Timeline Challenge #1: The Eugenics Wars

[Michael E Johnson]

From: Jay and Ruth (MarinerJRMB@mchsi.com)
Subject: Timeline Challenge #1: The Eugenics Wars


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I have a challenge for those of us primarily interested in the "historicity"
of Star Trek.

I am primarily interested in the individual fan's interpretation of various
key or turning points in Star Trek's fictional history.

Challenge #1: The Eugenics Wars-

We know from the episode "Space Seed" and Star Trek The Wrath of Khan that
Eugenics Wars were fought between 1992 and 1996. Key figures in this
conflict were possibly quite numerous, but only one figure has a resounding
"choke-hold" on the historicity of this subject, Khan Noonien Singh.

We have prescious few on-screen statements regarding this global conflict.
We know that from 1992-1996, Singh ruled one-quarter of planet Earth from
Asia to the Middle East, and the he was the most powerful and influential of
an unknown number of eugenically engineered supermen. We know from The
Animated Series that a Stavos Keneclius played some part during this
conflict but what exactly is open for speculation. We know that sometime
during 1993, eugenics supermen siezed power seemingly at once on Earth in
some forty nations. It was at this point, that what has become known as the
Eugenics Wars began, and according to Spock's own words on the subject this
was "the era of the last of your so-called world wars" with "whole
populations being bombed out of existence" with Earth "on the verge of
another Dark Ages"

Technologically, we know that during this period, the DY-100 Class spaceship
was the most advanced space vessel of the time. We know that following the
ceasation of hostilities during the war, Khan Singh either escaped aboard
S.S. Botany Bay or was forcibly exiled from Earth orbit at least and
recovered at least two centuries later by Enterprise (NCC-1701).

Onto the challenge. Come up with a speculative timeline detailing the events
leading up the Eugenics Wars and their conclusion. You may use any reference
materials at your disposal, but I would strongly urge you to limit these
resources to Original Series-Era materials, as we have all clearly seen, the
relevance of this fictional conflict has been virtually ignored by TNG-Era
materials and beyond even into Enterprise. Also, any professionally
published materials such as the The Rise of Khan Noonien Singh by Greg Cox
would be considered an exhaustive treatise on this subject and should NOT be
considered a reference for this discussion. I simply want more of a fandom
(you and I) speculation on this subject.

You may as be "long-winded" as you can possibly be or as exhaustive as you
can get within a speculative timeline. My conditions are such that I am not
overly concered with canonical issues. I simply want to the fan's
interpretation of these events. Also, feel free to use my email provided
here with any and all comments, arguments, orspeculations best covered
outside of this forum.

That being said, let the timelines begin!

[Michael E Johnson]

From: Michael E Johnson (eddiejohn74@hotmail.com)
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The Eugenics Wars-A Brief History

April 30th 1991-A young charismatic man named Khan Noonien Singh is
elected to India's parliment.

September 7,1992-This is the date that has come to be accepted as the
day the Eugenics Wars began.China ,under the leadership of a eugenic
superman Chairman Hikaru Minsei,attacked Taiwan with the stated goal
of bringing order and evoultion to its most important "lost" province.

April 20,1993- On this day 41 African,Asian and Middle Eastern nations
lead by the young eugenic supermen formed the Great Khanate of Nations
with Khan Noonien Singh of India as the titular leader.The experience
of the people of these nations varied wildly from the essentially
peaceful rule of Khan in India to the food rationing and forced
selective breeding in Minsei's China to outright genocidal killings in
General Muhammad Hasan's Iran.

September 28,1993 The Great Khanate attacks Australia and New Zealand
with the stated goal of" bringing genetic order to the West".Great
Britian,South Africa and Japan declare war on the Great Khanate the
following day.

May 4 ,1994 Shocked by the surrender of Australia and New Zealand the
previous day France , Germany and Italy declare war on the Great
Khanate.

June 1 ,1994 President Bill Clinton reaffirms American neutrality in
the widening war but declares that the United States will help supply
the anti-Khanate alliance.

June 22,1994 San Diego, California-USA,Tel Aviv,Israel and Seoul,
South Korea are hit by nuclear weapons as the Great Khanate declares
war on those 3 nations.Those 3 nations and several others (including
Canada and Mexico) follow suit the next day.

May 14-15,1995 The Battle of the Sea of Japan is fought.This battle is
acknowledged as the turning point of the Eugenics Wars as the
resulting allied victory fractures the Great Khanate into waring blocs
of nations.The American aircraft carrrier U.S.S Enterprise-CVN 65 is
destroyed in this battle.

October 1 ,1996 The Eugenics Wars end as Khan and his cadre of eugenic
supermen are presumed killed in the battle to liberate
Sydney,Australia- where they had held out in a last stand.Chairman
Minsei signed an unconditional surrender document in Beijing, China.

September 27,1997 Chairman Minsei,General Hasan and 59 other surviving
eugenic supermen are put on trial at the International Military
Tribunal in Paris ,France.This is the 1st such trial since the
1945-1948 trials of German and Japansese WWII leaders.Minsei,Hasan and
the rest were convicted and executed for crimes against humanity and
peace the following year.

August 11,1999 Historian and author Travis Mitchell claims in his
seminal work- The Eugenics War that there is next to no evidence that
Khan Singh and his clique of eugenic supermen were killed in the
liberation of Sydney on October 1,1996.Mitchell puts forth the widely
unaccepted theory that Khan and his people escaped death and
punishment on a DY-100 vessel launched from a samll Indonesian island
that same day.


GK-slang for a memeber of the Great Khanate alliance or army.

normal-a slur used by the eugenic supermen for non-enginerred humans.


Below are the 2 major alliances during the Eugenics Wars of 1992-1996 **** Can someone do a map ?*****


The Great Khanate of Nations 1993-1996

Afghanistan
Algeria
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Burundi
Brunei
Cambodia
Chad
China
Cameroon
Congo
Egypt
Eritrea
Gabon
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Jordan
North Korea
Kuwait
Laos
Lebanon
Libya
Malaysia
Mali
Mongolia
Morocco
Myanmar
Nepal
Niger
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Rwanda
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajkistan
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen

The Democratic Alliance 1993-1996

Australia
Angola
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
South Korea
Liberia
Mauritana
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Philippines
Russia
Senegal
Singapore
South Africa
Taiwan
Tanzania
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States of America
Venezuela
Zambia


Li Quan (General) 1961-1995

When one thinks of the Eugenics War the name Khan Singh usually
springs to mind.Its becoming more evident that the "power behind the
throne" in the Great Khanate was General Li Quan.Li Quan was first
noticed as the brilliant eugenic Chinese general who lead the
campaign against Taiwan in September-October 1992 at Chairman Minseis
behest.Once the command structure of the Khanate was established in
1993 Li Quan quickly became the leading general.Quan argued
forcefully for an "East then West " military strategy for the
Khanate.The nations conquered first would be South Korea,Japan,the
Philippines,Singapore.Once the Khanate had firmly controlled East
Asia it could then move West striking out at
Australia,Turkey,Israel ,South Africa and eventually Russia, Europe
and the United States.Quan was overruled by Khan Singh who was eager
to bring the "order of the Khanate" to the West.Quan was against the
campaign but he lead the invasion of Australia with vigor.Despite the
huge loss of manpower and resources the Khanate captured the Pacific
superpower in only 7 months.After Australia and New Zealand's
surrender in May 1994 Quan clamored for a focus on South Korea and
Japan but was again overruled by Khan Singh and General Muhammad
Hasan of Iran who both wanted a worldwide front.Quan cringed at the
decision to attack the United States and Israel along with South
Korea in June 1994.He privately said "Khan Singh is determined that
we will win the world,even if were are defeated doing so".Quan threw
himself into the South Korea campaign and that nation was conquered
in less than 3 months.Quan's hoped for invasion of Japan was again
held up when General Hasan fumbled the invasion of Turkey in October
1994.The Great Khanate had to divert nearly half its army to Syria
and Iraq to prevent a total catastrophe.Li Quan always displayed a
balance of thoughtfulness and ruthlessness.He successfully argued
against General Hasans desire for an all out nuclear exchange with
Israel after it nuked Tehran in retaliation for Tel Aviv noting"Once
we conquer the world we will still have to live in it".However his
campaign in South Korea was brutal and civilian causalities were
high.Li Quan had always argued that the Khanate was overextending
itself but the arrogance of Khan Singh,Hasan and others on the
command staff didnt allow them to believe that their superior lot
could ever be defeated by a pack of weakling normals.It's ironic that
Quan ultimately lost his life in the fight he had longed for the
whole time he lead the Khanate forces-the Battle of the Sea of
Japan.That defeat did more that save Japan from invasion but
fractured the Khanate into several warring camps who either wanted to
stop the expansion and consolidate their current holdings or continue
to expand.This infighting created a valuable opening for the
Democratic Alliance and the Khanate was destroyed a year and a half
after that pivotal battle.What if Khan Singh had swallowed his
enormous pride and listened to the sound military advice of General
Li Quan?Scary thought but it would make a good book.

Travis Mitchell
The History Journal
April 10,2000

[PM Nixon]

Very good TL. Maybe I'll take a shot later on....

One thing: I think maybe Clinton would've gotten more pro-war once China invaded Taiwan. After all, didn't tensions flare up there in 1996 in OTL?

[Michael E Johnson]

For any Star Trek fans who have had thier intereset rekindled in the Eugenics Wars-heres a timeline challenge again.

[ljofa]

Is there? Where is it?

[Coriolanus]

Hmm...this seems like a good idea. I guess it is best to think of the Star Trek TL as an ATL going well into the future. Greg Cox's attempt to put it into our TL was a pretty good job, though, making it into a clandestine war.

[B_Munro]

Here's a map...I inluded the Sudan in the Khanate because frankly, I don't really see the point in taking over Somalia and Eritrea on their own. I also fail to see why such US-friendly eastern European states as Poland (alliance of the willing, remember?) would not join in on the democratic side once the US got in...I may do a modified "at the time of the invasion of Japan" map later on.

[fortyseven]

Pretty cool map

[Michael E Johnson]

Here's a map...I inluded the Sudan in the Khanate because frankly, I don't really see the point in taking over Somalia and Eritrea on their own. I also fail to see why such US-friendly eastern European states as Poland (alliance of the willing, remember?) would not join in on the democratic side once the US got in...I may do a modified "at the time of the invasion of Japan" map later on.


