).
Starfleet Academy is also founded.
2173:
In an alternate timeline, the crew of the Defiant was sent back in time to this year, crashing on a planet called Gaia. While Kira died, the survivors eventually built a society of eight thousand people. This society, however, was wiped out of existence when the Odo living on Gaia prevented the Defiant from replicating that journey into the past, to save Kira’s life (ST:DS9 S5E22, “Children of Time”).
March 22nd, 2233:
James Tiberius Kirk is born.
In the Kelvin Timeline, Kirk is born aboard a USS Kelvin shuttlecraft as time-traveling Romulan Nero attacks the ship now being captained by James’ soon-to-be-deceased father George (Star Trek 2009).
In the Prime Timeline, Kirk is born (exact location unknown, but could have still been aboard the USS Kelvin, albeit under more peaceful circumstances), and eventually raised in Iowa by George and Winona Kirk.
2236
Michael Burnham’s family was killed at Doctari Alpha, following which Sarek brought her into his home and made her Spock’s adoptive sister (ST:DIS S2E1, “Brothers”).
2250:
The USS Enterprise, captained by Christopher Pike, launches its second five-year mission to explore the universe.
2254:
Captain Pike, Lieutenant Spock and the Enterprise visit the planet of Talos IV (ST:TOS S1E15-E16, “The Menagerie”).
May 2256:
The USS Shenzhou is called to investigate damage done to an interstellar array on the edge of Federation space, which leads to the ship being overwhelmed by an onslaught of Klingon ships. In the conflict, Captain Georgiou is killed, and Lieutenant Michael Burnham not just committing mutiny, but triggering a war between the Federation and the Klingons (ST:DIS S1E1-E2, “The Vulcan Hello”-“Battle at the Binary Stars”).
November 2256:
Michael Burnham is, via a roundabout set of circumstances, transferred from prison to the USS Discovery under the command of Captain Gabriel Lorca (ST:DIS S1E3, “Context Is For Kings”).
2257:
The Discovery arrives in the Mirror Universe thanks to Lorca, who had secretly snuck into the Prime Universe. The ship eventually returns home, but with the devious Mirror Universe version of Georgiou on board (ST:DIS S1E13, “What’s Past Is Prologue”).
By making a pact with L’Rell and stopping an attack on the Klingon homeworld, Burnham is able to end the Federation-Klingon War (ST:DIS S1E13, “What’s Past Is Prologue”).
As the Enterprise needs repairs and the Discovery needs a (temporary?) captain, Captain Pike fills in the gap, introducing the mission to discover what’s going on with the “Red Angel” who keeps appearing in multiple spots across the Alpha Quadrant (ST:DIS S2E1, “Brothers”).
2258
Burnham learns that the Red Angel is herself, from the future, and ultimately chases that predestination paradox (ST:DIS Season 2).
The Discovery, with a limited crew, travels to the year 3186. Those who stay behind, including Pike, Spock and Number One, adhere to the pact that speaking of the Discovery or its crew ever again is a treasonable offense (ST:DIS S2E14, “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”).
2258 (Kelvin-verse):
The Prime Universe version of Spock arrives from the future — which is just what Nero has been waiting for, for 25 years (Star Trek 2009).
James Kirk is just about to finish his time at Starfleet Academy when the planet of Vulcan is destroyed by Nero. Kirk and his new crew ultimately take down Nero, and end up taking over the Enterprise for a mission of exploration (Star Trek 2009).
2259 (Kelvin-verse):
Khan Noonien Singh arises to try to tear down the Federation. Kirk dies, but does not stay dead (Star Trek Into Darkness).
2260 (Kelvin-verse):
The Enterprise sets out on its five-year mission (Star Trek Beyond).
2263 (Kelvin-verse):
Three years into said mission, the Enterprise crew saves the space station Yorktown from destruction — destroying their ship in the process, but the Enterprise-A immediately gets commissioned (Star Trek Beyond).
The Prime Universe Spock, having lived in the Kelvin timeline for seven years, passes away at the age of 162 (Star Trek Beyond).
2265:
James T. Kirk takes command of the USS Enterprise for another five-year mission, encountering Klingons, con men and more.
