1:[3,#B],11:[2,#I],19:[1,#I],97:[1,#I],104:[33,#I],138:[21,#I]@1“Charlie X (TOS)@2Stardate 1533.6. First contact with mythical Thasians. U.S.S. Enterprise assigned to rendezvous with the spaceship Antares to transport the orphaned Charles Evans to his nearest living relatives on Colony 5. Evans is found to exhibit unusual telekinetic powers, evidence of the existence of the Thasians, previously believed to be purely mythical. Evans eventually returns to Thasus, where his powers, given to him to aid his survival, would not be a threat as they would be in normal human society. Evans is believed to have been responsible for the destruction of the science vessel Antares shortly after its rendezvous with the Enterprise.
Editors’ Note: The term “Starfleet Command” had not yet been decided on when this episode was filmed. In these early episodes, various terms were used to describe the operating authority for the Enterprise, including “United Earth Space Probe Agency.” In this episode, Kirk referred to this as UESPA Headquarters, which he pronounced as “you-spah.”
~1:[4,#B],21:[1,#I],92:[1,#I],127:[1,#I],208:[22,#I]@1“Balance of Terror” (TOS)@2Stardate 1709.2. Neutral Zone outposts 2 through 4 are reported destroyed in apparent Romulan attack. The Enterprise responds, determining the Romulan action to be a measure of Federation resolve, untested by the Romulans since the establishment of the Neutral Zone a century ago. The Romulan spacecraft, while capable of sublight speeds only, is discovered to be equipped with a cloaking device that can render a ship nearly invisible to sensors, as well as a powerful new plasma energy weapon used to destroy the Neutral Zone outposts. The Enterprise, acting in direct violation of Starfleet orders, enters the Neutral Zone under the authority of Captain Kirk and successfully destroys the Romulan ship, thereby repelling a potential Romulan incursion.
• An accident aboard an old Class-J starship causes the death of several Starfleet cadets. The toll would have been higher if not for Fleet Captain Christopher Pike, who dragged several cadets to safety. Pike is seriously injured in the incident and is later confined to a wheelchair due to severe delta-ray exposure.
“The Menagerie, Part I” (TOS). Exact date is conjecture, but Commodore Mendez describes the accident as having happened “months” before the episode.
~1:[5,#B],9:[1,#I],118:[15,#I],135:[2,#I],149:[24,#I]@1“Dagger of the Mind” (TOS)@2Stardate 2715.1. The Enterprise, on a resupply mission to Tantalus V penal colony, accidentally takes on an inmate attempting to escape. The inmate is later discovered to be Dr. Simon Van Gelder, associate director of the rehab colony. Investigation by Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel reveals Van Gelder to be suffering from adverse effects of an experimental neural neutralizer device developed by colony director Dr. Tristan Adams. The device, intended for treatment of violent patients, had induced temporary mental disorders in Van Gelder. The device is destroyed, and Van Gelder is apparently promoted to colony director. Dr. Adams is reported to have died as a result of overexposure to the neural neutralizer.
Editors’ Note: This episode is the first time we’ve seen Spock perform the Vulcan mind-meld.
• The U.S.S. Enterprise, on a star-charting mission, reports finding seven planets in star system L-370.
“The Doomsday Machine” (TOS). Exact date is conjecture, but Spock said they’d charted seven planets in the system a year prior to the episode.
~1:[2,#B],6:[1,#I],89:[1,#I],100:[1,#I],138:[4,#I],161:[23,#I],185:[1,#I],228:[1,#I],239:[9,#I]@1“Miri” (TOS)@2Stardate 2713.5. The Enterprise responds to a distress call, discovered to be from a Class-M planet virtually identical to Earth. Indigenous humanoid inhabitants determined to be nearly all dead, found to be victims of a disastrous research project whose goal, ironically, was to prolong life. Investigation reveals the only survivors are a group of children, who are discovered to be aging at a rate equivalent to one month for every century of real time. A native child, a young woman named Miri, provides information from which Enterprise personnel determine that these children die upon reaching puberty. The Enterprise landing party, infected with the same disease, is quarantined on planet surface until a viable antitoxin can be developed by Dr. Leonard McCoy.
