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Timeline of Star Trek - 19th Century

1821 C.E.

• Historically renown poet John Keats dies at the age of 30 in Rome. Unbeknownst to anyone, his death is caused by a noncorporeal alien called Onaya, who uses the neural energy his brain creates during creative periods to sustain her. (Historical accounts establish Keats’ death. Onaya’s involvement revealed in the fourth-season DS9 episode “The Muse.”)

1864 C.E.

• Colonel Thaddius Riker, an American Civil War Union soldier known as “Old Iron Boots” and ancestor of future Starfleet Captain William Riker, commands the 102nd New York unit but is badly injured during General Sherman’s march to Atlanta. He is rescued by an unidentified samaritan later revealed to be Quinn, a member of the Q Continuum. (Historical accounts describe Sherman’s march. Quinn’s involvement with Riker is established in the second-season Voyager episode “Death Wish.”)

Late 1800s

• A race of aliens called the Skagaarans abduct a group of humans from the American Southwest and take them to a planet deep inside the Delphic Expanse to use as a labor class. In the years that followed, the humans rose up against the Skagaarans and estanblished an Old West-like society.

1871 C.E.

• The Cardassian Union is established. (Gul Dukat mentioned this in the third-season DS9 episode “Defiant.”)

1893 C.E.

• A group of Devidians jouney to late 19th Century San Francisco from the 24th century to kill humans for their neural energy to sustain themselves, using the cholera epidemic of the time as a cover. Enterprise-D science officer Lieutenant Commander Data accidentally finds himself there as well, and meets future author Jack London as a young man working as a bellboy in a hotel. Data also discovers his crewmate, the long-lived El Aurian known as Guinan, visiting there as a San Francisco socialite. The two interact with Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), who discovers that Data is from the future. Captain Picard and the rest of the senior staff follow Data, where they and Clemens help thwart the Devidians before they are all returned to the 24th century. (This was depicted in the TNG fifth-season finale and sixth-season premiere, "Time's Arrow Part I"and "Time's Arrow Part II")

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