2000-2100
Effectively a big blank this era will be left largely alone by the lore of the series to allow real world events to occur easily. The same mistake made by TOS will not be repeated where events, dates and people were mention from the near future at the time. Such as Khan ruling a quarter of the world by the 1990s. Or Voyager making the same mistake with the invention of a massive tech company that did not exist in the 90s (I forget the name now)
2100-2130.
A massive economic depression termed the economic winter grips the world at the beginning of the twenty second century. Many nations are destabilised and major wars break out. North Korea nukes the south while India and Pakistan have a nuclear war of their own. The middle east is destabilized completely and Israel, Egypt, Iran and Turkey scramble to take as much land as they can. Africa descends into chaos while China and the United States break into several squabbling regions. In China a new warlords era begins while the United States splits itself into several regions. New England, South, Texas, Midwest and West Coast in order to make the running of the nation somewhat easier. Each region elects their own president who is responsible for ruling the region but subservient to the President in Washington DC.
In Europe Russia suffers a second Revolution which sees Communist forces seize control from the government and recreate the USSR. The new state is much more liberal than its predecessor but launches a string of wars of conquest across its borders aimed at neighboring nations. By 2130 much of the former USSR and Warsaw Pact has been reunited. Germany and France both respond by creating their own alliances with neighboring countries. While Britain attempts to fix its own disastrous economic situation with a trade deal with the Commonwealth nations signed in 2123. However the emergence of the USSR sees this trade deal expanded to include a defense pact and later political integration of many Commonwealth countries into a single state. By the mid 2130s recovery is well along the way however and the world is slowly on the road to recovery. Although tensions in some regions are quite high.
2130-2155
Since the early part of the twenty second century humans had been experimenting with the science of Eugenics. In the more developed nations of the world the science was used to eradicate many genetic diseases. Such as most cancers, degenerative brain and bone disorders and other diseases like Alzheimers. However in nations like India and China where laws were lax an entire group of humans was born with superior intelligence, strength, stamina and resistance to diseases. Known as Augments these people had reached maturity in the thirties and had begun to integrate themselves into society. Becoming lawyers, businessmen, politicians and military commanders.
One such Augment would enter the politics of India in 2133 and achieve the position of President in a special election in 2142. This man was Khan Noonien Singh and he would be the first Augment to achieve political control over a country. Elected on a rhetoric stating that he was the best suited man to lead by virtue of his superior intelligence and that under his rule India would become the world power. He claimed a new era of Augment rule over humanity was at hand and that ineffective democracy, which he claimed responsible for the economic winter, would be eradicated.
Quickly after election Khan transformed India into the princely state of India. Launching a series of invasions against neighboring nations and supporting Augment led takeovers of many other nations in the world. His rapidly rising power was eventually met with the creation of the Quadruple alliance pitting the Commonwealth, USSR, French and German leagues into a single military bloc to oppose the spread of Khans power. Other smaller powers such as Turkey, Israel, Japan and the United States quickly sided with the Alliance to protect themselves from a surprise takeover.
However war would break out in 2151 with Iran launching a strike against Turkey which was sanctioned by Khan. Egypt quickly announced its support for Iran and launched its own invasion of Israel and other nearby countries. Within days the third world war had broken out. For the first years of the war. From 2151 -2152 the war was conventional in nature and mostly confined to the middle east and Africa however following Japans entry into the war and Alliance success in Africa Khan ordered a massive nuclear launch against Soviet, European and American targets. Many of the missiles were shot down. However the ones that did get through caused widespread devastation. Similarly a retaliatory strike by the alliance led to hundreds of millions of deaths.
The Khanate, as the nations under his sway came to be known, swept across the world following the nuclear attacks. Managing to take much of Asia, Africa, Europe, south America and even make major advances into Australia and north America before a massive Franco-German-Soviet-Commonwealth counter attack devastated Khans armies and began to make rapid advances, retaking much of their former territory by 2154. Early in the year invasions of China and India, the heartland of the Khanate were possible. Further nuclear strikes by the Khanate proved impotent. In mid 2155 the allies entered New Dehli and Beijing and achieved final victory over the Khanate. Killing its leader (though in reality he escaped to the stars) and destroying its military. A harsh peace treaty was placed on the Khanate and its member states were reformed into democratic governments responsible for massive indemnities and war debt.
2155-2168
The peace treaty ending the third world war did not last long. Many nations of the former Khanate experienced revolutions in 2156-59 and in 2158 declared the Eastern Coalition of Nations. Or ECON to protect their interests. Remaining nuclear devices, planned for disposal by the allies, were seized and reactivated and a new cold war soon developed as the two sides engaged in a new arms race. Initial fighting lasting from 2156-58 during the revolutions was ended by a ceasefire agreement signed just after the formation of the ECON. A ceasefire that would last for the next quarter century.
