2376

The following events occurred in the year **2376** according to the Earth calendar and corresponds to the stardate period 53000 to 53999.

## Events

* The first democratic elections take place on Cardassia Prime, and Alon Ghemor becomes Castellan of the Cardassian Union. (*DS9* novel: *A Stitch in Time*)
* **April**: An attack on Deep Space 9 by rogue Jem'Hadar results in the destruction of the USS *Aldebaran* with all hands, and casualties aboard the USS *Defiant*. (*DS9* novel: *Avatar, Part One*)
* **April**: The Bajoran Orb of Memory is recovered from the Cardassian freighter *Kamal*, adrift in the Badlands. (*DS9* novel: *Avatar, Part One*)
* **April**: The Ohalu Prophecies are discovered at the archaeological dig at B'hala. The Vedek Assembly seeks to suppress them, but Colonel Kira Nerys uploads them to the Bajoran comnet, leading Vedek Yevir Linjarin to declare her Attainted in reprisal.
* **April**: Learning of the prophecies of the Avatar and the Herald, Jake Sisko sneaks away from DS9 aboard the shuttlecraft Venture, hoping to find his father in the Bajoran wormhole. He was expelled by the Prophets and thrown over 100 parsecs into the Gamma Quadrant, where he was discovered and rescued by the crew of the *Even Odds*. (*DS9* novel: *Rising Son*)
* **05 May (stardate 53343.7)**: The USS *Enterprise* returns to Ba'ku and undergoes maintenance at Outpost 40 in orbit, while Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lt. Commander Data conduct an archaeological survey of ancient ruins on the planet at the request of the Ba'ku people. (TNG game: *Hidden Evil*)
* Section 31 sends Dr. Ethan Locken, a human augment to the planet Sindorin to investigate an abandoned Jem'Hadar hatchery. Locken goes rogue and beings to plan the takeover of the Alpha Quadrant, styling himself as a successor to Khan Noonien Singh. Agent Cole and Dr. Julian Bashir are dispatched with a small team to stop him. (*DS9* novel: *Abyss*)
* The Gateways Crisis occurs as hundreds, if not thousands, of Iconian gateways become active across the galaxy at once. (*Star Trek: Gateways*; *DS9* novel: *Demons of Air and Darkness*)
* **July**-**September**: The *Defiant* finishes her refit, and departs for the Gamma Quadrant on a three-month exploration mission under the command of Elias Vaughn. (*DS9* novel: *Twilight*)
* **August**: Jake Sisko returns to Bajor, joined by Odo and Opaka Sulan. (*DS9* novel: *Rising Son*)
* **September**: Around this time, its application having been fast-tracked after the end of the Dominion War, Streethia becomes the first planet in the Shackleton Expanse to join the United Federation of Planets. (SOT: "The Fallen King")
* **October**: Riots break out on Trill as the general public learns that over half the population is capable of joining, not merely one in ten-thousand as the Symbiosis Commission had led them to believe. (*DS9* novel: *Trill: Unjoined*)
* **October**: The Sidau village on Bajor is destroyed by a triceron explosive. Ke Hovath and his wife are kidnapped, and the paghvaram is stolen. (*DS9* novel: *Bajor: Fragments and Omens*)
* **October**: A temporal accident in the Delta Quadrant displaces Seven of Nine to the year 2270. She is aided in returning to the present by the crew of that era's USS *Enterprise*. (*VOY* novel: *No Time Like the Past*)
* **October**: Jake Sisko marries Azeni Korena, and they take up residence on Bajor. (*DS9* novel: *Bajor: Fragments and Omens*)
* **31 December**: Shortly after having visited the Female Changeling at Ananke Alpha, Taran'atar brutally attacks Kira Nerys and Ro Laren, and escapes Deep Space 9 aboard the runabout *Euphrates*, kidnapping Ensign Prynn Tenmei. (*DS9* novel: *The Dominion: Olympus Descending*)

