Forgotten History

Forgotten History is a Star Trek novel by Christopher L. Bennett, published by Pocket Books in 2012. The novel is the second in the Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations series.

Description[]

The agents of the Department of Temporal Investigations are assigned to look into an anomaly that has appeared deep in Federation territory. It's difficult to get clear readings, but a mysterious inactive vessel lies at the heart of the anomaly, one outfitted with some sort of temporal drive disrupting space-time and subspace. To the agents' shock, the ship bears a striking resemblance to a Constitution-class starship, and its warp signature matches that of the original Federation starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701—the ship of James T. Kirk, that infamous bogeyman of temporal investigators, whose record of violations is held up by DTI agents as a cautionary tale for Starfleet recklessness toward history. But the vessel's hull markings identify it as Timeship Two, belonging to none other than the DTI itself. At first, Agents Lucsly and Dulmur assume the ship is from some other timeline… but its quantum signature confirms that it came from their own past, despite the fact that the DTI never possessed such a timeship. While the anomaly is closely monitored, Lucsly and Dulmur must search for answers in the history of Kirk's Enterprise and its many encounters with time travel—a series of events with direct ties to the origins of the DTI itself…

Summary[]

The Enterprise's experiences with time travel draw the attention of a senior Starfleet officer, Antonio Delgado, who discovers that the ship's cold restart above Psi 2000 have charged the engines with chronitons and made it capable of time warp. Kirk and his crew are initially enthusiastic about Delgado's desire to explore the idea but when a number of incidents nearly alter the timeline they change their minds. A committee is set up to explore the possibility, headed by archeologist Meijan Grey, and evolves into the Department of Temporal Investigations.

When the Enterprise's five-year mission ends, Delgado takes advantage of the refit to acquire the old engines and uses them to build the Timeship One, intended to take a short jump into the future. However, before they can do so a duplicate Timeship One returns from the future, with its dying crew explaining they went too far and succumbed to Hawking radiation. When the launch is cancelled, the duplicate Timeship One and its crew vanish, proving timelines can be erased. Grey decides to more closely regulate temporal experimentation.

However, the Enterprise is then involved with an incident with a Vedala planetoid, which causes them to swap places with the Vulcan ship Muroc from the alternate timeline that the Onlies came from. With humans having never developed space travel, in this timeline V'Las turned the Vulcans into a military power who are at war with a Klingon/Andorian alliance. The ship is caught in the crossfire before Kirk allies himself with the Vulcans. Meanwhile, Spock, in his own timeline aboard the USS Hypatia, discovers the alternate T'Pring is aboard the Muroc. After they experience pon farr together, he tells her how to find the still lost Kir'Shara and they work together to swap the Enterprise and the Muroc again.

Although the Vedala demand the Federation surrender the planetoid and its technology, Grey and Delgado remove one of their drives and use it to construct the Timeship Two, hoping to travel into the past or future of another timeline. Instead, they create a confluence with the 2383 of their own timeline. That era's Department of Temporal Investigation intervene and, reviewing confidential files, are surprised by Kirk and Grey's relative role in proceedings.

The Enterprise answers a distress call from Timeship Two and Kirk beams aboard with a landing party. They are disturbed by the intervention of a Klingon/Andorian ship from the 2383 of the alternate timeline, which threatens to alter history so the Klingons gain advanced technology and conquer the Federation. They are saved by the alternate T'Pring, who managed to turn Vulcan towards peace and end the war with most of the Klingons and Andorians.

Lucsly and Dulmur board the Timeship Two and Lucsly reluctantly gives Kirk the information needed to reprogramme the ship's engines to emit a cancellation wave. Kirk directs Spock and Scotty to do the same with the Enterprise, giving the crew the knowledge to time travel in any ship, and the timeline is restored.

The Vedala reclaim the technology and Grey and Delgado are allowed to retire quietly. In the future, the DTI choose to continue to believe the myth with regard to Kirk and Grey.