2267:
McCoy, after an unfortunate injection, rushes to the surface of an alien planet and escapes to the year 1930 thanks to the Guardian of Forever (ST:TOS S1E28, “The Guardian on the Edge of Forever”).
2268:
The Enterprise experiences plenty of wacky experiences, but few as memorable as a trip to Deep Space Station K-7 to handle an agricultural situation aggravated by a tribble infestation (ST:TOS S2E13, “The Trouble With Tribbles”).
After a time traveler tries to interfere with the events of DSS K-7, Captain Sisko and his crew arrive to make sure Kirk keeps the Klingons from sabotaging things (ST:DS9 S5E6, “Trials and Tribble-ations”).
2269:
The Enterprise discovers Zefram Cochrane marooned on a remote planetoid, but ultimately leaves him behind with an alien consciousness with which he is in love (ST:TOS S2E9, “Metamorphosis”).
2270:
At the end of the five-year mission, Kirk is promoted to the rank of Admiral, while Will Decker becomes captain of the USS Enterprise.
2273:
When an alien-retrofitted version of Voyager returns to Earth, Kirk resumes control over the Enterprise to save Earth (Star Trek: The Motion Picture).
2285:
The Prime Universe Khan gets his chance at conquering the galaxy. Spock dies in the successful effort to thwart him (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan).
Kirk steals the Enterprise, but Spock is successfully resurrected thanks to the planet Genesis’s extraordinary properties. They return Spock to Vulcan so he can recuperate (Star Trek III: The Search For Spock).
2286:
An alien probe broadcasting humpback whale song doesn’t get any response, and starts trying to destroy the planet Earth as a result. To prevent this, Kirk and his friends travel back in time (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
Kirk is demoted to the rank of Captain, and thus he can return to being the Captain of the Enterprise (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
2287:
The Enterprise crew goes on another adventure, which might be boiled down to this memorable incident: Captain Kirk asks the question “What does God need with a starship?” (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier).
2290:
Hikaru Sulu becomes captain of the USS Excelsior.
2293:
Kirk is framed for the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon, and he and McCoy even go to prison for that presumed crime, but their friends rescue them in time to prevent another assassination. Kirk saves the peace talks and is told to bring the Enterprise back to Earth. He might end up taking his time getting there (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).
Tuvok serves under Captain Sulu aboard the Excelsior (ST:VOY S3E2, “Flashback”).
Later that year, Kirk and other crew members are visiting the newly commissioned Enterprise-B. After an encounter with the Nexus that destroys a good part of the ship, Kirk is considered dead (Star Trek Generations).
2344:
Captain Rachel Garrett and the Enterprise-C are lost while defending a Klingon settlement, an event which proved pivotal to creating peace between the Klingons and the Federation — so pivotal that when it didn’t happen in an alternate universe, it led to a far worse future (ST:TNG S3E15, “Yesterday’s Enterprise”).
2347:
War between the Federation and Cardassian Union begins, with conflicts tapering off in the 2350s.
2358:
The USS Pegasus is considered missing after experimenting with phasing technology (ST:TNG S7E12, “The Pegasus”).
The Rise of Picard, Sisko, and Janeway
2364:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes command of the Enterprise, confronting a malevolent entity known as Q who is set upon judging the human race (ST:TNG S1E1-E2, “Encounter at Farpoint”).
Seven years later, Picard re-experiences this first mission, because it is revealed that the trial which Q began during the trip to Farpoint had never actually ended (ST:TNG S7E25-26, “All Good Things”).
Lieutenant Natasha Yar is killed in action (ST:TNG S1E23, “Skin of Evil”).
2365:
The Enterprise encounters the Borg for the first time, after being flung into the Delta Quadrant by Q (ST:TNG S2E16, “Q Who”).
2366:
The Enterprise-C arrives in a very changed version of the universe, 22 years after it disappeared into a temporal rift. Captain Garrett and her crew eventually return to the point of their disappearance to preserve the original timeline, with Tasha Yar (who did not die in this new timeline) returning with them (ST:TNG S3E15, “Yesterday’s Enterprise”).
