However, the movie Star Trek: First Contact put the contact between Vulcans and humans at April 5, 2063. This article discusses the fictional timeline of the Star Trek franchise. The film skirted around the fact the actors had aged, supposing that only two and a half years had passed since the events of the TV show. There is a single cypress left in the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta as big as the trees AL.com measured during trips to the underwater forest. Enterprise pins down Cochrane's disappearance to 2119, making Cochrane instead 31 at the time of First Contact. [54] Roddenberry's original pitch for the series dated it "'somewhere in the future. Graduate School Announces Winners of 3MT Contest . The discovery process will level the playing field so that if your spouse does have an advantage, you will be able to learn about it and protect yourself. Instead, it was a forest designed for a colder place. Sir Alexander Fleming was a young bacteriologist when an accidental discovery led to one of the great developments of modern medicine on September 28, 1928. Scientists believe the forest was buried beneath Gulf sediments for eons, until giant waves uncovered it in 2004. Lacey Wallace, an MBA (Master of Business Administration) student at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), is the grand champion of this year’s Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition, hosted annually by the USM Graduate School. Both these references place the show in the 22nd century. "When I started to look at the pollen, I was pretty surprised to see that it was all terrestrial. The Voyager episode "Future's End" saw the Voyager crew time-travel to Los Angeles in 1996, which, as the Encyclopedia notes, seems entirely unaffected by the Eugenics Wars, which ended that year. Due south of Gulf Shores, some 60 feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, is a wholly unique relic of our planet's past. Something happened to all of them where their growth decreased really rapidly, and then it had a rapid increase. Star Trek: Discovery kicks off in 2256, ten years before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series. Harley said that Delta tree was probably between 300 and 400 years old. After devastating losses on both sides, The Federation, alongside the Romulan and Klingon Empire make a final push against the Dominion resulting in the Battle of Cardassia. The sediment trapped in the tube provides a clear chronology of the past, with layers of sand and mud being added over the millennia. In universe timeline chronological order Star Trek Enterprise (ENT), Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS), Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG), and all 13 of the Star Trek feature films, including the three newest J.J. Abrams "reboot" films, or "Kelvin Timeline" based on the original series. Scientists believe this portion of forest was miles back from the Gulf shoreline at the time, as cypress trees cannot tolerate exposure to salt. Numerous historical details of the devastating Eugenics Wars are discussed: the death of 35–37 million people; how Earth's governments could not decide on the fate of the 1,800 genetically enhanced embryos; and how Soong had infiltrated the complex and stolen and raised 19 embryos himself. At first, there was only one Star Trek timeline (besides the Mirror Universe - but that's a whole other story for another time). The battle results in the loss of 92,143 lives, the planet itself being considered destroyed as the stratosphere was ignited and the destruction of the rescue armada to evacuate Romulus. That's one scenario, probably the most likely.". The franchise is primarily set in the future, ranging from the mid-22nd century (Star Trek: Enterprise) to the late-24th century (Star Trek: Picard). The third season of the American television series Star Trek: Discovery follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they travel to the future, over 900 years after the events of the original Star Trek series.The season is being produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise serving as showrunners. This is where we're going into full glacial conditions, but it is not fully glaciated yet. As referenced by the Vaadwaur. Radio-carbon dating can reach back only about 50,000 years, and the closer you get to 50,000 years, the less reliable the data becomes. Underwater, where there is no oxygen, there is no decomposition. USM Gulf Park Faculty Members to Search Louisiana Cemetery Oct. 27 for Rumored Mass Grave Fri, 10/23/2020 - 17:06pm | By: David Tisdale. Earth begins to recover from its nuclear war. Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492 (Julian Calendar; it would have been October 21, 1492, on the Gregorian Proleptic Calendar, which extends the Gregorian Calendar to dates prior to its adoption on October 4th, 1582). The forest is predicting the future, and maybe a pretty unpleasant one.". The figure of Colonel Green is elaborated on in Star Trek: Enterprise. "No matter the question you are trying to address, whether it is drought, or how an insect invasion influenced some trees, or a disease, you start by lining up the rings and cross dating the trees. Unable to identify the strange objects, Brazel called Roswell’s sheriff. [63] Khan's spaceship is another anomaly for the timeline, which has a variety of long-lost spaceships being launched between 1980 and 2100, with inconsistent levels of technology (caused by the increasing real lifetime and also decreased optimism about the pace of space exploration). By Adam Birt Lakes Region Weekly/American Journal The scientific analysis is ongoing, with the work of the team investigating the site detailed in a new documentary, "The Underwater Forest," co-produced by This is Alabama. They were under stress. They are all matching up together over the course of 500 years," Harley said. Kristine DeLong, a paleoclimatologist at Louisiana State University, is expert in the climactic upheavals of the past. FInd space, technology, archeology, and engineering updates to feed your curiosities at Discovery.com. (Discovery S2 E10). Experience life off the grid as the Kilcher family works together to survive as homesteaders in the Alaskan wilderness. [58] This marked the first time an explicit future calendar date had been attached to a Star Trek storyline, and allowed fans and writers to extrapolate further dates. Then, all of a sudden, it transitions to peat. Interestingly, an analysis of the types of pollen found in the LSU vibracores provides intriguing hints at how a bald cypress forest handled these changes in sea level and colder weather. It's colder, it's windier. Becker said science provides such concrete proof of climate change and fluctuating sea levels that he fears the politicians of today are spending too much time arguing about what role pollution may have played in our current climate rather than focusing on how to get ready for the coming changes. This is the year Gabrielle Burnham arrived in after using the Red Angel suit to escape a Klingon attack on her home. The official website, StarTrek.com, still gives the date of that movie as 2271.[62]. As we all know, Universiti Sains Malaysia is one of the top universities in the country but if you see a few of their Facebook posts from yesterday (25 November), you would be confused as the University seemed […] The proof, he said, is all around us, from the fossils in the ground, to this ancient forest under the sea. Ancient pollen shows forest in transition. It is heavily dominated by grasses That's the main story," said Reese, the pollen scientist. The Star Trek Chronology does not hold with this theory, and asserts that Cochrane was an Earth native, who moved to Alpha Centauri later in life (even in "Metamorphosis", before Cochrane identifying himself to the landing party, Dr. McCoy had taken a tricorder scan and determined him to be human). (The actions of his "children" convince him otherwise, and at the end of "The Augments" Soong declares his interest in cybernetics, beginning the work which would one day bring about Data.). Behind them, further inland, begin the trees. But we took some wood samples, sent them off to get radio-carbon dated, and surprising results: They were not able to date them," DeLong said. Thu, 11/19/2020 - 15:52pm | By: David Tisdale. 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She usually studies coral formations, which can provide a record of what the world's oceans and atmosphere were like thousands of years ago. Becker has made a career of hunting for shark teeth and other ancient bones in Alabama streams. She contacted AL.com after the first article announcing the discovery of the forest and said she'd like a crack at diving the site and analyzing the trees.