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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: [QB] Well, I never gave it that much thought it seems. Having seen it I like your take much better – and I must bow down to your far greater geek powers. Or, you know, just proper research. Also, I never put the fact that Picard and Guinan were wearing the same clothes as when they entered the Nexus together with Kirk. Dumb… Anyway, your way of seeing things fits much better with the ‘official’ timeline, which is apparently a lot less flexible that it might appear at first glance. The only issue of contention is the two rounded dates – Kirk’s 15 not having seen Kahn in 15 years and Caithlen Dar’s “20 years ago” speech. Therefore, loosely speaking, we get this: In 2265 Kirk becomes captain of the Enterprise Mid-late 2266, Season 1 of TOS begins and McCoy becomes ships surgeon (27yrs prior to TUC) In 2267 the events of the episodes “Balance of Terror” and “Space Seed” occur. This is 18 years prior to TWOK (rounded to 15 by Kirk). It is also about 20 years before TFF, fitting with the opening of relations between the Federation and Romulus, especially if Dar’s rounding is anything like Kirks. TOS then finishes in mid 2269 or so. TAS (if you want to include it) will continue to 2270, the year the Enterprises mission ends (This is also, incidentally, 15yrs prior to TWOK). As an aside, Mr Scot’s Guide to the Enterprise places this in 2212, with the refit finishing 2216. I think we can discount this as non-cannon. Here we make two assumptions: Assumption 1 is that Kirk is immediately promoted to a desk job. Assumption 2 is that Decker’s statement is pretty accurate. Taking these to be true we skip forward two-and-a-half years to the events of TMP. This places it sometime in mid-late 2273. From here to 2284 is a large gap that can be filled with a mission following on from TMP. Is the prevailing assumption that the Enterprise is a training vessel for some time prior to TWOK? If not, a further mission can be slotted in, perhaps shorter than 5yrs, or maybe just not as a frontline ship By TWOK Kirk is also no longer captain, although it is not clear when he left. These details aside, Spock is captain at the beginning of the film. In 2284 or very early 2285, 9 years prior to GEN, Kirk has his crisis and considers quitting Starfleet. He leaves his lady friend to resume his job. In March 2285 TWOK reinvigorates him and reaffirms his decision not to quit. Some months later, but probably less than a year, are the events of TSFS, the end of which sees the Klingon ship land on Vulcan. Three months later TVH begins, likely in 2286 (the ‘official’ date), or even 2287 at a stretch. The Enterprise-A appears at the end of the film, is not ready and is still being finished by the beginning of TFF, possibly before the close of 2286. Again, the ‘official’ date is 2287, which is not problematic as we don’t know how far the Enterprise got before everything broke (except the warp drive, which worked perfectly). Then 6-7 years pass, during which time, probably towards the end of this period, the Enterprise is part of a larger mission to explore gaseous anomalies. There could be another mission prior to this of up to 5yrs. In the first half of 2293 the events of TUC happen, followed around 6 months later by GEN. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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