### Assignments and promotions

* Doctor Simon Tarses is assigned to Deep Space 9's infirmary this year, under the command of Julian Bashir. Tarses will serve as temporary chief medical officer while Bashir is away aboard the *Defiant*. (*DS9* novel: *Avatar, Book One*, *Mission Gamma*)
* Lieutenant Daniel Hunter transfers to the USS *Nokoni* as a mission operations officer, serving under Captain Aaron Prentice. (*Star Trek: Intrepid*)
* **February**: Having received a commission as a Lieutenant in the Bajoran Militia, in reward for her service to Bajor during the Dominion War, former Maquis Ro Laren becomes the new chief of security on Deep Space 9. (*DS9* novel: *Avatar, Book One*)
* **April**: Commander Elias Vaughn requests reassignment to Deep Space 9, replacing Tiris Jast as the station's executive officer, and captain of the USS *Defiant*. (*DS9* novel: *Avatar, Book Two*)
* **May**: Ensign Sovok transfers from Outpost 40 to the USS *Enterprise*. (TNG game: *Hidden Evil*)
* **November**: Keiko O'Brien accepts a position as director of the Andak Project, and she relocates to Cardassia Prime with her husband and their family. (*DS9* novel: *Cardassia: The Lotus Flower*)

### Births

* **21 November**: Bena, daughter of Grand Nagus Rom and his wife Leeta, is born on Ferenginar. (*DS9* novel: *Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed*)

### Deaths

* **April**: Commander Tiris Jast is killed in a rogue Jem'Hadar attack on Deep Space 9. (*DS9* novel: *Avatar, Part One*)
* **July**: Shathrissia zh'Cheen, one of Thirishar ch'Thane's bondmates commits suicide aboard Deep Space 9. (*DS9* novel: *This Grey Spirit*)

### Relationships

* Richard Adams and Rhea Kadani marry. (*Star Trek: Prometheus*)

## *Stories*

* *TNG* novel: *Diplomatic Implausibility*
* *TNG* novel: *Dead Zone*
* *TNG* novel: *Forever Dark*
* *NF* novel: *The Quiet Place*
* *NF* novel: *Dark Allies*
* VOY: "Survival Instinct"
* VOY short story: "Brief Candle"
* VOY: "Barge of the Dead"
* *NF* novel: *Requiem*
* *NF* novel: *Renaissance*
* *NF* novel: *Restoration*
* VOY: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy"
* VOY: "Dragon's Teeth"
* VOY: "Alice"
* VOY: "Riddles"
* *SCE* novel: *The Belly of the Beast*
* *SCE* novel: *Fatal Error*
* *SCE* novel: *Hard Crash*
* ST short story: "225 Years of Service"
* VOY: "One Small Step"
* VOY: "The Voyager Conspiracy"
* *ST* novel: *New Worlds, New Civilizations*
* *DS9* novel: *A Stitch in Time*
* VOY: "Pathfinder"
* *SCE* novel: *Interphase*
* VOY: "Fair Haven"
* *DS9* novel: *Avatar*
* DS9 short story: "Gumbo"
* *DS9* novel: *Rising Son* (begins)
* TNG game: *Hidden Evil* (stardate 53343.7)
* *SCE* novel: *Cold Fusion*
* *SCE* novel: *Invincible*
* VOY: "Tsunkatse"
* VOY: "Blink of an Eye"
* *DS9* novel: *Abyss*
* VOY: "Virtuoso"
* VOY: "Spirit Folk"
* *SCE* novel: *The Riddled Post*
* VOY: "Memorial"
* VOY: "Collective"
* *ST* novel: *Gateways*:

* *TNG* novel: *Doors Into Chaos*
* *DS9* novel: *Demons of Air and Darkness*
* *VOY* novel: *No Man's Land*
* *NF* novel: *Cold Wars*
* *ST* novel: *What Lay Beyond* (anthology)

