2369

Events

Enterprise-D events

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard is taken captive by Cardassian forces on Celtris III and tortured.
• Worf learns that survivors of the Khitomer Massacre may have been captured and imprisoned by the Romulans.
  • He discovers a former internment camp, learning that the captured Klingons are now living in peace with their Romulan captors.
    Several younger members of the camp decide to leave with Worf, and are sworn to secrecy about the existence of the camp in order to preserve the honor of families back in the Klingon Empire.
• The crew of the Enterprise-D, along with Romulan, Klingon, and Cardassian interests, decipher the last work of Professor Richard Galen, revealing that a race of ancient humanoids is a common ancestor of most species in the Milky Way Galaxy.
• A duplicate of William T. Riker created due to a transporter accident, known as Thomas Riker, is rescued from the outpost on Nervala IV, where he was stranded for eight years.

Other notable events

• Montgomery Scott is discovered to be alive, suspended in the transporter buffer of the USS Jenolan.
• The Cardassian Union ends its occupation of the planet Bajor, which lasted 41 years.
• The mining station Terok Nor in orbit of Bajor is abandoned during the Cardassian retreat.
  The Bajoran Provisional Government requests Star Fleet assistance in maintaining the station, and it is renamed Deep Space 9.
• Commander Benjamin Sisko and Lieutenant Jadzia Dax discover the Bajoran wormhole, the first stable wormhole known to exist.
  • Sisko makes direct contact with the Prophets, becoming the Emissary as prophesied in ancient Bajoran mythology.
• The clerics on Boreth create a clone of Kahless the Unforgettable, hoping to reunite the Klingon people. Worf later uncovers that this Kahless is a clone, and the clone is installed as a ceremonial leader of the Klingon people.

Timeline
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