IT IS NOT AN EASY THING TO PUT TOGETHER A COHERENT TIMELINE FOR A FRANCHISE THAT CONSISTS OF OVER 50 YEARS OF FILMS AND TV. YET STAR TREK WHEN YOU BREAK IT DOWN DOES HOLD TOGETHER PRETTY WELL FOR A NARRATIVE THAT HAS BEEN CRAFTED BY LITERALLY DOZENS OF WRITERS AND DIRECTORS OVER THE DECADES. THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPRESSIVE GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF TIME TRAVEL THAT'S BEEN BUILT INTO THE STORY AS WELL AS SOME CONFLICTING DATES. WE NOW CURRENTLY HAVE 3 DIFFERENT TIMELINES IN STAR TREK AS SEEN ABOVE. CHOOSING THE MOST IMPORTANT DATES OF TREK HISTORY TO FOCUS ON IS AT TIMES DIFFICULT BUT AN EFFORT WAS MADE TO PINPOINT MOMENTS WHERE THE FRANCHISE’S RELATIONSHIP WITH TIME WAS MOST COMPLICATED AFTER ALL THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THIS WEBSITE IS TO TAKE OVER 50 YEARS OF SCI-FI ADVENTURE AND MAKE IT RELATIVELY COMPREHENSIBLE SOMEHOW.
































2194 ROBERT TIMOTHY APRIL IS BORN

APRIL ENTERED STARFLEET ACADEMY. AS AN ENSIGN, HE SERVED ABOARD THE USS GATES. EVENTUALLY HE TRANSFERRED TO THE USS LOS ANGELES WHERE HE SERVED FOR THREE YEARS. DURING HIS TIME IN THIS POST APRIL STARTED TO DEVELOP PLANS FOR WHAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME THE CONSTITUTION-CLASS VESSEL. AFTER THE LOS ANGELES ASSIGNMENT HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO STARFLEET LOGISTICS WHERE HE RECRUITED LAWRENCE MARVICK AND RICHARD DAYSTROM TO ASSIST HIM IN DEVELOPING HIS STARSHIP DESIGN. APRIL EVENTUALLY BECAME A CAPTAIN IN 2229. AT ONE POINT APRIL WAS MADE CAPTAIN OF THE USS TIBERIUS. HE COMMANDED THE TIBERIUS FOR THREE FIVE-YEAR MISSIONS. IN 2242 COMMODORE VAN ANLING PLACED APRIL IN CHARGE OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION-CLASS USS ENTERPRISE AT THE SAN FRANCISCO FLEET YARDS.

SIX MONTHS INTO CONSTRUCTION APRIL TOOK THE EMPTY SHELL OF THE ENTERPRISE ON A SECRET MISSION TO RETRIEVE THE LOST COLONY VESSEL SS ROSENBERG TRAPPED IN AN ION STORM. APRIL HANDPICKED A COMMAND CREW HE COULD TRUST INCLUDING HIS OLDEST FRIEND GEORGE SAMUEL KIRK AND HIS FUTURE WIFE SARAH POOLE. WHILE UNDERWAY SABOTAGE THREW THE ENTERPRISE INTO THE ROMULAN NEUTRAL ZONE AND NEARLY SPARKED ANOTHER WAR WITH THE ROMULANS. WITH SOME ASSISTANCE FROM A DEFECTING ROMULAN APRIL AND KIRK MANAGED TO DEFUSE THE SITUATION AND RESCUE THE COLONISTS.

IN 2244 APRIL MARRIED HIS LONG-TIME FRIEND AND VET SARAH POOLE AND SHE AGREED TO SIGN ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE AS CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER. IN 2245 APRIL WAS OFFICIALLY PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF CAPTAIN AND PLACED IN CHARGE OF THE ENTERPRISE. IN 2245 CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENTERPRISE WAS COMPLETED AND SHE WAS LAUNCHED ON SHAKEDOWN CRUISES BY FEDERATION PRESIDENT SAMUEL SOLOMON QASR. THE SHAKEDOWNS WERE SUCCESSFUL AND THE ENTERPRISE BEGAN HER FIRST FIVE-YEAR MISSION OF EXPLORATION IN 2246 WITH APRIL IN COMMAND.

PIKE'S SERVICE AS APRIL'S FIRST OFFICER WAS NOT MENTIONED BUT APPEARED ON PIKE'S SERVICE RECORD AS SHOWN ON THE USS DISCOVERY'S VIEWSCREEN. IN OCTOBER 2246 THE ENTERPRISE WAS ASSIGNED TO DELIVER URGENTLY NEEDED FOOD TO THE COLONY ON TARSUS IV AFTER A DEADLY MUTAGENIC VIRUS HAD ATTACKED AND DESTROYED THE CROPS. BEFORE ENTERING THE TARSUS SYSTEM THE ENTERPRISE WAS INTERCEPTED BY THE IKS KUT'LUCH COMMANDED BY COMMANDER KOR WHO WAS UNDER ORDERS NOT TO LET IN FEDERATION VESSELS INTO THE SYSTEM. APRIL TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO KOR THAT THEY WERE ON A MISSION OF MERCY BUT KOR ATTACKED. APRIL HAD NO OPTION BUT TO FIGHT BACK AS THE ENTERPRISE TOOK HEAVY DAMAGE. HE HAD THE ENTERPRISE BRING ALL HER WEAPONS TO BEAR ON THE KUT'LUCH AND OVERWHELMED ITS SYSTEMS. WITH THE KUT'LUCH DISABLED APRIL ORDERED THE ENTERPRISE TO CONTINUE ON TO TARSUS IV LEAVING COMMANDER KOR DISMAYED THAT APRIL NEVER DESTROYED HIS SHIP.

ONCE THE ENTERPRISE ARRIVED AT TARSUS IV APRIL UNCOVERED THE HORROR THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE ON THE PLANET AT THE HANDS OF GOVERNOR KODOS. THOUGH HE WAS RELIEVED THAT YOUNG JAMES T KIRK HAD SURVIVED HE COULDN'T HELP BUT WONDER IF IT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED HAD THE KLINGONS NOT ENGAGED HIM AND THE ENTERPRISE REACHED THE COLONY SOONER.

MEETING WITH CAPTAIN AUROBINDO KORRAPATI OF THE USS NARBONNE, AND STARFLEET OFFICERS PHILIPPA GEORGIOU AND GABRIEL LORCA HE INFORMED THEM THAT HIS WIFE HAD MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN ISOLATING THE SOURCE OF THE FUNGAL INFECTION AND THAT THE CURE WOULD LIKELY BE READY WITHIN A WEEK. APRIL AND THE ENTERPRISE REMAINED AT TARSUS IV FOR ANOTHER 79 DAYS LEADING THE RELIEF EFFORTS AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THE NARBONNE. AMONG OTHER EXPLOITS DURING HIS TENURE THE ENTERPRISE CONDUCTED AN EMERGENCY EVACUATION OF URSA II. WHILE VISITING NON-ALIGNED SIGNARA PIKE EXPOSED THE LEADER OF A COUP ATTEMPT FOR WHICH THE FEDERATION COUNCIL OFFICIALLY REPRIMANDED HIM.

IN 2251 FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF THE ENTERPRISE'S FIRST FIVE-YEAR MISSION APRIL ADDRESSED THE FEDERATION COUNCIL ON THE CONTINUED SUCCESS OF THE STARSHIP PROGRAM AND THE NEED TO CONTINUE THE PROGRAM TO FURTHER SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION. APRIL ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS STEPPING DOWN AS CAPTAIN OF THE ENTERPRISE AND THAT CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE CURRENTLY COMMANDING THE USS YORKTOWN WAS TO ASSUME COMMAND FOR THE SECOND FIVE YEAR MISSION. APRIL PERSONALLY ESCORTED PIKE TO THE ENTERPRISE IN SPACE DOCK TO GIVE HIS OLD SHIP'S NEW CAPTAIN A FEW WORDS OF ADVICE FOR HIS ADVENTURES YET TO COME. LATER THAT YEAR NEWLY-PROMOTED COMMODORE APRIL ENSURED WITH THE HELP OF ADMIRAL R MALLORY THAT JAMES T KIRK WAS ADMITTED INTO STARFLEET ACADEMY.

AS A COMMODORE IN STARFLEET COMMAND APRIL WAS ABLE TO KEEP AN EYE ON HIS OLD SHIP. IN 2253 HE RECOMMENDED SPOCK AS PIKE'S NEW SCIENCE OFFICER AND LATER HE SELECTED MIA COLT WHO HAD SERVED UNDER HIM ON THE TIBERIUS PREVIOUSLY AS PIKE'S NEW YEOMAN AFTER THE DEATH OF DERMOT CUSACK. AFTER THEN ENTERPRISE'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE TALOSIANS THE THEN ADMIRAL APRIL FLAGGED PIKE'S REPORT FOR THE FEDERATION COUNCIL. LATER IN 2254 APRIL RETURNED TO THE ENTERPRISE TO TEMPORARILY TAKE COMMAND WHILE CAPTAIN PIKE CONDUCTED A MISSION ON THE PLANET TEMAZI AT THIS TIME THE ENTERPRISE ENGAGED A PAIR OF KLINGON SHIPS AND APRIL'S COMMAND DECISIONS RESULTED IN DAMAGE TO THE ENTERPRISE AND INJURIES TO NUMBER ONE.

APRIL'S APPEARANCE GIVEN THE EVENTS OF HIS APPEARANCE AS AN ADMIRAL IT IS POSSIBLE HE WAS DEMOTED FOR HIS ACTIONS. BY 2256 APRIL WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED CAPTAINS IN STARFLEET HISTORY ALONG WITH JONATHAN ARCHER, MATTHEW DECKER, PHILIPPA GEORGIOU AND CHRISTOPHER PIKE. IN 2259 ADMIRAL APRIL HAD DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY FOR DIRECTING CAPTAIN PIKE'S MISSIONS ON THE ENTERPRISE. AFTER SEVERAL YEARS AS A FLAG OFFICER HE RETIRED BECOMING A GUEST LECTURER AT STARFLEET ACADEMY.

APRIL RETIRED FROM STARFLEET BUT STILL WORKED FOR THE FEDERATION AS AN AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE. HE EXPLAINED HIS REASONS FOR RETIRING IN HIS BOOK "VIEW FROM THE CENTER SEAT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY". HE AND HIS WIFE ALSO CO-EDITED THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPACEFLIGHT. IN 2269 ROBERT AND SARAH BOARDED THE ENTERPRISE COMMANDED BY KIRK WAS ENROUTE TO BABEL. DURING THE VOYAGE THE ENTERPRISE SEEMINGLY ENTERED AN ANTIMATTER UNIVERSE WHERE THE CREW BEGAN TO GET YOUNGER. WHILE THE ENTERPRISE CREW REGRESSED TO INFANTS APRIL WAS IN HIS PRIME AND ONCE AGAIN ASSUMED COMMAND OF THE ENTERPRISE. APRIL DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS AN ILLUSION CREATED BY TELEPATHIC BEINGS WHO WERE TESTING THE FEDERATION AND KLINGONS.






2219 CHRISTOPHER RICHARD PIKE IS BORN

CHRISTOPHER PIKE WAS THE SON OF RETIRED STARFLEET ADMIRAL JOSH PIKE. PIKE ENROLLED IN STARFLEET ACADEMY AFTER STARFLEET OFFICER ALEXANDER MARCUS CONVINCED HIM TO JOIN STARFLEET IN 2223 RECEIVING HIS COMMISSION FOUR YEARS LATER. FOLLOWING HIS GRADUATION FROM THE ACADEMY ENSIGN PIKE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE LIGHT CRUISER USS OLYMPUS. DURING HIS SERVICE ABOARD THE OLYMPUS PIKE BECAME GOOD FRIEND WITH THE SHIP'S CHIEF ENGINEER GLENN PITCAIRN. IN 2233 WHILE IN THE RANK OF ENSIGN HE WAS CALLED TO EARTH TO FACE A COURT MARTIAL AND TAKES THE ROLE SPECIAL INSTRUCTOR AT STARFLEET ACADEMY. A TIME DURING WHICH HE FIRST MET UNA CHIN-RILEY AND BEFRIENDED HER.

IN 2246 HE HELD THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT COMMANDER AND WAS TEMPORARILY ASSIGNED AS FIRST OFFICER OF THE USS ALDRIN UNDER CAPTAIN KAMNACH. PIKE WAS FORCED TO RELIEVE KAMNACH OF DUTY WHEN THE CAPTAIN LAUNCHED AN UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON A VESTIAN SHIP. PIKE WAS CHARGED WITH MUTINY BUT ALL CHARGES WERE DISMISSED FOLLOWING A COURT MARTIAL AND PIKE GIVEN A PROMOTION TO COMMANDER AND ASSIGNED TO THE USS YORK. PIKE SERVED AS THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE USS ENTERPRISE UNDER CAPTAIN ROBERT APRIL FOR A TIME. HERE HE MET A YOUNG SPOCK FOR THE FIRST TIME. PIKE'S THIRD COMMAND WAS THE USS YORKTOWN.

AT SOME POINT PIKE ALONG WITH HIS TRUSTED YEOMAN CUSACK WERE INVOLVED WITH A CONFLICT WITH THE THOLIANS. IN THE MONTHS FOLLOWING THE GORENGAR INCIDENT PIKE VOLUNTARILY TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION FROM HIS POST. HE WAS INSTEAD OFFERED THE COMMAND OF THE ENTERPRISE BY ADMIRAL NOGUCHI. PIKE INITIALLY DECLINED NOT WANTING TO BE INVOLVED IN FURTHER BATTLES. NOGUCHI PITCHED HIM THE POSITION WOULD BE FIVE-YEAR EXPLORATION MISSION COMPARING PIKE TO FERDINAND MAGELLAN. THREE MONTHS INTO THE FIVE YEAR MISSION THE ENTERPRISE UNDER PIKE'S COMMAND RESPONDS TO A DISTRESS CALL FROM STARBASE 18.

IN 2250 CAPTAIN ROBERT APRIL ANNOUNCED TO THE UFP GRAND ASSEMBLY THAT HE WAS STEPPING DOWN AS COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE ENTERPRISE. PIKE WAS GIVEN COMMAND OF THE ENTERPRISE BRINGING WITH HIM CUSACK AS CAPTAIN'S YEOMAN AND MANAGING TO CONVINCE NUMBER ONE TO SERVE AS HIS XO RATHER THAN PURSUE HER OWN COMMAND. PIKE AND CUSACK SHARED A DRINK OF IRISH WHISKEY WHEN THEY DISCUSSED THE REST OF HIS SENIOR STAFF SELECTION, WHICH INCLUDED CONTINUING MEMBERS OF THE CREW FROM APRIL'S CAPTAINCY AS WELL AS SEVERAL NEW FACES. APRIL PERSONALLY WALKED PIKE TO THE ENTERPRISE IN SPACEDOCK TO GIVE HIM SOME WORDS OF WISDOM BEFORE HE BOARDED. PIKE COMMANDED THE ENTERPRISE FOR A TOTAL OF THIRTEEN YEARS INCLUDING TWO FIVE YEAR MISSIONS.

IN 2250 WHILE ON LEAVE AT EARTH, HE MET JANEESE CARLISLE AND FELL IN LOVE. THOUGH FORCED TO LEAVE HER AS SHE WAS ENTERING STARFLEET ACADEMY THEY MAINTAINED SUBSPACE CONTACT OVER THE NEXT TWO AND A HALF YEARS. WHEN THE ENTERPRISE RETURNED TO EARTH IN 2254 HE LEARNED SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER MAN AND WAS NEARLY DRIVEN TO BITTERNESS AND DISAPPOINTMENT. TWO YEARS INTO HIS COMMAND PIKE'S SCIENCE OFFICER WAS STRUCK DOWN BY VIRILLIAN TOXIC FEVER JUST AS THE ENTERPRISE WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN A LONG TERM SURVEY OF THE PATHIAD NEBULATAE. PIKE MANAGED TO SECURE THE THEN-CADET SPOCK TO TAKE ON THE SCIENCE OFFICER ROLE ON THE ENTERPRISE BEFORE PROCEEDING ON THE MISSION.

IN 2254 THE ENTERPRISE WAS DIVERTED FROM HER MISSION TO THE MARRAT SYSTEM TO INVESTIGATE SOME STRANGE GOINGS ON. WITH THE ENTERPRISE ACTING AS BAIT THE CULPRIT OF SEVERAL DISAPPEARANCES WAS REVEALED. AN ORGANIC STARSHIP OF THE NGULTOR ATTACKED THE ENTERPRISE AND TOOK PIKE HOSTAGE PROBING HIS MIND CAUSING HIM TO FLASHBACK TO TIMES GONE PAST ATTEMPTING TO RESEARCH THE SPECIES AND POPULATION CENTERS OF THE REGION IN PREPARATION FOR THEIR HARVEST. FORTUNATELY THEIR LINK WORKED BOTH WAYS AND PIKE WAS ABLE TO DISCOVER THEIR PLANS AND WITH RENEWED DETERMINATION BREAK THE CONNECTION. PIKE WAS PROMPTLY RESCUED BY A LANDING PARTY LEAD BY NUMBER ONE AND AFTER BEING BEAMED BACK TO THE ENTERPRISE DESTROYED THE NGULTOR MOTHERSHIP TO PREVENT IT REPORTING BACK ITS FINDINGS TO NGULTOR SPACE.

THE ENTERPRISE PROCEEDED TO THE MARRAT SYSTEM ARRIVING JUST IN TIME TO DRIVE OFF A HOSTILE FORCE FROM STARBASE 13. PROCEEDING TO THE PHAROS SITEWORLD THE SITE OF PROJECT PHAROS TO INVESTIGATE A LOSS OF COMMUNICATION THE ENTERPRISE CAME UNDER ATTACK FROM THE IKS VARCHAS UNDER COMMAND OF THE KLINGON KAAJ. WITH THE ENTERPRISE NEARLY CRIPPLED BY KAAJ’S ADVANCED TACTICS PIKE RESORTED TO OUTSIDE THE BOX THINKING AND FIRED ON THE DILITHIUM RICH PLANET BELOW. THE ATTACK IGNITED THE PLANET AND GAVE KAAJ A HUMILIATING DEFEAT. THE KLINGON RETREATED VOWING A BLOOD DEBT OF REVENGE ON PIKE FOR HIS ACTIONS.

THE ENTERPRISE'S NEXT MISSION TOOK PIKE TO RIGEL VII WHERE PIKE WAS TAKEN BY THE RIGELLIAN MINISTER'S AIDE TALZA TO VISIT THE ZEMTAR FORTRESS THE SITE FOR A CEREMONY THE NEXT DAY RATIFYING THE PLANET'S ENTRY INTO THE UFP. UNFORTUNATELY TALZA WAS RIGELLIAN TRADITIONALIST AND PART OF A CONSPIRACY AMONGST THE PLANET'S WARRIOR ELITE THE KAYLAR TO STAGE A COUP. THE TRIP TO THE FORTRESS WAS A TRAP AND PIKE ONLY JUST SURVIVED AN ENCOUNTER WITH A KAYLAR WARRIOR. DERMOT CUSACK WAS LESS FORTUNATE AND WAS KILLED BY TALZA WHO HAD LEFT PIKE TO HIS FATE.

THE ENTERPRISE LEFT RIGEL FOR VEGA COLONY TO TAKE CARE OF OTHERS WOUNDED IN THE KAYLAR ATTACKS. EN ROUTE THE USS SAVANNAH COLLECTED THE DEAD AND DELIVERED PIKE'S NEW YEOMAN MIA COLT. PIKE STILL GRIEVING DID NOT GET OFF TO A GOOD START WITH COLT REACTING BADLY WHEN FOLLOWING CUSACK'S EULOGY SHE TALKING WITH NANO SUGGESTED THE OUTCOMES OF THE INCIDENT ON RIGEL VII MIGHT NOT BE ALL BAD. BEFORE REACHING VEGA PIKE DIVERTED THE ENTERPRISE WHEN IT DETECTED A DISTRESS CALL FROM TALOS IV. ON THE PLANET PIKE LED A LANDING PARTY WHICH DISCOVERED A CAMP OF SURVIVORS FROM SS COLUMBIA. HOWEVER ALL BUT ONE OF THESE SURVIVORS WAS SOON REVEALED TO BE THE TELEPATHIC ILLUSIONS OF THE PLANET'S NATIVES THE TALOSIANS WHO TOOK PIKE INTO CAPTIVITY.

WHILE HIS CREW TRIED TO RESCUE HIM PIKE ENDURED THE MENTAL ILLUSIONS OF THE TALOSIANS RELIVING THE EVENTS OF RIGEL VII BUT THIS TIME WITH VINA THE ONE TRUE SURVIVOR. THE TALOSIANS ALLOWED TWO ENTERPRISE CREW PERSONS TO BEAM IN NUMBER ONE AND MIA COLT HOPING ONE OF THE THREE WOMEN WOULD TEMPT PIKE INTO STAYING ON TALOS IV AND MATING. WHILE HELD TOGETHER PIKE MADE RECOMPENSE FOR HIS EARLIER HARSHNESS TOWARDS HIS NEW YEOMAN. NOT WILLING TO BE HELD BY THE TALOSIANS PIKE RESISTED AND FORCED THEM TO ALLOW HIM AND HIS FELLOW CAPTIVES TO ESCAPE RISKING SUICIDE RATHER THAN REMAINING IN CAPTIVITY. DURING THE FINAL CONFRONTATION VINA CHOSE TO REMAIN WITH THE TALOSIANS.

AFTER THE EVENTS ON TALOS IV ENTERPRISE WAS RECALLED TO EARTH FOR DEBRIEFING AND ATTACKED BY HALOGIANS NEAR JUPITER. PIKE INCLUDED YEOMAN COLT ON THE AWAY TEAM AND SHE SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISHED A FEEDBACK LOOP IN THE HALOGIAN SHIP'S DILITHIUM CONTROL MATRIX TO BEGIN A WARP CORE BREACH DESTROYING THE SHIP. PIKE NOTED THAT COLT MUST HAVE BEEN STUDYING IN HER SPARE TIME AND SAID THAT HE WOULD RECOMMEND HER FOR IMMEDIATE PROMOTION. IN 2255 NOT LONG AFTER TALOS IV THE ENTERPRISE VISITED CORINTHIA VII. THOUGH INITIALLY BELIEVED TO BE DEVOID OF ANY ADVANCED LIFE FORMS A LANDING PARTY DISCOVERED HUGE SUBTERRANEAN CREATURES ON THE PLANET. IT WAS HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THE TALOSIANS THAT HELPED PIKE BATTLE THESE DANGEROUS LIFE-FORMS.

CAPTAIN PIKE WAS ALSO INSTRUMENTAL IN DEFEATING THE MERKAAN HAMESAAD DREEN WHO HAD BEEN HARASSING FEDERATION SHIPPING. PIKE CONVINCED DREEN THAT HE WASN'T THE IDEAL STARFLEET OFFICER THAT HE COULD BE BOUGHT. AS PART OF THE PLAN PIKE TALKED DREEN INTO ALLOWING SPOCK TO BEAM ABOARD HIS SHIP WITH A GIFT OF DILITHIUM. WHILE SPOCK WAS BEING BEAMED ON BOARD PIKE HAD HIS TRANSPORTER CHIEF BEAM A SECURITY TEAM ONTO THE MERKAAN SHIP AT THE SAME TIME. THE STARFLEET SECURITY TEAM WAS SOON ABLE TO SEIZE DREEN'S VESSEL. DREEN WAS LATER ALLOWED TO RETURN HOME IN DISGRACE.

