2362


Events

By starship or station

 The Setlik III massacre. ()
 A Federation soldier, Miles O'Brien, kills a Cardassian soldier during the massacre. ()
 He later operates a field transporter for the first time and saves thirteen men. ()
 Several prisoners, including Raymond Boone, are taken by the Cardassians. ()
 O'Brien is declared the "Hero of Setlik III" after leading a group of two dozen men against a Cardassian regiment at the Barrica encampment. ()
 O'Brien is transferred to the operations division and promoted to tactical officer. ()

 Under the command of Captain Blackwood, the Tombaugh is attacked and assimilated by the Borg. Among the crew is Ensign , fresh out of Starfleet Academy. ()

Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards
 Warp engine control systems are installed on the . ()
 Ensign Marla Finn begins a romantic relationship with Walter Pierce. She soon begins an affair with William Hodges and both are killed by a jealous Pierce in a plasma explosion. Afterward, Pierce vaporizes himself in the Enterprises plasma stream. His Betazoid empathic trace is inadvertently left in the nacelle tube bulkhead. ()
 Stardate 40987.2: Starfleet reports Marla E. Finn and William Hodges as missing. ()
 Stardate 40999.4: The OSHC investigation into Finn's disappearance is terminated with no result. ()

 Stardate 40164.7: The Victory investigates the mysterious disappearance of 49 people on the Tarchannen III outpost. Ensign Geordi La Forge is involved in the away team. ()

Other events
 On Mordan IV, construction workers use steelplast for the sealing off of segments of tunnels under the principal city of the planet. An example of a tunnel segment sealed from adjoining tunnels is the subsidiary tunnel M-4. ()
In an alternate timeline in which the  disappeared mysteriously in 2344. Natasha Yar is assigned to the first  battleship, the  following her graduation from Starfleet Academy. ()
 Cadet Ro Laren graduates from Starfleet Academy. (; )
 Stardate 39355.5: Dekon Elig is killed by phaser fire on Velos VII. ()
 Rugal, son of Kotan Pa'Dar, is kidnapped by a Cardassian officer and taken to the Tozhat Resettlement Center after his mother is killed in a Bajoran Resistance attack. He would be adopted by Bajoran Proka Migdal. ()
 Fallit Kot hijacks a shipment of Romulan ale. He is caught and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp. ()
 Beverly Crusher is promoted to commander after passing the bridge officer examination. ()
 Raymond Boone is killed. He is replaced by a  and returned to Starfleet. Within the year, "Boone" resigns from Starfleet, leaves his wife, and moves to a Cardassian border planet. ()
 Quark loans his cousin  an amount of latinum to start up a munitions consortium. Gaila promises Quark to pay him back in a shuttle should he become a success. ()

Notes 
 An investigation begin by Worf in 2367 into the movements of Simon Tarses uses this year as the starting point. ()
 The last Klingon raid into Federation space occurs for at least the following seven years. ()
 This is the last year in which Tom Paris feels he has a life that is worth risking. ()

Appendices

Background information
According to the , events in this year should take place between the stardates of 39000 and 39999.

There are two sources for 40000s range stardates in this year:
 The log entry made by Ensign Anthony Brevelle in .
 The dates seen by Deanna Troi in a hallucination in . These dates were all in the 40000s range, even though they took place over several years.

There is some debate on the dating of the Setlik III massacre. O'Brien had previously stated his first use of transporter technology was in 2347, () and his Starfleet career began in 2350. () The faux Boone specifically stated he left Starfleet in 2362 following the massacre. ().

Ro Laren's graduation date was listed as 2364 on her personnel file in , but was corrected to 2362 by .

The script for  states Jil Orra is seven years old in 2369, thereby placing her birth date in this year. 

According to the  for , Patterson Supra was six years old, placing his birth in this year.

According to the script for , Tebbis was fifteen years old, placing his birth in this year.

Apocrypha
According to the non-canon video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, B.G. Robinson graduated from Starfleet Academy in this year. Her first assignment was to the  as cargo transporter sub-chief.

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