87 Issue Federation Timeship Aeon
87 Issue Federation Timeship Aeon
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SHIP PROFILE
T
he Aeon was a small Federation timeship
from the 29th century. At approximately six
meters long, it was a single-seater craft and its
The Aeon was a sleek cockpit had barely enough room for the pilot.
craft and its exterior had a The Aeon was equipped with a hyper-impulse
matte finish that gave it a
drive, but it was also capable of traveling to any
stealth-like appearance.
By emitting a pulse via its time and place in the universe. By emitting a
navigational deflector, the specialized kind of pulse through its navigational
Aeon could create a deflector beneath the nose of the ship, it could
spatial distortion through
open an artificial spatial rift. This was a distortion in
which it could travel to
another time and place. the space-time continuum – a kind of rip or tear in
space – through which the craft could enter and
emerge in a particular time and place that had
been set by the pilot.
AEON
to destroy Voyager. The Aeon emerged from
a spatial rift in 2373 directly in front of Voyager.
Without explanation, Braxton immediately
charged his ship’s sub-atomic disruptor and fired
at Voyager. Despite the Aeon’s small size, its
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SHIP PROFILE AEON OVERVIEW SHIP PROFILE
u Captain Janeway
and her crew eventually
tracked the Aeon to a
secret room in Henry
Starling’s building. He
had studied the ship’s
advanced technology
and understood it enough
to reverse engineer a
whole host of computer
hardware that was new
to the 20th century.
Back in the 20th advanced weapon took out Voyager’s shields and perform an emergency beam out before his ship future where he could acquire more technology. sensors had alerted him to Voyager’s presence in Starling would not
century, Janeway, knocked helm off-line with just one shot. Voyager crashed in a remote mountain range. Before he He could then bring it back to his own time and the 20th century and he had been sent to correct believe Janeway’s warning
Chakotay, Tuvok and that he would cause a
tried returning fire with full phasers, but they had could get back to the Aeon, it was taken by a exploit it to make more money. that anomaly. Janeway asked if he could return massive explosion in the
Paris donned appropriate
clothing and beamed absolutely no effect on the Aeon’s 29th-century young man named Henry Starling. He created Janeway and her crew tried to stop Starling, them to Earth in the 24th century, but this was 29th century if he tried to
down to California to shields. Voyager’s molecular structure began to a microcomputer revolution by cannibalizing but he managed to elude them. Eventually, he against the temporal prime directive. Instead, he travel there. Fortunately,
search for the Aeon. Their Voyager managed to
come apart under the attack, and Janeway was the technology aboard the ship. In the following activated the Aeon’s hyper-impulse drive and opened a rift back to the precise time and location
investigations revealed destroy the Aeon before it
that although the Aeon
forced to be more inventive in fighting back. years, he became one of the wealthiest and most smashed through the top of a skyscraper where in the Delta Quadrant where Voyager had first could travel to the future.
had entered the rift just Desperately trying to save her ship, Janeway influential people on the planet. he kept the ship. Once in orbit, Starling jumped to encountered the Aeon.
a few moments before had Voyager’s deflector beam adjusted to match warp one and initiated the Aeon’s temporal core.
Voyager, it had emerged
in 1967, almost 30
the frequency of the Aeon’s disruptor, thus this TERRIBLE REALIZATION Just as he was about to enter the subspace rift, DATA FEED
years before them. overloaded its emitter. The subspace rift began to Meanwhile, Braxton realized that it was not Voyager fired a photon torpedo that hit the Aeon,
When Captain Braxton first found himself in the 20th
destabilize, pulling both ships inside. In an instant, Voyager that caused the huge catastrophe in blowing it to pieces and closing the rift. century, he tried to confront Henry Starling and get
they emerged halfway across the galaxy in orbit the 29th century, but his own ship. He knew that Seconds later, the rift reopened and the his ship back. Unused to the customs in late 20th-
of Earth. It was not all good news though. While if someone unfamiliar with the Aeon’s controls Aeon appeared. Captain Braxton opened century California, Braxton was out of his depth. No
they had finally reached home, the year was not tried to fly it into the future without recalibrating communications with Voyager, but he had no one in authority listened to him and he was dismissed
2373, but 1996. The Voyager crew later learned the temporal matrix, it would cause a massive knowledge of what had just happened. For him, as a mad man. Eventually, he was confined to a
mental institution and pumped full of antipsychotics.
that although the Aeon had entered the rift just explosion that could destroy the Solar system. the timeline where he traveled to the 20th century
By the time Captain Janeway found him he was living
seconds before them, it emerged in 1967. This was exactly what nearly happened. Starling and Starling had been a computer mogul never on the streets and really had become mentally ill.