ON A MISSION TO FIND THE MISSING STARSHIP USS CORTEZ PIKE LED A LANDING PARTY TO DARIEN 224 WHERE HE AND THE LANDING PARTY WERE ATTACKED BY A REBEL GROUP OF THE PLANET'S RESIDENT VULCAN COLONY. THE LANDING PARTY WAS RESCUED BY ANOTHER GROUP FROM THE COLONY AND SOON FOUND THEMSELVES THE GUESTS OF THE COLONY’S LEADERS. THE VULCANS' MOTIVES SOON BECAME CLEAR. THEY WISHED TO RETURN TO VULCAN AS CONQUERORS AND REQUIRED THE ENTERPRISE TO GET THERE. THEY SENT PIKE BACK IN THE LANDING PARTY'S SHUTTLECRAFT TO PREPARE THEIR SHIP CERTAIN OF HIS COMPLIANCE WHILE HOLDING THE REST OF THE LANDING PARTY HOSTAGE. PIKE GOT BACK TO THE ENTERPRISE JUST AS THE VULCANS ON DARIEN FIRED A POWERFUL PSIONIC WEAPON TO DESTROY THE CORTEZ WHICH HAD BEEN COMMANDEERED BY THE OPPOSING VULCAN FACTION. THE FIRING OF THE WEAPON CAUSED A FEEDBACK LOOP WHICH BEGAN TO DESTROY DARIEN. WITH THE PLANETOID FALLING APART PIKE HAD THE ENTERPRISE TAKEN INTO THE ATMOSPHERE TO BEAM OUT THE REST OF THE LANDING PARTY AND MAKE A SAFE GETAWAY.

FOLLOWING THE EVENTS AT DARIEN 224 THE ENTERPRISE STOPPED AT DEEP SPACE STATION K-12 TO UNDERGO REPAIRS. WHILE THERE PIKE RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM HIS GODFATHER INFORMING HIM HIS FATHER WAS CRITICALLY ILL. HE TOOK ONE OF THE ENTERPRISE'S SHUTTLECRAFT HEADED FOR EARTH TO VISIT HIS FATHER. UNFORTUNATELY THE MESSAGE HAD BEEN FAKED BY PIKE'S KLINGON NEMESIS KAAJ AND HE SOON FOUND HIMSELF UNDER ATTACK. THANKS TO THE INCOMPETENCE OF KAAJ'S CREW HE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE IMMEDIATE CAPTURE AND CRASHLANDED ON THE PLANET PRAIRIE. HE WAS RESCUED FROM THE BURNING WRECKAGE OF HIS SHUTTLE BY CLAIRE THORN AND TAKEN BACK TO HER HARVESTER RIG THE ROSTOK. THE KLINGONS SOON TRACKED HIM DOWN AND SENT ASSAULT SQUADS TO CAPTURE HIM. ONCE AGAIN PIKE MANAGED TO EVADE THEM AND LEFT THE HARVESTER ON A SKIMMER. HIS ESCAPE WAS SHORT LIVED. HE AND HIS SKIMMER WERE SHOT DOWN BY ANOTHER ASSAULT SQUAD BUT WERE UNABLE TO BE TRACKED IN THE CORN FIELDS. FRUSTRATED AND IMPATIENT KAAJ LOCKED ONTO HIS ASSAULT TEAM'S COMM SIGNAL AND FIRED FROM ORBIT KILLING HIS MEN AND DESTROYING THE CROPS BUT COMPLETELY MISSING PIKE. BEFORE KAAJ COULD DESTROY ENOUGH OF THE CROPS TO KILL PIKE THE ENTERPRISE ARRIVED AND DROVE OFF THE KLINGONS.

FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATIVE MISSION INTO ORION SPACE PIKE DELIVERED A SHOCKING REPORT ON THE ORION SLAVE TRADE. THIS ADDED TO A GENERAL CONDEMNATION OF ORION SLAVERY WITHIN THE FEDERATION PROMPTING OFFICIAL BOYCOTTS AND RESULTING IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE ARTICLES OF THE FEDERATION BANNING SLAVERY WITHIN THE FEDERATION. THE ENTERPRISE EXPERIENCED AN EMERGENCY SITUATION IN 2257 FORCING PIKE TO SEND OUT A PRIORITY ONE DISTRESS CALL. THE DISTRESS CALL WAS ANSWERED BY THE USS DISCOVERY WHICH WAS EN ROUTE TO VULCAN FROM EARTH. DROPPING OUT OF WARP THE DISCOVERY WAS MET BY THE ENTERPRISE. PIKE TOOK COMMAND OF DISCOVERY AND LED A LANDING PARTY TO FIND SURVIVORS FROM THE USS HIAWATHA.

PIKE CONTINUED TO COMMAND THE DISCOVERY THROUGHOUT 2257 LEADING A MISSION TO THE PLANET TERRALYSIUM. PIKE ALSO ESTABLISHED FIRST CONTACT WITH A MASSIVE SPACEGOING SPHEROID LIFEFORM AND RELUCTANTLY TEAMED UP WITH HIS OLD FRIEND LELAND A SECTION 31 OPERATIVE TO RESCUE SYLVIA TILLY FROM THE MYCELIAL NETWORK. AFTER RECOVERING SPOCK AND BURNHAM FROM TALOS IV PIKE WENT TO THE SECTION 31 HEADQUARTERS WHERE HE AND THE CREW DISCOVERED THAT CONTROL HAD GONE ROGUE AND KILLED SECTION 31'S LEADERSHIP. DISCOVERING THAT LT COMMANDER AIRIAM HAD BEEN CORRUPTED BY CONTROL AND WAS ON THE STATION UPLOADING DATA COLLECTED BY AN ANCIENT SPHERE INTO CONTROL HE ORDERED BURNHAM AND NHAN TO EJECT AIRIAM INTO SPACE IN ORDER TO STOP THE UPLOAD FROM COMPLETING.

PIKE WAS ABLE TO CONVINCE STARFLEET TO DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST THE DISCOVERY CREW, SPOCK, AND BURNHAM. HE THEN TOOK THE SHIP TO ESSOF IV IN A PLAN TO TRAP THE RED ANGEL IN THE CURRENT TIMEFRAME. THE DISCOVERY CREW WAS ABLE TO ENTRAP THE BEING IN THE 23RD CENTURY AND LEARNED THAT THE BEING WAS ACTUALLY COMMANDER BURNHAM'S MOTHER DR GABRIELLE BURNHAM. MEETING HER FOR THE FIRST TIME GABRIELLE HINTED AT THE FUTURE THAT AWAITED PIKE. FOLLOWING DR BURNHAM'S DISAPPEARANCE AND CONTROL'S ESCAPE PIKE AND THE DISCOVERY DISCOVERED A RED BURST AT BORETH. WITH CHANCELLOR L'RELL'S PERMISSION PIKE WAS ALLOWED TO THE BORETH'S MONASTERY TO RETRIEVE A TIME CRYSTAL AND LEARN ABOUT THE WHEREABOUTS OF L'RELL AND VOQ'S SON. THERE PIKE MET WITH THE TIMEKEEPERS GUARDIANS OF THE TIME CRYSTALS. THE TIMEKEEPER MONK TENAVIK ALLOWED PIKE TO ATTEMPT TO TAKE ONE.

TENAVIK REVEALED HIMSELF AS VOQ'S CHILD AND TOLD HOW THE TIME CRYSTALS HAD MADE HIM GROWN IN THE MONTHS SINCE TYLER WAS FORCED TO LEAVE QO'NOS. WHEN PIKE ATTEMPTED TO RETRIEVE A TIME CRYSTAL HE SAW HIS FUTURE WHERE HE BOUND TO A WHEEL CHAIR FOLLOWING A ACCIDENT. DESPITE THIS PIKE WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO DISCOVERY WITH A TIME CRYSTAL. HE ALSO TOLD L'RELL AND TYLER ABOUT THEIR SON TENAVIK. HE THEN CONTACTED THE ENTERPRISE TO ASSIST THEM. TO ENSURE THAT THE SPHERE'S DATA WOULD NOT BE TAKEN BY CONTROL PIKE AND DISCOVERY'S SENIOR OFFICERS DECIDED TO SELF DESTRUCT THE SHIP. HOWEVER THE DATA WOULD NOT ALLOW ITSELF OR DISCOVERY BE DESTROYED. CAPTAIN PIKE AGREED WITH BURNHAM'S PLAN TO BUILD THEIR OWN RED ANGEL SUIT AND SEND DISCOVERY INTO THE FUTURE. PIKE COMMANDED THE ENTERPRISE AS THEY TOOK ON CONTROL'S FLEET WITH SEVERAL SHUTTLES AND AID FROM BOTH THE KELPIENS AND THE KLINGONS.

PIKE WATCHED AS BURNHAM AND THE DISCOVERY ENTERED THE WORMHOLE. FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY'S DISAPPEARANCE AND CONTROL'S DESTRUCTION PIKE ALONG WITH UNA, SPOCK AND TYLER DEBRIEFED STARFLEET ABOUT THE EVENT. THEY ALL CHOSE TO LIE CLAIMING THAT DISCOVERY HAD BEEN DESTROYED AND THE BLAME RESTED WITH SECTION 31. FOLLOWING THE DEPARTURE OF THE USS DISCOVERY INTO THE FAR FUTURE PIKE EVENTUALLY RETURNED TO THE ENTERPRISE AFTER SHE WAS REPAIRED. WHEN CHIN-RILEY WAS ARRESTED FOR ILLEGAL ILLYRIAN GENETIC MODIFICATIONS IN 2259 PIKE DECIDED TO TRY AND HELP HER BY LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE ILLYRIANS' MODIFICATIONS. PIKE AND THE ENTERPRISE'S CREW WERE ABLE TO GET HELP FROM GOVERNOR DA-KIL OF PRYLLIA.

IN 2261 THE STARSHIP UNDERWENT A YEARLONG REFIT AT EARTH AND CAPTAIN PIKE FOUND HIMSELF TEMPORARILY DESKBOUND. IN 2262 DURING THE LATER STAGES OF THE REFIT-PROCESS PIKE VISITED THE PARENTS OF VINA IN PARIS FRANCE AND SUBSEQUENTLY RESUMED COMMAND OF THE STARSHIP. LATER IN THE YEAR THE ENTERPRISE ENCOUNTERED THE KAN'ESS A RACE OF REPTILIAN HUNTERS AND PIKE WAS FOR A TIME HELD CAPTIVE AS A PET BY ONE OF THEIR LEADERS. IN THE FALL OF 2263 THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE UNDER PIKE INTERVENED IN A SPACE BATTLE AT BARDEEZI PRIME AGAINST THE MYSTERIOUS CYLINDER SHIPS OF AN UNKNOWN RACE CALLED THE AGNI. DURING THE CONFRONTATION VIEWED AS A HOSTILE INCURSION INTO FEDERATION SPACE THE HEAVY CRUISER USS KONGO WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED AND ITS FIRST OFFICER KILLED.

SOME TIME IN 2264 PIKE'S ENTERPRISE LOCATED AN ANCIENT EARTH VESSEL SEEMINGLY LAUNCHED BACK IN THE 20TH CENTURY IN DEEP SPACE COMMANDED BY THE HUMAN PIONEER CAVOR. IN 2264 FOLLOWING THE END OF HIS SECOND FIVE YEAR MISSION ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE. PIKE ACCEPTED A PROMOTION TO FLEET CAPTAIN FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF FINAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE AGNI SPECIES AND INFORMED COMMODORE ROBERT WESLEY OF HIS DECISION AS WELL AS HIS FORMAL RECOMMENDATION TO OFFICIALLY TURN COMMAND OF THE ENTERPRISE OVER TO JAMES T KIRK WHO HAD RECENTLY IMPRESSED PIKE BY SUCCESSFULLY RESOLVED THE MOUNTING AGNI CRISIS WITH A MINIMUM OF BLOODSHED. HOWEVER PIKE COMPLETED THE STARSHIP'S THEN CURRENT TOUR OF DUTY PRIOR TO THE COMMAND HANDOVER A PROCESS WHICH TOOK UNTIL THE FOLLOWING SPRING OF 2265. UNFORTUNATELY THIS ALSO MEANT THAT HE HAD TO STEP DOWN AS CAPTAIN OF THE ENTERPRISE BUT PIKE FELT THAT HIS FORMER STARSHIP WAS NOW IN GOOD HANDS WITH CAPTAIN KIRK.

SHORTLY AFTER HIS PROMOTION PIKE WAS A GUEST AT A CONFERENCE ON BABEL REFLECTING BITTERLY ABOUT HOW HIS PROMOTION HAD LED TO BECOMING A LITTLE KNOWN CELEBRITY AT TEDIOUS DIPLOMATIC RECEPTIONS. NEVERTHELESS HE UNCOVERED CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES BY A TELLARITE DELEGATE WITH THE PECULIAR AID OF LEATA AN ORION SLAVE GIRL, ASSASSIN AND BOUNTY HUNTER. BY THIS POINT PIKE DECLARED THAT HE HAD BEEN MIND CONTROLLED BY THE BEST AND KNEW ALL THE TRICKS AND WAS ABLE TO RESIST AN ORION WOMAN'S PHEROMONES AND PERSUASION.

IN 2265 ABOARD THE USS TERESHKOVA HE PARTICIPATED IN A JOINT STARFLEET TRILL STUDY OF A ROGUE COMET IN THE TRILL SYSTEM. AT THE REQUEST OF TRILL SCIENTIST AUDRID DAX HE AGREED TO KEEP THE DISCOVERY OF A PARASITIC LIFE FORM INSIDE THAT COMET CLASSIFIED. PIKE'S REPORTS ON THE ENCOUNTER WERE ADDED TO THE STARFLEET FILE. PIKE WAS ASSIGNED TO STARBASE 11 AT THE TIME. IN 2266 PIKE DECIDED TO PARTICIPATE IN A CADET TRAINING CRUISE ON A CLASS J STARSHIP. PIKE TOLD HIS PARENTS THAT HE DID NOT EXPECT TO BE GONE OVERLY LONG. BEFORE LEAVING ON THE TRIP PIKE TOLD COMMODORE MENDEZ OF HIS PLANS. MENDEZ EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER PIKE PERFORMING THE INSPECTION FEELING THAT CLASS J SHIPS HAD DESIGN FLAWS AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN RETIRED FROM SERVICE YEARS AGO. PIKE DOWNPLAYED THE CONCERNS AND JOKED WITH MENDEZ THAT THE LATTER WOULD PROBABLY GET IN TROUBLE FOR CRITICIZING THE CLASS J SHIPS ON AN OPEN SUBSPACE FREQUENCY.

PIKE SOON LEFT TO TAKE PART IN A TRAINING CRUISE ON THE CLASS J STARSHIP CAPTAINED BY HIS FORMER YEOMAN JM COLT. DURING THE TRIP AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE HALOGIANS CAUSED A STRUCTURAL RUPTURE THAT FLOODED THE SHIP WITH DELTA RADIATION. PIKE ACTED TO SAVE THE CADETS WHO COULDN'T LEAVE ENGINEERING ON THEIR OWN TAKING DEBILITATING DOSES OF RADIATION IN THE PROCESS. IN ORDER TO KEEP THE SHIP FROM BEING IRRADIATED THE ISOLATION SYSTEMS ENGAGED TRAPPING PIKE IN ENGINEERING. HIS LIFE WAS SAVED BUT HE WAS CONFINED TO A LIFE-SUPPORT WHEELCHAIR AND LEFT UNABLE TO SPEAK OTHER THAN BY THE SIMPLE BLINKING OF A LIGHT ON HIS CHAIR. WHILE TECHNICALLY PIKE SHOULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE ACTIVE-DUTY LISTS MENDEZ AND HIS OTHER FELLOW OFFICERS COULDN'T BRING THEMSELVES TO DO SO.

COMMODORE MENDEZ GAVE PIKE A ROOM IN THE TOP FLOOR OF THE MEDICAL WING SO THAT HE COULD LOOK OUT OVER THE STARBASE AND SURROUNDING LANDS. MENDEZ ALSO KEPT IN CONTACT WITH CHARLIE AND HOBELIA WHO HAD BEEN ASKED BY PIKE NOT TO TRAVEL ACROSS THE GALAXY TO RETRIEVE HIM IF HE SUFFERED SUCH AN ACCIDENT. CHARLIE AND HOBELIA BEGAN MAKING ARRANGEMENTS TO SEE IF PIKE COULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO THEM ON EARTH. DOCTORS BECAME CONCERNED THAT PIKE WOULD DETERIORATE FURTHER AND WOULD SOON BE UNABLE TO EVEN COMMUNICATE THROUGH BLINKING THE LIGHT ON HIS CHAIR. THE TALOSIANS DUE TO THEIR CONTINUED TELEPATHIC LINK WITH PIKE WERE SOON AWARE OF PIKE'S CONDITION.

IN EARLY 2267 THE TALOSIANS SENT A MESSAGE TO SPOCK, PIKE'S FORMER SCIENCE OFFICER AND SUMMONED HIM TO STARBASE 11. THE TALOSIANS ASKED SPOCK TO BRING PIKE TO THEM ON TALOS IV. SPOCK BEAMED PIKE ON BOARD THE ENTERPRISE AND THEN COMMANDEERED THE SHIP. SPOCK PROGRAMMED THE SHIP'S COMPUTER TO TAKE THE SHIP TO TALOS LOCKING IT SO THAT ANY ATTEMPT TO STOP THE SHIP WOULD SHORT OUT THE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS. CAPTAIN KIRK WAS DETERMINED NOT TO LOSE HIS SHIP AND FOLLOWED THE ENTERPRISE IN A SHUTTLE. ACCOMPANYING KIRK WAS WHAT WAS LATER TO BE REVEALED AS AN ILLUSION OF COMMODORE MENDEZ.

USING THE FICTION OF A COURT MARTIAL TO DISTRACT KIRK FROM REGAINING CONTROL OF THE ENTERPRISE TOO SOON THE SHIP HEADED FOR TALOS IV. THE TALOSIANS SHOWED KIRK WHY PIKE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO LIVE OUT HIS LIFE ON TALOS. UPON REACHING THE PLANET THE ILLUSION OF MENDEZ DISAPPEARED. AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME STARFLEET CONTACTED KIRK AND TOLD HIM THAT NOT ONLY WOULD THEY NOT BE TAKING ANY ACTION AGAINST SPOCK BUT ALSO WOULD ALLOW CONTACT WITH TALOS IV ON THIS OCCASION. THE TALOSIANS EXTENDED AN INVITATION TO PIKE TO LIVE WITH THEM UNFETTERED BY HIS PHYSICAL BODY. PIKE RETURNED TO TALOS IV WHERE HE WOULD BE REUNITED WITH VINA AND GIVEN THE ILLUSION OF FULL HEALTH.

ON TALOS PIKE AND VINA LIVED A LIFE OF ILLUSION FREEING THEM FROM THEIR RUINED BODIES. BUT SOON THE ILLUSIONS CAME TO FEEL EMPTY TO THEM. PIKE STILL AN EXPLORER AT HEART LOOKED FOR A WAY TO GIVE HIS LIFE MEANING AGAIN. HE FOUND IT IN THE ABANDONED TECHNOLOGY OF THE TALOSIAN RACE. HE STUDIED THEIR HISTORY THEIR RISE TO POWER EONS AGO AND THEIR FALL WHEN THE ILLUSIONS THEY HAD CREATED CONSUMED THEM. PIKE ALSO LEARNED THE TALOSIANS' MENTAL ABILITIES. WITH THE TALOSIANS' HELP HE REPAIRED THE EQUIPMENT THAT HAD MANIPULATED THE ENVIRONMENT LONG AGO AND STARTED THE WORLD BACK ON THE ROAD TO NEW LIFE. THE TALOSIAN ROBOTS EVEN BUILT A HOME FOR PIKE AND VINA IN A RECLAIMED PART OF THE SURFACE.

PIKE ALSO STUDIED THE ANCIENT TALOSIANS' MEDICAL TECHNIQUES. USING THEM HE AND VINA FINALLY WERE ABLE TO HAVE THE ONLY THING MISSING IN THEIR LIVES, A CHILD. PHILLIP JOSHUA PIKE WAS BORN IN 2276, TEN YEARS AFTER HIS FATHER HAD RETURNED TO TALOS. IN 2290 THEN CAPTAIN SPOCK MADE A RETURN VISIT TO TALOS. HE HAD BEEN SENT BY STARFLEET TO OFFER PIKE A WAY TO RETURN HOME TO UNDERGO AN EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE THAT WOULD PUT PIKE'S BRAIN INSIDE A PARTLY-CLONED PARTLY BIONIC BODY. AFTER PHILLIP ATTACKED SPOCK OUT OF FEAR THAT HIS FATHER WOULD LEAVE FOREVER PIKE REFUSED THE OFFER AND REMAINED ON TALOS WITH HIS WIFE AND SON. BY NOW THE RETIRED FLEET CAPTAIN SPORTED A FULL BEARD A STARK CONTRAST TO THE SCARRED FACE SPOCK LAST SAW. ON TALOS, PIKE HELPED INSPIRE THE TALOSIANS TO RECLAIM THE SURFACE OF THEIR PLANET AND REBUILD THEIR FORMER CULTURE. PIKE HAD DIED SOMETIME PRIOR TO 2320 BUT BY THEN TALOS HAD AGAIN BECOME A THRIVING WORLD AND PIKE. IN A RECORDED MESSAGE RELAYED AFTER HIS DEATH APPEALED TO SPOCK NOW AN AMBASSADOR TO TAKE SOME OF HIS ASHES BACK TO EARTH AND TO HELP BRING TALOS INTO THE FEDERATION.






2214 UNA CHIN-RILEY IS BORN

NUMBER ONE WAS BORN ON THE PLANET ILLYRIA BUT LATER CLAIMED TO BE A HUMAN RAISED ON ILLYRIA DUE TO THE STIGMA ATTACHED TO ILLYRIAN GENETIC ENGINEERING. IN THE LATE 2230S, NUMBER ONE STUDIED AT THE ILLYRIAN CULTURAL ACADEMY IN ORDER TO BE INVESTED AS A CITIZEN OF ILLYRIA. FOLLOWING HER GRADUATION AS FIRST IN HER CLASS IN 2240 SHE WAS AWARDED A PLAQUE RECOGNIZING HER ACHIEVEMENT AT A CEREMONY WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY HER BROTHERS. IN 2245 UNA HAD ENTERED STARFLEET ACADEMY AND HAD SPECIALIZED IN ENGINEERING. IN THIS YEAR CHIN-RILEY AND A LARGE GROUP OF CADETS WERE ASSIGNED TO THE NEWLY BUILT CONSTITUTION-CLASS STARSHIP WHICH WOULD BECOME THE FAMOUS USS ENTERPRISE. FOR HER SHAKEDOWN CRUISE UNDER THE COMMAND OF ADMIRAL CHARLES RASMUSSEN. FOR THE DURATION OF THE CRUISE UNA CHIN-RILEY WAS ASSIGNED TO ENGINEERING UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LIEUTENANT CHO. IN THE MID 2240S, UNA CHIN-RILEY WITH THE RANK OF ENSIGN SERVED ABOARD THE USS FORTUNE IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. DURING AN ATTACK BY AN UNKNOWN ALIEN VESSEL, SHE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN SAVING 27 OF THE CREW FROM THE SHIP'S DESTRUCTION WHILE IN ORBIT OF TAU ALPHA III. IN 2248 UNA HAD BEEN PROMOTED IN RANK TO LIEUTENANT AND WAS SERVING ABOARD THE USS VENTURA. FOLLOWING A MISSION TO BETA ERIDANI III SHE ACCEPTED A TRANSFER TO THE ENTERPRISE AND A PROMOTION TO LIEUTENANT. ALMOST AS SOON AS SHE ARRIVED ON THE ENTERPRISE UNA CAME TO CAPTAIN ROBERT APRIL'S ATTENTION AND EARNED HERSELF A POSITION AS PART OF A LANDING PARTY LED BY LIEUTENANT COMMANDER CHRISTOPHER PIKE TO PLANET ALPHA TAU IV.

