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- A galaxy-wide subspace event caused active dilithium to become unstable
- Nearly every starship with an active warp core suffered catastrophic failure at once & exploded
- Led to the near-collapse of the United Federation of Planets
- Betazed was abandoned by the Federation, leaving them venerable to Venari Ral attacks
- They erected a psionic wall around their home system, Isolating themselves from the rest of the galaxy
- All dilithium reactors exploded on Qo'noS, rendering the planet uninhabitable
- Billions of Klingons died, leaving them on the brink of extinction
- Entire sectors of the Milky Way Galaxy fell into chaos or isolationism
- Took 120 years for recovery to even be possible, when the USS Discovery arrived
