 
Approximately 1 million years ago
An unknown race, dubbed "the Builders" by Federation scientists, builds a Dyson Sphere around a G5 type star in the Dobhran Sector. The Sphere is some 200 million kilometres in diametre and is constructed of carbon neutronium. The Builders are actually a species from an alternate dimension called the Finorii, working under the direction of an ascended being named Yaskoydray, known as "the Grandfather." The Grandfather has also created a series of pocket universes known as the "String of Pearls."
290,000 years ago
The Builders abandon the Dyson Sphere, possibly due to instability in the central star.
1982
The television series Galaxy Quest is cancelled due to low ratings, but lives on in syndication. The series has a fanatical following and many prominent scientists and astronauts confide that it played a rôle in their decisions to pursue careers in science. The final 2-part episode is never rerun.
2000
18 years after its cancellation, Galaxy Quest is reborn as Galaxy Quest, the Legend Continues, after a publicity stunt which causes over $3 million damage to a convention hotel. The original cast is reunited for the series, and rumours persist that a new character on the show, is actually played by an alien.
2063
USS Challenger NCC-74695 travels back in time to prevent the Borg from altering the future. The Borg arrive two days later and begin bombarding the Montana launch complex where Zefram Cochrane is preparing to test his newly-invented warp drive. USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E destroys the Borg sphere. Cochrane successfully tests the drive and makes first contact with the Vulcans. Challenger and Enterprise return to the 24th century.
2075
Earth's first extra-solar colony is founded on Alpha Centauri III. The colony is completely independant of Earth and in 2161 becomes a founding member of the United Federation of Planets.
2185
The NX Class starship Excalibur NX-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 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. Dr. Morbius is revived by an entity known as "the Grandfather" and ascends to a higher plane of existance. He adopts the nom du dei of "Möbius."
2250
IKV bortaS disappears while returning to Qo'noS after a raid on Romulus. BortaS is disabled and the command boom crashes in the Dyson Sphere. The bortaS is immortalised in Klingon legend as a series of serial holonovels entitled Battlecruiser Vengeance.
2276
SS Leviathan, a Unicorn class Starliner, disappears with all hands. Over the next century, the Leviathan develops into a legend not unlike that of the ancient 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...
2285
The USS Excalibur encounters the HIMS Sophista, a starship from the 29th century. It has strayed from the Havenic Imperial Federation, a stellar nation in a lenticular cluster orbiting our galaxy, through a wormhole. The crew of the Excalibur assists the Sophista in returning to its own time and space.
2286
The USS Excalibur returns from an accidental time trip to the 29th century with a passenger, Major Jonathan David Norton, late of the Havenic Imperial Federation.
2289
Miranda is kidnaped 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.
Using an old Chameleon Class Scout/Trader, Norton attempts to recreate the singularity used by the Excalibur to return home. He fails, and he and Miranda are displaced only 81 years into the future.
2294
Montgomery Scott retires to the Norpin Colony. En route, however, the USS Jenolan upon which he is travelling, crashes on the surface of a Dyson Sphere. Captain Scott and Ensign Matthew Franklin are the only survivors, and Captain Scott jury-rigs the ship's transporter to place them in stasis.
2364
Lieutenant Natasha Yar is killed by an alien entity called Armus. At the moment of death, she is duplicated and revived by the Finorii, and taken to a bubble universe in the String of Pearls
2369
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D discovers the Dyson Sphere. Captain Montgomery Scott is rescued from transporter stasis on the USS Jenolan, crashed on the Sphere's surface.
Benjamin Sisko assumed command of the former Cardassian mining station Terek Nor, orbiting Bajor. The station is redesignated Deep Space Nine. The Bajoran Wormhole is discovered and exploration of the Gamma Quadrant is begun.
2370
The USS St. Roch NCC-1940, a Federation starship thought lost in 2296, appears in the Romulan Neutral Zone. It is severely damaged and is under attack by a Klingon warship. It is saved by the Romulan Warbird Executor and escorted out of the Neutral Zone.