SOMETIME PRIOR TO 2249 SHE WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE ON A SPACE STATION BY SULIBAN TERRORISTS. SHE THREATENED TO DESTROY THE STATION WITH EVERYONE ABOARD IN ORDER TO BLUFF THE TERRORISTS. IN 2249 A ROUTINE FOLLOWUP SURVEY EXPEDITION TO THE LIBROS STAR SYSTEM BY THE ENTERPRISE DISCOVERED AN EXTRADIMENSIONAL INCURSION BY A HOSTILE ALIEN SPECIES THE JATOHR WHO HAD ENSLAVED THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION OF PLANET LIBROS III. A DISASTROUS LANDING PARTY EXPEDITION COMMANDED BY UNA RESULTED IN THE ENTIRE PARTY EXCEPT FOR UNA BEING SENT INTO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE WITH LITTLE HOPE OF RESCUE ALTHOUGH THE PTAEN INCURSION WAS REPULSED AND THE SLUGLIKE-ALIENS LIKEWISE EXILED BACK TO THEIR NATIVE REALITY. HOWEVER A PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY KNOWN AS THE TRANSFER KEY WAS RECOVERED BY CAPTAIN APRIL AND UNA RESOLVED TO EVENTUALLY RESCUE HER COMRADES DESPITE POTENTIALLY TAKING DECADES TO DO SO.

BY 2250 UNA CHIN-RILEY WAS THE ENTERPRISE'S HELMSMAN AND PART OF THE SENIOR STAFF. SHE HAD SERVED ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE FOR THREE YEARS REFUSING EVERY PROMOTION THAT WAS OFFERED TO HER. IN 2250 SHE WAS POSTED TO THE USS YORKTOWN AS EXECUTIVE OFFICER UNDER CHRISTOPHER PIKE WHO CALLED HER "NUMBER ONE" AS A SORT OF JOKE. IT BEING AN OLD TERM FOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER. SHE TRANSFERRED WITH HIM TO THE USS ENTERPRISE IN 2251 EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD HOPED FOR COMMAND OF A SCIENCE VESSEL OR MEDICAL FRIGATE. IN 2254 FOLLOWING AN ATTACK BY A MYSTERIOUS ALIEN RACE THE NGULTOR NUMBER ONE LED A LANDING PARTY TO RESCUE CAPTAIN PIKE FROM NGULTOR CAPTIVITY. ON THE ENTERPRISE'S NEXT MISSION IN THE MARRAT NEBULA NUMBER ONE LED ANOTHER LANDING PARTY THIS TIME TO INVESTIGATE A LOSS IN COMMUNICATIONS AT STARFLEET'S PROJECT PHAROS. SHORTLY AFTER BEAMING DOWN THE PARTY CAME UNDER ATTACK FROM KLINGONS NUMBER ONE USED THE TRANSPORTERS TO BEAM IN BEHIND THE KLINGON ATTACKERS AND NEUTRALIZE THEM BEFORE RESCUING A TEAM OF STARFLEET ENGINEERS THE KLINGONS HAD BEEN HOLDING CAPTIVE.

FOLLOWING A DISASTROUS VISIT TO RIGEL VII NUMBER ONE AND THE ENTERPRISE FOUND THEMSELVES VISITING THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET TALOS IV WHERE CAPTAIN PIKE WAS TAKEN CAPTIVE BY THE NATIVE TALOSIANS. DETERMINED TO RESCUE THE CAPTAIN NUMBER ONE ONCE AGAIN LED A RESCUE PARTY. UNFORTUNATELY THE TALOSIANS WERE ABLE TO MANIPULATE THE ENTERPRISE'S TRANSPORTERS DELIVERING ONLY NUMBER ONE AND YEOMAN COLT INTO THE TALOSIAN HABITAT. THE ENTIRE PARTY LATER ESCAPED. VERY SHORTLY FOLLOWING THE TALOS IV INCIDENT THE ENTERPRISE WAS SENT TO A RIFT THAT OPENED EVERY 33 YEARS INTO THE GAMMA QUADRANT OF THE GALAXY. THE STARSHIP RECEIVED BRAND-NEW HIGHLY-ADVANCED COMPUTER VOICE MODULES WITH HER OWN VOICE PATTERNS SUBSEQUENTLY IMPRINTED UPON THE ENTERPRISE'S COMPUTER, WHICH LED TO HER VOICE BEING USED IN FUTURE YEARS. THE ENTERPRISE WAS THEN RECALLED BACK TO EARTH FOR A DEBRIEF AND CREW RESTOCK. WHILE PASSING BY JUPITER PIKE CONFIDED IN NUMBER ONE REGARDING HIS DOUBTS ABOUT REMAINING A CAPTAIN BEFORE A HALOGIAN SHIP WAS DETECTED FIRING A BEAM OF INTENSE HEAT INTO JUPITER. LEAVING NUMBER ONE TO ENGAGE THEM SHIP TO SHIP PIKE LED AN AWAY TEAM ABOARD THE ALIEN CRAFT SUCCESSFULLY SABOTAGING ITS SYSTEMS AND DESTROYING IT.

NOT LONG AFTER PIKE LEFT NUMBER ONE IN COMMAND OF THE ENTERPRISE WHILE HE LED A LANDING PARTY TO DARIEN 224. SHE WAS FORCED TO TAKE THE STARSHIP INTO BATTLE WHEN THEY WERE ATTACKED BY THE USS CORTEZ WHICH HAD BEEN COMMANDEERED BY A GROUP OF HOSTILE VULCANS. THE ENTERPRISE STOPPED AT DEEP SPACE STATION K-12 TO RECEIVE REPAIRS FOLLOWING THE INCIDENT AND NUMBER ONE WAS LEFT IN CHARGE AGAIN WHEN PIKE LEFT FOR EARTH AFTER HEARING HIS FATHER WAS ILL. HOWEVER IT SOON BECAME APPARENT THAT THE MESSAGE HAD BEEN FAKED. UNFORTUNATELY THE MESSAGE WAS TOO DEGRADED TO TRACK IT TO ITS POINT OF ORIGIN. FORTUNATELY SOMEONE SENT A SCREENED UNTRACEABLE MESSAGE TO THE ENTERPRISE INFORMING THEM OF PIKE'S LOCATION AND NUMBER ONE WAS ABLE TO TAKE THE ENTERPRISE TO RESCUE HIM FROM HIS KLINGON ADVERSARIES WHO HAD SET THE TRAP.

IN 2255 THE ENTERPRISE CREW BECAME STRICKEN WITH RIGELIAN FEVER WITH CAPTAIN PIKE ORDERING THE STARSHIP TO CYPRIA III LOCATION OF THE RARE SUBSTANCE RYETALYN THE ONLY KNOWN CURATIVE. HOWEVER EN ROUTE THE SHIP INTERVENED IN A PURSUIT INVOLVING THE ADOPTED CYPRIAN DAUGHTER OF A KLINGON GENERAL WHICH THREATENED TO BRING DOWN A SIZEABLE MILITARY RESPONSE AGAINST BOTH THE ENTERPRISE AND CYPRIA III. PLANETSIDE NUMBER ONE WAS FORCED INTO ACTION TO RESCUE HER LANDING PARTY FROM A HOSTILE POPULATION RILED UP BY OPPORTUNISTIC POLITICIANS AGAINST THEM RESULTING IN A DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT. HOWEVER NUMBER ONE SUCCEEDED IN SAVING HER CREWMEMBERS AND RETURNING TO THE ENTERPRISE AND BOTH THE RIGELIAN FEVER AND THE KLINGON SITUATION WERE SOON RESOLVED. SHE WAS OFFERED COMMAND OF THE USS NELSON IN 2255 BUT TURNED IT DOWN PREFERRING TO REMAIN UNDER PIKE ON THE ENTERPRISE.

IN 2256 WAR BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE KLINGON EMPIRE AND THE FEDERATION. THE ENTERPRISE HOWEVER WAS SO FAR FROM THE FRONT LINES THAT WERE ORDERED TO REMAIN ON THEIR EXPLORATION MISSION BEING KEPT IN RESERVE AS A LAST DITCH WEAPON. THE ENTERPRISE FINALLY RETURNED IN 2257 ONCE THE WAR HAD ENDED. WHILE ON THE RETURN TRIP THE ENTERPRISE DETECTED SEVEN RED BURSTS BUT ATTEMPTING TO SCAN ONE LED TO THE HOLOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INFLICTING A CATASTROPHIC SYSTEMS FAILURE ON THE SHIP, CRIPPLING IT. TO CONTINUE THE MISSION PIKE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE USS DISCOVERY WHILE NUMBER ONE OVERSAW ENTERPRISE'S REPAIRS. WHILE REPAIRS PROGRESSED NUMBER ONE CALLED IN A NUMBER OF FAVOR TO ASCERTAIN THE CAUSE OF SPOCK'S DISAPPEARANCE FROM STARBASE 5 TRANSPORTING ONTO DISCOVERY TO PERSONALLY DELIVER THE INFORMATION TO PIKE. WHILE ABOARD SHE INFORMED HER CAPTAIN THAT CHIEF ENGINEER LOUVIER HAD FOUND THE HOLOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATORS TO BE THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE SYSTEM FAILURES WITH PIKE ORDERING THEIR REMOVAL.

IN HER TRAVELS THE DISCOVERY HAD COME ACROSS AN ALIEN LIFEFORM KNOWN ONLY AS THE SPHERE WHICH HAD IMPARTED ONTO THE SHIP THE SUM TOTAL OF ITS KNOWLEDGE. THIS KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF THE ROGUE AI. CONTROL WHO SENT THE ENTIRETY OF THE SECTION 31 FLEET AFTER DISCOVERY TO CLAIM THE DATA. UNABLE TO DELETE THE DATE PIKE WAS FORCED TO DESTROY DISCOVERY CALLING IN NUMBER ONE TO BRING THE ENTERPRISE AS AN EVACUATION SHIP. WHILE DISCOVERY WAS SUCCESSFULLY EVACUATED THE SPHERE HAD TAKEN CONTROL OF THE SHIP'S SYSTEMS CANCELLING THE SELF DESTRUCT AND RAISING THE SHIELDS TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM THE ENTERPRISE'S WEAPONS. AT A STAFF MEETING IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP THE SPHERE DATA FROM CONTROL WAS TO TAKE DISCOVERY TO THE FUTURE. WHEN A FIFTH RED SIGNAL WAS DETECTED AT XAHEA NUMBER ONE WARPED THE ENTERPRISE TO THE PLANET. WHEN THEY ARRIVED ONLY MINUTES BEFORE SECTION 31 PIKE RE-ASSUMED COMMAND OF THE ENTERPRISE.

DURING THE COURSE OF THE BATTLE AN UNDETONATED PHOTON TORPEDO LODGED ITSELF IN THE ENTERPRISE'S SAUCER SECTION. WITH THE REPAIR DRONES UNABLE TO REMOVE THE TORPEDO NUMBER ONE JOINED ADMIRAL CORNWELL IN TRYING TO DISABLE IT ONLY TO FIND ITS SECONDARY DETONATION SYSTEMS HAD ALREADY ACTIVATED PIKE FORCING HER TO SWAP PLACES WITH HIM. WHEN PIKE RETURNED HE ORDERED NUMBER ONE TO PILOT THE ENTERPRISE BETWEEN THE DISCOVERY AND THE SECTION 31 DRONES ALLOWING THE CROSSFIELD CLASS SHIP TO TRAVEL INTO THE WORMHOLE TO THE FUTURE. WITH CONTROL GONE THE DRONES SHUT DOWN, LEAVING THE ENTERPRISE TO LIMP BACK HOME. BACK ON EARTH ALL INVOLVED AGREED TO TESTIFY THAT DISCOVERY HAD BEEN DESTROYED SPOCK CONVINCING THE ADMIRALTY TO COVER UP THE SHIP'S EXISTENCE COMPLETELY. IN 2258 124 DAYS AFTER THE BATTLE THE ENTERPRISE RETURNED ON ITS EXPLORATION MISSION SETTING A COURSE FOR A NEW MOON FOUND ORBITING EDRIN II.

IN 2264 PIKE WAS PROMOTED FLEET CAPTAIN WITH NUMBER ONE AGREED TO REMAIN BEHIND AND CONTINUE AS FIRST OFFICER UNDER JAMES T KIRK. DAYS BEFORE THE CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONY HOWEVER NUMBER ONE HAD AN ACCIDENT IN THE SHIP'S CARGO HOLD WHERE A CARGO CONTAINER FELL ONTO HER AND CRUSHED BOTH HER LEGS. THOUGH SHE RECEIVED PROMPT MEDICAL TREATMENT FROM DR PHILLIP BOYCE BUT HER LONG RECOVERY MEANT THAT SHE COULDN'T SERVE AS KIRK'S FIRST OFFICER THE POST BEING GIVEN TO SPOCK. FOLLOWING HER RECOVERY NUMBER ONE RECEIVED A COMMAND OF HER OWN. NUMBER ONE STILL SERVING AS CAPTAIN PIKE'S EXECUTIVE OFFICER IN THE AUTUMN OF 2263 BUT WAS TAKING SHORE LEAVE WHEN THE AGNI CONDUCTED A SERIES OF INCURSIONS INTO FEDERATION SPACE DURING WHICH THE ENTERPRISE INTERVENED DURING HER ABSENCE RESULTING IN A SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF STARFLEET PERSONNEL AND STARSHIPS. SHE WOULD THEN BE GIVEN COMMAND OF THE USS YORKTOWN EITHER LATE IN THE YEAR 2263 OR BY THE FALL OF 2264.

IN 2267 FOLLOWING THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN KIRK AND HIS CREW FROM THE MIRROR UNIVERSE UNA FINALLY DISCOVERED THE MEANS TO REACTIVATE THE TRANSFER KEY DEVICE FROM THE ILL FATED USILDAR MISSION OF 2249 AND RESCUE HER FORMER ENTERPRISE CREWMATES FROM A HELLISH ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. HOWEVER THIS WAS ATTEMPTED BY UNA STEALING THE KEY FROM KIRK'S QUARTERS UNDER THE PRETENSE OF A FRIENDLY SHIP VISIT. NUMBER ONE FLEEING THE STARSHIP ABOARD A HIGH-SPEED COURIER VESSEL THE ENTERPRISE PURSUING HER BACK TO THE LIBROSIAN STAR SYSTEM NOW CLAIMED BY THE KLINGON EMPIRE. PLANETSIDE UNA ESCAPED FROM HOSTILE NATIVE CLUTCHES ONLY TO BE SAVED BY KIRK AND SPOCK WHEN ATTEMPTING TO ENTER THE ABANDONED JATOHR CITADEL THERE. WITH KLINGONS CLOSING IN NUMBER ONE USED THE TRANSFER KEY TO ENTER THE HOME DIMENSION OF THE JATOHR IN AN ATTEMPT TO BRING HER MISSING CREWMATES HOME. KIRK AND SPOCK BARELY ESCAPING BACK TO THE ENTERPRISE IN THE NICK OF TIME.

UPON ARRIVING IN THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE UNA JOURNEYED ACROSS A MASSIVE BURNING DESERT WHERE SHE ULTIMATELY ENCOUNTERED HER STRANDED CREWMATES FROM DECADES EARLIER. HOWEVER IN ORDER TO ATTEMPT AN ESCAPE FROM THE DIMENSION AN EXPEDITION TO THE JATOHR CAPITAL CITY WAS NECESSARY TO PREVENT THE SLUG LIKE ALIENS FROM INTERDICTING THE ENTERPRISE'S EXTRACTION EFFORTS IN TWO MONTHS' TIME AND THIS RESULTED IN THE CAPTURE AND INTERROGATION OF UNA, TIM SHIMIZU, AND LIEUTENANT COMMANDER RAUL MARTINEZ BY THE JATOHR LEADERSHIP. AT SOME POINT AFTER THESE EVENTS NUMBER ONE WAS EVENTUALLY PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF COMMODORE AND RESUMED COMMAND OF THE USS YORKTOWN WHEN IN 2270 SHE WAS SENT BY STARFLEET COMMAND TO THE ROMULAN NEUTRAL ZONE USING A CLOAKING DEVICE UNDER ORDERS TO ENGAGE THE ROMULANS. WHILE IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE HER SHIP HAD POWER TROUBLE WITH THE CLOAKING DEVICE AND CAME UNDER ATTACK FROM CAPTAIN KOLOTH'S SHIP. DURING THE ENGAGEMENT NUMBER ONE AND THE YORKTOWN SUCCESSFULLY DISABLED THE ENEMY VESSEL.

THE YORKTOWN WAS THEN CONFRONTED BY A ROMULAN WARBIRD. LUCKILY SHE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE BY USING A PLASMA FIELD. HOWEVER THE YORKTOWN CAME UNDER FIRE FROM A KLINGON ROMULAN FLEET UNDER ROMULAN PRAETOR GAIUS AND CAPTAIN KOLOTH. NUMBER ONE ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF HER BRIDGE CREW AND KOLOTH AND HIS BRIDGE CREW WERE BEAMED ABOARD GAIUS' SHIP. ON BOARD THE KERAS NUMBER ONE AND ONE OF HER OFFICERS WERE BRUTALLY INTERROGATED BY THE PRAETOR FOR INFORMATION ON CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK AND THE USS ENTERPRISE. SHE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED ABOARD THE USS CONSTITUTION OF WHICH SHE THEN TOOK COMMAND. SHE ENCOUNTERED THE ORGANIAN AYELBORNE WHO FORCED THE ROMULANS TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS OF THE ORGANIAN PEACE TREATY. NUMBER ONE WAS PROMOTED TO ADMIRAL IN THE 2270S AND CONTINUED TO COMMAND THE USS YORKTOWN.






2230 S'CHN T'GAI SPOCK IS BORN

AT THE ACADEMY SPOCK LED HIS YEAR IN ASTROGRAPHY, COMPARATIVE, XENOBIOLOGY, SEMIOTICS, QUANTUM MECHANICS, WARP ENGINEERING AND FOUR OTHER DISCIPLINES. SPOCK WAS FRIENDS, AND OFTEN WORKED WITH ARMAND ST JOHN WHO CLAIMED SPOCK WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE FEDERATION CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING HIS BRILLIANCE. SPOCK SUSPECTED THEY FOUND SOMETHING IN COMMON IN THAT BOTH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE FATHERS DISAPPROVED THEM OF ATTENDING STARFLEET ACADEMY. THE TWO OFTEN FOUGHT AS SPOCK FOUND THE SHORTCUTS THAT ST JOHN EMPLOYED IN HIS RESEARCH TO BE DANGEROUS. SPOCK WAS PROVED CORRECT WHEN ST. JOHN WAS EXPELLED AFTER ONE OF HIS EXPERIMENTS CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE CAMPUS. SPOCK WOULD MEET ST JOHN AGAIN YEARS LATER AT THE POLLUX II LABORATORY WHILE SERVING ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE. SPOCK TOOK THE TWO YEAR VULCAN CURRICULUM AND AN ADDITIONAL SERIES OF CADET CRUISES AT STARFLEET ACADEMY BEFORE BEING COMMISSIONED AS AN OFFICER AT AGE 19.

in 2253 WHEN SPOCK WAS STILL A CADET CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE OF THE USS ENTERPRISE MET WITH HIM WITH AN OFFER. THE ENTERPRISE WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN A LONG TERM MISSION TO CHART THE PATHIAD NEBULATAE BUT THE SHIP'S CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH VIRILLIAN TOXIC FEVER. TO FILL THE VACANT POSITION PIKE OFFERED THE PROMISING CADET SPOCK AN INTERNSHIP ON THE ENTERPRISE WITH THE RANK OF ACTING ENSIGN. SPOCK ACCEPTED. YEARS LATER WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A KLINGON MIND SIFTER SPOCK HAD A HALLUCINATORY EXPERIENCE OF HIS FIRST DAY ON THE BRIDGE AS AN ENSIGN AND ACTING SCIENCE OFFICER. AFTER SPOCK COMPLETED A THREE YEAR TOUR AS AN ENSIGN AND ASSISTANT SCIENCE OFFICER ABOARD A CUTTER AND A TWO YEAR TOUR ENDING in 2253 AS THIRD OFFICER AND SCIENCE OFFICER OF THE USS ARTEMIS HE WAS PROMOTED TO FULL LIEUTENANT AND JOINED THE CREW OF THE USS ENTERPRISE AS CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER AND SECOND OFFICER IN 2253 UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE. AT FIRST PIKE WAS NERVOUS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING A VULCAN ON THE BRIDGE FEELING THAT SPOCK'S VULCAN HERITAGE WOULD MEAN THAT HE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GUT OUT COMMAND DECISIONS.

ONE OF SPOCK'S FIRST ASSIGNMENTS ON THE ENTERPRISE WAS TO LEAD THE LANDING PARTIES TO GS391 AND ARETA SEARCHING FOR THE LOST VULCAN TREASURE CALLED VULCAN'S GLORY A HUGE NATURAL UNCUT EMERALD. SPOCK BECAME ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED WITH A VULCAN WOMAN ON HIS STAFF NAMED T'PRIS, AND BRIEFLY CONSIDERED DISSOLVING HIS BOND WITH HIS BETROTHED BACK HOME T'PRING. TRAGICALLY T'PRIS WAS MURDERED BY A HUMAN CREWMEMBER WITH ONE EIGHTH VULCAN BLOOD NAMED LIEUTENANT DANIEL REED WHOSE MATERNAL GREAT GRANDMOTHER HAD BEEN DISGRACED WHEN THE GLORY HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN LOST. SPOCK QUICKLY BECAME A VALUED MEMBER OF THE ENTERPRISE CREW, SPENDING ELEVEN YEARS UNDER PIKE'S COMMAND. EARLY IN HIS SERVICE ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE LIEUTENANT SPOCK JOINED CAPTAIN PIKE AND LIEUTENANT TYLER ON A SHUTTLE MISSION TO PLANET FILOS 4. WHILE EVALUATING COMMANDER KNOXVILLE'S WORK IN DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTER TECHNOLOGIES A MALFUNCTION CAUSED SPOCK TO FALL THROUGH A PORTAL TO ANOTHER LOCATION AND CAPTAIN PIKE JUMPED THROUGH AFTER HIM. FOLLOWING THEIR RETURN TO THE ENTERPRISE SPOCK SUBMITTED A REPORT TO STARFLEET WHICH LED THEM TO SUSPEND THE EXPERIMENTS INDEFINITELY.

IN 2254 HE DIAGNOSED AND HELPED TO CURE THE VESSEL FROM A NGULTOR VIRUS. NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS AMONG THE INJURED DURING THE COUP ON RIGEL VII HE SAVED THE ENTERPRISE 'S NURSE GABRIELLE CARLOTTI FROM A KAYLAR MACE BLOW BUT WAS THEN THROWN AGAINST A WALL DAMAGING HIS LEG. SOON AFTER THE INCIDENT ON TALOS IV THE ENTERPRISE DISCOVERED AN INTERSPACIAL RIFT THAT OPENED ONCE EVERY 33.4 YEARS THAT LED TO THE EDGE OF THE AREA OF THE GALAXY KNOWN AS THE GAMMA QUADRANT. SPOCK WAS PART OF A DELEGATION THAT MET WITH THE CALLIGAR A RACE THAT LIVED IN A SERIES OF SATELLITES ORBITING A WORLD IN FLAME ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIFT.

ON THE PLANETOID DARIEN 224 SPOCK AND A LANDING PARTY FROM THE ENTERPRISE DISCOVERED THE LAST OF ALL CITIES A LOST COLONY OF VULCANS WHICH CRASHED ON THE PLANET TWO MILLENNIA BEFORE AND HAD LEFT VULCAN BEFORE THE TIME OF AWAKENING AND THE LOGIC-REFORMATION. A SPLINTER GROUP FROM THE COLONY WHO WISHED TO REMAIN IN ISOLATION HAD CAPTURED THE USS CORTEZ IN THE HOPES OF USING IT TO OPPOSE THE REST OF THE COLONY WHICH WISHED TO RETURN TO VULCAN AS CONQUERORS. WHILE SPOCK AND THE LANDING PARTY DID THEIR BEST TO KEEP RELATIONS WITH THE EMOTIONAL VULCANS GOOD, SPOCK LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE VULCAN PEOPLE. THE CORTEZ AND THE COLONY WERE ULTIMATELY DESTROYED WHEN THEY USED AN ANCIENT PSIONIC WEAPON. FOLLOWING THE INCIDENT SPOCK RE-ASSESSED HIS WAY OF LIFE AND UNDERWENT A PURIFICATION RITUAL REMOVING WHAT FEW HUMAN EMOTIONS HE DID HAVE AND DEVOTING HIMSELF FULLY TO A LIFE OF LOGIC AND INTELLECT SURMISING TO CAPTAIN PIKE "PASSION KILLS, CAPTAIN. LOGIC DOES NOT".

