1958

Events

• The civilian space agency of the USA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is founded. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture; PIC: "Two of One")
• NASA's Project Mercury is initiated. (PIC: "Two of One")
• The two surviving members of the Vulcan exploration team which crash-landed at Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania are rescued. Before leaving Earth, a new piece of technology is secretly introduced by them: Velcro. (ENT: "Carbon Creek")
• Shannon O'Donnel is born in the United States of America. Her descendants include Captain Kathryn Janeway. (VOY: "11:59")
• This era is requested by William T. Riker as the source of a holosimulation of the Bourbon Street Barn in New Orleans on Earth. (TNG: "11001001")
• Within the Bashir 62 holoprogram, Vic Fontaine, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra lose $15,000 in a blackjack game at the Sands in Las Vegas in which Vic is playing. (DS9: "His Way")

Notes

• Manufacture of the Edsel, a Ford Motor Company vehicle, begins. (Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 229)

Appendices

Episodes

• ENT: "Carbon Creek" (in part)

External link

• 1958 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works