Monday, April 30, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 21st Century

2001: Terror Attacks on New York City begin a series of events leading to World War III

2004: Jonathan Archer stops Xindi bioweapon in Detroit.

2008: The Great Recession wrecks havoc on western economies helping lead to the rise of Asia

2012: U.S. retires shuttle program and imposes drastic cuts at NASA putting mankind’s future in doubt

2018: Dax symbiont is born

2024: The Bell Riots

2024: Unrest, which began 20 years earlier, continues to spread throughout Europe

2026: World War III begins on Earth

2030s: Xindus is destroyed by civil war

2032: Zefram Cochrane is born

2032: A manned mission to Mars takes place, but the orbital module, and its commander, John Kelly, disappear.

2036: The New United Nations replaces the United Nations by this year

2047: The Hermosa Earthquake sinks parts of Los Angeles under 200 hundred meters of water

2053: World War III ends. Afterward, Colonel Green launches a genocidal war killing 37 million and portions of the planet suffer the post atomic horror.

2063: Humans make first contact with Vulcans

2063: A Borg sphere attempts to stop First Contact. They are denied by Jean Luc Picard and Enterprise-E

2065: SS Valiant is launched. It is later lost with all hands.

2066: The Ba’ku move to the Briar Patch

2067: Friendship One is launched

2067: The Great Awakening on Argelius II transforms the planet from savage to placid.

2067: John Burke maps Sherman’s Planet

2067: United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA) is around by this point

2069: SS Conestoga travels to Terra Nova to colonize. The colony is not heard from again for nearly a century.

2069: Klingon High Council takes power after the emperor dies without a successor

2069: Earth-Kzin wars end in Human victory

2077: Henry Archer is born (dies 2124 from Clarke’s Disease)

2078: SS Conestoga reaches Terra Nova

2079: The Post Atomic horror leads to the end of the New United Nations and temporarily stalls the United Earth movement

2081: An asteroid strikes Terra Nova

2088: T’Pol is born

Friday, April 27, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 20th Century


1903: The Wright Brothers

1914-18: World War I

1915: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

1917: Russian Revolution

1929: Great Depression begins

1930: Kirk, Spock, and McCoy travel to old Chicago where they meet Edith Keeler and have to ensure her death to save the world.

1932: Redjac kills 7 women in China

1933: Hitler assumes power in Germany

1937: Amelia Earhart and 300 humans are kidnapped by the Briori and transported to the Delta Quadrant to work as slaves.

1930s: Xindi Civil War

1939-45: World War II

1944: In an alternate timeline, Archer stops Vosk in the temporal cold war.

1945: A-Bomb ends World War II

1945-1992: Cold War

1947: Ferengi shuttle crashlands at Roswell, New Mexico

1950s: Border dispute between Vulcans and Andoria begins

1957: A Vulcan ship crashes at Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania. The crew remain on Earth for a time.

1957: Sputnik

1958: NASA founded

1967: Timeship Aeon crashes in the High Sierras. Henry Starling finds the technology and creates the computer age.

1968: Gary Seven sabotages an orbital nuclear weapons platform

1969: The Enterprise is accidentally hurdled back to 1969. Spock figures out how to send them back to the 23rd century.

1969: Apollo 11 reaches moon

1969: Quinn attends Woodstock

1974: Redjac kills 5 women in Kiev

1976: NASA unveils the space shuttle prototype, Enterprise

1986: Admiral Kirk and crew travel to 20th century Earth to find humpback whales to talk to the whale probe in the 23rd century.

1991: U.S.S.R. dissolves. American President George H.W. Bush declares the Cold War over a few months later in 1992.

1992: Khan Noonien Singh seizes power

1993: Eugenics Wars begin when a group of “supermen” seize power. The war is a covert action that somehow the world’s leaders managed to keep out of the news. History records the events much later.

1996: Eugenics Wars end. Khan goes into exile aboard SS Botany Bay after an encounter with Gary Seven.

1996: Evidence of life on Mars

1996: Voyager thrown back in time by Captain Braxton. The crew stops Henry Starling from accidentally destroying Earth.

1997: Mars Rover launched

2000: International Space Station inaugurated

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: 11th-19th centuries

1000: Vikings land in North America

1095: First Crusade

11th century: Life on Zetar wiped out by war

12th century: Sphere Builders build their spheres

12th century: Kulkulkan visits Aztecs

1154: Andorians become warp capable

13th century: Conquests of Genghis Khan

14th century: Ventaxian civilization makes deal with the devil

14th century: The Kataan’s sun goes supernova. They create a probe to ensure the preservation of their culture.

14th century: Qo’nos is attacked by the Hur’q. The Sword of Kahless and other artifacts are plundered.

14th century: Stratos is built

1334-1350: Black Death sweeps Earth

1401: Beginning of Renaissance

1492: Columbus discovers America

1519: Captain Erika Hernandez and three officers from the USS Columbia arrive in the Caelar city. Hernandez later undergoes a procedure and lives into the 24th century. The other three die in the 16th century.

