1970
A print-out run of the master computer at Security Control, Omaha MFB,
reveals "unusual material" (updated technical orders accidentally trans-
mitted from the library computer of the starship "Enterprise" a year ago).
A top security lid is clamped on the matter while an investigation is
launched to identify the source of the transmission [TM, SFB].

The Vegan Tyranny dominates space outside of the Local Group [ST 2].

The Ferengi enter the galactic community, according to Quark [DSN #5].


Disaster is averted as "Apollo 13," which experiences a power failure on
route to the moon, is skillfully swung around the satellite and brought
safely back to Earth [SFC].

In 2372, Nog will give Jake Sisko a holosuite baseball program
featuring the Red Socks of this year playing the 1961 Yankees [DSN 494].

1971, 05 February
Rain Robinson has a photograph of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. of "Apollo 14"
taken on this date at Fra Mauro Highlands in her office in 1996 [SNW II].

At about this time on Krantin, it is discovered that the Plague is not the
result of natural industrial pollutants as this world develops towards
pollution-free machinery [TNG #36].

1972
The Bajoran wormhole again undergoes subspace inversion [DSN 476].

02 March
The space probe "Pioneer 10" is launched from Earth. In 2287, Captain
Klaa of the Klingon Bird of Prey "Okrona" will destroy the probe [ST V].

1973, 15 April
Col. Robert Argon, Director of Security Control, Omaha MFB, declares the
"data sheets" of the 1969 transmission to be a hoax. The technical orders
are given to Franz Joseph of Franz Joseph Designs. The consequences will
be far-reaching, to say the least [TM, Log 7, SFB].

The Franz Joseph Designs aerospace consulting firm analyzes the several
thousand pages of badly garbled memory files and concludes that they ap-
pear to be a history of the United Federation of Planets, its Star Fleet,
and nearby regions of the galaxy, including considerable amounts of tech-
nical data. A very small portion of this data will be published in the
'Star Fleet Technical Manual' and additional material obtained through the
tapes will be used as the basis for the 'Star Fleet Battles' game, through
the cooperation of Franz Joseph Designs and Amarillo Design Bureau. Only
approximately 25% of the sum total of material is translated and analyzed
[SFB, TM].

The U.S. orbits the Skylab space station and sets a record for duration in
space. Among the experiments performed is evaluation of long-term weight-
lessness on Man [SFC].

1974
In the Rabinowitz family, the tradition starts of saying prayers in both

Hebrew and English [V 171].

On Earth, Element 106 is discovered in Russia [MRM].

On Earth, the Redjac entity kills five women in Kiev, Russia [WF].

Kavis Alpha, a neutron star, explodes [TNG 150].

In the Delta Quadrant, the Lumalit establish a lottery system to
select which babies are to be destroyed, in order to control their
ever-growing populations [TCT #4].

1975
"Apollo 18" and "Soyuz XIX" link-up in space thus culminating two years
of cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union [SFC].

In the Delta Quadrant, the Varo generation ship is launched [V 211].

1976
The "Enterprise" (OV-101) orbiter is commissioned. This first reusable
space shuttle is used as a test vehicle. It is named "Enterprise" because
one of the project managers for Rockwell International, the builder of the
vehicle, had lost a brother stationed aboard the aircraft carrier of the
same name during World War II [ST-TMP, TOS #54].

Gillian Taylor begins to study whales [ST IV].

"Viking 1" softlands on Mars and begins transmitting photographs, climatic
measurements and soil composition data. Designed for 90 days, the lander
remains functional for two years [SFC].

On Omega IV it is the Year of the Red Bird (plus or minus 5 years) [OG].

1977
On Earth, Colladium (Element 114) is discovered in the United States
[MRM].

The unmanned space probes "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2" depart for
the outer planets of Sol, following up on the earlier "Pioneer" missions.
These more sophisticated probes will encounter first Jupiter (in 1979)
and then Saturn (1980-81), eventually flying by Uranus (in 1985). At
least four more "Voyager" series probes will be launched before the end
of the century. "Voyager 6" will be the first Human-built artifact to
fall into a black hole. It will emerge on the far side of the galaxy and
be repaired by a machine world for its long return to Earth. In 2371
Kirk and Spock will come to the conclusion that it was not a black

hole but a transwarp conduit, and that the machine world was the
Borg homeworld. V'ger was reconfigured by a different branch of
the Borg collective--that assimilated by direct conversion to
patterned energy rather than by physical means [SFC, ST-TMP, GN 22].

1978
On Earth, Element 107 is discovered in Russia [MRM].

Ten probes arrive at Venus in the largest research assault to date. Among
the mysteries to be solved are understanding the atmospheric composition
and the internal mass distribution of the planet [SFC].

1979
On Earth, Element 108 is discovered in Germany [MRM].

1980
Space Shuttle flights begin as available payload space is booked full.
Early missions will demonstrate the many uses of the gravity-free
vacuum of space [SFC, TBoT #2].

The Nexus temporal energy ribbon again passes through our galaxy [ST VII].