Zefram Cochrane's flight of the Phoenix inaugurates Humanity as warp - capable species.

The Warp Five Complex is established in Montana to develop a warp engine capable of taking humanity “where no man has gone before”.

United Earth Starfleet is chartered as a separate entity from UESPA to develop and operate high - warp vessels.

Starfleet’s NX Program breaks warp 2 barrier, and soon after, warp 2.5.

Construction begins on Enterprise NX - 01, a starship intended to be capable of warp 5 speed.

NX - 01 dispatched on joint mission with Military Assault Command Operations (MACO) to Delphic Expanse, after Xindi attack on Earth.

Enterprise returns from Delphic Expanse. Columbia NX - 02 launched under command of Captain Erika Hernandez.

Earth - Romulan War; United Earth Starfleet emerges victorious with help from interstellar allies.

Starfleet re-chartered under the new United Federation of Planets; Starfleet Academy established.

Federation Starfleet commissions 12 Constitution - class starships for five - year tours of duty, including the flagship U.S.S Enterprise NCC - 1701 under the command of Captain James T. Kirk.

The United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA) is formed, and launches it's first deep - space unmanned probe, Friendship - 1.

Development of Galaxy - class starship begins at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards.

Enterprise NX - 01 launched on it’s first mission under command of Jonathan Archer, with a maximum theoretical speed of warp 4.5.

Starfleet launches it's flagship Galaxy - class starship, the U.S.S Enterprise NCC - 1701 - D under the command of Captain Jean - Luc Picard.

NX - 01 fulfills earlier hopes and becomes the first Earth vessel to reach warp 5.

First clash between Earth and Romulan vessels occurs.

Zefram Cochrane invents warp drive; begins adapting Titan missile as launch vehicle.

Earth begins launching low - warp vessels into interstellar space, including the starships Valiant and Conestoga.

Cochrane’s flight of the Phoenix inaugurates Humanity as a warp - capable species.

Warp 5 Complex established to develop an engine that enables more practical interstellar flight.

Starfleet’s NX Program breaks warp 2 barrier, and soon after, warp 2.5.

NX Program achieves warp 3.

Enterprise NX - 01 launched with maximum theoretical speed of warp 4.5.

Enterprise NX - 01 engine achieves warp 5.

Warp 7 engine developed.

Fleet of Constitution - class starships launched with maximum cruising speed of warp 8, emergency speed of warp 9.

Through alien intervention, U.S.S Enterprise achieves speeds of warp 11 and warp 14.1 in separate instances.

Starfleet experiments with transwarp propulsion; prototype test on U.S.S Excelsior fails, experiments abandoned.

Warp theory revised and warp factor scale recalibrated to place warp 10 at theoretical maximum.

Galaxy - class starship developed with speeds upto 9.6 sustainable for 12 hours.

Test with multiple simultaneous injector streams increased warp energy output on Galaxy - class vessel.

Class 7 warp drive developed for Defiant - class starships, capable of warp 9.5.

Warp fields deemed a threat to certain areas of space, speed limit of warp 5 imposed by Federation pending further study.

Intrepid - class starships equipped with variable - geometry warp drive nacelles to prevent damage to subspace continuum; sustainable cruise velocity of warp 9.975.

Tom Paris crosses warp 10 threshold in Delta Quadrant on shuttlecraft Cochrane; transwarp affect proven harmful to living beings.

“Red matter” developed as a means to create an artificial singularity, capable of containing a supernova.

“Fluidic space”, extradimensional realm discovered by Borg and explored by U.S.S Voyager.

Genetic information reveals that most humanoid species in the known universe share a common progenitor.

First known stable wormhole discovered near Bajor, occupied by non - corporeal beings known as “Prophets”.

The Traveler transports U.S.S Enterprise - D to Galaxy M - 33, then to distant part of universe where thought and reality intertwine.

U.S.S Enterprise - B encounters “nexus”, energy ribbon that leads to an alternate reality.

U.S.S Enterprise - A breaches “Great Barrier” at centre of the Galaxy and encounters malevolent entity within.

Omega molecule, the most powerful substance known to exist, synthesized by Federation scientists leading to disaster.

First recorded interaction with parallel “mirror universe”, home to cruel and totalitarian Terran Empire.

Ancient sentient time portal known as “The Guardian of Forever” discovered by U.S.S Enterprise.

S.S Columbia encounters illusion - creating inhabitants of planet Talos IV, later deemed too dangerous for further contact.

Enterprise NX - 01 discovers spatial anomalies in Delphic Expanse are prelude to invasion by extra dimensional “Sphere Builders”.

S.S Valiant transits energy barrier at edge of the Galaxy, which imbues some Humans with psychokinetic powers.

Zefram Cochrane's first warp - speed flight on the Phoenix makes interstellar travel by Humans a reality.

Discovery of subspace sets stage for development of faster - than - light travel and communications.