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January 2265 Stardate 1312.4 |
Events of "Where No One Has Gone Before"
(the second Star Trek pilot, which featured Captain Kirk)
The Enterprise is en route to the edge of the galaxy, where a barrier of
energy lies that has never been penetrated. When the Enterprise reaches
the barrier, it is buffeted by intense energy, injuring many on board.
First Officer Mitchell and psychological observer Dr. Dehner are
affected as well, and it becomes apparent that their latent ESP
abilities have been activated by contact with the barrier. The crew must
then contend with the rapidly strengthening super-human beings who now
consider the other people on board to be an inferior species. A final
confrontation occurs at Delta Vega.
(Date is speculation)
The Enterprise returns to Earth to undergo crew rotation and refit after
the tragic events at Delta Vega. Uniforms are replaced as well, as
Starfleet had recently changed its uniform design.
(Speculation based on significant changes between "Where No Man Has Gone
Before" and the remainder of the series) |
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April 2265 |
The Enterprise heads out into space again, beginning a five year mission
to to seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no
man has gone before. |
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May 2265
Stardate 1512.2 |
Events of "The Corbomite
Maneuver"
The Enterprise encounters a glowing cube in space. When
Kirk discovers that the cube will follow the ship or block its path, he
orders the cube destroyed. At this point, an enormous vessel appears,
and alien captain Balok declares that he will destroy the Enterprise in
minutes. Kirk bluffs his way out by claiming that all Federation vessels
have "corbomite" aboard, which he will detonate if Balok threatens the
crew. Balok attempts to escape in an escape craft, but the Enterprise
catches up and contacts the real Balok - a representative of an alien
race whose members, in adulthood, look like human children. Lt. Bailey,
whose emotional outbursts had been disrupting the already fatalistic
attitude on the Enterprise, agrees to stay with Balok as an "exchange
student" so he may learn more about the diversity of life in the galaxy. |
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June 2265
Stardate 1329.1 |
Events of "Mudd’s Women"
After stealing a freighter and pushing its engines to
their limits in an effort to escape the pursuing Enterprise, Harry Mudd
and his cargo - three seemingly irresistable women - are recovered.
Although Mudd can't help but be suspicious, the women follow his
instructions to cripple the Enterprise without any questions from the
male members of the crew. The dilithium crystals powering the ship are
sabotaged, and Mudd intends to force Kirk to bargain for his crew's life
when the Enterprise arrives at a dilithium mining outpost. |
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August 2265
Stardate 1672.1 |
Events of "The Enemy Within"
As a landing party surveys a planet, a transporter
malfunction splits Kirk into an aggressive aspect and a timid one. The
aggressive Kirk threatens the security of the ship and crew, while the
passive one tries to maintain his sanity and ability to command. In the
meantime, the cause of the transporter problems haven't been determined,
stranding Sulu and the team in the planet's subfreezing night
temperatures while the two sides of Kirk's personality fight for control
of the Enterprise. |
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September 2266 Stardate 1531.1 |
Events of "The Man Trap"
Visiting Professor Crater and his wife (who, before marrying Crater, had
a close relationship with McCoy), an Enterprise landing party starts to
fall prey to an unknown assailant that seems to drain its victims of
salt. Kirk is suspicious - and McCoy alarmed - when the Craters refuse,
in spite of the threat, to evacuate their planet. The landing party
returns to the Enterprise with an extra passenger - a shape shifter who
can assume the shapes of Enterprise crewmembers and who has been living
with Professor Crater in the guise of his late wife, whom the creature
killed. The creature, in search of salt, sees the Enterprise as a
promising hunting ground. (Date is conjecture, based on the long held
rule of thumb that Classic Star Trek took place 300 years after it was
aired. By that basis, Man Trap, the first episode aired, took place in
September 2266, and serves as a reference point.) |
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October 2266
Stardate 1704.2 |
Events of "The Naked Time"
A member of a landing party investigating the ruins on
a collapsing planet contracts an unknown infection and returns it to the
Enterprise, where it spreads rapidly by touch. Lt. Riley locks himself
in engineering and shuts down the engines, which may be needed to get
the ship away to avoid damage from the planet's impending destruction.