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Ranks and titles[]

administrator • admiral • agent • aide • ambassador • artist • assistant chief engineer • astronaut • astronomer • author • bureaucrat • captain • chair • chief • chief engineer • chief medical officer • Chief of Starfleet Operations • Chief of Starfleet Science Operations • chief science officer • chief scientist • clerk • commander • commanding officer • commodore • communications officer • consultant • councillor • crewman • Deputy Chief of Starfleet Science Operations • deputy director • diplomat • director • doctor • ensign • executive officer • explorer • Federation Secretary of Science • fiancé • first officer • freshman • governor • gunner • Head of Research • helmsman • High Teer • historian • inspector • junior clerk • junior researcher • lieutenant • lieutenant commander • line officer • Masters of Gol • mathematician • medical technician • medtech • nurse • petty officer • philosopher • physician • physicist • poet • politician • President of the United Federation of Planets • professor • protestor • pyromaniac • quantum physicist • queen • rear admiral • refugee • researcher • scholar • schoolmatron • science adviser • scientist • security chief • security guard • second officer • senior officer • senior physicist • sergeant • sharpshooter • slave • slaver • social worker • sociologist • soldier • special agent • staff officer • subcommander • technician • temporal agent • temporal refugee • temporal physicist • theorist • theoretician • tourist • trader • transporter operator • vice admiral • xenoarchaeologist • xenohistorian • xenopsychologist

Science and technology[]

agriculture • air tank • algorithm • alternate timeline • alternate reality • anachronism • anemia • anomaly • ansible technology • ansible transmitter • antennae • antidote • antimatter • antimatter containment • antimatter pod • archaeology • artificial gravity • asteroid • astrogator • astronomical unit • atavachron • atmosphere • atomic bomb • attitude control • automatic course preset controls • bairns • bandwidth • beverage dispenser • binary code • bioresearch • black hole • black star • blue star • brown dwarf • Bussard collector • cable • carbon-dioxide scrubber • Cauchy horizon • causal loop • chroniton • chroniton emissions • chroniton field • chronometer • circulatory system • cloaking device • Cochrane equation • coleopteric warp drive • coma • communications • communicator • computer • cordrazine • cosmic dust cloud • cosmic ray • data card • data slate • deflector assembly • deflector coupling • deflector dish • deflector grid • dilithium articulation frame • dilithium circuit • dilithium regulation • disease • disruptor • dissociation • Doppler shift • dwarf planet • ecliptic • EM band • emergency manual monitor • energizer • engineering • entropy • Everett-Wheeler equations • felinoid • Feynman curve • field generator matrix • fire extinguisher • firing mechanism • flamethrower • forcefield • forcefield coil • fusion reactor • G5 star • genetic augmentation • genetic medicine • gravimetric band • gravitational field • gravitomagnetic effect • gravitomagnetic field • graviton • gravity • gravity plate • gravity well • Guardian of Forever • gyroscope • habitable zone • hafnium • hand phaser • Hawking radiation • heads-up display • helm • hologram • homeomorphism • hormone • humanoid • hydrogen • immunity system • immunization • implosion • impulse deflection crystal • impulse engine • infrared • intercom • intermix chamber • interphase • interphase psychosis • interspace • interspatial fissure • interspatial rift • ion storm • isolation suit • Isomorphic compound • Kerr singularity • life support belt • light • light year • lightning rod • luminosity • magnetic constrictor • magnetic field • Manheim equation • manual override lever • mass • master regulator • master systems display • master timeline display • mathematics • matter-antimatter reaction chamber • medicine • megalith • memory • meteoroid • microwave • Minshara class • missile • Möbius strip • moon • nacelle pylon • navigational sensor dome • neutrino • neutron star • neurology • neutrino • nodal sphere • nonlinear quantum mechanics • nova • Novikov loop • nuclear platform • oil lamp • padd • paradox • phase discriminator • phase injector • phase lock • phaser • phaser bank • phaser emitter • pheromone • photon mine • photon torpedo • physics • plague • planet • planetoid • plasma injector • plasma shock • plasma stream • plasma torpedo • plastiskin • pocket dimension • polarity • polarized hull plating • power transfer conduit • predestination paradox • pregnancy • probe • prototype • psionic energy • puberty • pulsar • quantum circuitry • quantum coordinates • quantum dating • quantum entanglement • quantum equations • quantum gravitational theory • quantum history • quantum information • quantum linearity • quantum mechanics • quantum physics • quantum reality • quantum resonance • quantum signature • quantum slipstream drive • quantum theory • radar • radiation • radiation sickness • radio metrics display • red dwarf • reintegration • resonance pulse • satellite • Schrödinger equation • science • scope • self-causative loop • sensor • sensor dome • shield harmonic • shock absorber • singularity • slingshot effect • solar flare • solar wind • soliton warp bubble • space amoeba • spacetime continuum • spacetime topology • spatial distortion • spatial fold • spatiotemporal quantum state • Split Infinite • star • star system • stellar magnetosphere • stellar spectra • structural integrity • subcutaneous transponder • subspace • subspace anomaly • subspace band • subspace beacon • subspace confluence • subspace field • subspace geodesic • subspace manifold • subspace metric • subspace transceiver • subspace transporter • supernova • swirl-chamber intermix reactor • syncope • taranium • technology • telepathy • temperature • temporal distortion • temporal drive • temporal dynamics • temporal energy • temporal phenomenon • temporal physics • temporal theory • temporal tricorder • temporal warp • terraform • theoretical physics • theoretical physics database • theory of general relativity • theragen • thermodynamics • thruster • time bomb • time field • time jump • time loop • time machine • time portal • time rift • time travel • time vortex • time warp • timeline • torpedo launcher • tractor beam • transporter • transporter emitter • transtator • transuranic element • tri-ox • tricorder • tritanium • Vard equation • Vedala confluence drive • viewscreen • voder • warp coil • warp core • warp drive • warp engine • warp geometry • warp nacelle • warp plasma conduit • warp reactor • warp signature • wave analyzer • wave theory • white dwarf • wormhole • X-ray

