Timeline: 2200 - 2264

TREKCORE > TIMELINE > The Early to Mid 23rd Century (includes "The Cage") (2200 - 2264)

2206 Vina is born. (Date is speculation from "The Cage" and "Menagerie - Parts I and II"- she was listed as an adult in the Columbia's passenger list in 2236)
     
2209 The first case of transporter psychosis is diagnosed on Delinia II. (Year given in "Realm of Fear", (TNG))

Rigel is admitted to the Federation. (Star Trek Star Charts, p. 52)
     
2210 The is the year that Harry Kim's ancestor Jack supposedly piloted a deep space mission to Beta Capricus, while the rest of his crew is in stasis. When he finds no sign of life he turns around without waking up the crew. The ship didn't yet have a subspace transmitter ("11:59," Voyager). This obviously was a very odd, and somewhat miserable mission. It is uncertain why this sleeper ship would be in use at this time. See also another entry in this timeline at 2070, which assumes Harry had the wrong date.
     
2214 Another spaceship disappears in the Taurean region of space, never to be heard from again. ("Lorelei Signal" - TAS)
     
2215 Selcundi Drama begins to come apart, forming a asteroid belt. (150 years before "Pen Pals")
     
2216 Christopher Pike is born - he grows up in Mojave, California. (speculation based on age of actor when "The Cage" was filmed (1964) - Mohave reference from "The Cage")
     
2217 The U.S.S. Valiant contacts Eminiar VII. The ship and crew become casualties of the ongoing war between Enimiar and Vendikar. ("A Taste of Armageddon", (TOS))
     
2218 A incident occurs which sours relations between the Klingons and the Federation (Bones indicated that the Klingons and UFP had been adversaries for 50 years in "Day of the Dove")
     
2219 Dr. Richard Daystrom is born. (24 years before inventing duotronics - "Ultimate Computer")
     
2222 Montgomery "Scotty" Scott is born in Scotland on Earth. ("Relics", (TNG))

Pralor Unit 3947 is activated on the Pralor homeworld. (150 years before "Prototype" - VGR)
     
2223 Relations with the Klingon Empire further degenerate, giving rise to 70 years of unremitting hostility. (70 years before Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek Chronology).
     
2224 Sybok is born on Vulcan, son of Sarek and a Vulcan Princess. (Star Trek V, Star Trek Chronology)
     
2227 Leonard McCoy is born on Earth. (137 years before "Encounter at Farpoint")
     
2229 Sarek and Amanda are married. (conjecture from "Journey to Babel", Star Trek Chronology)

Curzon Dax attempts to solve an Altonian brain teaser for the first time. (140 years before "A Man Alone")
     
2230 Spock is born on Vulcan, son of Sarek and Amanda. (sources: conjecture, Star Trek Chronology)

T'Pring is also born on Vulcan during this year. ("Amok Time")
     
2231 George Samuel "Sam" Kirk is born in Iowa on Earth. (conjecture from "Operation: Annihilate!")
     
March 22, 2233 James T. Kirk is born in Iowa on Earth. (34 years before "Deadly Years")
     
2235 At age five, on Vulcan, young Spock plays a practical joke. ("Yesteryear")
     
2234 At age 18, Christopher Pike enjoys picnicking near Mohave. At this time he had a horse named Tango. (Speculation based on picnic sequence in "The Cage")
     
2236 The S.S. Columbia crashes on Talos IV. (eighteen years prior to "The Cage") Sometime after this a threshold of velocity known as the "time barrier" is broken - which had been preventing high speed warp travel.
     
2237 Spock undergoes the kahs-wan ritual. ("Yesteryear" (TAS))

Years later, Spock travels back in time to this period on Vulcan and meets himself at age seven. ("Yesteryear" (TAS))

Spock and T'Pring are betrothed. They share each others minds in the Vulcan mind touch. "Amok Time."

