CaptainJean-Luc Picard joins the Enterprise-D's senior staff's regular off-duty poker game for the first time, after an unforgettable temporal experience.
Chakotay, along with his crewmembers B'Elanna Torres, Tuvok and dozens of other Maquis are transported to the Delta Quadrant by an entity known as "The Caretaker". The Starfleet vessel Voyager, commanded by CaptainKathryn Janeway is assigned to find them, but is also transported to the Delta Quadrant the same way. The two crews merge and begin the long seven-year journey back home.
In the Delta Quadrant, Lieutenant junior gradeThomas Paris becomes the first Human to break the transwarp threshold. However, after his historic flight, he begins to mutate. Eventually, he escapes from Voyager and takes CaptainKathryn Janeway with him in a shuttle designed to go to transwarp. Janeway mutates as well. The two mate and have offspring. They are returned back to their original forms by the Doctor.
Former Chief Engineer of the Livingston, Matthew MacTavish, is released from prison and receives a permanent demotion to the rank of Senior chief petty officer for his punishment. His first assignment as a senior chief is to scrub the plasma conduits on a Starfleet garbage scow under maximum security for six months.
The USS Arella-D saucer section arrives at Deep Space 9 after the heavily damaged stardrive section developed a warp core breach and was destroyed in the Gamma Quadrant.
CommanderWilliam T. Riker passes up another command position and joins the rest of the senior staff and crew aboard the new Sovereign-class USS Enterprise-E under the presumption that Picard would be given command over the ship.
2373
The Dominion War begins at the end of this year. All of the Starfleet personnel on starbase Deep Space 9 evacuate before the Jem'Hadar and Cardassians board the station. Just before the Starfleet crews leave, the computer banks on station are rigged to be destroyed by Chiefs Deon Bennett and Miles O'Brien, so that these are rendered be unusable by the Dominion.
After serving on the USS Defiant for a few months into the Dominion War, Chief Deon Bennett is called out to the front lines on planet AR-558. The platoon commanded by Bennett is surrounded by Jem'Hadar soldiers, however Bennett is able to save the platoon by destroying a Starfleet plasma container, which kills all of the Jem'Hadar closing on them. During the engagement, Bennett loses his left arm, but it is replaced by a bio-synthetic one. For this action, Bennett is given the Starfleet Medal of Valor and is promoted to Senior chief petty officer.
Chief Matthew MacTavish transfers to Deep Space 9 after it is retaken by the Federation. He is assigned to station maintenance, working under EnsignNog.
Maximus Hunter is given command over the first ever permanently operating mobile fleet of Starfleet, the First Fleet, in the middle of the Dominion War, which was composed of 113 ships and had a Sovereign-class starship as its flagship, the USS Ark Royal.
2375
The Dominion War ends.
The Second Battle of Chin'toka - three hundred and eleven allied ships are destroyed.
The USS Poseidon is destroyed while attempting to save several Federation Council Members.
The prototype Pathfinder-classStarship, USS Pathfinder (NX-90000) was launched and shakedown cruise shortly thereafter.
The Klingons convicted of commandeering the USS Livingston in 2367 are scheduled to be released from a Federation Rehabilitation facility in this year.
The USS Venture is launched from Chi Ceti VI Orbital Shipyards.
CommanderWilliam Riker Riker and Deanna Troi finally resumed their romantic relationship after feeling the rejuvenating effects of the metaphasic radiation inherent to the adopted homeworld of the Ba'ku. While in temporary charge of the Enterprise-E, an armed conflict with the Son'a in the Briar Patch gave birth to the Riker Maneuver, a strategy he used in beating the enemy ship.
The USS Valkyrie is launched, and sent on a shakedown cruise to Romulus, carrying Federation delegates.
The Romulan-Federation Alliance begins, with the sharing of some technology, such as Quantum torpedoes and cloaking generators. The two governments begin a joint mission program.
Senior technician Kenneth Cardinal is arrested by Federation authorities and is court martialed for running experiments on magnesite, which is illegal under Federation law.
The USS Abrams is launched from the Serophian VII Orbital Shipyards.
After the USS Voyager successfully returns to Earth, Pathfinder project officer, Chief Deon Bennett resigns from Starfleet and begins a new career as an architect.
CommanderWilliam Riker is forced to take command of the USS Enterprise-E after Picard's competence was called into question after an incident at the Rashanar Battle Site that resulted in the destruction of the USS Juno, with all hands, and the seeming destruction of an Ontailian vessel.
CaptainJean-Luc Picard is ordered to Romulus by Starfleet, after a military coup results in a new government being formed, and peace overtures were made towards the Federation. This is discovered to be a ploy of the new Praetor, Shinzon of Remus, to lure the Enterprise to Romulus so he can capture Picard and use his DNA to stabilize his own dying body. The USS Enterprise-E is seriously damaged by Shinzon's ship, the Scimitar, during the Battle of the Bassen Rift. Shinzon is killed by Picard and the Scimitar is destroyed when the thalaron energy weapon on his ship is overloaded by CommanderData, who is also killed in the process.
The USS Titan and three Miranda-class supply ships are dispatched to the Romulan Neutral Zone in order to provide relief and try attempt to mediate a power-sharing agreement between the different factions that have stepped forward due to the vacuum created.
Benjamin Sisko is abducted into the mirror universe and helps convince the Terran scientist Jennifer Sisko to join the rebellion. He seems to toy with the idea of going to the Romulans, but decides against it. DS9: "Through the Looking Glass".
The Romulans have been fighting a losing war. A few months after Sisko's visit, the Alliance destroys the Romulans' last stand. In recognition of his contribution to that war, Jean-Luc Picard is made an Alliance regent, but is still subordinate to Worf. He appoints William Riker, his former executive officer, as his commandant of security.
The Alliance is unsuccessful in its efforts to obtain a cloaking device. Regent Worf is captured by the rebels. DS9: "The Emperor's New Cloak"
2376
The Terran Rebellion takes Earth and re-establishes its long-lost empire, reconquering its ancestral holdings and swiftly becoming a dominant power in the Alpha Quadrant once again.