2367:
Jean-Luc Picard gets abducted by the Borg, and a battle he spearheads as Locutus of Borg, known as Wolf 359, is a brutal moment for the Federation. Benjamin Sisko’s wife Jennifer is one of the many, many casualties (ST:TNG S3E26-S4E1, “The Best of Both Worlds”; ST:DS9 S1E1, “Emissary”).
With the ascension of Gowron as Emperor, the Klingon Civil War begins.
2368:
The Klingon Civil War ends, with Gowron maintaining his control over the Empire (ST:TNG S5E1, “Redemption II”).
Ambassador Spock travels to Romulus to try to reunite the Vulcans and Romulan people — unsuccessfully. (ST:TNG S5E7-8, “Redemption I-II”).
2369:
Commander Benjamin Sisko arrives at the station Deep Space Nine, where he encounters the “wormhole aliens,” AKA “the Prophets,” and devotes himself to bringing local planet Bajor into the Federation as Bajor rebuilds after Cardassian occupation (ST:DS9 S1E1, “Emissary”).
The Enterprise-D recovers long-lost Montgomery Scott from a transporter buffer, and Scotty sets out to go exploring the galaxy (ST:TNG S6E4, “Relics”).
2370:
Commander Riker, struggling to decide what to do when his old commanding officer Admiral Pressman asks for his help, uses the holodeck to look back at Captain Archer’s big speech to the Coalition of Planets (ST:ENT S4E22, “These Are the Voyages…”; ST:TNG S7E12, “The Pegasus”).
The Federation-Cardassian Treaty is signed, officially ending hostilities and creating a demilitarized zone that left several planets previously colonized by Federation citizens under Cardassian control. This leads to the creation of the Maquis, former Federation members who rebel against the Cardassians (ST:DS9 S2E20-21, “The Maquis”).
Picard begins to shift in time, from his past to his future, which lead to him discovering that Q has spent the last seven years evaluating the human race, based on the adventures of Picard and his crew. Ultimately, Picard convinces Q of humanity’s value (ST:TNG S7E25-26, “All Good Things”).
2371:
Picard learns that his brother and nephew have ben killed in a fire at his family vineyard (Star Trek Generations).
The Enterprise-D gets caught up in Dr. Soran’s attempt to reach the Nexus, a realm outside of space and time that can feel like paradise. Picard, inside the Nexus, meets Kirk, who he convinces to leave the Nexus with him to stop Soran. They succeed, but Kirk is killed and the Enterprise is destroyed (Star Trek Generations).
The USS Voyager departs Deep Space Nine to track down a missing Maquis ship, but both ships end up getting dragged 75,000 light years away from Earth. The Starfleet and Maquis crews end up working together to try to get back to the Alpha Quadrant (ST:VOY S1E1-2, “Caretaker”).
The USS Defiant, a new ship to be captained by Benjamin Sisko, arrives at Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 S3E1, “The Search, Part I”).
Odo learns that his people, the Changelings, are the Founders of the Dominion, which controls the Gamma Quadrant, and now aims to take over the Alpha Quadrant (ST:DS9 S3E1-2, “The Search, Parts I/II”).
2372:
The Enterprise-E is launched.
Thanks to Changeling infiltration at the highest levels of government, war erupts between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Worf joins the crew of Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 S4E1-2, “The Way of the Warrior”).
2373:
After the Battle of Sector 001, in which the Borg gets close to attacking the Earth, the Enterprise-E launches into action, following a Borg Sphere back into the past (Star Trek: First Contact).
When the Changeling impersonating General Martok is revealed, war between the Federation and the Klingons ends (ST:DS9 S5E1, “Apocalypse Rising”).
The Federation first learns about the existence of the non-corporeal Pah-wraiths, enemies of the Bajoran Prophets, when one of them takes over the body of Keiko O’Brien (ST:DS9 S5E5, “The Assignment”).
Bashir, without anyone’s knowledge, is replaced by a Changeling, which is not uncovered for a month (ST:DS9 S5E14-15, “In Purgatory’s Shadow”/”By Inferno’s Light”).
The Cardassian Union officially joins the Dominion, which invades the Alpha Quadrant (ST:DS9 S5E14-15, “In Purgatory’s Shadow”/”By Inferno’s Light”).
