Fabian Stevens, assigned to the U.S.S. Defiant as an engineer, works with fellow engineer Enrique Muniz to modify a probe to fire a torpedo on a Jem’Hadar ship in the atmosphere of a gas giant. [“Starship Down” (DS9)]
2373
Muniz is killed on a mission to the Gamma Quadrant. Shortly thereafter, Stevens’s enlistment ends, and, grieving over Muniz, he chooses not to reenlist. He returns home to the Rigel Colonies to work in his family’s shuttle business. [“The Ship” (DS9), #22: War Stories Book 2 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Bashir is revealed to have received illegal genetic enhanements at the age of six. His father accepts imprisonment for the crime in order for Bashir to retain his rank and medical license. [“Dr. Bashir, I Presume?” (DS9)]
During Yom Kippur, Gold goes to the Captain’s Table to reflect—and fast, until it’s the equivalent of sunset in New York City—and tells a midrash to several of the bar’s patrons. [“An Easy Fast” by John J. Ordover ( Tales from the Captain’s Table )]
Dominion forces take DS9, signalling the beginning of the Dominion War. [“Call to Arms” (DS9)]
2374
Commander Selden of Starbase 314 calls for an investigation of Lense to see if she, like Bashir, was illegally genetically enhanced. Lense is cleared of the charges after a month of confinement on the starbase. She returns to the Lexington in time for a battle in the Setlik system, during which her entire medical staff is killed. [#3: Hard Crash by Christie Golden, #16: Oaths by Glenn Hauman, #21: War Stories Book 1 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Stevens reenlists in Starfleet and is assigned to the S.C.E. team on the da Vinci, joining the crew alongside a Nasat named P8 Blue; the team also includes a pair of Bynar civilians, 110 and 111, temporarily assigned to the ship. They are tasked with studying a piece of Dominion technology while repairing a relay station; when the Dominion attacks during repairs, they figure out the Dominion device and use it to win the battle. [#22: War Stories Book 2 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Gold’s son, Nathan, and his wife Elaine Welsh, are living on Betazed, and are interviewing Lwaxana Troi for a book Nathan is writing, when the Dominion conquers that world. Nathan and Elaine are killed in the assault. [“In the Pale Moonlight” (DS9), “The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned” by Keith R.A. DeCandido ( Tales of the Dominion War )]
2375
The Evorans are fast-tracked into Federation membership, a process aided by the U.S.S. Enterprise -E, even though Picard cuts the mission short in order to divert to the Briar Patch. [ Star Trek: Insurrection ]
Faulwell is assigned to Project Mungin, a top-secret cryptography project. [#63: Echoes of Coventry by Richard C. White]
Scott at last accepts Admiral William Ross’s offer of Harriman’s former job as S.C.E. liaison. [#4: Interphase Book 1 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, #62: The Future Begins by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster]
Leaving a subordinate in charge of the S.C.E., Scott and Admiral Leonard McCoy go on an inspection tour in the Runabout Hudson. [“Safe Harbors” by Howard Weinstein ( Tales of the Dominion War ), #62: The Future Begins by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster]
The Breen ally with the Dominion, an alliance they announce by attacking Earth. [“The Changing Face of Evil” (DS9), “Eleven Hours Out” by Dave Galanter ( Tales of the Dominion War ), “Safe Harbors” by Howard Weinstein ( Tales of the Dominion War )]
After a mission to Kropasar, Scott resigns his commission. He eventually takes a job as a greeter on a restaurant on Risa. [#62: The Future Begins by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster, NF: Excalibur Book 2: Renaissance by Peter David]
The da Vinci is charged with retrieving a Breen encryption device on Lamenda Prime, with the aid of two people from Starfleet security, who help against the Breen soldiers who don’t want them to get it. Afterward, Duffy and Stevens go on shore leave, where they get very drunk and wake up the next morning without their clothes. [“Field Expediency” by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore ( Tales of the Dominion War ), #24: Wildfire Book 2 by David Mack, #25: Home Fires by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
A team of linguists and cryptographers, led by Faulwell, are assigned to Starbase 92 to crack the Dominion’s latest code. With aid from a Ferengi trader, they do so. While on the assignment, Faulwell meets Lt. Commander Anthony Mark, and they become a couple. [#21: War Stories Book 1 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
The U.S.S. Sentinel is the only surviving ship in a mission to sabotage a Dominion outpost, which paves the way for an offensive in the Orias system. Lt. Commander Gomez, the ship’s chief engineer, alters the ship’s warp field so that they are disguised as a Cardassian freighter while behind enemy lines. [#1: The Belly of the Beast by Dean Wesley Smith, #21: War Stories Book 1 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
The da Vinci must dispose of an alien ship called the Dancing Star that has entered the Randall V system, which contains a Federation listening post that must be kept secret from the Dominion. Commander Salek, the first officer, is killed during the course of the mission. [#33: Collective Hindsight Book 1 by Aaron Rosenberg]