• Federation authorities dispatch a sociological team to help the children on Miri’s planet.
Just after “Miri” (TOS).
• Klingon operatives attempt to influence local politics on Tyree’s planet by providing firearms to the technologically unsophisticated inhabitants.
“A Private Little War” (TOS). Exact date is conjecture, but Tyree noted that the “firesticks” had appeared nearly a year before the episode.
• Enterprise summoned by scientist Dr. Thomas Leighton to Planet Q to investigate reports of a new synthetic food process. Because of the hope that this development will end the threat of famine at the Earth colony on planet Cygnia Minor, Kirk orders the Enterprise to divert three light-years off course to meet with Leighton.
Just prior to “The Conscience of the King” (TOS).
~1:[6,#B],157:[20,#I],208:[16,#I],237:[2,#I],263:[6,#I]@1“The Conscience of the King” (TOS)@2Stardate 2817.6. Kirk learns that Dr. Thomas Leighton’s report was an effort to inform Kirk covertly of a suspicion that actor Anton Karidian, currently performing on Planet Q, is in fact the infamous Kodos the Executioner. These allegations are eventually borne out, but not before Karidian’s daughter is found to be responsible for a series of murders, an attempt to eliminate all remaining witnesses of Karidian’s crimes 20 years ago. Among Lenore Karidian’s victims is Dr. Thomas Leighton, killed shortly after he revealed his suspicions to Kirk. Attempts are also made against James Kirk and Kevin Riley, the last surviving eyewitnesses to Kodos’s killings.
• The people of planet Acamar III, having endured generations of clan wars, finally establish peace for nearly all concerned. A significant exception is the outcast nomadic Gatherers, who continue to be a source of violence for a century, raiding many nearby planets and star systems.
“The Vengeance Factor” (TNG). Sovereign Marouk said her people have had peace for a century prior to the episode (2366).
• A space vessel carrying visitors from planet Ingraham B to planet Deneva carries a deadly parasitic life-form that has already caused mass insanity on Ingraham B over a year ago.
“Operation: Annihilate!” (TOS). Aurelan Kirk noted the parasites had arrived eight months prior to the episode.
• A serious plague threatens the inhabitants of the New Paris colonies. The U.S.S. Enterprise is assigned to transport emergency medical supplies to planet Makus III for transfer to New Paris under the direction of Galactic High Commissioner Ferris.
Prior to “The Galileo Seven” (TOS).
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~1:[4,#B],8:[1,#I],23:[2,#I],33:[1,#I],59:[1,#I],73:[1,#I],90:[2,#I],109:[6,#I],119:[2,#I],136:[6,#I]@1“The Galileo Seven” (TOS)@2Stardate 2821.5. The Enterprise is on an emergency medical supply mission to Makus III. Mission is delayed when Shuttlecraft Galileo is lost investigating Murasaki 312, a quasar-like phenomenon. Galileo, under command of Science Officer Spock, is later discovered to have crash-landed on planet Taurus II, but attains a suborbital trajectory sufficient for detection by Enterprise sensors before criticality of New Paris mission forces ship to leave the system. Galileo crew members Latimer and Gaetano are reported killed by indigenous life-forms on Taurus II.
• The U.S.S. Enterprise proceeds at warp speed to Makus III to deliver emergency medical supplies for the New Paris colonies.
Just after “The Galileo Seven” (TOS).
• Stardate 2945.7. The Starship Enterprise encounters ion storm, Records Officer Benjamin Finney is reported killed when sensor pod is ejected.
Just prior to “Court Martial” (TOS).
