JC's Trek Talk

My TOS Five Year Mission Timeline I'm going to start by saying that I know that there will be some disagreement about this. Here goes: I believe that TOS covered all 5 years of James Kirk's 5 year mission on the Enterprise (NOT just the first 3 years). Hear me out: going by the stardates given in most episodes, the stardates at the beginning of the series are in the 1xxx/x range, at the end of the series they are in the upper 5xxx.x range. Theory (mine): the first digit corresponds to which year of the 5 year mission. Therefore we have actually seen all 5 years of Kirk's famous tenure. Here I have listed all 79 episodes in stardate order, broken down by year: First Year (2265) 1312.4 Where No Man Has Gone Before 1329.1 Mudd's Women 1512.2 The Corbomite Maneuver 1513.1 The Man Trap 1533.6 Charlie X 1672.1 The Enemy Within 1704.2 The Naked Time 1709.1 Balance of Terror Second Year (2266) 2124.5 The Squire of Gothos 2534.0 Patterns of Force 2712.4 What Are Little Girls Mad...

Head Canon: Galorndon Core Galorndon Core Hyralan Sector Near the Romulan Neutral Zone 2157 Second year of the Earth Romulan War Coalition forces are looking at locations for a temporary base of operations closer to Romulan space. Top of the short list is Galorndon Core, an L-class world near the border of Romulan space. This info is leaked to the Romulans by a Romulan spy posing as a Vulcan. The Romulan senate decides this is too close for comfort and decide to go “scorched earth” against the coalition. They sent a fleet of 5 ships armed with nuclear warheads to Galorndon core to bombard the planetoid. The fleet arrives at Galorndon Core. They attack the small coalition fleet in orbit. The NX-06 Endeavour is disabled, three other smaller ships (two Neptune class and one Vulcan Vahklas class) are destroyed. The Romulan ships then enter orbit and bombard the planet, firing their entire payloads of Nuclear weapons at the surface. The planet is left irradiated, mired in a nuclear ...

Federation Class Dreadnought class starship History 2259 In 2259 a group of engineers from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers and strategists from Starfleet Tactical led by then Captain Jose Mendez introduced a proposal to the Federation Council for a new, more powerful, more heavily armed starship class, to serve as both a heavy combat vessel and a standard-bearer for Starfleet. The ship would be faster and much more heavily armed than anything that came before, even the jewel of the fleet, the Constitution Class. Many on the Federation Council were skeptical, the very idea of a dreadnought, essentially a battleship, being antithetical to Starfleet and the Federations core ideals. Within the ranks of Starfleet many officers who had served in the recently concluded Federation-Klingon war supported building the new ship while others, including Captains Pike and Wesley, Commodore Paris and Admiral April were strongly opposed to the dreadnought class ships, siding with the majority of t...