— After talking with some friends recently, I put this timeline of ancient civilizations together for myself and thought I'd share (I may or may not expand it with beta canon):
The Q have always existed. (VOY "The Q and the Grey")
Since before our sun burned hot in the sky: the Guardian of Forever had awaited a question. It was found in a city stretching to the horizon whose ruins were 1 Million years old. (TOS "The City on the Edge of Forever") What manner of people build it; or the city around it yet never asked it a question; have there been others?
4 Billion years ago: Q and the Female Q begin their relationship. (VOY "The Q and the Grey")
4 Billion years ago: the Protohumanoids seeded the oceans of worlds across the galaxy. (TNG "The Chase")
2 Billion years ago: the Taguans "really knew how to party back in those days." More recently there have been 947 excavations on Tagus III in the past 22,000 years even though the Taguans stopped allowing visitors over a century ago. (TNG "Qpid") Are the modern Taguans a different species—if so from the same planet or a different one? If the same are they perhaps like sharks (not very conscious and largely unchanged over astonishingly long periods of time) or did they devolve say into furry critters (like the humans of the distant future in The Time Machine) and then back again? Are the Taguans a major galactic power or a single planet trying not to be overrun despite their fascinatingly super ancient roots?
1 Billion years ago: the Slavers were masters of all intelligent beings in the Galaxy until one race revolted in a war that exterminated both the Slavers and all their subjects—forcing life to re-evolve all over again. Ancient technology found in a Slaver stasis box (in which time stood still) was reverse-engineered to invent the artificial gravity used on starships today. (TAS "The Slaver Weapon")
300 Million years ago: a ship of insectoid aliens is invaded by a magnetic organism trapping them both in orbit of the dead star Questor M-17. The crew is forced to destroy the ship and themselves to stop the malevolent being's spread. In the 23rd century the danger reappears when the Enterprise discovers the wreckage and —astonishingly— the being, now profoundly lonely, which commands them to take it to the heart of the galaxy. (TAS "Beyond the Farthest Star") Uncharacteristically alien design for the ship. Respect.
87 Million years ago: the D'Arsay civilization launches an archive of their culture into space where it will drift across two sectors to be discovered in the 24th century by another Enterprise. (TNG "Masks")
65 Million years ago: the Voth leave Earth observing but being unable to stop its impending impact by an asteroid. Their currently recorded history dates back only 20 Million years leading them to believe that they're native to the Delta Quadrant. (VOY "Distant Origin")
6 Million years ago: the creators of Vexilon ascend to the fifth dimension. (LD "In the Cradle of Vexilon") Are they bumping elbows with the Prophets or others?
Millions of years ago: the Organians evolve into beings of pure energy. (TOS "Errand of Mercy") How does this happen? The Zalkonian quick-jump version is unlikely. Is it tech-aided? Are there bizarre natural mutations (X-Men) long before then that reach critical mass (Changeling—Taelon—Organian) after a time?
2 Million years ago: the Ancient Bajorans were "architects and artists, builders and philosophers," though it's unclear if they were like Ancient Greeks on their own world or spreading to the stars. 10,000 years ago the first Orbs started arriving. (TNG "Ensign Ro") What happened to them between then and the Occupation?
600,000 years ago: the Tkon Empire dissolves after the supernova of their sun. Fans conjecture that that was really the final nail of a longer decline and fall given that the Tkon were already powerful enough to move stars themselves. (TNG "The Last Outpost")
600,000 years ago: "Sargon's people" (referred to as the Arretans in the script notes) began colonizing several planets including possibly Vulcan—are they one and the same? 500,000 years ago they thought themselves gods and ultimately destroyed each other. (TOS "Return to Tomorrow")
500,000 years ago: the Old Ones from Exo III started developing android bodies to escape the dimming of their sun. The future love of Christine Chapel's life Roger Korby died there. (TOS "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" and maybe SNW next season) Are these Ancient Orions?
