The following is a timeline of the Star Trek: USS Excalibur and Star Trek, a Space Odyssey campaigns, run by Owen E. Oulton from 1982 through 1994 and 2020 to present. Unknown Curator as a color, shade of purple-grey (Purple for short) survives the destruction of his planet, Krugar III, when the land surrounding the museum is carried off into space and through a wormhole into a netherspace which he calls Limbo. He takes in the starship pilots who become trapped in Limbo and offers them all the comforts of their new home, which became known as the Museum of Missing Ships and eventually as the Museum at the End of Time. (Gold Key Star Trek comic issue 15) 1967 Camping in the High Sierras in 1967, Starling came upon the crashed Federation timeship Aeon, abandoned by its pilot, Captain Braxton, via an emergency transport. Braxton had crashed in 1967, where Henry Starling finds Aeon and copies its technology, allowing him to found a company, Chronowerx Industries, and start the micro-computer revolution. 1969 Between 1967 and 1996, Starling utilized and exploited the Aeon to the extent of his abilities, developing a technologically-based corporate empire which spanned the planet. By 1969, Starling had introduced the very first isograted circuit. Every few years thereafter, he released an equally revolutionary advance in computer technology, based on his understanding of 29th century technology. Starling's rising influence and power was evidenced by a photograph of him shaking hands with Richard M. Nixon, then President of the United States.(Star Trek Voyager: "Future's End Pt. I") 1974, January 23 Project Questor is the brainchild of the genius Emil Vaslovik, Ph.D., a Nobel laureate. Vaslovik had developed plans to build a superhuman android. A team of the world's foremost experts is able to build the android even though they do not understand the components with which they are working—they are only able to follow the instructions and install the parts left by Vaslovik, who has disappeared. Attempts to decode the programming tape were worse than merely unsuccessful—they also erased approximately half of the tape's contents. They decide to substitute their own programming, over the objections of Jerry Robinson, the only team member who had actually worked with Dr. Vaslovik. He is overruled by the head of the project, Geoffrey Darrow.      When the android's body has been finished, the new tape is loaded, but with no apparent results. In desperation, Robinson persuades Darrow to allow Vaslovik's tape—what remains of it—to be loaded. Again, the team is disappointed, as there appears to be no response. Once left alone, the android comes to life. It adds various cosmetic touches to a previously featureless outer skin, transforming itself from an it to a him, and he then leaves the laboratory to visit Vaslovik's office and archives; it is there that he first identifies himself as "part of Project Questor". The android then seeks out Robinson, whom he forces to accompany him in a search for Vaslovik, with Darrow in pursuit of both, following a minuscule datum in his original programming.(The Questor Tapes) 1996 The 24th century Federation starship Voyager; during its journey home to Earth, having been stranded tens of thousands of light-years away, is thrown back to Earth in 1996 and must find a way back to the 24th century while making sure they don't cause a disaster in the 29th century in the process. a young astronomer named Rain Robinson (Sarah Silverman) who works at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles detects Voyager in high orbit and assumes it to be extraterrestrial life. Her work is funded by Starling, but against his instructions, she attempts to contact Voyager by transmitting a greeting to it, alarming the crew. The Voyager crew tracks her location to the Observatory and Capt Janeway, Cdr Chakotay and Lts Tuvok and Paris decide to beam down to Los Angeles. Tuvok and Paris save Robinson from a hitman Starling dispatched to kill her.      Janeway and Chakotay investigate Starling and his business. They identify a homeless man as Captain Braxton, who explains the rise of Starling to them. Ultimately, they learn that Starling's planned attempt to travel to the 29th century using Braxton's timeship will be the true cause for the temporal explosion, because Starling lacks the knowledge needed to properly calibrate the timeship.      Janeway and Chakotay secretly enter Starling's Chronowerx office where they find the Aeon, just as Starling walks in on them. Starling ignores Janeway's warning not to use the timeship and tries to kill them, but the officers are beamed aboard Voyager. When Voyager tries to beam up the timeship, Starling uses his own transporter beam to access Voyager's computer and study its systems, including stealing the Doctor's program from Sickbay. Voyager has been sighted and filmed, since the ship had to descend low into Earth's atmosphere to beam Janeway and Chakotay aboard.      Following Starling's computer attack, Voyager is badly damaged, leaving Paris and Tuvok stranded on Earth with Robinson. Paris convinces her to help by claiming that he and Tuvok are government agents trying to recover highly advanced technology that was stolen by Starling. Robinson, prompted by Paris and Tuvok, arranges to meet Starling at a public park. To keep an eye on the Doctor, Starling equips the Doctor with a piece of 29th-century technology, a Mobile Holo-Emitter, which allows him to move around without having to rely on fixed emitters.      During the meeting, Chakotay and Torres take a shuttle into Earth's lower atmosphere, planning to abduct Starling and beam him aboard Voyager. Unfortunately, damage taken during the transport forces Chakotay and Torres to crash in the Arizona desert, where they are captured by isolationists. Tuvok and the Doctor, splitting up from Paris and Robinson, are able to rescue them and begin repairs on the shuttle. Held prisoner on Voyager, Starling admits to Janeway that he intends to travel into the future to steal more advanced technology because he has reached the limit of what he can create by studying the Aeon. Janeway informs him of Captain Braxton's warning about the disaster he will cause, but Starling is too egotistical to believe he can fail. Just when Janeway believes that she has ended Starling's plans, one of his henchmen transports him back to his office. Paris and Robinson arrive there to discover a large truck, which they believe contains the timeship. They pursue the vehicle out of the city, aided by the arrival of the repaired shuttle. Too late, the truck is found to be a decoy, and Starling launches the Aeon, still at the Chronowerx building.      