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1 TIMELINE OF STAR TREK HISTORY Editing and Compilation By Alex Rosenzweig (All Years--Old Earth Calendar) (The notes in brackets [] explain the background, sources, and thought-processes for this Timeline of Star Trek History. Each listing includes the year, then any sources or deductions that led to the entry in the Timeline for that year. Further questions, or comments, may be sent to the author.) 1969--First Terran sets foot upon Luna. [Reality] 1972--Apollo Program concludes. [Reality] 1975--Apollo/Soyuz Test Project marks first cooperative effort between United States and Soviet Union. [Reality] 1981--United States launches first space shuttle. [Reality] 1986--Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all aboard and setting the U.S. space program back by more than 2 years. Soviets launch Mir space station. [Reality] 1992-1996--Eugenics Wars (World War III?) result from takeovers by genetically-engineered supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. [Space Seed and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; 23rd and 24th Century historians apparently are in dispute over whether this event or the 21st Century nuclear conflict is more precisely referred to as World War III.] 1996--Supermen defeated in joint NATO/East Bloc actions, paving the way for planetary unification. S.S. Botany Bay, a DY-100 interplanetary explorer developed in the early 1990s, is launched, carrying Khan and over 80 other supermen in cryogenic sleep. [Space Seed and speculation. It is logical to assume that the Eugenics Wars created the political climate to allow a world government (the New