Multiple realities
(covers information from several alternate timelines)
(covers information from several alternate timelines)
For information about Star Trek releases and related events in 1996, please see 1996 (production).
Events
- The Eugenics Wars come to an end with the defeat of all the "Supermen", though about eighty or ninety of them, including Khan Noonien Singh, remain unaccounted for.
- Khan and over seventy of his followers leave Earth aboard the SS Botany Bay, not to be heard or seen from again, until the mid-23rd century:
- In the alternate reality, Section 31 finds the Botany Bay 262 years later. (TOS: "Space Seed"; Star Trek Into Darkness)
- The Botany Bay is rediscovered by the USS Enterprise 271 years later. (TOS: "Space Seed"; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
- Earth scientists from NASA find the first microscopic evidence of past life on Mars. (VOY: "Future's End")
- USS Voyager arrives in Earth orbit after being thrown back in time from 2373 by the actions of Captain Braxton. (VOY: "Future's End", "Future's End, Part II")
- Tarbolde, an author from Canopus Planet, writes the sonnet "Nightingale Woman". (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
Notes
- The novel The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two depicts the events surrounding the departure of Khan and his followers as occurring in January of this year.
- According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 290 & 657), the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas is closed on June 30 and Earth scientists discover microscopic evidence of ancient life on Mars by studying a Martian meteorite.
Appendices
Episodes
- VOY: "Future's End" (in part)
- VOY: "Future's End, Part II" (in part)
External link
- 1996 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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