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Stardates:	1308.9 – 1048.66

Events

By starship

USS Discovery

• The USS Discovery returns from the mirror universe nine months after they left the prime universe. (DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue", "The War Without, The War Within")
• Commander Saru leads the Discovery on a mission that results in the end of the Federation-Klingon War, with many of the crew members being awarded for their actions, including Saru receiving the Starfleet Medal of Honor. (DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?")
• The Discovery crew, still led by Saru, make their way to Vulcan to pick up the ship's new commanding officer, but stop along the way to respond to a distress call from Captain Christopher Pike aboard the USS Enterprise. (DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?")
• Christopher Pike assumes command of the Discovery. (DIS: "Brother")
• The Discovery makes first contact with the New Eden colony on the planet Terralysium. (DIS: "New Eden")

USS Farragut

• Two hundred crewmembers of the Farragut are killed at Tycho IV by a dikironium cloud creature. One of the casualties is the ship's commanding officer, Captain Garrovick. The Farragut first officer commends Lieutenant Kirk for his actions at Tycho IV. (TOS: "Obsession")

USS Enterprise

• Following a number of multiple catastrophic systems failures, The Enterprise is towed to spacedock for repairs. (DIS: "Brother")
• Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley begins an investigation into the allegations against Spock. (DIS: "An Obol for Charon")

Other events

• The Shakespearian troupe Karidian Company of Players, sponsored by the Galactic Cultural Exchange Project, begins its tour of official installations. (TOS: "The Conscience of the King")
• Spock takes a leave of absence from Starfleet and commits himself to the psychiatric ward on Starbase 5. During his time there, he supposedly murders two nurses and steals a shuttlecraft to follow the path of the red bursts. (DIS: "Brother", "New Eden", "Point of Light")

Alternate reality

• August: Montgomery Scott and Keenser are stationed at the Federation outpost at Delta Vega in the Vulcan system six months before their encounter with James T. Kirk and Spock on stardate 2258.42. Scott believed the assignment was a punishment for losing Admiral Archer's prized pet beagle in a transwarp beaming experiment. (Star Trek)

The previous USS Enterprise of the alternate reality

According to Issue #2 of IDW's Countdown to Darkness series, the Enterprise had a predecessor in the alternate reality. This previous USS Enterprise (β) was decommissioned this year to make way for the launch of the new ship.

Appendices

Episodes

• DIS:
  • "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
  • "Into the Forest I Go"
  • "Despite Yourself"
  • "The Wolf Inside"
  • "Vaulting Ambition"
  • "What's Past Is Prologue"
  • "The War Without, The War Within"
  • "Will You Take My Hand?"
  • "Brother"
  • "New Eden" (in part)
  • "Point of Light"
  • "An Obol for Charon"
  • "Saints of Imperfection"
  • "The Sound of Thunder"
  • "Light and Shadows"
  • "If Memory Serves"
  • "Project Daedalus"
  • "The Red Angel"
  • "Perpetual Infinity"
  • "Through the Valley of Shadows"
• ST:
  • "Runaway"

External link

• 2257 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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