A thousand thanks!!! :D Although I was hoping for blue for the DA and red for the GK this still works very well.A map at the time of the GK's greatest power (showing thier conquests) would be cool as well .I hope you get around to it.I'm okay with the change in Africa-but you have one or more of the former Soviet central asian states as neutral.I have them all part of the Khanate to explain Russia membership in the DA. As to Eastern European absence in the DA-thats deliberate.My idea for the AH of the Star Trek universe is an axis that runs from WW2 to the Eugenics Wars to WW3.In this AH WW2 was longer in Europe weakening the Soviet Union and giving Nazi ideas about Eugenics more currency in Eastern Europe.I envision the main "Western" element of the cabal of scientists that created the supermen (Augments) in the 1950's and 1960's -still under Soviet domination but working for ideas established by the Nazis in WW2-actually developing a truly genetic superrace.

[Michael E Johnson]

From: DanielSBen1 (danielsben1@aol.comupdown)
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To: Michael E. Johnson,

I apologize for "intruding" into your own (quite fascinating) story about the
"real" eugenics war, but i think i've come up with a few more things that fit
in and could easily be added to the timeline:

October 20, 1991: General Muhammed Hassan's Revolutionary Islamic Genesis
Movement overthrows Ayatollah Khatami in Iran. He begins mass genocide of
native Turks, Assyrians, Armenians, Christians, and Zoroastrians in his
country.

May 6, 1992: Saddam Hussein's Iraq declares "total union" with Iran. Later
historians would compare this with Anschluss, the union of Nazi Germany and
Austria in 1936.

September 7, 1992: When Minsei's China attacks Taiwan, it simultaneously
annexes Hong Kong and Macao.

January 15, 1994: The United Nations dissolves following the withdrawl of all
Khanate nations and the assasination of the UN Secretary-General.

June 23, 1994: United States detonates nuclear weapons in New Delhi, Beijing,
and
Riyadh in retaliation for the nuclear strike on San Diego.

July 5, 1995: Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Tommy Franks lead U.S. forces in
the invasion of the Arabian Peninsula. This ties up General Hassan's troops,
allowing the Israelis to end the bloody Jerusalem siege and win the battle of
Damascus on August 21.

November 1996: due to his unwillingness to help the "Democratic Alliance" in
battle until San Diego was an atomic slag pile, Bill Clinton loses the election
to Bob Dole and Colin Powell.

-DanielSBen1
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Daniel thanks for your contruibution.I especially like the idea about
the United Nations dissolving.Data makes reference to the "new United
Nations" in the TNG.That name would make perfect sense if it were
replacing the old body that was critically wounded by the depature of
the Khanate nations
.As for Bill Clinton losing the election because of the attack on San
Diego,while plausible ,it wouldnt be fair to blame him for it given
the past events I had in mind for this ATL.Suppose in the Star Trek
ATL WWII lasted longer-maybe until 1946.Consequently the damage was
worse but especially for Russia and Germany.After the war there was
still a Cold War but it wasnt as cold because Russia and the Communist
bloc were not as strong .No NATO or Warsaw Pact in this world.The
Third world would have been much more neglected as the United States
and Russia wouldnt have struggled for their support as much as in
OTL.Nations in this world would probably have been poorer,less
stable, more isolationist and more violent.This would have been a
fertile ground for the group of scientists who,according to McCoy,
were responsible for creating the eugenic supermen.They felt they were
saving the world by creating superior humans who would bring order.In
this world jumping to defense of other nations,even who had your same
values, wouuldnt have always been the natural thing to do.In this
light Clinton(and Georege HW Bush)keeping the United States out of the
war until the US was attacked would have been the same thing that
Roosevelt did in the 1940's.The idea of attacking another country to
liberate its people or because a country is a danger to the world or
is a threat to its own people is an idea that took hold in United
States (to the horror of many conservatives) when in the aftermath of
WWII we became internationalist by joining the UN and other world
organizations and treaties.If that comittment wasnt the same in this
ATL ,the way the United States and other nations would behave would be
different.
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eddiejohn74@hotmail.com (Michael E Johnson) writes:

-- Uh, but first. Michael, I don't want to discourage your
creativity, but if you do not begin placing spaces -- preferably two,
but I will accept one -- after the end of sentences I will come over
there and break your arms. Just some friendly advice in ways to make
your writing a few iso-quintillion times easier to read. A space
before an open parenthesis, and one after the close parenthesis, is
similarly recommended. That said:


>Daniel thanks for your contruibution.I especially like the idea about
>the United Nations dissolving.Data makes reference to the "new United
>Nations" in the TNG.That name would make perfect sense if it were
>replacing the old body that was critically wounded by the depature of
>the Khanate nations

The trouble with supposing that such a "rump United Nations"
would be unable to organize because a bunch of hostile countries at
war with everybody else had taken themselves out of it is, the mass
withdrawals leave behind the countries that have a big, compelling
interest to stick together. The alliance against the Khanates needs
some cross-national organization anyway; and having the patina of the
United Nations on the Austral-Anglo-Ruso-Israeli-Americo-Singaporean
alliance will serve nicely in the propaganda war as well.


>.As for Bill Clinton losing the election because of the attack on San
>Diego,while plausible ,it wouldnt be fair to blame him for it given
>the past events I had in mind for this ATL.

Well, more, victorious wartime presidents don't lose elections.
It takes a year or so for the luster to wear off (if one can take the
1946 Congressional Races as a rebuking of Truman -- and he came back
from that anyway -- and the 1992 defeat of Bush the Elder as examples).
It's only presidents in the middle of a horrible muddle that are in
danger, and even there the example is mixed: Truman bowed out in 1952
and Johnson in 1968 before they could be defeated, and Madison was
reelected even though he was in the War of 1812. So if the Khanate is
beaten, or close to beaten, on November 4, 1996 then whoever's in office,
if he is constitutionally eligible, wins reelection.


>Suppose in the Star Trek
>ATL WWII lasted longer-maybe until 1946.Consequently the damage was
>worse but especially for Russia and Germany.After the war there was
>still a Cold War but it wasnt as cold because Russia and the Communist
>bloc were not as strong .No NATO or Warsaw Pact in this world.

Well, there have to be some pre-1990s divergences from the real
world to the Star Trek world, if nothing else to explain the military
model of Saturn V launched from the McKinley Air Force Base. Back in
"A Private Little War" there's a mention of bloody Asian land wars,
although my memory fails me about whether they make it clearly the war
of 1960s Vietnam or if it could be elsewhere on the continent.

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Michael E. Johnson wrote the quote:
>Daniel thanks for your contruibution.I especially like the idea about
>the United Nations dissolving.Data makes reference to the "new United
>Nations" in the TNG.That name would make perfect sense if it were
>replacing the old body that was critically wounded by the depature of
>the Khanate nations
>.As for Bill Clinton losing the election because of the attack on San
>Diego,while plausible ,it wouldnt be fair to blame him for it given
>the past events I had in mind for this ATL.Suppose in the Star Trek
>ATL WWII lasted longer-maybe until 1946.Consequently the damage was
>worse but especially for Russia and Germany.After the war there was
>still a Cold War but it wasnt as cold because Russia and the Communist
>bloc were not as strong .No NATO or Warsaw Pact in this world.The
>Third world would have been much more neglected as the United States
>and Russia wouldnt have struggled for their support as much as in
>OTL.Nations in this world would probably have been poorer,less
>stable, more isolationist and more violent.This would have been a
>fertile ground for the group of scientists who,according to McCoy,
>were responsible for creating the eugenic supermen.They felt they were
>saving the world by creating superior humans who would bring order.In
>this world jumping to defense of other nations,even who had your same
>values, wouuldnt have always been the natural thing to do.In this
>light Clinton(and Georege HW Bush)keeping the United States out of the
>war until the US was attacked would have been the same thing that
>Roosevelt did in the 1940's.The idea of attacking another country to
>liberate its people or because a country is a danger to the world or
>is a threat to its own people is an idea that took hold in United
>States (to the horror of many conservatives) when in the aftermath of
>WWII we became internationalist by joining the UN and other world
>organizations and treaties.If that comittment wasnt the same in this
>ATL ,the way the United States and other nations would behave would be
>different.
>
>
>
>

Intresting. I wonder, everyone here started developing this timeline, it would,
eventually, end up as a complete Alternate History! perhaps from 1940 to 2050,
starting with rather minor differences in the 1940's, like a German victory in
Brest-Livotsk prolonging the war on the Eastern Front by 3 months, to gaping
differences by today. something that would still fit in the Star Trek universe
we know and love, but still be different. anyway, here are a handful of
additional events:

1950-1960's: Project Chrysalis, a secretive group of scientists (not unlike the
Chrysalis in the "eugenics war" books), develops about 100 genetically
engineered children of all racial and cultural groups, using bases located
largely in third world countries.

January 20, 1973: Richard Nixon's second inauguration speech introduces the
Ares Program, a potential manned mission to Mars.

October 1979: After Ares I, a test mission that made Martian orbit but did not
land, Congress cancels the program due to a fiscal crisis.

October 29, 1993: Russia declares war on the Khanate after they are found to
support a Chechen rebellion.

January 12, 1994: Dijibouti is conquered by the Khanate, cutting off all
seaborn access to Ethiopia to attempt to starve the nation into submission.

December 26, 1995: in a chilly Christmas battle, the Russian army defeats
Minsei's forces at the battle of Ulaanbataar.

February 10, 1996: D-Day for British/Japanese/Filipino/American/Brazillian
forces in the liberation of Taiwan.

July 29, 1996: Russian, American, Turkish, and Israeli forces meet to defeat
Hassan's army in the battle of Tabriz.

September 2, 1996: Taiwan liberated. plans are drawn up for an invasion of
Mainland China from the sea and through Korea, to assist the southward-moving
Russian army. This plan is never activated after all Khanate forces surrender.

April 12, 2030: the daughter of Travis Mitchell, Cynthia Mitchell, marries
Corinth Mayweather. ;)

-DanielSBen1

[B_Munro]

Not sure that the USSR is weaker in the Star Trek (original series, anyway) TL: I'm pretty sure Chevok mentions Leningrad at least once, and his frequent absurd boasts about Russian achievements were meant as a humorous dig at Soviet propaganda. Besides, in the "Gary 7" episode, it appears the USSR is wealthy enough some time in 1968's "near future" to put orbiting nuclear battestations in orbit (although I suppose that could be interpreted as an act of desperation rather than confidence...see the explanation for the doomsday device in Dr. Strangelove)


Anyhoo, here's an updated "Eugenics wars" map with the Khanate at it's maximum expansion...

