Chronowerx Corporate Headquarters
Chronowerx logo
Chronowerx Industries was a 20th century computer technology company founded by Henry Starling and headquartered in Los Angeles, California on Earth. The majority, if not the entirety, of its products and services provided were based on technology acquired and reverse engineered from the crashed Federation timeship Aeon.
In 1996 Henry Starling planned to travel to the 29th century with the Aeon to retrieve more technology with which to continue the predominance of Chronowerx in the technological field. Both Starling and the Aeon were destroyed by the USS Voyager before completing this goal. (VOY: "Future's End", "Future's End, Part II")
- The continued existence of the company after 1996, and the extent of any "repairs" made to the timeline for events prior to 1996 due to Chronowerx's existence are unknown.
- The company is possibly based on Microsoft, and Starling on Bill Gates.
Background
- The logo for Chronowerx is the same as the 29th century Starfleet insignia used by temporal agents. It is possible that no timeline repair took place, or that Chronowerx continued to exist in spite of any repairs, given scenes such as this:
- Janeway: Incredible. Starling's computer designs were inspired by technology from the timeship. He introduced the very first isograted circuit in 1969, two years after Braxton's ship crash-landed.
- Chakotay: And every few years there's been an equally revolutionary advance in computers, all from Chronowerx Industries, all based on Starling's crude understanding of twenty-ninth century technology.
- Janeway: Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Chakotay?
- Chakotay: I wish I weren't.
- Janeway: The computer age of the late twentieth century...
- Chakotay: Shouldn't have happened.
- Janeway: But it did, and it's part of our history.
- Further evidence to support Chronowerx's continued existence can be found in the fifth season episode, "11:59", where at one point, a browser called "Browser Hound" by Chronowerx is seen briefly on-screen.
- The spelling Chronowerx was visible on the outside and the inside of the company building, Rain Robinson's computer monitor and as a screensaver on Henry Starling's computer. It was spelled Chronowerks on a wall in the laboratory where the Aeon was kept, however.