In Star Trek On-line’s now non-canonical timeline of the twenty fifth century, the Enterprise-F is launched within the 12 months 2409, beneath the command of the Andorian Starfleet officer Va’Kel Shon. Shon’s former ship, the Defiant-class Belfast, was destroyed throughout a mission towards rogue Jem’hadar forces transported into the close to future by Sisko and the Gamma Quadrant wormhole aliens identified in Bajoran spiritual beliefs because the Prophets throughout the occasions of the Deep Area 9 episode “Sacrifice of Angels.” One of many Enterprise-F’s first battles, in homage to that episode, noticed it and different Starfleet forces rally to re-liberate DS9 from occupation by the temporally-displaced Dominion forces.
It’s at the moment not identified if Shon may even be making the leap to Picard alongside his ship, which might make him one of many first, if not the primary, unique Star Trek On-line characters to seem in Trek TV canon.
