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== Events ==
=== By starship or station ===
; Deep Space 9
* Keiko O'Brien is inhabited by a Pah-wraith who tries to kill the Prophets, but is stopped by Miles O'Brien. The entity is expelled from Keiko's body. ()
* Kirayoshi O'Brien, the second child of Miles and Keiko O'Brien, is born. ()
* Tekeny Ghemor visits Deep Space 9 and undergoes the Shri-tal ritual. He dies shortly after. ()
* A Deep Space 9 salvage team lead by Miles O'Brien visits Empok Nor. ()
* Jake Sisko is successful in obtaining a Willie Mays baseball card for his father Benjamin. ()
* The Second Battle of Deep Space 9 takes place, during which the Dominion takes control of the Bajor sector, including the Federation space station Deep Space 9 at its crucial position next to the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant. ()
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* General Martok is given command of the and is successful in rescuing survivors of the . ()
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* The and its crew are transported back in time to the 23rd century, where they encounter the crew of the and are successful in stopping Arne Darvin from killing James T. Kirk. ()
* The planet Gaia is discovered. Several weeks later the quantum energy barrier that encases the planet becomes impossible to get through, making the planet inaccessible. In an alternate timeline, the Defiant is sent two hundred years backwards through time by the barrier, causing the crew of the ship and their descendants to colonize the planet. ()
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* The second major Borg incursion, the Battle of Sector 001, takes place. The plays a major role in the battle, and later pursues a Borg sphere into the year 2063 to prevent the Borg from interfering with Zefram Cochrane's historic warp flight. ()
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* The is destroyed by the Klingons while protecting the colonists of Ajilon Prime. ()
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* The Doctor uncovers that Commander Chakotay did not father Seska's child, as originally believed. It is revealed the Maje Culluh is in fact the child's true father. ()
* The is retaken by Tom Paris and a group of Talaxians, led by Commander Paxim. Seska is killed during the operation. Voyagers crew is recovered from Hanon IV. It moves beyond the Kazon Collective space once it goes to maximum warp in a nearby nebula. ()
* Lieutenant Tuvok began suffering from a memory virus accidentally transferred to his mind from Dimitri Valtane eighty years previously, in 2293. With Kathryn Janeway acting as his pyllora, the two try to discover the cause of the virus and inadvertently experience memories of Tuvok's first Starfleet posting – the under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu. ()
* B'Elanna Torres begins to have dreams that turn out to be memories implanted by an elderly Enaran woman. ()
* Starfleet Command declares Voyager officially lost with all hands. Kathryn Janeway begins writing letters to her family and fiancé. ()
* Voyager is thrown into the year 1996 after encountering the timeship Aeon. The ship is later returned to this year, but brings along a mobile emitter which allows The Doctor to operate in areas without a holographic generator. ()
* The macrovirus infects the crew aboard Voyager and Kathryn Janeway must find a way to restore her crew. ()
* Voyager enters the Nekrit Expanse. ()
* Vorik begins undergoing pon farr and initiates a mating bond with an unwilling B'Elanna Torres. ()
* In the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager discover a race called the Voth, a species which evolved on Earth and migrated to the Delta Quadrant several million years ago. ()
== Other events ==
* After the real identity of the Klingon General Martok as a Changeling is revealed, the war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire is ended with a temporary cease fire. ()
* A Starfleet team lead by Benjamin Sisko are successful in capturing a Jem'Hadar attack ship. ()
* The Klingons invade Ajilon Prime. ()
* The Q Civil War ends in this year with the birth of . ()
* Worf, Jadzia Dax, Quark, Julian Bashir, and Leeta visit Risa. ()
* Julian Bashir is replaced by a . ()
* Quark and Odo get stranded on a remote class L planet and must work together in order to survive and get back to Deep Space 9. ()
* Starfleet introduces a new uniform which quickly replaces all uniforms in use, with purplish-gray quilted shoulders and department color indicated by the undershirt and the cuffs on the jacket, which are the colors of the shoulder area and undershirt reversed, but the crew aboard Voyager and the crew aboard the continued to use the , due to their ships being stranded in the Delta Quadrant. (; ; )
* Silaran Prin begins his revenge on the Shakaar resistance cell. He kills the majority of its former members, but is stopped by Kira Nerys. ()
* The Borg and Species 8472 go to war after the Borg attempt to invade Species 8472's native fluidic space. ()
* The Dominion invades the Alpha Quadrant. ()
* The Cardassian Union officially joins the Dominion. ()
* The Bashir Changeling is exposed and killed. The real Bashir resumes his post on Deep Space 9 after a five-week confinement in Internment Camp 371. ()
* With the Dominion as their new ally, the Cardassian Union successfully puts an end to the Maquis rebellion in the Demilitarized Zone. ()
* Klingon Chancellor Gowron reinstates the Khitomer Accords with the Federation. ()
* The Dominion signs non-aggression treaties with several powers, including the Romulans, Tholians, Miradorn, and Bajorans. ()
* The Dominion War begins. ()
* A group of Talaxians lead by Oxilon establish an asteroid colony. ()
== Appendices ==
=== Episodes ===
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=== Background information ===
The placement of is somewhat conjectural, based upon trying to reconcile a stardate that would place it towards the very end of the year (right around ) with a passing reference to the events of the movie in . As there was no reference to the Klingon-Federation conflict of the 2370s, best estimates would place First Contact after the cease fire enacted in but before the reinstatement of the Khitomer Accords in and also prior to the events of , as Worf can be seen in First Contact to still be wearing the House of Mogh emblem on his sash and not the House of Martok's.
The Klingon Year of Kahless 999 falls within this Earth year. ()
According to the Star Trek: Picard Logs, the Enterprise-E is launched this year. 
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