Timeline

Billions of years ago - Millions of years ago - Thousands of years ago - 1st century

Contents 1 Events 1.1 References and notes 2 Stories 3 External links

EventsEdit

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.^[1]

8 billion years ago

• The Guardian of Forever is created.^[2]

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 10 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.^[3]
• The 40 Eridani trinary star forms, the system attracting the matter that will evolve into the planets Vulcan and T'Khut.^[4]
• The star eventually known as Sol is formed. ^[2]

4 billion years ago

• The "seeder" people create hominid life throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.^[2]

3.5 billion years ago

• Life on Earth begins in the area eventually known as France.^[2]

2 billion years ago

• The evolution of single-celled life occurs on Earth.^[2]
• Tagus III sees civilization swell.^[2]

1 billion years ago (reference stardate -10000000/00) 

According to the Muuly-Barsh projection, Rigel III and Rigel IV first become inhabited by the Shour.^[5]

References and notesEdit

1. ↑ VOY episode: "Death Wish". The timing of this event is theorized by modern-day science.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Last Unicorn RPG module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook
3. ↑ TNG - The Q Continuum novel: Q-Space
4. ↑ TOS - Sand and Stars novel: Spock's World
5. ↑ FASA RPG modules: The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge, The Orions: Book of Deep Knowledge

StoriesEdit

Title	Series	Date	Media	Notes	Image
Death Wish (Past)	Voyager	13,700,000,000 BC	episode	The Big Bang; Quinn transported Voyager to this time.
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 linksEdit

• Distant past article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.