* *SCE* novel: *Here There Be Monsters*
* *SCE* novel: *Ambush*
* VOY: "Ashes to Ashes"
* *SCE* novel: *Some Assembly Required*
* *DS9* novel: *Mission Gamma*: *Twilight* (part one)
* *ST* comic: *Divided We Fall*
* *SCE* novel: *No Surrender*
* *ST* novel: *The Brave and the Bold*: *The Final Artifact*
* *SCE* novel: *Caveat Emptor*
* *DS9* novel: *Mission Gamma*: *Twilight* (part two)
* *GKN* novel: *A Good Day to Die* (begins)
* *DS9* novel: *Mission Gamma*: *Twilight* (parts three and four)
* *SCE* novel: *Past Life*
* *SCE* novel: *Oaths*
* *DS9* novel: *Mission Gamma*: *This Grey Spirit*
* *SCE* novel: *Foundations*
* *SCE* novel: *Enigma Ship*
* VOY: "Good Shepherd"
* *TOS* novel: *No Time Like the Past*
* VOY: "Fury"
* *SCE* novel: *Wildfire*
* *NF* novel: *Being Human*
* *NF* novel: *Gods Above*
* *DS9* novel: *Mission Gamma*: *Cathedral*
* *GKN* novel: *A Good Day to Die*
* *SCE* novel: *Home Fires*
* *SCE* novel: *Age of Unreason*
* *SCE* novel: *Balance of Nature*
* *SCE* novel: *Breakdowns*
* VOY: "Live Fast and Prosper"
* *NF* novel: *Stone and Anvil*
* *GKN* novel: *Honor Bound*
* *SCE* novel: *Aftermath*
* *DS9* novel: *Mission Gamma*: *Lesser Evil*
* *DS9* novel: *Rising Son* (ends)
* *SCE* novel: *Ishtar Rising*
* *SCE* novel: *Buying Time*
* *DS9* novel: *Unity*
* *SCE* novel: *Collective Hindsight*
* *Voyager* comic: *Elite Force*
* *SCE* novel: *The Demon*
* *SCE* novel: *Ring Around the Sky*
* *SCE* novel: *Orphans*
* *GKN* novel: *Enemy Territory*
* *SCE* novel: *Grand Designs*
* *DS9* novel: *Trill: Unjoined*
* *DS9* novel: *Bajor: Fragments and Omens*
* *SCE* novel: *Failsafe*
* VOY: "Life Line"
* *SCE* novel: *Bitter Medicine*
* *SCE* novel: *Sargasso Sector*
* *VOY* comic: *Avalon Rising*
* *SCE* novel: *Paradise Interrupted*
* *DS9* novel: *Andor: Paradigm*
* *GKN* novel: *A Burning House*
* *SCE* novel: *Where Time Stands Still*
* *SCE* novel: *The Art of the Deal*
* *SCE* novel: *Spin*
* *DS9* novel: *Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed*
* VOY: "Muse"
* *VOY* novel: *Dark Matters*
* *SCE* novel: *Creative Couplings*
* *SCE* novel: *Small World*
* *TNG* novel: *The Genesis Wave, Book 1*
* *SCE* novel: *Malefictorum*
* *SCE* novel: *Lost Time*
* *DS9* novel: *Cardassia: The Lotus Flower*
* *SCE* novel: *Identity Crisis*
* *SCE* novel: *Fables of the Prime Directive*
* *SCE* novel: *Security*
* *SCE* novel: *Wounds*
* *SCE* novel: *Out of the Cocoon*
* *DS9* novel: *The Dominion: Olympus Descending*
* VOY: "The Haunting of Deck Twelve"
* *TNG* novel: *The Genesis Wave, Book 2*
* VOY: "Unimatrix Zero"
* *DS9* novel: *Warpath* (begins)

## External link

* 2376 article at ***Memory Alpha***, the canon *Star Trek* wiki.
* 2376 article at ***Memory Beta***, the non-canon *Star Trek* wiki.
* 2376 article at ***Star Trek Expanded Universe***, the fanon and fanworks *Star Trek* wiki.

1. ↑ The opening log says it's been nine months since *Star Trek: Insurrection*, but it has been closer to a year.