Hikaru Sulu is born in San Francisco. (speculation, "Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home")
     
2239 Uhura is born in the United States of Africa on Earth. (place of birth taken from classic Trek writer's guide)

Mr. Brack, who is later to be revealed as Flint, purchases the planet Holberg 917G. (30 years before "Requiem for Methuselah")
     
2240 Scotty enters Starfleet Academy. (conjecture - Star Trek Chronology, 1996 edition, p. 40)
     
2241 A starship disappears near the Taurus star system. It will be the sixth and last ship captured by the women of Taurus II. ("Lorelei Signal")
     
2242 The Battle of Donatu V is fought near Sherman's Planet between Klingon and Federation forces. (30 years before "Trouble with Tribbles")
     
2243 Scotty begins his career as a Starfleet engineer. (52 years prior to "Relics" - TNG)

Dr. Richard Daystrom invents duotronics, and is awarded the Nobel and Zee-Magnees prizes. (25 years prior to "Ultimate Computer:")
     
2244 M'Ress is born on the planet Cait. (Curt Danhauser's animateds timeline)

Scotty graduates from Starfleet. (Star Trek Chronology, 1996 edition, p. 41)
     
2245  The U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701, is assembled in the San Francisco shipyards under the watchful eye of its future commander, Captain April. ("Counterclock Incident") One of the designers of the Enterprise is Laurence Marvick ("Is There in Truth no Beauty?") 

Captain April will command the starship on a five-year mission of exploration. His wife Sarah April is the ship's first Chief Medical Officer. ("Counterclock Incident", Star Trek Chronology, p. 283)

Leonard McCoy, enters medical school at the University of Mississippi. He will complete an eight-year medical program and graduate in 2253. "The Pirates of Orion" - TAS, "Trials and Tribble-ations" - DS9)

Pavel Chekov is born in Russia on Earth. (22 years before "Who Mourns for Adonais?") He is an only child. ("Day of the Dove") 
     
2246 Kodos the Executioner seizes power on Tarsus IV, and ultimately orders 4,000 colonists killed. James T. Kirk, age 13, and Kevin Riley are among nine people who witness the event and survive. (20 years before "Conscience of the King")
     
2247 Lenore Karidian is born. (19 years prior to "Conscience of the King")
     
2249 Garth of Izar, a Starfleet Fleet Captain, wins a key victory at Axanar, which helps preserve the United Federation of Planets. ("Whom Gods Destroy" TOS - date conjecture)

Spock chooses Starfleet over the Vulcan Science Academy, and Sarek and Spock cease to speak to each other. (20 years prior to "Journey to Babel")

Charlie Evans is born. (17 years prior to "Charlie X")
     
2250 James T. Kirk enrolls in Starfleet Academy. (17 years prior to series, suggested by Classic Trek writer's guide) He is helped to enter by the father of crewman Mallory who will later serve on the Enterprise. ("The Apple") While a midshipman, he becomes friends with Ben Finney. ("Court Martial") Another person who Kirk meets while at the Academy is Gary Mitchell. (15 years prior to "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - Mitchell describes Kirk as a lieutenant, but this doesn't quite give with the other data points) 

Captain Robert April relinquishes command of the Enterprise to Captain Christopher Pike. Pike's executive officer was a female Starfleet officer whom he called "Number One." (Star Trek Chronology, 1996 edition p.44)

Starfleet officer Robert April is promoted to Commodore and becomes a Federation ambassador-at-large. (20 years before "The Counter-Clock Incident." - TAS).
     
Mid-23rd Century A Vulcan science mission is lost shortly after reporting a subspace rupture in the Hanoli System. ("If Wishes Were Horses")
     
2251 While still a Starfleet medical student, Leonard McCoy leads a mass innoculation program on Dramia II. Shortly after McCoy's team leaves, an Auroral Plague kills almost the entire population of Dramia II. (19 years before "Albatross."- TAS).

Jim Kirk becomes romantically involved with Ruth (Fifteen years before "Shore Leave")
     
2252 Spock begins serving aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise (11 years, 4 months service with Captain Pike from "The Menagerie")

Charlie Evans, aged 3, is the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on Thasus (14 years prior to "Charlie X")
     
2253 Sometime in here, Kirk is promoted to Ensign, and serves on the U.S.S. Republic. During this time, his friendship with Finney ends when Kirk put Finney on report for failing to close the circuits to the atomic matter piles. ("Court Marital"). Also, around this time, James T. Kirk goes on his first mission, as a Starfleet cadet: a peace mission to Axanar (speculation from "Whom Gods Destroy" TOS) 

Leonard McCoy develops an impressive technique for creating axonal pathways between grafted neural tissue and basal ganglia. (year given in "Liefsigns" - VGR)
     