After a last attempt to dissuade Starling, Janeway manually fires a photon torpedo into the Aeon, destroying it and saving the future. A few moments later, an alternative Captain Braxton arrives in another timeship Aeon, explaining that having detected the anomaly of their presence in the past, he has come to return them to their own time at the place they left it. Sadly, he is unwilling to bring them to their Earth, as that would violate the Temporal Prime Directive. Voyager returns to the exact moment they first encountered the Aeon. The Doctor gains more freedom as he keeps the Mobile Holo-Emitter.(Star Trek Voyager: "Future's End Pt. II") 2031 Zefram Cochrane is born in Montana, North America, Earth. Cochrane's circumstances were somewhat affected by World War III, gaining him at least minimal knowledge of ECON, one of the aggressors in that conflict. (Star Trek the Original Series: "Metamorphosis", Star Trek Enterprise: "Shuttlepod One", Star Trek VIII First Contact) 2063, 5 April, 10:00 The challenge of inventing warp theory took Zefram Cochrane an extremely long time. During this time, he was exposed to massive amounts of post-war nuclear fallout, causing premature aging, compounded by alcohol abuse.      In 2061, he was responsible for Earth's first successful demonstration of light speed propulsion, though his work was far from complete. His primary motivation for commencing warp technology was financial gain in the devastated, poverty-stricken America that existed in the wake of the Third World War. He finally built Earth's first warp ship, the Phoenix, in the hope its success would prove profitable and allow him to retire to a tropical island filled with naked women. Based in the small shanty town of Bozeman, Montana, Zefram Cochrane and Lily Sloane scavenged materials from across North America to build the Phoenix.      A historical irony was that, contrary to the fact he went on to use the Phoenix to inaugurate an era of peace, Cochrane incorporated a weapon of mass destruction into its design; he constructed the Phoenix in a silo on a missile complex and used a Titan II missile as his launch vehicle.      By 4 April 2063, Doctor Cochrane had made plans to pilot the Phoenix on a test warp flight that was scheduled to launch the next morning. At 10:00 a.m. on 5 April, he had mentally prepared himself to make history (despite a distinctly uncomfortable hangover) and had begun readying the Phoenix for liftoff, even though he still disputed the notion of being idolized. An hour later he was aboard the Phoenix as it launched. Cochrane was not only instrumental in the flight of the Phoenix – at one point giving the instruction to activate warp drive with the command, "Engage" – but was also amazed to view the Earth from space and was shocked to experience the sensation of traveling at warp.      He broke the warp barrier just after 11:00 a.m., enough to draw the attention of the T'Plana-Hath, a type of Vulcan survey ship which was passing near Earth. That evening, Cochrane was among many Human spectators who watched the Vulcan ship land in Bozeman, Montana, thereby making first contact with Humans and opening a new era for the whole of mankind. Finding difficulty in returning a Vulcan salute, he welcomed the arrival of the ship's Vulcan captain by engaging him in a handshake, for which Cochrane was thankful. (Star Trek VIII First Contact) 2066 Earth's first extra-solar colony is founded by Zefram Cochrane on Alpha Centauri III, three years after the Earth/Vulcan First Contact. The colony is completely independant of Earth and in 2161 becomes a founding member of the United Federation of Planets. 2119 Zefram Cochrane performs the dedication at the opening of the Warp 5 Complex, a facility built to design and build Earth's first warp 5 engine, on Earth.      At age 87, He disappears from his home on Alpha Centauri, last seen heading into deep space aboard his ship. Cochrane's final voyage incorporated visits to Andoria, Vulcan, the Lorillian homeworld, Deneva, Orion, and Beta Rigel disappearing. His body was never recovered and he was presumed dead. (Star Trek the Original Series: "Metamorphosis", Star Trek: Star Charts) 2185 The NX Class starship Excalibur NCC-57, commanded by Captain John Adams, arrives at Altair IV on a routine patrol. Dr. Edward Morbius and his daughter Altaira are the only survivors of the failed Earth colony established 20 years earlier. Dr. Morbius' studies of ancient ruins release an unstoppable force which kills him and devastates a large part of the planet's surface. Dr Morbius is killed and Altaira narrowly escaped aboard the Excalibur. (Forbidden Planet) 2225 The USS Shi'Kahr NCC-1325, a Baton Rouge class Cruiser is lost during a massive spatial/temporal disruption. The Shi'Kahr is thrown into another dimension and the crew settle on a nearby class-M planet, leaving the ship on standby power in orbit, as it has run out of antimatter. 2226 Stellarford class Starliner SS Leviathan disappears with all hands. Over the next century, the Leviathan develops into a legend not unlike that of the legendary Earth sailing ship, the Flying Dutchman. Ships all over the Federation claim to have seen it travelling through ion storms at speeds in excess of Warp 9, high-energy plasma bleeding off its hull and nacelles. Some even claim to have been hailed by a skeletal Captain Ivor Thorrsen, beckoning them to approach and match courses. The dead can be seen dancing in the ballroom beneath the transparent forward hull, and all subspace channels shriek with a noise like damned souls.      Even a few Klingon ships claim sightings, embellishing the tales with the Barge of the Dead flying in close formation as the Leviathan makes its way to Gre'thor. Ships which fail to make port, especially those lost to ion storms, are said to have "met Leviathan." Most merchant spacers boldly proclaim the legends to be "old space tales," but deep in the core of their souls, they believe... 2233, January 08 Thelev born on Andoria. May 07 Thoma born on Andoria. 2237, October 03 Bradron McCurrvey born in San Francisco, Earth to UFP Ambassador Philip McCurrvey and Starfleet Academy Instructor Jewlia McCurrvey. 2243, March 22 Collette DesMarais born in Montreal, Quebec, Earth to Professors Denis and Claudette DesMarais of McGill University. 2250 IKV bortaS disappears while returning to Qo'noS after a raid on Romulus. The bortaS is immortalised in Klingon legend as a series of broadcast recorded dramas entitled may'Duj bortaS (Battlecruiser Vengeance). (Star Trek novel: The Final Reflection) 2253, August 23 Khendron Mercer born on Efros, the fourth planet in the Flarset system. 