Category - Timeline

• 2374
  Operation Return fails when the Defiant vanishes inside the wormhole, allowing 2,800 Dominion ships into the Alpha Quadrant. Deep Space Nine remains under Dominion control, Starbase 375 falls, Betazed is occupied, and the Federation begins to fracture under military defeat, propaganda, and fear.
• 2375
  The Dominion breaks the Federation’s founding worlds one by one, with Andor, Vulcan, Tellar, and Earth all suffering devastating assaults. The Enterprise-E is destroyed, Picard dies, Data is captured, and the Federation formally surrenders aboard Terok Nor.
• 2376
  The Klingon Empire collapses into internal conflict after the Federation’s fall, leading to Torel Duras taking power and accepting a Dominion ceasefire. The Ferengi Alliance shifts toward Dominion trade under Brunt, while scattered resistance cells begin linking through early Lantern contacts.
• 2377
  The morphogenic virus devastates the Great Link, leaving only a handful of Founders alive and allowing Odo to escape. In retaliation for Section 31’s role in the virus, the Dominion carries out the Culling on Earth and creates the DPI to tighten occupation through fear, surveillance, and collaborators.
• 2378
  The Dominion deepens its grip on Bajor, targeting faith, resistance, and the Vedek Assembly while Kira remains a symbol of defiance. Late in the year, Voyager returns to a broken Alpha Quadrant and is quietly linked to the Lantern Network through Barclay’s hidden Pathfinder-derived signals.
• 2379
  Dukat escapes Dominion custody and flees into the Badlands, where he begins building an uneasy Bajoran-Cardassian resistance coalition. Garak, Kira, Odo, Damar, and early Lantern-linked contacts all become part of the growing Badlands shadow war.
• 2380
  Romulus discovers its home star is dangerously unstable and turns to exiled Vulcan scientists for help. Sela, the Tal’Shiar, Reman unrest, Shinzon’s rising influence, and Dominion interference turn the crisis into a political blade waiting to be drawn.
• 2381
  The Borg strike the fractured frontier, forcing the Dominion to confront an enemy it cannot easily dominate. Voyager and Seven quietly aid the Lanterns with Borg intelligence, while Romulan, Reman, Dominion, and resistance factions race to exploit Borg wreckage.
• 2382
  Gamma Quadrant reinforcements help the Dominion contain the Borg, but the intervention humiliates the Alpha Founders and deepens internal Dominion divisions. Romulus begins secret alliances and Borg research, while Klingon, Gorn, Tholian, and Lantern interests all sharpen around the chaos.
• 2383
  The Dominion rebuilds after the Borg crisis, pressing occupied worlds harder for labour, resources, and ship production. Beneath the surface, the Lantern Network, Badlands cells, Bajoran resistance, Cardassian dissidents, and Voyager quietly strengthen their connections.
• 2384
  The Utopia Planitia Uprising cripples Dominion shipbuilding on Mars after resistance cells exploit hidden sabotage left by Data within Dominion automation systems. Data is dismantled in retaliation, while Klingon action against the Gorn and Romulan betrayal further destabilise the quadrant.
• 2385
  Romulus appears ready to submit to the Dominion, but Sela and the Tal’Shiar turn years of star-stabilisation work into a trap. The artificial supernova destroys Romulus, Remus, and a Dominion delegation, leaving New Romulus to rise from deception, grief, and propaganda.
• 2386
  The Fenris Rangers emerge, the Lantern Network expands, and resistance activity becomes harder for the Dominion to dismiss as isolated unrest. Prime grows increasingly paranoid, while Klingon rebels, smugglers, pirates, Romulan shadows, and former Starfleet assets move through the cracks.
• 2387
  The Klingon-Gorn conflict grinds into stalemate, leaving another unresolved border wound in the quadrant. Meanwhile, the Lantern Network quietly strengthens its ties between Fenris Rangers, Betazoid cells, Badlands routes, Cardassian dissidents, and former Starfleet fugitives.
• 2388
  Romulans return to the ruined Romulus system to mine strategic resources, while Reman resentment and Shinzon’s influence deepen. A Tellar summit collapses under Dominion, Romulan, Klingon, and Lantern tensions, but private backchannels between resistance groups grow stronger.
• 2389
  The Xindi break from Dominion control, opening another dangerous fracture in the Alpha Dominion. Later, strange readings from the Bajoran wormhole suggest the Defiant and Sisko may not be truly lost, giving Bajor and the Lanterns a dangerous new symbol of hope.
• 2390
  Prime introduces The Offering, selecting civilians from occupied worlds for forced Dominion service under the guise of mercy and order. Rather than cowing the quadrant, the practice gives resistance movements a shared wound and a powerful rallying cause.
• 2391
  The Dominion rewrites The Offering with exemptions, substitutions, and propaganda designed to make forced labour appear voluntary. Communities fracture under fear, guilt, and survival pressure, while the Lanterns improve extraction routes and counter-propaganda.
• 2392
  The Lantern Network becomes a recurring Dominion nightmare, with coordinated resistance strikes suggesting a hidden intelligence behind scattered cells. Rumours of Avalon spread through the Badlands: a mythical sanctuary where ships vanish, survive, and return changed.
• 2393
  Lina Wren’s holo-diary exposes the brutal truth behind The Offering, showing forced labour, suffering, and death beneath Dominion propaganda. The Lanterns, Riker, Troi, and resistance couriers spread the recording widely, turning Lina into a martyr.
• 2394
  Prime weaponises The Offering further by allowing citizens to earn exemptions through informing on neighbours, friends, and suspected resistance sympathisers. Trust becomes dangerous, communities splinter, and the Lanterns are forced to harden their counterintelligence.
• 2395
  Worf helps unite Klingon rebel factions into the Martaq betleH, the Blades of Martok, after Martok dies during the liberation of Mo’Rat. The Klingon rebellion gains a martyr, a commander, and a name the Dominion can no longer ignore.
• 2396
  An alternate-reality Tuvok is revealed by the Tal’Shiar, carrying proof that another timeline defeated the Dominion. Later, a fragment of the Defiant emerges from the wormhole, strengthening belief that Sisko and the Emissary’s story may not be over.
• 2397
  On the twentieth anniversary of the Culling, Prime expands The Offering to 1,000 victims, sparking grief, protest, and deeper Lantern action. Dominion fleet movements near Romulan space raise fears of a new war, while Riker, Troi, Voyager, Kira, and Odo work to keep resistance networks alive.
• 2398
  Damar leads the Cardassian Rising and dies as a martyr, allowing Dukat to take command of the liberation movement with Garak’s wary support. As the Lanterns search for the truth behind Avalon, the USS Resolute arrives through a subspace tear, activates Avalon Station, and begins the playable story.