STTC Ship Specs: Timeline of the STTC Universe

This timeline depicts events as they happened in the
Star Trek: The Courageous universe.

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1893	Lieutenant Commander Data's head is severed and buried in San Francisco. Captain Picard manually programs information in Data's positronic net for future use. The former Commodore Vekmon manually programs time-travel coordinates for future use.
2280	Doctor Ketteract synthesizes an Omega molecule, but is killed in the resultant explosion which destroys his research station. The explosion also results in subspace damage which is found to render warp travel unusable. Because of the destructive power and threat to interstellar travel, Starfleet Command institutes the Omega Directive, prohibiting research into Omega molecules and the destruction of any Omega molecule.
2286	Transwarp drive fails. The U.S.S. Excelsior NX-2000 is briefly decommissioned and undergoes a major refit to run a traditional warp drive. It is recommissioned NCC-2000 and placed under command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.
2296	Starfleet officers Admiral Cartwright, Colonel West, and Lieutenant Valeris conspire with General Chang of the Klingon Defense Forces to assassinate the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon. Gorkon is killed, and his daughter and the Federation president are targeted. Colonel West is killed when security forces apprehend him. Admiral Cartwright and Lt. Valeris are arrested and tried for their crimes; they are sentenced to life on a penal colony.
2297	U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B is commissioned and placed under the command of Captain John Harriman. Captain James T. Kirk is killed in action by saving the newly launched starship from an energy ribbon.
2344	U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-C is lost with all hands at the battle of Narendra III
2352	Thomas Johnson and his sister Jennifer Johnson are on their mother ship's, the U.S.S. Lexington, when it is attacked by an unknown warship. The Lexington suffers a warp core breach. Raven, the first officer at time, saved most of the crew from destruction, but Captain Johnson did not survive. Later it is revealed that the attacking ship was a Breen Privateer.
2367	Nathan Favor assists in an investigation which leads to the arrest and conviction of Haspiteras, an assassin and crimelord.
2368	Work crews discover Data's severed head underneath San Francisco. The Enterprise is recalled to Earth to analyze the discovery.
2369	Data, after being damaged, is repaired with the recently unearthed head.
2370	The android Lore is dismantled and turned over to Starfleet's Corps of Engineers for study. Missions into the Gamma Quadrant via the Bajoran Wormhole reveal information about a political and military power known as the Dominion. Commander Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko and Nog are captured by Jem'Hadar in the Gamma Quadrant, the first official contact between the Federation and the Dominion. Shortly, the Dominion sends a Jem'Hadar ship through the wormhole with an ultimatum to cease expeditions into the Gamma Quadrant. A rescue mission is mounted to find Commander Sisko and his camping party. The U.S.S. Odyssey is destroyed in a show of force by the Jem'Hadar. Hostilities begin between the Federation and the Dominion.
2371	U.S.S. Voyager, under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway, is stranded in the Delta Quadrant and begins her journey home back to the Alpha Quadrant. Admiral Leyton makes preparations to engineer a military coup of the Federation government as a preemptive maneuver to a Dominion invasion. Captain Sisko is reassigned to Earth as part of Planetary Security. He uncovers Leyton's conspiracy. Leyton resigns his commission and is tried for treason and other charges. The charges of treason are dropped, but he is found guilty on all other counts. He is sentenced to no less than 50 years on a Federation penal colony on New Wellington.
2372	The Transwarp Project is resumed with hopes of developing a starship that can find the U.S.S. Voyager. The U.S.S. Galaxy is reassigned as the testbed. Dominion hostilities delay the project over the next few years. Nathan Favor is captured by Haspiteras, who had broken out of Federation custody. The escaped criminal forces Favor to fight a bloodmatch. Favor barely manages to win, and escapes from Haspiteras's compound with a Romulan diplomat named Selari.
2373	Bajor signs a non-aggression pact with the Dominion. Shortly afterwards, the Dominion captures Deep Space Nine, marking the official start of the Dominion War.
2374	Deep Space Nine is recaptured by the Federation/Klingon taskforce under the Command of Captain Benjamin Sisko. Gul Dukat had successfully taken down the mines that were placed by the U.S.S. Defiant, fearing this Sisko took the Defiant into the wormhole to make one final stand against the Dominion reinforcement. The Prophets throw the Defiant out of the wormhole and seal the wormhole, stranding the Dominion forces in Cardassian space. U.S.S. Pacific is destroyed during the battle. Dr. Hartman then resigns from Starfleet Medical. The U.S.S. Valiant attempts to destroy a prototype Jem'Hadar warship, referred to as a battlebarge, and is destroyed. The Dominion entrench themselves in Cardassian space and scale back their offensives. The stranded Founders begin planning a long-term war strategy in light of the loss of their route to their homeworld.
