Brotherhood of the Aryan Race

The Brotherhood of the Aryan Race was a secret society of neo-| Nazis.

Formation
Sometime after 1945, fanatical members of the former | Nazi Party took an oath to keep the "predictions" of Adolf Hitler true: namely, to have the "Third Reich" last for a thousand years.

Old Earth Involvement
At first, the Brotherhood was silent, secretly circumventing the rise of both capitalism and communism throughout the Earth during the Cold War. Some of the more fanatical heads would incite the white youth of the United States of America (mostly in southern states, where the Ku Klux Klan was sympathetic to their goals, but just as many in other regions) to join neo-| Nazi parties, every one of which parties being subservient to the Brotherhood.

With the fall of Communist Russia, many of the nations of Europe faced the opportunity to embrace free enterprise for themselves. But the Brotherhood's elders made sure that Brotherhood-sympathizers were put into power, who would encourage socialism, an economic system favored by the autocratic Brotherhood.

During the chaos of the early 21st Century, the Brotherhood manipulated the world leaders to begin World War III. Their goal was to bring the world into chaos, where mini-dictatorships, led or influenced by the Brotherhood no less, would start to take over the world. This goal was, for the greater part, achieved until First Contact. Zefram Cochrane called for the unification of Earth that they might achieve their evolutionary purpose: exploring the stars.

After First Contact
The Brotherhood then began to influence the "great-minds" of the Cochrane Movement into taking violent measures against those deemed to be "socially inferior" or "intellectually backwards", turning the Cochrane Movement into a Fourth Reich. Though the emblem of the Brotherhood was never officially unveiled, elders of the Brotherhood were in key positions of the Movement.

Influence in the United Federation of Planets
The Brotherhood continued to survive throughout the 22nd Century, mostly by reminding the United Earth governments that it was by their power that the Cochrane Movement ever united Earth for them. The Brotherhood was never publically declared, but members took places in the newly formed Starfleet. By the creation of the United Federation of Planets, there was at least one Brotherhood member and/or supporter for every one hundred non-Brotherhood Humans or aliens.l

John Gill, noted historian, was a member of the Brotherhood and attempted to create a Federation colony openly loyal to the Brotherhood, but he failed in doing so. By the 23rd Century, the Brotherhood had almost become fully integrated into the Federation.

Decline
After the deaths of the main Brotherhood Inner Circle between 2344 and 2346, the Brotherhood began to lose influence in the Federation as more and more non-Human Federation Council members were promoted, along with a new admiralty.

Reemergence
When Edward Shield and the Enterprise-C departed into the future, the entire Federation believed them to be dead. At this time, the Brotherhood began to take dominance slowly and in the shadows once again. By 2380, it had returned to its former glory with Jean-Luc Picard as its strongest supporter.
 * ''Picard believes in the divinity of Man more than he does anything else. The Brotherhood gained his support claiming to be a movement involving the peaceful removal of ICR and other religious organizations that began to appear in the 24th Century; ironically enough, the Brotherhood supports the Anglo-Saxon dominance theory of | Nazi Germany, which crushed Picard's native France in World War II.