IN 2255 CAPTAIN PIKE INFORMED SPOCK THAT A POSITION HAD OPENED UP ON BOARD THE USS INTREPID WHICH WAS ENTIRELY CREWED BY VULCANS. PIKE TOLD SPOCK IF HE CHOSE TO APPLY FOR THE POSITION HE WOULD SUPPORT SPOCK AS IT WOULD BE A GOOD CAREER MOVE FOR THE VULCAN. HE ASKED SPOCK TO THINK IT OVER AND COME BACK TO HIM WHEN HE MADE A DECISION. A FEW DAYS LATER THE ENTERPRISE EXPERIENCED AN OUTBREAK OF RIGELIAN FEVER WHICH REQUIRED THE SHIP TO DIVERT TO CYPRIA III IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE MATERIALS TO MANUFACTURE A CURE. AFTER THE MATERIALS WERE OBTAINED FROM THE CYPRIANS AND THE OUTBREAK CONTAINED SPOCK INFORMED PIKE THAT HE HAD DECIDED TO STAY ON THE ENTERPRISE AND NOT APPLY FOR THE POSITION ON THE INTREPID.

IN MAY OF 2255 SPOCK WITH HIS FOSTER SISTER THE USS SHENZHOU'S ACTING XO LIEUTENANT MICHAEL BURNHAM ENTERED THE JUGGERNAUT TO DISABLE IT BEFORE IT WIPES OUT THE COLONY ON SIRSA III. TOGETHER SPOCK AND BURNHAM PASSED A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES AND SPOCK MIND MELDED WITH HER TO KEEP IN CONTACT WITH HER. THEY THEN DISCOVERED THAT THIS SHIP BELONGED TO THE TURANIAN EMPIRE WHO DEEMED BOTH HIM AND BURNHAM WORTHY OF JOINING THE EMPIRE. HOWEVER WHEN THE JUGGERNAUT ATTACKS BOTH THE ENTERPRISE AND THE SHENZHOU SPOCK AND BURNHAM SET THEIR PHASERS TO OVERLOAD. THIS DISABLED THE JUGGERNAUT. FOLLOWING THE END OF THE FEDERATION KLINGON WAR OF 2256-57 SPOCK TOOK A LEAVE OF ABSENCE FROM STARFLEET DUE TO A PREMONITION ABOUT SEVERAL RED BURSTS. ON A UNNAMED PLANET SPOCK ENCOUNTERED THE RED ANGEL FROM HIS CHILDHOOD. HE RECEIVED VISIONS FROM THE RED ANGEL THAT SHOWED THE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH, VULCAN, ANDOR AND TELLAR. THE ENCOUNTER ALSO CAUSED SPOCK TO EXPERIENCE TIME NON LINEARLY. HE DECIDED TO COMMIT HIMSELF TO THE PSYCHIATRIC UNIT ON STARBASE 5. WHEN THE RED BURSTS HAPPENED SPOCK DECIDED TO LEAVE DESPITE HIS DOCTORS' OBJECTIONS. HE USED A VULCAN NERVE PINCHED ON THREE OF HIS DOCTORS AND TOOK A SHUTTLECRAFT.

STARFLEET BELIEVED THAT SPOCK HAD KILLED HIS DOCTORS AND WAS WANTED FOR MURDER. BOTH SECTION 31 AND THE USS DISCOVERY UNDER CAPTAINS LELAND, GEORGIOU AND PIKE SEARCHED FOR HIM AND HIS SHUTTLE. EVENTUALLY SPOCK ABANDONED HIS SHUTTLE AND RETURNED TO VULCAN. THERE HIS MOTHER SHIELDED HIM FROM EVERYONE IN A SACRED CRYPT LINED WITH KATRA STONES. SPOCK HID THERE UNTIL BURNHAM AND SAREK DISCOVERED HIM AND TURNED HIM OVER TO CAPTAIN LELAND IN ORDER TO REPAIR HIS MIND. HOWEVER SPOCK AND BURNHAM ESCAPED TO A SHUTTLE WHEN GEORGIOU WARNED THEM ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WOULD DESTROY HIS MIND. AFTER THE CLIMACTIC BATTLE WITH CONTROL SPOCK RETURNED TO THE ENTERPRISE AND SHAVED HIS BEARD. SOME MONTHS LATER HE OBSERVED THE LAST RED SIGNAL FROM HIS LOST FOSTER SISTER. SPOCK, NUMBER ONE AND THE REST OF PIKE'S CREW CONTINUED THEIR MISSIONS TO STRANGE NEW WORLDS.

IN 2264 PIKE'S TIME AS CAPTAIN OF THE ENTERPRISE WAS COMING TO AN END AS PIKE WAS DUE TO BE PROMOTED TO FLEET CAPTAIN. BY THEN PIKE WAS QUITE COMFORTABLE WITH HAVING SPOCK AS PART OF HIS CREW. SPOCK WAS ONE OF THE FEW OFFICERS TO REMAIN ON THE ENTERPRISE AFTER PIKE LEFT AND PIKE FELT BETTER ABOUT TURNING THE ENTERPRISE OVER TO CAPTAIN JAMES KIRK AS SPOCK WOULD BE REMAINING ON BOARD SERVING AS BOTH KIRK'S FIRST OFFICER AND SCIENCE OFFICER. PIKE BY THEN HAD COME TO RESPECT SPOCK'S DEDICATION TO LOGIC AND FELT THAT SPOCK WOULD KEEP YOUNG CAPTAIN KIRK FROM ACTING RASHLY TOGETHER, SPOCK, JAMES T KIRK AND THE CREW OF THE ENTERPRISE MADE HISTORY. ONE OF THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL MISSIONS IN 2265 WAS MAKING FIRST CONTACT WITH THE ARCHERNARIANS OF ARCHERNAR IV. THERE SPOCK DEFUSED THE SITUATION WAS BY MAKING A SCREECHING NOISE TO PREVENT LT LEE KELSO FROM FIRING HIS PHASER AT THE ARCHERNARIANS.

IN 2266 THE ENTERPRISE WAS THE FIRST FEDERATION SHIP TO OFFICIALLY VIEW THE TRUE APPEARANCE OF THE ROMULANS WHO LOOKED REMARKABLY LIKE VULCANS. SPOCK CONFIRMED THAT IT WAS INDEED LIKELY THAT THEY WERE A WAR LIKE OFFSHOOT OF THE VULCANS. IN 2267 SPOCK CAME TO THE AID OF HIS FORMER CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE AFTER PIKE HAD BECOME AN INVALID BARELY CAPABLE OF COMMUNICATION AFTER EXPOSURE TO DELTA RADIATION. SPOCK RISKED THE DEATH PENALTY BY BREAKING GENERAL ORDER 7 AND RETURNING PIKE TO TALOS IV WHERE THE TALOSIANS COULD GIVE PIKE THE ILLUSION OF A NORMAL EXISTENCE. LATER THAT YEAR SPOCK FELT THE FIRES OF PON FARR AND RETURNED TO VULCAN TO WED HIS BETROTHED T'PRING. AT THE CEREMONY T'PRING CHOSE INSTEAD TO PIT SPOCK AGAINST KIRK IN COMBAT WHILE SPOCK WAS ENVELOPED BY THE PLAK TOW OR BLOOD FEVER IN ORDER TO BREAK HER ENGAGEMENT TO SPOCK AND WED A VULCAN NAMED STONN INSTEAD.

SOON AFTER SPOCK WAS REUNITED WITH HIS PARENTS WHEN THE ENTERPRISE ESCORTED A COMPLEMENT OF AMBASSADORS INCLUDING SAREK AND HIS WIFE TO A DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE ON THE CODENAMED PLANET BABEL. DURING THE JOURNEY SAREK SUFFERED A CARDIAC EPISODE REQUIRING IMMEDIATE SURGERY. SAREK ALMOST DIED WHEN SPOCK'S PRESENCE WAS REQUIRED FOR A MASSIVE T NEGATIVE BLOOD TRANSFUSION BUT SPOCK REFUSED TO RELINQUISH HIS DUTIES TO THE ENTERPRISE. AFTER SPOCK WAS RELIEVED OF DUTY HE REPORTED TO DR LEONARD MCCOY IN SICKBAY AND GAVE THE TRANSFUSION SAVING SAREK'S LIFE. THE INCIDENT ENDED AN EIGHTEEN YEAR RIFT BETWEEN SPOCK AND SAREK. IN 2268 THE ENTERPRISE WAS ORDERED TO COVERTLY ENTER THE ROMULAN STAR EMPIRE AND RETRIEVE A ROMULAN CLOAKING DEVICE. IT WAS DURING THIS INCIDENT THAT SPOCK FIRST MET THE ROMULAN WOMAN KNOWN AS CHARVANEK. IN 2269 SPOCK AND DR LEONARD MCCOY WERE SENT 5,000 YEARS INTO THE PAST OF THE WORLD SARPEIDON WHERE SPOCK MET AND BECAME ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED WITH A WOMAN NAMED ZARABETH. UNBEKNOWNST TO SPOCK WHEN HE RETURNED TO THE 23RD CENTURY HE LEFT ZARABETH PREGNANT WITH HIS SON ZAR.

LATER THAT YEAR WHILE STUDYING VULCAN HISTORY USING THE GUARDIAN OF FOREVER THE TIMELINE WAS CHANGED FORCING SPOCK TO TRAVEL BACK THROUGH THE GUARDIAN IN ORDER TO PRESERVE HIS OWN EXISTENCE. ARRIVING IN VULCAN'S PAST SPOCK POSED AS A COUSIN OF SAREK NAMED SELEK. SPOCK SAVED HIS YOUNGER SELF FROM A LE MATYA ATTACK DURING HIS YOUNGER SELF'S KAHS-WAN TRIALS. THE TIMELINE RESTORED, SPOCK WAS RETURNED TO THE GUARDIAN'S WORLD. WHEN THE RELIGIOUS CRUSADERS ATTACKED THE FEDERATION FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION SPOCK PROVED VITAL IN DEFEATING THEIR ATTEMPT TO FORCIBLY CONVERT THE FEDERATION TO FOLLOW THEIR TRUTH AND THEIR BELIEF THAT DIFFERENT CULTURES COULD NOT COOPERATE. BY MAKING CONTACT WITH THE CROWN OF THE GOD KING JAENAB WHICH ALLOWED HIM TO MAKE TELEPATHIC BROADCASTS TO HIS PEOPLE WHILE KIRK KEPT JAENAB OCCUPIED SPOCK USED A MIND MELD TO SHARE HIS OWN EXPERIENCE OF DIFFERENT CULTURES INTERACTING BY USING HIS OWN PARENTS AS AN EXAMPLE THE DISCOVERY PROMPTING JAENAB TO CALL OFF HIS CRUSADE AND ENTER ISOLATION TO EXAMINE HIS OWN MOTIVES.

IN 2270 TOWARDS THE END OF THE FIVE YEAR MISSION SPOCK ENCOUNTERED BERLIS AKNISTA AFTER THE ENTERPRISE RESCUED HIM. BERLIS HAD A VERY POWERFUL FORM OF TELEPATHY THAT ATTRACTED SPOCK AND EVENTUALLY LED TO SPOCK INTERLOCKING HIS MIND WITH BERLIS BUT THE CONNECTION WOULD BE BROKEN SOON AFTER. AS SPOCK SAT IN HIS CABIN AFTERWARD HE FELT BERLIS PROBING HIS MIND AND KILLED HIM IN ORDER TO AVOID FURTHER INTERFERENCE BY BERLIS. WHEN THE FIVE YEAR MISSION OF THE ENTERPRISE CAME TO AN END IN 2270 CAPTAIN KIRK RECOMMENDED SPOCK FOR THE COMMAND OF THE SCIENCE VESSEL THE USS GRISSOM AND THE USS ENTERPRISE. SPOCK TURNED DOWN THE OFFER AS HE BELIEVED THAT BEING IN COMMAND EVEN OF A SCIENCE SHIP WOULD KEEP HIM FROM THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT WAS HIS SPECIALTY. SPOCK RETURNED TO VULCAN FOR SIX MONTHS LEAVE WITH THE INTENTION OF RETURNING TO STARFLEET AND SERVING AGAIN WITH KIRK. AFTER KIRK ACCEPTED A PROMOTION TO ADMIRAL SOMETHING THAT HE SWORE HE WOULD NEVER DO SPOCK RESIGNED FROM STARFLEET AND TOOK A TEACHING JOB AT THE VULCAN SCIENCE ACADEMY. HE SOON MET AND BECAME ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED WITH A VULCAN WOMAN NAMED T'SURA. THE COUPLE SOON BONDED BECOMING BETROTHED TO EACH OTHER.

WHEN THE ANCIENT KATRA OF AN UNSTABLE AND VERY POWERFUL VULCAN NAMED ZAKAL FOUND A HOST AND BEGAN TO TERRORIZE THE REGION IN 2271 SPOCK WAS DRAWN INTO THE EVENTS AS WERE KIRK, MCCOY AND MCCOY'S FRIEND KERIDWEN LLEWELLYN. ZAKAL WAS STOPPED, BUT AT THE COST OF LLEWELLYN'S LIFE. SPOCK BLAMED HIMSELF FOR LLEWELYN'S DEATH BELIEVING THAT IT WAS HIS LACK OF EMOTIONAL CONTROL THAT BROUGHT ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HER DEATH. AS A RESULT SPOCK TERMINATED HIS LINK WITH T'SURA AND INSTEAD OPTED TO BECOME A POSTULATE OF KOLINAHR IN ORDER TO SHED ALL OF HIS REMAINING EMOTIONS. IN 2272 SPOCK WAS PREPARING TO ACHIEVE THE FINAL STAGE OF KOLINAHR BY SEVERING ALL TIES TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY. DESPITE HIS EFFORTS FEELINGS OF FRIENDSHIP AND AFFECTION PERSISTED FOR HIS HUMAN FRIENDS KIRK AND MCCOY AS WELL AS THE SENSE THAT HIS FRIENDS WERE IN SOME SORT OF PERIL.

IN AN ATTEMPT TO BREAK HIS BONDS TO KIRK AND MCCOY ONCE AND FOR ALL SPOCK PERFORMED THE RITUAL OF SEKHET IN ORDER TO PURGE HIS REMAINING EMOTIONS. AFTER THE THIRD DAY OF MOTIONLESS MEDITATION WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER THE SENSE OF HIS FRIENDS IN DANGER CEASED. UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE RITUAL MEDITATION SPOCK BELIEVED THAT HAD FINALLY PURGED HIMSELF OF HIS RESIDUAL FEELINGS FOR HIS FRIENDS WHEN HE FELT AN ALIEN PRESENCE FROM THE DEPTHS OF SPACE. HE DISMISSED THE FEELING AS NO MORE THAN THE AFTER-EFFECT OF HIS MEDITATION RITUAL AND THOUGHT NOTHING MORE OF IT. IN 2273 SPOCK WAS SET TO PERFORM THE RITUAL WITH THE VULCAN MASTERS THAT WOULD INDICATE THAT HE HAD FINALLY ACHIEVED KOLINAHR WHEN HE AGAIN FELT THE ALIEN MIND FROM ACROSS THE VASTNESS OF SPACE. IT WAS A MIND OF PURE LOGIC YET WAS EMPTY AND IT STIRRED HIS HUMAN EMOTIONS AND BLOOD. AFTER BEING TOLD BY THE MASTERS THAT HE HAD NOT ACHIEVED KOLINAHR AND THAT HIS ANSWER LAY ELSEWHERE SPOCK SET OFF IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCE OF THE CALL FROM SPACE.

FORTUNATELY FOR SPOCK ADMIRAL KIRK AND THE ENTERPRISE WERE IN SEARCH OF THE SAME ENTITY AND SPOCK JOINED THE ENTERPRISE IN THEIR SEARCH FOR THE LIFEFORM THAT BECAME KNOWN AS V'GER. SPOCK'S STARFLEET COMMISSION WAS THEN REACTIVATED AND HE OFFERED HIS SERVICES AS CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER FOR THE MISSION. AFTER MELDING WITH V'GER SPOCK REALIZED THAT V'GER FOR ALL OF ITS VAST INTELLIGENCE AND LOGIC WAS EMPTY LOST AND DEVOID OF FURTHER PURPOSE. THE EXPERIENCE MADE SPOCK REALIZE THAT LOGIC ALONE WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE BALANCE THAT HE SOUGHT. SPOCK CHOSE NOT TO RETURN TO VULCAN AND THE STUDY OF KOLINAHR CHOOSING INSTEAD TO RETURN TO STARFLEET SERVING ON THE ENTERPRISE UNDER KIRK IN HIS FORMER POSITION. IN 2269 SPOCK WAS SENT BACK 5,000 YEARS INTO THE PAST OF THE WORLD SARPEIDON AND HAD A BRIEF BUT PASSIONATE RELATIONSHIP WITH ZARABETH A WOMAN THAT HAD BEEN BANISHED TO LIVE OUT HER LIFE ALONE IN THE BARREN FROZEN WASTELAND OF SARPEIDON'S NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.

A YEAR AND A HALF LATER IN LATE 2270 WHILE STUDYING SARPEIDON'S HISTORICAL RECORDS SPOCK FOUND EVIDENCE IN THE FORM OF A 5,000-YEAR-OLD CAVE PAINTING THAT INDICATED THAT ZARABETH HAD BORE HIS CHILD IN THE ICY WASTES. AFTER AN APPEAL FROM T'PAU TO THE FEDERATION COUNCIL SPOCK OBTAINED PERMISSION TO USE THE GUARDIAN OF FOREVER TO VISIT SARPEIDON'S PAST AND BRING ZARABETH AND SON HOME WITH HIM. THINGS DID NOT GO EXACTLY AS PLANNED AND SPOCK, KIRK, AND DR LEONARD MCCOY FOUND THEMSELVES ARRIVING 10 YEARS LATER IN SARPEIDON'S PAST THAN PLANNED. ZARABETH WAS DEAD, KILLED IN AN AVALANCHE AND SPOCK'S SON ZAR WAS NEARLY AN ADULT. SPOCK BROUGHT THE BOY BACK TO THE ENTERPRISE WITH HIM BUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS STRAINED. ZAR BELIEVED THAT SPOCK HAD ONLY RETRIEVED HIM OUT OF A SENSE OF DUTY AND NOT OUT OF ANY KIND OF FATHERLY FEELING. SPOCK NOT KNOWING HOW TO DEAL WITH THE EMOTIONS ZAR HAD STIRRED IN HIM HAD BEEN UNABLE TO CONVINCE ZAR OTHERWISE. ZAR HAD UNUSUALLY STRONG TELEPATHIC TALENT EVEN SURPASSING THE SKILLS OF HIS FATHER.

WHILE STUDYING SARPEIDON'S HISTORY RECORDS ZAR FOUND MORE EVIDENCE OF HIS EXISTENCE IN HIS HOMEWORLD'S PAST. IN FACT HE WAS AN IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FIGURE WHOSE ABSENCE WOULD PROFOUNDLY AFFECT THE TIMELINE. AFTER HELPING SPOCK FOIL A PLAN BY THE ROMULANS TO SEIZE THE GUARDIAN OF FOREVER ZAR PREPARED TO RETURN TO SARPEIDON'S PAST. BUT BEFORE HE LEFT SPOCK SHARED A MIND MELD WITH ZAR ALLOWING HIM TO EXPERIENCE THE TRUE DEPTHS OF HIS FATHER'S FEELINGS FOR HIM. ZAR USED HIS TELEPATHIC POWER TO DIRECT THE GUARDIAN TO DEPOSIT HIM ON SARPEIDON'S SOUTHERN CONTINENT WHERE HE WOULD BEGIN HIS LIFE'S WORK. IN 2285 THE GUARDIAN HAD SEEMINGLY MALFUNCTIONED AND WAS NINETY DAYS AWAY FROM ACTUALLY DESTROYING THE UNIVERSE. AFTER SPOCK WAS ABLE TO MOMENTARILY STABILIZE THE PORTAL HE JUMPED THROUGH WITH KIRK AND MCCOY WITH INTENT OF BRINGING BACK ZAR WHO WAS THE ONLY PERSON TO SUCCESSFULLY COMMUNICATE TELEPATHICALLY WITH THE GUARDIAN. SPOCK LOCATED ZAR WHO WAS AT THE POINT IN THE TIMELINE WHERE HISTORY RECORDED HIS DEATH IN BATTLE AND EXPLAINED THE SITUATION TO HIM. BUT ZAR REFUSED TO ABANDON HIS TROOPS ON THE EVE OF BATTLE AND WOULD NOT HELP WITH THE GUARDIAN.

IT WAS ONLY AT THE URGING OF ZAR'S NEW WIFE WYNN WHOSE PRECOGNITIVE ABILITIES SAW THIS AS THE ONLY WAY FOR ZAR TO SURVIVE THE COMING BATTLE DID ZAR AGREE TO LEAVE. AFTER USING HIS POWERS TO HELP THE GUARDIAN REGAIN CONTROL OF ITS FUNCTIONS ZAR RETURNED TO SARPEIDON'S PAST TO MEET HIS FATE. SPOCK HOWEVER WAS NOT WILLING TO STAND BY IDLY AND LET HIS SON DIE. HE FOLLOWED ZAR BACK TO THE PAST AND WITH SPOCK'S ASSISTANCE ZAR SURVIVED THE BATTLE. AFTER RETURNING TO THE ENTERPRISE SPOCK DECIDED NOT TO SEEK OUT ZAR'S FATE IN THE NEW TIMELINE CHOOSING INSTEAD TO REMEMBER HIM AS HE SAW HIM LAST ALIVE WELL AND HAPPY.

IN 2285 SPOCK HAD BEEN PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN AND WAS ASSIGNED TO STARFLEET ACADEMY COMMANDING THE ENTERPRISE AS A TEACHER ON A TRAINING VESSEL. SPOCK WAS COMMANDING A TRAINING CRUISE WITH AN INSPECTING ADMIRAL KIRK ON BOARD WHEN KHAN NOONIEN SINGH ESCAPED FROM CETI ALPHA V WITH A NUMBER OF HIS FOLLOWERS WHO HAD EARLIER ACCOMPANIED HIM INTO EXILE. SPOCK RELINQUISHED COMMAND TO THE SENIOR OFFICER STATING AS A VULCAN IT WAS CLEARLY LOGICAL HAVING NO EGO TO BRUISE. HIJACKING THE USS RELIANT KHAN TRIED TO AVENGE THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE WHICH HE BLAMED ON KIRK. AFTER A DEADLY GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE IN THE MUTARA NEBULA THE RELIANT WAS DISABLED BY THE ENTERPRISE AND KHAN WAS FATALLY INJURED. BEFORE HE DIED HOWEVER KHAN ACTIVATED THE GENESIS DEVICE THAT HE HAD EARLIER STOLEN FROM REGULA I.

THE WARP ENGINE OF THE HEAVILY DAMAGED ENTERPRISE WAS OFF LINE WHEN KHAN ACTIVATED THE GENESIS DEVICE COUNTDOWN SEQUENCE. AS A RESULT THE ENTERPRISE WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT IN THE DETONATION OF THE DEVICE AND DESTROYED. REALIZING THIS SPOCK WENT TO ENGINEERING AND WAS ABOUT TO ENTER THE DILITHIUM CRYSTAL CHAMBER WHEN STOPPED BY MCCOY. RENDERING MCCOY UNCONSCIOUS WITH A VULCAN NERVE PINCH SPOCK STOPPED LONG ENOUGH TO ENTER INTO A MIND MELD WITH MCCOY. THANKS TO JONATHAN ARCHER SUCCESSFULLY CARRYING SURAK'S KATRA SPOCK KNEW IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR A HUMAN BRAIN TO HOUSE A VULCAN KATRA WHICH GAVE HIM THE CONFIDENCE TO MELD WITH MCCOY TO PREPARE FOR THE TRANSFER OF HIS KATRA AT THE END. MCCOY REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS A FEW MOMENTS LATER. BOTH HE AND MONTGOMERY SCOTT WATCHED IN HORROR AS SPOCK ENTERED THE RADIATION SOAKED CHAMBER AND BEGAN REALIGNING THE DILITHIUM CRYSTALS. SPOCK SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING THE WARP ENGINES BACK ONLINE AND THE ENTERPRISE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE THE DETONATION OF THE GENESIS DEVICE. BUT BY THEN SPOCK HAD ALREADY RECEIVED A FATAL DOSE OF RADIATION.

