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Events

By starship or station

USS Shenzhou

• May
  • The USS Shenzhou visits the Crepusculan homeworld and saves them from a drought. (DIS: "The Vulcan Hello")
  • The Shenzhou is called to a binary star system to investigate damage done to an interstellar relay by T'Kuvma's faction. First Officer Michael Burnham attempts a mutiny against Captain Philippa Georgiou in the hopes of defusing the crisis. (DIS: "The Vulcan Hello", "Battle at the Binary Stars")
  • The Battle of the Binary Stars occurs between Starfleet and Klingon forces; Captain Georgiou and T'Kuvma are killed. The Federation-Klingon War begins. (DIS: "The Vulcan Hello", "Battle at the Binary Stars")
  • Michael Burnham is found guilty of mutiny, stripped of her rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment. (DIS: "The Vulcan Hello", "Battle at the Binary Stars")
  • The Torchbearer Voq attempts to continue T'Kuvma's ideology, but is largely sidelined by the Klingon Empire.

USS Buran

• June
  • The USS Buran is ambushed and all hands except for Captain Gabriel Lorca are lost. Unknown to anyone at the time, Lorca has been replaced by his mirror universe counterpart. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "Choose Your Pain", "Into the Forest I Go", "What's Past Is Prologue")

USS Discovery

• After being diverted from transfer to the Tellun penal colony, Michael Burnham and three other prisoners stay aboard the USS Discovery until their shuttle is fixed. While on board, Burnham learns about what the ship and her captain, Gabriel Lorca, are doing in their fight against the Klingons. Burnham is sent on an away mission with Sylvia Tilly and Paul Stamets to investigate the USS Glenn. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")
• Captain Lorca has the Glenn scuttled, but recovers the tardigrade "Ripper" still on board and uses it to dramatically improve the Discovery's spore drive. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")
• Michael Burnham joins the crew of the Discovery. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")
• With the aid of the spore drive, Captain Lorca leads the Discovery to victory, destroying multiple Klingon ships during their attack on Corvan II. (DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")
• Voq is overthrown by Kol of the House of Kor, who assumes leadership of T'Kuvma's Klingons. Voq is abandoned aboard the wreck of the USS Shenzhou but is rescued by L'Rell. (DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")
• Captain Lorca is captured by Klingons while returning from a conference. During his captivity, he encounters Starfleet Lieutenant Ash Tyler and Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Lorca and Tyler escape, leaving Mudd behind for helping the Klingons and are beamed aboard the Discovery after it arrives to find Lorca. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain")
• After finding that using the spore drive causes "Ripper" extreme pain, Michael Burnham releases the tardigrade from the Discovery. Its role is taken by Lieutenant Stamets. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain")
• Ambassador Sarek departs on a diplomatic mission, a meeting with a supposed dissenting Klingon faction. however his ship is bombed by a Logic extremist, stranding him inside a nebula until he can be retrieved in an unauthorized rescue mission by Michael Burnham. Katrina Cornwell goes in Sarek's place to meet with the Klingons, but is captured by them when the overture turns out to be a trap. (DIS: "Lethe")
• Harry Mudd uses a time crystal to trap Discovery inside a time loop in a attempt to figure out the starship's secret and sell the ship to the Klingons. Paul Stamets is able to exist outside of the loop and figures out his plan. In the end, Mudd is handed over to his fiance Stella and her father. (DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")

USS Enterprise

• The Enterprise is ordered to sit out the Klingon War. (DIS: "Brother", "Project Daedalus")

USS Glenn

• A failed test of the USS Glenn's experimental spore drive using a captured Tardigrade causes the crew to be mutilated. A group of Klingons try to take advantage of the disabled ship but are all killed by the tardigrade on board. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")

USS Gagarin

• The USS Gagarin is ambushed simultaneously while patrolling its sector along with the two other Starfleet vessels in the area; the USS Hoover and USS Muroc. The Hoover and Muroc are destroyed, closely followed by the Gagarin after its warp drive is disabled. The USS Discovery responds to the Gagarin's distress call but is unable to stop the Klingons destroying the vessel with all hands. (DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")

Other events

• Leonard McCoy ends his relationship with (the future) Nancy Crater. (TOS: "The Man Trap")
• The Klingon reactionary leader T'Kuvma begins assembling like-minded Klingons into a nationalist, anti-Federation movement. (DIS: "The Vulcan Hello")
• Starfleet begins conceptualizing the spore drive, installing it on two prototype vessels, the USS Glenn and the USS Discovery. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")
• Zefram Cochrane Warp Research Facility opens. (SA: "Series Acclimation Mil")

Notes

• According to the Star Trek Chronology, Christopher Pike finished his first five-year mission in this year.
• According to the Star Trek Into Darkness' iTunes app, James T. Kirk was awarded the Palm Leaf of Axanar Peace Mission of valor award in 2256.

Appendices

Episodes

External link

• 2256 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works