2375	Arturis introduces U.S.S. Voyager to Quantum Slipstream Drive technology and attempts to trap the crew. The crew of Voyager escapes. Nathan Favor is hired by the Draganzians, who want him to broker a non-aggression pact with the Dominion. While at a neutral location, Favor learns that the Romulans are also negotiating a non-aggression pact. He resumes his friendship with one of the Romulan diplomats, Selari. Favor convinces the Draganzians to apply for Federation membership, and warns the Federation about the Romulans' plans to be neutral.
2376	U.S.S. Titan rescues Lt. Robert Castillo, former first officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise C. The Pathfinder Project, a long range communications mission, succeeds in contacting the U.S.S. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, via the MIDAS Array. Sisko, Worf, and, Dr. Bashir take the U.S.S. Defiant to Utopia Planitia Mars dry-dock for refit. Sisko and crew are transferred to the Sovereign class U.S.S. Sovereign to undergo a covert mission. Major Ironsides and his crew successfully rescue 40 survivors of the Enterprise C. Only two people are lost during the rescue mission. With the loss of one of his men, Ironsides ponders an offer to join a covert operation. The Quantum Slipstream Drive (QSD) Project is formed based on technical data from the U.S.S. Voyager. Private Amanda Ruiz applies to and is accepted into Starfleet Academy. Sergeant Leo Bogarde petitions for a transfer to Starfleet from the Marine Corps. His transfer is approved at the end of the year.
2377	The U.S.S. Galaxy is the second starship to be tested for transwarp drive. After careful studies on the failed experiment from the U.S.S. Excelsior NX-2000, it is thought that adding a third nacelle on the Galaxy would create a stable warp field. Once the Galaxy gets underway and activates her transwarp drive, she disappears. After a search, the Galaxy is listed as lost. The Transwarp Project is scrapped and resources are diverted to the Quantum Slipstream project. U.S.S. Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant for seven years. They turn over their Quantum Slipstream drive to the QSD Project. The keels of the U.S.S. Courageous NX-81822 are laid down at Utopia Planitia Shipyards. She is slated to be the testbed for the new Quantum Slipstream Drive. Captain Janeway retires from Starfleet.
2378	Starbase 51 comes online for the first time. General Martok and his taskforce win a major victory at Torros 3.
2379	The Dominion launches a new offensive. Betazed is captured. The Battle at Gore takes place. The U.S.S. Cabot comes under fire from Jem'Hadar warships, and is aided by the U.S.S. Ranger and U.S.S. Kitty-Hawk. The Jem'Hadar Battlebarge makes its second known appearance. Captain Thomas R. Johnson Jr. orders the Kitty Hawk to fire upon the U.S.S. Cabot to scuttle it before they retreat. Captain Sarah Johnson, Johnson's wife, is still board the ship when the Cabot is scuttled. Lt. Linda Garfield is in killed in action during the Battle at Gore. Starbase 51 shuts down due to her experimental reactor's failure. It is converted into a secure storage depot. Lt. Jadzia Dax is killed by Dukat on Deep Space Nine, as he attempted to reopen the wormhole using the power of the Pah-Wraiths. The Bajoran Wormhole remains sealed off. Cadet Stuvor disappears along with Starbase 296 upon the activation of an experimental large-mass transport device after coming under attack by Dominion forces.
2380	U.S.S Courageous construction is completed. Fleet Admiral Hacker assigns Captain Montgomery Scott to command the Courageous on her shakedown cruise. Captain Johnson returns to active duty and submits a proposal for a plan to liberate Betazed. Later his plans are approved and a massive fleet build up gets underway. The Romulans secretly begin preparations to assist the Federation-Klingon taskforce. The joint Federation-Klingon taskforce engages the Dominion fleet at Betazed. The Romulans join in the battle. During the offensive, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk is used to ram into a Jem'Hadar battlebarge. Captain Johnson is rescued off his starship by Commander Lisa Stone, the first officer of the U.S.S. Hamlet. Johnson assumes command of the Hamlet after her captain is killed. A Dominion fleet retreating from an assault by Chancellor Gowron, reinforces the fleet at Betazed and drives the Allied Taskforce away. The Romulan Government officially declare war on the Dominion, ending their pretense of neutrality. The Allied Taskforce attacks again two days later, and Betazed is liberated. Captain Johnson and his crew receive a new ship the U.S.S. Cadmus, an Intrepid class ship. Special dispensation is granted to rename the ship U.S.S. Kitty Hawk NCC-44052-A Captain Johnson and Commander Lisa Stone marry. Lisa Stone is promoted to Captain.
