 The Eugenics Wars , first mentioned in " Space Seed " , are stated in the Star Trek Chronology by Michael and Denise Okuda as taking place between 1992 and 1996 . They considered it fortunate that these events did not come to pass in the real world , and noted that the development of the Botany Bay in 1996 as an instance of where " Star Trek 's technological predictions have missed by a significant margin . " The war itself has been referenced elsewhere in the Star Trek franchise . The first mention of the wars following " Space Seed " was in the Star Trek : The Animated Series episode " The Infinite Vulcan " , in which a cloned version of Dr. <unk> <unk> , a scientist from that era , clones Spock . Later , during the production of " Doctor Bashir , I Presume ? " , writer René Echevarria , seeking a secret past for Doctor Julian Bashir , noted that coverage of the issue of eugenics in Star Trek had been limited to Khan and his followers . Fellow writer Ronald D. Moore decided to link the background of Bashir to genetic engineering . However , " Encounter at Farpoint " and Star Trek First Contact confused matters by saying WWIII ( aka The Eugenics Wars ) had occurred in the 2050s . Furthermore , when Echevarria wrote that the Eugenics Wars took place 200 years before the Deep Space Nine episode " Doctor Bashir , I Presume ? " , he took the time interval directly from The Wrath of Khan , failing to factor in the additional century between the events of the The Original Series ( and its associated films ) . 