~1:[3,#B],7:[1,#I],65:[1,#I],88:[1,#I],92:[31,#I],125:[37,#I],163:[5,#I],182:[20,#I],203:[2,#I],227:[8,#I]@1“Court Martial” (TOS)@2Stardate 2947.3. The Enterprise makes an unscheduled layover at Starbase 11 for repairs from ion storm. Kirk is accused of negligent homicide in the death of Ben Finney, but court-martial investigation reveals Finney to be still alive. Kirk, who becomes the first starship captain to stand trial, is exonerated of all charges when it is revealed that Finney had tampered with Enterprise computer records. Kirk’s case is prosecuted by Areel Shaw, with Samuel T. Cogley serving for the defense and Commodore Stone presiding. The Enterprise departs Starbase 11.
Editors’ Note: The term “Starfleet Command” was used for the first time in “Court Martial,” during the computer records of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Kirk refers to his former assignment, the U.S.S. Republic, as being a “United Star Ship,” offering a second possible meaning to the letters “U.S.S.” Kirk repeats the term United Star Ship in “Squire of Gothos” (TOS) as well. (Captain Pike, in “The Cage” [TOS], said the Enterprise was a United Space Ship.)
• Spock receives a promotion from lieutenant commander to the rank of full commander.
His rank was given as lieutenant commander in “Court Martial” (TOS) but he’s a full commander in “The Menagerie” (TOS).
• U.S.S. Enterprise First Officer Spock reports orders for the ship to return to Starbase 11, although no computer record is found of the message.
Just prior to “The Menagerie, Part I” (TOS).
~1:[5,#B],9:[1,#I],49:[1,#I],92:[1,#I],110:[1,#I]@1“The Menagerie, Part I” (TOS)@2Stardate 3012.4. The Enterprise arrives at Starbase 11, but investigation by Commodore Mendez fails to reveal source of orders to return to starbase. Further investigation shows the orders to have been falsified by Commander Spock, who kidnaps Fleet Captain Pike, then commandeers the Enterprise to planet Talos IV in violation of General Order 7, which prohibits such contact. Pike had been seriously injured several months prior in an accident aboard a training vessel. Kirk and Mendez, who had been left behind at Starbase 11 when the Enterprise departed, are successful in pursuing the ship aboard a shuttlecraft. Once Kirk and Mendez are aboard the Enterprise, Spock submits himself for arrest, and Mendez orders a general court-martial convened against Spock.
~1:[5,#B],9:[1,#I],28:[1,#I]@1“The Menagerie, Part II” (TOS)@2Stardate 3013.1. The Enterprise, en route to Talos IV, is site of court-martial proceedings against Commander Spock on charges of commandeering the Enterprise, sabotage, abduction of Captain Pike, and attempted violation of General Order 7. All charges are dropped when it is determined that Spock had been acting on behalf of the Talosians in the best interest of Captain Pike. Captain Kirk, under special authority from Starfleet Command, permits Captain Pike to accept an offer from the Talosians to live the remainder of his life on their planet, where he need not suffer the infirmities of his injured body.
~1:[3,#B],7:[2,#I],63:[1,#I],76:[5,#I],82:[2,#I],93:[8,#I]@1“Shore Leave” (TOS)@2Stardate 3025.3. The U.S.S. Enterprise surveys a newly discovered planet in the Omicron Delta region for possible shore leave. Initial studies suggest a near-idyllic environment, but later reports indicate some highly unusual phenomena. The ship is briefly incapacitated due to crew unfamiliarity with the planet’s technology, which is determined to have been built as a vast amusement park.
• Enterprise crew personnel (except for Spock) enjoy R&R on the “amusement park planet.”
Just after “Shore Leave” (TOS).
• U.S.S. Enterprise on resupply mission to colony on planet Beta VI.
Just prior to “The Squire of Gothos” (TOS).