Thousands of centuries ago: the remaining population of Talos IV is forced underground after a cataclysmic war that makes the surface unlivable. Finding life there unbearable they begin to develop their mental powers and escape into the narcotic of their dreams, neglecting their technological abilities. (TOS "The Menagerie")
200,000 years ago: the Iconian homeworld, home of the "demons of air and darkness" as they were referred to by their enemies, was bombarded. They might have used their gateways to escape for parts unknown. (TNG "Contagion")
200,000 – 300,000 years ago: the Eightfold Stars were assembled as a beacon by an artificial intelligence/species to host the Admonition — an invitation to other artificial intelligences with instructions on how to call them back. (PIC)
Thousands of centuries ago: the Borg began their evolution into cybernetic beings. (TNG "Q Who")
150,000 years ago: a sphere-shaped lifeform begins its existence. By its end in the 23rd century it will span 565 kilometers of melded-together organic and non-living matter. It will record its history—including a war between the quaternary star systems and the Roquarri Imperium. (DIS "Project Daedalus," "An Obol for Charon") It's first said to have lived for 100,000 years, then said for hundreds of thousands. I'm tempted to leave it at the midway mark where it could be described either way.
100,000 years ago: the Waters (an artificial ocean planet later the adopted home of the Monean civilization) is created by extracting all water from a Class-M planet and containing it inside an immense forcefield. (VOY "Thirty Days") What kind of a people would be capable of such a feat?
100,000 years ago: the immense Hirogen subspace network (reaching over 60,000 ly) is constructed. (VOY "Message in a Bottle," "Hunters") What a regression of a people between then and the 24th century.
50,000 years ago: Bele begins to chase Lokai (both of the planet Cheron) across space after the latter leads a revolution. When they return aboard Kirk's Enterprise they find a planet long destroyed...yet continue the chase. (TOS "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
45,000 years ago: the "Sky Spirits" first come to Earth. They bestow upon a small group of nomadic hunters —admirable for their respect for the land and all living things on it— a genetic gift to help them thrive and protect their world. On subsequent visits the Spirits return to find that it gave them a sense of great curiosity and adventure, and over tens of thousands of years the nomads venture far across the planet into the Americas. (VOY "Tattoo")
30,000 years ago: the Ancient Bajoran Holy City of B'hala is founded and included a stone tablet with entrapped Prophet and Pah-wraith. (DS9 "The Reckoning") Oh what lost history there might be from before this time when the Gods walked the Earth.
30,000 years ago: the Verathan civilization in the Gamma Quadrant reaches its height spanning two dozen star systems. (DS9 "Q-Less")
Hundreds of centuries ago: the Aldeans build the Custodian and disappear behind their planetary cloak becoming the stuff of myth & legend like Atlantis of Earth and Neinman of Xerxes VII. (TNG "When the Bough Breaks")
17,000 years ago: parietal wall paintings in Lascaux caves, Earth. (ENT "Storm Front, Part II")
15,000 years ago: the Preservers saved pockets of disappearing civilizations to distant worlds. (TOS "The Paradise Syndrome") In my head canon they're like the monolith makers in 2001: A Space Odyssey. You see their works but they themselves are a mystery. They’ve evolved into beings dancing on the winds of the galaxies, beings evolved somewhere between us and the Metrons or the Q. Maybe they are the Metrons. Maybe that faerie-looking Metron in "Arena" was an approximation of a humanoid for Kirk's sake, coalesced from whatever Vorlon-like angel of thought and energy it was in its natural state. Who knows what they’re up to when they’re not in silver toga-wearing form?
Many thousands of years ago: the Douwd, an immortal being of disguises and false surroundings, that later would be known as Kevin Uxbridge begins living in this galaxy. (TNG "The Survivors") What are his people like; what is his home galaxy like?
12,000 years ago: an artisan on the planet Kurl during its Third Dynasty known only as the Master of Tarquin Hill creates small ceramic figurines called naiskos that embody that culture's belief that within each person is a community of individuals, each with its own desires, views, and voices. (TNG "The Chase”)
10,000 years ago: the machine-god Vaal is built on Gamma Trianguli VI. (TOS "The Apple”)
10,000 years ago: the civilization on Sigma Draconis VI (at its technological peak well beyond the Federation of the 23rd century) experiences a catastrophic glacial age and de-evolves to a primitive level with a great schism between the males (scattered on the surface) and females (cared for by a computer called the Controller below). (TOS "Spock's Brain")
10,000 years ago: the Fabrini leave their solar system on the asteroid Yonada before their sun goes nova. (TOS "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky")
Millennia ago: millions of intelligent spacefaring organisms (perhaps from outside the galaxy) which form symbiotic relationships with others living within them like crew become nearly extinct. Gomtuu may be their last survivor. (TNG "Tin Man") Where the Buffalo roam. Were there different symbionts in different herds of Tin Men – some humanoid, some not? What caused their extinction across such distant swaths of space –aliens, infighting, disease, other cosmozoans...something else?
