Kelvin Chronology

22nd Century

• The U.S.S. Archon NCC-189, on a mission to help establish deep space colonies, is destroyed. When investigating a new colony on Beta III, the crew of the Archon discovered that the colony was being used for an experiment in population and mind control by Section 31 scientist Dr. Cornelius Landru. The ship was destroyed by Landru when the crew tried to put an end to his experiments. ("Return of the Archons, Part II")

23rd Century

2229

• Robert April is promoted to Captain. (Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #1)

2230

• Stardate 2230.06: Spock is born on Vulcan. (Star Trek Motion Picture Adaptation #1, Star Trek deleted scene)
• The U.S.S. Kelvin NCC-0514 makes first contact with the planet Royla. Keenser leaves his homeworld to join Starfleet. ("Keenser's Story")

2231

• Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen Scott learns about his ancestor who served aboard the H.M.S. Enterprise in 1787, and is given a set of bagpipes to fix by his grandfather. He and his brother, Robbie, steal away to the Linlithgow Shipyard, and sneak aboard a ship under construction. ("Scotty")

2233

• Stardate 2233.04: The Narada emerges from a temporal rift and destroys the U.S.S. Kelvin NCC-0514. Captain Richard Robau and Lieutenant Commander George Kirk are killed. James Kirk is born aboard Medical Shuttle 37. (Star Trek) Nero and the crew of the Narada are captured by a Klingon task force led by Kor and incarcerated at Rura Penthe. (Star Trek: Nero #1)

2239

• Robert April, Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, is listed by his first officer, Commander Marcus as killed in action during a mission to explore the planet Phaedus IV; the Enterprise is the first ship to visit the planet. (Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #2) In reality, April was part of a Section 31 plot to arm one side of a civil war on the pre-warp planet, while the Klingon Empire armed the other. The proxy war was intended as a less-costly method for the Empire to expand, without having to resort to direct conquest. (Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #3)

2250s

• Although denied admission to Starfleet Academy, Mr. Scott begins serving on old trading freighters as an engineer. Responding to a distress call from an Einstein class starship (NCC-0509), he impresses the ship's captain. She puts in a recommendation with an old friend, Commander Marcus, who's on the Academy admissions board, and Scott enters the Academy. ("Scotty")

2255

• James Kirk enrolls at Starfleet Academy, under the sponsorship of Captain Christopher Pike. Doctor Leonard McCoy also enrolls at the Academy at this time. The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 is under construction at the Riverside Shipyard in Iowa. (Star Trek)

2257

• Mr. Scott finds Admiral Archer's beagle wandering around the Presidio. Rather than simply bring the dog to the admiral's office, he tries to beam the dog there—via Mars—to prove his theory that the transporter's range can be extended much further than the accepted limit of 100 miles. ("Scotty")
• Two days before Federation Day, Cadet Sulu is offered a spot on Red Squad if he performs a dangerous stunt during a flyby. He refuses, but then must save another cadet who does attempt the maneuver. Meanwhile, Cadet Chekov decides, with Cadet Kirk's mentoring, not to pull a dangerous prank on Cadet Amy McKenna, the leader of Red Squad. ("Red Level Down")
• Section 31 attempts to recruit Cadet Hikaru Sulu. ("Return of the Archons, Part I") When that fails, they recruit his sister, who is also a Starfleet officer. (Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #1)
• The U.S.S. Enterprise is decommissioned. (Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #2)