Kirk slowly begins to lose control, and even Spock is affected by the
infection, while the planet's final phase of collapse begins with very
little warning.
Time travel is first achieved by a Starfleet vessel - the U.S.S.
Enterprise - in its escape from the gravity of Psi 2000. "Naked Time" (TOS)
(Date is conjecture) |
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November 2266 (Thanksgiving) Stardate
1533.6 |
Events of "Charlie X"
Charlie, a young boy who reportedly grew up alone with
only computer banks for company and teachers, is picked up by the crew
of a starship and is transferred to the Enterprise for a trip to a starbase. During the trip, Charlie begins to learn more about human
relationships and becomes infatuated with Yeoman Rand. When she tells
him that he is too young for her, Charlie is enraged and begins to do
away with members of the crew who he feels have been condescending to
him - including Captain Kirk. |
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December 2265 Stardate
1709.1 |
Events of "Balance of Terror"
Responding to distress calls from border outposts along
the Neutral Zone between the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire,
Kirk and the crew receive a final message from a Federation station
reporting an attack from an invisible ship. Before the station is
destroyed, it sends the Enterprise a brief view of the attacking vessel
- a streamlined fighter which appears for a second when it fires.
Hurrying to the scene, the Enterprise engages in battle with a Romulan
Bird of Prey, armed with a cloaking device and commanded by a
battle-scarred and tired commander whose crew is more eager to go into
combat than he is. The Romulans, to the Enterprise crew's amazement,
bear a stunning resemblance to Vulcans, which arouses suspicion in some,
including Lt. Styles, whose father died in a battle with the Romulans
years ago. But as long as the Romulan ship can remain invisible, the
Enterprise is at a disadvantage. |
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December 2265 Stardate 2712.4 |
Events of "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
The Enterprise is en route to visit Dr. Korby, a
brilliant scientist working in isolation who also happens to be Nurse
Chapel's fiance. Kirk and Chapel beam down and discover that Korby has
used abandoned technology left behind by an extinct civilization to
create android companions for himself - one of which, an attractive and
very user-friendly "girl," arouses Chapel's suspicions. Korby, however,
has become deranged in his isolation, and wants to take over the
Enterprise so he can populate the "inferior" organic universe with
androids... |
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Late December 2266 |
Kirk attends a Christmas party along with Dr. Helen Noel. (Dagger of the
Mind) |
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January 2267
Stardate 2715.1 |
Events of "Dagger of the Mind"
Kirk and ship's psychiatrist Dr. Noel visit a Federation
mental hospital as the Enterprise delivers supplies. But one cargo
container beamed aboard the ship contains an apparently insane
stowaway from the facility on the planet who isn't a patient, but
the second in command of the hospital's director, who has invented a
device that can lock emotional impulses in or out of the brain
permanently and is apparently used his invention without any
discretion. Spock and the crew discover that Kirk and Dr. Noel are
trapped on the planet, and are probably the next victims of the
mind-altering machine. |
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January 2267 |
Yeoman Janice Rand leaves the U.S.S. Enterprise. She will
receive further Starfleet training and become a transporter chief aboard
the refit U.S.S. Enterprise in 2271. Rand will later receive her
commission and in 2290 she will serve as communications officer on the
U.S.S. Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu. |
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January 2267
Stardate 2713.5 |
Events of "Miri"
A remarkably Earthlike planet is the home of a
human-like civilization whose entire adult population was wiped out by a
virulent disease. The children remain, although their growth has been
slowed down to the point that Miri - a teenage girl found by Kirk and a
landing party - could easily by 300 years old. Miri develops a crush on
Kirk, but at the same time reports back to a gang of unruly children who
plot to kidnap the landing party, beginning with Yeoman Rand. Kirk, Rand
and even Miri begin to show signs of the disease, which gives Kirk a
chance to prove that the disease will eventually kill all of the
children - but they are unwilling to admit they need help or the
"stuffy" advice of an adult. (Date is conjecture - about a month after
Dagger of the Mind) |
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January 2267 Stardate 2817.6 |