[B_Munro]

...although if WWII ended differently, the borders in Eastern/Central Europe should be different. Perhaps the borders in SE Asia, too if that business about wars in Asia is to be expanded on - and what was the default assumption for the future of the area in 1968? (surviving S. Vietnam? Unified Commie SE Asia?)

[Roedecker]

From what I get, this is the "story" of the Eugenics Wars as presented in the two books by Greg Cox along with canon info and some "best guesses" I've come up with...

EUGENICS WARS - ROEDECKER'S THEORY

Unlike the world wars of the past, the Eugenics Wars were shadowy conflicts fought behind the scenes of current events, against elusive and conspiratorial enemies whose genetically engineered origins remained largely unknown to the general public. Although the existence of the Eugenics Wars was well known by the twenty-second century most citizens of the late twentieth century were not even aware of the global struggle against Khan and his fellow supermen, seeing only scattered brush fire wars and random acts of terrorism.

Genetic engineering in the 1960s led to the Chrysalis Project, an ambitious eugenics program conducted by a group of scientists trying to create a new, artificially improved breed of men and women: smarter, faster, stronger than ordinary human beings, a super-race to take command of the entire planet.

Designed and facilitated by a group of world renown geneticists, the top-secret Chrysalis Project involved manipulating chromosomes of human embryos using techinques that appeared to be far beyond what humans were capable of at the time. Essentially its goal was to improve the human race artificially by editing out "bad" influences in genetic structures and adding in "improvements" which would maximize the potential mental and physical development of the subject embryos, which would create a race of superhumans. The designers focused on increasing intelligence, strength, endurance, respiratory capacity and the cardiovascular system. The Chrysalis Project endeavored to give their genetically enhanced creations full rein of the planet. To do so, the engineers of this project also genetically enhanced the bacteria streptococcus, making it a volatile flesh eating entity. In order to infect the worlds populous, Russian ICBMs were procured as implementation vehicles.

Free from any governments authority, Chrysalis was a private consortium that answered to no one, having complete autonomy. Chrysalis had its headquarters located in the Great Thar desert, thanks to its remote location, the Chrysalis endeavor was completely isolated. The main complex was hidden beneath the ruins of an ancient Rajput fort.

The genetically engineered "Augments" of the Chrysalis Project were mentally and physically superior to ordinary men and women. They were five times stronger than the average person, their lung efficiency was 50 percent better than normal, and their intelligence was double that of normal humans.

The problem was that as one of the Chrysalis scientist wrote before he was murdered by an Augment, "Superior ability creates superior ambition": the so called supermen felt that their superior physical and intellectual abilities gave them the right to rule over the rest of humanity. To that end, they conspired throughout the 1980s to seize power through the use of behind-the-scenes manipulation, brute force and "puppet leaders" who answered only to them.

Of all the genetically enhanced manipulators who rose to power during this period, none were as ambitious or as ruthless as the man known as Khan Noonien Singh. The son of the original director of Chrysalis, Dr. Sarina Kaur, Khan Singh's presence was felt throughout the world, perhaps most discreetly. He fought against Soviet soldiers outside Lenin's tomb, where he stopped a coup, and maintained the safety of President Mikhail Gorbachev while he was attending the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was rumored to be all over the Asian and Indian subcontinent, inciting the 1987 pro-democracy uprising in South Korea, fighting alongside the Afghan rebels in their guerilla war against the Soviet Union, personally arranging the 1988 plane crash that killed General Zia ul-Haq, leader of the Pakistan's military government, returning democracy to India's nearest neighbor and rival. Khan was also credited with the so called "natural" death of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Aided and abetted by power-hungry individuals in various governments, business organizations, and independent agencies who allowed themselves to fall under his domination, Khan attempted to gain control of the entire planet. In 1992 Khan quietly seized power over much of Southeast Asia and the Middle East through blackmail and strong-arm tactics. Dozens of "figurehead rulers" either answered to Khan or in some fashion allied themselves with him.

He ruled his dominion from what he called the Great Khanate in the remote parts of India. His fellow "supermen" took over key positions of power in South America, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, remote parts of the South Pacific and in sections of North Africa. Khan's Great Khanate was centered in Chandigarh, India and had a secondary command center on Muroroa atoll, "Chrysalis Island", of the Tuamoto islands in the French Polynesia. On June 14, 1992 from Muroroa atoll, a former French Nuclear testing area (Centre d'Experimentation du Pacifique), Khan launched the Morning Star satellite into orbit, giving him the ability to damage the Earth's ozone layer. On July 10, 1992 Singh held an assembly with delegates from nations in Southern Asia and the Middle East, where he demonstrated Morning Star's abilities and issued an ultimatum, "if I fall, the world falls with me". The satellite would later cause an increase in the hole in the ozone layer that was publicly blamed on the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.

Various incidents of violence around the world were spurred by Khan and his fellow Augments throughout 1992, such as civil wars in Liberia, Peru, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere; race riots in Los Angeles and food riots in Albania.

On June 14, 1993 Khan held a summit with 6 of his most powerful Chrysalis siblings, where he attempted to unify them to create a new world order with him as the prevailing voice. The summit was a failure as Khan’s dream of unity collapsed when the Augments' enhanced ambition caused them to turn on one another, spawing what would later be called the "Eugenics Wars." Carried out through mostly covert operations, the war did result in massive casualities that the legitimate Earth governments publicly said were rogue terrorist incidents or natural disasters.

During this time, in their eagerness to assert their self-proclaimed destinies as rulers of the Earth, the Augments sparked civil wars and unrest all over the globe, in Eastern Europe, Liberia, Somalia, Peru, Haiti, Rwanda and elsewhere. Though the public-at-large was aware of the majority of such events - most never knew that the events were in fact all related to one another. Indeed, the public was kept entirely ignorant of many of the related "battles" of the so-called Eugenics Wars and even Khan himself was not known to the majority of the planet's inhabitants.

One notably incident of the war occured on September 30, 1993, when Khan was lured to the Ajorra caves in central India by Vasily Hunyadi, the Augment force behind the Serbian government, who attempted to assassinate Khan by triggering an earthquake caused by an underwater concussive charge place by Hunyadi. This earthquake was in the previously-considered aseismatic region of Maharashtra. The death toll from this quake was over 10,000 and entire villages were destroyed.

Khan attempted to retaliate on February 7 of 1994 during a submarine battle under the Meditteranean Sea between Khan forces and Hunyadi's. However, his effort was thwarted when the ballistic missile submarine S.G.K. Kaur was attacked because of the no-fly zone imposed by NATO.

A couple of months later, on April 21 Dr. Donald Williams of the Chrysalis Project gave to Khan the genetic sequence for the flesh eating strain of streptococcus-A developed by Sarina Kaur. Khan would begin human testing of this carnivorous bacteria on October 2 of that year.

On August 29, 1994 Hunyadi addressed the United Nations in defiance against the economic sanctions and the NATO peacekeeping presence to declare that Serbia had nothing to apologize for. During his speech, members of the Army of Eternal Vigilance (AEV) released sarin gas, a nerve toxin, into the council chambers, suffocating to death many ambassadors and tourists and also Vasily Hunyadi.

The AEV was an antigovernment militia based in Cochise, Arizona. It was commanded by an Augment named Hawkeye Morrison. Morrison had teamed up with Khan to eliminate Hunyadi. Morrison's ambition with nerve gas was notorious, the AEV attempted to release Sarin gas at both ends of the Eurotunnel at its opening to the public. When this strike was stopped paranoia consumed Morrison. He attempted to kill all his followers but they escaped and Morrison committed suicide.

On March 17 of 1995 Khan acquired over 200 bio-warheads from the former Soviet Union. Eventually, after learning the secrets of the Chrysalis Project, Khan redeveloped the flesh eating streptococcus that his mother developed and prepared to devastate the planet with its presence. On September 5, 1995 Chrysalis Island was attacked by a joint Russian-American strike, a ten-kiloton nuclear device destroying Khan's biological warfare lab and his doomsday weapon. The cover story was that France had privately resumed nuclear testing in the area of the old Centre d'Experimentation du Pacifique.

With his weakened arsenal and with the major superpowers of the world now aware of Khan's plans of genocide, air strikes from American B-52 bombers and a ground assualt from the Russian Spetsnaz eliminated Khan's henchmen and palace. On January 10, 1996 U.S. forces bombed Khan's "terrorist base" in Chandigarh as well as several other Augment bases in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan. Facing certain defeat at the hands of combined forces from multiple nations, the very next day Khan and 83 of his Augment followers secretly escaped Earth aboard a stolen protoype vessel of the DY-100 sleeper ship christened the "S.S. Botany Bay". This ship was developed using technology reverse-engineered from the Ferengi ship that crashed at Roswell, and launched from the secret American facility nicknamed "Area 51." The sleeper ship was set to go to an uninhabited solar system about one hundred light-years from Earth. Khan headed for outer space with the dream of someday ruling a world of his own making. On board the ship, the crew were cryogenically frozen to allow them to remain in suspended animation.

All remaining Augments were either killed or imprisoned and all the existing Augment embryos were placed in cryogenic suspension and quarantined. In the 22nd century, these embryos were placed in a secret space station run by the Interspecies Medical Exchange known as Cold Station 12.

Because of the Eugenics Wars, Earth would eventually outlaw genetic engineering except for cases of repairing serious birth defects. Despite this, certain groups would pass on the forbidden knowledge of genetic enhancement and it would remain available via the black-market.

[Timmy811]

June 1 ,1994 President Bill Clinton reaffirms American neutrality in
the widening war but declares that the United States will help supply
the anti-Khanate alliance.


Now I am in no way a fan of Bill Clinton, but there's no way I can imagine the him or any other modern Prersident (not even Jimmy Carter) trying to keep America nuetral under these circumstance. Any President who tried would have been swiftly impeached and the Congress would have declared war on it's own authority.

[MarkWhittington]

I don't think Clinton becomes President in the Eugenics War timeline, especially if the crisis begins in 1992, the election year in which in our time line he did become President. The crisis would have become the number one issue (replacing the economy, etc) of the election and such things always advantage Republicans.

