Browder IV was a planet located somewhere in the space of the galaxy's Alpha or Beta Quadrants, the fourth planet in orbit of the Browder star system. Browder IV was the site of a terraforming effort by the USS Hood in 2366, to which the USS Enterprise-D was bound after helping end a plague on Cor Caroli V. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's kidnapping by aliens as part of a bizarre study on authority delayed that mission. (TNG episode: "Allegiance")