2373

timeline
years:	2370 2371 2372 2373 2374 2375 2376 (stardates 50000.0 to 59999, or from 2373.0)
decades:	2340s 2350s 2360s 2370s 2380s 2390s 2400s
centuries:	23rd century - 24th century - 25th century

2373 was, on Earth's calendar, the 74th year of the 24th century, and the fourth year of the 2370s decade. Besides this time period's Human dates, in stardates this era begin with stardate 2373.0 in some systems of dating, and stardates 50000.0 to 59999 in others.

Events

• The Federation Starfleet introduces a new uniform design that will eventually replace all other concurrent Starfleet uniform in use. The standard service uniform, with heather-gray shoulders and department color indicated by the undershirt and the cuffs on the jacket is quickly adopted, but the crew aboard the starship USS Voyager (and the crew aboard the USS Equinox as well) continued to use the previous uniform design, due to their ships being stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Variations of the admiral's service dress and cadet uniforms would not be replaced until following years.
• After suffering heavy losses, Chancellor of the High Council of the Klingon Empire Gowron arrives at Deep Space 9 for medical assistance. To prepare for a Dominion invasion, Gowron reinstates the Khitomer Accords.

Politics

• The Thallonian Empire collapses.
• Bajor assumes full control of Deep Space 9 on a temporary 60-day basis. The station is renamed Emissary's Sanctuary by the Bajoran government.

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 Borg Collective launches another incursion of Federation space, leading to the Battle of Sector 001.
• 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.
• President Zife covertly provides experimental nadion-pulse cannons to Tezwa, using the Orion Syndicate as a go-between.

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

• USS Voyager, missing since 2371, is officially declared lost.
• 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 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.

Promotions and transfers

• Sara Nave graduates from Starfleet Academy at the age of 18, after being admitted on an accelerated curriculum.
• Fabian Stevens returns to his family's shuttle business.

Alternate realities

• While utilizing a temporal wake to shield themselves from timeline changes and follow the Borg Queen's sphere into Earth's past, the Enterprise-E is sighted and targeted by a Borg Collective from an alternate reality where the Borg assimilated Earth in 2063. A Borg temporal weapon strikes at the Enterprise during their victorious return, causing egregious damage to all of reality. Splinter timelines begin breaking off from the prime timeline, including the First Splinter timeline and the Second Splinter timeline.
• One fractured version of reality is encountered by the Enterprise during the return trip, when Kang the Conqueror attempts to collapse the Federation's primary universe with the reality of the X-Men.

First Splinter timeline

• The Columbia NX-02, missing for over 200 years, is discovered in the Gamma Quadrant by the crew of the USS Defiant.
• Captain Mackenzie Calhoun assumes command of the USS Excalibur. He retains Commander Elizabeth Shelby as first officer; among the rest of his senior crew are: recently promoted Lieutenant Commander Burgoyne 172, promoted from assistant to chief engineer; Lieutenant Zak Kebron, chief of security/tactical officer; Lieutenant Soleta (from Starfleet Academy), chief science officer; Dr. Selar (from the USS Enterprise-E), chief medical officer; Lieutenant Robin Lefler (also from Enterprise), operations manager; and Lieutenant Mark McHenry, conn officer.

People

Births and deaths

• Former Cardassian head of state Meya Rejal is executed by the Dominion.
• Q is born.

Notable people

Leonard James Akaar.

Nanietta Bacco.

Reginald Barclay.

Bodai Shin.

Caliginous.

Chakotay.

Data.

The Doctor.

Kathryn Janeway.

Miranda Kadohata.

Kes.

James T. Kirk.

Leonard McCoy.

Hisharo Noguri.

Tom Paris.

Jean-Luc Picard.

William T. Riker.

Scotty.

Sela.

Benjamin Sisko.

Spock.

B'Elanna Torres.

Worf.

