The Tomed Incident was a terrible confrontation between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire in 2311 that cost thousands of lives. The incident led to the signing of the Treaty of Algeron, which banned Federation research into or use of any cloaking device, and led to the withdrawal of the Romulan government from interstellar affairs until 2364. (TNG: "The Neutral Zone", "The Pegasus", "The Defector"; ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")
The Tomed Incident was the primary focus of the Lost Era novel, Serpents Among the Ruins. In the novel, the warbird Tomed crashed into an asteroid, housing a Federation base at high warp. The crash caused the containment of the warbirds quantum singularity to fail, causing a massive explosion that distorted the fabric of spacetime and wiped out numerous Starfleet outposts, as well as the USS Agamemnon. While the official casualties (including Esteban Rodriguez and Tom Paris's grandfather) numbered in the thousands, the actual death toll was only six individuals, all Romulan. The Agamemnon and the bases were all empty, rigged to emit false lifesigns, the thousands of Starfleet personnel listed as killed in the attack were already dead - their deaths in the past year having been covered up - and records fabricated to appear that they had been stationed there.
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