Out of the vast array of Star Trek TV shows and movies, for a lot of people the two highest rated shows are The Next Generation and Deep Space 9. There are of course a plethora of die hard fans who adore the Original Series, and a smattering of people who favor Voyager, but the intrepid adventures of Captain Picard and Commander Sisko hold a special place in the hearts of many fans. What people seemed to love about the two was that they captured the two different sides of Star Trek. TNG was the utopian pinnacle of humanity, following on from The Original Series’s mission to sneak out new like and explore the galaxy; meanwhile, DS9 focused on the political underbelly of the Federation, as well as the grim reality of war for those fighting on the front lines.
The two shows crossed over from time to time, with the memorable meeting of the two captains in the pilot episode of DS9, but other than that, they were pretty separate. This raises a question, however. In the destructive war between the Dominion and the Federation, millions of Federation ships were destroyed, and the lot of them were nearly wiped out. So where was Picard and the Enterprise E during this time?
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The Dominion war is one of the most catastrophic conflicts in Federation history, and is treated to be an end to the once utopian Federation altogether. During the war itself, there was plenty of reference to other ships fighting the good fight, throwing themselves into often suicidal missions to hold back the inevitable forces of the Dominion. The mainDS9 spaceship, the USS Defiant, was used a lot, but there is no mention of what the Enterprise E is doing. When built, Picard's iteration of the
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