Distant past

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Contents 1 Billions of years ago 1.1 16 billion years ago 1.2 9 billion years ago 1.3 7 billion years ago 1.4 5 billion years ago 1.5 4.5 billion years ago 1.6 4 billion years ago 1.7 3.5 billion years ago 1.8 2 billion years ago 1.9 1 billion years ago 2 Millions of years ago 2.1 400 million years ago 2.2 300 million years ago 2.3 87 million years ago 2.4 65 million years ago 2.5 20 Million years ago 2.6 1 Million years ago 2.7 Indeterminate 3 Hundreds of thousands of years ago 3.1 600,000 years ago 3.2 500,000 years ago 3.3 200,000 years ago 3.4 100,000 years ago 4 Tens of thousands of years ago 4.1 50,000 years ago 4.2 45,000 years ago 4.3 30,000 years ago 4.4 28,000 years ago 4.5 22,000 years ago 4.6 20,000 years ago 4.7 12,000 years ago 4.8 10,000 years ago 5 Thousands of years ago 5.1 9,000 years ago 5.2 6,000 years ago 5.3 5,000 years ago 5.4 4,000 years ago 5.5 3,000 years ago 6 Indeterminate Past 7 External links

[edit] Billions of years ago

[edit] 16 billion years ago

• The universe is formed in the instantaneous expansion that scientists call the "Big Bang". The "Big Bang" has been theorized to be caused by destabilizing Omega molecules. (VOY: "The Omega Directive")
• This point in time represents a hideout for members of the Q Continuum. The USS Voyager was briefly transported here by Quinn in order to escape Q, but he too had once used this hideout and was thus able to find the ship. (VOY: "Death Wish")

The age of the universe was given in VOY: "Good Shepherd" as 16 billion years. Current real-world scientific evidence however indicates an age of 13.7 billion years.

[edit] 9 billion years ago

• Hundreds of protostars collapsed in close proximity to one another forming the astronomical phenomenon later known as a black cluster. (TNG: "Hero Worship")

[edit] 7 billion years ago

• The Theta 116 system begins the process of becoming a planetary system. (TNG: "The Royale")

[edit] 5 billion years ago

• The star Sol begins to form out of nebular dust and interstellar gases. (VOY: "Death Wish")
• Female Q is born. (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")

[edit] 4.5 billion years ago

• Our Sun took form. The Guardian of Forever had already been asked its last question (until 2267, when it told Kirk and Spock it had awaited a question "since before your Sun burned hot in space." (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
• The ancient humanoids, one of the oldest known sentient species, seeded the oceans of many worlds with DNA codes, directing the evolution of life towards a physical pattern similar to their own. The varieties of lifeforms that carried this seed code to fruition include the Humans, Vulcans, Klingons and Cardassians, and likely many other humanoid species of the galaxy. (TNG: "The Chase")

[edit] 4 billion years ago

• Q and Q begin their romantic involvement around this time. (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
• The planet Pollux IV forms in the Beta Geminorum system. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")

[edit] 3.5 billion years ago

• On Earth, in a region later known as France, amino acids combine to form the first proteins. (TNG: "All Good Things...")

According to actual science, life already gained a foothold on Earth 4.1 billion years ago. However, this wasn't theorized until after the shooting of "All Good Things...".

[edit] 2 billion years ago

• Civilization thrives on planet Tagus III. (TNG: "Qpid")

[edit] 1 billion years ago

• The Slaver Empire is the master of all intelligent beings in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Slavers and all of their subjects were exterminated in a massive war which caused all intelligent life to re-evolve. (TAS: "The Slaver Weapon")

[edit] Millions of years ago

[edit] 400 million years ago

• In the Permian period, Eryops, the last common ancestor of cold-blooded and warm-blooded organisms, lives on Earth. (VOY: "Distant Origin")

[edit] 300 million years ago

• An alien ship of unknown beings is invaded by a magnetic organism. Trapped in orbit of Questar M-17, the crew disable their own ship to prevent the spread of the entity. (TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star")

[edit] 87 million years ago

• The D'Arsay civilization launches the archive of their culture. (TNG: "Masks")

[edit] 65 million years ago

• Earth's dominant reptile superorder, the dinosaurs, are wiped out when an asteroid impacts the planet. (VOY: "Distant Origin"; ENT: "Azati Prime")
• Some of Earth's dinosaurs survive the asteroid impact and continue to develop and name themselves the Voth. Sometime thereafter they leave Earth and travel to the Delta quadrant where they create one of the first interstellar empires in the quadrant.

