2270 (Columbia)

Reference Stardates 2/1200-2/1312.31

January

U.S.S. Enterprise (TOS 10)

• Stardate 5483.7 (1-2 January): Investigating a sector of space where starships have disappeared every 27 years, the Enterprise finds a race of beautiful women living on a hidden planet. (TAS 06: "The Lorelei Signal")
• Stardate 5554.4: While visiting the newly discovered planet Phylos, Lieutenant Sulu picks up a walking plant, called a Retlaw, and is poisoned. The alien species that inhabits the planet, who are plantlike beings, approach and save Sulu's life. (TAS 02: "The Infinite Vulcan")
• Stardate 5592.1: The Enterprise crew revisits the "amusement park" planet, hoping for some rest and relaxation. (TAS 14: "Once Upon a Planet")
• Stardate 4978.5: The Enterprise receives orders to arrest Federation outlaw Harry Mudd, who is accused of selling fake love crystals. Intercepting Mudd on the mining colony of Motherlode, they bring him aboard the Enterprise. (TAS 08: "Mudd's Passion")

Janus VI mine (TOS 26)

• Stardate 8941.4/Reference Stardate 2/1201: Captain Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise is called to Janus VI, where he must serve as a judge regarding the murder of a Horta. In the process, a an important discovery is made about the race of Hortas that once populated the planet. (FASA 2202: "Witness for the Defense"; FASA-2224: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Sourcebook)
• Reference Stardate 2/1201: While on routine patrol near Tholian space, the Larson class destroyer U.S.S. Cre'cy NCC-4312 encounters the badly damaged hull of the U.S.S. Hood NCC-1703, apparently no longer trapped in spatial interphase. The Cre'cy successfully tows the battered hulk to the nearest Federation outpost, where officials initially decide to scrap the vessel, but later decide to refit it. (FASA-2224: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Sourcebook)
• Reference Stardate 2/1201: The Denebian Swan of Merit is introduced by the Deneb IV Planetary Government, and is awarded to individuals who have displayed valor in the service of the planet Deneb or its citizens in the course of Federation duties. (FASA 2012: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual)
• Reference Stardate 2/1202: Federation Ambassador Carlos Rivera, a senior diplomat, is called in to help persuade the Lorealyn system to join the Federation. Lying within the Klingon Neutral Zone, the system possesses important crystal deposits that could be valuable for experiments in transwarp propulsion. The Mission class courier U.S.S. Magnan NCC-13843 transports the ambassador, but is intercepted by a Klingon D7 class cruiser. Ambassador Rivera and his party are taken aboard the cruiser, where they are temporarily imprisoned. (Adventure Book, "In the Presence of My Enemies") Starfleet Intelligence later learns that the Klingons' Kinza D'elma naval base has been completed in territory acquired under the Organian Peace Treaty. (FASA-2224: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Sourcebook)

February

• Stardate 1254.4: While exploring near the center of the galaxy, the Enterprise is caught inside an energy/matter vortex and all her computer systems fail. A being named Lucien appears on the bridge, repairs the ship's systems and takes the crew to explore his planet, Megas-Tu. (TAS 09: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu")
• Stardate 5577.3: While observing a burned-out supernova, the Enterprise picks up a strange message transmitted in a two-hundred-year-old code. (TAS 15: "The Terratin Incident")
• Stardate 5267.2: While exploring the Delta Triangle, where many starships have disappeared, the Enterprise is attacked by several Klingon vessels. During the battle they are caught in an ion storm. The Enterprise and one Klingon battlecruiser are drawn into a spacetime vortex and end up in a timeless dimension. (TAS 10: "Time Trap")
• Stardate 5392.4: While the Enterprise escorts two robot cargo ships carrying quintotriticale, a new seed grain, to famine stricken Sherman's Planet, it encounters a Klingon battlecruiser pursuing a Federation scout ship. When the Enterprise rescues the pilot, the Klingons attack with a new energy weapon and demand that the pilot be handed over to them. (TAS 01: "More Tribbles, More Troubles")
• Stardate 5499.9: While exploring the water planet Argo, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock are transformed into water breathers by the planet's undersea inhabitants, the Aquans. In order to return to their normal selves, they must enlist the help of the Aquans to capture a giant sur-snake, whose venom holds the antidote. (TAS 13: "The Ambergris Element")
• Stardate 7680.9/Reference Stardate 2/1203: The U.S.S. Enterprise is assigned to supervise the evacuation of humanoids on the planet Aleriad, which is about to be destroyed due to system instability. Although the Prime Directive is suspended, Alerian religious beliefs and Orion agents complicate the evacuation process. (FASA 2205: "Denial of Destiny"; FASA-2224: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Sourcebook) Meanwhile, the first outbreak of Orion blood fever occurs among the inhabitants of Rigel VII. Starfleet Intelligence later learns that the disease depopulated several Klingon settlements before quarantines were ordered. (FASA-2224: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Sourcebook)

