An ambitious Earth engineering venture to create a new sub-continent on the Atlantic seabed, which offered a shaken Jean-Luc Picard its directorship after his ordeal with the Borg.
The Atlantis Project is a civil engineering programme on twenty-fourth-century Earth that aims to lift a section of the Atlantic Ocean floor and form new land. Its work includes relieving the tectonic stresses involved.
It figures in the Next Generation episode Family. While the Enterprise-D is repaired after the Borg attack, Picard goes home to La Barre, where his old friend Louis, a supervisor on the project, tells him that its board would like him as director.
Picard, still raw from his assimilation as Locutus, seriously considers leaving Starfleet for the post. His brother Robert sees that he is running away, and after the two come to blows in the vineyard mud Picard admits his anguish. He declines the offer and returns to his ship.