The Dominion, as part of the deal, helps Cardassia completely eliminate the Maquis.
To avoid war with the Dominion, the Bajorans sign a non-aggression treaty (ST:DS9 S5E26, “Call to Arms”).
The Dominion takes over the Bajor sector as the Federation departs, beginning the Dominion War (ST:DS9 S5E26, “Call to Arms”).
2374:
Voyager assists the Borg in fighting off Species 8472, and a drone known as Seven of Nine gets marooned on their ship (ST:VOY S4E1, “Scorpion, Part II”).
Meanwhile, crew member Kes leaves the ship to explore her psychic abilities (ST:VOY S4E2, “The Gift”).
The Dominion War is fought on multiple fronts, with Kira leading a resistance effort on Deep Space Nine while Sisko and the Defiant battle to eventually retake the station (ST:DS9 S6E6, “Sacrifice of Angels”).
Gul Dukat’s daughter Ziyal is killed by Damar during the battle over DS9 (ST:DS9 S6E6, “Sacrifice of Angels”).
Worf and Jadzia Dax get married (ST:DS9 S6E7, “You Are Cordially Invited…”).
First major appearance of Section 31 (in the Prime timeline), as an agent attempts to recruit Bashir (ST:DS9 S6E18, “Inquisition”).
Thanks to Sisko working with the ruthless Garak, the Romulans join the war against the Dominion (ST:DS9 S6E19, “In the Pale Moonlight”).
Dukat, having snuck onto DS9, kills Jadzia Dax and releases a Pah-wraith which closes the Bajoran wormhole permanently (ST:DS9 S6E26, “Tears of the Prophets”).
2375:
The Dax symbiont is joined with a Trill named Ezri (ST:DS9 S7E1, “Image in the Sand”).
After having left DS9 for a short time, Sisko recovers the Orb of the Emissary, and returns to reopen the wormhole (ST:DS9 S7E2, “Shadows and Symbols”).
Dukat now leads a cult devoted to the worship of the Pah-wraiths (ST:DS9 S7E9, “Covenant”).
The Enterprise-E crew, including Worf, work together to reconcile the Son’a and Ba’ku people after a century of distrust (Star Trek: Insurrection).
Sisko makes plans for life after the Dominion War, and also marries long-time girlfriend Kasidy Yates (ST:DS9 S7E18, “‘Til Death Do Us Part”).
Kira, Odo and Garak go to Cardassia to help Damar, now in open rebellion against the Dominion, lead a resistance movement. Odo learns that he has been infected by the virus killing the Changelings, which was created by Section 31(ST:DS9 S7E21, “When It Rains…”).
The Defiant is destroyed by the Breen, and a new ship is renamed in its honor (ST:DS9 S7E24, “The Dogs of War”).
Odo, having been cured of Section 31’s disease, returns to his people to spread the cure to them (ST:DS9 S7E26, “What You Leave Behind”).
Dukat, having surgically altered himself to resemble a Bajoran, becomes a confidante of Kai Winn and manipulates her into helping him unlock the power of the Pah-wraiths in the Fire Caves on Bajor. Sisko arrives in time to stop him, but all three of them are considered dead (ST:DS9 S7E26, “What You Leave Behind”).
The Dominion War ends (ST:DS9 S7E26, “What You Leave Behind”).
2376:
The USS Voyager continues its journey home.
2377:
Tom Paris and B’Elanna Torres get married (ST:VOY S7E3, “Drive”).
2378:
Neelix leaves Voyager to join a Talaxian community (ST:VOY S7E23, “Homestead”).
With the help of a time-travelling Admiral Janeway, Voyager successfully uses the Borg transwarp network to get back to Earth (ST:VOY S7E25, “Endgame”).
Miral Paris is born (ST:VOY S7E25, “Endgame”).
2379:
William Riker and Deanna Troi get married (Star Trek: Nemesis).
The Enterprise-E discovers that Data’s creator, Dr. Soong, had created an early prototype of Data known as B-4, which is more primitive than Data. Data tries to help by transferring his memories into B-4.
