The Kinara was an interstellar alliance of nations in the Delta Quadrant formed in 2381. The Kinara's goal was to access the network of subspace corridors underpinning the quadrant, known as Underspace or streams of the Great River, freely. The Confederacy of the Worlds of the First Quadrant restricted access to their portions of Underspace, resulting in armed conflict between the two multi-species blocs. (VOY novel: Acts of Contrition)