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2020 was, on Earth's calendar, the 21st year of the 21st century, and the first year of the 2020s decade. Although this was a time period before Human formulation of stardates, this era begins with stardate 2020.0.[1]
Events
- Baseball player Buck Bokai in the Planetary Baseball League is traded from the Crenshaw Monarchs to the Gotham City Bats. He had 140 games, 542 times at bat, 64 runs, 165 hits, with 37 doubles, 6 triples, 7 stolen bases and 34 home runs. He was responsible for 120 runs batted in and had a batting average of .304.[2][3]
- By this year there was a definite absence of space-themed programming on television, a fact Shaun Christopher cited to show how public interest in space exploration had faded.[4]
- A time capsule was supposed to go to Saturn aboard the USS Lewis & Clark, containing a number of items which included a copy of the Bible, but the capsule was removed by Zoe Querez.[4]
- Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher commands NASA's first manned mission to Saturn on the UNSS Lewis and Clark.[5][6]
- The Nexus is estimated to have crossed through the galaxy this year.[7]
- SpaceX's Dragon 2 becomes the first commercially built and operated space capsule launched into space. The capsule transports astronauts to the International Space Station.[8]
Cristóbal Rios' fake passport stated that it was issued in this date.[8]
Holly Eva Visser's fake passport stated that it was issued in this date.[9]
People
Births and deaths
- 29 June
- Johnny Mandel dies.[10]
- 25 July
- Olivia de Havilland dies.[10]
- 29 September
- Helen Reddy dies.[10]
- 29 November
- Ben Bova dies.[10]
- 7 December
- Chuck Yeager dies.[10]
Notable people
- other notable people
- Hank Aaron • Buzz Aldrin • Pamela Anderson • Ann-Margret • Margaret Atwood • Drew Barrymore • Barry Bonds • Ben Bova • Kenneth Branagh • Naomi Campbell • Charles, Prince of Wales • John Christopher • Katie Christopher • Kevin Christopher • Rory Christopher • Joan Collins • Max Allan Collins • Robert Crais • Dax symbiont • Olivia de Havilland • Robert De Niro • Cameron Diaz • Athene Donald • Frank Drake • Bob Dylan • Freeman Dyson • Clint Eastwood • Elizabeth II • Shepard Fairey • Vigdís Finnbogadóttir • Heidi Fleiss • Alice Fontana • Tera Franklin • Bill Gates • Mikhail Gorbachev • Patty Hearst • Hultquist • Lady Gaga • Debbie Lauderdale • Sumi Lee • James Lovell • Shirin Ludden • Elle Macpherson • Madonna • John Major • Lee Majors • Junior Mance • Johnny Mandel • Willie Mays • Jennifer McCarthy • Paul McCartney • Larry McMurtry • Walter Mondale • Demi Moore • Elon Musk • Jocelyn O'Herlihy • Marcus O'Herlihy • Roger Penrose • Plummer • "Zoe Querez" • Helen Reddy • Derek Redmond • Lincoln Roberts • Donald Rumsfeld • Emilia Sakamoto • Claudia Schiffer • William Shatner • Simone • Will Smith • Patrick Stewart • Sharon Stone • Valentina Tereshkova • Frank J. Tipler • Andrew Wiles • Jase Zero
Appendices
References and notes
- ST reference: Spaceflight Chronology identified the date of a first manned mission to Saturn reporting evidence of alien visitation, having a profound effect on man's perspective of himself in the universe. In other ways, the Spaceflight Chronology timeline has since become discontinuitous with the primary universe timeline of Star Trek. For the purposes of this wiki, FASA RPG and Spaceflight Chronology dates are represented as reference stardates and this mission is listed at reference stardate 0/20. Although other in-timeline sources do place Colonel Christopher's Saturn mission in 2020, the actual discovery of alien life has been mentioned in canon as being Renee Picard's Europa mission in 2024 (in Star Trek: Picard season 2). These might be considered the same series of probes in order to rationalize the two events being conflated in this way.
- ↑ TOS movie: Star Trek.
- ↑ DS9 episode: "If Wishes Were Horses".
- ↑ This information comes from a baseball card seen throughout Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on Ben Sisko's desk, notably in DS9 episode: "The Storyteller" and "If Wishes Were Horses".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 TOS novel: The Rings of Time.
- ↑ TOS episode: "Tomorrow is Yesterday".
- ↑ TOS reference: Spaceflight Chronology.
- ↑ TNG movie: Star Trek Generations.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 PIC episode: "Two of One"
- ↑ PIC episode: "Fly Me to the Moon"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Historical fact.
Releases
- Dates listed here reflect the official release date of publications; prose publications typically become available in the final weeks of the preceding month, but have no set release date; comics do have specific release days, which normally occur at intervals throughout their release month.
January
- Star Trek Magazine, Issue 201 (US #74)
February
- PIC novel: The Last Best Hope.
- A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack's The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard — widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction.
March
- TOS novel: The Higher Frontier.
- Investigating the massacre of a telepathic minority, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise confront a terrifying new threat: faceless, armored hunters whose extradimensional technology makes them seemingly unstoppable. Kirk must team with the powerful telepath Miranda Jones and the enigmatic Medusans to take on these merciless killers in an epic battle that will reveal the true faces of both enemy and ally!
- Star Trek Magazine, Issue 202 (US #75)
April
- DSC: Aftermath omnibus from IDW Publishing.
May
- No announcements.
June
July
- ST reference: Alphabet Book, by Dennis R. Shealy (Little Golden Books)
- ST reference: Ships of the Line 2021 wall calendar
- DSC reference: Discovery 2021 wall calendar
- DSC novel: Die Standing, by John Jackson Miller.
- VOY reference: Voyager NCC-74656 Illustrated Handbook, by Ben Robinson (Eaglemoss Collections)
August
- DS9 - Too Long a Sacrifice comic: "Issue 2"
- TOS comic: "Hell's Mirror"
September
- TOS reference: The Motion Picture: Inside the Art & Visual Effects, by Jeff Bond and Gene Kozicki (Titan Books)
- TOS reference: Nerd Search: Quibbles with Tribbles puzzle book, by Glenn Daken (Eaglemoss)
October
- Pocket Books VOY novel, To Lose the Earth, by Kirsten Beyer.
- TOS comic: "Debt of Honor" facsimile edition (IDW Publishing)
- VOY reference: The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, edited by Una McCormack (Titan Books)
November
- ST reference: Cocktails: A Stellar Compendium, by Glenn Dakin (Eaglemoss)
- Pocket Books TOS novel, A Contest of Principles, by Greg Cox.
- PIC reference: The Wisdom of Picard, edited by Chip Carter (Adams Media)
- DSC reference: The Art of Star Trek Discovery, by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann (Titan Books)
- VOY reference: Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration, by Ben Robinson and Mark Wright (Eaglemoss)
December
- ST reference: The Artistry of Dan Curry, by Dan Curry and Ben Robinson (Titan Books)
Stories
| Title | Series | Date | Media | Notes | Image |
| The Rings of Time Chapters 1, 3, 5 |
The Original Series | June 28 - July 2020 | novel | The USS Lewis & Clark, the first manned space mission to Saturn, launches from Earth, under the command of Colonel Shaun Christopher. Blogger Zoe Querez "stows aboard" during the months of their voyage to the planet. |  |
| The Rings of Time Chapters 7, 9-10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28-29 |
The Original Series | September 2020 | novel | Captain James T. Kirk gets temporarily stranded in the year 2020 aboard the USS Lewis & Clark (from the year 2270), inhabiting the body of Colonel Shaun Christopher. | |
External links
- 2020 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- 2020 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.