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Millions of Years Ago
444,310,700 B.C.
Period 1 begins on the planet Alcawell in the Delta Quadrant of the
galaxy, the first segment of a society spread out through almost a billion
years of time. The time-travelling Alcawellians' world consists of
periods. Each period spans 500,000 years. Mean Time Control Headquarters
is located in Period 1, which is where Lieutenant Torres, Ensign Kim,
and Neelix are taken from Period 889 to face the charges of intraperiod
travel and the consequent Time Alarms. In alternate timelines, the three
Starship Voyager crew members are executed for the crimes.
[The Escape (Voyager)]
299,810,700 B.C.
Period 290 begins on Alcawell in the Delta Quadrant.
[The Escape (Voyager)]
The Vedala race probably thrives during this era. They will be known as
the oldest living spacefaring race by 2264.
[The Jihad (TOS)]
Environmental conditions on Thasus change and will remain stable for
the next 3 million years.
[ST 1]
100,000,000 B.C.
The geological situation on Rimillia is established when the planet's
rotation slows, narrowing the habitable zone down to a narrow strip at
the terminator.
[Twilight's End (TOS)]
A series of relay stations is established in the Delta Quadrant of space,
capable of reaching the Alpha Quadrant. These stations are powered by
quantum micro-singularities and will last over 100,000 years.
[Hunters (Voyager)]
The Masters become the fourth native civilization in the Rigel
system. An early understanding of philosophy and science allows
them to build a massive empire in the Orion arm of the galaxy which
will endure for 100 million years. The Masters will perform many
experiments on life forms and civilizations much like the
Preservers.
[FASA]
65,000,000 B.C.
Prior to the cataclysmic extinction of the dinosaurs, the Voth
(sentient descendants of Hadrosaurs) achieve spaceflight and
depart Earth (or are transplanted by the Preservers?). Some 45 million
years later they will have reached and colonized the Delta Quadrant(possibly through the advent of transwarp drive). No record of their
species will remain on Earth.
[Distant Origin (Voyager)]
64,020,410 B.C.
June
In southern Georgia on Earth, Captain Kirk and a landing party (transported from 2264 via the Guardian of Forever) see to the impact of an
asteroid, ensuring the extinction of the dinosaurs. The Clan Ru at first
succeeded in altering history by destroying the asteroid with a matter/antimatter warhead satellite. Kirk convinces the Ru that their distortion
of history would only result in their own extinction after comparing DNA
samples. In the Ru-created alternate universe, the dinosaurs will evolve
semi-intelligence only to exterminate themselves in endless cycles of
nuclear warfare. There will be no Federation, while the RomulSngans and
Klingons become locked in endless interstellar warfare. In the "proper"
timeline, the asteroid's impact will directly contribute to the extinction
of the dinosaurs and the evolution of Mankind. Prior to their demise, the
Preservers will visit Earth and transplant the dinosaurs, allowing them to
evolve and thrive on the Clan Ru homeworld. Note that the asteroid's
impact was inadvertantly caused by Q millions of years in the future.
[First Frontier (TOS), The Q Continuum: Q-Strike (TNG)]
45,000,000 B.C.
In the Clan Ru alternate universe, Earth's dinosaurs begin evolving intelligence, civilization, and war. In 2264, Captain Kirk and a landing party
view this alternate timeline on the Guardian of Forever.
[First Frontier (TOS)]
20,000,000 B.C.
The mysterious stone known as the Devil's Heart, Bloodstone, Dream Gem,
Ko N'ya, Nota, Telev's Bane, Pagrashtak and many other names over its long
history, is created by the Architects (Originators). It has the same
properties as that of the Guardian of Forever and will become a talisman
to many races. To the Iconians it will be a key to opening the Three
Gates and allow their civilization to colonize other worlds. The Ko N'ya
may possess semi-sentience and may be a seed to grow another Guardian of
Forever. Presumably it is the Q Continuum which gives the Iconians the
Devil's Heart.
[The Devil's Heart (TNG), Gateways: What Lay Beyond].
The Voth settle in the Delta Quadrant and their recorded history
(devoid of their origin on Earth in the Alpha Quadrant) begins anew.
[Distant Origin (Voyager)]
10,000,000 B.C.
Volcanic activity on Faramond ends, leaving it an ice world.
[Best Destiny (TOS)]
The glacier on Timshel (where the rebels will be based in 2260)
ceases moving, entering an era of stability.
[The Joy Machine (TOS)]
7,000,000 B.C.
The central power reactor on Sierra-Bravo 112-II is designed when
the entire planet is designed as a gigantic social science experiment.
The planet is terraformed to their biology, along with granting sentience
to a great many of its animals, and scattered with advanced technology.
One hundred million children are raised, isolated from adults and culture,
and marooned on the world.
[Rebels: The Courageous (DS9), Rebels: The Liberated (DS9)]
6,000,000 B.C.
A neutron star collides with a class-C red giant resulting in an explosion
of highly ionized particles, hard radiation, dust, debris, and antimatter.