[Timmy811]

Also, where the heck is NATO?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

I don't think Clinton becomes President in the Eugenics War timeline, especially if the crisis begins in 1992, the election year in which in our time line he did become President. The crisis would have become the number one issue (replacing the economy, etc) of the election and such things always advantage Republicans.

Well the Republicans were able to overlook the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Somalian Humanitarian Disaster, the Sudan Civil War, teh Iraqi slaughter of Kurdish rebels, not to mention major atrocities by the People's Republic of China during the 1992 election. Maybe in the ATL, the Republicans in the ATL see the takeover, merely as a another Third World humanitarian disaster caused by the fall of the Soviet Union. As long as they don't get their hands on nuclear weapons or any major strategic natural resources, the basic American concensus is ,"Who cares?"

Timmy811- As for NATO and the EU, just consider the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Sudanese Civil War, the Somalian Human Relief Disaster, et.al....

[Timmy811]

Well the Republicans were able to overlook the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Somalian Humanitarian Disaster, the Sudan Civil War, teh Iraqi slaughter of Kurdish rebels, not to mention major atrocities by the People's Republic of China during the 1992 election. Maybe in the ATL, the Republicans in the ATL see the takeover, merely as a another Third World humanitarian disaster caused by the fall of the Soviet Union. As long as they don't get their hands on nuclear weapons or any major strategic natural resources, the basic American concensus is ,"Who cares?"

Timmy811- As for NATO and the EU, just consider the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Sudanese Civil War, the Somalian Human Relief Disaster, et.al....

The attack on Taiwan would have almost certainly have dragged the US and Japan into war with China. The US because of it's treaty obligations and balance of power considerations and JApan because it gets it's oil shipped to it from the middle east through the Taiwan straight. Australia would almost certainly get involved as well.

[Michael E Johnson]

From what I get, this is the "story" of the Eugenics Wars as presented in the two books by Greg Cox along with canon info and some "best guesses" I've come up with...

EUGENICS WARS - ROEDECKER'S THEORY

Unlike the world wars of the past, the Eugenics Wars were shadowy conflicts fought behind the scenes of current events, against elusive and conspiratorial enemies whose genetically engineered origins remained largely unknown to the general public. Although the existence of the Eugenics Wars was well known by the twenty-second century most citizens of the late twentieth century were not even aware of the global struggle against Khan and his fellow supermen, seeing only scattered brush fire wars and random acts of terrorism.



This is clearly the intepretation of Cox's books but almost all canon info (ie Space Seed and The Augments episode on Enterprise) indicates that the Eugenics Wars (War) were public,overt conflicts that had millions of widely known casualties.I'm starting to think that there are 2 schools of Star Trek fandom-those who want to make the Star Trek Tl fit OTL history and those who understand that the Star Trek universe by defintion is an ATL.An overt Eugenics Wars in the 1990's to me is probably the best aspect of the ATL-I'm hoping we somehow get even more canon confirmation that the Eugenics Wars were ovret.

[Jason]

I always felt that Star Trek, at least the original series, had an identical timeline up to the point the series was produced (I am sure that in one episode there is a reference to WW2 ending in 1945-perhaps the one involving the time portal?).

In my own little mind I always saw the world carrying on much as it happened in OTL in the ST timeline, with a few modifications (extra development of spacecraft and eugenics) up to 1992 when Khan and Co seize control. The USSR is gone, the idea of the new world order is there (everyone getting on) and the first Gulf War happens. I always thought the Eugenics were said to have seized nations in Europe-I wondered if Eire would be a good target for them; limited military but great strategic location allowing them to interfer with links between America and Europe, and would tie us Brits up from doing too much elsewhere until we could force them out.

In another episode, one where an alien kidnaps Spock and Kirk to fight in a battle between 'good' and 'evil', we meet a Colonel Green (?) who is said to have taken control of some part of America-possibly the west coast of (I assumed) the USA? Ok, a bit vague but was he an Eugenic or is he WW3? I am pretty sure that WW3 and the Eugenics War are supposed to be seperate. Can anyone clarify this.

[Michael E Johnson]

In another episode, one where an alien kidnaps Spock and Kirk to fight in a battle between 'good' and 'evil', we meet a Colonel Green (?) who is said to have taken control of some part of America-possibly the west coast of (I assumed) the USA? Ok, a bit vague but was he an Eugenic or is he WW3? I am pretty sure that WW3 and the Eugenics War are supposed to be seperate. Can anyone clarify this.


Ah-one of the great Star Trek can of worms.Most canon ( tv show or movie)information indicates that the Eugenics War and WW3 are 2 seperate ,distinct events that happened in 2 different centuries -ie the Eugenics War-1992-1996 and WW3 circa 2053( First Contact) or 2079 (Encounter at Farpoint) but clearly in the 21st century.Colonel Green has been presented as being part of WW3 and there is some good news about him-the 3rd and 2nd to last episodes of Enterprise are going to deal with 22nd century alien xenophobia on Earth and are said to deal with or mention Colonel Green in some way.
Personally, I think that the best way to view the split/similarity between the Eugenics War and WW3 in the Star Trek ATL is to look at WW1 and WW2 in OTL.In Space Seed,Spock refers to the Eugenics War as part of the "era" of your so called last world war .I think it makes sense that the worldwide conflict of the Eugenics War led to the unrest thats presented as happening in the 2020's in the DS9 sanctuary district episodes ,which eventually lead to WW3 in the 2050's.I think it makes alot of sense that the Eastern Coalition that First Contact implies is the enemy of the West is some sort of left over alliance or group of nations that were controlled by the Augments in the 1990's and WW3 was the final nuclear conflict between those who wanted freedom vs genetic,religious or other types of control.I think that this could all lead back to a alternate WW2 in the Star trek timeline where Eugenics wasnt as thoroughly dicredited as it was in OTL-where in the 1990's and perhaps still in the 2050's it was viewed as a viable option for humanity-makes sense from what I have seen in the Star Trek canon.

[Michael E Johnson]

I always thought the Eugenics were said to have seized nations in Europe-I wondered if Eire would be a good target for them; limited military but great strategic location allowing them to interfer with links between America and Europe, and would tie us Brits up from doing too much elsewhere until we could force them out.
.

All the stuff I have seen-canon or otherwise- implies or indicates that many of the eugenic supermen/Augments were European or even American but that their actual empire or areas of control on Earth were limited to what we would call the Third World-Africa,Asia and the Middle East.I think this is another thing that distinguishes WW3 from the Eugenics War.The fans who insist that the conflicts are one and the same point to the Voyager episode where they go back to 1996 and there is no mention of or apparent damage from the Eugenics War in California.I think the more likely reason for this is that the Eugenics War didnt physically touch the West that much except maybe in a few instances (like San Diego in my TL) whereas WW3 was a truly global,but limited, nuclear war with worldwide casualties and,as per Riker in First Contact ,the destruction of most major cities on Earth- including those in the United States and Europe.

[Count Dearborn]

Li Quan was part of the Post-Atomic Horror, in the 2050's. He was a warlord in what was left of California.

Col. Green was and SAS officer who decided to switch sides in the middle of the attacks on Australia. Either that, or a rogue black ops agent who decided to become a terrorist.

Wasn't Khan more like bin-Laden, the leader of a terroritst group? Though, I could see him as an underworld figure.

I know its not canon, but Gary Seven was supposed to have been one of the major players in the Eugenics Wars.

[Jason]

All the stuff I have seen-canon or otherwise- implies or indicates that many of the eugenic supermen/Augments were European or even American but that their actual empire or areas of control on Earth were limited to what we would call the Third World-Africa,Asia and the Middle East.I think this is another thing that distinguishes WW3 from the Eugenics War.The fans who insist that the conflicts are one and the same point to the Voyager episode where they go back to 1996 and there is no mention of or apparent damage from the Eugenics War in California.I think the more likely reason for this is that the Eugenics War didnt physically touch the West that much except maybe in a few instances (like San Diego in my TL) whereas WW3 was a truly global,but limited, nuclear war with worldwide casualties and,as per Riker in First Contact ,the destruction of most major cities on Earth- including those in the United States and Europe.


Of course Khan isn't European or American, there is a comment about him being Indian I'm sure (ok, being petty and going on memories of the episode which I haven't seen for a few years). The problem I've always had with the whole thing is the way Spock describes the Eugenics War, there is a bit where Spock does some research and says he's worked out some 30 or 40 supermen went missing after the end of the Eugenics War, Kirk says something like that's not in the history books, Spock replies would you want to tell war weary countries that they might still be out there. I am sure there is also a bit where Kirk comments on populations being bombed out of existance in the war. I was always left with the impression that the war ended with Khan and Co being driven out and WW3 was seperate.
So, if it was such a major war, how comes it didn't end up as WW3? It's a prob I never managed to answer for myself, that's what bugs me.

[Torqumada]

Kahn is indeed Indian. His mother is the primary geneticist of the Chrysalis project. Also, in the books on the Eugenics wars, the ethnicities of the genetically augmented humsn was diverse. It was all part of the plan. They weren't trying for blond haired and blue eyed Aryans. The TV series, however, was a product of its times and used primarily caucasian actors. I didn't get a chance to see the Enterprise run with the augments, so I can't speak of them. Gary Seven does indeed play a central role in the Eugenics War series.

Torqumada

[Torqumada]

Regarding Col Green: According to another book, he was a contemporary of Zefram Chochrane and chased him across space and time to get revenge on him and steal the plans for the ultimate weapon a warp bomb. It dies several generations worth of Star Trek history. It was very interesting, but I don't remember all of the details at the moment.

Torqumada

[Timmy811]

I'd always understood the EUgenic Wars and WWIII to be different conflicts, happening in the 1990s and the 2050s respectivly. As to why the Eugenics Wars weren't called WWIII although they obviously were of a scope where that would be justified, I'm sure the media just thought it sounded better.

[Michael E Johnson]

Of course Khan isn't European or American, there is a comment about him being Indian I'm sure (ok, being petty and going on memories of the episode which I haven't seen for a few years). The problem I've always had with the whole thing is the way Spock describes the Eugenics War, there is a bit where Spock does some research and says he's worked out some 30 or 40 supermen went missing after the end of the Eugenics War, Kirk says something like that's not in the history books, Spock replies would you want to tell war weary countries that they might still be out there. I am sure there is also a bit where Kirk comments on populations being bombed out of existance in the war. I was always left with the impression that the war ended with Khan and Co being driven out and WW3 was seperate.
So, if it was such a major war, how comes it didn't end up as WW3? It's a prob I never managed to answer for myself, that's what bugs me.


