Listening post

A listening post, listening station, monitor station, monitoring station, surveillance station, or tracking station was a station equipped with a tracking system designed to detect or track something, such as a person or a starship, or for spying on communications and territory (as of an enemy) between spacefaring civilizations.
In 1968, "Blackjack" stated that they were tracking "Bluejay 4" and the UFO (aka on RADAR in Earth's lower atmosphere. ()
In June 2151, Captain Jonathan Archer uncovered a Vulcan listening post hidden beneath the monastery at P'Jem at an unnamed planet, confirming Andorian suspicions. ()
In 2153, Earth tracking station spotted the transport Arctic One leaving Earth orbit at warp 3.9. ()
In 2154, a small monitoring station, manned by three Xindi crewmembers, was on a particular moon near Azati Prime. The facility detected and scanned while the starship was nearby. The ship, however, detected the monitoring station in turn. The representation of the facility was at first extremely dark on the craft's viewscreen, though a night vision view of the monitoring station then provided a clearer perspective. Rather than risk the facility reporting the vessel's presence to the other Xindi once the moon's rotation brought the facility back into communications range, Enterprise destroyed the monitoring station. ()
In the mirror universe, the rebellion managed a network of listening stations across the quadrant. ()
In 2293, the fooled its way past a Klingon listening post on Morska to rescue Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy from Rura Penthe. ()
In 2366, in an alternate timeline, monitor stations were a Starfleet outpost which monitored communications transmitted from Federation and Klingon Empire sources. One of the tools available to these space stations were sensor drones. These stations were located in Federation space. Monitor stations alerted the battleship that Klingon battle cruisers had entered their sector. ()
Also in 2366, the tracking station of the Angosian penal colony Lunar V was damaged by the prisoner Roga Danar, who escaped in an Angosian police shuttle from the moon. ()
As of 2367, the Federation-Romulan border was littered with Federation listening posts, one of several measures making it hard for Romulan ships to enter Federation space without being detected even in spite of their cloaking devices. ()
Before and during the Dominion War, listening posts on the Gamma Quadrant side of the Bajoran wormhole were employed by both the Federation and the Dominion while in control of the Bajoran exit. Before the Dominion fleet came through the wormhole in 2373, there were at least four. However, all of them went silent in the lead up to the fleet coming through. One of the last messages these listening posts intercepted was a Cardassian message, discovered to be an encoded message from Enabran Tain, though Elim Garak initially claimed it was a five-year old planetary survey report. ()
The next year, after the Dominion forces occupying Deep Space 9 managed to deactivate the minefield blocking the Bajoran wormhole, the order for the reinforcement fleet to come through was given via listening posts on the other side of the wormhole. After the fleet failed to appear, those listening posts confirmed that it had indeed entered the wormhole and had thus been lost en route. ()
Late in the war, shortly after Damar announced that his resistance movement had attacked Rondac III, Federation listening posts were able to confirm their destruction. Not long after, a Federation Alliance listening post picked up a Dominion message indicating that they had located and executed Damar's family. ()
In 2379, an unknown source accessed information aboard the . It was unclear what information were accessed but it was mostly basic stellar cartography, star charts, communications protocols, uplinks from colony tracking stations, and even not restricted material. ()
In 2381, a Betazoid monitoring station captured an image of an unknown vessel responsible for destroying several starships. ()
== See also ==
* Surveillance satellite
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