10,000 years ago: ordinary Q stop having to speak to one another. (VOY "Death Wish")
10,000 years ago: the Dominion is founded. (DS9 "The Dogs of War") It might have had multiple periods as it's said to have endured for 2000 years. (DS9 "To the Death")
9000 years ago: for over nine millennia the Zakdorn are thought by their foes to have the finest strategic minds in the galaxy. (TNG "Peak Performance")
6000 years ago: aliens take Humans from Earth to be eugenically bred elsewhere so that their descendants may return as agents to stop Humanity from destroying itself. Among the agents are Gary Seven, Agent 201 and Agent 347. (TOS "Assignment Earth") What?? If it were written today I could see a lot of questions raised about the aliens' true motivations, those of the humans who perhaps agreed to the removals, those of the agents who returned, and those of other players as yet unseen.
In 3834 BC: Akharin is born in Mesopotamia on Earth "a soldier, a bully, and a fool." Felled in battle he realizes can't be killed, and in a long life in which he marries over a hundred times and sees a hundred billion fall, his aliases will include Methuselah, King Solomon, Alexander the Great, Lazarus, Merlin, Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Brahms, Reginald Pollack, Abramson, interstellar financier Mr. Brack, and Flint. (TOS "Requiem for Methuselah") Are there others like him on Earth (Highlander) or in space, and how?
6000 years ago: Landru of Beta III, preaching peace and ending a period of savagery, creates a computer to guide his people after his death. (TOS "The Return of the Archons") Outsourcing civility seems unwise, no? Might allow it to atrophy and savagery to fester. The Betans might have been lucky they didn't off eachother long ago during the red hour Festivals. Maybe many of them did.
3047 BC – 2993 BC: the immortal Flint lives as Methuselah.
5000 years ago: immortal aliens settled near Greece are worshiped as the Olympian Gods before leaving for Pollux IX. (TOS "Who Mourns for Adonais?") They can't die but are able to reach a point of no turn spreading themselves out so wide on the wind until only the wind remains. What a state to be in…what are the possibilities for them and others also thus? Could they in fact coalesce again as I wondered about the Metrons upthread? Could their energy in such a state be used by a machine (like zero-point module in Stargate) or consumed by another being?
5000 years ago: Spock and McCoy are stranded in the Sarpeidon Ice Age with the exiled Zarabeth. (TOS "All Our Yesterdays")
4000 years ago: the Xindi-Avians build a concealed fortress on a planet a that will one day become the home of the Xindi Council. (ENT "The Council") How did they accomplish this yet were the only ones to be wiped out by having inadequate technology to leave their homeworld four millennia later?
990 BC – 931 BC: The immortal Flint lives as King Solomon.
3000 years ago: the Vulcan monastery of P'Jem is built on a planet near the Andorian system. (ENT "The Andorian Incident") What if this were built while they were still pre-warp?
3000 years ago: the Kalandan civilization were capable of constructing artificial planets when a deadly disease was accidentally created that killed them off. (TOS "That Which Survives")
3000 years ago: The Bajoran prophet Trakor encounters the Orb of Prophecy and Change and writes prophecies concerning the Emissary of the Prophets. (DS9 "Destiny")
Around 500-200 BC: survivors from the Sahndara system nova arrive and live on Earth. "After the death of the Greek civilization they idolized" they then move on to the planet Platonius. In 32 BC: Philana is born on Platonius and in 3 BC (now 30) stops aging. (TOS "Plato's Stepchildren")
356 BC – 323 BC: the immortal Flint lives as Alexander the Great.
2300 years ago: In contradiction of the Ba'ul enforced orthodoxy that the coming of Vahar'ai signals the Kelpian time to die, the Sphere lifeform records data on Kaminar showing that many have passed it and matured into a further stage of their lifecycle. (DIS "The Sound of Thunder")
1 AD – 60 AD: the immortal Flint lives as Lazarus — twice.
2000 years ago: atomic war devastates savage Vulcan, Surak leads his people into the Time of Awakening, and the proud Romulans leave to seek a new world. (TOS "Balance of Terror," "The Enterprise Incident," "Amok Time," "The Savage Curtain," "All Our Yesterdays," TNG "Unification, Part II," "Gambit, Part II," ENT "Awakening") There's a book in just the journey on those possibly sublight ships. The odyssey...or is it in their case The Aeneid to Romulus and Remus. Actually this whole period would make one Hell of an old Hollywood epic of a movie.
