In 2390 the Borg have opened peaceful relations with the Federation, Cardassia is a Federation member planet, the Romulan Star Empire has been reorganized into the Romulan Republic, and there is talk of the Klingon Empire becoming a formal member of the Federation. In this time of peace some of Starfleets finest band together to explore the new frontiers opened by a new technology that allows the generation of artificial wormholes to anywhere and acquire new technologies from those fresh frontiers.