The Mars Attacks, 2385
The events facilitating the first season of Star Trek: Picard—publicly deemed a terrorist attack by rogue synthetic workers at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, eventually revealed as a manipulation by agents of the Zhat Vash, a sub-branch of the Romulan intelligence agency, the Tal Shiar—resulted in a crisis so severe that it was in part responsible for Jean-Luc Picard’s resignation from Starfleet.
The impact of the attack was devastating, with over 90,000 people killed and the shipyards—Starfleet’s main production facility for ships—completely destroyed, as well as the atmosphere of Mars itself being set ablaze, rendering the planet inhospitable decades later. The attack led to the Federation outlawing synthetic life for nearly 15 years—and the destruction of the Fleet Yards, as well as the rescue flotilla being developed there, led to the Federation abandoning attempts to evacuate the Romulan homeworld, Romulus, before its impending destruction as the system’s star went supernova, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of millions more.
