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SEPTEMBER – 2273
Night Whispers
The Motion Picture
Okay here’s how I figured it: ‘The Lost Years’ has the Enterprise returning home from its five-year-mission in December 2270 as per Ryan and Christopher and the crew is given six months R&R except for Scotty who put in charge of the Enterprise’s refit/modernization. The rest of the story picks up six months after the Enterprise has returned home and runs for approximately 2 weeks after that, so mid-May 2271. In that six months McCoy has returned to Yonada to be with Natira only to discover that she has married in the interim. While on Yonada McCoy meets Dr. Keridwen Llewellyn and begins a relationship with her and they tour around the Federation giving lectures eventually winding up on Vulcan only to have it end tragically with her death.
‘Traitor Winds’ is the next novel in ‘The Lost Years’ saga and runs from December 14, 2271 – January 1, 2272 and features Kirk, Sulu, Uhura, and Chekov but no McCoy.
The next novel to feature McCoy is ‘Federation’, where, in the epilogue, Kirk and McCoy meet up at Christopher’s Landing on the moon. The date is given as March 19, 2270. VOTI adjusts this to March 19, 2272. So we’re still good. Kirk notices that McCoy has just started to grow his beard.
‘Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor #1 – Weeds’ begins with Admiral Kirk receiving a letter from McCoy saying that he has joined the Frontier Medics Program. The first few weeks were quiet, then the story happens and McCoy puts Theela on probation for one month.
‘Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor #2 – Error’ – It’s been approximately one month since ‘Weeds’. McCoy meets up with Scotty who hasn’t had a vacation in 18 months since the Enterprise returned home from its five-year-mission and work started on her refit. Working forward 18 months from the December 2270 date gives a date of May 2272. Subtract the one month of probation gives us a date of April 2272 which is a month or ‘a few weeks’ since the Epilogue of ‘Federation’. However if we were to include the 6 months of R&R plus the 18 months of refit work for Scotty, then we’re looking at 24 months so approximately November 2272 for ‘Error’ and late-September/early-October 2272 for ‘Weeds’, with ‘Medics’ in September 2273, which leaves no time for ‘Scalpel’ or ‘Recovery’. The earlier date is preferred.
‘Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor #3 – Medics’. There is no date given, however in ‘Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor #4 – Hosts’ which immediately follows ‘Medics’, McCoy can’t believe it’s been a whole year since Theela stowed away on the Joanna, so that must mean that it’s approximately April 2273.
‘Serpents In The Gardens’ which, although not a ‘Lost Years’ novel takes place in 2273, ‘only months prior to Earth being threatened by the massive machine life-form known as V'Ger’ according to the ‘Historian’s Note’ at the beginning of the book; and it does not feature McCoy, so it can be slotted between the bulk of ‘Scalpel’s’ main story and the Epilogue. So approximately May 2273.
The epilogue of ‘Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor #4 – Scalpel’ has Admiral Kirk and Commander Scott inspecting the new warp nacelles of the Enterprise. Once the nacelles are shipped to Spacedock and installed on the Enterprise the refit will be complete. An aide interrupts Kirk and Scotty to inform the Admiral that there has been no word from McCoy in ‘more that a month’. Kirk tells Scotty that McCoy has been writing ‘fairly regularly for the past year . . .’ So again, if the first letter arrived in late-April/early-May of 2272 and it has been a year plus more than a month, the epilogue takes place in mid-June 2273. However the Memory Beta Chronology places these stores in 2271 before ‘Mere Anarchy: Shadows Of Indignant’ with the note – ‘Story is set following the events of ‘Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor’, due to references to McCoy’s post five-year-mission alien frontier practice’. Another way to interpret the data would be to suggest that the post five-year-mission alien frontier practice could be a reference to his six months on Yonada and after touring and lecturing. (I have the book on order at the local library, so I’ll check to see what the relevant passage says.)
The novel ‘Recovery’, which I haven’t read, but features McCoy on the cover must take place after the Epilogue of ‘Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor #4 – Scalpel’ but before ‘TMP’ as McCoy has returned back to Earth so that puts the novel in July-August 2273.
The ‘Enterprise Log’ short story ‘Night Whispers’ takes place 2 days before ‘TMP’ so late-September 2273.
Ryan and Christopher have ‘TMP’ taking place in late-September 2273 and Christopher has his novel ‘Ex Machina’ dated Oct.-Nov. 2273 beginning ten days after ‘TMP’ and running for approximately 40 days according to the annotations on his website.
It would be interesting to line up the dates of ‘Assignment: Earth’ with the dates given in ‘Assignment: Eternity’, ‘The Eugenics Wars: Volume One and Two’ and ‘Forgotten History. I don’t think that there’s anything contradictory about what occurs between the novels and the comics. Also at some point I think I’m going to try and add the dates from Greg Cox’s ‘To Reign In Hell: The Exile Of Khan Noonien Singh’ to the timeline. The only problem I see is trying to interpret what he means by ‘one planetary year later’. My guess is that when Ceti Alpha VI exploded it shifted Ceti Alpha V’s orbit making the year longer since Khan and Kirk both say 15 years have passed when in fact 18 years have passed. Unfortunately I’m not a mathematician so I can’t work out the 15 years/18 years ratio. There’s a difference of 3 years or 1095 days. Maybe Christopher can help out with that since he worked out the calendars for ‘Watching The Clock’ and ‘Forgotten History’. I’m also thinking about adding the ‘Blood Will Tell’ miniseries to the timeline as it tells the events of ‘Errand Of Mercy’, ‘The Trouble With Tribbles’, ‘A Private Little War’ and ‘Day Of The Dove’ from the Klingons point of view. The framing story would be set in 2293, between the explosion of Praxis and Kirk’s meeting with Chancellor Gorkon.
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