When Gene Roddenberry first created Star Trek in the late 1960s, he would have been shocked to see how far the universe reached, and how much of the fictional timeline was fleshed out over the year. Whether he would have liked the new iterations into the franchise is another matter, but he would surely have been impressed about how long his creation has been running, how many lives it has touched, and how it has even influenced modern day technology.
The timeline for Star Trek is both filled to the brink, and fairly sparse, depending on what century is being examined. The shows themselves flesh out most of the 23rd century with The Original Series and the all new Strange New Worlds, and the 24th century with The Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space 9. Discovery, meanwhile, jumps ahead to the 31st centuries. However, the 25th and 31st centuries are yet to be properly fleshed out — so what exactly happens between these timeframes?
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The year 3186 onwards has been somewhat documented by Discovery, as well as approximately the 3200s in the Short Treks episode “Calypso,” leaving a massive time gap between this point and where Picard, the second furthest into the future show, finishes off. While Picard is set to return for a third season, joined by a plethora of the old The Next Generation cast, audiences are still being fed information about that century, and the current state of the Federation and Starfleet. What happened canonically after this is very sparse, but there are plenty of clues to be found within existing episodes.
There are various small things that have been noted to happen within this century. A certain bartender would have been released from a penal colony if he
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