2254 Crew of the Enterprise visits Rigel VII - which is undergoing a violent conflict. (2 weeks before "The Cage")

Jim Kirk graduates from Starfleet Academy after beating the Kobayashi Maru simulation. (date conjecture, "Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan") Shortly thereafter, Jim is assigned to the Starship Farrugut under Captain Garrovick ("Obsession" - Garrovick was Kirk's "commanding officer from the day I left the Academy") On his first planet survey on Neural, Kirk befriends Tyree. ("A Private Little War")

Events of "The Cage" (The original Star Trek pilot, which featured Captain Pike)

Ten years before James T. Kirk takes command of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Captain Christopher Pike and his starship crew receive a distress signal from the planet Talos IV and beam down to investigate. Tracking the beacon, the landing party discovers crash survivors from a missing scientific expedition; among the survivors is a beautiful human female, Vina. Pike is concerned for the woman's safety, yet allows himself to become distracted by her beauty and is subsequently captured by the Talosians who live beneath the planet's surface. The distress signal and expedition survivors, except for Vina, are revealed to be but illusions created by the Talosians to lure the Enterprise and Pike to the planet.

The Talosians are a strong race, yet after decades of illusory indulgence, they have physically atrophied and need sturdy beings to rebuild and repopulate their barren planet. In Pike, with Vina, the Talosians hope they have finally found the one being who can serve as their breeding stock for a healthier and even more powerful race.

The Talosians use their power of illusion to interest Pike in Vina, presenting her in various disguises: a Rigellian princess in distress, a green Orion animal woman, and a loving, compassionate companion. When Pike resists, the Talosians lure Pike's female first officer and yeoman from the Enterprise to offer further temptation. By then, however, Pike has discovered that primitive human emotions neutralize the Talosians' ability to read minds, and he eventually escapes to the surface of the planet along with his fellow prisoners.

The Talosians confront Pike and the three prisoners before they can beam up, but the captain refuses to negotiate, threatening to kill himself and the others rather than submit to the Talosians' demands. Frightened at losing their only source of repopulation, the Talosians inspect the U.S.S. Enterprise's records and discover that the human race is far too independent to be of adequate service to them.

Faced with no other choice, the Talosians release the humans. After the first officer and yeoman beam up, Pike remains behind with Vina, urging her to leave with him. Despite her growing attraction to the captain, Vina is unable to leave the planet. It is revealed that an expedition had indeed crash landed on Talos IV. Vina, the only survivor, was greatly injured and disfigured. With the aid of the Talosians' illusions, however, she is able to appear beautiful and feel healthy.

The Talosians pledge to continue to provide Vina with the appearance of health and beauty while allowing her to roam the planet free of intervention. Realizing that she will be in good hands after all, Pike returns to the U.S.S. Enterprise. The Talosians, in an act of good will, send the captain an image of Vina on the starship's viewscreen. Not only is she beautiful again, aided by the Talosians' illusory powers, but by her side is another illusion — that of the handsome Christopher Pike. (13 years before "The Menagerie")
     
2255 Last contact between the Federation and the Sheliak Corporate prior to 2366. (111 years prior to "Ensigns of Command")

Sulu enters the Academy (conjecture, Star Trek Chronology)
     
2256 Leonard McCoy has a relationship with Nancy Crater. (ten years before "The Man Trap")
     
2258 Katie Wesley is born, she is the daughter of Robert Wesley, future captain of the Constitution-class U.S.S. Lexington. (11 years before "One of Our Planets is Missing." - TAS)
     
2259 The planet Cerberus is stricken by crop failure during Joanna McCoy's schooling there. Carter Winston uses his personal fortune to save the colony. (10 years before "The Survivor" - TAS)
     
2264 Christopher Pike ends his service as Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise and hands over command to James T. Kirk. (Star Trek Chronology) In the Mirror Universe, Kirk-2 becomes Captain of the I.S.S. Enterprise after assassination Christopher Pike-2. (Mirror, Mirror)

Carter Winston crashes his spacecraft on the planet Vendor. Winston is nursed by a Vendorian, but will die a year later of his injuries. (5 years before "The Survivor"- TAS)

Tuvok is born. He will later serve aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior under Captain Sulu, and the U.S.S. Voyager under Captain Janeway. ("Flashback" VGR)

Joran Belar is born. He will later become a composer, and be the sixth host to the Dax symbiont. He dies in 2285 after fleeing the scene of a murder he committed. ("Equilibirum" - DS9)