SUMMONED TO ENGINEERING KIRK WAS PREPARED TO ENTER THE CHAMBER HIMSELF AND PULL SPOCK OUT. KIRK WAS HELD BACK BY MCCOY AND SCOTT BEFORE HE COULD FLOOD THE WHOLE ENGINEERING SECTION WITH RADIATION. WHEN KIRK PROTESTED THAT SPOCK WOULD DIE SCOTT REPLIED THAT SPOCK WAS DEAD ALREADY WITH MCCOY CONFIRMING THAT IT WAS TOO LATE FOR SPOCK. THE TWO FRIENDS SPOKE TO EACH OTHER FOR WHAT WAS APPARENTLY THE FINAL TIME. SPOCK SAW HIS SACRIFICE AS HIS SOLUTION TO THE KOBAYASHI MARU SCENARIO AND ASKED KIRK WHAT HE THOUGHT OF HIS SOLUTION. BEFORE DYING FROM RADIATION POISONING SPOCK GAVE KIRK THE VULCAN SALUTE AND TOLD KIRK NOT TO GREIVE AND TO LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. A SHORT TIME LATER A FUNERAL WAS HELD FOR SPOCK IN THE TORPEDO BAY OF THE ENTERPRISE. AS CAPTAIN SPOCK'S WILL STATED THAT SPOCK WAS NOT TO BE RETURNED TO VULCAN. ADMIRAL KIRK DECIDED TO HAVE HIS FRIEND'S BODY PLACED IN A PHOTON TORPEDO CASING AND FIRED INTO THE SPACE ABOVE THE NEWLY FORMED GENESIS PLANET. IT WAS KIRK'S INTENTION THAT SPOCK'S BODY WOULD BE CREMATED WHEN THE TORPEDO CASING BURNED UP UPON ENTERING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE GENESIS PLANET. FOR THE EULOGY KIRK SAID OF MY FRIEND I CAN ONLY SAY THIS: OF ALL THE SOULS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN MY TRAVELS HIS WAS THE MOST HUMAN.

HOWEVER THE PLANET WAS STILL FORMING WHEN THE TORPEDO WAS FIRED FROM ENTERPRISE AND THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS OF THE GENESIS PLANET WERE IN FLUX AT THE TIME. AS A RESULT INSTEAD OF BURNING UP IN THE ATMOSPHERE OR CRASHING INTO THE PLANET SPOCK'S TORPEDO SOFT LANDED ON THE SURFACE. OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS THE REMNANTS OF THE GENESIS WAVE RE-GENERATED THE BODY OF SPOCK. HIS CELLS WERE REGENERATED AS THAT OF A CHILD'S WHICH BEGAN TO RAPIDLY AGE AS THE GENESIS PLANET AGED. A SURVEY MISSION FROM THE USS GRISSOM SOON ARRIVED MISTAKING QUICKLY EVOLVED MICROBES NEAR SPOCK'S LANDING SITE AS THE ANIMAL LIFEFORMS DETECTED FROM THE GRISSOM. HE WAS LATER DISCOVERED BY DR DAVID MARCUS AND LIEUTENANT SAAVIK. BY THEN SPOCK'S BODY HAD AGED TO BE THE EQUIVALENT OF EIGHT TO TEN EARTH YEARS OF AGE. IN ORBIT THE GRISSOM WAS DESTROYED BY A KLINGON BIRD OF PREY COMMANDED BY KRUGE. WHILE KRUGE'S MEN SEARCHED FOR THE GRISSOM SURVIVORS SPOCK'S BODY AND THE GENESIS PLANET WERE RAPIDLY AGING. AS SPOCK'S BODY BECAME THAT OF A YOUNG MAN AND BEGAN EXPERIENCING PON FARR SAAVIK HELPED THE SPOCK THROUGH THIS.

MEANWHILE ON EARTH SPOCK'S FATHER SAREK REVEALED TO KIRK THAT SPOCK MAY HAVE TRANSFERRED HIS KATRA INTO A DIFFERENT MIND. AFTER FAILING TO FIND THE KATRA IN KIRK'S MIND THE TWO SEARCHED THROUGH ENGINE ROOM RECORDINGS OF SPOCK'S FINAL MOMENTS FINDING THAT SPOCK HAD TRANSFERRED HIS KATRA INTO MCCOY'S MIND. SAREK REQUESTED THAT BOTH MCCOY AND SPOCK'S BODY BE BROUGHT TO VULCAN SO THAT THE TWO COULD FIND PEACE. WHEN STARFLEET REFUSED TO ALLOW KIRK TO RETURN TO THE GENESIS PLANET KIRK AND THE SENIOR STAFF OF THE USS ENTERPRISE STOLE THE ENTERPRISE AND TRAVELED TO THE GENESIS PLANET. BY THE TIME THE ENTERPRISE ARRIVED IN ORBIT MARCUS, SAAVIK AND SPOCK'S BODY WERE CAPTURED BY KRUGE. OVERWHELMED BY THE BATTLE THE ENTERPRISE WAS DISABLED. WHEN KRUGE'S MEN KILLED DOCTOR MARCUS KIRK AGREED TO SURRENDER THE SHIP. KIRK AND THE ENTERPRISE CREW BEAMED DOWN TO THE GENESIS PLANET AFTER SETTING THE AUTO DESTRUCT DEVICE OF THE ENTERPRISE. SEVERAL OF KRUGE'S WARRIORS BEAMED ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE AND WERE KILLED WHEN THE AUTO-DESTRUCT DEVICE DESTROYED THE SHIP.

KRUGE THEN BEAMED DOWN AND CONFRONTED KIRK ON THE SURFACE OF GENESIS. HE ORDERED MALTZ TO BEAM EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPT HIMSELF, KIRK, AND SPOCK ON BOARD HIS SHIP. KIRK AND KRUGE FOUGHT ON TO THE EDGE OF A CLIFF OVERLOOKING A SEA OF LAVA. WHEN KRUGE TRIED TO PULL KIRK INTO THIS SEA OF LAVA KIRK HAD ENOUGH AND KICKED KRUGE AWAY WHO FELL TO HIS DEATH. SPOCK'S BODY HAD BY NOW REACHED THE SAME AGE AS IT WAS JUST PRIOR TO SPOCK'S ENTERING THE DILITHIUM CRYSTAL CHAMBER OF THE ENTERPRISE. BEAMING ON BOARD THE KLINGON SHIP THE CREW MANAGED TO CAPTURE THE SHIP FROM MALTZ THE ONLY WARRIOR LEFT ON THE SHIP AND SET COURSE FOR VULCAN. ARRIVING AT VULCAN THE CREW OF THE LATE ENTERPRISE CLIMBED THE STEPS OF MOUNT SELEYA WHERE THE CREW OF THE ENTERPRISE BELIEVED THAT SPOCK'S KATRA WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE HALL OF ANCIENT THOUGHT. UPON ARRIVING AT THE SUMMIT OF MT SELEYA SAREK REQUESTED INSTEAD THAT FAL-TOR-PAN OR THE REFUSION OF SPOCK'S BODY AND MIND BE PERFORMED. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS FAL-TOR-PAN WAS PERFORMED BY THE HIGH PRIESTESS T'LAR REMOVING SPOCK'S KATRA FROM MCCOY'S MIND AND PLACING IT BACK IN SPOCK'S BODY.

SPOCK WOULD LATER WRITE IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT HIS MEMORIES OF THE TIME WERE HAZY BUT HE REMEMBERED SEEING MT SELEYA THROUGH DR MCCOY'S EYES THE LONG AND EXHAUSTING CLIMB UP THE STEPS THE GRUELING FAL-TOR-PAN RITUAL THAT LASTED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND WAKING UP THE NEXT MORNING IN HIS OWN BODY. FOR THE NEXT THREE MONTHS THE SENIOR STAFF OF THE LATE ENTERPRISE REMAINED IN EXILE ON VULCAN. DURING THIS TIME SPOCK AND MCCOY EACH PARTICIPATED IN MIND MELD SESSIONS WITH T'LAR TO ENSURE THAT ANY REMAINING PART OF SPOCK'S MIND STILL IN MCCOY'S MIND WAS TRANSFERRED BACK TO SPOCK. ALSO DURING THIS TIME SPOCK UNDERWENT A VULCAN RETRAINING PROGRAM TO ENSURE THAT HIS KNOWLEDGE WAS INTACT. BECAUSE THE TRAINING WAS BASED ON VULCAN LOGIC SPOCK WAS INITIALLY UNSURE OF HOW TO HANDLE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW HE WAS FEELING BUT HIS MOTHER WAS CONFIDENT THAT THE FEELINGS FROM HIS HUMAN HALF WOULD RESURFACE IN TIME.

WHEN THE ENTERPRISE SENIOR STAFF DECIDED TO RETURN TO EARTH TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS IN EARLY 2286 SPOCK DECIDED TO TRAVEL WITH THEM TO OFFER HIS OWN TESTIMONY. WHAT THE CREW EXPECTED TO BE A QUICK VOYAGE BACK TO EARTH AND THE END OF THEIR STARFLEET CAREERS WAS SIDETRACKED WHEN AN ALIEN PROBE ARRIVED IN EARTH ORBIT AND BEGAN DAMAGING THE PLANET. SPOCK WAS ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROBE'S TRANSMISSIONS WERE THE SONGS SUNG BY THE EXTINCT HUMPBACK WHALE SPECIES OF EARTH. WHEN ADMIRAL KIRK DECIDED TO GO BACK IN TIME AND RETRIEVE SUCH WHALES SPOCK WAS ABLE TO PREPARE THE BOUNTY TO GO BACK IN TIME COMPLETELY FROM MEMORY. HE WAS LATER ABLE TO CORRECTLY GUESS THE BEST COURSE TO RETURN TO THE 23RD CENTURY.

AFTER THE PROBE HAD LEFT THE SOL SYSTEM THE SENIOR STAFF OF THE ENTERPRISE STOOD BEFORE THE FEDERATION COUNCIL TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF RESCUING SPOCK. EVEN THOUGH SPOCK HAD NOT BEEN CHARGED HE DECIDED TO STAND WITH HIS SHIPMATES. THE MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES CAUSED BY THE PROBE'S VISIT TO EARTH PROMPTED THE FEDERATION COUNCIL TO DISMISS ALL BUT ONE OF THE CHARGES WHICH WAS DIRECTED SOLELY AT ADMIRAL KIRK. THE COUNCIL ORDERED KIRK REDUCED TO THE RANK OF CAPTAIN BUT GAVE HIM THE COMMAND OF THE USS ENTERPRISE-A. SPOCK RETURNED TO ACTIVE DUTY IN STARFLEET ASSUMING THE ROLE OF FIRST OFFICER ON THE ENTERPRISE-A. AT FIRST SPOCK HARBORED DOUBTS AS TO WHETHER HE WAS FULLY RESTORED AND CAPABLE OF PERFORMING HIS DUTIES AS SCIENCE OFFICER BUT AFTER HE WAS ABLE TO QUICKLY REPAIR THE ENTERPRISE-A WARP CORE ON THE FLY AFTER IT HAD BEEN SABOTAGED BY A RELIGIOUS ZEALOT SPOCK REALIZED THAT HE WAS INDEED FIT FOR DUTY. (TOS COMIC: "CHOICES!")

SEVERAL WEEKS LATER THE ENTERPRISE RETURNED TO PLANET GAMMA TRIANGULI VI TWENTY YEARS AFTER KIRK DESTROYED THE PLANET CONTROLLING COMPUTER CALLED VAAL DESPITE SPOCK'S STRONG OBJECTIONS. WITHOUT VAAL'S INFLUENCE GAMMA TRIANGULI VI'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAD REGRESSED INTO NEAR SAVAGERY. KIRK WAS FORCED TO ADMIT HIS EARLIER ERROR AND SPOCK MANAGED TO REACTIVATE VAAL EVEN BRIEFLY JOINING WITH IT WHILE STILL GRANTING THE LOCAL POPULATION MORE FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND ACTION THAN WAS PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE UNDER VAAL. SOON AFTER WHEN KIRK HAD BEEN VICIOUSLY ATTACKED STABBED THROUGH THE HEART BY A MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANT SPOCK SENSED IT IMMEDIATELY. SPOCK MET DR MCCOY AT THE ENTRANCE OF KIRK'S QUARTERS WHERE SPOCK FORCED THE DOOR AND FOUND THE DYING KIRK. MCCOY MANAGED TO SAVE KIRK'S LIFE AND KIRK IDENTIFIED ENSIGN WILLIAM BEARCLAW AS HIS ATTACKER. BEARCLAW WAS A DISCIPLINE CASE THAT KIRK HAD RECENTLY PUT UP FOR TRANSFER. AFTER BEING DRAWN INTO THE INVESTIGATION SPOCK BEGAN TO HARBOR DOUBTS AS TO BEARCLAW'S GUILT. SPOCK ARTICULATED HIS DOUBTS TO KIRK AND ASKED HIM TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND JUST BEFORE KIRK WAS AGAIN ATTACKED BY THE SHAPE SHIFTING GARTH OF IZAR WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY IMPERSONATED BEARCLAW. SPOCK RETURNED IN TIME TO SAVE KIRK FROM GARTH DROPPING HIM WITH A VULCAN NERVE PINCH.

THE ENTERPRISE RETURNED TO EARTH IN 2287 SO THAT CHIEF ENGINEER MONTGOMERY SCOTT COULD TRACK DOWN THE NUMEROUS BUGS THAT POPPED UP. SPOCK WAS TAKING HIS SHORE LEAVE IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK WITH KIRK AND MCCOY WHEN THE CALL ABOUT AN EMERGENCY ON NIMBUS III "THE PLANET OF GALACTIC PEACE" CAME IN. THE RULING COUNCIL CONSISTING OF A HUMAN, A KLINGON, AND A ROMULAN, HAD BEEN TAKEN HOSTAGE. UPON VIEWING THE RECORDING MADE BY THE KIDNAPPER SPOCK RECOGNIZED HIM AS HIS HALF-BROTHER SYBOK WHOM SPOCK HAD NOT SEEN SINCE HE WAS A CHILD. SYBOK HAD LEFT VULCAN AFTER HE HAD REJECTED HIS CULTURE'S RELIANCE ON LOGIC AND EMBRACED HIS EMOTIONS. THE ENTERPRISE RACED TO NIMBUS III ONLY TO HAVE THE SHIP TAKEN BY SYBOK WHO EMPLOYED A MYSTERIOUS MENTAL POWER ON THE ENTERPRISE CREW. SYBOK TOOK THE ENTERPRISE THROUGH THE BARRIER AT THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY HOPING TO RELEASE THE ONE WHOM SYBOK BELIEVED TO BE A GOD-LIKE BEING FROM SHA KA REE THE VULCAN HEAVEN.

THE ONE RATHER THAN BEING A BENEVOLENT FORCE WAS MURDEROUS AND CRUEL. THE ONE KILLED SYBOK AND WAS ABOUT TO DO THE SAME TO KIRK WHEN SPOCK RESCUED HIM WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF GENERAL KORRD OF THE KLINGON DEFENSE FORCE. THIS INCIDENT WAS AN EARLY IMPETUS FOR SPOCK TO CONSIDER A MORE DIPLOMATIC ROLE IN STARFLEET THAN A SCIENTIFIC ONE. THE FOLLOWING YEAR,WHEN THE ENTERPRISE FERRIED A NUMBER OF FEDERATION DIPLOMATS TO STARBASE 49 FOR A PEACE SUMMIT WITH THE KLINGONS SPOCK ENGAGED IN SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS WITH KLINGON DIPLOMATIC AIDE TOLADAL WHICH FURTHER FUELED THESE THOUGHTS. THEN IN 2293 AT THE BEHEST OF HIS FATHER SPOCK OPENED UP TALKS WITH THE KLINGON CHANCELLOR GORKON FOLLOWING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KLINGON MOON PRAXIS. THE DESTRUCTION OF PRAXIS HAD DAMAGED THE OZONE LAYER OF QO'NOS THE KLINGON HOMEWORLD AND LEFT THE EMPIRE INCAPABLE OF SELF SUFFICIENCY SO LONG AS HOSTILITIES WITH THE FEDERATION PROCEEDED. THE PAIR AGREED TO A SUMMIT BETWEEN THE FEDERATION AND THE EMPIRE ON EARTH.

SPOCK VOLUNTEERED THE SERVICES OF THE ENTERPRISE ON KIRK'S BEHALF TO ESCORT THE CHANCELLOR AND HIS PARTY TO EARTH. THIS LAST MISSION UNDER KIRK'S COMMAND WENT DISASTROUSLY WRONG WHEN A CLOAKED BIRD OF PREY COMMANDED BY THE RENEGADE GENERAL CHANG ATTACKED GORKON'S SHIP KILLING THE CHANCELLOR AND LEAVING THE BLAME WITH KIRK. KIRK AND MCCOY WERE ARRESTED AND TRIED BY THE KLINGONS FOR THE CHANCELLOR'S ASSASSINATION AND SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AT THE PENAL COLONY OF RURA PENTHE. SPOCK DISOBEYED ORDERS FROM STARFLEET COMMAND TO RETURN TO EARTH AND DEVISED A RESCUE PLAN. AFTER THE RESCUE OF KIRK AND MCCOY SPOCK DISCOVERED THAT KIRK HAD BEEN BETRAYED TO THE KLINGONS BY VALERIS HIS OWN PROTEGE. WHEN VALERIS REFUSED TO DIVULGE THE NEW LOCATION OF THE PEACE TALKS SPOCK FORCIBLY RETRIEVED THE INFORMATION BY ESTABLISHING A MIND MELD WITH THE UNWILLING VALERIS AN ACTION FROM WHICH VALERIS NEVER FULLY RECOVERED. SOON AFTERWARD AT THE KHITOMER CONFERENCE KIRK SAVED THE LIVES OF KLINGON CHANCELLOR AZETBUR FEDERATION PRESIDENT RA-GHORATREII AND UNCOVERED A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN CHANG, STARFLEET ADMIRAL LANCE CARTWRIGHT, AND ROMULAN AMBASSADOR NANCLUS TO MAINTAIN THE CURRENT STATE OF HOSTILITY BY ASSASSINATING THE LEADERS SUING FOR PEACE. KIRK WAS EXONERATED IN THE EYES OF THE KLINGONS AND A NEW ERA BEGAN BETWEEN THE TWO POWERS.

IT WAS HERE THAT SPOCK FIRST MET FUTURE ROMULAN SENATOR PARDEK. SPOCK JOINED THE MELPOMENE PLAYERS AFTER THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE USS ENTERPRISE-A. HE WAS A PART OF THEIR PRODUCTION OF ROMEO AND JULIET. HE LEFT THE GROUP SHORTLY AFTER A PRODUCTION OF HAMLET IN WHICH HE PLAYED POLONIOUS IN 2293. AFTER JAMES KIRK'S APPARENT DEATH ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE-B SPOCK GAVE THE EULOGY FOR HIS FRIEND. IN IT HE MENTIONED RETURNING THE FAVOR DUE TO KIRK HAVING GIVEN SPOCK'S EULOGY. IN 2294 SPOCK WHILE STILL HOLDING THE RANK OF CAPTAIN WAS TRANSPORTED BY THE VICTORY TO THE USS ENTERPRISE-B. CAPTAIN JOHN HARRIMAN INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO SPOCK AND SHOWED HIM THE JAMES T KIRK DEDICATION PLAQUE IN ENGINEERING. IN 2296 THREE YEARS AFTER THE PRESUMED DEATH OF JAMES T KIRK ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE-B SPOCK WAS IN COMMAND OF THE THE USS INTREPID II A SCIENCE VESSEL.

AFTER A REUNION WITH DAVID RABIN AND A FINAL CONFRONTATION WITH SERED ON THE PLANET OBSIDIAN SPOCK BEGAN TO WONDER IF STARFLEET WAS STILL THE PLACE FOR HIM. SERED HAD BELIEVED THAT VULCAN AND HER SUNDERED COUSINS NEEDED EACH OTHER AND SPOCK HAD COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT HE AGREED. EXCEPT WHERE SERED WANTED TO UNITE WITH THE ROMULANS AS CONQUERORS SPOCK FELT THAT THEY MUST COME TOGETHER AS ALLIES AS BRETHREN. SPOCK RESIGNED HIS COMMISSION IN STARFLEET AND JOINED THE FEDERATION DIPLOMATIC CORPS WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF BRINGING TOGETHER VULCAN AND ROMULUS.IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT SPOCK FIRST MET HIS LONG STANDING ROMULAN ALLY IN HIS QUEST FOR REUNIFICATION RUANEK. IN 2300 SPOCK HAD ATTAINED THE RANK OF AMBASSADOR THOUGH HE STILL FOUND HIMSELF OCCASIONALLY INVOLVED IN STARFLEET AFFAIRS.

SPOCK SOON ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS AN AMBASSADOR OF GREAT SKILL WITH ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT RIVALED EVEN HIS FATHER'S. IN 2320 SPOCK RETURNED TO TALOS IV AFTER BEING SUMMONED TO THE PLANET BY THE TALOSIANS. HAVING A PRIVATE SHUTTLE SPOCK WAS ABLE TO SLIP AWAY WITH A MINIMUM OF DIFFICULTY THIS TIME AND REACHED TALOS IV. HE ARRIVED IN THE TALOS STAR GROUP TO FIND A DRASTICALLY ALTERED TALOS IV. INSTEAD OF A PLANET WITH HIGH LEVELS OF RADIATION AND A SICKLY YELLOW APPEARANCE NOW TALOS IV HAD A HEALTHY BLUE COLOR WITH RADIATION LEVELS LOWER THAN THAT OF EARTH. SPOCK LANDED ON THE SURFACE OF THE PLANET TO FIND A REBUILT CITY. THE MAGISTRATE OR KEEPER AS HE WAS ORIGINALLY KNOWN HAD SHOWN SPOCK AROUND AND EXPLAINED THAT PIKE HAD RECENTLY DIED. HE SHOWED SPOCK A MESSAGE PIKE HAD RECORDED FOR SPOCK. PIKE ASKED SPOCK TO CONVEY SOME OF HIS ASHES BACK TO EARTH AND TO PRESENT THE TALOSIANS PETITION TO NOT ONLY REPEAL GENERAL ORDER 7, BUT TO JOIN THE FEDERATION AS WELL. IN 2327 SPOCK AND SAREK HAD A VERY PUBLIC DISAGREEMENT OVER HOW THE FEDERATION SHOULD SHAPE THEIR POLICY TOWARD A NEW RACE THAT THE FEDERATION HAD CONTACTED THE CARDASSIANS.

MATTERS WERE MADE WORSE BY SAREK'S NEW WIFE PERRIN. SPOCK'S MOTHER AMANDA DIED IN THE YEAR 2293 OF NATURAL CAUSES. SAREK HAD LEFT HIS PLACE AT AMANDA'S DEATHBED WHEN THE FEDERATION CONTACTED HIM ABOUT A DIPLOMATIC EMERGENCY KNOWING THAT HE WOULD NEVER SEE HIS WIFE ALIVE AGAIN. SPOCK HAD LONG HARBORED RESENTMENT AGAINST HIS FATHER FOR THIS. IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED AMANDA'S DEATH SAREK HAD FOUND HIMSELF TO BE LONELY AND HAD RECENTLY MARRIED THE MUCH YOUNGER PERRIN. PERRIN ANGERED SPOCK WHEN SHE DRUNKENLY GAVE HIM AN ULTIMATUM TO APOLOGIZE TO SAREK ON THE CARDASSIAN ISSUE OR HE WOULD NO LONGER BE WELCOME IN SAREK'S HOME. SPOCK RESPONDED BY SAYING IN THAT CASE I SHALL NOT TROUBLE YOU BY VISITING SAREK AND PERRIN'S HOME IN SHI'KAHR AGAIN. THIS BEGAN A NEW RIFT BETWEEN SPOCK AND SAREK THAT WOULD LAST UNTIL SAREK'S DEATH IN 2368.

