The 5th of April is celebrated as a holiday among several regions and species in the galaxy.
Within the Federation, this day is known as First Contact Day. (TNG movie: First Contact)
Among Klingons, this day is the Day of Honor or Batlh jaj, a time of celebration and ritual. (VOY episode & novelization: Day of Honor, DS9 comic: "Day of Honor", Star Trek: Day of Honor miniseries)
Among Romulans in the 25th century, this day is known as Republic Day, a celebration of the founding of the Romulan Republic on New Romulus. (STO mission: "Republic Day")
Events
- Zefram Cochrane achieves Earth's first manned warp flight aboard the Phoenix.
- Official first contact between Humans and Vulcans takes place when the surveyor T'Plana-Hath detects Cochrane's warp flight and follows his ship down to Bozeman, Montana. (TNG movie: First Contact, ST reference: Federation: The First 150 Years)
- In the Mirror Universe, when the T'Plana-Hath lands, Zefram Cochrane shoots Solkar and raids the ship. (ENT episode: "In a Mirror, Darkly")
- 2163
- Vertians destroy a Federation task force scout. (ENT - Rise of the Federation novel: A Choice of Futures)
- 2249
- Amanda Grayson receives a message from T'Pau that Solkar died the previous day. (TOS novel: Sarek)
- 2377
- USS Voyager detects Talaxian colonists on New Talax and sends the Delta Flyer II to make contact. (VOY episode: "Homestead")
- 2381
- Fleet Admiral Leonard James Akaar schedules USS Titan to relaunch as a morale-boosting effort. (TNG novel: Losing the Peace)
- 2382
- Commander Jefferson Briggs is arrested in Paris before the First Contact Day reception in the Palais de la Concorde. (VOY novel: Atonement)
- 2385
- Attack on Mars: A500 Synths destroy Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards and ignite the stratosphere of Mars. (Short Treks episode: "Children of Mars", PIC episode: "Remembrance")
- 2409
- Federation President Aennik Okeg begins an annual invitation to Alpha Quadrant Alliance COs to build and launch Phoenix replicas such as the Magenta Phoenix in celebration of First Contact Day. (STO - Reckoning mission: "First Contact Day Re-Enactment")
- 2410
- USS Sovereign returns to service following assimilation by the Borg. (STO mission: "First Contact Day")
Appendices
Calendar of publication and production
- 1950
- Novelist A.C. Crispin is born.
- 1968
- TOS episode: "I, Mudd" airs as a repeat.
- 1969
- TOS comic: "Beware the Beast" continues with its second of four weekly installments in Joe 90: Top Secret #12.
- 1978
- TOS comic: "The Peril of Planet Quick Change" is released in Portuguese in O Caminho das Estrelas #4.
- 1980
- The 28th installment of TOS comic: "The Real McCoy" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
- 1981
- The 15th installment of TOS comic: "It's a Living" is published.
- 1982
- The 36th installment of TOS comic: "The Wristwatch Plantation" is published.
- 1983
- The 44th installment of TOS comic: "Send in the Clones" is published.
- 1993
- TNG episode: "Lessons" airs (week of).
- 1997
- DS9 episode: "Business as Usual" airs (week of).
External link
- 5 April article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
