The year is 2265 and seven years have passed since the name Vulcan passed from a desert world to a black hole absorbing all that choose to venture too close.

To say this changes things would be something of an understatement as so many lives … Federation lives … have been lost, forever changing the flow of time’s river.

A division of Star Trek: Frontiers, Foundations offers our writers a chance to determine what changes would take place as a result of altered history as well as how that history will unfold.