SPOCK FIRST MET HIS FUTURE WIFE SAAVIK IN 2274 WHEN HE RESCUED THE YOUNG VULCAN/ROMULAN HYBRID FROM A BARBARIC EXISTENCE ON THE ROMULAN BORDER WORLD OF HELLGUARD. SPOCK SPENT SOME TIME TEACHING SAAVIK VULCAN LOGIC AND DISCIPLINE BEFORE BRINGING HER TO VULCAN AND ARRANGING FOR HIS PARENTS TO CONTINUE SAAVIK'S EDUCATION. WHEN SAAVIK WAS READY SPOCK SPONSORED HER APPLICATION TO STARFLEET ACADEMY. SAAVIK WAS PRESENT ON THE ENTERPRISE WHEN SPOCK EXPERIENCED HIS DEATH RESCUING THE SHIP FROM KHAN NOONIEN SINGH IN THE MUTARA NEBULA AND TENDED TO HIS NEEDS AFTER HIS MIRACULOUS REBIRTH AT THE GENESIS PLANET IN 2285. SPOCK AND SAAVIK REMAINED CLOSE OVER THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED WITH THEIR RELATIONSHIP EVOLVING OVER THE YEARS FROM MENTOR, APPRENTICE TO SHIPMATES, COLLEAGUES, CONFIDANTS, FRIENDS, AND FINALLY SOMETHING MORE. THE COUPLE FORMALLY ANNOUNCED THEIR BETROTHAL OR ENGAGEMENT IN A FORMAL CEREMONY ON THE PLANET VULCAN IN THE YEAR 2328. AMONG THE ATTENDEES WERE AMBASSADOR SAREK ADMIRAL LEONARD MCCOY AND LIEUTENANT JEAN-LUC PICARD. THE LADY PERRIN WAS NOT IN ATTENDANCE. OVER THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED SPOCK'S CAREER IN DIPLOMACY AND SAAVIK'S CAREER IN STARFLEET KEPT THEM FROM BEING TOGETHER FOR LONG PERIODS OR PLANNING THEIR WEDDING BUT THEY KEPT IN CLOSE CONTACT.

SPOCK'S REPEATED ATTEMPTS OVER THE YEARS TO CONVINCE VULCAN TO LOOK INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF REUNIFICATION WITH THE ROMULANS MET WITH LITTLE OR NO SUCCESS. IN THIS PERIOD HE WAS GIVEN NUMEROUS IF MORE MUNDANE ASSIGNMENTS. IN 2344 SPOCK SUCCESSFULLY NEGOTIATED A TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN VULCAN AND THE RECLUSIVE FEDERATION MEMBER ORIKI. SHORTLY AFTER SUCCESS WITH THE TRADE AGREEMENT AND STILL ON ORIKI SPOCK RECEIVED A COVERT COMMUNIQUE FROM CHARVANEK A ROMULAN OFFICER THAT HE HAD MET YEARS AGO DURING THE ROMULAN CLOAKING DEVICE AFFAIR OF 2269. HE LEFT IMMEDIATELY FOR ROMULUS BELIEVING THAT CHARVANEK WOULD ONLY SUMMON HIM IF THE SECURITY OF BOTH THE FEDERATION AND THE ROMULAN STAR EMPIRE WERE AT STAKE. WHEN STARFLEET FOUND OUT WHAT SPOCK HAD DONE CAPTAIN UHURA DIRECTED SAAVIK TO COVERTLY EXTRACT SPOCK NO MATTER WHAT HIS REASON FOR GOING. ON ROMULUS SPOCK AND SAAVIK DISCOVERED THE PLANS OF THE MAD ROMULAN PRAETOR DRALATH TO ATTACK THE KLINGON CIVILIAN COLONY OF NARENDRA III AND USE IT AS A STAGING AREA TO ATTACK BOTH THE KLINGON EMPIRE AND THE FEDERATION.

SAAVIK FLED ROMULUS IN ORDER TO WARN THE FEDERATION AND SPOCK REMAINED BEHIND TO NEUTRALIZE THE THREAT THAT DRALATH POSED. SAAVIK MANAGED TO REACH THE STARSHIP USS ENTERPRISE-C UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN RACHEL GARRETT. AFTER SENDING SAAVIK OFF TO VULCAN FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION CAPTAIN GARRETT TOOK THE ENTERPRISE TO NARENDRA III AND DEFENDED THE KLINGON CIVILIANS FROM THE SNEAK ATTACK AT THE COST OF THE LIVES OF HER CREW AND SHIP. TO THE KLINGONS THIS WAS A TREMENDOUS ACT OF HONOR ONE THAT CEMENTED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE KLINGON EMPIRE AND THE FEDERATION FOR YEARS TO COME.

ON ROMULUS SPOCK WHO WAS SUFFERING FROM THE EARLY STAGES OF PON FARR ASSISTED IN TAKING DRALATH WHO ORDERED THE NARENDRA ATTACK WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE ROMULAN SENATE INTO CUSTODY. A NEW PRAETOR NARVIAT TOOK OFFICE. SPOCK ESCAPED FROM ROMULUS WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS OLD FRIEND AND ALLY FROM OBSIDIAN RUANEK. SOON AFTER SPOCK'S REUNION WITH SAAVIK THE COUPLE TENDED TO THE NEEDS OF SPOCK'S PON FARR. SOON AFTER IN A CEREMONY ON VULCAN'S FORGE SPOCK AND SAAVIK WERE MARRIED. AMONG THE ATTENDEES AT THIS CEREMONY WERE ADMIRAL MCCOY AND CAPTAIN UHURA.

IN 2368 SPOCK DECIDED TO TAKE HIS RE-UNIFICATION EFFORT DIRECTLY TO THE ROMULAN PEOPLE BY RE-LOCATING HIMSELF TO ROMULUS IN ORDER TO WORK WITH ROMULUS' GROWING UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT. THIS DID NOT MEAN THAT HE WAS THROUGH WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THE FEDERATION AS HE WOULD PERIODICALLY LEAVE ROMULUS FOR BRIEF PERIODS ON MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE TO THE FEDERATION. HE LATER ADMITTED TO PICARD WORKING UNDERCOVER WITH HIM THAT HIS COWBOY DIPLOMACY HE USED NOW AND IN THE PAST WAS VIEWED AS ARROGANT PRESUMPTION BY HIS FRIEND JAMES T KIRK. PICARD FOR THE MOST PART REMINDED SPOCK OF THAT FORMER CAPTAIN. IN 2371 SPOCK WAS PART OF A GROUP OF ROMULAN DISSIDENTS ROUNDED UP BY ROMULAN AUTHORITIES ON THE WORLD OF CONSTANTHUS AND SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION. STARFLEET DISPATCHED THE USS ENTERPRISE-D ALONG WITH ADMIRAL LEONARD MCCOY IN AN EFFORT TO RETRIEVE THE AMBASSADOR. TAKING IT UPON HIMSELF TO MOUNT A RESCUE WAS A RECENT ARRIVAL TO THE 24TH CENTURY MONTGOMERY SCOTT. SCOTTY COMMANDEERED THE CONSTITUTION-CLASS USS YORKTOWN AND SET OFF FOR ROMULAN SPACE. THE JOINT RESCUE EFFORTS ULTIMATELY PROVED SUCCESSFUL AND SPOCK WAS RECOVERED EXHIBITING A BRIEF DISPLAY OF EMOTION AS HE MATERIALIZED ON THE YORKTOWN'S TRANSPORTER PADS AND SAW SCOTTY AT THE CONTROLS AND RETURNED TO FEDERATION SPACE. HE CHOSE HOWEVER TO RETURN TO HIS WORK ON ROMULUS.

IN 2372 SPOCK RECEIVED A MESSAGE ON ROMULUS FROM CAPTAIN PICARD INFORMING HIM OF CAPTAIN KIRK'S RETURN FROM THE NEXUS AND SUBSEQUENT DEATH ON VERIDIAN III. SPOCK SOON LEFT ROMULUS TO SEE THE SITE OF HIS FRIEND'S DEATH HIMSELF. HE CROSSED THE NEUTRAL ZONE ABOARD AN ORION TRANSPORT AND DISEMBARKED AT DEEP SPACE STATION E-5 WHERE HE CHARTERED ANOTHER SHIP OWNED BY THE BOLIAN CAPTAIN MOXX TO TAKE HIM FROM THERE TO VERIDIAN III. WHILE ON VERIDIAN III TO PAY HIS RESPECTS AT JAMES KIRK'S GRAVE SPOCK WAS INTERCEPTED BY T'PRING HIS FORMER BETROTHED WHO QUESTIONED HIM ABOUT HIS HOPES FOR ROMULAN/VULCAN REUNIFICATION. SHE ALSO RETURNED A BROOCH THAT SPOCK'S MOTHER HAD GIVEN HER BEFORE THE WEDDING THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

IN 2373 SPOCK WAS CALLED IN TO CONSULT ON THE SITUATION IN THE RECENTLY FALLEN THALLONIAN EMPIRE. SPOCK HAD BEEN IN THALLONIAN SPACE A DECADE EARLIER ON A FACT FINDING MISSION ABOUT THE RECLUSIVE THALLONIANS. DESPITE HAVING TO CUT THAT MISSION SHORT SO HE COULD RESCUE A CAPTURED VULCAN WOMAN NAMED SOLETA AND SEE HER SAFELY BACK TO FEDERATION SPACE BY WAY OF A FREIGHTER NAMED QUALOR'S PRIDE SPOCK WAS STILL THE FEDERATION'S GREATEST LIVING AUTHORITY ON THALLON AND THUS HIS EXPERTISE WAS NEEDED IN THE CRISIS. DURING THE DOMINION WAR SPOCK USED WHAT INFLUENCE HE HAD ON ROMULUS TO CONVINCE THE ROMULANS THAT IT WOULD BE IN THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS TO JOIN IN THE FEDERATIONS WAR EFFORT AGAINST THE DOMINION.

AS STARFLEET'S RESOURCES BECAME LEAN AS THE DOMINION WAR HEATED UP MANY FORMER COMMAND OFFICERS WERE REACTIVATED TO ACTIVE OR RESERVE SERVICE INCLUDING SPOCK. SPOCK WAS RE-COMMISSIONED AS AN ADMIRAL AND MET BRIEFLY WITH OTHER REACTIVATED OFFICERS ABOARD THE USS SOVEREIGN INCLUDING ADMIRAL LEONARD MCCOY, CAPTAIN MONTGOMERY SCOTT, AND CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK. THE GROUP WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN UNCOVERING AN IMPOSTOR IN THAT ACTION AS IT WAS REVEALED THAT FLEET ADMIRAL ALYNNA NECHAYEV HAD BEEN REPLACED BY HER MIRROR UNIVERSE COUNTERPART. IRONICALLY THE MIRROR NECHAYEV HAD BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN REACTIVATING SPOCK AND KIRK BEFORE THEY REVEALED HER IDENTITY. WHILE THIS ACTION WAS DECISIVE IN PROTECTING FEDERATION SECURITY SPOCK DID NOT PLAY ANY FURTHER PUBLICLY KNOWN ROLE IN HIS SERVICE AS WARTIME ADMIRAL.

THE BORG ALSO ATTEMPTED TO ASSIMILATE AMBASSADOR SPOCK IN ORDER TO STOP PEACE TREATY NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE KLINGONS AND ROMULANS HOWEVER THE TIMELY INTERVENTION OF CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD AND THE USS ENTERPRISE-E PREVENTED THEIR SUCCESS. EVEN THOUGH SUCH AN ACT WOULD HAVE BEEN NEEDLESS GIVEN THE FACT THAT SPOCK'S PSYCHE STILL RESONATED FRAGMENTS FROM A BRANCH OF THE COLLECTIVE IN THE FORM OF HIS OLD MIND MELD WITH V'GER'S ILIA/PROBE. IN 2378 SPOCK FREED WORF FROM ROMULAN CUSTODY ON CHALTOK IV BEING SUBSEQUENTLY RECRUITED INTO WORF'S ATTEMPTS TO COMBAT KAHLESS. USING HIS STILL ACTIVE COMMAND CODES SPOCK MANAGED TO PROCURE THE USS DEFIANT AND RECRUIT A MISFIT CREW. AFTER THE DAY OF THE BLOOD STARFLEET COMMAND DISCREETLY SOLD THE DEFIANT TO WORF SO HE AND HIS CREW COULD ACT AS BOUNTY HUNTERS AND RETRIEVE HIGH PRIORITY TARGETS WITH PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY ON THE FEDERATION'S BEHALF. BEFORE LEAVING EARTH SPOCK PAID TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORIALS OF CHRISTOPHER PIKE AND JAMES T KIRK.

ON THEIR FIRST MISSION TO TALOS IV SPOCK MANAGED TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE KEEPER TO TURN OVER BERLINGHOFF RASMUSSEN TO THE DEFIANT CREW WHILE ALSO PUSHING WORF TO HELP THE TALOSIAN CIRCUMVENT THE IMMORAL QUARANTINE PLACED ON THEIR WORLD. WHEN THE DEFIANT HAD SECURED ALL OF ITS TARGETS IT DOCKED AT STARBASE 99 TO DROP THEM OFF FINDING THEMSELVES AT GROUND ZERO OF A POTENTIAL BLUEGILL INVASION. PARTIALLY ASSIMILATED SPOCK URGED ON BY SERA WAS ABLE TO FREE THOSE ASSIMILATED BEFORE NYMIRA VONDECT SACRIFICED HERSELF TO KILL THE QUEEN. AFTER THE DEFIANT CREW HAD FREED ANTARA FROM THE ROMULAN STAR EMPIRE CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD DISCOVERED THE ARRANGEMENT AND THREATENED TO EXPOSE IT. HAVING LEARNT OF UPCOMING SUPERNOVA THAT WOULD RAVAGE THE ROMULAN STAR EMPIRE DURING THE MISSION SPOCK CHOSE TO STEP DOWN FROM STARFLEET TO FOCUS ON HELPING THE ROMULANS.

IN 2383 SPOCK LEFT ROMULUS BELIEVING THERE WAS NOTHING MORE HE COULD ACHIEVE IN THE FACE OF THE PREDICTED SUPERNOVA. HE WAS CONTACTED BY NOW ADMIRAL JEAN-LUC PICARD WHEN HIS JOURNEY BROUGHT HIM TO AN UNPLANNED RENDEZVOUS WITH THE USS VERITY. IN 2387 SPOCK HAD BEFRIENDED A ROMULAN NAMED NERO. HE ALSO DISCOVERED A STAR HOBUS HAD GONE SUPERNOVA WHICH THREATENED TO DESTROY ROMULUS AND ATTEMPTED TO INTERVENE. SPOCK PROMISED TO SAVE ROMULUS. WITH THE HELP OF THE USS ENTERPRISE-E SPOCK HOPED TO USE GEORDI LA FORGE'S EXPERIMENTAL STARSHIP THE JELLYFISH TO INSERT RED MATTER INTO THE HEART OF THE EXPLODING STAR CREATING A SINGULARITY TO CONSUME THE STAR AND THUS SAVING ROMULUS. THE AMBASSADOR PILOTED AN ADVANCED SPACE CRAFT EQUIPPED WITH RED MATTER AND PROCEEDED TO THE STAR TO CARRY OUT HIS MISSION BUT BEFORE HE COULD THE STAR'S EFFECT DESTROYED ROMULUS.

WITH OTHER WORLDS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION SPOCK CONTINUED HIS MISSION AND SUCCESSFULLY CREATED A BLACK HOLE WHICH CONSUMED THE SUPERNOVA. BEFORE HE COULD ESCAPE HOWEVER HE WAS INTERCEPTED BY THE ROMULAN MINING VESSEL NARADA COMMANDED BY NERO. NERO BLAMED SPOCK FOR ROMULUS'S DESTRUCTION AND WAS BENT ON REVENGE BUT BOTH THE NARADA AND THE JELLYFISH WERE PULLED INTO THE BLACK HOLE. SPOCK ABOARD THE JELLYFISH WAS SENT TO THE 23RD CENTURY AS WAS NERO ABOARD THE NARADA INSTANTLY CREATING AN ALTERNATE REALITY. SPOCK WAS PRESUMED TO BE DEAD IN THE PRIME REALITY. DESPITE'S SPOCK'S APPARENT DEATH HE BECAME KNOWN AS THE GREAT SPOCK. HE WAS STILL SEEN AS A GREAT BENEFACTOR FOR THE EVENTUAL REUNIFICATION OF THE VULCAN AND ROMULAN PEOPLE WHEN VULCAN BECAME NI'VAR.






2239 NYOTA UHURA IS BORN

UHURA ENTERED STARFLEET ACADEMY IN 2257 AND STUDIED AT THE STARFLEET COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS. THERE SHE LEARNED SPATIAL NAVIGATION, DUOTRONICS, AND CRYPTOGRAPHY SKILLS UNDER LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BENJAMIN FINNEY. UHURA'S TIME AS A CADET CROSSED OVER WITH THE ACADEMY CAREER OF JAMES T KIRK. WHEN THE ACADEMY CAMPUS WAS LOCKED DOWN WITH AN ACCUSATION OF MISCONDUCT BY CAPTAIN MATTHEW DECKER UHURA AGREED TO BREAK CURFEW WITH KIRK AND A GROUP OF OTHER CADETS TO INVESTIGATE THE PROBLEM. THEY DISCOVERED THAT DECKER'S ACCUSATION WAS FALSE, AND HAD BEEN PLANTED IN THE COMPUTER AS A TEST TO SEE HOW THE CADETS WOULD PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE. DECKER LATER CONGRATULATED THE CLASS FOR WORKING TOGETHER TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE WITHOUT FIGHTING AMONGST THEMSELVES.

CADET UHURA'S ROOMMATE AT THE ACADEMY WAS AN ORION GIRL. THE ORION GIRL'S ATTITUDE DID NOT IMPRESS UHURA WHO LATER SAID THE ORION WAS FULL OF IT. UHURA REMEMBERED THIS QUALITY OF ORION WOMEN WHEN SHE WAS INVOLVED IN A FIGHT WITH THE ORION EMERALD EMPRESS IN AN ALTERNATE REALITY. UHURA'S DEAR FRIEND TRENT OJUREMI FAILED TO ENTER THE ACADEMY AND UHURA LOST CONTACT WITH HIM BY HER SECOND YEAR. HOWEVER SHE SUBCONSCIOUSLY RETAINED HER STRONG AFFECTIONS FOR HIM WHICH IN 2266 WERE SENSED BY THE M-113 CREATURE. IT THUS TOOK ON A TELEPATHIC FORM OF HIM AND COMMUNICATED IN SWAHILI TELLING HER THAT IT COULD FEEL HER MISSING HIS PRESENCE. UHURA GRADUATED FROM THE ACADEMY IN 2261 AND WAS ASSIGNED TO THE SALADIN-CLASS DESTROYER USS AHRIMAN AS JUNIOR COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER. WHILE ON A MISSION TO WYNET V LATER THAT YEAR THE AHRIMANS COMMANDING OFFICER WAS KILLED. SHORTLY AFTER UHURA WAS PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE. SHORTLY AFTER LIEUTENANT UHURA TRANSFERRED TO THE CONSTITUTION-CLASS USS POTEMKIN AS JUNIOR COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER.

UHURA TRANSFERRED ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE IN 2262 AS CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE. LIKE THE REST OF THE ENTERPRISE CREW AT THAT TIME SHE DEVELOPED FIERCE LOYALTY FOR CAPTAIN PIKE. SO WHEN JAMES T KIRK ASSUMED COMMAND IN 2264 SHE WAS UNSURE ABOUT THE YOUNG CAPTAIN. A SKILLED SINGER SHE SOMETIMES PERFORMED MUSIC AND IMPROV WITH LIEUTENANT SPOCK (A SKILLED LYRE PLAYER) ON THE CREW REC DECK. SIX YEARS LATER IN 2270 A HARPIST LIEUTENANT AREX. ONE OF UHURA'S FAVORITE SONGS WAS "THE MOON'S A WINDOW TO HEAVEN". NEVERTHELESS UHURA'S FIRST CONVERSATION WITH KIRK SAW HIM PRAISE HER FATHER AND EXPRESS REGRET OVER HIS LOSS THUS EARNING UHURA'S RESPECT. FOLLOWING THE THREE MONTH VOYAGE AROUND THE FEDERATION PHALANX IN 2264 UHURA WAS TEMPORARILY RE-ASSIGNED LEAVING LT COMMANDER DANIEL ALDEN TO ASSUME HER FORMER POST. SHE RETURNED TO THE ENTERPRISE IN 2265 WHEN ALDEN TRANSFERRED OFF THE SHIP. THIS PERIOD JUST BEFORE THE EXCHANGE OF DUTIES SAW HER RELATIONSHIP WITH KABAKA BUGANDA.

IN HER FIRST ASSIGNMENT BACK ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE UHURA COMMANDEERED A SHUTTLECRAFT SO THAT SHE COULD RESCUE CAPTAIN KIRK AND A LANDING PARTY FROM A GROUP OF KLINGONS THAT HAD CAPTURED THEM. IT WAS AROUND THIS OCCASION HER DEPARTMENT COLORS SWITCHED FROM GOLD TO RED. UHURA ALSO HELPED ADJUST THE UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR DURING THE INITIAL FIRST CONTACT WITH THE ARCHERNARIANS OF ARCHERNAR IV. KIRK, CASSADY, AND AN AWAY TEAM APPEARED BEFORE THEM. SHORTLY AFTER THE ENTERPRISE'S FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH HARCOURT FENTON MUDD UHURA WENT TO CAPTAIN KIRK AND REQUESTED TO BE REASSIGNED FROM THE COMMAND DIVISION TO THE ENGINEERING AND SERVICES DIVISION. KIRK WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THIS DECISION AND GRILLED HER ABOUT THROWING AWAY HER COMMAND ABILITIES AND LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL HOWEVER DESPITE HIS DISAPPOINTMENT HE APPROVED HER TRANSFER. LATER THAT YEAR FOLLOWING THE ROMULAN ATTACK ON THE NEUTRAL ZONE OUTPOSTS SHE WAS PROMOTED TO FULL LIEUTENANT AFTER SHE DECIPHERED THE ROMULAN MICROPULSE CODE.

THE START OF 2267 MARKED UHURA'S STINT ON ENTERPRISE WITH BEING COMPLIMENTED AS A NUBIAN (OF ANCIENT EGYPT) BY THE Q CALLED TRELANE. WEEKS AFTERWARDS SHE WAS TEMPORARILY RE-ASSIGNED TO THE USS LEXINGTON UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMODORE ROBERT WESLEY TO AID WITH COMMUNICATIONS WITH AN ALIEN RACE FROM THE GAMMA XARIDIAN SYSTEM. LATER ON IN 2267 UHURA WAS REUNITED WITH TRENT OJUREMI ON THE PLANET MEROPE IV WHEN THE ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTED SURVIVORS FROM THE STEPHEN HAWKING TO THE PLANET. TOWARDS THE END OF THIS YEAR UHURA'S MEMORY WAS ERASED BY THE NOMAD/TAN-RU PROBE. A NATURAL FAST LEARNER SHE WAS RE-EDUCATED FROM HER MOTHER TONGUE OF BANTU SWAHILI BACK TO ENGLISH. IN 2268 UHURA WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN FINDING A CURE FOR THE ADF SYNDROME THAT HAD STRUCK THE PLANET EEIAUO. REMEMBERING SONGS THAT SHE AND AN EEIAUOAN FRIEND SANG AT THE ACADEMY SHE DIRECTED THE ENTERPRISE TO THE PLANET SIVAO WHICH WAS THE LONG FORGOTTEN HOMEWORLD OF THE EEIAUOANS. THE CULMINATION OF HER TRUST AND RESPECT FOR KIRK OVER THE PAST HALF DECADE SURFACED WHEN SHE ADMITTED TO HIM HOW THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE CALMED HER IN TIMES OF SHIPBOARD CRISIS. THOUGH IT WAS NEVER MADE PUBLIC THE TWO MAY HAVE SHARED A RELATIONSHIP ON THE BORDER BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL AND INTIMATE. AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS WHEN KIRK WAS QUICK TO DEFEND HER WHILE SHE WAS ASSAULTED BY A THRALL ON TRISKELION. ONE OF HER LESSER KNOWN AND QUITE EMBARRASSING MOMENTS WAS HER INADVERTENTLY SEEING KIRK'S BIRTHDAY SUIT. THIS HAPPENED OF COURSE WHILE SHE MADE A SPECIAL ERRAND TO KIRK'S QUARTERS.