Events of "The Conscience of the King"
Kirk is contacted by Leighton, a friend from Kirk's
stay on the Tarsus IV colony years ago, who believes that Kodos the
Executioner, the militant dictator who gave the order for scores of
people to die on the colony during Kirk's stay, is at large once more in
the guise of touring Shakespearean actor Karidian, who, with his touring
company, has stopped over at Leighton's post for a performance. Kirk
isn't convinced until Leighton turns up dead, leaving Kirk and Lt. Riley
the only remaining living witnesses of the Tarsus IV massacre. To
investigate further, Kirk invites Karidian's company to travel on the
Enterprise to their next performance, and attempts on Kirk and Riley's
lives begin immediately. |
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January 2267
Stardate 2821.5 |
Events of "The Galileo Seven"
A shuttle commanded by Spock crash-lands on a savage
planet where members of the shuttle crew are in immediate danger from
the local life forms. The Enterprise must leave the area as soon as
possible to deliver a much needed vaccine to a plague-stricken planet,
and Commissioner Ferris insists that Kirk leave the Galileo crew for
dead and get underway to the Enterprise's next destination. Meanwhile,
Spock faces a command situation where total logic and rationality may be
of no use if the crew of the shuttle is to return to the Enterprise. |
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January 2267
Stardate 2947.3 |
Events of "Court Martial"
Kirk is accused of murder when the Enterprise's records
officer, Lt. Commander Finney, is apparently jettisoned during a violent
ion storm which threatened the ship. Kirk insists that he gave Finney
even more time than safely allowed to get out of the jettisoned ion pod,
yet the Enterprise computer's records show that Kirk discarded the pod,
and Finney, while only at yellow alert when there was no sign of actual
danger. Kirk challenges the findings of the computer and is
court-martialed, with accusations that earlier rivalries with Finney
when both were new officers caused Kirk to act maliciously - and even
Kirk's attorney, Cogley, may not be able to convince the court that the
error may have been the computer's. |
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February 2267
Stardate 3012.4 |
Events of "Menagerie" - Part 1
: The Enterprise is summoned to Starbase 6, apparently by
Captain Pike, who commanded the ship before Kirk. Commodore Mendez shows
Kirk, Spock and McCoy, however, that Pike was recently paralyzed in an
accident and could not have signalled the Enterprise. Spock creates
false messages from Kirk and sends them to the ship, instructing the
crew that Spock and Pike will beam up immediately, the Enterprise will
be piloted by computer to its next destination, and that Kirk will be
staying behind. Kirk and Mendez follow the Enterprise in a shuttle,
which runs out of fuel when Spock refuses to slow the Enterprise down so
the shuttle can come aboard. Spock finally allows Kirk to catch up and
then places himself under arrest. Kirk is unable to disconnect the
computer from the helm, and Spock's court-martial begins. Spock offers,
as evidence, visual records of a voyage on the Enterprise on which Spock
and Pike served 13 years earlier. The bridge then informs Kirk and
Mendez that the recording is being sent to the Enterprise from Talos IV
- a planet that, according to Starfleet regulations, is absolutely
off-limits to all vessels, punishable by death. |
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February 2267
Stardate 3013.1 |
Events of "Menagerie" - Part II
Spock reveals that the Keeper of Talos IV has control
of the viewscreen and the evidence being presented. The screen shows the
events that occurred during Pike's visit to Talos IV in great detail,
but Spock has difficulty convincing Kirk and Mendez of the validity of
what they are seeing as well as the tremendous power of the Talosians.
When the evidence suddenly stops, Mendez orders Kirk and Pike, the
ranking officers forming Spock's trial board, to make their verdict, and
all find Spock guilty. The final part of the record of Pike's adventure
then continues, and then Commodore Mendez vanishes from the Enterprise.
The Keeper himself tells Kirk that the Mendez that accompanied him in
the shuttle and the trial was an illusion projected from Talos IV, and
that Pike is welcome to return to the planet and be restored, as Vina
was, to his former strength and health. |
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February 2267
Stardate 3025.3 |
Events of "Shore Leave"
McCoy recommends a layover so the crew can rest from
the constant strain of nonstop duties, and an earthlike but apparently
uninhabited planet provides a perfect opportunity for shore leave, but
when odd things begin happening on the surface, Kirk becomes suspicious.