2000 years ago: the Debrune were a Romulan offshoot race. (TNG "Gambit") I imagine they were like 'fuck this' and settled down sooner than the rest who continued the Odyssey-like journey to Romulus briefly explored in the Treklit in the Rihannsu Series.
2000 years ago: the Jem'Hadar begin serving the Dominion. (DS9 "What You Leave Behind") Who were their soldiers before?
2000 years ago: the Vidiians are ravaged by the Phage. (VOY "Phage")
In the 6th Century: the immortal Flint lives as Merlin.
1400 years ago: after his defeat of the tyrant Molor and the Fek'lhri, Kahless the Unforgettable (King Arthur Christ) unites all the Klingon tribes into the Klingon Empire for the last (and maybe only) time until the Federation-Klingon War of the 23rd Century. (TNG "Rightful Heir," DS9 "The Sword of Kahnless") *All the tribes...as in on the planet? Was he a knight or an oligarch?
1000 years ago: the Hur'q plundered and maybe enslaved the Klingons…helluva first contact with alien life. Kor referred to the Hur'q as "the great plunderers of the galaxy" while on his quest for the Holy Gra—er the Sword of Kahless, found behind a secret door in a Hur'q museum. (DS9 "The Sword of Kahless") One could imagine similar being said of Lord Elgin and his people.
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The Q have always existed. (VOY "The Q and the Grey")
Since before our sun burned hot in the sky: the Guardian of Forever had awaited a question. It was found in a city stretching to the horizon whose ruins were 1 Million years old. (TOS "The City on the Edge of Forever") What manner of people build it; or the city around it yet never asked it a question; have there been others?
4 Billion years ago: Q and the Female Q begin their relationship. (VOY "The Q and the Grey")
4 Billion years ago: the Protohumanoids seeded the oceans of worlds across the galaxy. (TNG "The Chase")
2 Billion years ago: the Taguans "really knew how to party back in those days." More recently there have been 947 excavations on Tagus III in the past 22,000 years even though the Taguans stopped allowing visitors over a century ago. (TNG "Qpid") Are the modern Taguans a different species—if so from the same planet or a different one? If the same are they perhaps like sharks (not very conscious and largely unchanged over astonishingly long periods of time) or did they devolve say into furry critters (like the humans of the distant future in The Time Machine) and then back again? Are the Taguans a major galactic power or a single planet trying not to be overrun despite their fascinatingly super ancient roots?
1 Billion years ago: the Slavers were masters of all intelligent beings in the Galaxy until one race revolted in a war that exterminated both the Slavers and all their subjects—forcing life to re-evolve all over again. Ancient technology found in a Slaver stasis box (in which time stood still) was reverse-engineered to invent the artificial gravity used on starships today. (TAS "The Slaver Weapon")
300 Million years ago: a ship of insectoid aliens is invaded by a magnetic organism trapping them both in orbit of the dead star Questor M-17. The crew is forced to destroy the ship and themselves to stop the malevolent being's spread. In the 23rd century the danger reappears when the Enterprise discovers the wreckage and —astonishingly— the being, now profoundly lonely, which commands them to take it to the heart of the galaxy. (TAS "Beyond the Farthest Star") Uncharacteristically alien design for the ship. Respect.
87 Million years ago: the D'Arsay civilization launches an archive of their culture into space where it will drift across two sectors to be discovered in the 24th century by another Enterprise. (TNG "Masks")
65 Million years ago: the Voth leave Earth observing but being unable to stop its impending impact by an asteroid. Their currently recorded history dates back only 20 Million years leading them to believe that they're native to the Delta Quadrant. (VOY "Distant Origin")
6 Million years ago: the creators of Vexilon ascend to the fifth dimension. (LD "In the Cradle of Vexilon") Are they bumping elbows with the Prophets or others?