UHURA FINALLY GOT A SHOT AT COMMAND IN 2269. AFTER ALL OF THE MALE ENTERPRISE CREWMEMBERS WERE LURED DOWN TO TAURUS II BY THE ENCHANTING WOMEN ON THE PLANET UHURA WAS FORCED TO ASSUME COMMAND. SHE ASSUMED COMMAND ONCE AGAIN DURING THE SHIP'S CONFLICT WITH THE CRUSADERS ON EPHRATA IV WHEN KIRK, SPOCK AND SULU WERE TRAPPED ON THE PLANET AND SCOTTY WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN AN ATTACK LEAVING UHURA THE HIGHEST RANKING BRIDGE OFFICER. DESPITE HER INITIAL FEARS UHURA NOT ONLY WON A GAME OF CHICKEN WITH CRUSADER SOKIS WHEN HE THREATENED TO USE A GRAVITY BEAM TO MAKE THE ENTERPRISE CRASH INTO THE PLANET CORRECTLY DEDUCING THAT SOKIS NEEDED ENTERPRISE TOO MUCH TO ACTUALLY DESTROY IT BUT WAS ABLE TO DEVISE A PLAN TO DEFEAT THE CRUSADERS' BRAINWASHING. WHEN THE ENTERPRISE RETURNED TO EARTH IN 2270 FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF THE FIVE YEAR MISSION UHURA TOOK A POST AT STARFLEET ACADEMY TEACHING SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS.

IN 2271 UHURA WAS PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT COMMANDER AND RE-ASSIGNED TO THE NEWLY REFITTED ENTERPRISE AS CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER. SHE ALSO USED AN UPDATED VERSION OF LINGUACODE FIRST CIPHERED BY HOSHI SATO IN THE 22ND CENTURY. UHURA WAS ASSIGNED TO CADET TRAINING AND STARFLEET COMMAND COMMUNICATIONS IN 2277. IN 2285 UHURA WAS PROMOTED TO FULL COMMANDER. LATER THAT SAME YEAR SHE RECEIVED MUCH CRITICISM FOR CHOOSING A POSTING AT EARTH SPACEDOCK'S TRANSPORTER ROOM AND COMMUNICATION OPS. HER EAGER ASSISTANT MR ADVENTURE WAS ONE TO QUESTION HER CHOICE WHICH HAD APPEALED TO HER DESIRE FOR MORE PEACE AND QUIET AFTER THE RECENT EVENTS OF THE GENESIS AFFAIR. THIS MAY HAVE BEEN HER FIRST CALLING TO COVERT OPERATIONS AS THIS WAS ALL A STAGE TO GRANT ADMIRAL KIRK'S PARTY SAFE PASSAGE BACK TO THE DE-COMMISSIONED ENTERPRISE. SHE LATER MADE RENDEZVOUS WITH THEM ON VULCAN HAVING USED THE TRANSPORTER SYSTEM TO TRAVEL TO THE VULCAN EMBASSY ON EARTH. AT THE BEHEST OF AMBASSADOR SAREK THEY WERE ALL GRANTED CLEMENCY AND ASYLUM FROM STARFLEET JURISDICTION FOR RESCUING HIS SON SPOCK FROM A NON SANCTIONED KLINGON INCURSION TO THE GENESIS PLANET A GALACTIC CONTROVERSY OF ITS TIME.

FOLLOWING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENTERPRISE IN 2285 CAPTAIN KIRK AND THE COMMAND STAFF ARE REASSIGNED TO THE USS EXCELSIOR. UHURA JOINS THEM AND IS ASSIGNED AS CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER. SHORTLY AFTER UHURA ACCOMPANIES SULU AND LT WILLIAM BEARCLAW TO INVESTIGATE THE SMUGGLING OF DILITHIUM CRYSTALS. THE PARTY DISCOVERED THAT THE SMUGGLERS WERE ALSO SLAVERS AND MANAGED TO ENGINEER THE SMUGGLERS CAPTURE. FOLLOWING THE CETACEAN PROBE CRISIS ON 2286 COMMANDER UHURA WAS ASSIGNED TO THE NEWLY LAUNCHED USS ENTERPRISE-A. LATER THAT YEAR UHURA JOINED WITH THE RENEGADE VULCAN SYBOK WHEN HE TOOK OVER THE ENTERPRISE AND USED THE SHIP TO PENETRATE THE GREAT BARRIER TO FIND THE LEGENDARY PLANET SHA KA REE. IT WAS AT THIS TIME SHE CONFESSED HER AFFECTIONS TOWARD MONTGOMERY SCOTT WHILE THE TWO WERE ALONE. EVEN THOUGH HER EMOTIONS WERE UNINHIBITED ON THIS OCCASION HE KEPT COMPOSED AND DECIDED TO MAINTAIN A PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP. SCOTT HOWEVER HAD TOLD HER SHE WAS ONE OF THE MOST UNDERSTANDING WOMEN (BESIDES ENTERPRISE) HE HAD KNOWN.

IN 2287 WHILE ON SHORE LEAVE IN THE QUATRAIN SYSTEM UHURA AND SULU WITNESSED A MULTIPLE MURDER. FORTUNATELY ONE OF THE VICTIMS SURVIVED AND WAS BEAMED ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE FOR TREATMENT. THE QUATRAIN SECURITY AGENCY BEGAN TO INVESTIGATE THE MURDERS AND INSISTED THAT UHURA AND SULU APPEAR BEFORE A BOARD OF INQUIRY TO GIVE EVIDENCE. MEANWHILE THE QUATRAIN SECURITY DIRECTOR LEARNED THAT THE SURVIVOR IDENTIFIED ONE OF HIS MEN AS THE MURDERER TO CAPTAIN KIRK AND ORDERED HIS SECOND IN COMMAND TO KILL UHURA AND SULU BEFORE THEY COULD BEAM BACK TO THE ENTERPRISE. SULU MANAGED TO STOP THE KILLER BUT WAS WOUNDED IN THE ATTEMPT AND UHURA MANAGED TO STEAL A SHUTTLECRAFT AND HEADED TO THE NEARBY ICE PLANET BETA WITH SULU. AFTER ARRIVING ON BETA UHURA HEADED OFF TO FIND MEDICAL HELP FOR SULU AND ENCOUNTERED A GROUP OF BETAN REBELS WHO LENT ASSISTANCE AND TREATED SULU IN EXCHANGE FOR UHURA'S HELP WITH THEIR COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT. AT THE BETAN ENCAMPMENT UHURA WAS CAPTURED BY THE SECURITY FORCES BUT MANAGED TO GET A MESSAGE TO THE ENTERPRISE AND COMMANDER CHEKOV AND A SECURITY TEAM RESCUED HER.

FOLLOWING THE PRAXIS INCIDENT IN 2293 UHURA ONCE AGAIN BEGAN TEACHING AT STARFLEET ACADEMY. A FEW MONTHS LATER UHURA JOINED CAPTAIN SPOCK AND DR MCCOY ON A DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO QO'NOS TO IMPROVE RELATIONS AND BEGAN WORKING WITH KLINGON MUSICIANS AND SINGERS TO EXCHANGE MUSICAL IDEAS AND THEORIES. ALSO IN 2293 UHURA LEFT STARFLEET AND BECAME THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF PROCUREMENT AND DELIVERY FOR INTER GALACTIC SYSTEMS. SHE WAS HAPPILY STATIONED SOMEWHERE BETWEEN EARTH AND MARS WHEN JAMES T KIRK ENLISTED HER TO HELP SAVE HIKARU SULU. SHE HAD NO FUTURE INTENTION OF REJOINING STARFLEET. SHE EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO STATE THAT THE ONLY REASON SHE JOINED THE RESCUE PARTY WAS OUT OF LOYALTY TO JAMES T KIRK. IN 2294 CAPTAIN SPOCK ASSUMED COMMAND OF THE OBERTH CLASS USS INTREPID II AND COMMANDER UHURA CAME ABOARD AS FIRST OFFICER FOR THE SHIP'S SHAKEDOWN CRUISE. FOLLOWING THE DIVERSION TO THE PLANET OBSIDIAN SPOCK RESIGNED HIS STARFLEET COMMISSION AND UHURA WAS PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN AND GIVEN COMMAND OF THE INTREPID II.

AT SOME POINT AFTERWARDS THAT YEAR UHURA TRACKED DOWN HER FORMER CREWMATE MONTGOMERY SCOTT AND ASKED HIM GENTLY TO MOVE ON WITH LIFE AND QUIT BLAMING HIMSELF FOLLOWING THE LOSS OF CAPTAIN KIRK AND EXPRESSED HER CONDOLENCES AND HER REGRET AT BEING UNABLE TO MAKE IT TO THE MEMORIAL. IN THE EARLY 24TH CENTURY UHURA COMMANDED THE USS LEONDEGRANCE. BY 2300 CAPTAIN UHURA WAS IN COMMAND OF THE USS HERMES AND IN 2310 THE HERMES TOOK ABOARD DOCTORS GILLIAN TAYLOR AND CAROL MARCUS WHO PLANNED TO TEST AN EXPERIMENTAL GENESIS DEVICE ON THE PLANET PACIFICA. HOWEVER MARCUS AND TAYLOR ENCOUNTERED INTELLIGENT LIFE IN PACIFICA'S OCEAN AND THE PLAN WAS ABANDONED.

UHURA WAS FIRST APPROACHED BY OPERATIVES OF STARFLEET INTELLIGENCE ON KHITOMER FOLLOWING THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FEDERATION PRESIDENT RA-GHORATREII IN 2293. THEY OFFERED HER A SPOT IN SI WHICH UHURA ACCEPTED. FOR THE REST OF HER STARSHIP CAREER EVEN WHEN SHE COMMANDED THE HERMES SHE WAS PASSING ON THINGS THAT SHE HEARD ON TO STARFLEET INTELLIGENCE. SHE NEVER SPIED ON STARFLEET PERSONNEL ONLY PASSING ON INFORMATION THAT SHE HEARD ON THE SUBSPACE FREQUENCIES. IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED UHURA GRADUALLY MADE HER WAY UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND AT STARFLEET INTELLIGENCE EVENTUALLY MAKING HER WAY TO THE TOP OF THE DEPARTMENT. SHE MAINTAINED THE RANK OF CAPTAIN IN PART TO RETAIN A LOW PROFILE BUT HAD SECURITY CLEARANCES HIGHER THAN SOME ADMIRALS.

IN THE YEAR 2343 CAPTAIN UHURA TRAVELED TO STARBASE 47 IN THE MIDST OF THE BETREKA NEBULA INCIDENT TO PERSONALLY ASSIGN OPERATIVE ELIAS VAUGHN TO ASSESS THE SITUATION ON RAKNAL IV. IN 2344, UHURA MADE AN UNOFFICIAL REQUEST TO COMMANDER SAAVIK OF THE USS ARMSTRONG TO TRAVEL TO ROMULUS AND BRING BACK SPOCK WHO HAD ANSWERED A SUMMONS SENT BY A ROMULAN OFFICER NAMED CHARVANEK. IN 2360 ADMIRAL UHURA SENT A TEAM THAT INCLUDED LIEUTENANTS BENJAMIN SISKO SELAR AND TUVOK ON A COVERT MISSION BEHIND THE BORDERS OF THE ROMULAN STAR EMPIRE TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE ON THE VIRULENT DISEASE CALLED THE GNAWING THAT HAD BEEN AFFLICTING THE EMPIRE. ADMIRAL UHURA REMAINED WORKING IN STARFLEET INTELLIGENCE THROUGHOUT THE DOMINION WAR AND THE WATRAII AFFAIR OF 2377. AS OF 2377 SHE IS 138 YEARS OLD.






2222 MONTGOMERY CHRISTOPHER JORGENSEN SCOTT IS BORN

SCOTT WAS LIVING ON EARTH WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND GLYNNIS STILL WORKING ABOARD CIVILIAN FREIGHTERS WHEN HE RECEIVED CONFIRMATION OF HIS ACCEPTANCE TO STARFLEET TRAINING SCHOOL. THE COUPLE PARTED WAYS AMICABLY WHEN GLYNNIS REALIZED THAT SCOTT WAS DETERMINED TO WORK WITH STARSHIPS WHILE GLYNN WANTED TO STAY ON EARTH. AFTER HIS SUCCESS AT HIS STARFLEET ACADEMY CLASSES CADET SCOTT GRADUATED AND ATTENDED STARFLEET COMMAND SCHOOL IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS PARENTS' WISHES AND OUT OF A FEELING OF OBLIGATION TO BECOME A COMMAND DIVISION OFFICER. ALTHOUGH HIS WORK WAS SUFFICIENT SEVERAL OF HIS TUTORS REALIZED THAT WHAT SCOTT WANTED THE MOST WAS TO BE A STARSHIP ENGINEER. SCOTT COMPLETED COMMAND OFFICER CERTIFICATIONS BUT WAS EVENTUALLY TRANSFERRED TO STARFLEET ENGINEERING SCHOOL AFTER HE NEARLY STALEMATED THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST BY USING AN ENGINEER'S TRICK TO FOOL THE COMPUTERS RUNNING THE SIMULATION.

AMONG SCOTT'S ACADEMY FRIENDS WERE JOSHUA HELMES AND BILL NYGULLA. SCOTT STUDIED PHYSIOLOGY AT SOME POINT PROBABLY AT THE ACADEMY. SCOTT LATER REUNITED WITH HIS CLASSMATE GARTH FLANAGAN IN 2293 AND THEY DISCUSSED THEIR 2241 GRADUATION FROM THE ACADEMY. UPON HIS GRADUATION IN 2242 HE RETURNED HOME TO SHOW OFF HIS UNIFORM. HE WAS RIDICULED BY GREGOR CAMPBELL AND SEAN TORICELLI TWO OF HIS FRIENDS. HAVING PROVED TO BE AN EXCELLENT ENGINEER DURING HIS TIME AT THE ACADEMY SCOTT WAS ASSIGNED TO THE SAN FRANCISCO FLEET YARDS WHERE HE SERVED ON THE CONSTRUCTION TEAMS WORKING ON FOUR CONSTITUTION CLASS STARSHIPS INCLUDING THE USS ENTERPRISE. EARLY IN HIS CAREER SCOTT ALSO SERVED ON SHIPS SUCH AS THE USS GAGARIN WHERE HE SERVED ALONGSIDE ALEC MACPHERSON AND THE USS KUMARI. AS A YOUNG ENSIGN HE SERVED ON A SHIP THAT FERRIED MINERS AND MINING EQUIPMENT TO THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED MINING COLONY ON RIGEL XII. SCOTT LEARNED MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT MINING AND MINING EQUIPMENT SUCH AS A MOLE.

IN 2253 LIEUTENANT SCOTT SIGNED ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE AS A JUNIOR ENGINEER UNDER LIEUTENANT COMMANDER CAITLIN BARRY. IN HIS EARLY DAYS ABOARD THE SHIP HE SET UP A STILL IN MAIN ENGINEERING FOR PRODUCING ENGINE ROOM HOOCH. THE LOCATION OF THE STILL COMBINED WITH SCOTT'S SKILL IN MAKING HOOCH MEANT THE ENTERPRISE'S VERSION OF THE BEVERAGE WAS VERY STRONG. DESPITE THE POPULARITY OF THE BEVERAGE IT WAS PRODUCED BY AN ILLEGAL STILL AND SCOTT ALONG WITH THE OTHER ENGINEERS WERE WARNED NEVER TO PRODUCE THE BEVERAGE AGAIN. BY 2259 SCOTT WAS SERVING ON BOARD THE USS STARDRIVER. WHEN THE GORN ATTACKED AND DESTROYED THE THE STARDRIVER SCOTTY WAS LEFT THE SOLE SURVIVOR. HE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE TO PARNASSUS BETA BY USING PARTS FROM THE STARDIVER SENSOR ARRAY TO FOOL THE GORN INTO THINKING THE SHUTTLE HE FLEW TO PARNASSUS WAS ONE OF THEIR OWN SHIPS. SCOTT WAS REUNITED WITH SOME OF HIS FORMER SHIPMATES WHEN THE ENTERPRISE CAME TO EFFECT A RESCUE.

BY 2264 SCOTT HAD EARNED THE RESPECT OF THE CREW OF THE ENTERPRISE AND WAS AWAITING HIS ASSIGNMENT AS CHIEF ENGINEER FOLLOWING THE ENTERPRISE'S YEAR LONG REFIT AT THE UTOPIA PLANITIA FLEET YARDS. HOWEVER HE WAS SUMMONED TO STARBASE 10 AND WAS ORDERED TO ACCOMPANY THE STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS TEAM ABOARD THE USS LOVELL TO REPAIR THE PXK REACTOR OF SEVERAL OUTPOSTS ALONG THE ROMULAN NEUTRAL ZONE. FOLLOWING HIS RETURN FROM THE ASSIGNMENT HE WAS APPOINTED AS CHIEF ENGINEER ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE. BY THIS POINT SCOTT HAD SERVED ON NINE STARFLEET VESSELS OTHER THAN THE ENTERPRISE. SHORTLY AFTER SCOTTY ASSUMED THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF BEING CHIEF ENGINEER AND WAS PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT COMMANDER THE ENTERPRISE FOUND ITSELF UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK. SCOTT WAS FIERCELY LOYAL TO CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE AND INITIALLY HE DIDN'T WARM UP TO KIRK AS HE FELT THAT THE YOUNG CAPTAIN COULD PLACE THE SHIP IN JEOPARDY. OVER TIME THE TWO OFFICERS PUT THEIR INITIAL DIFFERENCES BEHIND THEM AND BECAME CLOSE FRIENDS. SCOTTY ONCE SAID OF KIRK YOU KNOW HOW THE CAPTAIN IS WHEN HIS MIND'S MADE UP. AFTER THAT IT'S THE UNIVERSE THAT'D BEST BEND FOR IT WON'T BE HIMSEL' THAT'S DOING IT.

DURING A MISSION TO GAMMA ALPHA V SCOTTY BEAMED SPOCK OUT OF A COLLAPSING UNDERGROUND CAVERN WHERE HE WAS FEARED DEAD. ALONG WITH KIRK, SPOCK AND MCCOY, SCOTTY WAS ABDUCTED BY THE SORCERER CHANG AND FACED OFF AGAINST STONE GIANTS AND A HUGE ROBOT BEFORE CHANG WAS VANQUISHED. LIKE HIS CREWMATES SCOTTY WAS AFFECTED BY THE UNBOTTLED EMOTIONS OF THE VULCAN FOUNDERS LAUGHING UNCONTROLLABLY AS KIRK AND MCCOY FOUGHT ON POLLUX II. SCOTTY JOINED KIRK, SPOCK AND MCCOY ON AN UNDERCOVER MISSION AS PIRATES TO DISCOVER THE LOCATION OF A STOLEN DILITHIUM SUPPLY. DURING THE MISSION KIRK WAS FORCED TO BETRAY SPOCK AND SCOTTY ALLOWING THE PIRATE CAPTAIN BLACK JACK NOVA TO SEND THEM FLOATING INTO SPACE TO THEIR APPARENT DOOM BUT IN FACT THEY WERE PICKED UP BY THE ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER. AT SOME POINT PRIOR TO THIS ADVENTURE SCOTTY FOUGHT ARMED SAVAGES ON CENTURI II. SCOTTY OBJECTED TO THE TRAVELER CALLED NOMAD TAKING CONTROL OF THE ENTERPRISE CAUSING NOMAD TO STUN HIM WITH A RAY FROM HIS GOLDEN STAFF. SCOTTY WAS STUNNED AGAIN THIS TIME WITH A PHASER BY A KLINGON DUPLICATE OF CAPTAIN KIRK WHEN HE OBJECTED TO THE DUPLICATE'S ORDERING THE ENTERPRISE TO MAXIMUM WARP.

IN COMMAND OF THE ENTERPRISE WHILE KIRK, SPOCK, MCCOY AND PAVEL CHEKOV WERE STRANDED ON A MEDIEVAL PLANET SCOTTY RISKED COURT MARTIAL BY DELAYING AN URGENT MISSION TO THE SIGMA QUADRANT TO SEARCH FOR HIS FRIENDS. DURING A MISSION TO THE PRIMITIVE PLANET NEESAN SCOTTY'S ROMANTIC FEELINGS FOR THE TRIBAL LEADER LOK-THE-WISE ENABLED HER TO STEAL HIS PHASER NEARLY RESULTING IN A PRIME DIRECTIVE VIOLATION. FORTUNATELY KIRK AND SCOTTY WERE ABLE TO RECOVER THE PHASER. WHEN KIRK AND SPOCK WERE UNABLE TO LEAVE MINING NEGOTIATIONS ON PENTAM V SCOTTY COMMANDED THE ENTERPRISE AS IT RESPONDED TO A DISTRESS CALL FROM THRAZ OUTPOST AN ANDORIAN SCIENTIFIC BASE. WHEN THE ENTERPRISE RESPONDED TO A DISTRESS CALL FROM DONICO II SCOTTY TRIED TO WARN THE DONICANS OF THE IMPENDING FAILURE OF THEIR PLANETARY ENERGY GRID AND WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SEDITION. NYOTA UHURA SAVED SCOTTY'S LIFE BY CONVINCING THE DONICANS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROBLEM.

ON A VISIT TO THE AGRICULTURAL COLONY BETA NIROBI II SCOTTY ENCOUNTERED GLYNNIS AGAIN AND LEARNED SHE WAS NOW MARRIED TO HIS FORMER BEST FRIEND ANGUS MCFARLANE. AT SOME POINT SCOTTY HAD A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH ANDREA MANNING WHICH ENDED BADLY WITH SCOTTY TELLING HER THERE WAS NO ROOM IN HIS LIFE FOR A WOMAN. THIS WAS APPARENTLY AFTER SCOTTY'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH CAROLYN PALAMAS AND MIRA ROMAINE. FOLLOWING STARFLEET'S DECISION TO DECOMMISSION THE GAGARIN IN 2269 THE GAGARIN'S CREW WERE REASSIGNED. ALEC MACPHERSON WHO HAD RISEN TO THE CHIEF ENGINEER'S POSITION ON THE GAGARIN CONTACTED SCOTT AND REQUESTED A JOB. HE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE ENTERPRISE AS ASSISTANT CHIEF ENGINEER. DUE TO HIS STRONG WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH SCOTT AND THE FACT THAT THE TWO ENGINEERS WOULD INDEPENDENTLY DEVISE THE SAME SOLUTION TO ALMOST ANY PROBLEM THEY WERE NICKNAMED "THE TWINS" BY THE ENTERPRISE CREW. DURING THE CENTAURUS CRISIS THEY WORKED TOGETHER TO KEEP THE SHIP'S SYSTEMS FUNCTIONING AFTER A MAJOR COMPUTER BREAKDOWN.

