Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

Part 47 1980

January 3rd 
United States President Gerald Ford signs a directive for secret aid to the opponents of Afghanistan's government.

January 5th 
KNRS Den Haag arrives at the Ventures Idrilon system (Ferengi system) after traveling eight days to get there. After entering orbit of the fourth planet in the system which houses the seat of government for the Ferengi Alliance, the ship establish contact with Twam, the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. After congratulating the captain of the Ferengi ship that discovered humanity, Twam informs the captain of the KNRS Den Haag that he has pay one hundred slips of gold-pressed latinum for an parking fee before his ship is allowed to orbit the planet.

After a couple of hours of waiting and much grumbling about being robbed blind at this trip, a Dutch delegation is allowed to meet with the Grand Nagus himself. Using a shuttle they fly towards the capitol building where they meet with Grand Nagus Twam. After a couple of hours of discussion the Dutch delegation, after repeatedly explaining that they are not going to sell their ship to the Ferengi Alliance, a deal is made were the Ferengi Alliance can send a delegation to travel onboard the KNRS Den Haag which will head back to the Alpha Centauri system after it has completed its visit to the Venturas Idrilon system.

January 11th
The Japanese Honda Motor Company announces that it will build Japan's first passenger-car assembly plant in Wuhan, China-Nanking.

January 12th
After seven days of orbiting the Ferengi homeworld, the KNRS Den Haag departs the Venturas Idrilon system and begins her journey back towards the Alpha Centauri system. Also onboard the ship is a Ferengi delegation who are going to meet with the governor of Alpha Centauri.

January 18th
After traveling eight days, the KNRS Den Haag arrives in the Alpha Centauri system and thus brings the first Dutch contact with the Ferengi Alliance to an end.

January 20th
The Ferengi delegation meets with the governor of Alpha Centauri, the Dutch State Secretary of Foreign Affairs (a junior member of the cabinet), ambassador of the Confederacy of Vulcan and the ambassador of the Andorian Empire in Nieuw Batavia.

January 21st
The Ferengi delegation visit the Alpha Centauri Nationale Handelsbank located in Nieuw Batavia, where they meet with the president of the largest (and only) bank on Proxima Centauri b.

January 24th
A Ferengi who is part of the Ferengi delegation is arrested by the police after attempting to bribe his way onto Nieuw Batavia space force base (1). After meeting with the Chief of Police (Hoofdcommissaris) of the Alpha Centauri Police, the head of the Ferengi delegation agrees that the Ferengi in question is placed under house arrest for the duration of the visit to Proxima Centauri b.

January 26th
Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.

Despite the incident at Nieuw Batavia space force base, the six day visit of the Ferengi delegation to Proxima Centauri b comes to an positive end when the delegation boards the KNRS Den Haag which will take them back to the Ferengi homeworld.

February 3rd
KNRS Den Haag arrives for the second time at the Venturas Idrilon system (Ferengi system) and returns the Ferengi delegation that had spent six days visiting Proxima Centauri b.

February 7th
The KNRS Den Haag departs the Venturas Idrilon system and begins her eight day journey back to the Alpha Centauri system. While no new Ferengi delegation is onboard, an agreement was made between the Netherlands and the Ferengi Alliance that permanent relations could be established in due time.

February 12th
Former County-class destroyer HMS Devonshire (decommissioned in 1978) is sold to the Dominion of Ceylon and becoms HMCyS Vijaya (2), flagship of the Royal Ceylon Navy (3).

February 15th
KNRS Den Haag arrives in the Alpha Centauri system.

January 23rd
In the State of the Union address by President Gerald Ford he talks about the Ford Doctrine and the need to safeguard United States interest in the Persian Gulf.

March 5th 
Amsterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij begins construction on the first of two Rotterdam-class amphibious assault ships that are based on the Normandy-class amphibious assault ships in use with the United States Navy. The Rotterdam-classwill when completed in 1985 be some the biggest ships to enter into service with the Royal Netherlands Navy and will be used to provide amphibious assault capability for the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps.

March 10th
A KLm pilot is killed when his Fokker D-24 tornado M.3 fighter crashes into the Ijsselmeer.

March 12th
The third Imperial Japanese Navy Type C5 nuclear-powered attack submarine, I-79 is launched.

March 13th
The third Imperial Japanese Navy Shirane-class cruiser, IJN Azumaya is launched.

March 15th
The third Roosevelt-class aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson is launched at Newport News Shipbuilding.

March 18th
Fifty people are killed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union when a Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.

March 19th
King Juan Carlos of Spain begins a three-day state visit to the Netherlands.

March 21st
President Gerald Ford announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

March 22nd
From Cape Canaveral Space Center, the space shuttle Columbia launches on its third orbital flight test (OFT-3).

