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Episodes

• TOS:
  • "I, Mudd"
  • "The Trouble with Tribbles"
  • "Bread and Circuses"
  • "Journey to Babel"
  • "A Private Little War"
  • "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
  • "Obsession"
  • "The Immunity Syndrome"
  • "A Piece of the Action"
  • "By Any Other Name"
  • "Return to Tomorrow"
  • "Patterns of Force"
  • "The Ultimate Computer"
  • "The Omega Glory"
  • "Spectre of the Gun"
  • "Elaan of Troyius"
  • "The Paradise Syndrome"
  • "The Enterprise Incident"
  • "And the Children Shall Lead"
  • "Spock's Brain"
  • "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
  • "The Empath"
  • "The Tholian Web"
  • "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
  • "Day of the Dove"
  • "Plato's Stepchildren"
  • "Wink of an Eye"
  • "That Which Survives"
  • "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
  • "Whom Gods Destroy"
  • "The Mark of Gideon"
• DS9:
  • "Trials and Tribble-ations" (in part)

Events

• Federation cultural observer and former history teacher of Commander Spock and Doctor Leonard McCoy, John Gill, was shot and killed on the planet Ekos by Melakon after Gill denounced his own idea of a Nazi regime set up on Ekos as well as their battle against the planet Zeon and the subjugation and extermination of Zeon's population on a star system wide television broadcast. Melakon was in turn shot and killed by Zeon Isak. Thereafter, Isak, Ekosians Daras and Eneg agree to end the violence and set Ekos on a more humane path. (TOS: "Patterns of Force")
• Captain James T. Kirk oversees a landing party on Argus X in order to search for the Dikironium cloud creature. This expedition was helped by Ensign Garrovick and security officers Bardoli and Bensen. (TOS: "Obsession")
• A brief alliance between the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire occurred. This resulted in an exchange of technology and spacecraft design, most notably the cloaking device to the Klingons. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
• Ceti Alpha VI exploded and turned the former M class planet Ceti Alpha V into a barren wasteland. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
• The United Federation of Planets hosted the Babel Conference, which eventually resulted in Coridan's admission to the Federation. (TOS: "Journey to Babel")
• Christianity began on planet 892-IV during that planets 1960's. (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
• The Dohlman of Elas named Elaan was married, in an arranged marriage, to the ruler of Troyius in the hopes of fostering peace between the planet Elas and the planet Troyius which are in the same star system. (TOS: "Elaan of Troyius")
• The USS Intrepid was destroyed and it's entire crew of Vulcans killed, as well as the destruction of the Gamma 7A system, by an enormous space going single-celled organism. (TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome")
• The USS Enterprise made first contact with the xenophobic Melkotians. (TOS: "Spectre of the Gun")
• The USS Enterprise made first contact with androids from the Andromeda Galaxy. This was made difficult, at first, due to the interference of Harcourt Fenton Mudd. (TOS: "I, Mudd")
• The USS Enterprise visited Deep Space Station K-7. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")

According to Dulmur and Lucsly, this visit took place on a Friday "one hundred and five years, one month, and twelve days" before the events of DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations", which was in 2373.

• Kirk invented Fizzbin. (TOS: "A Piece of the Action")
• The Polaric Test Ban Treaty was signed, after the near destruction of a Romulan research colony due to a polaric ion device explosion on Chaltok IV. (VOY: "Time and Again")
• The USS Enterprise made first contact with intergalactic beings the Kelvans from the Andromeda Galaxy. This first contact was at first difficult as the Kelvans attempted to hijack the Enterprise and killed one of the crew. (TOS: "By Any Other Name")
• Dr. Richard Daystrom suffered a mental breakdown aboard the USS Enterprise. (TOS: "The Ultimate Computer")
• Lieutenant Commander and Dr. Ann Mulhall joined the crew of the USS Enterprise. An astrobiologist, Ann Mulhall will be the highest ranking female officer to serve aboard the Enterprise during it's original five-year mission. (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
• The planet Amerind was saved from destruction by an asteroid by Kirk and Spock. (TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome")
• All the adults of the Starnes Expedition are killed, due to the alien Gorgan's influence on the children, on the Federation outpost planet Triacus. Gogan will be destroyed, a short-time later, aboard the USS Enterprise. (TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead")
• Lokai steals a Shuttlecraft from Starbase 4. (TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")

According to Sulu, this happened 4 weeks before Stardate 5730.2

Notes

• 2268 marked the start of the fourth year of Captain James T. Kirk's first five-year mission. (VOY: "Q2")

2267

23rd century 2260s

2269