It transpired that Braxton had been forced to planned to launch the Aeon and travel to the happened. He was there because his ship’s
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SHIP PROFILE AEON PLAN VIEWS
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CHARMED LIFE
In 1967, Henry Starling was just a young man
when he witnessed the extraordinary sight of
DATA FEED
a strange object crashing to the ground in the Primary temporal field generator There is some debate about whether it
High Sierras of California. Upon investigation,
should be U.T.S. Aeon or U.S.S. Aeon. U.T.S.
he found the Aeon, largely intact. stood for United Time Ship. The ship itself
Over the next 30 years, Starling used had no markings on it indicating its official
his primitive understanding of the Aeon’s name, but other vessels encountered from
technology to launch numerous computer the 29th century still displayed the U.S.S.
prefix, such as the U.S.S. Relativity.
innovations to the market. This made him a
very wealthy man as he built a corporate
empire called Chronowerx Industries.
Like many of his time, Starling’s greed knew
no bounds and he wanted more wealth and
more acclaim. He planned to launch the Sub-atomic disruptor
Aeon and travel to the future, where he could
acquire more technology. He could then bring
it back to his own time and exploit it to make INSULTING THE COPS
more money. When Captain Braxton
When Captain Janeway tracked the was trapped in the
20th century, he
Aeon down to Starling’s building, she tried
called a police officer
to convince him that if he did not precisely Cockpit canopy a “quasi-Cardassian
calibrate the temporal matrix in the Aeon, totalitarian.” This
comment was perhaps
it would cause a massive explosion when it Temporal/warp engine
why he was sent to
emerged in the 29th century. Starling refused a mental institution.
to believe her, or just did not care, and would
not give up the ship. L.A. EARTHQUAKE
Eventually, Starling paid with his life as the Captain Janeway said
Cockpit hatch that the area around
crew of Voyager managed to blow up the
Primary temporal field generator Santa Monica beach
Aeon seconds before it entered a spatial rift
in L.A. sank under
to the 29th century. This reset the timeline 200m of water after
and Starling never discovered the Aeon or the Hermosa quake of
became one of the most powerful magnates 2047. It then became
Sub-atomic disruptor
one of the world’s
on the planet.
largest coral reefs,
home to thousands
of marine species.
HISTORY REPEATING
Temporal shield matrix
When Captain Janeway
has to manually type
to gain access to Henry
Starling’s computer,
she comments that
using this technology is
“like stone knives and
bearskins.” Spock used
this exact phrase when
the Guardian of Forever
portal sent him back to
Thanks to his discovery of the Aeon, Henry Starling was able to
the early 20th century.
use its 29th-century technology to develop a number of computer Hyper impulse drive
innovations in the late 20th century that made him a wealthy man. Navigational deflector/emitter
DESIGNING THE
Rick Sternbach was faced with a tough task when asked to design a FIRST THOUGHTS VOYAGER as production rolled relentlessly on to
“I don’t recall exactly how the Aeon was the next episode, but he was given slightly more
ship even more advanced than usual, but he was up to the challenge. described in the script, but I’m pretty certain it time for the Aeon. “The time between the first story
was always a single-seat craft,” said Sternbach. synopsis and the various script drafts to the final
C
oming up with designs for STAR TREK that fulfilled the brief and met with the approval of “My initial doodles were influenced by sleek fighter sketches was likely a few weeks,” said Sternbach.
starships was a pretty cool job, but the producers. Inspiration could never leave you, aircraft, particularly stealth fighter concepts and “In the case of the Aeon, we had to build the
certainly not an easy one. On a weekly as the next ship was always just around the corner. the more dart-like exo-atmospheric research cockpit interior as a practical set, so I had some
episodic show like STAR TREK: VOYAGER, the Fortunately, senior illustrator Rick Sternbach aircraft designs. My first finished sketch included an time to redraw the ship to better reflect what the
pressure was always there to deliver another ship always appeared to be full of great ideas when ejectable cockpit module, but that was eliminated set designers were doing, and get those sketches
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DESIGNING THE SHIP
CRUCIAL BATTLE
In one possible timeline, the 26th century was also
seen in the STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE episode ‘Azati
Prime.’ Captain Archer was taken there by
Crewman Daniels to see the Battle of Procyon V
from the observation deck of the U.S.S. Enterprise
NCC-1701-J. This was the final battle between the
Federation and the Sphere-Builders that resulted in
a decisive victory for the Federation, as the
Builders were driven back into their trans-
and it seemed most of them centered on the concerns of time travel. for scientific research purposes, as long as it did
not contaminate the timeline.
T
The U.S.S. Relativity he Aeon was from the 29th century, but what 24th century in a time-travel pod. This future vessel Much more was known about the 29th century
was from the 29th do we actually know about the STAR TREK was only about five meters in length and was thanks to the STAR TREK: VOYAGER episodes
century, and was one
universe beyond the 24th century? Not that constructed from a plasticized tritanium mesh, ‘Future’s End, Part I & II’ and ‘Relativity.’ We
of the few ships seen in
STAR TREK built after much, but there were a few episodes that hinted a material that 24th-century sensors were unable learned that time travel had become common
the 24th century. It was at what might be taking place. to penetrate to scan inside. It produced a enough that the Temporal Integrity Commission
designed to stop any One of the first mentions was in the STAR TREK: temporal distortion when traveling through time. had been set up. This Federation agency
changes to the timeline
caused by time travel.