Khan is definitely Indian as he is mentioned as being a Sikh in Space Seed but the other Augments mentioned and seen in Space Seed,Wrath of Khan and the Enterprise episodes are depicted as being a diverse lot with lots of European -American representation and finally even black representation in the Enterprise episodes.As far as the description of the Eugenics War by Spock it clearly paints a picture of an worldwide ,overt conflcit in the 1990's that had some unknown factual elements regarding things like the fate of Khan and other Augments in the historical record-ie OTL do we know for certain what happened to Hitler? First Contact and Enterprise establish the fact that WW3 was a seperate,21st century nuclear conflict which in my pet theory involved some of the Third World countries (Eastern Coalition or ECON) that the Augments controlled in the 1990's vs the West.

[Roedecker]

Here is the description of the Chrysalis Project's motives and methods:

The Chrysalis Project was an ambitious eugenics program conducted by a group of scientists trying to create a new, artificially improved breed of men and women: smarter, faster, stronger than ordinary human beings, a super-race to take command of the entire planet.

Designed and facilitated by a group of world-renowned geneticists and biochemists, the top-secret Chrysalis Project involved creating human embryos genetically superior to those created through the random genetic shuffling of ordinary reproduction using techniques that appeared to be far beyond what humans were capable of at the time.

Like so many others of their generation, the members of the Chrysalis Project nurtured dreams of making the world a better place. They believed, however, that a better world was impossible without better people to live in it. Democracy, socialism, psychiatry, religion... all these avenues to Utopia inevitably run into the inherent limitations of human nature, at least as we presently know it. Only by improving the human species itself, through controlled genetic manipulation, can we ever hope to overcome the ills that have perpetually plagued the peoples of the world: poverty, war, disease, and so on.

They believed we cannot can we depend on environment and heredity to produce such individuals as Albert Einstein or Martin Luther King, Jr. at random. At Chrysalis, they were taking chance out of the equation, producing an entire generation of superior individuals, capable of completely transforming civilization as we know it.

The Chrysalis Project endeavored to give their genetically enhanced creations full rein of the planet. To do so, the engineers of this project intended to release a bacterium. A genetically modified streptococcus, to be precise, capable of devouring soft tissue at an accelerated rate. In order to infect the worlds populous, they procured a quantity of ICBM missiles equipped with specialized biowarheads to use as implementation vehicles from moles in the Soviet germ warfare program, Biopreparat.

Free from any governments authority, Chrysalis was a private consortium that answered to no one, having complete autonomy. Chrysalis had its headquarters located in the Thar Desert, thanks to its remote location, the Chrysalis endeavor was completely isolated. The main complex was hidden beneath the ruins of an ancient Rajput fort.

The genetic engineering process began by inducing "superovulation" in female volunteers (which included all of the female scientists). The large and diverse assortment of eggs yielded by this procedure had then been inseminated artificially and allowed to incubate at a temperature of precisely thirty-seven degrees centigrade, i.e., body temperature. Following fertilization, the eggs had been carefully examined for a wide variety of genetic defects or abnormalities, with all unsuitable eggs immediately terminated and disposed of. It was not enough to simply produce outstanding examples of conventional humanity; the Chrysalis Project aspired to create a new breed of man and woman, markedly superior to any who had existed before. To do so required adding new information and instructions to the genetic blueprint encoded in each egg's DNA.

The brilliant scientists at Chrysalis had learned how to clone multiple copies of each surviving egg, thus increasing the odds of successful hybridization later on. Conventional science maintained that a fertilized egg could only be cloned twice before expiring, yet Dr. Sarina Kaur, the director of Chrysalis, had developed a technique for producing dozens of identical copies of a single egg. That was the key; invariably, applied genetics involved a certain degree of trial and error, heredity being fundamentally a matter of probabilities. But by generating so many ideal eggs to work with, the chances of achieving the desired genetic result increased dramatically, especially when the scientists of the project knew exactly what modifications they wanted to make to the standard human genome.

Fragments of specialized DNA, built from scratch from the appropriate amino acids, then multiplied by polymerase chain reactions, were spliced into bacterial plasmids, which acted as vectors to transmit the recombinant genes to the nucleus of the egg itself. Not every plasmid-borne gene successfully infiltrated the egg's DNA, let alone at precisely the right spot in the sequence of codons, but that's what all those multiple; copies were for. Enough hybridized eggs made it through the secondary screening process to provide a suitable number of samples for the next round of genetic augmentation.

In all, the process involved the introduction of seven distinct improvements to the basic human genotype. One such modification accelerated the formation of critical neural pathways, thus increasing intelligence. Another slight resequencing of the base pairs of a specific human gene had been found to substantially improve the efficiency of the lungs and respiratory system, while the addition of a single new gene, adapted from one located in the DNA of the African gorilla, caused an increase in muscular density and resilience. The heart valve action of the genetically engineered children would have twice the power of an average human, and their immune system would be enhanced. The other two improvements are not mentioned in Cox's books.

[Michael E Johnson]

Bump-Still an open challenge.

[joea64]

If we're going to go with the idea of the Star Trek TL being an ATL (which I firmly agree with), I think we need a specific POD. Zefram Cochrane's discovery of warp drive didn't come out of nowhere, you know; there had to have been theory for him to draw on, even if that theory was scoffed at by "mainstream" scientists. Maybe Einstein (or some other physicist) does some theoretical work in the early 20th century that shows that FTL travel is, in fact, possible? Or, if you don't like that idea, I propose that Nazi Germany might get further with rocketry in the Star Trek TL than it did in OTL (which also fits with the idea of a longer WWII, and provides a jumping-off point for more active space programs).

If Nazi Germany survives a little longer (to the end of 1945/beginning of 1946) in the Star Trek TL, the obvious conjecture is that they do better on the Eastern Front. If the Soviet Union comes out of the war weaker, maybe the Germans do succeed in taking Moscow in 1941; this wouldn't lead to the fall of the USSR, but might possibly result in Stalin's overthrow. Perhaps a Red Army junta under Zhukov takes over. The USSR remains Communist, but it's been so badly beat up by the Germans that it's just not as capable of adventures outside the country as it was in OTL. The Soviets might, if we follow your ideas, settle for a neutralist Eastern Europe rather than organizing the Warsaw Pact, though I imagine they'd still insist on occupying their zone of Germany, so maybe East Germany is created so we might still have a Berlin Wall.

We know from "Assignment: Earth" that the 1950's/1960's space race was considerably more militarized in the Star Trek TL than ours. If this TL's Soviet Union is more insular, I can see where the Kremlin would be even more focused on protecting its aerospace, going so far as to put up orbiting weapons platforms (maybe in geosynchronous orbit above the USSR?) I don't think we should forget the events of "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (or was it "Yesterday Is Tomorrow"?) either. It's quite possible that Kirk & Co. forget something, or Christopher somehow remembers something, that provides another link in the chain that leads to Cochrane's warp drive. Not to mention that his son participated in a key exploration mission in the early 21st century. Oh, and BTW; I think McKinley AFB = Vandenberg AFB. That means, if they're geographically and structurally identical (with the exception, of course, of Saturn V launch facilities) that Arthur Vandenberg probably never did anything sufficiently important in the Star Trek TL to warrant having an installation named after him.

Overall, space is going to be a much busier place in the Star Trek TL than OTL during their 20th Century. The Ares program may have been called off, but I imagine there'll be a lot more activity in Earth orbit and on and around the Moon, possibly even permanent bases there by the end of the century. It's pretty plain, from the example of the DY-100, that by the last decade of the 20th century, people on Earth are thinking so seriously about long-range exploration of the Solar System and even nearby systems that they're willing to go to the trouble and expense of developing prototype sleeper ships. I think that this may mean that somebody will have developed conclusive evidence that habitable planets are present in nearby solar systems (is it canon that Alpha Centauri has inhabitable planets in its system? I think it is, but I might be mistaken. If so, maybe somebody discovers a Class-M planet there. Perhaps with the Hubble Telescope or its STTL equivalent?) If humanity knows for a fact that there are other worlds nearby, in cosmic terms, where we could live, that would provide a considerable boost to space exploration.

If the TL has already diverged significantly by, say, 1960, it's even possible that if JFK wins the Presidency, he isn't assassinated but goes on to serve at least one full term. That would change U.S. politics distinctly thereafter, to the extent that Bill Clinton might never even become President, or, alternately, might be elected in 1988 (making him President when the Eugenics Wars break out!)

All just somewhat random thoughts; feel free to shoot them down if you please. :)

-Joe-

[Michael E Johnson]

If we're going to go with the idea of the Star Trek TL being an ATL (which I firmly agree with), I think we need a specific POD. Zefram Cochrane's discovery of warp drive didn't come out of nowhere, you know; there had to have been theory for him to draw on, even if that theory was scoffed at by "mainstream" scientists. Maybe Einstein (or some other physicist) does some theoretical work in the early 20th century that shows that FTL travel is, in fact, possible? Or, if you don't like that idea, I propose that Nazi Germany might get further with rocketry in the Star Trek TL than it did in OTL (which also fits with the idea of a longer WWII, and provides a jumping-off point for more active space programs).

If Nazi Germany survives a little longer (to the end of 1945/beginning of 1946) in the Star Trek TL, the obvious conjecture is that they do better on the Eastern Front. If the Soviet Union comes out of the war weaker, maybe the Germans do succeed in taking Moscow in 1941; this wouldn't lead to the fall of the USSR, but might possibly result in Stalin's overthrow. Perhaps a Red Army junta under Zhukov takes over. The USSR remains Communist, but it's been so badly beat up by the Germans that it's just not as capable of adventures outside the country as it was in OTL. The Soviets might, if we follow your ideas, settle for a neutralist Eastern Europe rather than organizing the Warsaw Pact, though I imagine they'd still insist on occupying their zone of Germany, so maybe East Germany is created so we might still have a Berlin Wall.

