One minute we were quietly investigating the Devron Anomaly – inside the Romulan Neutral Zone, and then the next, we are drifting inside a different spatial phenomena, later determined to be an undiscovered wormhole. We are now sitting, outside that wormhole – in Bajoran space – five light years from Cardassia Prime. Somehow, the Enterprise has been transported all the way across the Federation, 90 light years from the Devron System. We’ve relocated from one unexplained phenomena to another.
After determining the nature of this wormhole (while drifting inside it), we found a terminus (one end of the wormhole), and briefly exited into the distant Gamma Quadrant, 70,000 light years away. We gathered some sensor scans, and then the Enterprise passed through the wormhole again, arriving inside the Denorios Belt of the Bajoran star system.
The attached photo was taken from inside the wormhole.
Back in the Alpha Quadrant, we made contact with the nearest Starfleet facility, a repurposed Cardassian ore mining station -- in orbit of Bajor. Deep Space Nine, as that orbital space station has been renamed, is under Starfleet administration (since January of this year) – by request of the Bajorans, who now control the station after it was abandoned by the Cardassians in December. The Cardassians had occupied Bajor for the past forty years.
According to historical records, shared by the crew of DS9, the USS Enterprise-D was one of many ships assumed destroyed when the Devron Anomaly unexpectedly spiked in power output, and exploded like a massive supernova. With the power of 20 G-type stars (the same class as Earth’s Sun), the shockwave obliterated nearby Federation and Romulan bases, stations, and observation posts, destroyed starships, and led to a forced resumption of diplomacy between the Federation and Romulan Star Empire.
Even six years later, the Devron Anomaly still remains unexplained. With our survival, and relocation, however, Commander Data believes that the anomaly may have been temporal in nature, and something about this new Bajoran Wormhole may be as well. He theorizes that we may have been attracted between phenomena by temporal energy, much like how a lightning rod functions during a thunderstorm.
With a general unease between the Bajorans and Cardassians, despite the Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor, we have been requested to remain at the the wormhole, to defend it for the Bajorans. The Enterprise remains parked here, operating as a temporary starbase (i.e. platform operations), while we await orders from Starfleet command at Lya III. Meanwhile, the Bajorans are abuzz at our discovery of a stable wormhole within their space. They attribute it to a religious event, which makes us, aboard the Enterprise, quite popular on Bajor.
It's been a busy few days aboard the Enterprise, and, I’m pretty sure things are about to become even more active and exciting over the coming weeks. We were lost, and now we are found. In addition, we brought a religiously-connected wormhole into existence with us, so that makes us rock stars on Bajor. We just became important to the Bajorans, their culture, and their religious faith. Like it or not, I have a feeling we may be here for a while.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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May 23, 2369 – (Devron Prime Timeline)