It will be one of the hazards of the first Great Starship Race of 2264.
[The Great Starship Race (TOS)]
Roughly during this time, the Organians undergo the metamorphosis from
organic humanoids into pure energy beings.
[Errand of Mercy (TOS)]
3,006,740 B.C.
The cybernetic Shechenag make war on the natives of the planet Tlaoli,
roughly around this time. The war will eventually escalate into a
temporal war spanning millennia. When a desperate phase in the war is
reached, when the aliens are low on combatants and stretched across so
many fronts in time, they will begin 'recycling' their soldiers through
time. Fatally wounded soldiers would be healed then transported back
through time to continue fighting the battle a little longer. The Tlaoli
will eventually lose with the depletion of the planet's natural resources,
though remaining civilians will use normal time travel technology to
escape into the far distant future.
[The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect (TOS)]
2,502,786 B.C.
On Kazh, an island continent breaks off from the main continent land mass.
It drifts to a point on the planet subject to relatively high doses of
ultraviolet radiation from the secondary star, Kazara. Consequently, the
Bur Chak race will diverge from the main evolutionary path, eventually
evolving gland-ridge sun-screens along their skulls--more developed than
in any other Kazhian race.
[Federation Reference Series]
2,310,700 B.C.
Period 885 begins on Alcawell in the Delta Quadrant.
[The Escape (Voyager)]
The technological society on Sierra Bravo 112-II erects some of the
oldest structures in the Alpha Quadrant, still standing and operational
in the late 24th Century.
[Rebels: The Conquered (DS9)]
2,000,000 B.C.
The Preservers seed various planets with carbon-based, predominately
humanoid, life. They take a special interest in the peoples of Earth(having previously transplanted members of the dinosaur family, saving
them from extinction) and throughout the centuries establish duplicate
"Earths" populated by relocated Humans or humanoids. By 2375, three Earthduplicates will have been discovered in addition to 4 duplicates of
Qo'noS, 2 of Vulcan, and 1 of Andor. Some of the species inhabiting these
worlds are genetically altered and unique societies are formed, many of
which are computer-dominated, while others are given extended life-spans
or some such outstanding abilities. Native American Indians and 13th
Century Germans are two such examples of races transplanted from Earth.
The former group will be seeded on the planet Amerind (Miramanee) and the
latter on a planet deep within a deadly stellar cluster. The Preservers
may be responsible for seeding the region which would later become the
Interstellar Concordium Trusteeship Territory. The ISC will consist of
the quadruplicate telepathically-linked Veltressai, chlorine-breathing
Q'Naabians, reptilian (Gorn/Hildarian-offshoot?) Pronhoulites, aquatic and
psionic Rovillians, and the felinoid (Kzinti/Lyran-offshoot?) Korlivilar.
[The Paradise Syndrome (TOS), Rihannsu: The Romulan Way (TOS), First Frontier (TOS), The Best of Trek #4, Preserver (TOS/TNG), Here There Be Dragons (TNG), Star Fleet Battles].
1,997,626 B.C.
Q meditates on the Time Planet, gazing into the Guardian of Forever.
The portal randomly transports Q to a frozen realm. The older Q and
Picard from 2374 watch and follow. The young Q will meet another superbeing known as 0 in exile on a glaciated planet. The Guardian (despite
its warnings) retrieves Q and 0. Q introduces 0 to the Q Continuum,
on the understanding that Q takes responsibility for him. 0 begins to
corrupt Q with the fundamental importance of testing lesser species...
[The Q Continuum: Q-Space (TNG)]
1,741,651 B.C.
The Makers, an advanced race of humanoids from the Andromeda galaxy, die
out when their home star goes nova. Only their androids (on UFC 257704-II
later called Planet Mudd or Liticia) live on in our galaxy.
[I, Mudd (TOS)]
1,250,000 B.C.
The Masters finish the extensive terraforming of Rigel III, while
preserving Rigel IV as a workyard and memorial to themselves.
[FASA]
Note that the Masters are probably responsible for the creation of
the Hakel radiation belt extending out to approximately 90
astronomical units from Rigel's primary and surrounding the twelve
planets. Consisting of subatomic particles trapped in the star's
powerful magnetic field, it shields the worlds from the dense rays
from the Rigellian sun. It will be officially discovered in the
Second Rigellian Epoch by Hakel of Rigel II.
[Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual, Star Trek Maps]
1,000,000 B.C.
On Rigel VII and Rigel VIII, the Masters plant new and promising
life forms which, in a million or so years, will develop into
sentient, starfaring and reverent species that will acknowledge the
long-dead Masters as gods. As the Masters' civilization was dying
and their people dwindling away, they do slipshod work in
genetically engineering the Bodas, an intelligent species kept for
pets. The Bodas are conceived with a shambling gait, harsh speech,
and (by the Masters' standards) imperfect reasoning and a faulty
moral sense. Shortly thereafter, the Masters disappear.
[FASA]
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