March

• Stardate 6334.1: Spock contracts a fatal illness, and the cure can only be found with dangerous Orion pirates. (TAS 19: "The Pirates of Orion")
• Stardate 5683.1: The Enterprise arrives at the Vedala asteroid, where Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock have been summoned to learn about a stolen religious artifact, the "Soul of the Skorr", whose theft could ignite a galactic holy war. (TAS 12: "Jihad")
• Stardate 5275.6: Doctor McCoy is arrested for allegedly causing a deadly plague, which once ravaged the planet Dramia. (TAS 18: "Albatross")

Holographic Rec Room (TAS 20)

• Stardate 3183.3: A strange energy field causes the Enterprise computer to play practical jokes on the crew, but the humor soon turns to danger. (TAS 20: "Practical Joker")
• Stardate 6063.4: A mysterious being threatens to destroy the Enterprise if the crew is unable to solve an ancient puzzle. (TAS 21: "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth")

April

• Stardate Unknown: Prologue (VAN #7: "What Judgments Come")
• Stardate Unknown: Prologue, Epilogue (VAN #8: "Storming Heaven")
• Stardate 6770.3: An unusual spaceship pulls the Enterprise into a "negative universe" where time seems to flow backwards. (TAS 22: "The Counter-Clock Incident")
• Stardate 5501.2: The disappearance of a scientific team lures the Enterprise to investigate near Lactra VII. The starship Ariel is located there, abandoned, with its captain having transported to the planet's surface. (TAS 16: "The Eye of the Beholder")
• Stardate 7403.6: The Enterprise crew is taken captive by a race of primitives on a newly discovered planet. (TAS 17: "Bem")
• Stardate 4187.3: In the Shuttlecraft Copernicus, Mr. Spock, Uhura, and Sulu are en route to Starbase 25 to deliver a stasis box—a rare artifact of the Slaver culture when the Kzinti intervene. (TAS 11: "The Slaver Weapon")
• Stardate 7098.5: Chapter 12 (VAN #9: "In Tempest's Wake")
• Reference Stardate 2/1204: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 ends its Five Year Mission under Captain James T. Kirk, and enters spacedock for an extensive refit. (VOY 265: "Q2"; Star Trek: The Motion Picture; FASA 2001: Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook) Kirk is promoted to Commodore. (FASA-2224: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Sourcebook)

May

• Reference Stardates 2/1209-2/1212 (May-July): Coridan, a Federation protectorate, experiences increasing numbers of dilithium crystal hijackings, resulting in numerous fatalities and severe financial repercussions. (FASA-2209: "Margin of Profit"; FASA-2224: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Sourcebook)

July

• Reference Stardate 2/1207.01 (1 July): The standard Starfleet uniform is changed to "the long-sleeved, round-necked tunic in grey or tan, with one-piece pants and foot coverings[, with the] standard belt monitor ... attached at waist level in front." Service branch is denoted by the color of the background circle of the Starfleet arrowhead/delta insignia as follows: Command white, Science orange, Engineering red, Medical green, Operations yellow, and Security silver. (FASA 2214: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Sourcebook)
• * Reference Stardates 2/1204-2/1212: Commodore Kirk spends much of his shore leave using his influence and prestige to assure Starfleet's continued vigilant, but non-militant, activities in the face of Klingon aggression outside the Klingon Neutral Zone. He is appointed to Starfleet's Operating Forces Board to assure that his proposals are carried out, and is promoted again to Admiral. (FASA-2224: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Sourcebook)

October

• Flashback (SCE #44: "Where Time Stands Still")

November

• Reference Stardate 2/1309: The Aakenn class freighter U.S.S. Mundy is found adrift near Starbase 21 with life support systems operating but without a crew. Millions of live Tribbles are found in the vessel's cargo hold, surviving on the food produced by a still-functioning food synthesizer. Several years later, two Mundy crewmembers will be found, and they will relate how renegade Klingons boarded the vessel, discovered the cargo of Tribbles, and killed or marooned the entire crew. (FASA-2302: "Federation Ship Recognition Manual")

December

• Reference Stardate 2/1212: Commander Spock declines an offer of promotion to Captain and resigns from active duty, entering the Starfleet Reserve while pursuing the Kolinahr discipline on Vulcan. (FASA 2214: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Sourcebook)

Note

The order given for the episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series is taken from the novelizations, which included chronological references and additional story elements. While the novelizations gave new (and more consistent) stardates, the stardates given in the original episode have been retained.

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