2008
The tenth, and last, DY-200 series sleeper vessel is constructed [DYC].

The Icelandic public databank is established. It is the first attempt
at creating a synthetic consciousness [TOS #42].

The "Aventeur" class explorer enters service. It is the first ship to be
entirely assembled in Earth orbit, with a complement of 109 and the most
powerful onboard radio transceivers to date. The ship's clean fission
engines double the efficiency of early fission power packs. The most
famous ship of this class will be the "Lewis and Clark" (perhaps just-
ifying this class being later referred to as the "Clark" class). Three
ships of this class will be instrumental in opening up the outer planets
for development and colonization [SFC, STD2].

Fusion power research and development brings forth the ultimate
recycling device, the Fusion Torch, a furnace so hot that it can melt
down all materials, artificial and natural, to their basic state [SFC].

The first Earth-Moon liner enters service with a ship's complement of 60
[SFC].

An unmanned comet lander also enters service [SFC].

2009
The second L-5 city in space opens. Five more will be built in the fol-
lowing decade [SFC].

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

August
Marsbase 1 is established on Mars by UESPA [STD2].

21 December [reference stardate 0/0912.21]
The Romulans begin a period of slow, cautious expansion in the direction
of the Klingon Empire. The expansion ends 40 years later, setting the
boundaries for what will become known as the Triangle, where many of the
recurring skirmishes between these two powers and the U.F.P. will take
place [FASA].

2010
The five interstellar ships are launched from orbit around the outer
planets. These include the "Forty Families" generation ship which is the
first Earth interstellar ship to use a Bussard ramjet for propulsion (not
counting two robot probes). The "Forty Families" will be lost. Two more
ramjet generation ships will be launched. One ship, the "Marilee," com-
manded by Captain Wayne Perry, will colonize Perry's Planet. One such
vessel, carrying colonists from Earth's Asian continent, may colonize Pai
and form the Dragon Empire. Another generation ship, the "Alamo" will
probably be launched during this era [TBoT #2, ON 11, ON 14, TNG #38,
TNG #39].

Alex Charon is defeated in his bid to be elected to an assembly seat
in New York State, his planned first step in his political career. All
over the world the maturing supermen are finding their efforts to enter
the Human world frustrated by fear and distrust, and by the disapproval
of most organized religions [TBoT #2].

The first Earth/Space Census shows that 1,500 people are living off the
Earth. As many as 7,500 could be in space by the year 2020, the UN study
shows [SFC].

Solar now accounts for 40% of the United States' energy use. A worldwide
accelerated Solar Power Satellite Program will be completed this decade
[SFC].

This is the approximate era during which (according to legend) Klingon
Emperor Kessec founded the First Empire with the Pagrashtak (Devil's
Heart) won from his greatest enemy, a neighboring warrior-king. His
brother, Batahr, kills him for the stone but then repents and uses the
Pagrashtak to resurrect his brother. Kessec kills him and establishes
the Empire. He eventually gives the stone to Halaylah, a Tehalaian
slave (later known as the Collector) who will form an artist's colony
on Atropos which will flourish for only a century. She will be sealed
up with the Devil's Heart [GN 13].

2011
The Martian Fever ravages the Martian Colonies [MRM].

In the Gamma Quadrant, the planet Meridian dimensionally shifts back into
normal space for a brief period of time [DSN 454].

In the "Mirror" universe, the Singh Moonbase is constructed as the first
permanent outpost on another planet [TBoT #14].

2012
The Millennium Gate is dedicated [V 217].

Marsbase 1, Terra's first interplanetary outpost, begins the first
thorough search for extraterrestrial life with a crew of 15 under the com-
mand of Director Mark Glynn [SFC].

The Planet Rover, a 4-6 man buggy, enters service [SFC].

Fear that the supermen plan to replace normal Humans reaches a stage of
witchhunting when Gerald Vance, a crackpot evangelist, publishes his
'Children of Satan: How the Supermen Plan to Conquer the World.' The book
is the ravings of a deranged fanatic, full of half-truths, scientific
inaccuracies, and out-and-out lies. Vance details the plans of the
"superman conspiracy" to take over the governments of the world by subter-
fuge, and "eventually establish concentration camps where all of the
normal Human males will be used as slave labor and worked to death, and
all of the women will be genetically 'reprogrammed' to produce only super-
men children." The innate Human need for an antagonist left vacant by the
elimination of war finds a handy target in the form of the supermen, and
the fact that several of the supermen had already endeavored to enter pol-
itics and business leads to a ready acceptance for Vance's bigotry. The
book leaps to the top of the best-seller lists, and waves of hysteria
follow in its wake [TBoT #2].

Roughly this is the era of the second visit of the "Sky Spirits." They
find no trace of the Inheritors on Earth. This visit may have been much
later, after circa 2170 [V 125].
 

2013
The DY-300, successor to the DY-100, undergoes prototype testing. This
design has some serious flaws which prevent it from entering service.
Although an alternate account indicates that the DY-300 will be instru-
mental in establishing a manned presence on Mars and eventually evolved
directly into the "Wheeler" class DY-500 [SFC, STD2].

According to one account, Zefram Cochrane is born this year. Most other
accounts date his birth to 2025, if not later [ST VIII].