[edit] 20 Million years ago

• The recorded history of the Voth civilization begins in the Delta Quadrant. (VOY: "Distant Origin")

[edit] 1 Million years ago

• On Earth, the ancestors of Humans begin to distinguish themselves from their primate ancestors by their intelligence and reasoning skills. (TOS: "A Taste of Armageddon")
• Construction of the vast city around the Guardian of Forever, stretching out to the horizon of its planet. Spock estimated the age of the ruins to be "on the order of ten thousand centuries" in 2267. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")

[edit] Indeterminate

• The inhabitants of Organia evolve to beings of pure energy. (TOS: "Errand of Mercy")

[edit] Hundreds of thousands of years ago

[edit] 600,000 years ago

• The Tkon Empire collapses. (TNG: "The Last Outpost")
• The humanoid ancestors of Sargon's race colonized the galaxy. Their colonists may have caused, or influenced, the rise of intelligent life on Vulcan. (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")

[edit] 500,000 years ago

• Civilization first begins to flourish on Bajor. (TNG: "Ensign Ro")
• Sargon's species is destroyed in a massive civil war when the atmosphere is ripped from their planet. Only a few survivors escape by preserving their consciousnesses in a cave deep below the surface. (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
• The planet Exo III becomes nearly uninhabitable after its sun begins to fade. The inhabitants resettle beneath the surface and construct androids to serve them. (TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")

[edit] 200,000 years ago

• The Iconians, a highly developed civilization, are destroyed in an orbital bombardment of their homeworld. (TNG: "Contagion"; DS9: "To the Death")
• By at least this point, the Borg have begun their evolution into cybernetic beings. (TNG: "Q Who")

[edit] 100,000 years ago

• The subspace network which will be later claimed by the Hirogen is constructed by an unknown race. (VOY: "Message in a Bottle", "Hunters")
• The ocean planet, later home of the Monean civilization, is created by extracting all water from a Class M planet and containing it inside an immense force field. (VOY: "Thirty Days")

[edit] Tens of thousands of years ago

[edit] 50,000 years ago

• The Horta of Janus VI begin their latest cycle of rebirth. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
• Bele begins to chase Lokai, who has led a revolution on the planet of Cheron. (TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")

[edit] 45,000 years ago

• Extraterrestrial visitors, known as the "Sky Spirits", visit a people on Earth who become the indigenous inhabitants of America. (VOY: "Tattoo")

[edit] 30,000 years ago

• The Verathan civilization, originally from the Verath system in the Gamma Quadrant, reaches its height, spanning two dozen star systems. (DS9: "Q-Less")

[edit] 28,000 years ago

• On Earth, the Neanderthals become extinct. (ENT: "Dear Doctor")

[edit] 22,000 years ago

• The first of at least 947 archaeological expeditions is conducted at the ancient ruins on Tagus III. (TNG: "Qpid")
• The Trill begin their life as a joined species. (TNG: "The Host")

[edit] 20,000 years ago

• The Bajorans begin celebrating the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. (DS9: "Fascination")

• The Bajoran Holy City of B'hala is lost to history. (DS9: "Rapture")

[edit] 12,000 years ago

• An artisan known only as the Master of Tarquin Hill on Kurl, during the Third Dynasty, creates small ceramic figurines, called naiskos, that embody that culture's belief that within each person is a community of individuals, each with its own desires, views, and voices. (TNG: "The Chase")

[edit] 10,000 years ago

• According to Quinn, this was the last time that "ordinary" Q in the Q Continuum had to speak with each other. (VOY: "Death Wish")
• When their sun is about to go nova, the Fabrini leave their system on a propelled asteroid known as the Yonada. (TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky")
• The machine-god Vaal on Gamma Trianguli VI is built. (TOS: "The Apple")
• The civilization on Sigma Draconis VI which is currently at its technological peak, advanced well beyond 23rd century Federation capabilities, experiences a catastrophic glacial age. As a result, the inhabitants of the planet begin to de-evolve to a primitive level, and the male and female inhabitants experience a great schism in their society. (TOS: "Spock's Brain")
• A species of intelligent spacefaring organisms which form symbiotic relationships with humanoid lifeforms that live within their bodies become nearly extinct. Gomtuu is the last known survivor. (TNG: "Tin Man")
• The first of the Orbs is discovered by the Bajorans in the sky above their planet. Over the next ten millennia, a total of nine of these extraordinary objects are discovered, inspiring revelations that shape Bajoran religion. (DS9: "Emissary")
• The Founders establish a new homeworld in the Omarion Nebula to escape prejudice and persecution founding the Dominion. (DS9: "The Search, Part II")
• The Ferengi discover currency and the concept of profit. (DS9: "Little Green Men")
• The Bajoran archaeologists begin their unsuccessful, ten thousand year search for the lost city of B'hala, which is not uncovered until the year 2373. (DS9: "Rapture")