Millions of years ago: the Organians evolve into beings of pure energy. (TOS "Errand of Mercy") How does this happen? The Zalkonian quick-jump version is unlikely. Is it tech-aided? Are there bizarre natural mutations (X-Men) long before then that reach critical mass (Changeling—Taelon—Organian) after a time?
2 Million years ago: the Ancient Bajorans were "architects and artists, builders and philosophers," though it's unclear if they were like Ancient Greeks on their own world or spreading to the stars. 10,000 years ago the first Orbs started arriving. (TNG "Ensign Ro") What happened to them between then and the Occupation?
600,000 years ago: the Tkon Empire dissolves after the supernova of their sun. Fans conjecture that that was really the final nail of a longer decline and fall given that the Tkon were already powerful enough to move stars themselves. (TNG "The Last Outpost")
600,000 years ago: "Sargon's people" (referred to as the Arretans in the script notes) began colonizing several planets including possibly Vulcan—are they one and the same? 500,000 years ago they thought themselves gods and ultimately destroyed each other. (TOS "Return to Tomorrow")
500,000 years ago: the Old Ones from Exo III started developing android bodies to escape the dimming of their sun. The future love of Christine Chapel's life Roger Korby died there. (TOS "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" and maybe SNW next season) Are these Ancient Orions?
Thousands of centuries ago: the remaining population of Talos IV is forced underground after a cataclysmic war that makes the surface unlivable. Finding life there unbearable they begin to develop their mental powers and escape into the narcotic of their dreams, neglecting their technological abilities. (TOS "The Menagerie")
Vina says, "They have a whole collection of specimens, descendants of life brought back long ago from all over this part of the galaxy." Does that mean before the war (is this actually why there *was a war?), or were the specimens lured there once their powers developed and they needed vicarious entertainments? (Could life in this part of the galaxy been similarly amenable to captivity—unlike Pike and the too-violent humans—due to common a ancestry, or to genetic manipulation—by who?)
The Admonition perhaps suggests the war might have been 200,000 years ago. The book Star Trek: Star Charts has them warp capable 500,000 years ago and the RPG All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook puts the *wars at 400,000…in which case they could have been collecting their menagerie of amenable specimens before the fall.
The Admonition perhaps suggests the war might have been 200,000 years ago. The book Star Trek: Star Charts has them warp capable 500,000 years ago and the RPG All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook puts the *wars at 400,000…in which case they could have been collecting their menagerie of amenable specimens before the fall.
200,000 years ago: the Iconian homeworld, home of the "demons of air and darkness" as they were referred to by their enemies, was bombarded. They might have used their gateways to escape for parts unknown. (TNG "Contagion")
200,000 – 300,000 years ago: the Eightfold Stars were assembled as a beacon by an artificial intelligence/species to host the Admonition — an invitation to other artificial intelligences with instructions on how to call them back. (PIC)
Thousands of centuries ago: the Borg began their evolution into cybernetic beings. (TNG "Q Who")
150,000 years ago: a sphere-shaped lifeform begins its existence. By its end in the 23rd century it will span 565 kilometers of melded-together organic and non-living matter. It will record its history—including a war between the quaternary star systems and the Roquarri Imperium. (DIS "Project Daedalus," "An Obol for Charon") It's first said to have lived for 100,000 years, then said for hundreds of thousands. I'm tempted to leave it at the midway mark where it could be described either way.
100,000 years ago: the Waters (an artificial ocean planet later the adopted home of the Monean civilization) is created by extracting all water from a Class-M planet and containing it inside an immense forcefield. (VOY "Thirty Days") What kind of a people would be capable of such a feat?
100,000 years ago: the immense Hirogen subspace network (reaching over 60,000 ly) is constructed. (VOY "Message in a Bottle," "Hunters") What a regression of a people between then and the 24th century.
50,000 years ago: Bele begins to chase Lokai (both of the planet Cheron) across space after the latter leads a revolution. When they return aboard Kirk's Enterprise they find a planet long destroyed...yet continue the chase. (TOS "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
45,000 years ago: the "Sky Spirits" first come to Earth. They bestow upon a small group of nomadic hunters —admirable for their respect for the land and all living things on it— a genetic gift to help them thrive and protect their world. On subsequent visits the Spirits return to find that it gave them a sense of great curiosity and adventure, and over tens of thousands of years the nomads venture far across the planet into the Americas. (VOY "Tattoo")
30,000 years ago: the Ancient Bajoran Holy City of B'hala is founded and included a stone tablet with entrapped Prophet and Pah-wraith. (DS9 "The Reckoning") Oh what lost history there might be from before this time when the Gods walked the Earth.
