Damage report A damage report was a type of report summarizing the damage sustained by a starship or space station to its technological systems , usually due to combat . The commanding officer typically would ask for a verbal damage report immediately after damage had been sustained , and also had a written one prepared by the first officer on a PADD . When Captain Jonathan Archer was returned to in 2154 by the Xindi - Aquatic s , he was given a damage report on a PADD by Sub - Commander T ' Pol in sickbay . ( ) In 2293 , Captain John Harriman asked Ensign Demora Sulu for a damage report after the escaped from a strange energy phenomenon . Sulu reported that there was some buckling on the ship ' s starboard nacelle as well as a hull breach in the engineering section , but emergency force fields were holding . ( ) Commander William T . Riker prepared a written damage report for Captain Jean - Luc Picard ' s review in his ready room after an incident with Tamarian s in 2368 . ( ) That same year , when the was caught in a temporal causality loop , Commander William T . Riker requested a damage report after the ship was clipped by the . This request ended up being repeated with each successive iteration of the loop until the two ships finally broke out of it . Doctor Beverly Crusher reported that there were casualty report s coming in from all over the ship and Lieutenant Commander Data reported that the ship ' s starboard nacelle had sustained a direct impact and was venting drive plasma . ( ) Picard asked Worf for an immediate damage report after Major " " ordered the to fire on the USS " Enterprise " - D . Worf reported there was minimal damage as the disruptor beam had little power . ( ) After the was severely damaged by a Borg cube at the Battle of Wolf 359 , Benjamin Sisko ordered a damage report . The tactical officer reported damage to deck s 1 through 4 . ( ) In 2369 , Major Kira Nerys requested a damage report after Cardassian vessels attacked Deep Space 9 , which had moved to stake a claim to the Bajoran wormhole . Chief engineering officer Miles O ' Brien reported a direct hit on level 14 and that there were no casualties , as this area contained only empty storage bay s . ( ) That same year , when Vash and Q were present on Deep Space 9 , a hull breach occurred . Benjamin Sisko asked for a damage report . Kira Nerys reported a hull breach in an upper bulkhead while Miles O ' Brien reported hull fractures throughout the station . ( ) Aboard the Maquis raider " Val Jean " in 2371 , the vessel ' s commanding officer , Chakotay , asked his crew for a damage report while their spacecraft battled the Cardassian cruiser " Vetar " . ( ) In 2372 , when the suffered an attack from a number of Kazon vessels , Ensign Harry Kim informed Captain Kathryn Janeway that there were a number of damage reports coming in , including a report of a hull breach on deck 4 . ( ) A " full damage report " includes information that is usually part of a status report , including antimatter supplies , and casualties . In 2372 , Captain Kathryn Janeway asked for a full damage report , which Tuvok provided in such detail . ( ) In 2373 , when their Class 2 shuttle crash landed on a Nezu colony planet , Lieutenant Tuvok asked Neelix to inspect its toroidal antenna e and provide a damage report . Neelix , eager to help , suggested that he might be able to repair them , but Tuvok insisted that a damage report would be sufficient . ( ) In 2374 , after successfully destroying a Jem ' Hadar attack ship , Commander Karen Farris gave Captain Tim Watters a written preliminary damage report . ( ) That same year , Commander Chakotay requested full damage reports from all decks of " Voyager " after a translocator was used to steal vital technology from the ship . ( ) " That same year , in the alternate timeline known as the Year of Hell , Captain Kathryn Janeway requested a damage report following a crippling attack on the USS " Voyager " by a Krenim warship . Lieutenant Commander Tuvok reported that there were fifteen wounded , main power was down , environmental control was down on decks 7 and 8 , and the computer was offline . Later , following additional attacks by the Krenim , Janeway requested Tuvok to assemble a security team and do a deck by deck survey of the ship to provide her a full damage report . " ( )