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Q1

 * Vice Admiral Valentina Sousa returns from sabbatical and is appointed Director, Starfleet Shipyard Operations.
 * The USS Cheron, returning to Vulcan from the Romulan Border Zone, suffers an explosion and is forced to eject its warp core. Later investigation point towards Romulan sabotage as the culprit. The USS T'Kumbra and USS Vokau successfully push the damaged Cheron out of a decaying orbit and tow it to Vulcan.
 * The USS Enterprise, at the request of the Federation Diplomatic Service, meets an Amarki delegation over one of their colony worlds in the Typhus-Sigma system. While there, Captain Nash ka’Sharren inadvertently marries Senator Larai Leaniss, with the former left with mixed feelings. The situation is resolved with an amicable divorce and Leaniss accepting a field commission as Lieutenant in the Starfleet Explorer Corps with an assignment to the USS Enterprise.
 * While at the Ulysses System, located in the Romulan Neutral Zone near Klingon and Romulan space, the USS Sarek encounters a Romulan task force consisting of two D7 Cruisers, two Romulan Birds-of-Prey, and one powerful unknown warbird. After tracking shows the task force turning to cross into Klingon space, the Sarek races ahead to the Klingon colony of Tregh'bak, which is woefully under-defended. The USS Courageous and two K'tinga Light Cruisers manage to arrive and reinforce the colony before battle is joined. The Battle of Tregh'bak results in a Federation/Klingon victory, with neither Federation ship suffering any damage while the Romulans are forced to withdraw.
 * In light of recent events around the Romulan Neutral Zone, the Federation Council agrees to renew pushes for further diplomatic channels with the Romulans. In addition, the newly commissioned USS Kumari, USS Centaur, and USS Yukikaze are deployed to the Romulan Border Zone, and a Constellation and a Miranda redeployed to Vulcan.

Q2

 * Annual Starfleet Commander's Presentation to the Federation Council
 * The Courageous begins mapping the Olian System. Despite the fact that nothing is found, Captain Victoria Eaton insists on continued scans. It is eventually discovered that battle damage had caused a misalignment of the sensor array. Upon realignment of the emitters, a deposit of easily accessible special materials is found.
 * The Enterprise is requested to help conclude a trade deal with the Orions in their home system. Careful navigation, both physically and socially, leads to the successful conclusion of the deal.
 * The USS Kearsage responds to a distress call from a Yrillian vessel, the YSS Luthu, a few light years away from Tellar Prime. The Luthu had lost one of their warp engines to an asteroid field, though the Kearsage successfully helps with repairs. In the process, much is learned about Yrillian culture.
 * While in the Oriolis System, the Sarek makes First Contact with the Dawiar. Having no understanding of deflector shields, a number of Dawiar small attack craft performing close passes of the Sarek collide with the Sarek's shields, which lead to an all-out Dawiar attack in response. The Sarek, having redirected full power to shields, easily proves impervious. After waiting out the Dawiar's attacks, the Sarek was able to return to peaceful communications and open diplomatic channels.

Q3

 * The Enterprise makes First Contact with the Risans while exploring a system neighboring their home system. Friendly relations are quickly established, and the USS Calypso is dispatched to Risa, carrying a Federation ambassador aboard.
 * While concluding scans of the Firaian System, the Sarek is forced to turn back to Vulcan as Captain T’Lorel undergoes pon farr. Upon return to Vulcan, T'Lorel marries her childhood bondmate, Sulak and brings him aboard the Sarek.
 * The Courageous discovers a tremendous artificial geological formation on the world of Kadath V. Commander Rosalee McAdams beams down with an away team to investigate, but begins to act oddly upon return to the ship. It is eventually discovered that she has been possessed by an unknown being, and the possessions are spreading. The Courageous manages to create a subspace bubble that halts further propagation of the beings, but not before half the ship is lost to their control. Initial attempts to remove the possession fail, with Ensign Laird dying in the process. With the beings, calling themselves the Ihrloth, refusing to negotiate, the Courageous discovers a method to destroy them, freeing the ship. In the aftermath the Courageous heads back to Star Base 3, Andoria to recover.

Q4

 * Rear Admiral Sanik is appointed Director, Ship Design Bureau.
 * The Cheron completes repairs and is relaunched from the 40 Eridani A Shipyards, with Captain Revak remaining in command of the ship.
 * The Sarek is ordered by Starfleet to Kadath V, where they are to determine the extend of the threat of the Ihrloth and look to neutralize it. Having taken precautions to negate the Ihrloth's possession capabilities, Captain T'Lorel leads a team down to the planet. Communications with the Iroloth confirm their hostility to all conventional forms of life. Investigation of the artificial geological formation reveals that the Ihrloth were a cult of some unknown species that approximately a million years ago converted their physical forms into pure energy, and had set the site as a trap to possess passing travelers. In response, T'Lorel orders an orbital phaser strike on the site, disabling it and preventing any future infection attempts by the Ihrloth.
 * The Enterprise visits the Biroth System, which is home to a pair of tightly co-orbital neutron stars. The intense flow of energy between the two stellar masses create an intense field energy field filled with never before seen particles, and is of great scientific interest. Despite already suffering crew injuries from the exotic radiation during a shield failure, Captain ka'Sharren orders the ship to make a pass between the neutron stars, to gather data on the effect so that the injured crew can be properly treated. The attempt is successful, and the system is noted as a potential research and mining site for superconducting materials.
 * The Kumari responds to a distress call from the Korlonia II Outpost near the Romulan Neutral Zone. There they find the outpost infected with the same mutagenic virus seen at Ulith III in 2301 Q3, though some surviving and uninfected members of the outpost are found and rescued. The crew of the Kumari do preliminary research work on recovered samples of the phage, before destroying the quarantined area with photon torpedoes. The samples are then transferred to the USS Challorn to be conveyed back to a high-security Starfleet Medical lab for further analysis.

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