Star Trek Movie & TV Timeline?

[BlueMetroid]

Does a basic timeline exist? I'm not talking about each episodes star date, but a general timeline for ST's canon history. For example, Enterprise taking place from this year to thas year, Into Darkness taking place in this year, etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[GameOn]

Yes but some of it's conjecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Timeline

 

[F. King Daniel]

Here's a fan continuation of the last officially published Trek timeline, from Star Trek: Voyages of Imagination. It includes all the episode, movies and novels up to 2009ish. Click! Into Darkness is set in 2259.

There are many, MANY fan timelines, all going from slightly different starting points. The Original Series never pinned down it's timeframe (hints vary from 200 to 700 years in the future), it wasn't until the movies came along that they decided the show was set in the 23rd century. In 1993, a book called The Star Trek Chronology came out, which put TOS episodes 300 years ahead of their original airdate and became the standard - but some fans refuse to accept it's dating scheme (this is probably the most infamous example of a fan timeline with extreme prejudice towards the official timeline and much of post-TOS/TNG Trek in general - check out the annotations at the end)

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Original Series never pinned down it's timeframe (hints vary from 200 to 700 years in the future), it wasn't until the movies came along that they decided the show was set in the 23rd century.

That's true, but I'd like to qualify that by mentioning that The Making of Star Trek asserted that TOS was set in the 23rd century (e.g., page 209). When the films finally established canonically that indeed it was, that specific number was therefore entirely expected.

 

[GameOn]

The first time a year is mentioned on screen it's 2364 in the 1st season of TNG and all subsequent shows and movies were dated from this. It was assumed that each season of a show corresponds to one year because of the stardate system used in the 24th century shows.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The first time a year is mentioned on screen it's 2364 in the 1st season of TNG and all subsequent shows and movies were dated from this. It was assumed that each season of a show corresponds to one year because of the stardate system used in the 24th century shows.

No, the events of TWOK are known to take place between the years 2283 and 2300, by what's on screen. The Romulan Ale is dated 2283 (mentioned on screen), and the film is asserted to have taken place in the 23rd century.

 

[GameOn]

The first time a year is mentioned on screen it's 2364 in the 1st season of TNG and all subsequent shows and movies were dated from this. It was assumed that each season of a show corresponds to one year because of the stardate system used in the 24th century shows.

No, the events of TWOK are known to take place between the years 2283 and 2300, by what's on screen. The Romulan Ale is dated 2283 (mentioned on screen), and the film is asserted to have taken place in the 23rd century.

I mean the first time they mention the current year, the date of the Romulan Ale in TWOK just gives us a time frame.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Ah, you mean the year. Gotya. I believe that's correct.

And of course, we're talking about dates in the future, since specific years were mentioned in The City on the Edge of Forever (1930) and Assignment: Earth (1968; Tomorrow Is Yesterday just said "the late 1960's").