McCoy, after telling Sulu that the planet is like a setting from "Alice
in Wonderland," spots a large rabbit followed by Alice herself. Kirk
runs into his old nemesis, Academy prankster Finnegan, while Sulu
discovers a police revolver that he doesn't have in his ancient firearms
collection and later runs into a Samurai warrior. Mysterious tracking
devices follow the crew's actions and thoughts, and whatever they happen
to be thinking of seems to become real - even if it's a deadly threat,
as McCoy discovers. |
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February 2267
Stardate 2124.5 |
Events of "The Squire of Gothos"
The Enterprise crew discovers that the ship cannot
escape orbit of a planet that doesn't even exist on the star charts.
Kirk and a landing party beam down to the surface of the mysterious
planet and their captor is revealed to be the immature but powerful Trelane, who initially seems to be a student of ancient Earth history
(as demonstrated by his 17th century mansion, clothes and furnishings).
Kirk, discovering that Trelane's hold on the Enterprise comes from a
power far beyond 23rd century technology, must try to beat Trelane at
his own game, but Trelane rewrites the rules constantly to make sure
he's winning. |
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March 2267
Stardate 3045.6 |
Events of "Arena"
Arriving at a Federation planet at the request of a starbase director, the Enterprise finds a devastated world with only one
survivor, who reveals that any summons Kirk received to visit the planet
must have been a trap. The Enterprise locates and pursues an alien
vessel right past the borders of the apparently omnipotent Metrons, who
halt the ensuing battle and force Kirk and the captain of the other
vessel - a huge, reptilian Gorn - to settle their differences in
hand-to-hand combat...a prospect which immediately leaves Kirk at a
disadvantage. Should he lose, the crew of the Enterprise will be
destroyed. |
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March 2267
Stardate 3087.6 |
Events of "The Alternative Factor"
The Enterprise encounters brief but intense turbulence
after entering orbit above an uninhabited world. Kirk leads a landing
party to the surface to investigate any possible connection between the
planet and the disturbance, and they find a man named Lazarus, who,
though he seems healthy and normal, claims to be fighting his own
equivalent from a universe of antimatter. Lazarus proves to be a threat
to the Enterprise's security, and the increasing blasts of turbulence
seem to confirm Lazarus's story that he has a powerful enemy in another
dimension. |
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March 2267
Stardate 3113.2 |
Events of "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
Accidentally swinging around the sun into a time warp,
the Enterprise's crew recover from their turbulent journey and find
themselves in Earth's atmosphere in the 1960s over North America. Jets
are dispatched to bring the "UFO" down, and one is caught in the ship's
tractor beam and begins to break apart. The pilot, Captain John
Christopher, is beamed out of his plane before it disintegrates and is
welcomed to the Enterprise as the crew prepares to return to the 23rd
century. Kirk tells Christopher that he cannot be returned to his own
time because he has seen too much of the future, but Spock discovers
that Christopher will have a son who will be very important to the
history of the space program and Christopher must be returned to 20th
century Earth. |
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March 2267
Stardate 3156.2 |
Events of "The Return of the Archons"
Sulu and another crewman are investigating a primitive
but ancient-Earth-like alien culture incognito, but their disguise is
blown and they're running for their lives. The Enterprise can't beam
Sulu up in time, and he is hit by a weapon on the planet which leaves
him under the control of something or someone called Landru. Kirk and
Spock beam down, finding the planet's people engaged in unusual rituals,
and also finding out from some of the locals that Landru has complete
control over most everyone on the planet, aside from a small resistance
effort. What begins as an effort to free the people on the planet
becomes a matter of survival when Kirk and Spock become hunted by
Landru's "puppets." |
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March 2267
Stardate 3192.1 |
Events of "A Taste of
Armageddon"
The Enterprise visits the twin planets of Eminiar VII
and Vendikar so Ambassador Fox may approach their governments about
joining the Federation. When they beam down to Eminiar 7, Kirk, Spock
and the rest of their landing party are informed that the Enterprise has
been struck by enemy missiles and Kirk's party, along with the rest of
the crew, have been declared casualties. Investigating further, Kirk
discovers that the war between the two planets is controlled by
computers, which determine the damage done and the fatalities caused by
