, the SS Valiant (then described as the USS Valiant) was launched this year. * According to the Star Trek Chronology, it was in this year, that Bajoran religious leader Kai Taluno, while traveling in the Denorios belt, experiences a serious malfunction of his spacecraft and is stranded for several days. Taluno reports having experienced a vision in which "the heavens opened up," nearly swallowing his ship. Taluno's experience is one of many recorded incidents that lead to the discovery in 2369 of the Bajoran wormhole, which the Bajorans identify as the Celestial Temple of the Prophets. DS9: "Emissary" merely places this event sometime during the 22nd century.