2261 The United Federation of Planets makes first contact with Flarset IV (Efros) in 2261 when the USS Surak visits the planet. Efros is a cold world with virtually no variety in climate and massive glaciers dot the landscape. However, the planet does have an abundant supply of metals and geothermal energy. Most of the Efrosian people live in the small temperate zone aound the equator. The cold, harsh conditions on Efros make it difficult for animals and plants to thrive, but some native non-intelligent organisms do exist. The planet Efros was in the throes of an ice age as recently as the mid-13th century. In fact, the very name "Efros" translates as "ice" in the Efrosian language. 2267 Cochrane ends up on an asteroid in the Gamma Canaris region. He was brought there, while in a disabled spaceship and virtually dead from old age, by a cloud-like entity which he called the Companion.      Cochrane was rejuvenated by this entity and reversed the radiation damage, further going on to keep him young and alive for 150 years. He cannibalized his ship, using left-over tools and supplies to construct a building where he could live. Necessities including food and water were provided for him by the Companion, with whom he could telepathically communicate. However, Cochrane eventually wished to be released from the entity's supervision, finding immortality boring. In an attempt to obtain freedom from the Companion he explained that he was lonely, so it decided to bring him other Humans for company.      In 2267, Captain James T. Kirk, Commander Spock, and Dr. Leonard McCoy of the USS Enterprise were ferrying Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford, who was terminally ill, aboard the shuttlecraft Galileo when they were mysteriously brought to the asteroid by the Companion. Cochrane was delighted to meet the newcomers there, exchanging handshakes with each of the other men, and was impressed by the configuration of their shuttlecraft. Nevertheless, he originally kept the truth from the visitors, saying he had crashed on the asteroid an indeterminate time ago and feigning ignorance of the Companion.      Under duress from Kirk, he conceded the facts, such as confessing the actual specifics of his arrival. Cochrane repeatedly talked with the Starfleet officers about the differences in the galaxy since his disappearance, remaining tempted to leave the asteroid. The Federation and universal translator were both new concepts to Cochrane. His knowledge of modern propulsion was also updated thanks to Spock and Kirk, the latter of whom observed that Cochrane didn't "look a day over thirty-five."      Faced with the quandary of either escaping the Companion and helping Commissioner Hedford to a hospital or risking the death of the Companion, Cochrane reluctantly opted to endanger the entity, despite being exceedingly grateful for its guardianship; this choice led to his being struck down and momentarily rendered unconscious.      In a conversation that Kirk had with the entity, the Companion had repeatedly called Cochrane "the man". Once it was discovered that the Companion was actually feminine with romantic feelings toward Cochrane and the female entity entered the dying body of Hedford, Cochrane was finally allowed to leave with his guests, though the merged entity was unable to accompany him. Feeling greatly indebted to the Companion for having rescued and cared for him, Cochrane began a new life on the asteroid with the newly integrated being, both of them now with a typical Human life span. Cochrane had Kirk swear never to reveal his fate to the authorities. (Star Trek the Original Series: "Metamorphosis") 2268, SD4729.4 The M-5 multitronic unit, or the M-5 computer, was an advanced multitronic computer system and prototype created by Doctor Richard Daystrom during the mid-23rd century. It utilized very sophisticated technology, probably similar to the Human neural network, and much more sophisticated than the duotronic computer commonly in use at the time. According to Dr. Daystrom, the computer could think and reason like a Human. He had used his own memory engrams as a model for the computer. Models M-1 through M-4 were not entirely successful. M-5 was installed on board the USS Enterprise in 2268 as a test of its capabilities.      The M-5 drills were designed to allow the unit to command and control the ship during several exploration simulations and war games problems, where up to four other starships would attack the Enterprise. Manned with only a skeleton crew of twenty, the ship was completely run by the computer. The unit was located in main engineering, and tapped directly into the ship's main power grid. When requiring more power, it would shut down unnecessary systems, including life support on decks without crewmembers. During battle drills, the computer's self-preservation instinct became dominant, resulting in the destruction of the robot ship Woden and the deaths of several hundred Starfleet officers when it severely damaged the USS Excalibur and USS Lexington.      The senior crew attempted to cut off the computer from the ship's controls, but M-5 rerouted command functions through new data lines, and kept sending false signals through the original ones. The computer could also generate a force field around itself, effectively preventing anyone from coming near it.      Captain James T. Kirk made the computer self-destruct by asking it if it was right to kill another being. M-5 said that it was a crime against the laws of Man and God, and, believing that such a crime was punishable by death, deactivated itself. During the M5 computer tests, the crew Excalibur NCC-1705 was wiped out. Lt Eugene Steven Roquefort was the only survivor on the bridge and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. (Star Trek the Original Series: "The Ultimate Computer") 2271 Efros is inducted into the United Federation of Planets. Khendron Mercer is one of the first Efrosians to apply to Starfleet Academy. 2272, November 05 Bradron McCurrvey and Collette DesMarais married in San Francisco, honeymoon in Caladia City, Shalaven continent on Velestus (Alpha Centauri IV). 2273, SD7412.6 First detected when passing through Klingon territory in the 2270s, V'ger was unlike anything that Starfleet had ever encountered. Its initial appearance – that of a vast, luminous cloud, capable of emitting enormous amounts of energy – was described as a "twelfth-power energy field", a scale beyond the energy-generation capacity of even "thousands of starships". Shortly after the elimination of three Klingon vessels, the cloud passed into Federation space near the Epsilon IX station, which was able to perform limited scans on it, although most of its sensor sweeps were reflected back. The relay station's crew was able, however, to determine that it measured a diameter in excess of two astronomical units, which, at three hundred million kilometers, would have made the cloud as large as Earth's entire orbit; they also detected a null reading at the heart of the entity, indicating a solid form or vessel of some kind.      