The star system where Picard's USS Stargazer was attacked by an unidentified Ferengi ship in 2355 and had to be abandoned after he devised the Picard Manoeuvre.
Maxia Zeta is the star system in which the Battle of Maxia took place in 2355, nine years before the Next Generation episode The Battle.
The USS Stargazer, under Jean-Luc Picard, was passing through the system when an unknown vessel opened fire without warning. With his ship crippled, Picard made a split-second warp jump that made the Stargazer seem to be in two places at once, and destroyed the attacker. The tactic became known as the Picard Manoeuvre. The crew abandoned ship and spent weeks in shuttles before rescue.
The attacker was Ferengi, commanded by the son of DaiMon Bok. In The Battle, Bok presents Picard with the recovered Stargazer as a gift and uses a mind-altering device to make him relive the fight.