We know from "Assignment: Earth" that the 1950's/1960's space race was considerably more militarized in the Star Trek TL than ours. If this TL's Soviet Union is more insular, I can see where the Kremlin would be even more focused on protecting its aerospace, going so far as to put up orbiting weapons platforms (maybe in geosynchronous orbit above the USSR?) I don't think we should forget the events of "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (or was it "Yesterday Is Tomorrow"?) either. It's quite possible that Kirk & Co. forget something, or Christopher somehow remembers something, that provides another link in the chain that leads to Cochrane's warp drive. Not to mention that his son participated in a key exploration mission in the early 21st century. Oh, and BTW; I think McKinley AFB = Vandenberg AFB. That means, if they're geographically and structurally identical (with the exception, of course, of Saturn V launch facilities) that Arthur Vandenberg probably never did anything sufficiently important in the Star Trek TL to warrant having an installation named after him.

Overall, space is going to be a much busier place in the Star Trek TL than OTL during their 20th Century. The Ares program may have been called off, but I imagine there'll be a lot more activity in Earth orbit and on and around the Moon, possibly even permanent bases there by the end of the century. It's pretty plain, from the example of the DY-100, that by the last decade of the 20th century, people on Earth are thinking so seriously about long-range exploration of the Solar System and even nearby systems that they're willing to go to the trouble and expense of developing prototype sleeper ships. I think that this may mean that somebody will have developed conclusive evidence that habitable planets are present in nearby solar systems (is it canon that Alpha Centauri has inhabitable planets in its system? I think it is, but I might be mistaken. If so, maybe somebody discovers a Class-M planet there. Perhaps with the Hubble Telescope or its STTL equivalent?) If humanity knows for a fact that there are other worlds nearby, in cosmic terms, where we could live, that would provide a considerable boost to space exploration.

If the TL has already diverged significantly by, say, 1960, it's even possible that if JFK wins the Presidency, he isn't assassinated but goes on to serve at least one full term. That would change U.S. politics distinctly thereafter, to the extent that Bill Clinton might never even become President, or, alternately, might be elected in 1988 (making him President when the Eugenics Wars break out!)

All just somewhat random thoughts; feel free to shoot them down if you please. :)

-Joe-


I pretty much agree with and am intrigued by all of this. I'd love to see a timeline for it.

[joea64]

I just thought of something else: it could be that, if the Soviet Union follows a more moderate (comparatively speaking) path in the 20th century of the STTL, the Sino-Soviet split could occur from the get-go, with even more of an ideological component. This would allow for a Korean War, with North Korea being backed by the PRC from the beginning, which would allow your scenario of Minsei's China overrunning South Korea early on in the Eugenics Wars.

In fact, the 1945/6-1992 world of the STTL could be a genuinely multipolar one, with several competing power centers (the US/UK, the USSR, the PRC, and a western European alliance). If everyone had a space program of some kind going, that would allow for the militarized space race we see in "Assignment: Earth".

I'm thinking now about when and where the A-bomb first gets used. If the Manhattan Project proceeds as OTL, there's going to be hot debate about whether to use it first against Germany or Japan, because in this case, Germany is still in the fight, though by now probably up against the wall (the overall strategic situation in 7/45 of STTL probably looks more like 1/45 of OTL). It's possible that technical delays in the Project could put off the deployment of the A-bomb until 1946 (as in the "Lighter than a Feather" thread).

-Joe-

[joea64]

OK, here's the start of the timeline for what I think the STTL's alternate 20th Century might look like. This is the first time I've ever done anything like this! I'm only up to the end of 1945 so far; I don't know who to use the A-bomb against first, Germany or Japan...

Late 19th/early 20th centuries - Gregor Mendel's pioneering work in genetics attracts even more interest than it did OTL. Some prominent scientists and sociologists begin serious speculation about the possibility of improving the human race through selective breeding. Very quietly (we're still in the Victorian era when the TL begins, after all) a program is organized where people with desirable characteristics - exceptional intelligence, strength, physical attractiveness, etc. - are mated to each other.

Circa 1920 - Albert Einstein (or some other prominent physicist of the time - I'm open to suggestions) is doing some work on the nature of space-time, when he is thunderstruck to find that, if his calculations are correct, it is in fact theoretically possible to evade the speed-of-light barrier by "warping" space, thus making it possible to travel interstellar distances in weeks or months instead of plodding along at a fraction of c. Einstein doesn't release these findings publicly, but discusses them with colleagues he particularly trusts.

1932 - Edith Keeler, a well-known social worker, is killed in a tragic accident when she is hit by an automobile while crossing a street in downtown New York. The police search for two witnesses, a man who was known to be keeping company with Keeler and his vaguely Oriental-looking friend (who is noticeable because of the knit cap he always wears), but they seem to have literally vanished from the face of the earth.

1941 - Hitler decides to screen the shattered Soviet forces in the Ukraine with Army Group South instead of wheeling south to mop them up, choosing to go straight for Moscow. Guderian's Panzers smash into the city just as the snows begin to fall. In the chaos of evacuation to Kubyshev, Stalin is overthrown by Beria, who is himself then deposed and executed by a junta led by Zhukov and Molotov. Zhukov stabilizes the line east of Moscow with troops brought west from Siberia. On Dec. 7th, Japan conducts its Pearl Harbor raid and the US enters the war.

1942 - Hitler vacillates for weeks about whether to order von Paulus to stand fast in Stalingrad or evacuate. Finally, he decides on evacuation and orders von Manstein to cover the Sixth Army as it fights its way out. The fighting is brutal, but the Sixth Army comes out still a coherent fighting unit. In the meantime, German research on rocketry has been proceeding apace. Von Braun has, in what spare time he has, begun noodling around with the problem of manned spaceflight. He also pushes study on the A-9/A-10 multistage rocket in addition to the V-1 and V-2. On another front, other German scientists are conducting researches into eugenics under Nazi Party auspices. The ostensible purpose is to breed super-Aryans, but some of the eugenicists have kept very clandestine contacts with colleagues in the West and are passing their findings to them.

1943-46: Due to various technical problems, the Manhattan Project experiences delays which make a finished nuclear weapon unavailable until late 1945.

The Soviets, under the Zhukov/Molotov junta, grind westward, pushing the fascists back inch by inch. The Germans choose to go on the defensive instead of attacking at the Kursk salient, and the resulting fight, while a narrow tactical victory for the Soviets, leaves their best armored units shattered, and the Germans are able to withdraw into more compact defensive lines. No salient forms in the Army Group Center area that the Soviets can exploit. The Red Army, all the same, keeps grinding relentlessly west, with copious Lend-Lease aid from the US.

The Pacific War, North Africa and Italy proceed much as OTL. Preparations for Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, begin in earnest.

On June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord begins as US, British and Canadian forces storm ashore at five beaches in Normandy. However, the Germans have a new weapon ready. Several dozen V-1 flying bombs are launched against the narrow beachheads. While not very accurate at all, they cause a lot of consternation in the crowded quarters. Coupled with extremely stiff German resistance, discretion is decided the better part of valor and Omaha Beach is evacuated. However, Utah Beach and the Anglo-Canadian beachheads (Gold, Juno and Sword) hold on, and the Allies have their Normandy lodgement, though just by the bare skin of their teeth.

As 1944 proceeds, the Western Allies and Soviets claw forward against the Third Reich from west and east. The Germans conduct tenacious and tactically brilliant defensive operations on both fronts, slowing the advance down to a crawl almost at World War I speeds. V-1 and V-2 missiles rain down on military and civilian targets on both fronts. The Americans put everything they can into the Manhattan Project, which is now seen as being their best chance to break the Third Reich, but technical obstacles are proving stubbornly difficult to overcome.

In late 1945, as the front in Europe comes to a stalemate at the frontiers of Germany, the US finally launches Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.

Near the end of 1945, though, everything finally comes together. The Trinity test is carried out successfully at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on December 10, 1945. A fierce debate immediately follows as to whether to use the atomic bomb first against Germany or Japan.

*************************

It may not be nearly as realistic as some other TL's, but this is, after all, Star Trek's backstory we're talking about. :) As you can see, WWII in Europe has already diverged significantly from OTL. Among other things, what I'm trying to do here is exhaust the Soviets to the degree that they can't exert the same degree of control over the Eastern European nations that they did OTL. If WWII in Europe lasts longer, the reforming West European governments may also be able to raise more troops to fight the Germans, which will have effects down the line as western Europe becomes an independent power center after the war.

A key date I need: when was Khan born? More to come soon as soon as I think it up!

-Joe-

[Michael E Johnson]

OK, here's the start of the timeline for what I think the STTL's alternate 20th Century might look like. This is the first time I've ever done anything like this! I'm only up to the end of 1945 so far; I don't know who to use the A-bomb against first, Germany or Japan...

Late 19th/early 20th centuries - Gregor Mendel's pioneering work in genetics attracts even more interest than it did OTL. Some prominent scientists and sociologists begin serious speculation about the possibility of improving the human race through selective breeding. Very quietly (we're still in the Victorian era when the TL begins, after all) a program is organized where people with desirable characteristics - exceptional intelligence, strength, physical attractiveness, etc. - are mated to each other.

Circa 1920 - Albert Einstein (or some other prominent physicist of the time - I'm open to suggestions) is doing some work on the nature of space-time, when he is thunderstruck to find that, if his calculations are correct, it is in fact theoretically possible to evade the speed-of-light barrier by "warping" space, thus making it possible to travel interstellar distances in weeks or months instead of plodding along at a fraction of c. Einstein doesn't release these findings publicly, but discusses them with colleagues he particularly trusts.

1932 - Edith Keeler, a well-known social worker, is killed in a tragic accident when she is hit by an automobile while crossing a street in downtown New York. The police search for two witnesses, a man who was known to be keeping company with Keeler and his vaguely Oriental-looking friend (who is noticeable because of the knit cap he always wears), but they seem to have literally vanished from the face of the earth.

1941 - Hitler decides to screen the shattered Soviet forces in the Ukraine with Army Group South instead of wheeling south to mop them up, choosing to go straight for Moscow. Guderian's Panzers smash into the city just as the snows begin to fall. In the chaos of evacuation to Kubyshev, Stalin is overthrown by Beria, who is himself then deposed and executed by a junta led by Zhukov and Molotov. Zhukov stabilizes the line east of Moscow with troops brought west from Siberia. On Dec. 7th, Japan conducts its Pearl Harbor raid and the US enters the war.