Picard comes to Romulus after a military coup puts Shinzon, a clone of Picard created by Romulans who ended up becoming the leader of the Remans. In the ensuing fight, Picard kills Shinzon, but Data is killed saving his crew (Star Trek: Nemesis).
The Future Is a Dark Place
2386:
Jean-Luc Picard puts Data’s Daughter painting into storage at the Starfleet Archive Museum (ST:PIC S1E1, “Remembrance”).
2387:
When a star near Romulus goes supernova, the entire planet is destroyed, despite Spock’s attempt to stop the explosion by injecting the star with Red Matter and creating a black hole. The black hole instead brings both his ship and the nearby Romulan mining vessel containing Nero into the past (Star Trek 2009).
2388-89 (approximate):
In the wake of the destruction of Romulus, the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards of Mars are destroyed by rebellious synthetic workers on First Contact Day (April 5), killing thousands and leaving Mars ablaze for years to follow (ST:ST “Children of Mars,”ST:PIC S1E1, “Remembrance”).
2394:
The original year that the Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant, prior to Janeway’s temporal interference (ST:VOY S7E25, “Endgame”).
2395:
While the future that Picard saw during his final confrontation with Q was eventually rewritten, this would have been the year in which Picard reunited his old crew to work together to stop the anomaly (ST:TNG S7E25-26, “All Good Things”).
2399:
Jean-Luc Picard, having left Starfleet years ago after the destruction of Romulus, meets a frightened young woman with a mysterious connection to Data. She inspires to pull himself out of retirement and investigate further (ST:PIC S1E1, “Remembrance”).
2404:
Admiral Janeway, having spent years figuring out a plan, leaves her original timeline to travel to the year 2378 and change the past (ST:VOY S7E25, “Endgame”).
3186:
The USS Discovery arrives in an uncharted future. What happens next is totally unknown (ST:DIS S2E14, “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2,” ST:DIS Season 3).
3200s (or potentially more):
1000 years into the future of the Discovery, the abandoned ship (run by a now-sentient computer) rescues an escape pod and forms a bond with its occupant (ST:ST “Calypso”).
Sunday, December 29, 2019
ARTICLE: Hitler Nearly Died In World War I: Meet The Man Who Almost Killed Him by Warfare History Network
Private Henry Tandey had a clear shot at the German soldier. He was so close that he could look his enemy in the eyes. Tandey could not have missed. But the man was wounded; one account of that far away day in 1918 says that the German was lying bleeding on the ground. In any case, the German soldier made no move to resist; he simply stared at the Englishman. Tandey eased off the trigger of his Enfield and did not fire. “I took aim,” said Tandey later, “but couldn’t shoot a wounded man. So I let him go.”
Maybe he shouldn’t have.
The German soldier went on his way, and Tandey went his. No doubt the Englishman forgot all about the man he had spared, because Tandey still had a war to fight. And not long afterward, Tandey got the welcome news that he had been awarded his nation’s highest medal for gallantry, the Victoria Cross (VC). He would receive his cross at Buckingham Palace in December 1919, at the hands of King George V himself.
Tandey won the VC near a French town called Marcoing, which lay about seven kilometers southwest of Cambrai, on September 28, 1918. In ferocious fighting later the same day, Tandey and eight other men were cut off behind German lines. Vastly outnumbered, Tandey still led his handful in a wild bayonet charge that smashed into the Germans and drove them back against the rest of Tandey’s unit, which took 37 prisoners. Wounded twice, Tandey went on to lead his men in a search of dugouts, winkling out and capturing more than 20 additional Germans. Only then would Tandey stand down and get his wounds dressed. Badly hurt, for the third time in the war, he was on his way to a hospital in England.
Tandey was born in 1891, in Leamington, Warwickshire. The son of a stonemason who had also soldiered for Britain, he became a professional soldier, a tough, long-service infantryman who survived four years of bitter war in Belgium and France. Nicknamed “Napper,” Tandey was not a large man, standing less than five feet, six inches, and weighing just under 120 pounds. But what he lacked in stature, Napper Tandey made up in grit and high courage.
