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Events

• The Obsidian Order exposes Legate Tekeny Ghemor's ties to the Cardassian dissident movement.

• The starship USS Equinox is lost in the Badlands, pulled into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker. The ship sets a return course to the Alpha Quadrant, but encounters the Krowtonan Guard, becoming severely damaged while losing half of its crew.

• Tuvok joins Chakotay's Maquis cell as an undercover operative of Star Fleet.

• The starship USS Voyager departs Deep Space 9 on a mission to find the Maquis raider Val Jean. Both ships are thrown 75,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker.

• Several crew members on Voyager, including first officer Cavit, flight controller Stadi, the chief medical officer, and the chief engineer, are killed during the transit to the Delta Quadrant.

• Voyager makes first contact with the Kazon, and the race immediately becomes hostile.

• Neelix (External Link) and Kes join the Voyager crew.

• Deep Space 9 is spared destruction by mere seconds after a legacy counter-insurgency program installed by the station's original Cardassian commander is inadvertently initiated.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway grants field commissions to the Maquis crew.

• The Maquis member Thomas Riker steals the USS Defiant and uses it to expose a Cardassian military buildup in the Orias system.

• With help from Bareil Antos, Kai Winn and Legate Turrel sign the Bajoran-Cardassian Treaty. It sends political shock waves throughout the Alpha Quadrant.

• The Romulan Star Empire sends Ruwon and Karina to Deep Space 9 to take possession of Star Fleet's data on the Dominion. The Romulans also send a Warbird, intending to destroy the station and the wormhole. However, their plan is thwarted by Miles O'Brien, who had foreseen the future and warned Benjamin Sisko.

• Worf is promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

• Dr. Tolian Soran uses a trilithium weapon to collapse the Amargosa star.

• The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D is destroyed over Veridian III. Almost the entire crew survives in the ship's saucer section, which crash lands on the planet.

• Captain James T. Kirk emerges from the Nexus and is killed helping Jean-Luc Picard prevent Dr. Soran from destroying the Veridian system.

• Seska's true roots as a Cardassian spy are revealed. She betrays the Voyager crew and joins the Kazon.

• The Cardassian Obsidian Order together with the Romulan Tal Shiar are lured into a trap, when they attack the Founder's homeworld in the Gamma Quadrant. The following battle leads to the complete destruction of the combined Romulan-Cardassian fleet of twenty ships and severely cripples both organizations, which, in turn, reduces possible resistance against the Dominion by the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

• The Bajoran, Shakaar Edon, a Former Cell Leader in the Bajoran Resistance, becomes First Minister of Bajor's Provisional Government.

• Reginald Barclay transfers to Jupiter Station and works at Dr. Lewis Zimmerman's holographic laboratory to test the Emergency Medical Hologram's interpersonal skills.

• The USS Olympia crashes on a planet in Rutharian sector. Captain Lisa Cusak's distress call is sent three years into the future by the planet's energy barrier and is intercepted by the USS Defiant NX-74205. Captain Cusak dies on the planet.

• It is revealed that the Founders of the Dominion have infiltrated the Alpha Quadrant.

• Martok is captured by the Dominion on Kang's Summit and sent to Internment Camp 371.

• Voyager lands on a planet in the Delta Quadrant and discovers a colony of Humans, including Amelia Earhart, transported to the planet by the Briori centuries prior.

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