Time and events[]

1930 • 1968 • 1969 • 2202 • 2298 • 2366 • 2381 • 2140s • 20th century • April • August • century • Common Era • day • December • Earth-Romulan War • Eugenics Wars • February • Federation-Klingon War of 2267 • Friday • Greenwich Mean Time • Gregorian Calendar • January • July • June • March • May • millisecond • Monday • month • November • October • second • September • Space Age • stardate • Temporal Cold War • time • Tuesday • War of Kentin • Wednesday • week • World War II • World War III • year • Year of ShiKahr

Other references[]

armillary sphere • art • art deco • audit • auxiliary control • bench • Bible • bijective map • botanical garden • branch office • bribe • bunker • bureaucracy • burlesque revue • bush • Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) • catwalk • Centauran oak • cher-wit • chimera • chronometric sensor protocol • city • classicism • cold start • colonial history • colony • colony supply run • Constitution of the United States of America • continent • court martial • dais • Damoclean • death penalty • Declaration of Independence • deity • desert • dinosaur • distress signal • drydock • elephant • The End of Eternity • engineering • espionage • evasive maneuver • execution • extinction • famine • Federation Standard • fez • Flag of the United States of America • flagship • footbridge • Frankenstein • gang warfare • General Order 7 • geyser • gnat • golf • government • Greek language • greenskin • hangar • helmet • history • history book • horse • humpback whale • industrial • interrogation • jasmine tea • Jefferies tube • jewelry • joke • kahs-wan • kal-if-fee • Kir'Shara • Kol-ut-Shan • Kolinahr • ladder • Latin • le-matya • literature • logic • loophole • Louis XVI table • Lunar golf • lynx • maintenance crawlway • mating bond • medical degree • medical kit • meditation • military • mind meld • mushroom • muzzle • neuropressure • nuclear arms race • observation gallery • ocean • oceanographic report • Omicron spore • Organian Peace Treaty • painting • patrol route • pattern Sulu-Gamma • poetry • politics • pon farr • pre-warp civilization • primary hull • Prime Directive • privacy screen • promotion • protest • racquetball • record • regulation • religion • report • research • resignation • restaurant • robe • sand sculpture • Saurian brandy • scarf • science station • sculpture • scuttling • secondary hull • sewer • Shakedown cruise • shore leave • silk • situation room • slavery • stable • star chart • starvation • subcouncil • subdivision • subspace transmitter junction • superpower • sword • t'hy'la • t'kam'la • tapestry • thesis • tour of duty • tree • unidentified flying object • Victorian house • vote • water

Timeline[]

Chronology[]

2266 - 2275
2383

Production history[]

published order
Previous novel: Watching the Clock	Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations	Next novel: The Collectors
Previous story: The Struggle Within	Stories by: Christopher L. Bennett	Next story: A Choice of Futures

Appendices[]

External links[]

Forgotten History article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
Author's Annotations

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Forgotten History

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