Historical report

A historical report was an accounting of historical events.

After having traveled back in time to 1968, Captain James T. Kirk asked Spock for a historical report for that year. The Vulcan noted, "Current Earth crises would fill a tape bank, Captain. There will be an important assassination today, an equally dangerous government coup in Asia, and, this could be highly critical, the launching of an orbital nuclear warhead platform by the United States countering a similar launch by other powers." (TOS: "Assignment: Earth")