2381	Final shakedown cruise on the U.S.S. Courageous begins. Fleet Admiral Hacker dies. With the Federation Council's approval, Admiral Alynna Nechayev is promoted to Fleet Admiral and is appointed as Starfleet's newest Commander in Chief. U.S.S. Kitty Hawk-A is assigned on interdiction patrols to halt black-market smuggling on the borders of Federation space. The Kitty Hawk chases an Orion privateer, the Echo, into former Thallonian space. The U.S.S. Excalibur, under the command of Captain M'k'n'zy of Calhoun, interrupts the chase. The crews of the Kitty Hawk and Excalibur are assigned to bring down a massive arms smuggling ring. Chief Fonda sabotages the Kitty Hawk's warp core, and is nearly court martialled. The Allies (combined Federation-Klingon-Romulan forces) launch a new offensive, starting with an attempt to retake the Chin'toka system. The Battle for the Chin'toka system begins; General Martok leads the Allied fleet. The battle is successful although with high casualties. Chancellor Gowron is killed by Commander Worf on Deep Space Nine, but the commander passes the leadership of the Klingon High Council onto to General Martok.
2382	Nathan Favor finally solves an old personal problem with an Orion leader name Daz. He later became responsible for the new trade agreement between the Federations and the Romulans. He is invited to join the Federation's Diplomatic Corps. U.S.S. Courageous returns to dry-dock to undergo her final major refit. Janeway is asked to join the selection process for a new captain for the Courageous. Commander Jennifer Johnson of Starfleet Navy gets promoted to Captain and takes command of the U.S.S. Mauritania. The Bajoran and Federation governments approve of the integration of the Bajoran Militia into Starfleet forces, to supplement the loss of manpower suffered over the course of the Dominion War.
2383	A group of archaeologists find a few rare records of Captain Jonathan Archer of the NX-01 Enterprise.
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May 2384	Janeway submits her recommendation of Captain Johnson to command the U.S.S. Courageous. Johnson accepts the post. Captain Johnson and Chief Fonda transfer to the U.S.S. Courageous. Ambassador Nathan Favor comes aboard as the ship's ambassador over Johnson's reservations. Major Ironsides is assigned as Captain Johnson's first officer. Other crewmembers are transferred to the U.S.S. Courageous, including Lieutenant Amanda Ruiz, Lieutenant Kyle, and Lieutenant Dawson. Senior Chief Leo Bogarde tries to mend affairs with his estranged son before his transfer to the U.S.S. Courageous, but fails. Johnson convinces Edward Hartman to leave Yale University, and rejoin Starfleet so he can be the Courageous's Chief Medical Officer. The U.S.S. Scotland is captured by a rogue group of humans and aliens. The criminals break into Starbase 51 to steal the body of Lore. The break-in causes the reactor of the starbase to overload, setting off an explosion which sends out damaging shockwaves over several light-years. Deep Space Nine is heavily damaged from the explosion originating at Starbase 51. Admiral Nechayev orders the Courageous to Deep Space Nine to investigates the explosion. While at the station, members of the Bajoran militia transfer onto the Courageous for their five years exploration to the Borderlands. Major Raven comes aboard the Courageous to command the Bajoran contingent. Garak is recruited by Starfleet Intelligence to operate aboard the Courageous. During the course of the investigation into Starbase 51, Captain Johnson discovers that his first wife is still alive and is leading the thieves. The other leader of the thieves is revealed to be William Thane, a former Starfleet Marine that served with Major Ironsides. The crew of the Courageous discover that the thieves have reactivated Lore to help decrypt sensitive Starfleet information which they planned to sell to the highest bidders. Captain Data of the U.S.S. Enterprise transfers onto the Courageous to assist in subduing Lore. The Courageous tracks the Scotland to the Atreides system. They engage the Scotland in combat along with other captured Starfleet ships in orbit around the planet Pol. Johnson confronts Sarah Johnson on the planet's surface, and she forces him into a swordfight. Doctor Hartman kills Sarah to save Johnson. Data follows Lore onto the planet's surface and battles him, finally destroying his brother android. The Enterprise, Hood and the Excalibur come to the Courageous's aid. William Thane attempts to escape in a runabout, but Major Ironsides pursues in the Omega Flyer, and destroys Thane's runabout. U.S.S. Courageous is officially commissioned at Starbase 74. U.S.S. Tempest, an old Oberth class starship, disappears.
