2113
Poverty, disease, and war are gone from Earth. Contact with the Vulcans
and other extraterrestrials is partly responsible and Cochrane's warp
drive breakthrough [ST VIII].

The Tellarite composer Fronch writes organ music during this period.
This is also the era during which Orion slavers kidnap an aquatic race.
They escape with a ship and stolen technology to the lifeless waterworld
Pacifica [SNW II].

The Cicada star system (Sector 4423) is briefly explored. Over the
next 150 years, a ship will disappear in this region exactly every
27.346 years [LS/a, Log 2].

2114
A cure is found for hyperthyroidism [TOS #56].

2115
Under UESPA contract, the "Orlando" class transport is produced. Based
upon the "Monticello" class cargo carrier, these in-system transports are
propelled by General Space Corp. fusion thrusters [STD2].

The "Marco Polo" encounters the Galactic Maelstrom, henceforth known
as 'Polo's Bolos': twin black holes in motion [ON 15].

2116
The U.N.S.S. "Magellan" is decommissioned and converted to a hospital ship
which will serve an even longer life in the Sol system [STD2].

2119
Peter Lauritson commands the S.S. "Tomobiki" RT-2203 vessel on a deep
space exploration mission of the Ficus sector [TNG 144].

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

2120
The S.S. "Seattle" commanded by Wendy Neuss (NAR 18834) is launched on an
A.D.R. looping mission to the Ficus sector [TNG 144].
 

The H.M.S. "Lord Nelson," DY-500-B ship, commanded by Young Jae Kim is
launched on a deep space exploration mission to the Ficus sector
[TNG 144].

The "Cosmos" class star survey ships are decommissioned [SFC].

2122
The Bajoran wormhole again undergoes subspace inversion [DSN 476].

2123, 27 November
Captain Walter Granger, commanding the S.S. "Mariposa" (NAR 7678, a
modified DY-500 vessel with Yoyodyne pulse fusion drive) departs Sol
system (from the Baikonur Cosmodrome). The ship's First Officer is
Snodgrass, the Chief Engineer is Winrich Kolbe. The cargo manifest
consists of 225 Yoshimitsu computers, 5 monitor beacon satellites,
700 cellular commlinks, 50 spinning wheels, cattle, chickens, and pigs.
The vessel will colonize the Ficus Sector's Mariposa and Bringloid V
worlds [TNG 144].

Si Cwan's royal line ascends to rule the Thallonian Empire [NF #1].

2124
The first Federation congress meets. The Vulcan delegation introduces
a referendum on Federation-wide Warrantorship [TOS #25].

[Y 1]
The Jindarian GRG and GLG ground bases, frigates (FF, FFC, FFS, FFT, FFP),
destroyers (DD, DDC, DDT, DDP, DMS), light cruisers (CL, CLT, CLC), heavy
cruiser, heavy battlecruiser, and dreadnought enter service. On the Far
Side of the galaxy, Mechad machines are given the right to vote.
Equipment available for prime teams includes: the battle lantern,
collapsible ladder, combat knife, grenade launcher, flash grenade and
fragmentation grenade, field stretcher, climbing pads and climbing rope,
Federation marine dress sabre, inertial locator, rations, standard issue
throwing knife, standard issue uniform, field pack, field dressing kit,
laser weaponry, medkit (basic and advanced), nutroboost, remote sensor
unit, smoke grenades, stealth grapnel, transponder/locator, light field
armor, heavy field armor (until Y 106), monocorder, Mark I universal tran-
slator, damage control kit, electronic binoculars, emergency thermal
blanket, personal stylus pad, shock glove, vision enhancement goggles,
and melee weapons [SFB].

2125
The Federation Era begins. Over a hundred people, accompanied by staffs
totaling more than a thousand assistants, begin to draft the Articles of
Federation of the U.F.P. on Babel (Wolf 424) [MRM, TOS #6, TCT #4].

Vulcan Fleet Commander Savaj, commanding the "V'Kreeth," opens up a
whole quadrant of space and single-handedly attempts to keep Vulcan
from joining in forming the United Federation of Planets [TOS #5].

Note that when the Vulcans who opposed the U.F.P.'s ambitious exploration
plans are rebuffed, the Symmetrist movement will begin. The Symmetrists
will view the interference in galactic ecology of worlds as a crime,
and they will oppose terraforming of life-bearing worlds. At first a
loosely-knit academic group, committed to compiling the data necessary to
prove their case to the Federation Council, the Symmetrists will later
align with other scientists on other worlds in the decades to come
[GN 26].

2127, 08 May (stardate 0965)
The Articles of Federation are signed on Babel. The United Federation of
Planets is formed, consisting of the United Nations of Earth (Sol III),
the Planetary Confederation of 40 Eridani A (Vulcan), the United Planets
of 61 Cygni (Tellar), the Star Empire of Epsilon Indii (Andor), and the
Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets (Centaurus VII). The U.F.P. sphere
of influence is a 90 parsec diameter sphere centered on Sol, approximately
380,000 cubic parsecs [STM, EOM, TM, LOR, SFD, FTS].

Under the Articles of Federation, expenditure is granted for the con-
struction of an initial total of fourteen heavy cruiser starships and
seventeen starbases. Star Fleet becomes the organizational name for
UESPA, a military chain of command roughly based on that used by NATO in
the 20th Century and the military forces of all five U.F.P. members (and
those of subsequent member systems) are consolidated under it [TM, EOM].

06 June [reference stardate 0/8706.06]
The goals of the U.F.P. include ensuring interstellar security and
improving economic trade, scientific research, and galactic exploration.
In conjunction with these objectives, Star Fleet Command is to be created
within the next three years, providing a unified military force for
exploration and common defense. Also established very early in the devel-
opment of Star Fleet is the Special Security Division (SSD). The SSD's
elite group of security investigators will be forever criticized and an
undertone of fear and dislike will in time develop between the SSD and
Star Fleet through the 23rd Century. Most likely the SSD will take on
a low profile by the 24th Century and be renamed to Section 31, a
division which Star Fleet will neither acknowledge nor deny. The Orion
Colonies offer to join the U.F.P., provided that they are paid ten
trillion credits "in compensation." Their request is rejected, and so
they remain outside the Federation. The Orions also maintain the secret
of the existence of the Klingon Empire. The Klingons are just one of many

cultures with whom the Orions trade, and so they continue to go unnoticed
by the newborn Federation. Harmon Axelrod is the first president of the
U.F.P. Council [SFC, ON 16, DSN 542, SFB, FASA].

In the "Mirror" universe, the first Babel Conference establishes the birth
of the empire. Original "members" of the empire include: Alpha Centauri,
Vulcan, Tellar, Andor, and Earth [TBoT #14].

A ship disappears in the Cicada/Taurean region [LS/a].

The Worlds Court bans the ownership of synthetic consciousnesses
[TOS #42].

Milton Kornheiser starts designing interstellar spacecraft [SFC].