Lacking the economy, population and industrial base of their foes the nations of the ECON, many of which were petty warlord states formed in the final days of the third world war, relied on extremely brutal means to ensure they remained competitive. In the post atomic horror (2153-81) which affected parts of India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Nepal and Bangladesh law and order almost completely broke down. With the nations involved fielding armies of drug fueled troops as their impoverished economy and limited budgets would not allow them to adequately pay their troops. While the loyalty of troops addicted to narcotics only they supplied was difficult to call into question.
2168
With the world on the brink of another deadly world war the ceasefire held by scarcely a thread. Constant raids and border incursions were pushed back by the Soviets while what remained of Japan and south Korea faced nearly daily flights of ECON fighters into their airspace ensured that global tensions remained very high. Approximately two billion lay dead, hundreds of millions more suffered from radiation burns and still yet more untold millions suffered under horrible poverty, famine, drought, disease and squalid living conditions were the norm rather than the rule. Religion collapsed as many blamed their god/gods for the travesty which had befell their world.
This powderkeg was nearly set alight by the flight of Zephram Cochrane aboard his ship the Phoenix. In a flight lasting a little over seven hours he made a journey between the earth and moon at a speed of thirty percent that of light. Proving the truth behind his theorems and hypothetical Spatial Distortion drive technology. A day later contact was made between Cochrane and the Vulcans. A race of aliens from a planet some thirty light years distant. A week after that the same Vulcans appeared before the world in Paris to announce that they had observed the Earth for some years and had seen the destruction of the third world war. They announced that they were prepared to deliver aid to humanity if they wished it.
The response was an absolute yes. Much of the planet lay an irradiated waste, with millions affected by the war in need of supplies. The world even met the single Vulcan demand that earth deal with Vulcan via a unified body. Forming the United Nations of Earth late in 2168. The Vulcan ship left with the promise of returning in six months to a year with the first wave of relief supplies. A group of Vulcans were left behind to work out the initial phase of recovery operations and a number of Humans, including Cochrane, went back to the Vulcan homeworld aboard their starship.
2168-2181
True to their word the Vulcans returned in 2169 with a convoy of some dozen ships laden with huge amounts of relief supplies. Medicines, technology and scientists arrived to many nations of the world to begin the process of rebuilding the earth. Once the supplies were delivered on the ground control over their distribution was turned over to the UNE which ensured that the goods were delivered to lands that needed it the most. Despite the objections of many countries the UNE did a very good job initially of delivering supplies to where it was needed rather than to nations that held the most power in the organization.
Rapid progress was made in the early years of the UNE. With seventy percent of the radiated lands reclaimed, cities begun to be rebuilt across the world, famines averted in Asia and Africa, and disease outbreaks contained. However some parts of the world. Namely those affected worst by the post atomic horror were slow to receive aid. Due mostly to the unstable and constant warfare in these regions. Regardless progress was made. And humanity looked like it was recovering.
Cochrane had not been idle during this time. Having traveled to Vulcan, and becoming the first human to set foot on an Alien world, he spoke at a number of Vulcan universities and as a crowning achievement delivered a stirring speech before the grand Assembly, the primary Vulcan government body, where he begged for Vulcan assistance and offered his hand in friendship to his hosts, saying Vulcan would find Humans kindred spirits to Vulcans. He also secured important contacts in the Vulcan scientific community which would benefit him later in his life.
Cochrane returned with the first Vulcan convoy and in 2170 launched the Bonaventure. A larger vessel than the Phoenix which became the first human designed vessel to achieve faster than light travel. Afterwards he secured funding from the UNE for the creation of the United Earth Space Probe Agency, or UESPA. An organization intended to scour the stars for planets suitable for human colonization and alien civilizations. At first hundreds of probes were sent out to explore the stars and report back to Earth. Mounting only basic warp one capable engines these probes were slow and would take years to reach distant stars, only to take years more to send a message back to Earth via radio transmission. Cochrane used the time to design a trio of warp two capable vessels with Vulcan assistance. Launched in 2175 these were Enterprise, Intrepid and Valiant. These ships would be sent out on the first manned missions to other star systems and report back the finding of many new worlds.
It was soon found that the Alpha and Proxima Centari systems contained habitable planets. As did many other near earth stars. All of them uninhabited by alien powers and rich in animal and plant life, as well as natural resources. In the course of their explorations Valiant would be lost when the ship fell into a wormhole and disappeared without a trace. But the worlds discovered by humans were more than enough for Cochrane to secure permission and funding by the UNE for the purposes of establishing a colony in the Centari system. A feat which surprised the Vulcans when it was completed in 2192.