March 23rd
The Netherlands Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow despite several countries boycotting it due the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

After a year of investigating the possibility that another nation on Earth will develop warp capability, the MID hands its report to the oversight commission (the Netherlands shadow government). In the report it states that if the United States continues their current course into space with their space shuttle program and their Independence-class program (previous know as NP-100 project), then it will be able to develop their own warp program by the end of the 1990s.

March 24th
Mars base Utopia Planitia is closed, leaving only Mars base Hellas the only manned KNRD base in the Sol system.

March 29th
After completing a 7 day flight, the space shuttle Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending the third manned test flight of the space shuttle which also is the longest space shuttle flight since the start of the Space shuttle program.

April 6th
The second S-1 Darkstar Mark I space plane is delivered onboard an USAF Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft to Midway Naval Test Range, where it will be placed on top of a Titan 3C booster and used for the second manned mission of the space plane.

April 7th
The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran as a result of the occupation of the United States embassy in Tehran which began on November 4th and ended in November 20th the previous year when the Iranians released all 30 hostages they were holding.

April 9th

The missile transport ship USNS Robert H. Goddard delivers the 42 meter long Titan 3C booster to Midway Island, needed to launch the S-1 Darkstar Mark I into orbit.

April 11th
The Chairman of the Romulan Tal Shiar is briefed by the Director of the Intelligence Analysis Division of the Tal Shiar who tells him that the unknown object which self-destructed (January 21st, 1979) when it was spotted by one of their patrolling ships and later recovered by the Tal Shiar is most likely tied to the forces who destroyed their Coridan invasion fleet. A couple of hours later the Chairman of the Romulan Tal Shiar meets with the Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire, Nerom who was the mastermind of the destruction of Coridan III and the invasion of the Coridan system. After being briefed by the Chairman, the Praetor decides that the destruction of these unknown aliens is the newest priority for the empire and that the massive fleet that is being constructed at shipyards orbiting the planet of Remus are the means to do it.

April 15th
KNRS Arnhem completes her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.

April 18th
The Alpha Centauri Bureau of Statistics hands down a new report to KNRD command of the number of Dutch people living in the colonies of Proxima Centauri b (30,000) and Alpha Centauri VI (800).

April 24th
The third Kortenaer-class frigate, Hr.Ms. Van Kinsbergen is commissioned with the Royal Netherlands Navy.

April 25th
Twelve United States Army personal belonging to United States Forces China (4) are killed in a mid-air collision when their Boeing CH-47 Chinook collides with a United Republic of China Army AH-1J Cobra attack helicopter during a training mission.

April 29th 
Using information provided by the Netherlands Don’t Ask How foreign intelligence briefing A SAS unit belonging to the British Army manages to arrest a six-man terrorist team calling itself the "Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan" in their hideout before they are able to react.

April 30th
On the day of her 71st birthday, Queen Juliana abdicates the throne and her daughter Beatrix becomes queen of the Netherlands.

May 4th
Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito dies.

May 11th
After being briefed by the administrator of the imperial space development agency of Japan, Prime Minister Kadomatsu gives the official authorization for the building of a 9 ton space laboratory called Uchuukichi-Ichi (English: space station-1) to be in orbit in 1985, which will be followed by a more advanced space laboratory complete with cargo ship called Uchuukichi-Ni. The project will culminate with Uchuukichi-San which will consist of a 20-ton core module, 2 smaller research modules and a cargo transport craft to be in orbit in the year 1994.

May 14th
In Japanese Korea, the Kempeitai (Imperial Japanese Army military and secret police) clashes with demonstrators at the gate of Chonnam University in the city of Gwangju who protest the decision by the Governor-General of Korea to close the University.

May 15th
With the number of demonstrator increased to more than 10,000 around the Chonnam University more then 686 soldiers belonging to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force 2nd parachute raiding regiment arrive to help the Kempeitai in dispersing the still increasing group of demonstrators.

May 17th
In Japanese Korea, the Governor-General of Korea and chief administrator of the Japanese government in Korea extends martial law to the entire Korean peninsula in response to demonstrations which began on May 14th near and around Chonnam University in the city of Gwangju.

May 18th
The use of the Imperial Japanese Army against students has inspired an increase in demonstrations and in response the Governor-General of Korea announces the closure of universities, prohibits gatherings and increases press censorship.

May 19th
The second S-1 Darkstar Mark I space plane is mated with the Titan 3C booster at its launch pad located at Midway Naval Test Range.

May 20th
Demonstrations continue in the city of Gwangju and as result the Governor-General of Korea takes responsibility "for failure to maintain order" and resigns his duties as Governor-General, with his duties being taken over by the commander of the Japanese Korean Army who has been ordered by prime minister Kadomatsu to restore order at all cost.

