The year is 2359, four years before the launch of the Enterprise-D, five years before renewed contact with the Romulan Star Empire, and six years prior to first contact with the Borg Collective.

Aquarius' mission has been one of negotiation and diplomacy, scientific research and study, and peaceful colonial construction. However, our ongoing discoveries and trading of knowledge with both the Gorn Hegemony and the Tholian Assembly have hinted that there is more work than ambassadors alone can handle; powerful technologies of unknown origins have been being pieced together, and rumors spread through the powers in the sector that their creators may be coming to the spotlight again.