the attacks, and assigns citizens to report to disintegration machines,
which they do willingly. Kirk is trapped on the planet, but Ambassador
Fox thinks he can remedy the situation and beams down unarmed against
Scotty's advice. |
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March 2267
Stardate 3141.9 |
Events of "Space Seed"
The Enterprise discovers a derelict vessel which turns
out to be an Earth ship dating back to a series of wars in the 1990s in
which Earth's population was threatened by a group of genetically
engineered superhuman beings. The inhabitants of the rogue ship, though
they try to conceal the fact at every opportunity, are the only
surviving oppressors from that war. Their leader, Khan, wishes to resume
their reign of terror, beginning with a takeover of the Enterprise. |
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April 2267
Stardate 3417.3 |
Events of "This Side of Paradise"
Investigating a colony whose settlers should be, but
for some reason are not, threatened by radiation, Kirk and a landing
party beam down to investigate. McCoy diagnoses the colonists as being
in fine health and none of them wish to leave, no matter how much danger
they are in. Spock, with Leila, an old acquaintance who has a crush on
him, is infested by spores from a plant while examining the colony
grounds. McCoy also soon falls victims to the spores, which leave their
victims - even Spock - in a stupor with no desire to leave...and Kirk is
left with a ship and no crew. |
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April 2267
Stardate 3196.1 |
Events of "The Devil in the Dark"
A mining colony reports a number of mysterious deaths
just after they successfully dig to a lower level of a planetoid
believed to be uninhabited. The Enterprise arrives, and Kirk, Spock and
security officers from the ship begin a hunt for whoever or whatever is
responsible for the growing body count. An amorphous creature capable of
burning through the indigenous rock is found to be the cause of the
deaths as well as a very well-thought out sabotage of the miners' life
support systems. Through a mind-meld, Spock communicates with the being
- known as the Horta - and finds that it is the last of its kind, a
mother laying eggs in the tunnels and caves it builds for itself. But
the humans have been discovering and destroying the eggs, and if the
Horta cannot bring herself to negotiate with the miners, one party or
the other faces extinction. |
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April 2267
Stardate 3198.4 |
Events of "Errand of Mercy"
: A sudden attack by the Klingons on a vulnerable neutral
sector - a location of great strategic importance - puts the Enterprise
on red alert, as the threat of a catastrophic war between the Klingon
Empire and the Federation looms. Kirk and Spock beam down to Organia,
the planet whose security is at risk due to the Klingon threat, and find
that the inhabitants, who appear to be humans who have reached the
medieval period of sociological and technological development, are not
at all concerned that their world is currently being overrun by Klingon
troops. Kirk and Spock try to conceal their identities, but fail,
leaving Kirk and Klingon Captain Kor at each others' throats - until the
Organians reveal their true nature and intervene in the impending war. |
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April 2267
Stardate 3134.0 |
Events of "The City on the Edge
of Forever"
McCoy accidentally receives an overdose of cordrazine
as the Enterprise encounters turbulence. He beams down to an unexplored
world where he enters a time-travel device known as the Guardian of
Forever and changes history in the 1930s. Kirk and Spock also return to
the 30s, where Kirk falls in love with peace activist Edith Keeler. When
McCoy is finally located, Kirk must allow history to run its course,
resulting in Edith's death, or he will leave history altered
irrevocably, with no chance of returning to the future or the
Enterprise. (Stardate given in episode is out of sequence) |
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April 2267
Stardate 3287.2 |
Events of "Operation: Annihilate!"
The Enterprise witnesses a smaller ship diving into the
sun of Deneva under the control of a pilot who seems to have
intentionally killed himself. This confirms Kirk's worst fears, that a
seemingly contagious outbreak of insanity on several other worlds has
spread to Deneva, where his brother lives. On the surface, many are
found to be dead - including Kirk's brother - and an unknown species of
alien parasite is found to be responsible. In trying to gather data on
them, Spock is attacked and taken over by one, and, like the people of
Deneva and several other planets, starts to go mad. Spock's condition
also presents McCoy with the first opportunity to learn more about both
the creature and its victim, and Spock may have to die if the crew is to
learn any more about the creatures to prevent them from spreading
further into human territory. |