Unfortunately, V'ger appeared to interpret Epsilon IX's scans as a hostile act, and eliminated the space station in the same manner as it had the Klingon vessels. With the cloud just fifty-four hours away from Earth, Starfleet dispatched the only starship within interception range, the newly refitted USS Enterprise NCC-1701, to determine both what the intruder was and how to stop it, if possible. When the Enterprise arrived at the cloud's coordinates, it determined that the entity had an energy output surpassing that of thousands of starships.      The Enterprise tried to make contact with V'ger, but all linguacode messages were ignored, and it became apparent that the object at the heart of the cloud was unable to comprehend the hailing signals. It was determined that the intruder communicated on a frequency of more than one million megahertz (over one terahertz) and that, at such a high rate of speed, an entire message lasted only a millisecond. Aside from the plasma energy spheres, V'ger had other, less destructive means of gathering data. It scanned the Enterprise with a plasma-energy beam that gave some of the crew an electric shock, but otherwise left people unharmed.      However, the same beam removed the Deltan navigator, Lieutenant Ilia. V'ger was able to analyze Ilia in extraordinary detail, at least down to the cellular level. It then constructed an extremely accurate bio-mechanical replica of her, which acted as a probe. This device was such a precise copy of the original that it even had her memory patterns. They were, however, suppressed, and the Ilia probe had only rudimentary knowledge of humanoid behavior, presumably reflecting V'ger's own level of experience; the probe required considerable education to act as liaison between V'ger and the crew of the Enterprise. In an effort to meet its Creator, V'ger refused to accept the pre-programmed transmission that would signal it to transmit its accumulated data. The probe burned out a relay connection, hoping to force the Creator to come to its heart, so that they could merge.      Realizing that the only way V'ger would understand was to add Humanity to its experiences, Captain Will Decker, who was deeply affected by the loss of Ilia, his former lover, sacrificed himself to become one with the machine lifeform. Decker rewired the relay connection and keyed in the final sequence of the transmission manually. This prompted V'ger to begin transmitting its data, effectively merging with Decker and the Ilia probe, thus taking V'ger to a new level of existence. At last satisfied with its answers, V'ger disappeared in a blinding cascade of white light, leaving Admiral James T. Kirk, Commander Spock, and Doctor Leonard McCoy of the Enterprise to discuss the possibility that they had just created a new lifeform made of V'ger's logic and of Humanity's ability to feel and to believe. (Star Trek, the Motion Picture) December 07 Kyra born in San Francisco to Bradron McCurrvey and Collette DesMarais. 2274 USS Excalibur is refitted and recommissioned, and re-enters service under now-Capt Roquefort. (Star Trek Excalibur campaign begins) March 10 Bellandra ferch Jaime is born on Hastings, Fomalhaut IV to Melisandre ferch Gwyddion—occupation: dancer, father not listed, but Melisandre maintains that he was a Starfleet captain named James. 2278, SD7818.5 USS Bozeman disappears (Star Trek The Next Generation: "Cause and Effect") 2279 The USS Genser NCC-4404 and five other vessels were escorting a convoy of neutronic fuel carriers to the rimward frontier when the ship's sensors detected a small object traveling on a parallel course to the convoy. Communications couldn't be established with the object so the Genser broke off from the convoy and headed off to investigate the object. As the Genser approached the object it disappeared and then reappeared shortly after.      When the rest of the convoy couldn't establish contact with the Genser they investigated and found that the object had disappeared along with the Genser's crew. The Genser continued on active duty. (FASA Federation Starship Recognition Manual 2ed) Capt MacCay and his crew of 80 were stranded in Limbo at the Museum at the End of Time. 2281 Saavik enters Starfleet Academy. Captain Tobi Perrini assumes command of Excalibur. 2283, May 12 One of the most decorated frigates in Starfleet, the Chandley class Federation Starship Blackheart was reported missing while patrolling the Rimward Sector. A search was made, but all that was found was a communications buoy from the Blackheart. The buoy had only a partial message: "...small object paralleling our course...no response on hailing freq..." The remainder of the message was garbled, and portions had been intentionally erased.      Star Fleet had no more information on the fate of the ship or its crew. The Blackheart was most remembered for the large black hearts painted on each of its lower wing assemblies; such decoration was typical among Chandley class ships, making them easily distinguishable on visual scan, and the practice was thought to keep the crew's pride in their vessel at its peak. (FASA Federation Starship Recognition Manual 2ed) 2284 Lt Gurdas Jaswinder Singh, Security Chief of the USS Excalibur, is replaced by a duplicate from the Mirror Universe.      Orion/Human hybrid pirate Calista makes a pact with an extradimensional being calling itself the Verlegg. Raised by her Human father, a Satanist, Calista believes Verlegg is a demon from hell who will grant her eternal life and great power. 2285 Saavik completes Cadet Cruise, enters Command School. Feb. 19, SD8130.3 The Genesis Device was an experimental piece of technology that was developed by the United Federation of Planets in the late 23rd century. The project that resulted in the creation of this technology was the result of a top secret Federation scientific program headed by Dr. Carol Marcus of the Daystrom Institute, which was intended to quite literally produce life from lifelessness.      