2258

• Several months after they began their relationship, Lieutenant Commander Spock and Cadet Uhura share a mind meld, and Spock experiences Uhura's memory of a shuttle accident when she was a child, which injured her parents and cost the life of her uncle, Raheem. ("The Voice of a Falling Star")
• Working with a prisoner named Clavell, Nero's crew escapes from Rura Penthe aboard the Narada. (Star Trek: Nero #2) Traveling to the edge of the Delta Quadrant, the Narada intercepts V'Ger, which helps Nero determine when and where Spock (Prime) will appear. (Star Trek: Nero #3) Returning to the Klingon Neutral Zone, (Star Trek: Nero #4) where the Narada appeared 25 years earlier, (Star Trek, Star Trek: Nero #1) the Narada is confronted by and destroys a fleet of 47 |Klingon ships, (Star Trek) led by Rura Penthe's commandant, Koth, (Star Trek: Nero #4) before stranding Spock (Prime) on Delta Vega and continuing on to attack Vulcan. (Star Trek, Star Trek: Nero #4)
• Cadet Kirk reprograms the Kobayashi Maru scenario to enable him to win on his third attempt. An inquiry into the matter conducted by Starfleet Academy Commandant Admiral Richard Barnett is interrupted by a distress call from Vulcan... (Star Trek)
• Stardate 2258.42: Cadet Kirk, having been smuggled aboard the Enterprise, convinces Captain Pike to take a more cautious approach, saving the ship from the Narada's initial attack. Vulcan is destroyed by Nero's Red Matter weapon. Pike is captured, and Kirk is removed from the Enterprise and left on Delta Vega by Lieutenant Commander Spock. With the help of Spock (Prime), Montgomery Scott, and Keenser, Kirk returns to the ship, takes command, and saves Earth from sharing Vulcan's fate. (Star Trek)
• Kirk is promoted to Captain and given permanent command of the Enterprise. Pike is promoted to Admiral. (Star Trek)
• Stardate 2258.56: Lieutenant Gary Mitchell is mutated into a godlike being, and Captain Kirk is forced to kill him. ("Where No Man Has Gone Before, Part I", "Where No Man Has Gone Before, Part II")
• En route to the New Paris colony on Makus III, the Shuttlecraft Galileo is marooned on a planet in the Murasaki 312 quasar-like phenomenon. ("The Galileo Seven, Part I", "The Galileo Seven, Part II")
• The Enterprise discovers the inhabitants of Deneva have been taken over by a species of neural parasites. Kirk is reunited with his estranged older brother, George "Sam" Kirk, and his family. ("Operation: Annihilate, Part I", "Operation: Annihilate, Part II")
• A group of Vulcans attempts to use Red Matter recovered from the Vulcan system to destroy Romulus. ("Vulcan's Vengeance, Part I", "Vulcan's Vengeance, Part II")
• Stardate 2258.241: The Enterprise investigates Beta III, a planet of legend and rumor that, so far as Starfleet's computers are concerned, does not exist. They discover a Human population under the control of Landru, a computer that incorporates the wreckage of the U.S.S. Archon NCC-189. Discovering the truth about the lost colony, the Enterprise crew removes the Landru computer, freeing the people from its control. (Return of the Archons, Part I, "Return of the Archons, Part II")
• Stardate 2258.247: Doctor McCoy reflects on the events that led him to join Starfleet. ("Bones")

2259

• Stardate 2259.155: The Enterprise prevents the Klingons from destroying the Tribble homeworld in the Iota Geminorum system, only to discover that a Tribble that Mr. Scott beamed to his nephew at Starfleet Academy has bred and overrun the campus and surrounding area. A solution is found, and Admiral Archer's prize beagle finally rematerializes. ("The Truth About Tribbles, Part I", "The Truth About Tribbles, Part II")
• Hendorff writes home about a mission where he was nearly killed. ("Hendorff")
• Keenser recalls the first contact of his planet, Royla, with the Kelvin. ("Keenser's Story")
• The Enterprise arrives at Phaedus IV, home to a pre-warp civilization last surveyed 5 years earlier. When communications and transporters are inexplicably jammed, Kirk, Spock, Sulu, and Hendorff take a shuttle to the surface to find the source... and find Captain Robert April. (Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #1) Taking April back to the Enterprise, he explains that the Federation and the Klingon Empire have been fighting a proxy war on Phaedus for the past 20 years. April uses a secret command code installed in the ship's computers by Section 31 to seize control of the Enterprise, (Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #3) then tries to negotiate a deal with the Klingons: governorship of Phaedus IV in exchange for the Enterprise. Kirk manages to prevent the Klingons from capturing the ship, but the Klingons seize the planet. April and his associate, Mudd, are taken into custody. The incident is classified, and Admiral Pike orders the Enterprise to Nibiru. (Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #4)
• Stardate 2259.55: After being relieved of command for violating the Prime Directive at Nibiru, Kirk is reduced in rank to Commander and first officer of the Enterprise under Admiral Pike. A Starfleet archive in London—secretly a Section 31 facility—is destroyed. When the admiralty meets in emergency session, the briefing is attacked by Commander John Harrison, presumably a disgruntled Starfleet Intelligence officer. Pike is killed in the attack, and Kirk resumes command of the Enterprise. Harrison is captured on the Klingon homeworld, Kronos, and reveals that he is really Khan Noonien Singh. He also reveals that Admiral Marcus and Section 31 are plotting to start a war with the Klingon Empire, and that he is seeking revenge against Marcus. With Khan's help, Marcus is stopped, but Khan kills the admiral and seizes control of the experimental dreadnought U.S.S. Vengeance. After a battle with the Enterprise, the Vengeance crashes into San Francisco, and Khan is apprehended. (Star Trek Into Darkness)