Back in 1910, he had enlisted in Alexandra, Princess of Wale’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, commonly known as the Green Howards. Beginning life as the 19th Regiment of Foot, the Green Howards were a famous outfit named for the color of their uniform facings and the name of their first colonel. It distinguished them from another famous regiment commanded by a different Howard, which wore buff-colored facings. During the war, that regiment would win its own fame simply as the Buffs, the East Kent Regiment.
Tandey had served with the 2nd Battalion of the Green Howards in South Africa and on the island of Guernsey before the war. He was a tough, able soldier, and by the time of his exploit at Marcoing he had already been five times “mentioned in despatches,” a peculiarly British means of honoring high achievement under fire. He had also won the Distinguished Conduct Medal while commanding a bombing party. On that occasion, he rushed a German post with just two soldiers to help him, killing several of the enemy and capturing 20 more.
Tandey also held the Military Medal for heroism under fire. This decoration he won at a place called Havricourt in the fall of 1918, where he carried a wounded man to safety under heavy fire and organized a party to bring in still more wounded. Then, again in command of a bombing party, he met and broke a strong German attack, driving the enemy back, as his citation read, “in confusion.”
He had been wounded on the bloody Somme in 1916 and shipped back to England to recover. Once on his feet again, he joined the 9th Battalion of the Green Howards, with which he was again shot up at Passchendaele in the fall of 1917. After some time in the hospital in England, it was back to France, this time with the 12th Battalion of the regiment. When the 12th Battalion was disbanded in July 1918, Tandey was attached to the 5th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, and it was with this outfit that he won his VC.
After the war, Tandey soldiered on with the 2nd Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s, serving in Gibraltar, Turkey, and Egypt. In 1920 he was one of 50 VC holders who served as a guard of honor inside Westminster Abbey during the ceremonial burial of Britain’s Unknown Soldier.
In January 1926, he was discharged as a sergeant, at that time the most heavily decorated enlisted man in the British Army. He spent the next 38 years in his home town of Leamington, where he married and worked as a “commissionaire” or security man for Standard Motor Company. A modest, quiet man, he talked little about the war.
TANDEY’S WAR NOT YET OVER
With his fighting days well behind him, Tandey’s war should have been over. But it wasn’t. About the time of the award of his VC, a painting appeared, a graphic image of war by Italian artist and illustrator Fortunino Matania. Matania had included Tandey in his painting of soldiers at the Menin Cross Roads in 1914, not far from the battered Flemish town of Ypres. Tandey is facing the viewer, carrying a wounded soldier on his back, and the painting also shows other men of the Green Howards and a wounded German prisoner.
Matania’s vivid painting became something far more than a picture, all because of the man who acquired a copy of it. For in 1938, then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made his futile attempt to guarantee “peace in our time.” Flying to Germany to meet Hitler in the Alps, he was entertained at the Eagle’s Nest, perched on the Kehlstein Rock high above the town of Berchtesgaden. And there, displayed on a wall of that ostentatious aerie, was a copy of Matania’s painting. It was a curious choice of art for Hitler since it showed only British troops, but Hitler soon explained.
Hitler pointed to Tandey, commenting to Chamberlain, “That man came so near to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again, providence saved me from such devilishly accurate fire as those English boys were aiming at us.”
Then Hitler went a step further. I want you to pass on my best wishes and thanks to the soldier in that painting, he said, and Chamberlain replied that he would contact the man when he returned to England. The prime minster was as good as his word. Only then did Tandey find out that the pitiful wounded man he had spared, the bedraggled German corporal in the Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment, was now the chancellor of Germany, on his way to becoming the ogre of Europe.
Tandey’s relatives remembered the telephone call from Chamberlain. When Tandey returned from talking to the prime minister, he related the tale of Chamberlain seeing the painting. The prime minister told him, he said, that Hitler had pointed to Tandey’s picture and said, “That’s the man who nearly shot me.”
This article first appeared at the Warfare History Network.
Maybe he shouldn’t have.
The German soldier went on his way, and Tandey went his. No doubt the Englishman forgot all about the man he had spared, because Tandey still had a war to fight. And not long afterward, Tandey got the welcome news that he had been awarded his nation’s highest medal for gallantry, the Victoria Cross (VC). He would receive his cross at Buckingham Palace in December 1919, at the hands of King George V himself.