30,000 years ago: the Verathan civilization in the Gamma Quadrant reaches its height spanning two dozen star systems. (DS9 "Q-Less")
Hundreds of centuries ago: the Aldeans build the Custodian and disappear behind their planetary cloak becoming the stuff of myth & legend like Atlantis of Earth and Neinman of Xerxes VII. (TNG "When the Bough Breaks")
17,000 years ago: parietal wall paintings in Lascaux caves, Earth. (ENT "Storm Front, Part II")
15,000 years ago: the Preservers saved pockets of disappearing civilizations to distant worlds. (TOS "The Paradise Syndrome") In my head canon they're like the monolith makers in 2001: A Space Odyssey. You see their works but they themselves are a mystery. They’ve evolved into beings dancing on the winds of the galaxies, beings evolved somewhere between us and the Metrons or the Q. Maybe they are the Metrons. Maybe that faerie-looking Metron in "Arena" was an approximation of a humanoid for Kirk's sake, coalesced from whatever Vorlon-like angel of thought and energy it was in its natural state. Who knows what they’re up to when they’re not in silver toga-wearing form?
Many thousands of years ago: the Douwd, an immortal being of disguises and false surroundings, that later would be known as Kevin Uxbridge begins living in this galaxy. (TNG "The Survivors") What are his people like; what is his home galaxy like?
12,000 years ago: an artisan on the planet Kurl during its Third Dynasty known only as the Master of Tarquin Hill creates small ceramic figurines called naiskos that embody that culture's belief that within each person is a community of individuals, each with its own desires, views, and voices. (TNG "The Chase”)
10,000 years ago: the machine-god Vaal is built on Gamma Trianguli VI. (TOS "The Apple”)
10,000 years ago: the civilization on Sigma Draconis VI (at its technological peak well beyond the Federation of the 23rd century) experiences a catastrophic glacial age and de-evolves to a primitive level with a great schism between the males (scattered on the surface) and females (cared for by a computer called the Controller below). (TOS "Spock's Brain")
10,000 years ago: the Fabrini leave their solar system on the asteroid Yonada before their sun goes nova. (TOS "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky")
Millennia ago: millions of intelligent spacefaring organisms (perhaps from outside the galaxy) which form symbiotic relationships with others living within them like crew become nearly extinct. Gomtuu may be their last survivor. (TNG "Tin Man") Where the Buffalo roam. Were there different symbionts in different herds of Tin Men – some humanoid, some not? What caused their extinction across such distant swaths of space –aliens, infighting, disease, other cosmozoans...something else?
10,000 years ago: ordinary Q stop having to speak to one another. (VOY "Death Wish")
10,000 years ago: the Dominion is founded. (DS9 "The Dogs of War") It might have had multiple periods as it's said to have endured for 2000 years. (DS9 "To the Death")
9000 years ago: for over nine millennia the Zakdorn are thought by their foes to have the finest strategic minds in the galaxy. (TNG "Peak Performance")
6000 years ago: aliens take Humans from Earth to be eugenically bred elsewhere so that their descendants may return as agents to stop Humanity from destroying itself. Among the agents are Gary Seven, Agent 201 and Agent 347. (TOS "Assignment Earth") What?? If it were written today I could see a lot of questions raised about the aliens' true motivations, those of the humans who perhaps agreed to the removals, those of the agents who returned, and those of other players as yet unseen.
In 3834 BC: Akharin is born in Mesopotamia on Earth "a soldier, a bully, and a fool." Felled in battle he realizes can't be killed, and in a long life in which he marries over a hundred times and sees a hundred billion fall, his aliases will include Methuselah, King Solomon, Alexander the Great, Lazarus, Merlin, Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Brahms, Reginald Pollack, Abramson, interstellar financier Mr. Brack, and Flint. (TOS "Requiem for Methuselah") Are there others like him on Earth (Highlander) or in space, and how?