When activated, it produced a type of radiation that was unlike any previously known. This energy field was called the Genesis Wave which was believed to be in phase with the basic structure of living beings. When the proper radiation level was reached, the Wave began altering the surrounding matter. This, in theory resulted in two effects the first of which was the creation of organic molecules as well as create primitive lifeforms such as vegetation and also prepare the target location to support carbon based life. This resulted in the development of a Class M world with its surface reshaped and terraformed with its elements restructured to support a living environment.      However, when activated in the presence of existing life forms, the wave destroyed them and restructured them to match the new life matrix of the Genesis Effect. There was one problem within the original Genesis device which was later revealed by Dr. David Maurcus, its co-creator who stated that in order to make the machine work, he had to use unstable Protomatter. This led to an instability which brought about the destruction of a planet that the machine had created. Captain Spock is killed saving the Enterprise and buried on the Genesis planet. (Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan) SD8201.3 USS Excelsior launched. Dubbed the Great Experiment, it is the first vessel with Transwarp Drive.      The Battle of Genesis takes place in 2285 and involved the crew of a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, under the command of Kruge, entering conflict with Starfleet forces in orbit and on the surface of the planet Genesis. Although a brief space battle was fought between the Klingon Bird-of-Prey and the USS Enterprise, the encounter was mainly a battle of wills between Kruge and the Enterprise's commanding officer, Admiral James T. Kirk. The Klingons' part in the battle was motivated by a conviction that the Genesis Device, which the Federation had recently developed, was a weapon designed to render the Klingons extinct, so Commander Kruge was desperate to learn "the secret" of what he called "the Genesis torpedo".      David Marcus is killed by Klingons and Spock is rescued, having been regenerated by residual energies of the Genesis Effect. (Star Trek III The Search for Spock) October Serial killer stalks Perrini at Starbase 21. While transporting the killer to a penal colony, Lt Singh kills him, is revealed to be mirror universe agent and subsequently arrested. 2285 Excalibur refitted with Transwarp Drive.      Capt. Perrini and Lt Thomas Catt leave Excalibur; Capt. Myrissaw assumes command. McCurrvey, Thelev, Thoma & Mercer assigned to USS Excalibur. 2286, SD8390.0 An alien vessel moving through space is detected by the USS Saratoga, and sensor analysis reveals it to be some sort of probe. The captain of the Saratoga contacts Starfleet Command and informs them that this alien probe is apparently headed to the Terran solar system. The probe comes close to the Saratoga. The probe, issuing a powerful signal, begins draining the ship of all power. As the Saratoga begins to drift, the captain issues a distress call to Starfleet Command.      Back on Earth, the Klingon Ambassador to the United Federation of Planets demands the extradition of Admiral James T. Kirk for murdering a Klingon crew and for stealing a Klingon vessel. The ambassador also denounces the failed Genesis Project as a mere weapon and the Genesis planet as a staging area from which to launch the annihilation of the Klingon race.      Just then, Ambassador Sarek arrives in the council chambers and says that Genesis was named for creating life and not death. He goes on to accuse the Klingons of shedding the first blood in attempting to possess the secrets of Genesis. Sarek points out that the Klingons destroyed USS Grissom and killed Kirk's son, which the Klingon ambassador does not deny, saying they have the right to defend their race. Sarek then asks if the Klingons have the right to commit murder. The probe has reached Earth and begins the process of neutralizing the Earth Spacedock before they can get the space doors open and all ships inside the dock, including the USS Excelsior, are all neutralized and disabled. The probe then continues into Earth orbit and begins pulling water and moisture from the oceans and clouds begin gathering over the Earth as the probe continues its transmission.      Still en route to Earth aboard the Bird-of-Prey, now renamed the HMS Bounty, Uhura tells Kirk that a signal is finally coming through from the Federation. Kirk tells her to put it on screen and they all watch in shock as the president tells all ships everywhere to not approach the planet Earth as the probe is causing critical damage to the Earth, almost totally ionizing the atmosphere. The president says that all power sources have failed and all Earth-orbiting starships are powerless. The probe, according to the president, is vaporizing Earth's oceans and that everyone on Earth will not survive unless they can find a way to respond. The president warns all ships to save their energy and to save themselves and they should avoid the planet Earth at all costs. He then bids farewell and the transmission fades. A stunned Kirk and crew are amazed at what they saw and heard.      After a moment, Kirk asks to hear the probe's signal and Uhura patches it through. Spock says that the probe signifies aliens of great intelligence that somehow, are unaware of the signal's destructive nature and that he thinks it illogical that the probe's intention is hostile. When McCoy asks if this is the probe's way of saying hello to the people of the Earth, Spock points out that Human arrogance assumes the message must be meant for them. When Kirk asks if it could be for some other lifeform, Spock does point out the signal is pointed at Earth's oceans. Kirk asks Uhura to adjust the probe's signal to account for what it would sound like underwater.      When she does so, Spock theorizes there can be no response to the message. He then excuses himself to test the theory and he is quickly followed by Kirk and McCoy. In the Bounty's lab, Spock discovers that it is in fact a whale song, specifically that of the humpback whale. McCoy at first wonders who would send a probe across the galaxy to speak to whales, but Kirk and Spock recognize that whales were on Earth ten million years before Humans.      Humpback whales, Spock points out, have been extinct since the 21st century, and so it is possible an alien intelligence sent the probe to establish why they lost contact. In the Bounty's cargo bay, Kirk asks Scott if they can enclose it to hold water and Scott says he could and McCoy agrees that Kirk is about to go swimming "Off the deep end, Mr. Scott!" Kirk tells Scott they have to go find a couple of humpback whales.      