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Billions of years ago - Millions of years ago - Thousands of years ago - 1st century |
Events[]
- 172 billion years ago
- While preparing to beam down to planet Turages, a transporter malfunction sends Uhura back 172,000,000,000 years in time to a prior universe, where she encounters a gigantic beast.[1]
- 13.7 billion years ago
- Q transports the USS Voyager to the beginning of the universe, in an attempt to hide from Q. The crew's sensors record details of the Big Bang.[2]
- The Eye of Talek is formed.[4]
- 12 billion years ago
- Tlaoli IV is formed in Sector Alpha 19.[6]
- 10 billion years ago
- The sun of the Krett homeworld in the Delta Quadrant is formed.[7]
- 9 billion years ago
- Hundreds of protostars collapsed in close proximity to one another forming the astronomical phenomenon later known as a black cluster.[8]
- 8 billion years ago
- The Guardian of Forever is created.[9][10]
- 7.2 billion years ago
- Theta VIII forms.[11]
- 5 billion years ago
- A young Q is disciplined by the Q Continuum for tampering with the properties of antimatter, and possibly creating antimatter universes. He is put in isolation detention for ten million years. During the Q crisis of 2374, Q takes Jean-Luc Picard back in time to witness this event. Picard also witnesses the mischievous younger Q idly creating, and flinging into space, an energy ribbon which he believes resembles the Nexus.[12]
- The 40 Eridani trinary star forms, the system attracting the matter that will evolve into the planets Vulcan and T'Khut.[13]
- 4 billion years ago
- The "seeder" people create hominid life throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.[9]
- 3.5 billion years ago
- 2 billion years ago
- 1 billion years ago
- Over one billion years before 2269, the Slaver Empire serves as the masters of all intelligent beings in most of the Milky Way galaxy until one species revolts.[15]
- (reference stardate -10000000/00): According to the Muuly-Barsh projection, Rigel III and Rigel IV first become inhabited by the Shour.[16]
Appendices[]
References and notes[]
- ↑ Star Trek Video Communicator comic strip #3: "Time. And Time. And Time Again.".
- ↑ VOY episode: "Death Wish". The timing of this event is theorized by modern-day science.
- ↑ TOS novel: Corona.
- ↑ TNG - The Dominion War novel: Behind Enemy Lines.
- ↑ TOS episode: "Wolf in the Fold".
- ↑ TOS - The Janus Gate novel: Present Tense.
- ↑ VOY novel: Mosaic.
- ↑ TNG episode: "Hero Worship".
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Last Unicorn RPG module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook.
- ↑ Decipher RPG module: Player's Guide.
- ↑ TNG episode: "The Royale".
- ↑ TNG - The Q Continuum novel: Q-Space.
- ↑ TOS - Sand and Stars novel: Spock's World.
- ↑ VOY episode: "The Q and the Grey".
- ↑ TAS episode: "The Slaver Weapon".
- ↑ FASA RPG modules: The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge, The Orions: Book of Deep Knowledge.
Stories[]
Title | Series | Date | Media | Notes | Image |
Time. And Time. And Time Again. (Past) |
The Original Series | 172,000,000,000 BC | comic | While preparing to beam down to planet Turages, a transporter malfunction sends Uhura back 172,000,000,000 years in time to a prior universe, where she encounters a gigantic beast. | |
Death Wish (Past) |
Voyager | 13,700,000,000 BC | episode | The Big Bang; Quinn transports USS Voyager to this time period. | |
Crucible The Star to Every Wandering Chapter 10, Epilogue |
The Original Series | 5,000,000,000 BC | novel | James T. Kirk visits the Guardian of Forever billions of years prior to the formation of Earth's sun. | |
The Q Continuum Q-Space Chapter 11 |
The Next Generation | 5,000,000,000 BC | novel | ||
Spock's World Vulcan: One (Flashback) |
The Original Series | 5,000,000,000 BC | novel | ||
Strange New Worlds II Reciprocity (Flashback) |
The Next Generation | 4,000,000,000 BC | short story | ||
All Good Things... Chapter 20, section 5 |
The Next Generation | 3,500,000,000 BC | episode novelization |
The formation of the first proteins on Earth. | |
The Q Continuum Q-Space Chapter 13 |
The Next Generation | 2,500,000,000 BC | novel | ||
The Q Continuum Q-Zone Chapter 2 |
The Next Generation | 1,000,000,000 BC | novel |
External links[]
- Billions of years ago article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.