Tandey won the VC near a French town called Marcoing, which lay about seven kilometers southwest of Cambrai, on September 28, 1918. In ferocious fighting later the same day, Tandey and eight other men were cut off behind German lines. Vastly outnumbered, Tandey still led his handful in a wild bayonet charge that smashed into the Germans and drove them back against the rest of Tandey’s unit, which took 37 prisoners. Wounded twice, Tandey went on to lead his men in a search of dugouts, winkling out and capturing more than 20 additional Germans. Only then would Tandey stand down and get his wounds dressed. Badly hurt, for the third time in the war, he was on his way to a hospital in England.
Tandey was born in 1891, in Leamington, Warwickshire. The son of a stonemason who had also soldiered for Britain, he became a professional soldier, a tough, long-service infantryman who survived four years of bitter war in Belgium and France. Nicknamed “Napper,” Tandey was not a large man, standing less than five feet, six inches, and weighing just under 120 pounds. But what he lacked in stature, Napper Tandey made up in grit and high courage.
Back in 1910, he had enlisted in Alexandra, Princess of Wale’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, commonly known as the Green Howards. Beginning life as the 19th Regiment of Foot, the Green Howards were a famous outfit named for the color of their uniform facings and the name of their first colonel. It distinguished them from another famous regiment commanded by a different Howard, which wore buff-colored facings. During the war, that regiment would win its own fame simply as the Buffs, the East Kent Regiment.
Tandey had served with the 2nd Battalion of the Green Howards in South Africa and on the island of Guernsey before the war. He was a tough, able soldier, and by the time of his exploit at Marcoing he had already been five times “mentioned in despatches,” a peculiarly British means of honoring high achievement under fire. He had also won the Distinguished Conduct Medal while commanding a bombing party. On that occasion, he rushed a German post with just two soldiers to help him, killing several of the enemy and capturing 20 more.
Tandey also held the Military Medal for heroism under fire. This decoration he won at a place called Havricourt in the fall of 1918, where he carried a wounded man to safety under heavy fire and organized a party to bring in still more wounded. Then, again in command of a bombing party, he met and broke a strong German attack, driving the enemy back, as his citation read, “in confusion.”
He had been wounded on the bloody Somme in 1916 and shipped back to England to recover. Once on his feet again, he joined the 9th Battalion of the Green Howards, with which he was again shot up at Passchendaele in the fall of 1917. After some time in the hospital in England, it was back to France, this time with the 12th Battalion of the regiment. When the 12th Battalion was disbanded in July 1918, Tandey was attached to the 5th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, and it was with this outfit that he won his VC.
After the war, Tandey soldiered on with the 2nd Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s, serving in Gibraltar, Turkey, and Egypt. In 1920 he was one of 50 VC holders who served as a guard of honor inside Westminster Abbey during the ceremonial burial of Britain’s Unknown Soldier.
In January 1926, he was discharged as a sergeant, at that time the most heavily decorated enlisted man in the British Army. He spent the next 38 years in his home town of Leamington, where he married and worked as a “commissionaire” or security man for Standard Motor Company. A modest, quiet man, he talked little about the war.
TANDEY’S WAR NOT YET OVER
With his fighting days well behind him, Tandey’s war should have been over. But it wasn’t. About the time of the award of his VC, a painting appeared, a graphic image of war by Italian artist and illustrator Fortunino Matania. Matania had included Tandey in his painting of soldiers at the Menin Cross Roads in 1914, not far from the battered Flemish town of Ypres. Tandey is facing the viewer, carrying a wounded soldier on his back, and the painting also shows other men of the Green Howards and a wounded German prisoner.
Matania’s vivid painting became something far more than a picture, all because of the man who acquired a copy of it. For in 1938, then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made his futile attempt to guarantee “peace in our time.” Flying to Germany to meet Hitler in the Alps, he was entertained at the Eagle’s Nest, perched on the Kehlstein Rock high above the town of Berchtesgaden. And there, displayed on a wall of that ostentatious aerie, was a copy of Matania’s painting. It was a curious choice of art for Hitler since it showed only British troops, but Hitler soon explained.
