PAGE 14 OF 172131 At age 12, Trip Tucker goes to his first dance at Bayshore Elementary in Panama City, Florida. Ever after, he regrets not asking a certain girl to dance.
2132 Baseball great Buck Bokai dies.
2132 The Paraagan mining colony is established.
2133 Bajoran religious leader Kai Taluno, while traveling in the Denorios Belt, experiences a serious malfunction of his spacecraft and is stranded for several days. Taluno reports having experienced a vision in which “the heavens opened up,” nearly swallowing his ship. The Denorios Belt, located in the Bajor system, is the location where at least five of the Bajorans’ Tears of the Prophets were found.
2134 Starfleet is formed. It’s charter, to “boldly go where no man has gone before.”
2134 The S.S. Bonaventure, galactic survey cruiser is launched. The Bonaventure will mysteriously disappear on her third voyage, and her hulk will be found in 2269 in the alternate universe of Elysia.
2135 In grade 10, Charlie “Trip” Tucker encounters his first Vulcan – Mr. Velik. Velik was sent to Earth as part of a cultural exchange, and serves as a high school teacher. One of his students is Trip. One notable quote that Trip remembers from Mr. Vedik is “challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you.”
2136 At age 26, Jonathan Archer joins Starfleet.
2136 Captain Vannick begins serving in the Vulcan Space Fleet aboard the T’Mur.
2138 Charlie Tucker spends his youth working on an ocean reclamation project in the Florida Keys. At one point, he would encounter a hurricane.
2139 At around the age of 20, Charlie “Trip” Tucker joins Starfleet and moves to San Francisco. He lives in Sausalito, a suburb of San Francisco, a few blocks away from the Vulcan Compound.
2140 Johnathan Archer completes his initial four years of Starfleet training
2140 Malcolm Reed joins Starfleet