Pre-22nd Century

The Preservers are likely the first sentient species of the Milky Way Galaxy

Pre 22nd Century describes the time before the Earth year 2101. This time period includes important events from the beginning of the universe to the rise and decline of ancient civilizations in the Milky Way, to the first steps into space by most contemporary powers of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.

Timeline

Distant Past

4,500,000,000 years ago

• Thousands of worlds in the Milky Way are seeded with humanoid life by the Preservers, the oldest known sentient species in the galaxy

600,000 years ago

• The Tkon Empire rises and falls, spanning hundreds of worlds in the Milky Way at its apex, among them the Tephrei System

200,000 years ago

An ancient recording on New Romulus, depicting an Iconian and two Dewans in front of an Iconian gateway

• Around this time, the Iconians are a ruling superpower in the Milky Way galaxy
• As they have the ability to travel almost anywhere in the galaxy via their gateway network, the Iconians are also known as "demons of air and darkness"
• The Iconians rule over Dewa III, oppressing the native Dewans
• Both, Dewa III and Iconia are laid to waste, as the servitor races of the Iconians start an uprising against their masters
• The Solanae build a Dyson Sphere for the fleeing Iconians, which is rendered inhospitable by a large-scale industrial accident upon its activation
• The molecular structure of the Solanae is changed due to the accident and they are forced to retreat to subspace

150,000 years ago

The ruins on New Romulus are built by the ancient Dewans.

• The Dewans abandon their space program, focusing on re-activating their Iconian gateway instead
• As the gateway is activated, Dewa III is rendered inhospitable by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
• The last Dewans die in caves, deep under the surface of their homeworld

10,000 years ago

• The first Orb appears on Bajor

3,000 years ago

• The original monastery on P'Jem is founded
• The Caretaker starts providing for the Ocampa after their homeworld is turned into a desert wasteland by Nacene explorers

1st to 20th Century

4th Century

• On Vulcan, the Time of Awakening occurs, referenced to as "the Sundering" by later Romulans: Being eventually driven off the planet, "Those who march beneath the Raptor's wings" fight a terrible civil war against those Vulcans who follow Surak's teachings by embracing logic.
• Using huge generational ships and having taken along revered artifacts e.g., the Sword of the Raptor Star, the Vulcan outcasts temporarily settle on Dewa III before moving on and finally reaching Romulus.

9th Century

Molor, as he would later appear in Gre'thor

• Kahless the Unforgettable defeats Molor and the Fek'Ihri, uniting the Klingon people for the first time. At the end of his life, Kahless points to Boreth and tells his followers to look for him there.

15th century

• The Turei lead an alliance of Delta Quadrant species against the vast Vaadwaur Empire and bomb their homeworld into a dead rock. They subsequently take control of the Underspace.

20th Century

• Humanity begins the exploration of the Sol System, including Luna and Mars

21st Century

2032

• Manned missions to Mars are conducted by humans by this time

2063

The Phoenix in Earth orbit

• The first (unofficial) contact between the Borg and humans occurs, due to a timeline incursion by the Collective
• On Earth, Zefram Cochrane builds and tests the first Human warp drive with the Phoenix
• After the flight of the Phoenix caught the attention of a Vulcan survey ship, official First Contact occurs between Vulcans and Humans

External Link

• Distant past on Memory Alpha