2363

Events

Stardate 40052: The dilithium crystal chamber that will be used on the Enterprise is designed on outpost Seran T-1. It is installed on the Enterprise at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. (TNG: "Booby Trap")
Construction of the Enterprise at Utopia Planitia is completed. Commander Quinteros, who supervised the construction, would later accept a post at Starbase 74. (TNG: "11001001")
Stardate 40125.5: The Enterprise is launched from the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" dedication plaque; PIC: "The Star Gazer" commemorative plaque)
Stardate 40759.5: The Enterprise is commissioned at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars. (TNG: "Silicon Avatar" dedication plaque)
The Enterprise begins its shakedown mission out of spacedock, before returning to dock at Earth Station McKinley. (TNG: "Lonely Among Us", "All Good Things...")
Prior to formally taking command of the starship, Captain Jean-Luc Picard picks his senior staff, including Geordi La Forge, Natasha Yar, and William T. Riker. He decides on Riker as first officer based on an incident on the USS Hood. (TNG: "The Next Phase", "Legacy", "The Pegasus", "Encounter at Farpoint")
Jean-Luc Picard assumes command of the Enterprise. (PIC: "The Star Gazer" commemorative plaque)

The Olympia, under the command of Captain Lisa Cusak, leaves the Alpha Quadrant on an eight year exploration of the Beta Quadrant. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")

Natima Lang, an agent of the Cardassian Communication Service, becomes romantically involved with the bartender Quark, who is selling food illegally to the Bajorans. He in turn uses her personal access codes to steal money from the Cardassian government. (DS9: "Profit and Loss")

Stardate 40291.7: The K.E. Tsiolkovsky – an Oberth-class Federation science vessel – is commissioned at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR. (TNG: "The Naked Now" dedication plaque)
Eight months before her destruction in 2364, this ship is assigned to study the collapse of a red supergiant star into a white dwarf. (TNG: "The Naked Now")

On Velara III, drilling operations begin at tapping the water in the subsurface layer. (TNG: "Home Soil")
Admiral Norah Satie begins a four-year period of being stationed at planets and starbase as she works on the cause of preserving the Federation. (TNG: "The Drumhead")
On Tyrus VII, Dr. Farallon begins work on the particle fountain project. (TNG: "The Quality of Life")
George Primmin becomes a security officer. (DS9: "Move Along Home")
Gul Darhe'el dies in his sleep due to a coleibric hemorrhage. (DS9: "Duet")
Guls Dukat and Hadar attend a reception at the Bajoran Center for Science to view Odo and his abilities. The Changeling performs the Cardassian "neck trick" to wide acclaim. (DS9: "Necessary Evil")
Vaatrik marries Pallra. (DS9: "Necessary Evil")
In his search for the Albino, Dahar master Kang discovers one of the Albino's discarded wives on Dayos IV. Kang fed and clothed her and later told her the story of his murdered son and his quest. Although he suspected that she knew the location, she said nothing. (DS9: "Blood Oath")
Greta Vanderweg begins her Starfleet service. (DS9: "Field of Fire")
The Vau N'Akat known as "The Diviner" arrives back in time from 2436 and begins his twenty-year long quest to find the USS Protostar. (PRO: "Preludes")

According to Anna, a Terellian cargo freighter crash landed on a Class M planet on stardate 40812. (TNG: "Liaisons")
Starfleet makes their last great intelligence find until the discovery of a crashed Jem'Hadar ship on Torga IV in 2373. (DS9: "The Ship")