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Events

 * Starfleet introduces a new uniform design that quickly replaces all uniforms in use heather-gray shoulders and department color indicated by the undershirt and the cuffs on the jacket, but the crew aboard the USS Voyager and the crew aboard the USS Equinox continued to use the previous uniform design, due to their ships being stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
 * After suffering heavy losses, Chancellor Gowron arrives at Deep Space 9 for medical assistance. To prepare for a Dominion invasion, Gowron reinstates the Khitomer Accords.

Conflicts

 * Starfleet infiltrates the initiation ceremony of the Order of the Bat'leth and exposes General Martok, Chancellor Gowron's chief of staff, as a Founder, helping to bring an end to the year-long unofficial Federation-Klingon War.
 * The Dominion War begins in late December with the mining of the Bajoran wormhole and the capture of starbase Deep Space 9 by Dominion forces.

Federation politics

 * Min Zife of Bolarus assumes the presidency of the United Federation of Planets.

Cardassian politics

 * Cardassian head of state Meya Rejal transfers power to Gul Skrain Dukat after the Klingon attacks on Cardassia, believing that a war-leader is now more appropriate to determine the fate of Cardassia.
 * The Cardassian Union joins the Dominion.

Starfleet operations

 * After learning from Ro Laren that the Dominion is trying to build an artificial wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant, Enterprise's captain Jean-Luc Picard, together with Geordi LaForge and Ro, go on a covert mission to sabotage the attempt. They are able to rescue Sam Lavelle who, being a war prisoner to the Dominion, was forced to mine the required Corzanium in the Eye of Talek - a black hole inside the Badlands.
 * The Columbia (NX-02), missing for over 200 years, is discovered in the Gamma Quadrant by the crew of the USS Defiant (NX-74205) (I)

Births and deaths

 * Former Cardassian head of state Meya Rejal is executed by the Dominion