1942 - Hitler vacillates for weeks about whether to order von Paulus to stand fast in Stalingrad or evacuate. Finally, he decides on evacuation and orders von Manstein to cover the Sixth Army as it fights its way out. The fighting is brutal, but the Sixth Army comes out still a coherent fighting unit. In the meantime, German research on rocketry has been proceeding apace. Von Braun has, in what spare time he has, begun noodling around with the problem of manned spaceflight. He also pushes study on the A-9/A-10 multistage rocket in addition to the V-1 and V-2. On another front, other German scientists are conducting researches into eugenics under Nazi Party auspices. The ostensible purpose is to breed super-Aryans, but some of the eugenicists have kept very clandestine contacts with colleagues in the West and are passing their findings to them.

1943-46: Due to various technical problems, the Manhattan Project experiences delays which make a finished nuclear weapon unavailable until late 1945.

The Soviets, under the Zhukov/Molotov junta, grind westward, pushing the fascists back inch by inch. The Germans choose to go on the defensive instead of attacking at the Kursk salient, and the resulting fight, while a narrow tactical victory for the Soviets, leaves their best armored units shattered, and the Germans are able to withdraw into more compact defensive lines. No salient forms in the Army Group Center area that the Soviets can exploit. The Red Army, all the same, keeps grinding relentlessly west, with copious Lend-Lease aid from the US.

The Pacific War, North Africa and Italy proceed much as OTL. Preparations for Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, begin in earnest.

On June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord begins as US, British and Canadian forces storm ashore at five beaches in Normandy. However, the Germans have a new weapon ready. Several dozen V-1 flying bombs are launched against the narrow beachheads. While not very accurate at all, they cause a lot of consternation in the crowded quarters. Coupled with extremely stiff German resistance, discretion is decided the better part of valor and Omaha Beach is evacuated. However, Utah Beach and the Anglo-Canadian beachheads (Gold, Juno and Sword) hold on, and the Allies have their Normandy lodgement, though just by the bare skin of their teeth.

As 1944 proceeds, the Western Allies and Soviets claw forward against the Third Reich from west and east. The Germans conduct tenacious and tactically brilliant defensive operations on both fronts, slowing the advance down to a crawl almost at World War I speeds. V-1 and V-2 missiles rain down on military and civilian targets on both fronts. The Americans put everything they can into the Manhattan Project, which is now seen as being their best chance to break the Third Reich, but technical obstacles are proving stubbornly difficult to overcome.

In late 1945, as the front in Europe comes to a stalemate at the frontiers of Germany, the US finally launches Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.

Near the end of 1945, though, everything finally comes together. The Trinity test is carried out successfully at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on December 10, 1945. A fierce debate immediately follows as to whether to use the atomic bomb first against Germany or Japan.

*************************

It may not be nearly as realistic as some other TL's, but this is, after all, Star Trek's backstory we're talking about. :) As you can see, WWII in Europe has already diverged significantly from OTL. Among other things, what I'm trying to do here is exhaust the Soviets to the degree that they can't exert the same degree of control over the Eastern European nations that they did OTL. If WWII in Europe lasts longer, the reforming West European governments may also be able to raise more troops to fight the Germans, which will have effects down the line as western Europe becomes an independent power center after the war.

A key date I need: when was Khan born? More to come soon as soon as I think it up!

-Joe-

This is a great start.I love your ideas about this issue. I have Khan as being born in 1961 in my TL. If you are going to have the Eugenics Wars as being from 1992-1996 most of the Supermen are in their late 20's-30's meaning they would have been born in 1960's to 1970's. Sure they could have developed alot quicker if they were genetically enginerred but if we want to make them part of an international plot hatched in the 1950's and realized in the 1990's it makes sense to take more time for them to develop. I am reallly facinated by the idea of the Eugenics Wars being an outgrowth of WW2 in the Star Trek TL.Of course ,WW3 in the Star Trek TL was likely,at least in part,to be an outgrowth of the Eugenics Wars.

[joea64]

As you can see from the timeline, the international conspiracy of eugenicists was already in effect by World War II; this is why German scientists were passing their findings back to their colleagues in the West. The idea is that the first serious discussions happened around the beginning of the 20th Century, so if the first pairs of candidates were bred to each other then - and breeding is exactly what it would have been, just as if you were trying to raise a prize thoroughbred - the first couple of generations (assuming a generation being about 20 years) would already have come by circa 1945, and the third generation would be being conceived and born. Khan Noonian Singh would be part of, I think, the 4th generation of the project, by which time dramatic results would already have been seen with his parents' generation.

I don't know if this would fit with canon, but maybe some technology is found in the Ferengi craft that crash-lands at Roswell that gets into the hands of the eugenicists, so that we do have at least some genetic engineering after all in the generation that produced Khan. At the very least, maybe some advanced computer technology survived.

I still need to figure out who gets hit with the A-bomb first, Germany or Japan. Once I work that out, I can continue with the timeline sometime later this week. I do plan World War II to end in early 1946, about five months or so later than historical (counting from either 8/15/45 or 9/1/45).

One other question I need to figure out is how much further the Holocaust gets. If we want to go with the idealism of ST:TOS, one way we could proceed is to have the death-camp system break down during 1945 under the impact of Allied bombing, particularly of the railroads that took victims to their deaths. Again, not real likely, I know, but I want to get a tradition of "do the right thing" going that leads to James T. Kirk... :)

-Joe-
-Joe-

[MerryPrankster]

This is interesting. I'm not really a Trekkie, but the TL aspect is really cool.

Bump.

[Capt_Jason]

Hello everyone! First time poster, though...curiously enough, I am not unfamiliar with the subject of this thread.

Not in the slightest. I am the newsgroup poster formerly known as MarinerJRMB @ MCHSI.com (Jay and Ruth) and I was responsible for the initial challenge which, 4 years later, is still being discussed! Oddly enough, I was doing a google on Stavos Keneclius when I came upon reference to that group post, and here we are in 2007 still talking about it.

Well, I am here to say that I am STILL in search of that ideal timeline that explain the rise and fall of Khan and the Eugenics 'supermen' and how the Eugenics Wars/WWIII lead to the rise and fall of Colonel Green and further beyond into the realm of interstellar conflict (i.e. the Earth-Kzin Wars). What a pleasant surprise indeed to find this forum.

That being said, I believe I have a few items to add to the discussion. In the episode "Space Seed", Spock clearly states that the "the mid-1990s was the era of your last so-called world war". Further along in the episode, he mentions the 'wars to end tyranny'. Considering the state of international affairs in our own continuum, what a spooky set coincidences!

Nevertheless, that little throw-away line might be the key to literally everything that happens next. In the fanon reference guide "The USS Enterprise Officers Manual" (1980) by Geoff Mandel, there is a fragmentary "copy" of a New York Times article which mentions a date for when the eugenics supermen are introduced publicly for the first time, 22 Sept 1990. It goes on to mention a bit of the backstory. The entire sequence of events came about when the "UN Committee on Eugenics Research" initated a secretive program to study and develop eugenically-bred humans. This UN-sanctioned committee was chaired by none other than Stavos Keneclius with research facilities being established in various third world nations (which would seem to support a few contentions offered earlier in this thread).

We know fairly clearly, based on actual show dialog, that the Eugenics wars were quite overt in nature and not at all the subject of some "secret wars" supported by the Cox novels (an effort to make clearly derivative history FIT with real-time events). This further supports the theory that Star Trek future history is decidely derivative and the sequence of events very much the part of an alternate timeline.

The USS Enterprise Officers Manual (EOM) addds further to what might have occured. In 1994, it mentions that the United Nations Peace Forces (UNPF) was established and that after the 2030s, it replaced all national armed forces and militias after a conflict the EOM calls the 'clone war'. Now, would it not be interesting to tie in Spock's statement concering the 'wars to end tyranny' with the establishment of the UNPF, which is in effect, the first world army on planet Earth? Myself, I see a situation where the flow of history runs nearly parallel with our own (with the US-led 'wars on terror') with the UN leading the way. I do not accept the idea that perhaps the UN folded under pressure when the Khanate was formed and the events which followed. I DO see a situation where the UN "grows some bollocks" and takes a lead in the world stage; actually doing what its Charter says it should and could do. So instead of a single "cowboy" nation leading a global "war on terror", we have the UN and its Peace Forces conducted the wars to End Tyranny beginning in 1994.

The effort lead in whole or in part to the collapse of the Khanate and the eugenics supermen by 1996, however I do not believe the global campaign ended there. Following the censure and subsequent exile of Keneclius and his ilk, I could see emboldened UN conducting at least three years of "mopping up", that is the neutralizing of petty dictatorships and "copy-cat" authoritarian regimes which might arise out of the vacuum that was the Great Khanate. Another fanon reference, the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual, suggests that a second 'dark ages' fell over much of planet Earth and it lasted until at least 2000. What was left of the "third world" would be the epicenter of the period of hardship.

It was out of the vacuum that was the Khanate that the seeds for the "Eastern Coalition of Nations" as mentioned in STFC were sewn and the way paved for Colonel Edward Featherstone Green. But before we tackle THAT bit of history, I would like to see what you guys think.

Good discussion all! I'm very glad I found this little corner of the net.

[Capt_Jason]

Well the Republicans were able to overlook the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Somalian Humanitarian Disaster, the Sudan Civil War, teh Iraqi slaughter of Kurdish rebels, not to mention major atrocities by the People's Republic of China during the 1992 election. Maybe in the ATL, the Republicans in the ATL see the takeover, merely as a another Third World humanitarian disaster caused by the fall of the Soviet Union. As long as they don't get their hands on nuclear weapons or any major strategic natural resources, the basic American concensus is ,"Who cares?"

Timmy811- As for NATO and the EU, just consider the Yugoslavian Civil War, the Sudanese Civil War, the Somalian Human Relief Disaster, et.al....

And this point very nicely supports my own conjecture that much of the "western" world ignored the gathering plight in the East and it was this indifference to the extreme that led to the establishment of the United Nations Peace Forces in 1994 and it's merger with NATO after January 1995.

[Capt_Jason]

THREAD TIMELINE COMPILATION

I have compiled all of the dates provided in this thread into a single timeline for a quick and easy overview of "what we know". . .

1950-1960s


Project Chrysalis, a secretive (or UN Committee for Eugenics Research?) group of scientists (not unlike the Chrysalis in the "eugenics war" books), develops about 100 genetically engineered children of all racial and cultural groups, using bases located largely in third world countries.


1959


Khan Noonian Singh is born at secret eugenics compound in Agar, India (EOM).


1973


20 January

Richard Nixon's second inauguration speech introduces the Ares Program, a potential manned mission to Mars.