McCoy asks Kirk if he is seriously going to attempt time travel in "this rust bucket." Kirk responds that they have done it before. On Earth, a faint transmission believed to be from Admiral Kirk is received and Cartwright orders it put through. Kirk advises Starfleet of their analysis of the probe's signal, tells them that Spock's theory is that only the extinct humpback whale can properly answer the probe and they are going to try time travel and they are computing their trajectory at the same time.      Moments later, the Bounty returns from the past with a mating pair of hump-backed whales and a 20th century Cetacean biologist, Dr. Gillian Taylor. The whales begin to sing back to the probe. After a few minutes of communication with the whales the probe deactivates its scanner and the weather on Earth begins to calm. Power begins to be restored all around the planet and as the probe leaves the way it came, it passes Spacedock and power is restored aboard the station.      However, Kirk and crew still have to face court martial. In the Federation Council Chambers, the President calls the trial to order. Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura are brought in from where they are held, only to be joined by Spock, who was sitting in the Council with his father. The president reminds Spock that he is not accused, but Spock intends to stand with his shipmates and the president accepts. He then lists the charges and specifications against the Enterprise crew: conspiracy (directed at McCoy), assault on Federation officers (directed at all of them), theft of Federation property (the starship Enterprise) (directed at Kirk, Scotty, Bones, Sulu, and Chekov), sabotage of the USS Excelsior (directed at Scotty), willful destruction of Federation property (again, the USS Enterprise, directed at Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov), and disobeying direct orders of the Starfleet commander (directed at Kirk).      The president asks Kirk for his plea, and on behalf of all the officers, Kirk announces he is authorized to plead guilty. The president then says that because of "certain mitigating circumstances," though, all charges are dropped, except for one, and that charge: disobeying a superior officer, is directed solely at Admiral Kirk. Kirk is demoted to Captain. (Star Trek IV The Voyage Home)      Transwarp proves to be a technological dead-end. 2287 Capt Myrissaw visits Guardian of Forever. In the past, she accidentally kills an alien planetary leader, and is charged with murder and violation of the Prime Directive. The first charge was dropped, but she was found guilty of the second and cashiered. Captain Sulik assumes command of Excalibur with Cdr William Robert Riker as XO. February 10 A mission to the time planet accidentally results in changing history - a science team was studying the events during which Myrrissaw had violated the Prime Directive earlier, blotting out the causative factors in the contamination of a protected culture. A shootout with a spy who'd infiltrated the science team resulted in the negation of the original event. When the PCs returned to the Excalibur-A, they found subtle changes. When they got back to Star Base 21, they found Captain Myrrissaw in command of the USS Bonaventure and Capt Perrini commanding the USS Magnificent. August 5 Melisandre ferch Gwyddion confirmed among the dead on the starliner Singing Star in the Triangle on or about August 5 2287. All hands and passengers listed as lost in pirate attack. Bellandra's body was not found and she was declared dead by statute.      Dr. John Smith, a civilian scientist is assigned to the ship to oversee the experimental Quantum Para-Dimensional Transport Device (colloquially known as Project Silver Ball). Smith is actually the android Questor, now working with the Daystrom Institute. Project Silver Ball was based on readings from the USS Genser and the log buoy from the USS Blackheart. The Excalibur had previously encountered the phenomenon and thus was a natural for Starfleet to assign to the project. SD8425.0 USS Odyssey is commissioned, the first Excelsior class without Transwarp.      When a battleship from the other-dimensional Havenic Imperial Federation crosses over, the Excalibur uses the Quantum Para-Dimensional Transport Device to return it to its home universe, in the process rescuing one Major Jonathan David Norton. The Excalibur then embarks on an interdimensional exploration mission which took them to several universes, including the Third Imperium, the mining ship Red Dwarf and the Galactic Empire universe, where they acquired an R-2 astromech droid, which the players dubbed Wesson, and who hung around with the android John Smith.      Eventually, they discovered a Mirror Universe fleet gathering to invade the Federation, Lt. Singh having escaped detention, returned home and convinced the Empire that the Federation was ripe for the plucking. The Excalibur managed to avert the invasion at the cost of burning out the Silver Ball and nearly destroying the ship when ISS Odyssey makes an incursion into normal space. Discovered by the USS Excalibur, it is heavily damaged and returns to Mirror universe. The body of Lt Singh is discovered in the flotsam... July 10 Thelev's Zhen-wife Vora reveals that she is pregnant. Since her Chan-father is Aenar, the child—to be named Vethia—is one-quarter Aenar. July 15 While between ships, some former Excalibur officers accidentally stumble into a situation where they are captured by smugglers who turned out to be involved with the Romulans. A series of questionable decisions resulted in all of them being killed, or so it seemed at the time. Among the lost are Cdr Thelev and LCdr Mercer. SD8454.1 The crew of the newly commissioned USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A are enjoying shore leave after the starship's shakedown cruise. At Yosemite National Park, Captain James T. Kirk is camping with First Officer Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy. Their leave is interrupted when the Enterprise is ordered by Starfleet Command to rescue the Human, Klingon, and Romulan diplomats taken hostage on Nimbus III, a planet set aside as a neutral location to advance dialogue between the Federation, Klingon Empire, and Romulan Star Empire.      Learning of the Enterprise's mission, the ambitious Klingon captain Klaa decides to pursue Kirk for personal glory. On Nimbus III, the Enterprise crew discovers that renegade Vulcan Sybok, Spock's half-brother, is behind the hostage crisis. Sybok reveals that the hostage situation was a ruse to lure a starship to Nimbus III, which he intends to use to reach the mythical planet Sha Ka Ree, the place where creation supposedly began; the planet lies behind a seemingly impenetrable field known as The Great Barrier near the center of the galaxy. Sybok uses his unique ability to reveal and heal the innermost pain of a person through the mind meld to subvert the hostages' and crew members' wills.      