Back on earth things were not going so well. After cooperating initially well the nations of the planet soon began to squabble over resources and old rivalries flared up once more. The ECON especially became quite vocal regarding the perceived lack of supplies they received. In their eyes the alliance prioritized shipments of supplies to themselves and their allies. Leaving the ECON perpetually weaker and less recovered than themselves and thus easier to be destroyed in another war. Things would come to a head when the ECON and a few other nations withdrew from the UNE in 2180 and vowed to deal with the Vulcans themselves. They were quickly told no by the Vulcans who wished for earth to become more unified.
2181.
Angered and desperate the ECON launched a massive strike against the alliance in 2181. However several orbiting Vulcan warships were able to destroy all of the nuclear missiles fired by the ECON before they caused any damage. They were shocked when a retaliatory strike was launched by many allied countries as their weapons were on cooldown. Obliterating much of the ECON in a single strike and killing one and a half billion in an instant. Leaving Asia largely depopulated and destroying most of its largest cities. Afterwards an invasion by the Alliance destroyed what was left of the ECON in a few bloody months. Vulcan immediately withdrew all its ships and personnel from Earth and left for Vulcan.
2186-2300
Vulcan ships returned to Earth in 2186, they had not come to deliver additional relief supplies. Rather upon achieving orbit the vessels spat out a large invasion force, fired their weapons and destroyed ground based weapons and forced every last government on earth to capitulate to them. It was then announced that Vulcan would take direct control of the planet until such a time as it was proven that Humanity was prepared to rule itself without constant threat of its fiery annihilation. The act met with surprisingly little resistance by many humans. Which had come to see the Vulcans as superior in many ways to Humans and come to distrust their own governments. Many had come since first contact to even embrace Vulcan philosophy and embrace logic as the key force guiding their lives.
The move to invade earth had been debated almost endlessly by the Assembly on Vulcan. Many claimed such an act would go against their own principles. But eventually the pro invasion faction won with the argument that they could not allow Humans to destroy themselves and their world in the fiery death that had nearly destroyed their own race in the past. And so the invasion had been approved and a force dispatched. But it was sent with the idea that Earth was to be made ready to govern itself and until then Vulcan officials would act as guardians.
Governments were allowed to continue. However their militaries were disbanded and all control granted to a Vulcan delegation located in near the ruins of san Francisco. Human governments were responsible for carrying out Vulcan policy, leading to some to label them as conspirators or puppets. Vulcan also allowed the UESPA to continue and Cochrane to complete his colonization efforts in the Centari system. Even allowing the creation of additional colonies in the century following their occupation. This was a deliberate move on Vulcans part to preserve Earth`s ability to construct star ships. Something the world would need when it achieved independence.
Overall the Vulcan occupation lasting from 2186 until 2300 was in many ways positive. Over a century of peace without armies, warmongers, and arms races did much to cool human attitudes regarding warfare. While the existence of Aliens had caused most racism to evaporate practically overnight. Similarly the Vulcans eliminated poverty, famine, disease and began the slow process of eliminating the class divide. A move already largely accomplished in the USSR in the days before the third world war. In fact in many ways Vulcan policies resembled Communism. Redistribution of wealth, pooling of collective resources for the benefit of all. In short during the Vulcan occupation humanity learned to work together like never before and saw what could be achieved when that happened.
2275-2300
After almost a century of Vulcan rule Earth was allowed to form a unified planetary body, the Assembly to assist Vulcan officials in governing the planet. The first step towards independence. The nucleus of a planetary military was also created with the establishment of the Sol systems defense force. An organization taxed with the policing of the Sol system and near Sol colonies with a fleet of small gunships and attack craft in cooperation with naval elements assigned to the system by Vulcan. Although small this force learned its trade from constant joint operations with their Vulcan overseers and much of the traditions and customs of former naval forces were resurrected by the SDF. With vessels in the fleet named after famous ships from the past. Namely Soviet and Commonwealth designs, though some American, French and Japanese names did appear.
By this point Earth was clearly on the path to recovery. Its population had boomed from five and a half billion in 2175 to nearly nine billion in 2275. With almost six million people living offworld in the rapidly expanding network of colonies which surrounded Sol. And Human attitudes had almost completely changed. With many Humans now exhibiting a feeling of hope and confidence about the future. No longer was mankind confined to just one world. Along in the universe. Humans were eager to see what awaited them in the stars. And the UESPA launched a slew of new probes outwards. Many did not return, but those that did brought back still more reports of habitable or at the least terraformable worlds. With the universe before them Humans were now choking at the bit to be allowed to go out and explore. Putting their past rivalries, hatreds and prejudices behind them.