1974


July

Astronauts of Apollo 20 discover what is now known to be a crashed Preserver space vehicle at the exact center of Crater Copernicus, which the mission had been sent to study. The vehicle was barely recognizable due to the extent of the impact damage and subsequent explosions, but some equipment was salvageable. This entire incident is covered up well into the 22nd century. Retro-engineering of one particular device would lead to a method of generating artificial gravity in space vessels and facilities by 1984 after an intense period of study. The artificial gravity breakthrough would also lead to a feasible Inertial Dampening system that would in time allow for greater vehicle velocities approaching .25c by 2018 (Capt_Jason).


1976


Khan Noonien Singh completes education in engineering and aeronautics, and develops extensive experience in specialized military combat and strategic training (Capt_Jason).


1979


After Ares I, a test mission that made Martian orbit but did not land, Congress cancels the program due to a fiscal crisis. (A follow-on mission, Harmony, will send humans to the red planet in 1984 (Capt_Jason/Aridas Sofia)).


1991


A young charismatic man named Khan Noonien Singh is elected to India's parliament.


20 October


General Muhammed Hassan's Revolutionary Islamic Genesis Movement overthrows Ayatollah Khatami in Iran. He begins mass genocide of native Turks, Assyrians, Armenians, Christians, and Zoroastrians in his country.


1992


6 May


Saddam Hussein's Iraq declares "total union" with Iran. Later historians would compare this with Anschluss, the union of Nazi Germany and Austria in 1936.


7 September

This is the date that has come to be accepted as the day the Eugenics Wars began.China ,under the leadership of a eugenic superman Chairman Hikaru Minsei,attacked Taiwan with the stated goal of bringing order and evoultion to its most important "lost" province.

When Minsei's China attacks Taiwan, it simultaneously annexes Hong Kong and Macao.


1993


20 April


On this day 41 African,Asian and Middle Eastern nations lead by the young eugenic supermen formed the Great Khanate of Nations with Khan Noonien Singh of India as the titular leader.The experience of the people of these nations varied wildly from the essentially peaceful rule of Khan in India to the food rationing and forced selective breeding in Minsei's China to outright genocidal killings in General Muhammad Hasan's Iran.

Eugenics 'supermen' simultaneously seize power in over forty nations on Earth ("Space Seed")


September 28


The Great Khanate attacks Australia and New Zealand with the stated goal of" bringing genetic order to the West". Great Britain, South Africa and Japan declare war on the Great Khanate the following day.


29 October


Russia declares war on the Khanate after they are found to support a Chechen rebellion.


1994


12 January


Dijibouti is conquered by the Khanate, cutting off all sea-born access to Ethiopia to attempt to starve the nation into submission.


15 January


The United Nations organization passes a unilateral resolution to found the first global armed forces unit on Earth, the United Nations Peace Forces. The UNPF soon begins the 'wars to end tyranny'; the first global campaign ever undertaken to rid Earth of tyranny and dictatorships wherever they existed. (Capt_Jason). During this time, the cohesion among the eugenics supermen begins to break down and they soon begin to battle among themselves for supremacy even in the face of an ever-determined United Nations (Capt_Jason).


4 May


Shocked by the surrender of Australia and New Zealand the previous day France , Germany and Italy declare war on the Great Khanate.


1 June


President Bill Clinton reaffirms American neutrality in the widening war but declares that the United States will help supply the anti-Khanate alliance.


22 June


San Diego, California-USA, Tel Aviv Israel and Seoul, South Korea are hit by nuclear weapons as the Great Khanate declares war on those 3 nations. Those 3 nations and several others (including Canada and Mexico) follow suit the next day.


23 June


United States detonates nuclear weapons in New Delhi, Beijing, and Riyadh in retaliation for the nuclear strike on San Diego.


1995


January


NATO forces merge with UNPF commands (Capt_Jason/Harry Doddema)


14 May


The Battle of the Sea of Japan is fought. This battle is acknowledged as the turning point of the Eugenics Wars as the resulting allied victory fractures the Great Khanate into waring blocs of nations. The American aircraft carrrier U.S.S Enterprise-CVN 65 is destroyed in this battle.


5 July


Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Tommy Franks lead U.S. forces in the invasion of the Arabian Peninsula. This ties up General Hassan's troops, allowing the Israelis to end the bloody Jerusalem siege and win the battle of Damascus on August 21.


26 December


In a chilly Christmas battle, the Russian army defeats Minsei's forces at the battle of Ulaanbataar.


1996


10 February


D-Day for British/Japanese/Filipino/American/Brazillian forces in the liberation of Taiwan.


29 July


Russian, American, Turkish, and Israeli forces meet to defeat Hassan's army in the battle of Tabriz.


2 September


Taiwan liberated. plans are drawn up for an invasion of Mainland China from the sea and through Korea, to assist the southward-moving Russian army. This plan is never activated after all Khanate forces surrender.


1 October


The Eugenics Wars end as Khan and his cadre of eugenic supermen are presumed killed in the battle to liberate Sydney, Australia- where they had held out in a last stand. Chairman Minsei signed an unconditional surrender document in Beijing, China.


November


Due to his unwillingness to help the "Democratic Alliance" in battle until San Diego was an atomic slag pile, Bill Clinton loses the election to Bob Dole and Colin Powell.


1997


27 September


Chairman Minsei, General Hasan and 59 other surviving eugenic supermen are put on trial at the International Military Tribunal in Paris ,France. This is the 1st such trial since the 1945-1948 trials of German and Japanese WWII leaders. Minsei, Hasan and the rest were convicted and executed for crimes against humanity and peace the following year.


1999


11 August


Historian and author Travis Mitchell claims in his seminal work- "The Eugenics War" that there is next to no evidence that Khan Singh and his clique of eugenic supermen were killed in the liberation of Sydney on October 1,1996. Mitchell puts forth the widely unaccepted theory that Khan and his people escaped death and punishment on a DY-100 vessel launched from a samll Indonesian island that same day.

[Michael E Johnson]

Hello everyone! First time poster, though...curiously enough, I am not unfamiliar with the subject of this thread.

Not in the slightest. I am the newsgroup poster formerly known as MarinerJRMB @ MCHSI.com (Jay and Ruth) and I was responsible for the initial challenge which, 4 years later, is still being discussed! Oddly enough, I was doing a google on Stavos Keneclius when I came upon reference to that group post, and here we are in 2007 still talking about it.

Well, I am here to say that I am STILL in search of that ideal timeline that explain the rise and fall of Khan and the Eugenics 'supermen' and how the Eugenics Wars/WWIII lead to the rise and fall of Colonel Green and further beyond into the realm of interstellar conflict (i.e. the Earth-Kzin Wars). What a pleasant surprise indeed to find this forum.

That being said, I believe I have a few items to add to the discussion. In the episode "Space Seed", Spock clearly states that the "the mid-1990s was the era of your last so-called world war". Further along in the episode, he mentions the 'wars to end tyranny'. Considering the state of international affairs in our own continuum, what a spooky set coincidences!

Nevertheless, that little throw-away line might be the key to literally everything that happens next. In the fanon reference guide "The USS Enterprise Officers Manual" (1980) by Geoff Mandel, there is a fragmentary "copy" of a New York Times article which mentions a date for when the eugenics supermen are introduced publicly for the first time, 22 Sept 1990. It goes on to mention a bit of the backstory. The entire sequence of events came about when the "UN Committee on Eugenics Research" initated a secretive program to study and develop eugenically-bred humans. This UN-sanctioned committee was chaired by none other than Stavos Keneclius with research facilities being established in various third world nations (which would seem to support a few contentions offered earlier in this thread).

We know fairly clearly, based on actual show dialog, that the Eugenics wars were quite overt in nature and not at all the subject of some "secret wars" supported by the Cox novels (an effort to make clearly derivative history FIT with real-time events). This further supports the theory that Star Trek future history is decidely derivative and the sequence of events very much the part of an alternate timeline.

The USS Enterprise Officers Manual (EOM) addds further to what might have occured. In 1994, it mentions that the United Nations Peace Forces (UNPF) was established and that after the 2030s, it replaced all national armed forces and militias after a conflict the EOM calls the 'clone war'. Now, would it not be interesting to tie in Spock's statement concering the 'wars to end tyranny' with the establishment of the UNPF, which is in effect, the first world army on planet Earth? Myself, I see a situation where the flow of history runs nearly parallel with our own (with the US-led 'wars on terror') with the UN leading the way. I do not accept the idea that perhaps the UN folded under pressure when the Khanate was formed and the events which followed. I DO see a situation where the UN "grows some bollocks" and takes a lead in the world stage; actually doing what its Charter says it should and could do. So instead of a single "cowboy" nation leading a global "war on terror", we have the UN and its Peace Forces conducted the wars to End Tyranny beginning in 1994.

The effort lead in whole or in part to the collapse of the Khanate and the eugenics supermen by 1996, however I do not believe the global campaign ended there. Following the censure and subsequent exile of Keneclius and his ilk, I could see emboldened UN conducting at least three years of "mopping up", that is the neutralizing of petty dictatorships and "copy-cat" authoritarian regimes which might arise out of the vacuum that was the Great Khanate. Another fanon reference, the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual, suggests that a second 'dark ages' fell over much of planet Earth and it lasted until at least 2000. What was left of the "third world" would be the epicenter of the period of hardship.

It was out of the vacuum that was the Khanate that the seeds for the "Eastern Coalition of Nations" as mentioned in STFC were sewn and the way paved for Colonel Edward Featherstone Green. But before we tackle THAT bit of history, I would like to see what you guys think.

Good discussion all! I'm very glad I found this little corner of the net.

Thanks for post and welcome. This issue is of great interest to me when it comes to the Star Trek universe-which I also have come to view as an ATL. While I enjoyed the Cox books but I am greatly disappointed that they probably have cut off any possibility for an overt Eugenics Wars book to be published.
But one thing that really pleased me is that the Enterprise Eugenics War episodes established that the war was in the 1990's and was overt.Feel free to add any additional "facts" that you come across.

[Capt_Jason]

Cross post from my site, http://www.starfleetnet.com/forum Here are 4 page scans from The USS Enterprise Officers Manual which I cited above.

http://www.starfleetnet.com/images/eom_page4.jpg

http://www.starfleetnet.com/images/eom_page5.jpg

http://www.starfleetnet.com/images/eom_page87.jpg

http://www.starfleetnet.com/images/eom_page88.jpg