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| - (Stardate: Unknown- late in 2372) During its primary shakedown cruise, Captain Morgan Bateson defied Starfleet orders in an effort to strike at the heart of the newly aggressive Klingon Empire, only to have the ship commandeered and used against the Cardassian Union. The vessel would later be recovered and transferred to the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG novel: Ship of the Line) Not long afterward, the Enterprise engaged in a war games exercise with the USS Samson in the Pantera Nebula. During these exercises, the Samson was infiltrated and destroyed by a rogue Changeling, which then transferred aboard the Enterprise. Captain Picard and crew were eventually able to force it off the ship. (TNG eBook: Slings and Arrows: A Sea of Troubles) Following the bombing of the Antwerp Conference in mid-2372, Enterprise was charged with transporting a team of explosive experts to a number of key Starfleet facilities, including Deep Space 9 and Starbase 375. These experts discovered co-conspirators in Admiral James Leyton's attempted coup on Earth. One of these experts, Lieutenant Padraig Daniels, was offered the position of Enterprise chief of security. (TNG eBook: Slings and Arrows: The Oppressor's Wrong) (Stardate: 49710.1) Three months later, the Enterprise attended a security summit called by Admiral Jeremiah Hayes at Starbase 19. (TNG eBook: Slings and Arrows: The Insolence of Office) In late 2372, the Enterprise was struck by a mysterious epidemic while they were transporting an envoy from the planet Kendaray to a summit on Denobula Triaxa. (TNG eBook: Slings and Arrows: That Sleep of Death) (Stardate: 50368.0) The Enterprise was dispatched to the planet Chiaros IV in the desolate expanse known as the Geminus Gulf to try and keep the region from falling under the control of the Romulans. There, Captain Picard and Lieutenant Sean Hawk discover the existence of the rogue Starfleet covert operations division that calls itself Section 31. (Section 31 novel: Rogue) In early 2373, the Enterprise was called to Earth by newly inaugurated Federation President Min Zife, who charged Picard with joining with Captain Benjamin Sisko in trying to reopen negotiations with the Klingon Empire, following their withdrawal from the Khitomer Accords over a year earlier. (TNG - Slings and Arrows eBook: Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment) (Stardate 50893.5) The Enterprise travels to Earth's past to prevent the Borg from changing history. (Star Trek: First Contact). (Approx. Stardate 50910) Soon after, the Enterprise was patrolling near sector 221G, home of the recently fallen Thallonian Empire, and witnesses the terrible refugee situation caused by the failure of the Thallonian infrastructure. After meeting with Thallonian nobleman Si Cwan, Admiral Alynna Nechayev dispatches Picard to convince former Starfleet officer Mackenzie Calhoun to return to Starfleet as captain of the USS Excalibur, assigned to assist the needy inhabitants of Sector 221-G. (Star Trek: New Frontier novel: House of Cards)
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