The crew of the St Roch undergo an intensive debriefing at Starfleet Headquarters, and begin technical upgrade courses at Starfleet Academy.
Norton and Miranda arrive in the 24th century in a failed bid to retuirn to Norton's timeline. They meet KeH'leyr Tryndi, a Klingon/Betazoid con artist. With her help, they forge registry papers for the Orion slave ship under the name SS Lucas.
Section 31 issues illegal Letters of Marque and Reprisal to Niko V'Shandruu authorising him to hunt Orion pirates.
Starfleet encounters the Vorta in the Gamma Quadrant, and an invasion from the Dominion is feared.
2371
The USS Defiant NX-74205 is assigned to Deep Space Nine to gather intelligence about the Dominion. The existance of the Founders is confirmed and they are discovered to be shapeshifters.
USS Voyager NCC-74656 commissioned under Captain Kathryn Janeway.
Starfleet officers on a tour of the USS Constitution at the Fleet Museum orbiting Luna discover a Founder in the Sol system.
USS Challenger NCC-74695 commissioned under Captain Kitara Sundown. Several officers from the St. Roch are assigned to it.
USS Voyager disappears in the Badlands. USS Challenger is assigned to the search.
USS Challenger is assigned to a diplomatic mission to the planet Eltanin.
2372
Klingon Empire dissolves the Khitomer Accords, and attacks Cardassia.
Hostilities erupt between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
Captain Kitara Sundown is abducted and taken to the Gamma Quadrant. The Challenger tracks the abductors' ship and retrieves Captain Sundown, or so they think. She has in fact been replaced by a Founder.
The Dominion detonates an explosive device at a diplomatic meeting on Earth. Admiral Leyton attempts a coup in order to place Starfleet in charge of the Federation to meet the Dominion threat.
2373
General Martok is revealed to be a Founder. Hostilities continue for some time between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
Captain Kitara Sundown is revealed to be a Founder and is killed by Jonathan Norton at Deep Space Nine. USS Challenger begins a search for the real captain Sundown in the Gamma Quadrant.
Borg attack Earth, and travel back in time to prevent the formation of the Federation. USS Challenger becomes trapped in an alternate universe where the Borg mission succeeded. Challenger joins an alliance of Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian and Andorian fleets to fight the Borg.
The real General Martok is rescued from a Dominion prison. He recalls having seen Captain Sundown at the facility. The Klingon Empire and the Federation cease hostilities and reactivate their alliance when Gul Dukat stages a military coup on Cardassia Prime and brings the Cardassian Empire into the Dominion.
The Federation is forced to leave Deep Space Nine, but interdicts the wormhole with a self-replicating minefield.
USS Challenger acquires a cloaking device from the Romulan Star Empire and begins tracking Borg activity in an attempt to capture a Borg Scout. It is hoped that they will be able to determine at what point the Borg changed history.
2374
A Federation/Klingon fleet retakes Deep Space Nine.
During classified manoeuvres in the Beta Quadrant, Starfleet receives information that Voyager was not lost, but was transported to the Delta Quadrant, where they are attempting to return to the Federation, a trip which will take several decades.
The external survey of the Dyson Sphere is completed much later than originally scheduled, due to the conflicts with the Klingon Empire and the Dominion. The starship Labrador enters the Sphere with a detachment from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers and establishes Dyson Base on Freeman's Island. Dyson Base will be home to a small contingent of Starfleet personnel and four Danube Class runabouts.
Dukat frees a Pah Wraith and causes the Bajoran Wormhole to be closed.
2375
The Emissary, Captain Benjamin Sisko, discovers that his mother was possessed by a Prophet and causes the Wormhole to reopen.
Federation forces are trapped behind enemy lines at AR-559. Ensign Joran Dar is among the beseiged Starfleet personnel.