Hostilities with the Dominion end when several Cardassian ships turn against their Dominion masters and allied forces take Cardassia. [“What You Leave Behind” (DS9)]
2376
January–April:
At Scott’s long-distance recommendation, Commander Gomez replaces Salek on the da Vinci . Lt. Commander Duffy is the second officer on the ship, the first time the two of them have seen each other since she left the Enterprise . [#1: The Belly of the Beast by Dean Wesley Smith, #7: Invincible Book 1 by David Mack & Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Gomez’s first mission as da Vinci first officer is to the Tellarite colony Maeglin, where they encounter Overseer Biron of the Androssi. [#6: Cold Fusion by Keith R.A. DeCandido, #10: Here There Be Monsters by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Ross convinces Scott to rejoin Starfleet and take his job as liaison back, which he does after aiding Morgan Primus and Ensign Robin Lefler on Risa. [#62: The Future Begins by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster, NF: Excalibur Book 2: Renaissance by Peter David, NF: Excalibur Book 3: Restoration by Peter David]
The da Vinci’s S.C.E. team sets up a water system on a desert planet that is a candidate for Federation membership. After that, they are sent to salvage a giant alien vessel that fired on the Enterprise, with the aid of Enterprise personnel La Forge and Lieutenant Vale, who is now security chief on that ship. The aliens who have taken over the ship, nicknamed the Beast, are stopped, but not until after they kill 111. [#1: The Belly of the Beast by Dean Wesley Smith]
110 intends to return to Bynaus in order to be re-bonded following the death of 111, but he finds he does not wish to sully her memory by re-bonding. [#2: Fatal Error by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Vale returns to the Enterprise. La Forge remains on the da Vinci. He aids the S.C.E. team when they are summoned to repair Ganitriul, the computer that runs the world of Eerlik and which has been sabotaged by an extremist group. [#1: The Belly of the Beast by Dean Wesley Smith, #2: Fatal Error by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
The da Vinci is sent to Intar to stop a ship that is destroying their capital city. The ship is alive, in a symbiotic relationship with its pilot, who died. The S.C.E. crew is able to fix it and send it home. [#3: Hard Crash by Christie Golden]
The experience on Intar convinces 110 to remain unbonded. This makes him an outcast in Bynar society, and so he takes on the nickname “Soloman,” since he is no longer permitted a numeric designation. He also enlists in Starfleet. [#3: Hard Crash by Christie Golden]
The Constitution -class Defiant reappears in the spatial rift near Tholian space, and the da Vinci is sent to salvage it, a mission that is complicated by the Tholians attacking in order to keep the evidence of the hundred-year-old attack out of Federation or Klingon hands. [#4-5: Interphase Books 1-2 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
Gomez is sent to the chimerium-laden world of Sarindar to supervise the construction of a subspace accelerator that will offload the chimerium into orbit. [#7: Invincible Book 1 by David Mack & Keith R.A. DeCandido]
A renegade Jem’Hadar ship attacks DS9, destroying the U.S.S. Aldebaran. The ship is stopped, but one Jem’Hadar transports to the station and irreparably damages the fusion core, almost destroying the station. [DS9: Avatar Books 1-2 by S.D. Perry]
On the anniversary of Ableen’s death, Lt. Commander Corsi seduces Stevens to avoid thinking about the events that day. She intends for it to be a onetime thing. [#6: Cold Fusion by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Several S.C.E. crews are diverted to DS9, but the da Vinci instead rendezvouses with Lieutenant Nog on the Runabout Rio Grande to salvage the fusion core from DS9’s long-abandoned sister station Empok Nor. They drive off Biron and his crew, who are attempting to transform Empok Nor into a mobile weapons platform, and then tow the station back to the Bajoran system. A distress call from Gomez forces the da Vinci to cut their aid short. [#6: Cold Fusion by Keith R.A. DeCandido, DS9: Section 31: Abyss by David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang]
The subspace accelerator project on Sarindar is attacked by ancient chameleon robots that look like mutated versions of fauna native to the planet. Eventually, and only after many workers are killed, Gomez is able to stop the robots. When the da Vinci arrives, Gomez decides to start her relationship with Duffy up again. [#7-8: Invincible Books 1-2 by David Mack & Keith R.A. DeCandido]
May–July
Dozens of gateways designed by the ancient civilization known as the Iconians start opening, causing chaos throughout the galaxy. Scott is involved in figuring out the reasons behind the openings, though the crisis is eventually solved, mostly due to the efforts of the Enterprise. [TNG: Gateways Book 3: Doors Into Chaos by Robert Greenberger, “The Other Side” by Robert Greenberger ( Gateways: What Lay Beyond )]
The da Vinci must figure out what destroyed an outpost on BorSitu Minor, which turns out to be a digging device run amok. [#9: The Riddled Post by Aaron Rosenberg]
