Briar Patch War

The Briar Patch conflict is the name history has given to the brief but violent war between United Earth forces under Captain Jonathan Archer and Fire Nation forces under *' *' in 2155. The war was started when a Romulan Bird-of-Prey shot down the Columbia (NX-02) over a newly discovered world in the Briar Patch. The Enterprise (NX-01) arrived to investigate and was pulled into the century long internecine war among the humans on the planet, when Starfleet personnel recovering Columbia wreckage were attacked by *'s forces.