Only Spock and Kirk prove resistant to Sybok; Spock is unmoved by the experience and Kirk refuses the Vulcan's offer, telling him that his pain is necessary to make him human. Sybok reluctantly declares a truce with Kirk, realizing that he needs his leadership experience to navigate the Enterprise to Sha Ka Ree. The ship successfully breaches the Great Barrier, pursued by Klaa's Klingon Bird-of-Prey and discovers a lone, uninhabited planet. Sybok, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy take a shuttlecraft to the surface, where Sybok calls out to his perceived vision of the creator.      An entity appears, represented as a large human face with a flowing beard, and when told of how Sybok breached the barrier, demands that the starship be brought closer to the planet. When a skeptical Kirk asks, "What does God need with a starship?", the entity attacks him in retribution. The others discover that the "creator" has deceived them and that the barrier is, in fact, intended to prevent it from escaping Sha Ka Ree.      Horrified by his naiveté, Sybok sacrifices himself in an effort to combat the creature and allow the others to escape. Intent on stopping the entity, Kirk orders Enterprise to fire a photon torpedo at their location, to little effect. Spock and McCoy are beamed back to the ship, but Klaa attacks the Enterprise before Kirk can be transported aboard. The vengeful entity reappears and tries to kill Kirk before the Klingons destroy it in a volley of disruptor fire. Kirk is beamed aboard the Klingon ship, where Spock is waiting. General Korrd orders Klaa to stand down and to apologise to Kirk for his actions. After the crews of Enterprise and the Klingon ship celebrate a new détente, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are permitted to resume their shore leave at Yosemite. (Star Trek V The Final Frontier) November 15, 06:30 Vethia born to Vora Zhelev on Andoria. Vethia goes to live with her Shen-mother Thoma. 2288, SD8618.0 The USS Kahless NX-K-101,a hybrid K't'inga class battleship with Federation drives and a cloaking device, is on a joint Federation/Klingon mission behind Romulan lines. There was nominally peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. It was the perfect time for a joint mission behind Romulan lines. A joint Starfleet/Klingon crew was put together on the Kahless, and sent through the Triangle to approach Romulan space from the other side. McCurrvey was in command and other officers the Starfleet half of the command crew including Wesson, the R-2 unit.      After a long voyage, nearly a year, they discovered that the Romulans were apparently waging a war with an unknown enemy who was conducting a scorched-earth campaign. The Kahless moved to a system which appeared to be next in line, where they discovered a Romulan science outpost. Slipping in undetected with their cloaking device, they beamed down to the outpost. There, they discovered cryosleep capsules containing a number of Federation, Klingon and other captives, including Thelev and Mercer. They beamed the capsules up to the Kahless.      Unfortunately, the Romulan's enemy showed up at that point and attacked the system. Their sensors were able to penetrate the Kahless' cloak and they targeted the ship. Just as the Kahless went into warp, a massive volley of photon torpedoes detonated near it, combining with the cloaking field and warp field to open a rip in the fabric of subspace. The Kahless popped out in what they determined to be the Small Magellanic Cloud where they discover the USS Shi'Kahr NCC-1325,an old Baton Rouge class starship, and her crew on a class-M planet.      The Klingon crew mutinies and is stranded on the planet, which the Shi'Kahr's crew have made habitable, and the damaged Kahless destroyed by spiraling it into the star. They revive Thelev from cryostasis, since he had worked most closely with Smith on Project Silver Ball, and Wesson had many of the operational details still in memory. They rebuild the device as best they could, and by trial and error made their way through the multiverse back home.      One of the universes they go through was apparently Wesson's universe, so it left the ship. With a reasonably accurate fix on the Federation from there, they proceeded and upon arriving in Federation space, returned the Shi'Kahr and her crew to the Federation after 63 years      Thoma returns to Starfleet and is reunited with Thelev. Her daughter Vethia Shelev, is introduced to her Thaan-father. September 20 USS Excalibur NCC-1705-A is commissioned with normal Warp drive and a new-construction Silver Ball, incorporating a Oscillation Overthruster in place of the now-obsolete bread-boarded Delatron; with McCurrvey in command, Cdr Mercer as his XO and Cdr Thelev as his Chief Engineer. The ship proceeds on her shake-down cruise. 2289 Miranda, a thief from a low-tech planet, is kidnapped from her home planet by Orion slavers. The Orions are killed when they attempt to disassemble a psionic matrix in her equipment. She and Norton meet and form a partnership, purchasing the SS Lucas THX-1138, an obsolete Starfleet-surplus Chameleon class scout. March 20 Excalibur finishes her six-month shakedown cruise. McCurrvey is promoted to Commodore, and Thelev and Mercer to Captain. They are certain their adventures together are finished... (Star Trek Excalibur campaign ends.) 2290, March 07, 12:45, SD9011.2 Thelev appointed C/O Odyssey with Mercer as his XO. Odyssey leaves Starbase 31, headed for Baker's World, capital planet of the Affiliation of Outer Free Worlds a.k.a. the Baker's Dozen; in the Triangle. Cdor McCurrvey is in overall mission command. (Star Trek, a Space Odyssey campaign begins) March 13 Odyssey intercepts an interdimensional transporter and acquires two new passengers who appear to be two 21st century fictional characters, Sam Spaxter and Ms. Louella Goodbody. March 14 Odyssey enters AOFW space and is joined by the Free Worlds Ship Montgomery, Capt Henri de Laroche commanding. The FWS Montgomery is an old Federation Lancaster class light cruiser from the Four Years War era. March 15 Odyssey encounters drifting shuttle. The shuttlecraft is assigned to the joint UFP/AOFW Preserver archæological dig on Colil V. Both crewmembers are dead and the passenger, Dr. Carol Marcus of the Daystrom Institute has been taken captive. Capt de Laroche suggests the modus operandi points to a pirate known as Calista the Damned. Odyssey and Montgomery begin tracking the warp plasma residue trail at low warp. March 17 Odyssey intercepts a distress call from a merchant