First Contact - Timeline

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Year

Event

2053

● [1] World War III kills 600 million people and leaves very few governments on Earth. [1]

Species :

Humans

2063

● [2] Zefram Cochrane makes Humanities first faster than light journey. The flight results in First Contact between Humans and Vulcans. [2]

	People :	Zefram Cochrane
	Species :	Humans, Vulcans

2113

● [2] A World government is formed on Earth. [2]

Species :

Humans

2371

● [2] Geordi undergoes surgery to replace his VISOR with ocular implants. [2]

People :

Geordi La Forge

2372

● [3] Captain Picard is assigned command of the Enterprise-E. He takes many of his Enterprise-D crew with him. [3]

People :

Jean-Luc Picard, William T. Riker, Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, Data, Geordi La Forge

2373

● [4] The second Borg invasion of the Federation. The cube is defeated by a Federation fleet including the USS Defiant and the USS Enterprise-E. The Enterprise-E subsequently travels back in time to 2063 in order to prevent the Borg from creating an alternate timeline in which the Federation is never created. [2]

	People :	Jean-Luc Picard, William T. Riker, Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, Data, Geordi La Forge, Reginald Barclay, Worf Rozhenko
	Species :	Borg, Humans

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References

#	Series	Season	Source	Comment
1			Star Trek : First Contact	The war is stated to have happened ten years prior to 2063
2			Star Trek : First Contact
3			Star Trek : First Contact	Geordi said the ship had been in shakedown for almost a year
4			Star Trek : First Contact	Placed according to Stardate. This conflicts with Cpatain Sisko's mention of the recent Borg attack in the episode In Purgatory's Shadow.

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Last updated : 8 Feb 2025

Film:	Star Trek : First Contact
Comment :	The war is stated to have happened ten years prior to 2063