THE NEXT GENERATION episode ‘A Matter of Time.’ Rasmussen was originally going to be played by protected the timeline from any changes caused
In it, a man named Berlinghoff Rasmussen claimed the late Robin Williams, but a scheduling clash by time travel. Vessels such as the Aeon and the The temporal agent known as Daniels took Captain Archer to the 26th century and showed
to be from the 26th century, and arrived in the prevented him from taking the role as he had U.S.S. Relativity NCV-474439-G used their sensors him that the Federation would win the war against the Sphere-Builders at the Battle of Procyon V.
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STAR TREK HISTORY
TEMPORAL TECHNOLOGIES
Both the Aeon and the Relativity were able to
open a subspace rift through which they could
travel to a specified time and place. As the
The U.S.S. Relativity was equipped with a temporal transporter which, in conjunction with other Relativity was much larger that the Aeon, and
technologies, could beam an individual to a precise moment and location anywhere in the universe.
stood a greater chance of being discovered, it
was able to send a single person to a particular
time and location using a temporal transporter.
The Relativity was equipped with temporal
communications that allowed them to stay in
audio contact with an operative, who had been
sent through time. It also possessed a number of temporal beacon and within seconds it had included a holographic database that contained
holomatrix rooms, the 29th-century equivalent of vanished, presumably having been retrieved a huge amount of information including
holodecks, that allowed them to run simulations by its owners from the future. schematics of starships over numerous centuries.
before operatives were sent into action. He also had an interphase device that allowed
While hardly anything was shown about the 30th FUTURE WAR him to pass through solid objects.
century, there were various episodes of STAR TREK: We also learned from several STAR TREK: The 31st century was as far in the future as
ENTERPRISE that alluded to the 31st century. By this ENTERPRISE episodes such as ‘Shockwave, STAR TREK really went, although in the STAR TREK:
point, time travel was so commonplace that a Part I & II’ that there was some kind of Temporal DEEP SPACE NINE episode ‘Chrysalis,’ Jack, a
quantum discriminator was found in every school Cold War going on in the 31st century. This was genetically-engineered genius, had a startling
desk. This piece of technology could determine a conflict fought between several time-traveling prediction. He believed that in 60-70 trillion years,
Henry Starling stole the mobile holo-emitter from the timeship Aeon. It allowed the Doctor to the precise moment in time to send a signal when factions, each trying to manipulate history for the universe would collapse in on itself, bringing
exist in any environment and not just on a holodeck where there were permanent holo-emitters.
communicating through time. their own benefit. an end to all history – STAR TREK or otherwise.
In 2152, Enterprise NX-01 discovered a time travel They were opposed by a group of Federation
Jack underwent
pod from the 31st century in the episode ‘Future temporal agents, such as Daniels, who were trying an illegal genetically-
Tense.’ The exterior of the pod was just six meters to protect the timeline. Daniels first appeared engineered procedure
long, but due to some kind of spatial phenomenon aboard the Enterprise in 2151, posing as a steward. as a child that
dramatically increased
it was much bigger on the inside. The hull was He appeared at various times over the next few
his intelligence. He
composed of a number of materials, one of which years as he tried to help Captain Archer and his believed that in 60-70
was in a semi-fluidic state, and it had no visible crew fight Cold War factions, such as the Sphere- trillion years time the
means of propulsion. It was equipped with organic Builders, the Vosk and the Na’kuhl. universe would collapse
in on itself, bringing an
circuitry and could absorb electromagnetic Daniels utilized a host of 31st-century technology end to life everywhere.
radiation, meaning it did not register on sensor to help him carry out his task. This included a
technology of the 22nd century. Temporal Observatory, a mind-boggling
The Enterprise crew found a lone pilot inside the holographic representation of the time stream.
craft who had died, while the pod was emitting The display was projected by a space-time
temporal radiation that had a time-distorting and scanner and it allowed him to view the activities
The Enterprise NX-01 crew discovered a 31st-century time-travel pod. At first, they were unable
disorienting effect on those in close proximity. being carried out by various time travelers.
to get inside it, but when they did, they found it was larger on the inside than it was on the outside. Commander Tucker managed to reactivate its Other technology Daniels had access to
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opens fire. When Captain Janeway They find that it has been stolen by
retaliates in defense, Braxton declares Henry Starling, who saw it crash land in
his mission is to destroy Voyager as it is 1967. In the following years, he utilized its
responsible for the destruction of the technology to start a high-tech empire,
sol system in his era. Janeway does not which made him one of the wealthiest With minor changes, the cockpit interior
back down and the Aeon is damaged. people on the planet. He now plans to of the Aeon was later reused as the pilot’s
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