SCOTTY WAS LEFT ALONE ON THE ENTERPRISE WHEN THE ENTIRE CREW BEAMED DOWN TO A LOCATION INSIDE THE DYSON SPHERE LIKE SPACECRAFT CHATALIA. COMMANDER KULAIN OF THE KLINGON SHIP IKS KOREZIMA BEAMED ONTO THE ENTERPRISE AND WAS CAPTURED BY SCOTTY WITH WHOM HE THEN BEGAN DRINKING. WHEN THE ROMULAN SECOND HISTORY PROJECT RADICALLY ALTERED REALITY SCOTT WAS STILL A CHIEF ENGINEER IN THE CHANGED TIMELINE SERVING ON THE VSS SHIKAHR UNDER CAPTAIN SPOCK. DURING THE RITTENHOUSE CRISIS SCOTTY SABOTAGED THE WEAPONS SYSTEM OF THE USS POMPEII. SCOTTY JOINED KIRK, MCCOY AND LIEUTENANT COMMANDER PIPER ABOARD THE SCHOONER EDITH KEELER FROM WHICH HE AND KIRK WERE ESCORTED TO STARFLEET HEADQUARTERS FOR QUESTIONING REGARDING THE THEFT OF TECHNOLOGY BY LIEUTENANT SARDA. WHEN SCOTTY'S OLD ENEMY DR SAMUEL BOMA GASSED THE ENTERPRISE CREW WITH A HYPNOGENETIC COMPOUND SCOTTY RETURNED TO THE BRIDGE WHEN HE WAS BARELY RECOVERED. LATER SCOTTY VISITED PIPER'S QUARTERS, PRESUMABLY TO REMONSTRATE WITH HER ABOUT DAMAGING ONE OF THE ENTERPRISE'S WARP NACELLES.

AFTER SCOTTY AND MCCOY ATTENDED A BIOTECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE ON STARBASE 10 THE USS LEXINGTON DROPPED THEM OFF ON DENEBIA FOR THE ENTERPRISE TO PICK UP. THEY GOT DRUNK ON DENEBIAN SLIME DEVILS AND ENGAGED IN A BARROOM BRAWL WITH SOME LOCALS AND A KLINGON NAMED KRONG BUT AFTERWARDS CONVINCED KIRK TO FERRY KRONG TO ANOTHER NEUTRAL PLANET ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE. SCOTTY KEPT SOME DENEBIAN COINS FOR HIS BOX OF MEMENTOS WHICH HE SHOWED TO HIS NEPHEW PETER ON HIS VISITS TO EARTH. BY THIS POINT SCOTTY HAD SAVED CIVILIZATION FOUR TIMES AND DIED TWICE. DURING A MISSION TO ARCHERNAR IV KIRK NOMINATED SCOTTY FOR THE PENTARES RIBBON OF COMMENDATION AFTER HE SAVED THE ENTERPRISE FROM BEING PULLED INTO A MICRO BLACK HOLE BY JETTISONING THE SHIP'S WARP COILS. AFTER THE ENTERPRISE'S FIVE YEAR MISSION ENDED SCOTTY REMAINED THE SHIP'S CHIEF ENGINEER DURING HER COMPLETE REFIT AND WAS GIVEN A PROMOTION TO THE RANK OF FULL COMMANDER.

THIS WAS THE HAPPIEST PERIOD OF SCOTTY'S LIFE. HE CAME TO RESPECT WILL DECKER THE SHIP'S YOUNG NEW CAPTAIN. WHEN JAMES T KIRK AGAIN TOOK COMMAND OF THE REFITTED ENTERPRISE IN RESPONSE TO THE THREAT OF V'GER SCOTTY FERRIED HIM TO THE SHIP BY SHUTTLECRAFT BECAUSE THE TRANSPORTERS WERE MALFUNCTIONING. LATER ON KIRK'S ORDERS SCOTTY PREPARED THE SHIP FOR SELF DESTRUCT IN ORDER TO DESTROY V'GER FROM WITHIN BUT THIS FORTUNATELY PROVED UNNECESSARY. WHEN THE ENTERPRISE ATTEMPTED TO EVACUATE THE INHABITANTS OF ANDREA IV SCOTTY BURNED HIS HANDS WHILE HEROICALLY BATTLING A TRANSPORTER MALFUNCTION THAT THREATENED TO KILL KIRK, SPOCK, MCCOY AND TWO ENSIGNS. SCOTTY WAS NEARLY LOST ALONG WITH KIRK, MCCOY, CHEKOV AND HIKARU SULU WHEN A SHUTTLECRAFT ACCIDENT LEFT THEM DRIFTING AND HELPLESS IN SPACE. SCOTTY PERFORMED A SPACEWALK IN AN ATTEMPT TO REPAIR THE PROBLEM DURING WHICH HE SUFFERED A SUIT BREACH BUT MADE HIS WAY BACK INSIDE. THE FIVE MEN WERE ULTIMATELY RESCUED BY THE ENTERPRISE. WHEN A CHILD WAS KILLED BY A PLASMA GRENADE DURING A FIGHT BETWEEN KLINGONS AND AN ENTERPRISE LANDING PARTY ON CRAGON V WEYLAND THE OMNIPOTENT RULER OF THE PLANET PUNISHED KIRK BY SENDING SCOTTY, SULU AND CHEKOV BACK IN TIME. SCOTTY FOUND HIMSELF IN SCOTLAND IN 1746 DURING THE JACOBITE REBELLLION AND BLOCKED OUT HIS MEMORIES OF THE 23RD CENTURY BECAUSE OF HIS DESIRE TO AID THE SCOTTISH CAUSE. HE RESCUED A YOUNG MAN NAMED SEAMUS MACINTYRE FROM EXECUTION AS A SPY. TOGETHER THEY ATTEMPTED TO CAPTURE THE ENGLISH CANNON AT FORT AUGUSTUS BUT SUCCEEDED ONLY IN BLOWING UP THE MAGAZINE. SCOTTY WAS BADLY WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF CULLODENWP. ON THE POINT OF DEATH HE WAS RETURNED TO THE 23RD CENTURY BY WEYLAND.

SCOTTY WAS REUNITED WITH ANDREA MANNING TO THE PLEASURE OF NEITHER WHEN SHE BEAMED ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE AS DR CARL WENTWORTH'S ASSISTANT. DESIRING VENGEANCE ON SCOTTY ANDREA UNLEASHED PSYCHICALLY MATERIALIZED MONSTERS ON THE ENTERPRISE WHICH LEFT SCOTTY HELPLESSLY TERRIFIED BEING TAKEN FROM HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MEMORIES OF SCOTTISH FOLKLORE. WITH KIRK, SPOCK, MCCOY AND SULU ABOARD THE RUNAWAY STARSHIP USS ICARUS SCOTTY GAVE THE ORDER FOR THE ENTERPRISE TO RAM THE ICARUS TO PREVENT IT FROM COLLIDING WITH THE PLANET PHAETON AND KILLING BILLIONS. HE GATHERED THE ENTIRE CREW ON THE REC DECK TO INFORM THEM OF THE DECISION BUT DISASTER WAS AVERTED WHEN SPOCK AND JANICE RAND GAINED CONTROL OF THE ICARUS. SCOTTY WAS TRAPPED ON THE ENTERPRISE BRIDGE WHEN AN ENERGY BEAM FROM ZETA RETICULI II BEGAN TO SHRINK THE SHIP BUT NOT ITS OCCUPANTS. ON A MISSION TO SAVE THE POPULATION OF GORAN IV FROM TOXIC GAS SCOTTY ORDERED THE ANTIDOTE RELEASED INTO THE PLANET'S ATMOSPHERE AS SOON AS SPOCK RADIOED IT WAS SAFE TO DO SO SAYING IN MATTERS O' SCIENCE WHEN MR SPOCK SAYS JUMP ALL I ASK IS HOW HIGH? SCOTTY AND MCCOY EXCHANGED HARSH WORDS WHILE THE ENTERPRISE WAS TRAPPED IN THE TRACTOR BEAM FROM THE SUSTAINER'S WORLD SHIP BUT WHEN THE SUSTAINER CLAIMED IT WAS ABOUT TO DESTROY THE ENTERPRISE SCOTTY ACCEPTED MCCOY'S APOLOGY AND ADDRESSED HIM AS BONES.

DURING TESTS OF THE INTERGALACTIC INVERSION DRIVE A METHOD OF PROPULSION THAT COULD MOVE A STARSHIP VAST DISTANCES IN ZERO TIME SCOTTY FORMED A CLOSE FRIENDSHIP WITH K'T'LK THE HAMALKI SCIENTIST WHO HAD DEVELOPED THE EXPERIMENTAL DRIVE. K'T'LK WAS ONE OF THE FEW BEINGS TO CALL SCOTT BY HIS FIRST NAME WHICH SHE PRONOUNCED MT'GM'RY RATHER THAN SCOTTY. K'T'LK'S ESTEEM FOR SCOTT WAS SO HIGH THAT WHEN SHE DIED AND WAS REBORN IN HER OWN DAUGHTER SHE ADOPTED THE NAME K'S'T'LK THE ADDED S STANDING FOR SCOTT. K'S'T'LK ONCE REFERRED TO SCOTT AS A HUMAN ENGINEER WITH A GENIUS FOR PHYSICAL THINGS. ON THE MISSION TO LEVAERI V WHEN SUBCOMMANDER TAFV ATTEMPTED TO TAKE OVER THE ENTERPRISE SCOTTY OVERSAW DEFENSE MEASURES AGAINST HIM FROM THE AUXILIARY BRIDGE.

IN 2274 SCOTTY LEARNED ON A VISIT HOME THAT GLYNNIS CAMPBELL WAS BACK ON EARTH ANGUS MCFARLANE HAVING LEFT HER FOR A YOUNGER WOMAN. SCOTTY PROPOSED TO GLYNNIS WHO SAID SHE MIGHT ACCEPT HIS PROPOSAL AFTER HIS NEXT FIVE YEAR MISSION. IN 2280 SCOTTY AND GLYNNIS SIGNED A FIVE YEAR WEDDING CONTRACT. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCOTTY AND HIS NIECE DANNAN STUART WAS STRAINED AT BEST. DANNAN WAS ALSO A STARFLEET OFFICER AND APPARENTLY A MAVERICK. SCOTTY WARNED HIS NEPHEW PETER PRESTON NOT TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF THAT SISTER OF THINE THAT HAS BEEN THROWN IN THE BRIG MORE TIMES THAN I CAN COUNT EVEN THOUGH HE ADMIRED HER GREATLY. PETER PRESTON WAS KILLED IN BATTLE WITH KHAN NOONIEN SINGH TO SCOTTY'S INTENSE GRIEF. FOR THE FUNERAL OF HIS FALLEN FRIEND SPOCK MR SCOTT PLAYED AMAZING GRACE ON THE BAGPIPES. WHEN SCOTTY RETURNED TO SCOTLAND TO ATTEND PETER'S FUNERAL HE GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT WITH DANNAN. SHE ACCUSED HER UNCLE OF RIDING PETER TO SHOW HIS FAIRNESS NOT REALIZING THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY SINGLING HIM OUT. HE COUNTERED THAT HE WAS THE NATURAL CHOICE TO TRAIN HIM GIVEN HER DISCIPLINARY HISTORY.

FOLLOWING THE BEATING THE ENTERPRISE TOOK FROM THE CAPTURED USS RELIANT THE ENTERPRISE WAS SCHEDULED FOR DECOMMISSIONING BY ADMIRAL HARRISON MORROW AND SCOTT WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW USS EXCELSIOR AS CAPTAIN OF ENGINEERING IN PREPARATION FOR THE SHIP'S TRANSWARP TRIALS. HIS ASSIGNMENT WAS SHORT LIVED HOWEVER AS HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HIS POSITION TO HELP STEAL THE ENTERPRISE AND DISABLE THE EXCELSIOR TO STOP IT FROM PURSUING THE ENTERPRISE. ALONG WITH HIS CREWMATES SCOTTY GRIEVED FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ORIGINAL ENTERPRISE AND WAS PRESENT FOR SPOCK'S FAL-TOR-PAN ON VULCAN. WHILE KIRK'S CREW WAS REASSIGNED TO THE EXCELSIOR SCOTTY VISITED STARBASE VII ON LEAVE. WITH THE HELP OF A YOUNG CADET NAMED GULDER HE FOILED A PLOT BY HIS OLD FRIEND JOSHUA HELMES TO SMUGGLE NARCOTIC BARBIT CRYSTALS AND SAVED THE STARBASE FROM DESTRUCTION.

SHORTLY BEFORE THE ENTERPRISE CREW'S DEPARTURE FOR THE GENESIS PLANET GLYNNIS AND SCOTTY DECIDED NOT TO RENEW THEIR MARRIAGE CONTRACT, WHICH WAS DUE TO EXPIRE IN THREE MONTHS. GLYNNIS DIED IN 2286 IN A SHUTTLECRAFT ACCIDENT. SCOTTY EXILED ON VULCAN AT THE TIME DID NOT LEARN OF HER DEATH UNTIL SOME MONTHS LATER. IN 2286 SCOTTY TRAVELED BACK IN TIME TO 1986 WITH HIS FORMER COLLEAGUES FROM THE ENTERPRISE SENIOR STAFF. WHILE IN THE PAST HE BEAMED GEORGE AND GRACIE TWO ADULT HUMPBACK WHALES INTO TWIN TANKS ALONG WITH SEA WATER. THE MOST MASSIVE PAYLOAD HE TRANSPORTED IN HIS CAREER TO THAT DATE WAS OVER 400 TONS. SHORTLY AFTER THE CREW'S RETURN TO THE TWENTY THIRD CENTURY WITH THE WHALES SCOTTY HELPED CURE GEORGE AND GRACIE OF A MYSTERIOUS DISEASE. LATER THAT YEAR THE RENEGADE VULCAN SYBOK TOOK OVER THE ENTERPRISE AND USED THE SHIP TO PENETRATE THE GREAT BARRIER TO FIND THE LEGENDARY PLANET SHA KA REE. SCOTTY FINALLY CAME TO TERMS OF PEACE WITH HIS FAMILIAL PAINS THROUGH THE POWERS OF SYBOK WHOM HE CALLED A SIN EATER OF OLD SCOTTISH LEGEND. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT UHURA CONFESSED HER AFFECTIONS TOWARD SCOTTY WHILE THE TWO WERE ALONE. EVEN THOUGH HER EMOTIONS WERE UNINHIBITED ON THIS OCCASION HE KEPT COMPOSED AND DECIDED TO MAINTAIN A PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP. SCOTT HOWEVER HAD TOLD HER SHE WAS ONE OF THE MOST UNDERSTANDING WOMEN BESIDES THE ENTERPRISE HE HAD KNOWN. SCOTT, KIRK AND CHEKOV WERE ABOARD THE USS ENTERPRISE-B ON ITS SHAKEDOWN CRUISE AND SUBSEQUENT ENCOUNTER WITH THE NEXUS ENERGY RIBBON. KIRK WAS PRESUMED DEAD AFTER THE ENERGY RIBBON STRUCK THE DECK OF THE SHIP WHERE HE WAS LOCATED. SCOTT LED AN INTENSIVE SEARCH OF THE SECTOR WHERE THE NEXUS HAD APPEARED USING EXPERIMENTAL SENSORS CAPABLE OF DETECTING INDIVIDUAL MOLECULES. WHILE FINDING SEVERAL EL-AURIAN BODIES HE WAS UNABLE TO LOCATE KIRK'S.

CAPTAIN SCOTT RETIRED SOON AFTER CAPTAIN KIRK'S APPARENT DEATH. HE BRIEFLY LIVED WITH HIS SISTER AND HER HUSBAND IN CROMARTY BEFORE FINDING HIS OWN PLACE IN GLASGOW. BESIEGED BY NIGHTMARES OF KIRK'S DEATH HE DID VERY LITTLE CONSULTING WORK. AFTER ABOUT A YEAR HE BRIEFLY MET GUINAN BEFORE BEFRIENDING ENSIGN MATT FRANKLIN. THE NEWLY GRADUATED ENSIGN CONVINCED HIM TO TRAVEL WITH HIM ON THE USS JENOLEN TO NORPIN V WHERE SCOTT WAS TO RETIRE. ACCORDING TO ANOTHER ACCOUNT SCOTT MET ENSIGN FRANKLIN WHILE ONBOARD THE JENOLEN. THE JENOLEN CRASHED ON A DYSON SPHERE LEAVING SCOTT AND FRANKLIN AS THE ONLY SURVIVORS. THEY RIGGED THE TRANSPORTER TO KEEP THEM ALIVE INDEFINITELY. SCOTT WAS EVENTUALLY RESCUED BY THE ENTERPRISE-D IN 2369 THOUGH FRANKLIN'S SIGNAL HAD DEGRADED BEYOND RECOVERY. HE HELPED THE ENTERPRISE ESCAPE FROM THE DYSON SPHERE AND WAS LOANED THE SHUTTLECRAFT GODDARD. ANOTHER MORE SUCCESSFUL TRANSPORTER MIRACLE SCOTTY PERFORMED WAS BEAMING HIMSELF AND GEORDI LA FORGE OFF THE USS JENOLEN WHILE THE SHIELDS WERE RAISED A FEAT SCOTT ACCOMPLISHED WITH CRITICAL TIME TO SPARE AS THE SHIP HELD THE SPHERE OPEN LONG ENOUGH FOR THE ENTERPRISE TO EXIT.

NOT LONG AFTERWARDS SCOTTY WAS REUNITED WITH FELLOW TEMPORAL DISPLACED CAPTAIN MORGAN BATESON. FEELING OUT OF PLACE IN THE TWENTY FOURTH CENTURY AND BLAMING HIMSELF FOR THE DEATHS OF KIRK AND FRANKLIN SCOTT AIMLESSLY WANDERED ABOARD THE GODDARD. ONE DAY IN EARLY 2370 SCOTT DETECTED A DISTRESS CALL AND TRACED IT TO A FEDERATION SHUTTLECRAFT CARRYING TWO ESCAPED NARISIANS BEING CHASED BY PROCTORS FROM THEIR HOMEWORLD OF NARISIA. GARAMET AND WAHLKON MISTOOK SCOTT FOR A WISE ONE AFTER BEAMING THEM OFF THEIR SHUTTLE. SCOTT INITIALLY REQUESTED ASSISTANCE FROM STARFLEET AND CAPTAIN BUCK STRATTON AND THE USS YANDRO WERE TO ASSIST BUT SCOTT USED THE OLD SHUTTLECRAFT TO DRAW AWAY A CHASING VESSEL LONG ENOUGH TO RETURN TO THE VESSEL THE TWO HAD FLED A B'REL CLASS KLINGON BIRD-OF-PREY. INTENDING TO UTILIZE THE SHIP TO GO BACK IN TIME AND SAVE KIRK SCOTT CONTACTED THE ENTERPRISE AND RENDEZVOUSED WITH IT IN ORDER TO PORE OVER THE LOGS FROM THE ORIGINAL CREW, SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR SPOCK'S TIME TRAVEL EQUATIONS. GUINAN MET HIM WITH SAURIAN BRANDY BUT HE TURNED HER AWAY AND ALTHOUGH SHE ALERTED CAPTAIN PICARD TO A FEELING OF UNEASE AROUND SCOTT HE STILL WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE WITHOUT NOTICE.

USING THE BOUNTY 2 AND THE ARHENNIUS STAR HE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN RETURNING TO 2293 AND BEAMING KIRK OFF THE ENTERPRISE-B AT THE MOMENT OF HIS SUPPOSED DEATH BUT THE ACTIONS ALTERED THE TIMELINE FOR HIM AND THE ENTERPRISE-D WHICH HAD FOLLOWED HIM INTO THE PAST TO A UNIVERSE WHERE THE BORG NOW CONTROLLED SOME OF THE ALPHA QUADRANT, INCLUDING THE SOL SYSTEM. KIRK AND SCOTT WERE PICKED UP BY THE SAREK OF THE ALTERED TIMELINE NOW LEADER OF THE INTERSTELLAR ALLIANCE. ORIGINALLY KIRK SUSPECTED THAT SAREK WAS PART OF A PLOT TO DECEIVE HIM BUT AFTER BEING PRESENTED WITH SENSOR RECORDINGS OF THE GODDARD APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE CAME TO THE REALIZATION THAT THEY WERE IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. AFTER KIRK SAVED SAREK'S LIFE FROM AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT THEY CAME TO TRUST EACH OTHER AND KIRK SUGGESTED THEY COULD CONSULT THE GUARDIAN OF FOREVER TO DETERMINE WHERE THE TIMELINES DIVERGED AND HOW TO CORRECT IT. AFTER PICARD AND THE ENTERPRISE-D RENDEZVOUSED WITH SAREK'S SHIP AND THE BORG STARTED TO SEEK OUT PICARD TO KILL HIM KIRK SUSPECTED IT WAS HIS DEATH THAT WOULD SAVE THE TIMELINE HOWEVER GUINAN INSISTED HE COULD NOT DIE BUT MUST BE RETURNED TO THE NEXUS.

SCOTT WAS ABLE TO WORK ANOTHER MIRACLE, AND HELPED LA FORGE MODIFY THE SHIP'S DEFLECTOR SHIELD GRID TO BLOCK SENSOR SCANS RATHER THAN WEAPONS FIRE AND ROUTED A HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION THROUGH THE GRID TO CONFUSE THE SENSORS OF A PURSING BORG FLEET. THE ENTERPRISE WAS ABLE TO AVOID DESTRUCTION LONG ENOUGH TO RETURN KIRK TO THE NEXUS AND THE TIMELINE RETURNED TO NORMAL. LATER THAT YEAR SCOTTY INSPECTED THE RESTORATION OF THE OLD ENTERPRISE MUSEUM SHIP. HE WAS ESCORTED AROUND THE SHIP BY ROBIN LEFLER WHEN THE KLINGON KOLOTH ARRIVED TO FINISH AN OLD HONOR DEBT WITH THE ENGINEER.

IN 2371 SCOTTY STOLE THE CONSTITUTION CLASS USS YORKTOWN FROM THE STARFLEET MUSEUM IN AN ATTEMPT TO RESCUE AMBASSADOR SPOCK FROM A ROMULAN PRISON ON CONSTANTHUS. LATER THAT YEAR SCOTTY WAS VISITING ARGELIUS II WHEN HE ENCOUNTERED BURGOYNE 172 ASSISTANT CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE USS EXCALIBUR. BURGOYNE'S COMMENTS CAUSED SCOTT TO RE-ENLIST IN STARFLEET. AFTER TAKING SOME REFRESHER COURSES SCOTT WAS STATIONED ON STARBASE 12 WHERE HE WORKED UNDER CAPTAIN MORGAN BATESON IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOVEREIGN CLASS STARSHIP THE USS HONORIUS. LATER THAT YEAR SCOTTY ATTENDED THE SIXTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY OF ADMIRAL JOHN HARRIMAN AND HIS WIFE AMINA SASINE WHEN THEY LEARNED OF TOLIAN SORAN'S PLOT TO DESTROY AMARGOSA. SCOTTY LATER LEARNED OF THE REAL DEATH OF JAMES T KIRK AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENTERPRISE-D. SHORTLY THEREAFTER THE HONORIUS WAS RE-DESIGNATED THE USS ENTERPRISE-E.

IN 2370 SCOTTY RECOMMISSIONED THE USS THESEUS. USING TECHNOLOGIES OF HIS OWN DESIGN SCOTT BEGAN REBUILDING THE SHIP. IN 2372 SCOTTY SERVED AS CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE ENTERPRISE-E'S MAIDEN VOYAGE UNDER CAPTAIN BATESON BEFORE COMMAND WAS TURNED OVER TO CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD. HE THEN SPENT SOME TIME WITH BATESON ON THE USS BOZEMAN-A. FOLLOWING THAT SCOTTY SERVED A TOUR OF DUTY AS CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE USS SOVEREIGN TESTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR POSSIBLE IMPLEMENTATION ON ALL SOVEREIGN-CLASS VESSELS. IN 2378 SCOTTY AT THE REQUEST OF JEAN-LUC PICARD TURNED OVER COMMAND OF THE THESEUS TO BENJAMIN SISKO RECENTLY RETURNED TO CORPOREAL EXISTENCE TO CARRY OUT A MISSION GIVEN TO HIM BY THE PROPHETS SCOTT REMAINING ABOARD AS THE SHIP'S CHIEF ENGINEER. IN 2422 THE MONTGOMERY SCOTT ENGINEERING SCIENCES BUILDING OPENED ON THE GROUNDS OF STARFLEET ACADEMY ON THE DATE OF SCOTTY'S 200TH BIRTHDAY. SCOTTY HIMSELF WAS PRESENT AND CUT THE RIBBON.






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