Damage control team A damage control team ( sometimes called a damage control party , repair crew , repair team or work crew ) referred to groups of Federation and Klingon starship crew organized as an adjunct to the ship ' s engineering staff for use in time s of crisis when the ship suffered damage . Their general purpose was to fight fire s and / or effect repairs as needed to keep the ship operational . Members of damage control teams aboard Federation vessels were drawn from all three ship ' s divisions : Command , Sciences , and Operations . Emergency life support and damage control systems were usually related . ( ) 23rd century Federation starship s often had a specific bridge station dedicated to coordinating damage control efforts . In 2267 , Captain James T . Kirk led a boarding party including a damage control team to the wrecked following its encounter with the " planet killer " . ( ) In 2285 , the then - Admiral Kirk and Captain Spock consulted the ' s damage control station readouts following Khan ' s sneak attack in 2285 . ( ) In 2366 , an alternate universe Geordi La Forge coordinated several damage control teams that boarded the crippled , which had been damaged in combat with the Romulan s . ( ) Also in 2366 , after an attacking Borg cube had caused a hull rupture in main engineering of the , Commander Riker ordered repair teams to seal that breach . ( ) On stardate 46154 . 2 , a damage control team and a medical team aboard the were ordered by La Forge to report to Cargo Bay 4 when a massive EPS explosion was detected in the area . ( ) When Captain Edward Jellico temporarily took command of the " Enterprise " - D on stardate 46361 , he had the Science I and Science II stations on the bridge changed to Damage Control and Weapons Status . ( ) In 2369 , a repair crew aboard Deep Space 9 , including Lieutenant and Chief Miles O ' Brien , tried to free three Federation passengers from a malfunctioning airlock . ( ) The same year the repair crews of Deep Space 9 were immediately responding to the hull breaches caused by graviton impulses of the embryonic lifeform . ( ) During the absence of Chief Miles O ' Brien in 2369 , Julian Bashir joked that they should call a Romulan repair service to fix the technological problems which occurred . ( ) Commander Benjamin Sisko told his son Jake that he had to perform damage control after he was informed that his son learned all about women from the Ferengi boy Nog . ( ) Constable Odo mentioned work crew seven as the team which did the repairs to Quark ' s damaged holosuite s and when the Ferengi tried to trade information about the mission of a Klingon crew which previously visited his bar , Odo told him that he could use work crew seven for minor repairs in his security office . As a result , Quark told Odo what he knew about the Klingon mission . ( ) The following year , damage control parties were placed on stand - by when the " Enterprise " - D was preparing to enter a subspace rift to rescue the crew of the . ( ) In the same year , Captain Keogh of the led a rescue operation and shortly after engaging the Jem ' Hadar , he called for the deployment of damage control teams as his vessel took heavy damage , including a plasma leak in the port nacelle . One team was sent to level 7 . ( ) In 2373 , the sent over a repair team to a Cardassian transport ship , which had been disabled near Quatal Prime by the Maquis . ( ) In 2374 , after the had been damaged by a black hole , repair teams inspected the ship from stem to stern , and discovered only some needed maintenance on the warp coil s . ( ) Later that year , repair teams from the " Voyager " were working on the , which were ordered to evacuate that vessel by Captain Janeway when Arturis ' deception was discovered . ( )