Appendices

Stories

Title	Series	Date	Media	Notes	Image
Basics, Part II	Voyager	2373	episode
Strange New Worlds 2016 The Last Refuge	Voyager	2373	short story
Strange New Worlds I Where I Fell Before My Enemy	Deep Space Nine	2373	short story
Star Trek: Day of Honor Day of Honor Then: One Year Ago	Voyager	2373	episode novelization
Flashback	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50126.4	episode
The Black Shore	Voyager	2373	novel
The Chute	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50156.2	episode
The Swarm	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50252.3	episode
Apocalypse Rising	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
False Profits	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50074.3	episode
Strange New Worlds IV Seeing Forever	The Next Generation	2373	short story
The Killing Shadows The Trap (Part 1), The Hunted, The Trap (Part 3), The Secret	The Next Generation	2373	comic
The Ship	Deep Space Nine	2373 Stardate 50049.3	episode
Strange New Worlds III The Ones Left Behind 3rd entry	Voyager	2373	short story
Remember	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50203.1	episode
Strange New Worlds I Life's Lessons	Deep Space Nine	2373	short story
Star Trek: Section 31 Rogue Main story	The Next Generation	2373 Stardate 50368.0 - 50454.1	novel	Story is told in flashback from 6 months later
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places	Deep Space Nine	2373 Stardate 50061.2	episode
Nor the Battle to the Strong	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows Homecoming	New Frontier	2373	short story	Follows on from the novella Cutting Ties
The Assignment	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Star Trek: Day of Honor Honor Bound	Deep Space Nine	2373	novel
Sacred Ground	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50063.2	episode
Trials and Tribble-ations	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Future's End, Part I	Voyager	2373	episode
Strange New Worlds V Final Entry 15th entry	Voyager	2373	short story
Strange New Worlds 9 The Tribbles' Pagh	Deep Space Nine	2373	short story
Star Trek: Explorer A Night In	Deep Space Nine	2373	short story	Takes place four months after "Broken Link" during Elim Garak's confinement.
Return to the Forbidden Planet	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic
A Prelude to War	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic
Let He Who Is Without Sin...	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Future's End, Part II	Voyager	2373	episode
Distant Shores Letting Go Section 6	Voyager	2373	short story
Strange New Worlds I Ambassador at Large	Voyager	2373	short story
Vengeance	Deep Space Nine	2373	novel
Echoes	Voyager	2373	novel
Things Past	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Strange New Worlds VII Forgotten Light	The Next Generation	2373	short story
Warlord	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50348.1	episode
Distant Shores Winds of Change	Voyager	2373	short story
The Ascent	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
The Q and the Grey	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50384.2	episode
Slings and Arrows Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment	The Next Generation	2373	eBook
Slings and Arrows A Weary Life	The Next Generation	2373	eBook	Starts after the beginning of Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment, runs concurrently with it then wraps up before its epilogue.
Star Trek: First Contact	The Next Generation	2373 Stardate 50893.5	movie novelization
Second Contact	The Next Generation	2373	comic
Ship of the Line Chapter 26	The Next Generation	2373	novel
No Limits Making a Difference	New Frontier	2373	short story
Star Trek: Section 31 Rogue Framing story	The Next Generation	2373 Stardate 50907.2 - 50915.5	novel
Strange New Worlds VI Protecting Data's Friends	The Next Generation	2373	short story
Strange New Worlds II Almost... But Not Quite	Voyager	2373	short story
Strange New Worlds V Final Entry 17th entry	Voyager	2373	short story
Macrocosm	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50425.1	episode
Watching the Clock Chapter 14	Star Trek	June 2373	novel
Judgment	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic
The Telepathy War Renegades Opening scene.	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic	Just prior to Nog's return to DS9 in Rapture.
Rapture	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
The Darkness and the Light	Deep Space Nine	2373 Stardate 50416.2	episode
Fair Trade	Voyager	2373	episode
The Amazing Stories A Night at Sandrine's	Voyager	2373	short story
Alter Ego	Voyager	2373	episode
The Begotten	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Star Trek: The Captain's Table The Mist Chapters 2-20	Deep Space Nine	2373	novel
Distant Shores Talent Night	Voyager	2373	short story
Coda	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50518.6	episode
For the Uniform	Deep Space Nine	2373 Stardate 50485.2	episode
The Badlands, Part IV	Deep Space Nine	2373 Stardate 50502.4	novella
Blood Fever	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50537.2	episode
Strange New Worlds III The Second Star	Voyager	2373	short story
In Purgatory's Shadow	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
By Inferno's Light	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Unity	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50614.2	episode
Distant Shores Letting Go Sections 7-10	Voyager	2373	short story
Strange New Worlds V Final Entry 16th entry	Voyager	2373	short story
Strange New Worlds II Gods, Fate, and Fractals	The Next Generation	2373	short story
Darkling	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50693.2	episode
Rebels The Conquered	Deep Space Nine	2373	novel
Rebels The Courageous	Deep Space Nine	2373	novel
Rebels The Liberated	Deep Space Nine	2373	novel
Doctor Bashir, I Presume	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Avenger	The Next Generation	2373	novel
Rise	Voyager	2373	episode
Strange New Worlds 2016 The Façade of Fate	Deep Space Nine	2373	Short story
Strange New Worlds I Monthuglu	Voyager	2373	short story
Favorite Son	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50732.4	episode
A Simple Investigation	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Business as Usual	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Before and After	Voyager	2373	episode
Ties of Blood and Water	Deep Space Nine	2373 Stardate 50712.5	episode
Tales from the Captain's Table An Easy Fast	SCE	2373	short story
Ferengi Love Songs	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Real Life	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50836.2	episode
Soldiers of the Empire	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
The Telepathy War Renegades Bulk of story.	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic	The Telepathy War crossover takes place right after Soldiers of the Empire.
The Telepathy War Command Decisions	Deep Space Nine	2373	comic	The Telepathy War crossover takes place right after Soldiers of the Empire.
The Telepathy War Day of Honor	Deep Space Nine	2373	comic	The Telepathy War crossover takes place right after Soldiers of the Empire.
The Telepathy War Heart of Darkness	The Next Generation	2373	comic	The Telepathy War crossover takes place right after Soldiers of the Empire.
The Telepathy War Cloud Walkers	Voyager	2373	comic	The Telepathy War crossover takes place right after Soldiers of the Empire.
The Telepathy War Reality's End	Star Trek	2373	comic	The Telepathy War crossover takes place right after Soldiers of the Empire.
Prophecy and Change ... Loved I Not Honor More	Deep Space Nine	2373	short story
Strange New Worlds I Fiction	Voyager	2373	short story
Marooned	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50573.2	novel
Distant Origin	Voyager	2373	episode
Children of Time	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
Star Trek: Destiny|Destiny Gods of Night Prologue	Star Trek	2373	novel	Takes place about a week after "Children of Time"
Parents' Day	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic
Strange New Worlds I I, Voyager	Voyager	2373	short story
Distant Shores Letting Go Section 11	Voyager	2373	short story
Displaced	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50912.4	episode
Blaze of Glory	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode
House of Cards	New Frontier	2373	novel
Into the Void	New Frontier	2373	novel
The Two-Front War	New Frontier	2373	novel
End Game	New Frontier	2373	novel
Worst Case Scenario	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50953.4	episode
Empok Nor	Deep Space Nine	2373 Stardate 50901.7	episode
Scorpion, Part I	Voyager	2373 Stardate 50984.3	episode
T'Priell Reavealed Origins	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic
T'Priell Revealed Betrayal	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic
T'Priell Revealed The Fall	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic
Culture Clash	Starfleet Academy	2373	comic
In the Cards	Deep Space Nine	2373 Stardate 50929.4	episode
Strange New Worlds II Change of Heart	Deep Space Nine	2373	short story
The Dominion War Call to Arms...	Deep Space Nine	2373	episode novelization
Tales of the Dominion War What Dreams May Come	Stargazer	2373	short story
Vulcan's Soul Exodus Chapter 11	The Original Series	2373	novel
The Dominion War Behind Enemy Lines	The Next Generation	2373	novel

External link

• 2373 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.