The Timor Sea Treaty is signed by Australian Prime Minister John Malcolm Fraser, East Timorese Prime Minister Francisco Xavier do Amaral and Dutch Prime Minister Willem Bakker. The treaty will see joint petroleum exploration of the Timor Sea by the three countries.

May 21st
The Imperial Japanese Army moves two divisions into the city of Gwangju, Japanese Korea and crushes the demonstrations going on there, but at the cost of 1,650 deaths.

May 23nd
With the Imperial Japanese Army restoring order in the city of Gwangju, more than 2,576 people has been arrested by the Kempeitai for involvement in the demonstrations.

The European Space Agency conducts the second launch of its Ariane 1 orbital launch vehicle happens from French Guiana Space Centre.

May 25th
For the second time a manned S-1 Darkstar Mark I space plane is successfully launched from Midway Naval Test Range.

May 26th
After a full day of orbiting the manned S-1 Darkstar Mark I space plane glides back towards Edwards’s air force base, completing the second manned S-1 Darkstar space flight.

June 1st
The Cable News Network (CNN) is officially launched.

June 10th
LTV Aerospace hands over the two designs (5) for the planned space capable missile to the United States Space Force Command who will select one of them to build into a working prototype for use onboard the nuclear powered Independence-class spaceship.

June 13th
The upgraded Phobos weapon platform orbiting Mars comes online. Now armed with 100 Mark I photon torpedoes, 4x2 phaser banks and a new force field protecting the automated facility, the Phobos weapon platform is Earth’s first line of defense until the much larger Callisto weapon base on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, becomes operational in a years time.

June 14th
Midway Naval Test Range and Area 51 control is transferred to the semi–secret United States Space Force Command located at Clear Air Force Station located in Alaska.

June 27th
Space shuttle Columbia launches on it’s third orbital flight test (OFT-4), when it takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Center.

July 4th
After 7 days in space, space shuttle Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base and ends the fourth manned test flight of the space shuttle and the first flight with three astronauts onboard.

July 11th
The first of four Invincible-class aircraft carriers (6), HMS Invincible is commissioned in the British Royal Navy, joining the two Audacious-class aircraft carriers and Centaur-class light aircraft carriers in service.

July 16th
President Gerald Ford is nominated for a second term at the Republican National Convention in Detroit together with Vice-President John Jacob Rhodes.

July 26th
The former Shah of Iran dies of cancer at the age of 60 in Egypt.

July 28th
Second I-600-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, I-601 is launched at Kure naval arsenal in Hiroshima by the Japanese Imperial Navy.

July 30th
Former Leader of Panama Omar Torrijos Herrera is sentenced to forty years in prison by a United States federal court for his involvement in the Panama crisis of 1977.

August 7th
KNRS Arnhem joins KNRS Groningen as part of the Netherlands-Vulcans-Andorians-Tellarites Space Defence Squadron patrolling the Coridan system where they assist the People's Republic of Coridan Space Force which was all but wiped out when the Romulans invaded the Coridan system.

August 8th
The population of Fort Janssen on Alpha Centauri VI reaches the 500 mark.

August 14th
Former United States attorney general Robert F. Kennedy defeats Jimmy Carter to win the Democratic presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.

August 17th
Fourth and last Marlijn-class cruise missile submarine, Hr.Ms. Sardine is commissioned into service.

August 28th
In the United Republic of China, the state rune Aerospace Industries begins construction of an assembly facility for the F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole jet fighter which will replace the 182 F-104 Starfighters in service with the United Republic of China Air Force (7).

September 5th
Former RAF-terrorists Christof Wackernagel and Gert Schneider who were arrested in 1977 by the Netherlands in the city of Amsterdam and handed over to the Germans are sentenced to 7 years in jail for their membership of a terrorist organization.

September 10th
The Netherlands Mission of Support in East Timor is changed into the Netherlands Office in Timor-Leste.

September 12th
The Imperial Space Development Agency of Japan launches their sixth manned spaceflight from Uchinoura space center when Supēsu Matsu (eight) on top a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket reaches Earth orbit.

September 15th
Due to an malfunction, the two Uchuunauts onboard the Supēsu Matsu capsule are forced to return back to Earth where their capsule lands safely in the Sea of Japan and is recovered by the Imperial Japanese Navy Hiryū-class carrier IJN Ryūjō.

September 16th
Former Panamanian national guard commander Manuel Noriega is sentenced to thirty years in prison by a United States federal court for his involvement in the Panama crisis of 1977.

September 18th
Lieutenant Colonel Tamayo Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a pilot in the Cuban Air Defense Force, becomes the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into Earth orbit while also being the first Hispanic and first Black person in space when he takes off onboard the soviet rocket carrying the Soyuz 38 mission.

September 22nd
The Iraqi Air Force launches a surprise airstrikes on ten Iranian airfields with the objective of destroying the Iranian Air Force on the ground.