The da Vinci is assigned to cleanup work following the gateways crisis, including towing ships, fixing burned-out relays, and rounding up a group of giant extradimensional creatures that have been trapped on Maeglin. [#10: Here There Be Monsters by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
A fleet of Munqu ships attack both the da Vinci and the mining colony on Beta Argola. [#11: Ambush by Dave Galanter & Greg Brodeur]
The planet Keorga purchases a computer to run their planet, but find that they cannot read the user manual. Faulwell, Soloman, and cultural specialist Carol Abramowitz are assigned to help out, and then must figure out the problem when the computer threatens to destroy the planet. [#12: Some Assembly Required by Scott Ciencin & Dan Jolley]
The prison known as the Kursican Orbital Platform malfunctions, and the da Vinci is called in to repair it, even as the ship and the planet are put in danger by the political extremists who damaged it in the first place—among them Bradford, who is killed, but not before Gold talks him into allowing his daughter and grandson to be saved. [#13: No Surrender by Jeff Mariotte]
The da Vinci rescues a Ferengi escape pod that comes from a ship that has been taken over by the Landru computer. [#14: Caveat Emptor by Ian Edginton & Mike Collins]
The Evorans request the S.C.E.’s assistance with an archaeological find; the mission goes badly when an extremist group attempts to cast the Federation out. [#15: Past Life by Robert Greenberger]
A deadly disease breaks out on Sherman’s Planet, which Lense is able to cure with a radical therapy. [#16: Oaths by Glenn Hauman]
The S.C.E. has to stop a runaway ship that has been travelling at high warp for several weeks. They are unable to save the ship, but they do save the Senuta passengers. [#17-19: Foundations Books 1-3 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
Biron obtains several da Vinci crew logs in order to study in more depth the crew that has defeated him on two different occasions. [#21-22: War Stories Books 1-2 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
The da Vinci investigates the disappearance of the U.S.S. Lincoln and the freighter Vulpecula . It turns out both ships were “swallowed” by a holographic ship that is divided into several sections that provide holographic scenarios to entertain those within. [#20: Enigma Ship by J. Steven York and Christina F. York]
Gomez and Duffy go on a date on Betazed. Duffy decides he is going to propose to Gomez. [#24: Wildfire Book 2 by David Mack]
The U.S.S. Orion under the command of Lian T’su attempts to test the Wildfire device on the gas giant Galvan VI. The test goes horribly awry, and the Orion crew is killed, the ship plummeting into the planet’s turbulent atmosphere. [#23: Wildfire Book 1 by David Mack]
Duffy proposes to Gomez while the da Vinci is constructing a mining platform on Tenber VII. Before he can finish doing so, the da Vinci is diverted to Galvan VI to salvage the Wildfire device from the Orion. The first attempt fails, and the Orion crashes into the da Vinci, destroying its warp core, sending it deeper into the atmosphere, and killing half its crew. The remaining crew are able to retrieve the warp core from the Orion and escape, while Duffy sacrifices his own life to stop the Wildfire device from detonating in the atmosphere, saving the lives not only of the remaining da Vinci crew, but also of the energy beings living inside Galvan VI, the Ovanim. [#23-24: Wildfire Books 1-2 by David Mack]
The U.S.S. Mjolnir tows the da Vinci back to Earth. A funeral is held at Starfleet Headquarters for all those who died, and a board of inquiry clears Gold of any responsibility for those deaths. [#24: Wildfire Book 2 by David Mack, #28: Breakdowns by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
The da Vinci undergoes repairs at McKinley Station. [#28: Breakdowns by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Gold goes home to New York City, where he is greeted by a large portion of his extended family; he spends the next several weeks personally contacting the famililes of those who died. [#28: Breakdowns by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Gomez goes home to Vieques to visit her parents and sister, but is despondent over Duffy’s death. [#28: Breakdowns by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Blue goes home to Nasat, deciding it isn’t safe for her larvae on the da Vinci, and while there helps solve an ancient mystery on the Nasat homeworld regarding the other sentient species on the planet. [#27: Balance of Nature by Heather Jarman]
Corsi goes home to visit her parents. Stevens insists on coming along, as repayment for his being with her that one night. Corsi’s father tells her of how her uncle Giancarlo died, and the two of them come to an understanding for the first time since she left home to join Starfleet. [#25: Home Fires by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
Lense travels to Pike City on Cestus III. [#57: Out of the Cocoon by William Leisner]
Ensign Robin Rusconi encounters a strange inter-dimensional portal on the moon. [#28: Breakdowns by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Abramowitz goes on a cruise, which is cut short by a mission (with Faulwell and Soloman) to Vrinda, where she needs to get in touch with her feelings. [#26: Age of Unreason by Scott Ciencin]