~1:[5,#B],8:[2,#I],64:[30,#I],96:[36,#I],170:[18,#I],201:[1,#I],237:[5,#I]@1“The Squire of Gothos” (TOS)@2Stardate 2124.5. U.S.S. Enterprise bridge personnel are abducted by an unknown alien agency to Gothos, a newly discovered “rogue planet” in a star desert. Investigation reveals the alien to be an entity named Trelane, who is learned to be a child member of an extremely advanced and powerful race who possess the ability to create and manipulate planets.
Editors’ Note: Trelane indicated that he had observed Earth history of nine centuries ago, but described events in the early nineteenth century. If Trelane is correct, then this episode (and Star Trek’s first season) would be set in the early twenty-eighth century. Since this is inconsistent with the preponderance of other dating information, we assume that it was an error, perhaps another example of Trelane’s fallibility and youth.
• A Federation outpost on planet Cestus III is destroyed by a Gorn spacecraft. The Gorn ship reportedly approached at sublight speeds along standard Federation approach lanes before knocking out the outpost’s phaser batteries with their first salvo.
One day prior to “Arena” (TOS). This was apparently the first contact between the Gorns and the Federation.
• Commodore Travers of Cestus III base apparently invites Captain Kirk and senior Enterprise staff to dinner. It is not discovered until later that the message had been falsified by the Gorns, and that the Cestus III outpost had already been destroyed at the time the messages were sent.
Just prior to “Arena” (TOS).
~1:[2,#B],6:[2,#I],24:[1,#I],42:[1,#I],71:[21,#I],93:[64,#I],159:[2,#I],165:[3,#I],186:[24,#I]@1“Arena” (TOS)@2Stardate 3045.6. The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at planet Cestus III, discovering the base destroyed by an apparently unprovoked Gorn attack. The Enterprise pursues the attacking vessel, but chase is interrupted by intervention and first contact with the Metrons. The Enterprise crew learns that Gorn hostilities may have been due to Federation ignorance of boundaries of Gorn space. Ultimately, the Metrons decline to establish diplomatic relations with the Federation.
Editors’ Note: This episode established for the first time that warp factor six was the normal maximum cruising speed of the Enterprise, and that things get really hairy when you reach warp eight. This was also the first time it was shown that the transporter can’t work when shields are in place. The Federation evidently ironed out its differences with the Gorns at some point between this episode and the year 2371, when “Family Business” (DS9) established that there was a Federation colony on that planet.
• The Starship Enterprise returns to Cestus III.
After “Arena” (TOS).
• Federation miners on planet Janus VI open a new underground level in search of mineral pergium deposits.
“The Devil in the Dark” (TOS). Vanderberg noted that their troubles began about three months before the episode, when the new level was opened.
~1:[4,#B],8:[2,#I],75:[2,#I],100:[1,#I],111:[60,#I],172:[2,#I],204:[1,#I],211:[7,#I]@1“The Alternative Factor” (TOS)@2Stardate 3087.6. The U.S.S. Enterprise detects a violent time/space discontinuity while surveying an uncharted planet. Investigation suggests the time/space phenomenon was triggered by Lazarus, a being from our universe, and his mentally unstable counterpart from a parallel continuum composed of antimatter. Their conflict threatens the existence of both universes, but the Lazarus from the alternate universe succeeds in sealing himself and his counterpart in an isolated time pocket.
• The U.S.S. Enterprise puts in for general repair and maintenance at Cygnet XIV. The technicians at Cygnet XIV, a society dominated by women, reportedly felt the Enterprise computer lacked character, and gave it a stereotypically female personality.
“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” (TOS). Date is conjecture, but Kirk explained to Captain Christopher about the repair stopover at Cygnet XIV. We speculate that it was after “The Alternative Factor” (TOS) because the giggling computer didn’t seem to be a problem in that episode. Dorothy Fontana insists the computer wasn’t so much giggling as it was sexually teasing the good captain.
• U.S.S. Enterprise heads toward Starbase 9, but suffers near collision with a black hole. Full reverse warp power is successful in pulling the ship away, but the resulting whiplash effect propels the Enterprise across space and backward in time.