Hitler pointed to Tandey, commenting to Chamberlain, “That man came so near to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again, providence saved me from such devilishly accurate fire as those English boys were aiming at us.”
Then Hitler went a step further. I want you to pass on my best wishes and thanks to the soldier in that painting, he said, and Chamberlain replied that he would contact the man when he returned to England. The prime minster was as good as his word. Only then did Tandey find out that the pitiful wounded man he had spared, the bedraggled German corporal in the Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment, was now the chancellor of Germany, on his way to becoming the ogre of Europe.
Tandey’s relatives remembered the telephone call from Chamberlain. When Tandey returned from talking to the prime minister, he related the tale of Chamberlain seeing the painting. The prime minister told him, he said, that Hitler had pointed to Tandey’s picture and said, “That’s the man who nearly shot me.”
This article first appeared at the Warfare History Network.
Monday, December 2, 2019
PERSONAL: GREETING TO YOU
Greetings to you,
Will your eyes invite me to your heart? I have seen your add and I think that you are a very interesting person. So, I decided to use the chance to get to know you. Hope I will be lucky:-) I don't know if you answer me or not. But why not to try? I will regret if not to try. I think we should use every chance to find our happiness.The essence of profile compels me to ponder what is it you seek, and why? Perhaps you may grace me with your answer? Helplessly, I find myself wishing to offer you some insight about who I am. My entire life I've longed and wished for the woman of my dreams to walk into my life and give me the gift of loving them. You know the feeling, when you're happy with the material things you have, happy with the friends and social life you lead, happy with your job, and just happy with your life in general. But you feel like something is missing? Something that could complete and concrete your happiness? Bumping into someone that you dig mentally AND physically just doesn't happen too often. Especially when you're a little tired of the bar scene. In brief...I like to think I'm a handsome well-rounded person. In a perfect world I'd be dating a woman that possesses looks AND personality. I have to admit - that personality accounts for perhaps more than half the equation, I'm interested in someone genuine and FUN w substance and integrity who I can have an intelligent conversation I am a man who want a loving, committed relationship. I seek someone who is emotionally generous- someone who gives freely their love, their praise, their affection and their appreciation's.
Dear fellow searcher,
I am sure one night you sat down one night at your computer, and said to yourself "I'm tired of the dating game and you put up your ad. Just based upond your ad and your picture I am sure you are getting TONS of responses. I am sure it has become a bit frustrating responding to so many e-mails or just deleting them. So I ask how can I make mine email stand out above the rest? It is my words against all the other responses, against all your past aches and broken hearts.It my words against all the other men who are bidding for your heart. Will you trust me? Will you pick me out of the sea of response. It not only that you will find what you heart has been seeking but for me to also find that person who was meant for me. I find myself becoming hopeful,perhaps too hopeful; that my words are being read by the one I've been seeking. And that you will see how truly sincere I really am . And this makes me both nervous and ecstatic at the sametime. Is it possible that through our thoughts and feelings on this screen, we will know each other? I it possible that the decision for you to place your ad, and and my decision to respond was what suppose to happen for us to finally met?
I decided to write a long email so you can get a sense of who I am. I suggest you grab some coffee and take a seat and read this with an open heart. I feel as though there is a purpose for all of the people who come into our lives. Perhaps it is through the "wrong ones" that we will know the "right one" and honestly cherish them. I've been single for while now and I 'm not really not looking for a fling or just-for-fun relationship. I have reached a point where I know I want to be married someday. I have had many friends, associates and family members who attempt to "set me up" on a "blind date" or "to meet someone" simply because of her profession or something similar. And everyone claims that I'm "letting good women" get away because I'm "so picky." Which is not true. People constant ask me, "You are such a good catch, why are you single?” I tell them that the problem is not finding a woman, but "the right one". I am just not willing to accept a lower standard of love for the rest of my life. I did that in the past and I will not anymore. Everything else I can comprise with, but not the love. Over the years, I had several girlfriends, though none turned into a wife. They honestly didn't treat me the way I was treating them. You may be asking what is it that I am really looking for?. I'm looking for the substance of love--for kindness, compassion, deep caring, listening heart, connecting, joy, generosity, harmony, spirituality, and for someone who has the capacity to love me as much as I can love her.
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