Stardate: 44286.5 On his birthday, Riker leads an away mission to Alpha Onias III in search of a suspected Romulan outpost. While on the planet, the away team loses consciousness due to noxious gases. When he awakens in sickbay, sixteen years have passed and he is now captain of the Enterprise. Not only that, he has a young son named Jean-Luc, a Federation-Romulan peace treaty is imminent, and he is expected to be the chief negotiator.
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before".
In this highly successful spin-off to the original Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Galaxy-Class starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, set out to explore the final frontier. Along the way, they make first contact with myriad different species and solve reconflicts among those societies with whom they were already familiar, most notably the Klingon Empire.