Dyson Base becomes operational. Lieutenant Sen Yalto and Lieutenant (jg) Speen, en route to Dyson Base aboard the runabout USS Thames, attend to an emergency at Federation Deepspace Research Station 39 and log the discovery of a new lifeform, the I'Iglii.
Starfleet Intelligence Section 31 Director Sloane is caught spying during a diplomatic conference on Romulus and is executed.
Lieutenant Yalto discovers traces indicating the Sphere may not be deserted.
USS Thames, charting part of the Dyson Sphere's interior, discovers a tower in the middle of an ice-pack. After a preliminary inspection, the Thames returns to Dyson Base to prepare an in-depth survey.
USS Challenger captures a Borg Scout Cube in the Jandara system and is able to determine from the records in its vinculum when the Borg entered the past. Plans begin for an attack on Earth to cover Challenger's entry into the Sol system.
Lt.(jg) Speen is transfered to USS Magnificent.
Ensigns Jeth and T'Zill discover a primitive sapient race, the H'Ranna. Duck Blind 1 is established to observe the H'Ranna village. Lieutenant Senn Yalto is assigned as senior officer of Duck Blind 1.
Lieutenant (junior grade) Mark Stevens assigned to USS Thames. The crew of the Thames is dispatched to survey the tower discovered six weeks earlier.
Petty Officer 1st class Dino Mannetti and Crewmen 1st class Zerx Solistra and Nyota N'Kele are assigned to Duck Blind 1. Duck Blind 1 enters service.
Lieutenant M'Rel and Ensigns Seth Bern and Tal assigned to USS Thames.
Dyson Base attacked by androids and fighters of unknown origin. Runabouts Thames and Tiber are destroyed and six Dyson Base personnel killed.
Dyson Base reinforced and expansion begun. USS Galaxy delivers runabouts USS Dneiper NCC-74562, USS Dneister NCC-74563, USS Lena NCC-74575 and USS Red River NCC-74581 assigned to Dyson Base.
An ancient Vulcan relic, the tor Fal, covertly recovered from Command section of IKV bortaS. Ensign T'Zill is revealed as a Romulan agent when she attempts to steal the artifact. The crew of the runabout Lena recover the tor Fal and destroy T'Zill's Romulan Theta Class warpshuttle.
A scout shuttle from the 29th century Havenic Imperial Federation is discovered in the Dyson Sphere. A Vargr crewman is alive in a cryogenic capsule, but the remaining crew are absent.
On a routine mission scouting one of the built-up areas surrounding a portal, the crew of the Lena encounter Farl, a member of the Finori race. Farl claims that the Finori are the "Sons of the Grandfather," the true heirs of the creator of the Sphere. He claims that the entity called "Möbius" is a protége of the Grandfather who rebelled and is trying to destroy the Sphere. Farl is taken back to Freeman's Island for debriefing while the crew of the Lena explore the coordinates given them for Farl's home base, accompanied by Lieutenant (jg) Aquaal Leiliri. A pyramid complex at the coordinates contains a dimensional transporter which malfunctions, triggering a massive solar flare. The complex is destroyed and the Lena is feared destroyed along with it, but reappears 3 days later, having been transported to the 29th century. The Lena has sustained minor damage, and has a severely wounded Möbius aboard. Also aboard are Guurps, who had stowed away; and Lieutenant Willa Tau, a liaison officer from the Havenic Imperial Federation.
The Lena is transported to Starbase 21 for repairs. M'Rel, Seth and Tal become embroiled in exposing an alleged conspiracy to infiltrate the Federation by the androids who attacked Dyson Base. Tal, a Tellarite, gains the sobriquet, "the Killer Targ" during an epic barroom brawl with a group of Klingons.
Returning to Dyson Base, M'Rel, Tal and Seth make first contact with the Empire of the Fading Sun, a nation within the Dyson Sphere. They foil a coup and are awarded the Emperor's Thanks. Ensigns Tal and Seth Bern are promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade).
