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A holographic representation of the USS Enterprise-D under construction in this year.
Stardates:	40052 - 40759

EventsEdit

By starship or stationEdit

USS Enterprise

• Stardate 40052: The dilithium crystal chamber that will be used on the Enterprise is designed on outpost Seran T-1. It is installed on the Enterprise at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. (TNG: "Booby Trap")
• Construction of the Enterprise at Utopia Planitia is completed. Commander Orfil Quinteros, who supervised the construction, would later accept a post at Starbase 74. (TNG: "11001001")
• Stardate 40759.5: The Enterprise is commissioned at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars. (TNG: "Evolution" dedication plaque)
• The Enterprise begins its shakedown mission out of spacedock, before returning to dock at Earth Station McKinley. (TNG: "Lonely Among Us", "All Good Things...")
• Prior to formally taking command of the starship, Captain Jean-Luc Picard picks his senior staff, including Geordi La Forge, Natasha Yar, and William T. Riker. He decides on Riker as first officer based on an incident on the USS Hood. (TNG: "The Next Phase", "Legacy", "The Pegasus", "Encounter at Farpoint")

USS Olympia

• The Olympia, under the command of Captain Lisa Cusak, leaves the Alpha Quadrant on an eight year exploration of the Beta Quadrant. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")

USS Phoenix

• Stardate 40250.5: The Phoenix is commissioned at the 40 Eridani A Starfleet Construction Yards. (TNG: "The Wounded" dedication plaque)

Terok Nor

• Natima Lang, an agent of the Cardassian Communications Service, becomes romantically involved with the bartender Quark, who is selling food illegally to the Bajorans. He in turn uses her personal access codes to steal money from the Cardassian government. (DS9: "Profit and Loss")

SS Tsiolkovsky

• Stardate 40291.7: The K.E. Tsiolkovsky – an Oberth-class Federation science vessel – is commissioned at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR. (TNG: "The Naked Now" dedication plaque)
• Eight months before her destruction in 2364, this ship is assigned to study the collapse of a red supergiant star into a white dwarf. (TNG: "The Naked Now")

Other eventsEdit

• On Velara III, drilling operations begin at tapping the water in the subsurface layer. (TNG: "Home Soil")
• Gul Darhe'el dies in his sleep due to a coleibric hemorrhage. (DS9: "Duet")
• George Primmin becomes a security officer. (DS9: "Move Along Home")
• In his search for the Albino, Dahar master Kang discovers one of the Albino's discarded wives on Dayos IV. Kang fed and clothed her and later told her the story of his murdered son and his quest. Although he suspected that she knew the location, she said nothing. (DS9: "Blood Oath")
• Guls Dukat and Hadar attend a reception at the Bajoran Center for Science to view Odo and his abilities. The Changeling performs the Cardassian "neck trick" to wide acclaim. (DS9: "Necessary Evil")
• Starfleet makes their last great intelligence find until the discovery of a crashed Jem'Hadar ship on Torga IV in 2373. (DS9: "The Ship")
• Artim is born on Ba'ku. (Star Trek: Insurrection)
• Greta Vanderweg begins her Starfleet service. (DS9: "Field of Fire")