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The '''First Splinter''' was an [[alternate timeline]] that was created by an attempt by the [[Borg]] to eliminate the [[starship]] {{ship|USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-E|-E}} using a [[temporal beam]]. ({{n|ST|sub=Coda|{{nd|Oblivion's Gate}}}})

==History and specifics==
In the [[year]] [[2373]], the [[Borg]] made an attempt to send a [[Borg sphere]] to [[Earth]]'s past using a [[chronometric vortex]], after losing their [[Borg cube]] in the [[Battle of Sector 001]]. The ''Enterprise''-E immediately followed, and were taken afloat in the sphere's [[temporal wake]]. While in the temporal wake, they saw the final effect of the Borg's tampering with [[history]] — the [[Earth]] of the [[Borg timeline]], completely [[assimilated]].

The ''Enterprise'' followed the sphere into the past and succeeded in saving their own history. ({{mnclk|TNG|{{st|First Contact}}}})

However, for the time that the [[temporal vortex]] existed, the Borg on the assimilated Earth could observe the ''Enterprise'', just as [[uSS Enterprise-E personnel|the ''Enterprise'' crew]] had observed the results of the Borg timeline. When the ''Enterprise'' re-opened the vortex to return home, the Borg devised a plan to strike out at the ''Enterprise'' using a [[temporal weapon]] of their own. The Borg weapon had no discernible effect on the ''Enterprise''{{'}}s return home, but the resulting [[temporal incursion]] fractured the fabric of [[space]] and [[time]], creating a parallel, [[unstable timeline]] called the First Splinter. Wesley Crusher later dubbed this sequence as the [[ODE]] — the [[original divergence event]]. ({{n|ST|sub=Coda|{{nd|Oblivion's Gate}}}})

At first, the two [[timeline]]s were identical, except for the inherent instability of the First Splinter. Every subsequent incidence of [[time travel]] and other [[temporal disruption]] caused additional divergences and "splinters" to form.

One of the major divergences was the reaction in the [[prime timeline]] to the discovery of instability in the [[Romulan system]]'s [[star]], which led to [[Jean-Luc Picard]] being promoted to [[admiral]] by [[Fleet Admiral]] [[Victor Bordson]] to [[command]] the evacuation of [[Romulan]] space aboard the {{uSS|Verity}}. In the First Splinter timeline, Picard remained in command of the ''Enterprise''-E at the rank of [[captain]], and [[leonard James Akaar|Akaar]] was the [[Commander-in-Chief of the Federation Starfleet|C-in-C]] of [[Starfleet]], not Bordson. (''[[Star Trek: Picard]]''; {{nlk|PIC|The Last Best Hope}})

In the First Splinter timeline, [[Starfleet]] and the [[Federation]] were besieged by the [[Borg Invasion of 2381]], leaving lasting damage to [[planet]]ary populations and galactic [[politics]]. (''{{sT|Destiny}}''; ''{{sT|Typhon Pact}}''; ''{{sT|The Fall}}'')

The Devidians were able to utilize the fracture that created this timeline in order to consume entire timelines for neural energy. In order to save the rest of existence, the inhabitants of this timeline prevented it from coming into existence retroactively. This resulted in them never having existed, but restored/protected all other realities from Devidian predation. (''{{sT|Coda}}'')

Since the [[prime universe]] and the [[mirror universe]] are intertwined, the First Splinter divergence also generated a parallel, alternate version of the mirror reality, notable for the rise of the [[Galactic Commonwealth]]. (''{{sT|Mirror Universe}}'')

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==Appendices==
===Background===
The First Splinter timeline concept was introduced in the closing installment of ''[[Coda]]'', ''{{nov|Oblivion's Gate}}''. The establishment of this [[timeline]] branching from the closing scenes of ''{{sT|First Contact}}'' was intended to retroactively encompass the continuity of all crossover-oriented [[Pocket Books]] prose taking place after the finales of the respective series—the so-called "relaunches" of ''[[tNG relaunch|TNG]]'', ''[[dS9 relaunch|DS9]]'' and ''[[vOY relaunch|VOY]]'' and tie-ins to various spinoff series, including ''{{sT|New Frontier}}'', ''[[SCE]]'', ''{{sT|Titan}}'' and ''{{sT|Prometheus}}''.