cruiser under attack by an Orion Lightning class blockade runner. This matches Calista's Armida IV, and the Odyssey jumps to the coordinates only to discover it's a decoy. Plotting the Armida's porbable course, the crew determines its probable destination is to the zenith in an area known as the Kellinan Reach, above Federation space. March 18 Helm officer LCdr Saavik is temporarily possessed by the Verlegg who uses her as a conduit to enter the Odyssey. Verlegg is defeated by Security and Saavik once she has been freed of Verlegg's influence. Saavik identifies the technique she used to dispatch Verlegg as the tal-shaya. Armida exits a wormhole and attacks Odyssey temporarily knocking out the Silver Ball. Odyssey pursues Armida into wormhole. March 21, 10:30 Odyssey arrives at Bridgetown, orbiting the t-tauri pre-main-sequence star Sheila in the Bloodfield Nebula, within the Kellinan Reach. March 22 Cdr DesMarais turns 47. Odyssey liases with Deep Space Six-Alpha (Bridgetown Station) C/O Cdr Teri Harris. Bridgetown is officially neutral territory, thus outside Federation jurisdiction but is monitored by DS6α. Calista places Carol Marcus up for auction to highest bidders and broadasts to all interested parties over subspace radio. March 28, 10:00 IKV K'Tanko (HoD Kang commanding) and RSN Star Empire (Cdr Liviana Charvanek commanding) arrive at Bridgetown for the auction of Dr. Marcus.      Cdor McCurrvey, Captains Thelev and Mercer accompany Cdr. Teri Harris to a meeting with Bridgetown Administrator "Sam." Calista appears with Dr. Marcus. Odyssey crew attempt rescue of Marcus via transporter, but are diverted to an alternate universe. Unknown The Odyssey command crew, Dr. Marcus, Cdr Harris, Lt(jg) Boluri, Saavik, Dr. Driveon, transporter chief Alexander, Spaxter, Sam, Calista, Jasmine and Jade find themselves in a subterranean realm.      Discovered by the Least Spawn, the Federation crew are ferried to Chateau d'Amber on the surface where they meet Lord Dhark and his family. Dhark's minions capture Calista along with Jade, Jasmine and Sam. Calista kills Boluri, who is resurrected by Lord Dhark's wife Ladye Masque. The Ilithid Vizier arrives for a diplomatic meeting and the Verlegg appears. Verlegg is revealed to be Dhark's youngest son. Dhark acknowledges the Federation's right to rescue Marcus.      Stepping aside, McCurrvey manages to contact Odyssey and notifies the ship of their situation and discovers that Odyssey is communicating with them by way of the Bridgetown anomaly. Dr. Smith calculates that the Odyssey can use the Silver Ball to transit through the Bridgetown anomaly to the Chateau d'Amber. McCurrvey arranges the code word "Pelican" if he needs Odyssey's presence. Lord Dhark summons them back and introduces them to his "pet" hellhound, named Pistos. Inviting them all to dinner Dhark continues to get to know the Odyssey and Armida crews. It is suddenly discovered that transporter chief Alexander has disappeared. It is discovered that Alexander was killed by the Ilithid Vizier who is nowhere to be found. March 31 Odyssey is attacked by ships blaming them for the disappearance of Sam. K'Tanko and Star Empire come to Odyssey's aid. Odyssey enacts Case Pelican. Unknown Odyssey appears over Chateau d'Amber with K'Tanko and Star Empire in tow. Using tricorder readings as a baseline, Odyssey locates the Vizier, who is captured after a brief fight. Verlegg and the Armida crew hijack the Ilthid Vizier's Nautiloid ship and escape, having also retrieved theremaining Armida IV crew through the anomaly. Odyssey manages to intercept one of the new arrivals by transporter. Odyssey pursues via Silver Ball jump. April 3 Odyssey, K'Tanko and Star Empire appear in the Triangle. They are accosted by an Orion Wanderer class blockade runner commanded by Prefect Ozakin, who challenges them for intruding in Orion Frontier Mercantile Association space. Seconds later a distress call sounds from the Lifaqport shipyards on Workday. An unidentified ship is shooting its way out of the shipyards. This ship turns out to be the stolen Nautiloid, now renamed by Calista as the Armida V, which severely damages Ozakin's Wanderer. Odyssey rescues a number of Orions including Ozakin. The Armida V jumps out-system and the Odyssey follows with the K'Tanko in tow, leaving the Star Empire to assist the Orions. Unknown Odyssey and K'Tanko accidentally arrive in a tiny bubble universe, having misjumped. Close by is a floating "island" in space atop which is the Museum at the End of Time, surrounded by some 60 alien starships of various designs, and Odyssey is hailed by as a color, shade of purple-grey who invites the commanding officers to beam over to the museum.      There, Captain Thelev, HoD Kang and Prefect Ozakin, as well as Commodore (literally captain of captains) McCurrvey (and later Captain Mercer) are invited to join the Council of Captains.      It is soon discovered that the bubble universe has become unstable and is undergoing contractions. It is determined that very little time to evacuate the rag-tag fleet from the bubble universe by crowding as many people into as few ships as possible and use the Silver Ball to piggy-back them into the outside universe. Oct. 16, 11:25 Odyssey returns with the alien fleet. Oct. 17, 12:45, Bright Stars Cluster Sector Task Force activated. 2291, Jan. 01, 00:00:01, SD8982.98 Operation Hellfire, incorporating the Bright Stars Cluster Task Force, begins. Unknown Starships Odyssey, Fife, K'Tanko and Star Empire jump to Lord Dhark's Chateau d'Amber. Dhark, in thrall to the Ilithid Vizier since the last encounter with the Odyssey crew, is freed by McCurrvey, Thelev and Mercer.      The Federation, Klingon and Romulan ships proceed to Eberronspace after ascertaining that the Silver Ball will function in the Phlogiston. Entering Eberron orbit, the command crew beam down to meet the Commercial Council in Sharn, on the continent of Khorvaire. The Council directs the crew to a known hangout to the Verlegg in the Lhazaar Principalities at the far end of the continent. There, they encounter Jade and Kamato of the Armida V and narrowly escape a pub riot, capturing the pirates Jade and Kamato.       2293 Apr. 15, 13:01, SD9521.6 Praxis explodes (Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country) Apr. 22, SD9524.1 Khitomer Conference (Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country) SD9575.0 USS Enterprise-A decommissioned and recommissioned as USS Yorktown NCC-1704-A 2294, SD9715.5 USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B launched, El-Aurian refugees rescued, Capt Kirk killed in action. (Star Trek VII Generations prologue) This page's code ©2021 Owen E. Oulton.