16th century: Bajorans build solar space ships

16th century: Beginning of Klingon dark ages

1588: Spanish Armada

1666: Newton devises his laws

1680: Pueblo Uprising (Jean Luc Picard’s ancestor takes part)

1691: Salem Witch Trials force the Megas-Tu to leave Salem.

18th century: Denevan neural parasites wipe out Beta Portolan

1767: Eminiar and Vendikar begin a war completely fought by computer with casualties calculated leading to mass murder. The war ends in the 23rd century.

1776: Declaration of Independence

1789: French Revolution begins

1799: Napoleon seizes power in France

19th century: Cardassian Union and Detapa Council formed

1805: A Picard fights at Trafalgar

1815: Waterloo ends Napoleon’s reign

1821: Onaya kills writer John Keats

1836: Battle of the Alamo

1850: Suliban world becomes uninhabitable leading to a mass exodus

1850s: Vulcans finally rebuild their world after the great wars and Awakening. They return to interstellar travel

1860s: Humans are abducted and forced into slavery by the Skagarans.

1864: Quinn saves Thaddius Riker’s life at the Battle of Pine Mountain.

1881: Gunfight at the OK Corral

1888-91: Redjac strikes London killing 17 women

1893: Shapeshifters from Devidia II use a cholera outbreak to kill humans and consume their neural energy. They are stopped by Enterprise-E, Guinan, and Mark Twain.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Star Trek timeline: 1st-10th century A.D.

33: Christ Crucified

3rd century: Spock’s family claim a ceremonial ground which remains in the family into the 23rd century

220: Han Dynasty falls

312: Christianity legalized

320: Vulcans discover warp drive

4th century: Vulcan ripped apart by nuclear war

4th century: Surak leads Vulcan awakening

4th century: A group of Vulcans leave for Romulas and Remus after rejected Surak

4th century: The Jem Hadar become the Dominion’s front line troops

4th century: The Phage strikes the Vidiians

476: Fall of the Roman Empire

6th century: Kukulkan visits Mayas

610: Muhammad has his revelations

9TH century: Kahless unites the Klingons

9th century: Klingons develop warp drive

9th century: Kaelon II adopts “resolution”

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Star Trek Timeline: From the Big Bang to the Romans

16 billion years ago: The Big Bang (Some members of the Q hide out here)

5 billion years ago: Sol System forms

4.5 billion years ago: An ancient group of aliens seed the galaxy’s oceans with DNA codes leading to many humanoid races.

3.5 billion years ago: The first amino acids combine on Earth (Picard and Q visit)

1 billion years ago: The Slaver Empire rules the galaxy. All sentient species died in a war which led intelligent life to re-evolve.

65 million years ago: Dinosaurs wiped out. Some survived, evolved into the Voth, leave Earth, and end up in the Delta Quadrant.

600,000 years ago: Tkon Empire collapses

500,000 years ago: Sargon’s people become extinct

22,000 years ago: The Trill begin as a joined species

18,000 years ago: Orion slavery well established by this point.

10,000 years ago: Vaal is built

10,000 years ago: First orbs appear at Bajor

10,000 years ago: Founders found the Dominion

10,000 years ago: The First Grand Nagus writes the Fergengi Rules of Acquisition

4527 B.C.: The Borg come into being after survivors from the NX-02 Columbia are flung back in time and are absorbed by a malevolent Caeliar named Sedin.

4000 B.C.: Advanced aliens kidnap people from Earth and eugenically bred them to help humanity save itself later on. Gary Seven is a product of this program.

3834 B.C.: Flint is born

3733 B.C.: Landru preaches peace and love and creates a computer to help guide his people. It creates an oppressive society on Beta III.

2700 B.C.: Aliens visit Earth and become the Greek gods

2700 B.C.: Spock and McCoy temporarily stranded on Sarpeidon during an ice age.

2500 B.C.: Pyramids built in Egypt

850 B.C. P’Jem Built

800 B.C.: Homer

500 B.C.: Trakor writes prophesies about Bajor’s Prophets

400 B.C.: Sahndara System supernovas. The refugees revere Greek philosophers after apparently encountering them. They move to Platonius and form a civilization based on the Greeks.