[edit] Thousands of years ago

[edit] 9,000 years ago

• The Zakdorn earned a reputation as brilliant strategists. (TNG: "Peak Performance")

[edit] 6,000 years ago

• The Aldeans build a massive cloaking device that shields their planet, Aldea, from outside detection. (TNG: "When The Bough Breaks")

circa 4000 BC

Unknown aliens take or abduct several Humans from Earth to be eugenically bred on a distant planet, lest humanity destroy itself in its early technological age. Gary Seven will be one of their descendants. (TOS: "Assignment: Earth")

3834 BC

Akharin is born in Mesopotamia on Earth. A soldier felled in battle, he soon realizes that no injury can kill him. He goes on through many aliases, becoming the immortal known as Flint. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")

circa 3733 BC

Landru of Beta III preaches peace and coexistence among his people, ending a period of savagery. He creates a powerful computer to guide and protect his people after his death. (TOS: "The Return of the Archons")

[edit] 5,000 years ago

circa 2700 BC

Earth is visited by aliens who settle in the region near Greece and the Mediterranean, where they are worshiped by the Greeks as gods. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")

Sarpeidon experiences an ice age. Zarabeth is exiled to this time period, and Spock and Leonard McCoy are briefly stranded here as well. (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays")

circa 2600 BC

The Egyptians build the pyramids of Giza. They are observed by anthropologists from the future (specifically, the year 2769. (ENT: "Cold Front")

[edit] 4,000 years ago

• Humans on Earth begin the tradition of confining law-breakers to prisons. (TOS: "Dagger of the Mind")

circa 1800 BC

The Xindi-Avians build a concealed fortress on a planet that will one day become the home of the Xindi Council. (ENT: "The Council")

[edit] 3,000 years ago

circa 950 BC

Flint lives the life of King Solomon on Earth. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")

circa 850 BC

The Vulcan monastery on P'Jem is built. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")

circa 730 BC

The Kalandan outpost planet, "a few thousand years old" in 2269, may be constructed around this time. (TOS: "That Which Survives")

circa 500 BC

The Bajoran prophet Trakor first encounters the Orb of Prophecy and Change, and writes a series of prophecies concerning the Emissary of the Prophets. (DS9: "Destiny")

480 BC

The Battle of Thermopylae is fought on Earth between the Spartans and the Persians. (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")

circa 400 BC

Survivors from the Sahndara system supernova arrive on Earth. Their sojourn coincides with the time of the philosophers Socrates and Plato. "After the death of the Greek civilization they idolized" they move on to the planet Platonius.(TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")

356-323 BC

Flint lives the life of Alexander the Great on Earth. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")

214 BC

Construction begins on the Great Wall of China on Earth. (VOY: "11:59")

44 BC

Parmen, future leader of the Sahndaran refugee community, is born on Platonius. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")

33 BC

Philana, future wife of Parmen, is born on Platonius. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")

3 BC

Philana, now 30, stops aging. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")

[edit] Indeterminate Past

• An unknown race, possibly of extragalactic origin, builds a massive planet killer. (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine")
• The population of Talos IV is largely wiped out in a war. Forced to live beneath the surface, the Talosians develop their mental powers, while neglecting their technological knowledge and skills. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II")
• According to Klingon mythology, Kortar, the first Klingon, destroys the gods who created him. (DS9: "Homefront"; VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
• A neutron star in a binary star system in the Kavis Alpha sector begins exploding every 196 years. (TNG: "Evolution")
• A power struggle occurs within the highest ranks of a race called the Saltah'na, which ultimately destroys them. Before their extinction, the Saltah'na create a collection of energy spheres which preserve a record of the events leading to the species' destruction via a telepathic matrix, which can be transferred into the minds of some humanoid species, causing them to reenact the power struggle. (DS9: "Dramatis Personae")

[edit] External links

• Billions of years ago at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Millions of years ago at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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