June 2384	U.S.S. Enterprise responds to a distress call on Veridian III where the destruction of the Enterprise NCC-1701-D took place several years earlier. Admiral Picard is seriously wounded by Zandria Soran, Dr. Soran's sister. He is taken to Starfleet Medical 301. The Courageous and Captain Riker's ship, the Hood arrives in the Sol Sector in search of the Tempest, which reappears in the Sol system. An away team boards the ship, tripping a booby trap, and the ship self-destructs just after firing a trilithium rocket, a "sun-killer missile," into the Sun. Riker is thrown back in time when he tried to apprehend Zandria Soran and her accomplice as they attempted to transport through time. The captain reappeared in the latter half of the 19th century. The trilithium missile turns out to be a decoy because the Sun begins to fade, indicating a time-ripple effect originating from events in the past. Captain Johnson orders the Courageous to slingshot back into the past, and Captain Data contributes some calculations to send the ship in the right era, the year 1859. They discover a tachyon-laden virus spreading through the plasma of the Courageous, causing ship-wide system malfunctions. Johnson and the crew find a missing escape pod from Starbase 296 buried in a desert region in North America. Captain Riker meets up with Johnson and crew the next day. Soon they all find Stuvor alive and well. Together they all set out to find Zandria Soran to stop her from launching the sun killer missile that will destroy the Sol System. Stuvor is killed in action and the sun killer missile is destroyed. Zandria Soran killed herself. The Courageous slingshot back to their timeline. With the timeline restored, Admiral Picard recovers from Zandria's assassination attempt. The Courageous docks at Mars for repairs and resupplying before heading off to the Borderlands.
July 2384	Captain Roman Caravaggio assumes command of the Prometheus class warship the U.S.S. Prometheus and begins their shakedown cruise. Plans are drawn up to fit another Prometheus class warship with a Quantum Slipstream Drive. Dukat lures Captain Sisko into a trap in the Fire Caves of Bajor. Dukat attempts to unleash the Pah-Wraiths but Sisko prevents the ritual from being performed, and ultimately kills Dukat in combat. Major Kira of Deep Space Nine is promoted to Colonel. The Dominion pull back from the front lines, giving up contested territories, marking another lull in the war. U.S.S. Courageous leaves Utopia Planitia for the Borderlands, traveling through Romulan space on a diplomatic mission to Romulus.
August 2384	The Courageous is escorted through Romulan space by three Romulans warships. They rendezvous with the Romulans' new ambassador to the Federation, Selenta and her aide, T'yaanki. Ambassador Favor is surprised by the unexpected appearance of his lover, Ambassador Selari. The journey is uneventful until the Courageous is attacked by mysterious fighter craft and unmarked black Warbirds. Captain Johnson's behavior becomes more erratic the further they get deeper into Romulan space. They continue to suffer from hit-and-run assaults. A Federation starship comes to their aid, the Nebula class U.S.S. Freedom. Captain Johnson orders the transport of the bridgecrew of a severely damaged Warbird for prisoners to interrogate. Sela is discovered to be the commander of the Warbird and the mastermind behind the attacks. Unorthodox tactics are used to compel Sela to divulge information. Garak is attacked by one of the Romulans aboard the Courageous. Raven attempts to use his psychic abilities to find out who, but was not successful, but further evidence shows it was T'yannki who used her minor psionic talents to sabotage the diplomatic mission and influence Captain Johnson's decision-making skills. She is taken in custody and turned over to the Romulan authorities, along with Sela and their other prisoners. The Praetor invited the senior crew of the Courageous to a state dinner on Romulus. The Praetor announced the finalization of a more comprehensive treaty between the Federation and the Romulan government. Selenta attacks the Praetor, but is killed by Raven after a brief psionic battle. Selenta is revealed to be the telepath responsible for Johnson's erratic behavior. After a week of shore leave, the Freedom returns to Federation space and the Courageous activates the QSD for the first time and heads to the Borderland. Ambassador Selari discovers that she is pregnant. The U.S.S. Galaxy's automatic distress signal begins transmitting. A scout ship of the Vendoth, a war-like race of aliens from another universe, is pulled out of an interdimensional vortex and trapped in the present dimension that the Courageous exists in.