Möbius awakens from his coma and leaves Dyson Base disappearing into a temporal portal in the corona of the Sphere's central star, Dyson. He is followed by the USS Lena, which finds itself stranded in an alternate universe. On a planet known to its inhabitants as the Glory Road, the crew encounters a psionic "wizard" named Bowen the Black, who leads them to a dimensional gate which transports them to the "Library" an extradimensional repository of the knowledge of the many universes. There, they learn the true identity of Möbius, and meet a diminutive man named Dhama Gupta. Gupta claims to be a Buddhist monk from ancient Earth, and to be a refugee from the String of Pearls, but is ignorant of Möbius current location. He arranges for them to return to Dyson Base, mere seconds after they entered the portal.
The Federation and Klingons attack Cardassia. In reaction to Dominion massacres of Cardassian citizens, the Cardassian fleet rebels and joins the attack. The Dominion is defeated when Odo links with the Founder in charge of operations in the Alpha Quadrant and convinces her to surrender.
2376
Repairs and renovations at Dyson Base completed. Additional crew, 2 new Danube class Runabouts and 2 Peregrine class Light Attack Craft assigned to Dyson Base. With the end of the Dominion War, expansions to the Dyson Base facilities are planned. Lieutenants Thoma and M'Rel are promoted to Lieutenant Commander. Thoma's post as XO becomes full-time, and M'Rel is assigned as senior flight control officer.
USS Challenger participates in an attack on the Borg-infested Earth. Using the high-warp slingshot technique, Challenger returns in time to just before the Borg incursion in 2063. Once Captain Myrissaw is certain that the Borg interference has been nullified, they return to the year 2376. The cloaking device is removed and is scheduled to be handed over to the Romulans.
Challenger undergoes repairs at Utopia Planitia Starfleet Yards (Mars, Sector 0-0-1). The crew returns to Starfleet HQ for debriefing. Wesson guest lectures on Temporal Engineering at Daystrom Institute.
USS Lena rescues a H'Ranna family group which has strayed into the Dyson Sphere's subway transport system. A new species, the Hyborii, is catalogued.
The Shroud of the Sword is found in the personal effects of the late da'Har Master Kor.
Returning to Dyson Base from advanced training courses in Sector 0-0-1, the crew of the USS Lena encounter the long-lost starliner SS Leviathan and solve the mystery of its disappearance a century earlier.
USS Challenger completes repairs. Lieutenant Commander Tuvol assigned as Chief Engineer. Challenger assigned to patrol occupied Cardassian territory. Her first mission is to survey the Cardassian mining station Cretok Nor in the Monaria system. Several hundred Federation prisoners are discovered sealed in mining holds on the station. Most are dead. Among the survivors are Captain Sundown, Ensign Sito Jaxa, and Lieutenants Thomas Riker and Ro Laren. The latter two are wanted for desertion and Maquis activities, but escape before their identities are discovered.
Investigating a stray sensor reading, the USS Lena enounters a revived Starfleet Lieutenant Natasha Yar, who has been living in the Sphere since her escape from the String of Pearls. An attack on her camp by the android Kapecki forces Yar and the Lena's crew to take refuge in the Sphere's maintenance tunnels.
2377
USS Voyager returns from the Delta Quadrant after 7 years. Kathryn Janeway is promoted to Rear Admiral. 29th Century The Constituition Class starship USS Excalibur, NCC-1705, accidentally travels to the Havenic Imperial Federation and rescues Major Jonathan David Norton from stasis. Norton returns with the Excalibur to the 23rd century. Several years later, the HIMS Sophista, the starship on which Princess Callista serves, strays into a wormhole and is propelled back in time to the United Federation of Planets. The Federation starship Excalibur is instrumental in her return to the HIF. Several decades after the return of the Sophista, the runabout Lena appears in Havenic space as a result of a malfuntion in a complex in the Dyson Sphere. The Scout Service cruiser HIMS Kzinti Lightning assists in returning them to the 24th century.
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