About the story:
Timeline: The story is developed during the original TNG timeline, beginning a few months after the launch of the Enterprise-E (October 30th, 2372).
Stardates: (see 'Note on Stardates' below).
References and Crossovers: I decided to include in this story some fictional creatures from other sci-fi movies/series as well (Predator, Aliens, Formics, etc.). They will appear on a random basis.
References:
Wikipedia Articles:
· Timeline of Star Trek
· List of Star Trek races
· Lists of Star Trek planets
· List of Starfleet starships ordered by class
· List of Star Trek characters
Other Web References:
· Star Trek: The Final Frontier - Planetary Classification
· The Stellar Cartography
· Warp Speed Calculator
· Stardate Calculator
· Memory Alpha
Android Apps:
· Star Trek Ships Database
· Stardate Free
Note on Stardates:
So we can understand the chronology of the events in this story, we must first understand that they are dated in 'Stardates'; but, ¿what is a Stardate?
According to the information I gathered before writing this story, stardates have a long history and have changed a lot during each season of each Star Trek Series. There have been various methods used by both fans and producers of the TV show and/or movies to calculate the stardates, so eventually it is very hard to keep track of the time and chronology of the series. This makes it especially hard to put together the story and try to create a logical sequence of events, as stardates can overlap or move forward or backwards from time to time.
What is a fact is that stardates were intended to help Starfleet, especially at its' remote locations, to keep track of the time when traveling at warp speed, and better handle the space-time continuum when going boldly where no man had gone before. Also, those who have seen 'Star Trek: Enterprise' know that the first time that a Starfleet vessel used stardates, was when fighting the Xindi in the Delphic Expanse, when Degra sent Archer the coordinates and a Stardate for a rendezvous point, so he could help him find and disable the Xindi planetary destruction weapon (ENT: "Damage", Season 3).
The method I will be using in this story may or may not be entirely accurate or chronologically correct, according to the one used for the TV show, however I found it to be fairly simple, and I found some tools that explained them simply enough (see 'References' above), and also helped me calculating the stardates (I advise that you use them as well so you can follow the chronology of the story easily).
To more accurately calculation of stardates, I will be using a webpage to calculate Stardates called Star Trek Stardate Calculator.