The implication exists that aspects of the continuity of those series that was not directly contradicted by ''{{sT|Picard}}'' and ''{{sT|Lower Decks}}'' may be "intact". However, future developments could clarify that not to be the case.

It was not immediately apparent whether the First Splinter timeline retroactive continuity would apply to parts of the prose publishing program that were not part of the "mainstream" crossover-oriented relaunches—such as standalone prose taking place after the [[year]] [[2373]], [[short stories]] of the [[strange New Worlds contest|''Strange New Worlds'' contest]]s, and the works of [[William Shatner]]'s series. Also in question are products from other publishers that tied in to the relaunches—such as ''[[Star Trek Online]]'' and the [[comic]] series ''[[Divided We Fall]]'', ''[[N-Vector]]'' (from [[WildStorm Comics]]) and ''New Frontier'' (from both [[IDW Publishing]] and WildStorm).

Also unclear is the fate of prose series that have involved [[time travel]] with the First Splinter timeline, such as ''{{sT|DTI}}'' and ''[[ENT]]'', both of which have elements that were involved in ''[[Star Trek: Destiny]]'' and other time travel stories.

===Stories===
These stories are confirmed, either by ''Star Trek: Coda'' or some other source, to take place in the First Splinter timeline. 

Note that some stories, such as the movies ''Star Trek: Insurrection'' and ''Star Trek: Nemesis'', are canon to both the Prime and First Splinter timelines. In other words, the same events shown in them occur in both timelines. 

In chronological order:

;[[2376]]
:* {{n|DS9|What You Leave Behind}}<ref name="Coda1">{{n|ST|sub=Coda|Moments Asunder}}.</ref>
:* {{n|DS9|Unity}}<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{n|DS9|Warpath}}<ref name="Coda3">{{n|ST|sub=Coda|{{nd|Oblivion's Gate}}}}.</ref> 
;[[2378]]
:* {{n|ST|sub=A Time to...|A Time to Be Born}}<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{n|Mirror Universe|The Sorrows of Empire}}<ref name="Coda3" /> 
:* {{n|Mirror Universe|Saturn's Children}}<ref name="Coda3" />
:* {{n|Mirror Universe|Rise like Lions}}<ref name="Coda3" />
;[[2379]]
:* {{n|ST|sub=A Time to...|A Time to Kill}}<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{n|ST|sub=A Time to...|A Time to Heal}}<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{m|TNG|{{st|Nemesis}}}}<ref name="Coda1" /> 
:* ''[[Star Trek: Titan]]'' (novel series)<ref name="Coda1" />
;[[2380]]
:* {{n|TNG|Greater Than the Sum}}<ref name="Coda1" /> 
:* {{n|TNG|Before Dishonor}}<ref name="Coda1" />
;[[2381]]
:* ''[[Star Trek: Destiny]]'' (novel trilogy)<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{n|VOY|The Eternal Tide}}<ref name="Coda1" /> 
:* {{n|Typhon Pact|Paths of Disharmony}}<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{n|Typhon Pact|Rough Beasts of Empire}}<ref name="Coda1" />
;[[2382]]
:* {{n|VOY|To Lose the Earth}}<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{n|Typhon Pact|Zero Sum Game}}<ref name="Coda3" />
;[[2383]]
:* {{n|Typhon Pact|Raise the Dawn}}<ref name="Coda1" />
;[[2384]]
:* ''[[TNG]]'' novels: ''[[Cold Equations]]''<ref name="Coda1" />
;[[2385]]
:* ''[[Star Trek: The Fall]]'' (novel series)<ref name="Coda1" />
;[[2386]]
:* {{n|TNG|Armageddon's Arrow}}<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{n|TNG|Headlong Flight}}<ref name="Coda1" />
:* {{n|S31|Disavowed}}<ref name="Coda3" />
:* {{n|S31|{{nd|Control}}}}<ref name="Coda1" />
;[[2387]]
:* {{n|TNG|Collateral Damage}}<ref name="Coda1" />

===References===
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