In 2365, the USS Enterprise-D was flung into System J-25 by Q. Before setting a course for home, Captain Jean-Luc Picard ordered the Enterprise to perform a survey of the system, and discovered that several planets in the system were once inhabited, but now there was no signs of life, and evidence that the cities had been ripped from the surface in a manner similar to the outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone.