2218


Events 

 According to a  given by John Gill, the Zeon  colony on Ekos was established shortly after this year. A half a century later, this colony is wiped out virtually overnight by a genocide purge ordered by Gill who was then under the influence of his deputy Melakon. ()

Notes 
 According to the  and the , 2218 was the year in which the Federation made "first contact with the Klingon Empire. The incident is a disaster, leading to nearly a century of hostilities between the Klingons and the Federation." The date is apparently supported by a line of dialogue written for Doctor McCoy in the first draft of the script for  episode  – when Kang was still written as Kor. According to McCoy's line, which did not explicitly state "first contact", he stated: "Fifty years-- Eyeball to eyeball with the Klingon Empire." The lines were rearranged and rewritten with the equivalent line changed to state: "The Klingons claim to have honored the truce..." A similar statement, noted in the entry at 2223, was given by Spock in , however, both instances were later disproved in the  premiere .

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