323 B.C.: Alexander the Great dies

31 B.C.: Augustus wins at Actium and later forms the Roman Empire

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Mel Ott: Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 1951


Born: March 2, 1909

Debut: April 27, 1926 (Giants)

1929: Walked 6 times in a double header

1929: Youngest to hit for cycle

1931: Youngest to 100 home runs

1932: Led league in HR

1933: Giants win World Series (Ott hit .389 with 2 home runs/4 RBI)

1934: Scored 6x in one game

1934: Led league in HR

1936: Became first NL-er to have 8 straight 100 RBI seasons

1936-38: HR champ

1936: Giants lose World Series (Ott hit .304 w/1 home run and 3 RBI)

1937: Became NL all time home run hitter

1937: Giants lose World Series (Ott hit .200 w/1 home run and 3 RBI)

1942: HR champ

1942-48: Managed the Giants (464-530 record)

1943: All his home runs came at home

1943: Walked in 7 straight plate appearances (record)

1944: Walked 6 times in a double header

1944: Scored 6x in a game

1945: Led the Giants in home runs for the 18th straight season (ML Record)

1945: First National Leaguer to 500 home runs

1949: Giants retired his #4

1951: Elected to Hall of Fame

1955-58: Broadcaster (Detroit Tiger broadcaster 1956-58)

1958: Died in an auto accident

1966: Willie Mays passes Ott to become NL all time home run king

2006: Appeared on a postage stamp

Accomplishments:
1933 World Champion

12x All Star

One of five players intentionally walked with bases loaded

.304 average

511 home runs

1860 RBI

1859 Runs

2876 hits

488 doubles

1708 walks/896 strikeouts

.414 OBP

.533 slugging

.947 OPS

Led league in games (1932): 154

Led league in runs: 2x

100+ runs: 9x

30+ doubles: 5x

10 triples (1934)

20+ home runs: 15x

30+ home runs: 8x

42 home runs (1929)

Led league in HR: 6x

Led league in RBI (1934): 135

100+ RBI: 9x

151 RBI (1929)

Led league in walks: 6x

100+ walks: 10x

Hit .300+: 10x

.400+ OBP: 14x

Led league in OBP: 4x

Led league in slugging (1936): .588

.500+ slugging: 12x

.600+ slugging: 2x

1.000 OPS: 6x

Led league OPS: 2x

5041 total bases

300+ Total bases: 7x

As a manager: 464-530 (.467)

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Jimmie Foxx: Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 1951

There was no class in 1950.

Born: October 22, 1907

1924: Purchased by A’s

Debut: May 1, 1925 (A’s)

1929: Becomes full time first baseman

1929: A’s win World Series (Foxx hit .350 w/2 HR and 5 RBI)

1930: A’s win World Series (Foxx hit .333 w/1 HR and 3 RBI)

1931: A’s lose World Series to Cardinals (Foxx hit .348 w/1 HR and 3 RBI)

1932: Led league w/58 HR 169 RBI

1932: AL MVP

1933: Led league w/48 HR 163 RBI

1933: Won Batting title

1933: AL MVP

1935: Traded to Red Sox

1935: Won HR crown (36)

1937: Hit a ball into the third deck at Yankee Stadium

1938: Won batting title

1938: 175 RBI

1938: Walked six times in a game

1938: AL MVP

1939: Won HR Crown (35)

1940: Becomes youngest to 500 home runs (broken by Alex Rodriguez)

1940: Set record w/12 straight 30 HR seasons (broken by Barry Bonds)

1941: Drinking caught up with Foxx and his skills degraded quickly

1942: Claimed off waivers by Cubs

1945: Signed with Phillies

1945: Pitched in 9 games

1951: Elected to Hall of Fame

1952: Managed Ft. Wayne Daisies of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

1956-57: Coached the University of Miami baseball team (20-20 record)

1958: Went bankrupt. He ended up employed by the Lakewood Recreational Dept.

Died: July 21, 1967 (choked to death on a piece of meat)

1992: Tom Hanks’ character in A League of their Own was based on Foxx

1999: Nominee for All Century Team

Accomplishments:
2x World Champion

2x batting champion

3x MVP

9x All Star

.325 career hitter

534 Home Runs

1922 RBI

1751 Runs

2646 hits

458 doubles

1452 walks/1311 strikeouts

.428 OBP

.609 slugging

1.038 OPS

Led league in games played: 155 (1936)

Led league in runs: 151 (1932)

100+ runs: 11x

200+ hits: 2x

30+ doubles: 9x

10+ triples: 4x

20+ home runs: 12x

30+ home runs: 12x

40+ home runs: 6x

50+ home runs: 2x

Led league in home runs: 4x

Led league in RBI: 3x

100+ RBI: 13x

150+ RBI: 4x

Led league walks: 2x

100+ walks: 7x

Hit .300: 12x

Hit .350: 4x

Led league in OBP: 3x

.400+ OBP: 12x

.500+ Slugging: 15x

.600+ slugging: 9x

.700+ slugging: 3x

Led league in slugging: 5x

1.000 OPS: 9x

Led league in OPS: 5x

4956 total bases

Led league in total bases: 3x

300+ Total Bases: 10x

400+ Total Bases: 2x

Pitching: 1-0 record, 1.52 ERA, 23.2 IP, 13 hits, 1.141 WHIP, 10 games

Postseason: .344, 4 HR, 11 RBI, 1.034 OBP (3 World Series)