Mid-September 2384	U.S.S. Courageous drops out of slipstream due to an erratic distress signal appearing in No Man's Land, an interstellar void. They discover a nebula with unique gravimetric properties, and upon entering the nebula, they find the Galaxy. Johnson orders his crew to salvage the Galaxy, but the salvage effort is interrupted by a crew of Vendoth hiding aboard the derelict. The Vendoth slaughter many of the Marines on the boarding party. It is learned that the Vendoth killed many of the Galaxy's crew in an attempt to learn about the ship's transwarp drive. Johnson's crew attempt to pull the Galaxy out of the nebula, but the Vendoth fight back, preventing the move. More of the Marines are killed in battle with the Vendoth. The Vendoth take several hostages. Johnson attempts to negotiate with them, but the negotiations fail, and Ensign LeAnn, the Courageous's helm officer, is executed. Johnson activates the transwarp drive, knowing that the Galaxy was too unstable to enter transwarp. He manages to escape with Lieutenant Ruiz; the both of them sustaining life-threatening injuries as the nebula burns away due to the energies of the transwarp drive.
November 2384	U.S.S. Courageous finally arrives into the Borderlands, the zone of space where the Alpha and Delta Quadrant meet. Former Captain Janeway gives a brief speech to the crew of the Courageous. A spatial displacement wave rocks the Courageous, and they locate the source, a planet called Danosm. They make their first contact of the Borderlands with the inhabitants, the highly advanced Danosm. Ambassador Favor attempts to open trade negotiations while Major Ironsides discovers that their civilization uses Omega molecules as an energy source. Chief Engineer Fonda and Science Officer Dr. Joh help Danosm scientists uncover an error that had gone undetected in the Omega molecule containment reactors. The energies that had been building up in the reactor chambers were spilling out into the spatial technologies the Danosm use. Spatial waves caused subterran tectonic shifting which would lead to the catastrophic destruction of Danosm. The Courageous evacuates the maximum number of Danosm refugees, and several other ships evacuate more Danosm, but the vast majority of the Danosm perish as the planet falls apart.
Mid-November 2384	The Courageous discovers a solar system, tau'Tsugu, that has planets rich in dilithium. Ambassador Favor makes inroads with the ruling government, the tau'Tsugu. The Ernor, head of Tsugua, is willing to open trade negotiations, but a planet-wide labor strike and a work-stoppage on on the main mining planet, tau'Targa, forces the Ernor to initiate military action. The Ernor turns to Captain Johnson for military aid in exchange for massive dilithium surpluses. Due to the Prime Directive, Johnson has to decline, but Major Ironsides makes contact with the labor leaders and brokers a deal with them. In exchange for assassinating the Ernor and preventing a civil war, the new tau'Tsugu leader would make all trade concessions the Federation asked for. After Ironsides assassinates the Ernor, Garak, who has been investigating for the presence for Section 31 agents aboard the Courageous, tracks Ironsides down. The Cardassian is killed by a previously undiscovered Section 31 agent, while Ironsides tries to escape due to his blown cover. Ironsides is critically injured as he attempts to steal the runabout Rubicon, and dies as the runabout enters a quantum slipstream to points unknown. The Federation, via their representatives Captain Johnson and Ambassador Favor, formalize their new trading relationship with the new Ernor of the tau'Tsugu government in spite of Johnson's reservations.
December 2384	The Courageous finds a large commerce station based on information from the Tsugua and a subspace advertising signal. Captain Johnson arranges for shore leave over several days. Criminal charges are brought against the Federation by one of the inhabitants of the commerce station, Aidaca. She cites U.S.S. Voyager's actions against her relative, Arturis and demands compensation. Ambassador Favor successfully defends the Federation in the commerce station's court of law. Major Raven is installed as the Courageous's new first officer, replacing Major Ironsides. The Linguistics and Xenoarchaeology departments discover a possible Ancient Bajoran map. Raven follows their investigations and searches the markets on the commerce station, finding more texts that may have originated from Ancient Bajorans.
January 2385	The Courageous investigates a cluster of blackholes based on information retrieved from an ancient map that might be of Bajoran origin. A long running religious war on a nearby planet, X'Lothia, heats up.
802,701	The exploding U.S.S. Galaxy emerges from transwarp and fragments rain upon the atmosphere of a planet in another galaxy.