Reopening of Starfleet Academy

After the Burn, Starfleet Academy in San Francisco closed, and for decades the shrunken Federation trained its officers through other means, including a War College. With Earth back in the Federation and warp travel restored, Admiral Charles Vance decided in the mid-3190s to recommission the Academy and train a new generation of cadets raised in the aftermath of the catastrophe.

Vance chose as chancellor Nahla Ake, a long-lived half-Lanthanite former captain who had resigned from Starfleet years earlier. Besides its historic campus, the Academy gained a training starship, the USS Athena. Among the first cadets was Caleb Mir, a young man Ake had once separated from his mother after a court case, and the Emergency Medical Hologram known as the Doctor joined the faculty.

The first year was shaken by the pirate Nus Braka and his allies, the Venari Ral, whose threat endangered the Federation before the cadets helped stop him. The reopening became a symbol of the Federation's recovery.