6000 years ago: Landru of Beta III, preaching peace and ending a period of savagery, creates a computer to guide his people after his death. (TOS "The Return of the Archons") Outsourcing civility seems unwise, no? Might allow it to atrophy and savagery to fester. The Betans might have been lucky they didn't off eachother long ago during the red hour Festivals. Maybe many of them did.
3047 BC – 2993 BC: the immortal Flint lives as Methuselah.
5000 years ago: immortal aliens settled near Greece are worshiped as the Olympian Gods before leaving for Pollux IX. (TOS "Who Mourns for Adonais?") They can't die but are able to reach a point of no turn spreading themselves out so wide on the wind until only the wind remains. What a state to be in…what are the possibilities for them and others also thus? Could they in fact coalesce again as I wondered about the Metrons upthread? Could their energy in such a state be used by a machine (like zero-point module in Stargate) or consumed by another being?
5000 years ago: Spock and McCoy are stranded in the Sarpeidon Ice Age with the exiled Zarabeth. (TOS "All Our Yesterdays")
4000 years ago: the Xindi-Avians build a concealed fortress on a planet a that will one day become the home of the Xindi Council. (ENT "The Council") How did they accomplish this yet were the only ones to be wiped out by having inadequate technology to leave their homeworld four millennia later?
990 BC – 931 BC: The immortal Flint lives as King Solomon.
3000 years ago: the Vulcan monastery of P'Jem is built on a planet near the Andorian system. (ENT "The Andorian Incident") What if this were built while they were still pre-warp?
3000 years ago: the Kalandan civilization were capable of constructing artificial planets when a deadly disease was accidentally created that killed them off. (TOS "That Which Survives")
3000 years ago: The Bajoran prophet Trakor encounters the Orb of Prophecy and Change and writes prophecies concerning the Emissary of the Prophets. (DS9 "Destiny")
Around 500-200 BC: survivors from the Sahndara system nova arrive and live on Earth. "After the death of the Greek civilization they idolized" they then move on to the planet Platonius. In 32 BC: Philana is born on Platonius and in 3 BC (now 30) stops aging. (TOS "Plato's Stepchildren")
356 BC – 323 BC: the immortal Flint lives as Alexander the Great.
2300 years ago: In contradiction of the Ba'ul enforced orthodoxy that the coming of Vahar'ai signals the Kelpian time to die, the Sphere lifeform records data on Kaminar showing that many have passed it and matured into a further stage of their lifecycle. (DIS "The Sound of Thunder")
1 AD – 60 AD: the immortal Flint lives as Lazarus — twice.
2000 years ago: atomic war devastates savage Vulcan, Surak leads his people into the Time of Awakening, and the proud Romulans leave to seek a new world. (TOS "Balance of Terror," "The Enterprise Incident," "Amok Time," "The Savage Curtain," "All Our Yesterdays," TNG "Unification, Part II," "Gambit, Part II," ENT "Awakening") There's a book in just the journey on those possibly sublight ships. The odyssey...or is it in their case The Aeneid to Romulus and Remus. Actually this whole period would make one Hell of an old Hollywood epic of a movie.
2000 years ago: the Debrune were a Romulan offshoot race. (TNG "Gambit") I imagine they were like 'fuck this' and settled down sooner than the rest who continued the Odyssey-like journey to Romulus briefly explored in the Treklit in the Rihannsu Series.
2000 years ago: the Jem'Hadar begin serving the Dominion. (DS9 "What You Leave Behind") Who were their soldiers before?
2000 years ago: the Vidiians are ravaged by the Phage. (VOY "Phage")
In the 6th Century: the immortal Flint lives as Merlin.
1400 years ago: after his defeat of the tyrant Molor and the Fek'lhri, Kahless the Unforgettable (King Arthur Christ) unites all the Klingon tribes into the Klingon Empire for the last (and maybe only) time until the Federation-Klingon War of the 23rd Century. (TNG "Rightful Heir," DS9 "The Sword of Kahnless") *All the tribes...as in on the planet? Was he a knight or an oligarch?
1000 years ago: the Hur'q plundered and maybe enslaved the Klingons…helluva first contact with alien life. Kor referred to the Hur'q as "the great plunderers of the galaxy" while on his quest for the Holy Gra—er the Sword of Kahless, found behind a secret door in a Hur'q museum. (DS9 "The Sword of Kahless") One could imagine similar being said of Lord Elgin and his people.
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