Galen border conflict
The Galen border conflict was a border skirmish between the United Federation of Planets and the Talarian Republic, fought during the late 2350s. It took place over several border planets, including Castal I and Galen IV. 

Although technologically inferior to the Federation, the Talarians compensated by a willingness to fight to the death and the employment of unconventional guerrilla warfare tactics. One such maneuver was to send out a general distress call from an abandoned Talarian observation craft, rigged with a self-destruct device that employed a subspace proximity detonator. This tactic alone resulted in 219 fatalities over a three day period.

In 2357, the Federation colony on Galen IV was overrun and destroyed by Talarian forces, who saw the Federation colonists as trespassers. The only survivor was a four-year-old Human boy named Jeremiah Rossa. His parents, Connor and Moira Rossa, had been killed, and Jeremiah was adopted by the Talarian captain Endar, who had led the attack, in accordance with Talarian tradition. Talarian custom allowed him to claim the son of a slain enemy, having lost his own son earlier at Castal I.

Eventually, a peace agreement was signed between the two powers, which included the return of all prisoners of war. Relations between the two powers remained cordial until 2367, when Jeremiah was rescued from a disabled observation craft by the . 

War nearly erupted again when Endar demanded the return of his adopted son, whom he had named Jono, while Jeremiah's natural relatives wished for him to be returned to the Federation. An armed conflict was averted when Captain Jean-Luc Picard decided to return Jono to the Talarians, since it is that home which he had known most of his life. ()

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