Entry 445: Gaian Settlers

Home World: Gaia

Occupation: Future Defiant descendants of the week.

First Appearance: “Children of Time” (DS9 1997)

Summary: When the USS Defiant attempted to approach the planet Gaia, it found itself a victim of the world’s innate quantum energy barrier. The barrier’s temporal anomalies sent the Defiant back in time two hundred years before crashing it onto the surface. The survivors colonized the planet, and established a thriving society on the surface. Most were farming villagers, though some chose to establish a Klingon society of hunters in the mountains. Both societies lived in harmony for two hundred years before their time was up. The USS Defiant arrived to crash-land on the planet and establish the colony – but in order to save Major Kira, who would die of her injuries during the encounter with the barrier, the elder version of Odo sabotaged the controls of the Defiant, allowing it to evade the temporal disturbance and erasing the people of Gaia from history.