September 23rd
The Iraq army begins a ground invasion of Iran along a front measuring 644 kilometers in three simultaneous thrusts.

September 28th
All five UN Security Council members (United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union and France and Japan) pass a resolution urging Iran and Iraq to stop the fighting and accept meditation.

October 5th
At Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard, the cloaking system which was designed and built at Nieuw Batavia Wetenschap Institute is installed in the new Experimentele Ruimteschip (Experimental spaceship) under construction for the KNRD. Despite the installing of the cloaking system, it will take at least another year for the new spaceship to be completed.

October 9th
Two years after the devastating Coridan III attack the Royal Netherlands Navy medical service together with the Vulcan Medical Directorate and the Andorian Medic Corps still run more than a dozen refugee camps on the devastated capital world of the People's Republic of Coridan. Lack of food, clean water, medicine, warm beds and power are a constant threat as the planet is still in an ice age and without terraforming will be for centuries.

October 10th
The Dominion of Ceylon SAS regiment is formed as the main elite special force unit of the Dominion of Ceylon Army.

October 15th
Phase II (pre-development) of the British-French space project ends and allows the start of phase III (final development) of the British-French space project to begin.

October 16th
The Empire of Japan performs its twenty-two nuclear test when it detonates a 200 kiloton nuclear bomb in the in the Gobi desert.

November 4th
Incumbent United States President Gerald Ford defeats Democratic challenger Robert F. Kennedy in the United States presidential election of 1980.

November 7th
The first Hatsuyuki-class destroyer, IJN Hatsuyuki, is launched.

November 11th
Space shuttle Columbia launches on its first space shuttle mission (STS-1) when it takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Center as part of a planned two shuttle flight to refurbish the Skylab space station.

November 13th
The Columbia rendezvous with the Skylab space station and begins its five day mission to attach a docking adapter and conduct repairs.

November 15th
The fourth Kortenaer-class frigate, Hr.Ms. Banckert is launched at de Schelde in Vlissingen.

November 18th
After 5 days in space, the Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base, ending its first operational mission, its second time to the Skylab space station and also carrying four astronauts for the first time.

November 20th
In China-Nanking, the Trial of Eight begins where eight high-ranking government officials are charged with crimes against the state (8).

December 10th
At Space Launch Complex-1 located at the semi–secret United States Space Force Command base of Area 51, the Independence-class spaceship USS Independence is lifted into position so that the six Solid Rocket Boosters (also used by the Space Shuttle) can be fitted to the 100 meter long nuclear powered spaceship.

December 12th
Escorted by Tal Prai'ex (9) soldiers, the Emperor of the Romulan Star Empire Valkis VII and Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire Nerom visit the Romulan shipyards orbiting the planet of Remus. Here dozens of shipyards are building large number of Bird-of-Preys for the Romulan Imperial Fleet. The Bird-of-Preys which are being built are not only replacing the 27 Bird-of-Preys lost during the Coridan incident but are also being built for an operation Praetor Nerom is planning to launch in the near future.

December 30th
The last of the six Solid Rocket Boosters is attached to USS Independence and with it the preparations for the launch of the first Independence-class spaceship can begin.

(1) Nieuw Batavia space force base is home to the 1st space fighter squadrons equiped with 24 Zwarte Pijl-class strike fighters and four Type A class shuttles assigned to the Alpha Centauri Police. The second space force base located on Proxima Centauri b is Port Wilhelmina space force base which is used for all shuttles that are not assigned to the ships in service with the KNRD.

(2) Not only has the Dominion of Ceylon Navy the County-class destroyer HMCyS Vijaya in service but also has River-class frigates HMCyS Gajabahu, HMCyS Mahasena and Tiger-class fast attack crafts HMCyS Weeraya, HMCyS Ranakami and HMCyS Jagatha.

(3) HMCyS is short for Her Majesty's Ceylon Ship.

(4) United States Forces China refers to the ground and air divisions of the United States armed forces stationed in the United Republic of China.

(5) The United States Space Force Command has two designs for the space capable missile that the can chose, they are the infrared homing kinetic energy warhead and the infrared homing 1-kiloton nuclear warhead.

(6) The names of the other three Invincible-class aircraft carriers are to be Illustrious, Indomitable and Implacable.

(7) The United Republic of China Air Force not only operates 182 F-104 Starfighters but also operates 140 F-4 Phantoms and 242 F-5 Freedom fighters which were either build on license by Aerospace Industries or received as part of the US Military Assistance Program.

(8) The Trial of Eight is an attempt by the president of China-Nanking Wang Mo-kan to remove those who he feels are a treat to his position by charging them with crimes against the state.

(9) The Tal Prai'ex is an elite organization of warriors present within the Romulan Star Empire and are also known as the Praetorian Guard. They are assigned as the personal guard of the Emperor and the Praetor.