Star Trek Chronology

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The Star Trek Chronology, like the Star Trek Encyclopedia, was written by Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda and Debbie Mirek.

It is split into the categories The Distant Past, The 20th Century, The 21st Century, The 22nd Century, The 23rd Century, The 24th Century and The Far Future. It also has an Introduction, Preface, Index and Notes on Star Trek: The Original Series characters, Star Trek: The Next Generation characters, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters and Star Trek: Voyager characters.

Covering events from The Cage through to Basics, Part 1, it sadly gives many dates as conjectured guesswork, excluding Star Trek: The Animated Series as it was still considered "non-canon" - although it makes slight allowances for Yesteryear and The Counter-Clock Incident. Also excluded, due to production time-limits or the fact the episodes/series didn't yet exist, are Basics, Part 2 to Star Trek: Nemesis and all data pertaining to Star Trek: Enterprise.

The book notably gives interesting, if controversial, data including a photograph of an 2160s-era Rihannsu ship, a relationship between the launches of Sputnik 1 and the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) and some eyebrow-raising facts about 22nd century events. It also gives an interesting explanation for how the date of 2161 came about for the "establishment of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet".