USS Odyssey/Yeager History

## **Stardate 2390.06.19**

On stardate 2390.6.19, at 1100, the USS Calhoun under command of Captain Main set a course to the last known position of the starships USS Odyssey and USS Carolina. Arriving there, they found a Federation shuttle and a Cardassian ship which had taken the pilot of the shuttle captive.

The Calhoun crew tried to work together with the Cardassians in an attempt to find out exactly where the USS Carolina, the USS Odyssey and two Cardassian ships had disappeared into. However the Cardassians had a spy aboard the Calhoun and didn't play fair. In the end, at 2100, the CEO of the Calhoun, Lt. Harris, send the Cardassians on a course to the Klingon homeworld while the Cardassians were trying to hack the Calhoun's computer.

In the meantime the USS Odyssey had reappeared from some kind of unknown rift in the space-time-continuum that lead to an alternate reality. A reality in which the Klingons where ruling and at war with almost everyone. The shuttle got sucked into the rift while the Odyssey was finding its way to its own reality.

At 2015, Captain Main got reassigned to the USS Odyssey, on his own idea, and Commander Bren got promoted to Captain of the USS Calhoun.

## **Stardate 2390.06.21**

Mission 1: Alternate enemies

At 1500 the Odyssey, having had some repairs to get it running again, and having a new ablative armour installed which had been acquired from the future by Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager, the Odyssey opened up the rift and entered the alternate reality once again.

Once there a trail, matching the Carolina's trail, was found, and the Odyssey started following it. The trails was being followed by Klingon and Cardassian trails. However, instead of finding a ship, the trail ended rather abruptly. An away team has been send down to the planet where the trail ended to investigate. Due to interference ship's sensor and transporters were unusable.

The away team has managed to find the surviving members of the Carolina
crew. They had been taken prisoner by aliens inhabiting the planet.
Unfortunately, while Ensigns Victory and Botrell freed them, Ensign Rybek
was taken prisoner.

In the meantime the USS Odyssey has helped the USS Eigerstein to get rid of
some annoying Klingons and Jim Janssens from the alternate reality, the
reality in which they now all were, has been transported over to the USS
Eigerstein. Then, while the Odyssey is supporting an energy transfer to the
Eigerstein, Mr. Candy reports the Klingons have been regrouping and coming
back for another round, while he also notices the Cardassians on sensors.

The USS Odyssey has been helping the USS Eigerstein during the Klingon attack, but when Captain Main learned the USS Eigerstein had stolen the armour design he left them on their own.
The USS Odyssey then made contact with the Cardassians and told them to go to the location of the portal so the both ships could travel back to their own reality. In the meantime the Odyssey itself went to pickup the away team.

Then, after the away team was picked up an alien vessel was discovered to have set after the USS Odyssey. Thus the Odyssey leaped away on maximumwarp, thereby running through the portal before the aliens could follow. The Cardassians were informed to follow through immediately after the Odyssey went through.

After both ships got through the portal the Cardassians, under command of Gul Den, decided to destroy the portal, not knowing that was exactly the same thing as the Odyssey-crew wanted to do.

Then the doctor discovered the trip to the alternate reality caused a side-effect, namely changing personalities and a lot of headaches. This is currently still under investigation.
Also under investigation is the sudden drop of power to several systems and parts of the ship.

## **Stardate 2390.06.23**

Just after midnight the USS Odyssey arrives on Starbase 27, where they are asked to dock to deliver the rescued crew of the former USS Carolina.

Docked at the Starbase the crew gets a day off. Furthermore a lot of crew
transfers are happening. A lot of them were unknown to several people aboard
to a flood of subspace messages that occurred due to the fact that the
Odyssey had been in the alternate reality for a day.
The medical problems the doctor discovered after the trip to the alternate
reality had been researched and traced back to a malfunctioning power
conduit. This has been fixed by engineering.

## **Stardate 2390.08.04 - 2390.08.05**

Mission 2: Ghosts on Zoldur

After doing some dull boring out-of-the missions the last weeks, under which patrolling the Romulan border and settling a small dispute between two neighouring planets, and yes those were really the most interesting things that have happened, well, after those Starfleet now send the Odyssey on a more intruiging mission.

The Odyssey is being send to Zoldur IV. Located there is Outpost Gamma 47, an archaeological digsite of at least 12.000 years old. At least that was what Starfleet's archeaologists were able to find out before Starfleet lost all contact with them. The Odyssey has been sent there to investigate it.

An Away Team of the Odyssey, consisting of Captain Main, Lieutenant Commander Logix, Ensigns Victory and Candy, an Engineer named Roberts and two security guards, called Bassy and Adrian, has been send down to Outpost Gamma 47 to investigate.
They have been researching the computer logs of the Outpost and enable Lieutenant Sarin aboard the Odyssey to make copies of all important and relevant information. They also disovered the archaelogist found a cylinder, possibly containing an airborne virus or something else.
Just after Ensign Candy found out where the survivors where Professor Reitman, part of the Starfleet team assigned to the Outpost came running into the control room. He has now lead them to the other 25 survivors. While
arriving there he collapsed.

In the meantime, the Odyssey had to evade a Ferengi ship, suddenly showing up on sensors. Aboard was only one lifesign.
After beaming it to sickbay it appeared to be a Klingon. Commander Janssens has now go down together with the newly arrived Ensign Remo to question the Klingon.
Additionally, the shuttle bringing Ensign Remo aboard the Odyssey took CMO Solir, AOPS Rastilin and ASTC T'Marid back to Starfleet Headquarters for reassignment.

The Away Team has beamed back to the USS Odyssey and have been placed under quarantine in one of the Cargo Bays, together with all other survivors of the outpost.
Doctor Victory, together with security crewman Adrian and the collapsed Professor Reitman have beamed under quarantine to sickbay where Doctor Victory was able to take care of Professor Reitman and to create a cure.

This cure was a bizar one, but it worked nonetheless, and that's what counts. Apparently the parasites got attracted by a LED, so Dr. Victory's treatment meant sticking a LED in our mouths by which we could bring the parasite to leaving it's host's body.

But unfortunately before it got that far it turned out that one of the parasites had invaded Logix' systems too while his internal
diagnostics had overseen this. The result was that Logix lost control of his own body and killed security crewman Bassy. Directly
thereafter the parasite decided to leave his body due to some still unknown reason, after which one of the survivors, Gerald Emanon,
tried to shoot it. In the meantime the parasite had already caused the quarantine fields to fail and thereafter all general ship systems. Only sickbay was running on it's own power supply. After this Mr. Emanon went all crazy and shot himself.

On the bridge ASTC Remo got severely injured of an exploding console. Luckily the newly arrived Head Counselor and Assisting Chief
Medical Officer, Miss Releina Shyzala, was just reporting in and was able to take care of him, while most others, who had luckily only minor bruices and wound got to work on figuring out what had happened and how to bring the systems back online.

While landing the ship it turned out one of the 'evil' energy creatures had decided to stay into our systems. It tried to take over during our landing, thereby causing the landing to be a rough one.

After landing the 'evil' creature took over the FO and caused us some more problems. Commander Janssens regained consciousness soon afterwards, only to lapse into unconsciousness again. The 'good' creature then entered information in the computer systems and requested Captain Main for a private conversation in his Ready Room.

## **Stardate 2390.08.06 - 2390.08.07**

At 2390.08.06, the crew of the Odyssey has finally managed to rid itself of the parasite and all of the strange aliens. Both the 'others' and the good aliens at last have stopped bothering the crew members of the Odyssey. However, damage has been caused both by the aliens and a rough landing made by the Odyssey, so the ship has been stationary for a while now. The whole crew is impatientley waiting for the repairs to be finished, and for the Odyssey to be on its way once again.

A certain Mr. Ilyaev, who came aboard the Odyssey, has told his CO, FO and direct departmental head that he's in fact a Starfleet Intelligence operative. None of the three really trust him, nor would many of the crew if they knew...

During the day the crew worked hard to get the ship back in it's original tip-top shape.
At night, around 2000, the party started to celebrate the promotion of both Mr. Candy and Miss Victory. The both young, new, Lt.jg. seemed to enjoy the party. A lot of the crew attended the party, even the captain managed to show up, although not for long.

A, rather uncomfortable, wake-up call at 0415 in the way of a red alert occurred for a few seconds. It seemed that Mr. Candy, who had the night shift, still had his mind at the party because he accidently hit the red-alert button. The genious will probably not have to many nightshifts after this one...

New crew arrived once again. This time a new ACSO, Mr.Taine, and a new ASTC, Mr. Denebris, arrived with a shuttle craft around 1100.
At 1400 it was, once again, time for a meeting to update the whole senior crew on the ships status. After the ACONN was kindly asked to stop playing on the holodeck and join the meeting, everybody gave their reports. It
appeared that most of the repairs were done, except for some minor repairs which would be done when the Odyssey was on her way again.

## **Stardate 2390.09.26**

Mission 3: Escape from Alc'Traz

A scientist, a Bajoran by the name of Dr. Teral Nadya, crash landed on the planet Alc'Traz together with her assistant Devon and the pilot Logan Gath.
Devon died during the crash, the two others survived. Nadya and Logan decided to split up to increase chances of survival.
Logan, however, managed to get himself caught and is being tortured for information by a colonel from the pre-warp and rather hostile civilisation. Nadya hid herself in de cellar of a farm, waiting for the darkness to go
away.

In the meanwhile, on the Odyssey:
The Odyssey was on it's way to DS 14 to 'deliver' a scientist to the DGSSC
MMCCCXC (Deep Galaxy Science Symposium Conference 2390). Around 1038 a distress signal came in from the shuttle Venator, Teral's vessel. The Odyssey was the nearest vessel and immediately changed course to the planet.

While the Odyssey was on her way to Alc'Traz, the ship suddenly dropped out
of warp for a second. This had been caused by an undetected glitch in a
secondary system, which escalated into a malfunction in the main warp core
command systems, and began initiating a shutdown, according to Engineering
Officer Reynold.
A few moments later Reynold arrived in Sickbay with crewman Nusselt, who had
hit his head. It's unknown if this is related in any way with the short
failure in the warp drive.

Some time later there was another medical problem. Ensign Taine transported
himself to Sickbay, with his guide-dog, or wolf, TamTam, which had a fever
and had to spend a day in sickbay.

Around 1515 the peace on the Odyssey was disturbed again, this time by a
shipwide holographic simulation, called Rockey King. Crewman Sanka reported
to have been hit by a large rock in a corridor near his quarters, and ensign
Reynold called the bridge about a knight in Main Engineering. There also
were several reports about a horse and a motorbike. The simulation turned
out to be started by Toad, who was running around claiming to be on a quest
to find the Holy Grail.

At 1725 the Odyssey arrived at the planet, she dropped out of warp and entered a high orbit around the planet. The crew has been gathering data on Alc'Traz and started to scan the planet when the ship came near, while masking the ship for the aliens satellite network. After some
preparations, including cosmetic surgery to look like Trazzers, an away
team, Cmdr Janssens, Lt Sarin, Lt's Jg Victory and Candy, Ensigns Denebris,
Johnson, Meyers and Lucinda, flew to Alc'Traz with the Atlantic.
When they had just left and were entering the Trazzite atmosphere, there was
an explosion on the Odyssey caused by an an EPS rupture on deck 8.

The explosion attracted the Ferengi to the rescue site and the Odyssey had to
keep them from going down to Alc'Traz too. Apparently they thought to have
discovered some valuable minerals. However, Alc'Traz was located in UFP
territory and the Prime Directive forbid access to it.

At 1923 the flyer Atlantic was set down on Alc'Traz and the away team got
split up in two teams. The first team, consisting of Sarin, Candy, Johnson
and Meyers stayed at the Atlantic in order to improve scanners and
communication. The second team, consisting of Janssens, Victory, Denebris
and Lucinda left the Atlantic in order to investigate the Venator's
crashsite.

While Sarin and Candy were working on the scanners, Johnson and Meyers were
standing guard and checking the flyer's perimeter. The two officers inside
the Atlantic came up with the idea to uplink the flyers sensors to the alien
satellite network. In the meanwhile Johnson had discovered a dog in the
vicinity of the Atlantic, which inspired Johnson and Meyers to take a look
around. The radon particles in the atmosphere seemed to have their effect on
Meyers, who forgot to take his inoculation. Meyers got scared by the sight
of a few Trazzers and made a run for it.

The second team encountered a Trazzer of their own after a bit of a walk, a
young boy named Beh'Lo. The team had a short conversation with this rather
scared individual and after a communication of , the flyer about Meyers'
situation, the team decided that it would be best to take Beh'Lo back with
them to the flyer. Once they got there the scanners had already been fixed
and they were ready to uplink it to the Odyssey.

When Meyers suddenly showed up on the sensors, he was being chased by a
Trazzer, Candy suggested to beam Meyers directly to the Odyssey through the
alien network. This however fused several wires in the alien satellites, due
to the huge amount of information traffic, and another transport wasn't able
anymore. Not long after that, the location of the two survivors was
discovered. The pilot, a certain Logan Ghat, did not show up on the
scanners, but Candy hacked the alien database which showed him to be 300
meters under the ground in an alien prison. The doctor however suddenly
showed up on the scanners, not far from a group of Trazzers.

The away team was again split up, this time in three teams. One team,
consisting of Commander Janssens and Lt. Sarin, was going to rescue the
doctor, while Lucinda was staying behind to stand guard on the Atlantic and
Beh'Lo. The rest of the away team, minus Meyers, was to try and rescue the
pilot from the underground prison. When both teams had left the Atlantic,
Beh'Lo didn't seem to agree with the way he was left behind. The young boy
grabbed a branch of a tree and knocked Lucinda out with it. He then followed
the biggest team, as this was also the way towards his village.

Janssens and Sarin ran into Dr. Teral rather fast around 2145, but she
seemed to be unable to cope with the situation and the two weren't able to
reason with her. Teral Nadya started to scream, which alerted the Trazzer
team nearby. Sarin took the initiative and used his Vulcan nerve pinch to
calm down Teral. He then threw her over his shoulder and Janssens and Sarin
ran towards the Atlantic, being chased by a Trazzer team....

The other team had quite a hike towards the entrance of the cave. After
discovering Beh'Lo the team entered the caves just before 2200, taking
Beh'Lo with them. A little way into the cave the team encountered a small
problem as the cave was blocked by a green rock. Since there was no other
way in and thus no other way to rescue the pilot, the team decided to blow
up the rock by using their phasers. Once the rock was out of their way, the
team and Beh'Lo went further into the cave....

In the meantime, in an holodeck simulation, created by Mariell Delari:
Mariell and Pierre Dubois are racing for victory in a man to women contest
of swimming. Mariell won, although it's not yet clear whether Pierre did
this to gain something with Mariell. Dizzel accompanied the two in the quest
for affection.
Toad, Mario and Luigi Capretti were playing in the water, while Vrass and
Greg were talking to Prof. Ciat. There was also some arguing heard between
a medical and a security crewman, who were fighting over a woman.

## **Stardate 2390.12.07 - 2390.12.08**

Mission 4: Holo-evil

The USS Odyssey was docked at Pandora Station for shore leave. After the attack on the Station's First Officer, Lieutenant Commander Kroynian, the Station was locked down. Kroynian is still in a state of coma while most
of the crew are doing their best to find the one that is responsible for the attack.

FO Sarin assigned STC Denebris to keep a close watch on Captain Main in order to keep him safe. Denebris also secured the Odyssey so noone would be able to enter the vessel without authorisation.

A reconstructed image of a videostream inside the turbolift, showed that the Odyssey's FO was with Commander Kroynian only moments before the attack. It was assumed that he was either the attacker, or someone who knew more then others.

Luckily, only minutes after the Odyssey FO was confined to quarters, it was discovered that the evidence had been tampered with, but the real culprit could still not be identified. The 'real' attacker on the recording turned out to be a character from a holo-novel.

When a few hours later a security officer was found murdered near the station's primary computer core, traces of holographic activity were detected.
Taking down the holographic systems for investigation had not the intended effect; an 'evil' AI was able to take over the station's computer and holographic systems.
The staff meeting with the Pandora and Odyssey senior crew was hereby interrupted; the AI revealed its existence and the fact that the holo-emitters were under its control. The AI warned the assembled crew by firing a phaser, luckily set to stun, at the station's CMO.

This put a premature end to the meeting, and while the AI started to create holograms all over the station and the Odyssey. Both crews split up into several teams: Part of the Odyssey crew was sent to locate all Odyssey crew members on the spacestation and escort them back to the Odyssey, while another team went to the Odyssey to secure the ship's main computer.

The Odyssey cleaned it's computer core by first shutting down all incoming connections of Pandora and thereafter doing a cold reboot, thereby effectively cleaning the computer core of everything that should not have been present.

## **Stardate 2391.01.03 - 2391.01.08**

Mission 5: Hazardous science

After the eerie events with an evil artificial intelligence aboard Pandora Station the crew of the Odyssey has been able to have some happy shoreleave. However, unhappily some new orders meant discontinuing their shoreleave a few days before plan.

The Odyssey set course to Emyn III, a backwater UFP planet. On this planet they picked up Commander Logix, a previous Second Officer of the Odyssey and
former First Officer of the USS Calhoun. How he got there is still a mystery. His last known location was the Delta Quadrant.

After picking up Commander Logix the USS Odyssey was ready to warp to the Normanian Nebula to start it's mission of scientific exploration. Unfortunately the warp core had to be shut down for maintenance...

After the warp-core finally got online, the USS Odyssey entered the Normanian Nebula after a mayday had been received from the inside. Additionally, the Normanian Nebula got highly unstable due to an explosion that happened while Lt. Candy deserted from Starfleet. He took a shuttle into the nebula and faked his own death, allowing him to live out the rest of his life in peace following his asssumed death.

Inside the nebula they found an alien vessel that was about to explode due to some malfunctions in their primitive ttechnology-which was a dangerous situation inside an area as unstable as the Normanian Nebula. It was discovered that the pre-warp vessel was manned by fish-like humanoids. Captain Main decided to tow the vessel out of the nebula.

Meanwhile the Sickbay-crew and Counselor Sellser were investigating the emotional abnormalities of MO L'Epel.

The USS Odyssey rescued the fishlike aliens. Unfortunately their ship blew to pieces while Commander Logix was aboard, trying to make repairs to prevent the antimatter containment system from blowing up-and he was lost.
At that moment all aliens were on the holodeck on an imaginary ship. A Breen infiltrator was discovered among them-he was the one responsible for the sabotage done to the alien ship, and he was quickly captured and detained.

Whien the alien ship blew up, the Odyssey recieved a fair amount of damage. One area of the ship was damaged very heavily (ruptured EPD conduits), which resulted in the newly arrived CEO, Lieutenant Luke Gerard, being severely injured. He was sent back to Earth for advanced medical treatment, with his wife, an EO, accompanying him. After having gotten several systems back online, either by using auxiliary systems or by repairing them, the debris of the alien ship got beamed aboard and a course was set to the nearest habitable planet on the original course of the alien ship. The aliens were drugged into unconsciousness and beamed to this planet, together with their debris, so that it looked like their ship had crashed there. On the holodeck an emergency was simulated prior to the transport and drugging.
After this the Odyssey continued repairs and set a course back to the Normanian Nebula to continue the exploration mission. The Captain retired to his ready room and started to mourn about the dead.

## **Stardate 2391.01.14 - 2391.01.21**

After successfully rescuing the aliens from their ship without violating the prime directive, the USS Odyssey headed out to Betazed to pick up some new crew. While en route to Betazed, it was revealed that ACEO Ensign Reynold had attempted to kill MCPO Ilyaev, who was working for Starfleet Intelligence. Ilyaev and security attempted to arrest Reynold, but while en route to the brig Reynold manage to escape briefly due to her considerable power over the Odyssey computers. However, she was quickly recaptured before getting too far.

## **Stardate 2391.01.24**

Mission 6: New Amsterdam colony

At approximately 75 light years from Bajor, close to the Ferengi border lies the New Amsterdam Colony. Though originally a terran colony, it has now become the home to a large population of Betazoid colonists, Bajorans, and various other species as well. However now a group of Cardassian refugees has arrived on the planet as well, and to make matters worse they've landed close to the Bajoran colonists. Tensions are already high, and because of the two races' past history, the possibility of a bloody conflict is quite real. Tensions on the New Amsterdam Colony continue to rise between the Bajoran settlement and the Cardassian refugee camp, even after the arrival of the USS Valkyrie.

The USS Odyssey responded to a distress call from the USS Valkyrie, which was disabled and in orbit of the New Amsterdam colony. Two away teams in shuttles were sent to the planet's surface to locate missing Valkyrie personnel and to help with earthquakes that had been damaging the planet. One team was made up of Commander Bennek, Counsellor Sellser-Talchan, and Ensigns Pryce and Travian. The second team was made up of Ensigns Peck, Andrusia, and Byrne (finally joined by Lt. Vrass), with security escort on both teams.
A security team was dispatched to the Valkyrie to neutralize an intruder, led by Lieutenant Commander Denebris and Ensign Rybek. Unfortunately, Murphy's Law made no favors: the Odyssey's transporter system started to suffer from malfunctions.

The intruder aboard the Valkyrie was quickly dispatched. Evacuation of critical areas on the planet is proceeding but the main dam has burst, which promises to cause significant damage. ACSO Federick Pryce and Engineer Samantha Kell searched for methods to reinforce the dam. Finally a region in the center of the city of Vrijheid was protected with forcefields.

Using the ship's phasers, the USS Odyssey and the USS Valkyrie managed to avert disaster by diverting the water away from the fractured dam, allowing it to be repaired.

## **Stardate 2391.03.02**

Mission 7: Possessed

The USS Odyssey was headed to Earth, to pick up their new second officer and security chief, Commander Natasha Hart. However, upon their arrival they recieved a new mission-a Klingon ship was in distress near the area of space known as the Delphic Expanse, and the Odyssey was now assigned to assist them.

Enroute to the area, they encountered a mysterious probe-which brought the ship out of warp, and then attached itself to the hull and started draining power from all systems and influencing certain members of the crew under their control, specifically the Andorians (Captain Bennek and Lieutenant Vrass) and the Bolians (Ensign Plox). Lieutenants Helfrump and Andrusia went to the shuttlebay to attempt to restore partial power to the ship to try to find a way to deal with the probe before it was too late.

An hour later, the missing Klingon ship arrived apparently under the influence of whatever alien power controlling the probe-and took the Odyssey by force, and setting a course to take it "home"-deeper into the Delphic Expanse. The crew was split up, with the entire OPS department (Helfrump, Elan, and Nerell) being held hostage on the Klingon ship, the bridge crew was taken to the brig, and various other crew members being held (or in hiding) elsewhere on the ship.

However, while Bennek and the Klingons consolidated their hold on the ship, several of the Odyssey crew managed to escape.

The bridge team, after meeting up with Ensign Byrne, split into two-Commander Denebris and Ensign Byrne headed to the shuttlebay to find out what had happened to Andrusia and Helfrump, while Commander Hart led the rest of the bridge team to the computer core to disable internal sensors, agreeing to meet up with them later at the science labs to find a way to beat this probe. Denebris and Byrne managed to find Andrusia, but he was in pretty bad shape. The OPS team had managed to escape from the Klingon ship using an altered form of the earth game "patty-cake", and was also working on sabotaging the ship, although not in tandem with the rest of the Odyssey crew.

While en route to sickbay to treat Andrusia, Denebris and Byrne managed to find ACMO Leon Bauer, and when they got to sickbay they found Counsellor Sellser (the Klingons seemed to think she was a doctor). After a brief treatment session on Andrusia, they continued to the science lab.

The bridge crew reunited and met up with Helfrump, Elan, and Nerell, and bulled their way into the science lab, needing a lot of luck to get by the Klingon guards.

Once there, a plan was made to get the probe off the hull using a Vulcan mindmeld (and a lot of firepower escorting it). A team was sent to the cargo bay, escorting Ensign Rybek, who was to be the melder.

Rybek managed to disrupt the mind-controlling effects of the probe, allowing the Odyssey crew to remove it and save the Klingon ship.

## **Stardate 2391.03.03**

The Captain's birthday was celebrated the following day, although the party was relatively tame. Notable events were the random appearance in the holodeck of Santa Claus and Captain Bennek dancing with Counsellor Sellser.

## **Stardate 2391.03.20**

Mission 8: The Pabloyan conflict

The Odyssey received its new assignment: to go to the planet Pabloias Prime and negotiate the end to a civil war. The Pabloyans, a recently new Federation member, was looking to mine a relatively new metal called Gyranzite, a metal with some intriguing properties that Starfleet
hoped to take advantage of, but they were being held back by a rebel faction.

Captain Bennek beamed down to the planet with Counsellor Sellser-Talchan and Lieutenant Byrne, in an attempt to negotiate an end to this dispute. Unfortunately, upon their beaming down they were captured supposedly by the rebel movement, aiming to gain a voice for their cause. When trying to beam the away team back, a Pabloyan soldier was beamed to the Odyssey in exchange and locked in the brig immediately.

Commander Denebris sent out a "reconnaissance team" in a shuttle to scan the planet's surface to attempt to narrow down the Captain's whereabouts. Secretly the shuttle also dropped of an away team that was to find the rebels and make contact with them.

Captain Bennek, Counsellor Sellser, and Lieutenant Byrne were taken to a prison, where Sellser finds out that the people that captured them were not the rebels, but government forces. A rebel attack to free Rebel Master Birto on the prison also freed the away team. The Starfleet captives and the rebels teamed up. Bennek decided to help the rebels to defend their city against a government attack.

Negotiators from both Pabloyan sides are sent to the Odyssey to continue attempts to reach a settlement on the mining project. The meeting had not gone very well when an intruder alert sounded on the Odyssey. The Pabloyan prisoner attempted to escape. When Denebris returned to the Bridge, he discovered a disturbing fact about the Pabloyan mining equipment; so disturbing even, that he proceeded to the ready room to send a message to Starfleet Command about it.

The away team on the surface, consisting of Lieutenants Velden and Travian
and Ensign Lett, was posing as offworld merchants in an attempt to find the
Rebel leaders and find out more about the rebels and their cause.
After a while, they were led to a large land-vehicle, where they met Akra, a
Pabloyan rebel leader. She looked through their disguises and the team was
forced to reveal that they are Starfleet officers.

Velden, Travian and Lett left the vehicle near the rebel city, as Akra
headed off into battle help the rebels. Arriving in the city, the officers
met Captain Bennek just before they entered the rebel hideout. The Captain
sent everyone in the city to the mining facility, because that's what the government was after.

Sensors on the Odyssey detected a Breen ship moving towards them. They had intercepted the message Denebris sent to Starfleet, concerning the Pabloyan government's mining equipment; part of it was made out of Breen technology.
The Breen were secretly assisting the Pabloyan government, both in their
mining operations and in their fight against the rebels. That was also what
Captain Bennek found out on the surface; the energy weapons mounted on the
Pabloyan tanks seemed Breen in origin.

Commander Denebris fired at the Breen ship while they transported down an assault team to the surface. However, the Odyssey did not do enough damage and the Breen began to fire back. The fight did not go well, but with a brilliant manoeuvre the Odyssey managed to take out the Breen's weapon systems.

On the surface, the crew faced a battle as well, as the government's forces were marching up to the mining facility. Captain Bennek managed to persuade the government forces to put down their weapons and to let them realize that they should not be fighting their own people. The Breen, who were defeated on both fronts, transported back their soldiers and left the Pabloyan solar system. The Starfleet crew left the surface and headed back to the Odyssey.

## **Stardate 2391.03.26**=

Six days later, the ship was still orbiting Pabloias Prime. Starfleet had
sent two starships to take over from the Odyssey. One of them, the USS Troy,
brought new arrivals: Lieutenant Commander Dirk Pitt came aboard as XO and
Ensign Tashina Reyk arrived as ACSO. Lieutenant jg Andrusia decided to leave the Odyssey and to pursue a career elsewhere in Starfleet.

## **Stardate 2391.04.14 - 2391.04.15**

Mission 9: Panic on the Titanic

While examining life forms on the remote planet Phi Omega IV, a crisis erupts. Head Nurse Alvas Kylie is bitten by an infectious animal, which inserts a foreign substance into her bloodstream. While CMO William Lea does
what he can while placing her under quarantine, the Odyssey rushes at maximum speed to Starbase 12 to get her condition treated.

However, early in the morning while they are enroute, all the controls on the bridge are locked out. XO Dirk Pitt and CEO Paul Velden are rushing to get to the source of the problem. At the same time, six Odyssey crew
members: CO Ch'nel Bennek, FO Matuga Denebris, STC Simon Byrne, CONN Travian
Enar, OPS Dacs Helfrump, and ASCO Tashina Reyk are beamed into a holodeck simulation of the Titanic. They have taken the place of several key crew members aboard the ship, and now must control its functions.

The group on the holodeck managed to make contact with the bridge and found out that
the Titanic's movements are linked the Odyssey. Captain Bennek orders the Titanic to slow down while they try to discover a way around this predicament, slowing down the Odyssey as well.

Finally the Titanic hit an iceberg, but the Odyssey bridge crew made it to lifeboat 7 and the program came to an end.

Simultaneously, the Odyssey collided with a rogue comet (the Titanic could not steer the Odyssey out of the way fast enough), causing
severe damage and increasing the risk to Nurse Alvas considerably; with no
warp drive, the Odyssey had no chance of getting her to safety.

With a gap in its hull, the Odyssey wasn't able
to go to very high warp. This would make the ship arrive at Starbase 12 later than expected -- too late for Nurse Alvas. Luckily sensors picked up another ship, but they were not responding to hails, probably due to damage to the Odyssey's tranceiver array.

Two containers of antimatter were ejected and detonated to send up a flare, in an attempt to attract the attention of the other vessel. Incidentally, the resulting explosions knocked the tranceiver in place, which made it possible for the other ship to hail the Odyssey. The other ship -- the USS Caduceus -- was sent by Starfleet to pick up Nurse Alvas; medical experts were waiting on the Caduceus to examine her and to devise a cure.

## **Stardate 2391.04.26 - 2391.04.27**

Mission 10: It's only a dream

After recieving their mission briefing several days before, the Odyssey finally arrived to study a KPS Starcluster, where a double pulsar was fusing together. - an event perfectly suited for a science vessel like the Odyssey. However, shortly after their arrival an alien vessel arrives and hails them with "urgent" information.

These aliens call themselves the Nurmarhi, and they come aboard with grim news - that the crew of the Odyssey, by entering this region, have become infected with the "Tarr", a deadly disease which kills everyone who comes into contact with it - but their is a cure. If the crew enters stasis in pods modified with Nurmarhi technology, they will be cured of it - or so the Nurmarhi claimed.

A staff meeting is called where the issue is discussed, and there was much skepticism on the part of the crew. However, right at the end of the meeting, Lieutenant Commander Paul Velden falls drastically ill with what looks like the "Tarr" - as O'Gallagher beamed with him to sickbay, the exitence of the disease seemed verified...

A few hours later, the crew is ready to enter stasis to cure themselves - and normally, that would be the end of it. However, the crew ends up dreaming while in stasis - and they end up sharing their deepest nightmares with each other.

The nightmares are varied and deadly - Captain Bennek ends up swimming endlessly under water, ACONN Alex Davis is trapped in a pit of snakes, needing help to escape. Operations Chief Dacs Helfrump ends up killing everyone on the crew because of a mistake - or so he thinks, while CMO Rowan O'Gallagher ends up in a twisted party with dancing Klingons in bikins, among other things....

Various members of the crew end up banding together during the shared nightmares, a side effect of the Nurmarhi stasis treatment - in order to cure the Tarr, neural patterns had to be shared. Eventually, the crew woke up from stasis - having at least 3 distinct, large groups of crewmembers sharing dreams - but the Nurmarhi are gone.

With their deepest thoughts and secrets shared, the crew of the Odyssey does what they went to do - observing the fusing of the double pulsars - but there is little joy in it as they now deal with the effects of now knowing each other on a very intimate level....

Soon afterwards, transfer orders are recieved for Lieutenant Commander Paul Velden, to become first officer of the USS Atlantis, and Lieutenant Simon Byrne, to become second officer of the USS Valkyrie. While far from happy with the news, the crew does manage to send them off with a good farewell party.

## **Stardate 2391.05.09 - 2391.06.21**

Mission 11: The music festival

The Odyssey arrived at Deep Space Nine, to drop off their departing second officer - now Commander Paul Velden being dropped off, but also picking up their new second officer, Lieutenant Commander Leon Nerfertii. New orders are received, and a staff meeting is called for the next day. Their new mission is to represent the Federation at the Jerwasi music festival by forming a musical group - a welcome change of pace from a normal mission. The festival is held on 2391.06.19 and 2391.06.20.

Soon after the meeting began, Commander Denebris is called away to receive a personal transmission - one that greatly affected the mission. He learns from a former headmaster that the keynote speaker at the festival, one Jerul Revar (a Cardassian), is being targeted for assasination by a Bajoran militant group, called the "Dah Ebom".

The news is brought back to the crew, and the Odyssey now faces a conundrum; the festival has two rounds, but in order to protect Revar during her speech, they will need to qualify for the second round of the festival in order to attend the reception afterwards - a daunting task. Their chore is not aided by the fact that Dinwor V, the location of the competition, is neutral territory and the Odyssey would not have any jurisdiction to perform searches or military operations.

Much of the senior staff volunteer to form the "core" of the two musical groups the Odyssey will field - one contemporary, and one alternative.

The contemporary group ends up consisting of Lieutenants O'Gallagher (fiddle), Elan (Violin), and Nerell (Digideroo), Ensigns Greystone (Violin) and Meyers (Congas), a security officer. The alternative band, targeting a more "modern" sound, consisted of Captain Bennek (Drums), Lieutenant Davis (Vocals), and Ensigns Mardsen (Electric Guitar), McDermot (Vocals), and Alenis (Electric Bass). Their practising commenced immediately, as just under six weeks was little time to prepare for a professional music competition. The rest of the crew of the Odyssey began the investigation into the mysterious "Dah Ebom" - which, of course, turns up little evidence that can concretely be used against them.

They arrive at the planet, and while Matuga's meetings with the Jerwasi administrators to gain more access go nowhere (and he also unwittingly reveals Starfleet's presence at the festival to the Dah Ebom, when he bumped into one Vrianat Noral), the Odyssey musicians play in the first round of the competiion. The contemporary group play a trill piece, the "10th symphony by Boran", while the alternative group plays a variety of more modern pieces.

Also, during the first performance, a Lionanitian vessel arrives in orbit, urgently requesting Lieutenant Commander Nerfertii's presence on their homeworld with regards to a civil war. Commander Denebris reluctantly lets him go, since Captain Bennek was still on the surface.

Unwittingly, ACSO Mardsen interacts with another member of the "Dah Ebom" (one Frand Rubas), taking advantage of a chance for a cultural exchange.

## **Stardate: 2391.06.20**

In the morning, the results are revealed - and both of the Odyssey groups made it through. Unfortunately, all three Bajoran groups made it as well, leaving no clues as to who the Dah Ebom might be.

The second round of performances was held during a recepti, during which inter-galactic musical legend, Jerul Revar, would give her speech. A plan is concocted where Commander Denebris and recently arrived ASTC John Harmondale posed as dates for two of the musicians (Lieutenants Davis and Elan), in order to help stop the Dah Ebom.

Jerul Revar, began her speech with no incident - until the Jerwasi decided to interrupt to give their awards out early, wanting to keep the flow of the occasion as smooth as possible. That proved to be the chance that the Dah Ebom, having participated in the festival under the group name "Prophet's Tears", would need. After being brought up on stage to accept their own award, the five armed and prepared terrorists made their move shortly after the Odyssey's group was brought up to recieve their own award. The Dah Ebom take Revar and the Jerwasi judges on the stage as hostages. Lieutenant Alex Davis, who tried to intervene, was stabbed by the Dah Ebom, wounding her badly.

Out of nowhere, a piercing sound filled the room, disorienting everyone for a few moments...and it appeared to only worsen the situation, as Captain Bennek attemped to knock out one of the terrorists, only to get knocked unconcious himself.
Lieutenant Helfrump, in command of the Odyssey, fired a pulse at the planet below to temporarily disable the power - which was precisely timed with a pincer attack led by Ensign Harmondale and the elusive Ensign Greystone, who had escaped captivity. During the firefight, all five of the Dah Ebom present were either caught or killed, with an old friend of the Odyssey helping to capture the leader - Travian Enar, now working for Bajoran Intelligence.

## **Stardate: 2391.06.21**

The good mood spreading the ship upon the successful completion of their mission was quickly dampered when Jerul Revar, while thanking Captain Bennek for succesfully stopping the assasination attempt, collapsed and died. She was injected with a delayed acting poison by the Dah Ebom while she was a hostage - and while the Dah Ebom had been crippled for some time to come, the Odyssey had failed in their mission to protect Revar....

## **Stardate 2391.08.27**

Starfleet decided to equip every vessel in the Frontier Fleet with Transwarp. A staff meeting is held on the Odyssey to discuss the upcoming addition of transwarp to the Odyssey. Promotions are handed out, and the ship begins buzzing as to what these changes will mean for the fleet, and for the crew of the Odyssey, as other members of the crew plan their shoreleaves.

Ensign Greystone's father (a vulcan, no less) made a surprise appearance on the Odyssey, with an equally shocking announcement that Ensign Greystone was betrothed to a Vulcan woman, and was to be married. Captain Bennek agreed to perform the ceremony in roughly two weeks time, on 2391.09.08.

## **Stardate 2391.09.08**

The wedding between Alex Greystone and T'Kella is held on the USS Odyssey, with Captain Bennek performing the ceremony. The wedding finished when the happy couple kissed and the best man (Commander Denebris) made his speech.

## **Stardate 2392.04.25 - 2392.04.26**

Mission 12 (Fleetwide mission): Odyssey Inbound

The refit is finally done and the Odyssey is ready to make their first ever jump into transwarp. The make their initaial test run to the Maelstrom system, where they were going to do a combat simulation as part of their initial transwarp shakedown.
However, before they got too far into the simulation, Commander Nerfertii detected a spatial anomaly on long-range sensors. Captain Bennek decided they should head to the anomaly, so the Odyssey jumped into transwarp to make it a short ride.

When the Odyssey was about to arrive at the anomaly, Lieutenant Davis found that she could not drop the ship out of transwarp. Soon afterwards, the ship starts accelerating, and shaking as if under attack - and in a mysterious white flash, Captain Bennek is taken from the bridge, through a subspace rift of some kind, where he is now being held captive with the other Captains and Command team of this recently created "Frontier Fleet".

With the Odyssey stuck in transwarp, an idea hatched primarily by Commander Nerfertii and Lieutenants Elan and Nerell about lacing the shields with virdion particles is quickly put into motion, and the Odyssey is dropped out of transwarp - albeit not before the ship suffered extensive damage. All ship's systems are offline, save artificial gravity.

A team led by Lieutenant Commander Nerfertii is sent off the bridge, first to sickbay to escort the injured Ensign Creevel, and then to Engineering to begin repairs on failing life support and other critical systems, while the rest of the bridge crew stayed on the bridge. With some luck and crude routing of power, internal communications have been restored - for how long, no-one knows.

Unfortunately, it is soon discovered that photonic beings have boarded the ship - Ensign Greystone and Transporter Chief Vandersteen have one cornerned in the transporter room, and quickly called for reinforcements, to make contact with the alien. A team led by Commander Nerfertii managed to subdue the alien in the transporter room, though not without considerable injury, as the Commander himself has been brought to sickbay.

Shortly after midnight the shuttle Danube was launched with Harmondale, Davis and Nerell as her crew. They inspected the ship for damage and found a subspace rift near the ship.

Commander Nerfertii was released out of Sickbay and questioned the alien together with Cmd. Denebris and Ensign Healey. The latter remained with the alien to study him further and found out the aliens were hurt by transwarp.

At 0057 Captain Janssens appeared on the Odyssey's bridge. In that same moment the anomaly in the warpcore vanished and it was possible to get main power back online. The shuttle was recalled and with modified transwarp the Odyssey returned towards Pandora Station.

## **Stardate 2392.05.05**

The USS Odyssey is still at Pandora, under repairs after Captain Bennek has been returned from the Valkyrie.

During a quick conference with the senior officers, promotions were given out too, 2O/STC Leon Nerfertii, Couns. Healey, ACSO Creevel and finally ASTC Harmondale. Captain Bennek issued the crew with there new orders, to aide Outpost 11 along the neutral zone and following that begin a patrolling duty of the Neutral Zone.

## **Stardate 2392.07.07**

Mission 13: Romulan refugees

Arriving at Outpost 11, the crew have helped with various repairs and are out collecting data for the Outpost to help them chart more of the area, and keep up with new stellar bodies.

While the crew have been working, T'kella the ambassador onboard, is heavily pregnant with Ensign Greystone's child, and while in this state she has been giving off pheromones which has made some the males onboard react erratically. Lieutenant Harmondale and Ensign Greystone get into a bloody fight and Captain Bennek kissed T'Kella while under her influence. Because of this situation, T'Kella has been confined to quarters.

The Odyssey picked up the signal from a transport in distress. While it is far in the neutral zone, Captain Bennek orders the Odyssey into warp, to help the ship apparently in distress.

Unbeknownst to the crew as of yet, the ship is a ship of refugees, looking to flee troubles the planet they were imprisoned on.

Unfortunately, shortly after they arrived at the location of the transport, a Romulan Warbird decloaked. Now facing the dillemna of trying to rescue the refugees while staring down the disruptor barrel of an angry Romulan warbird.

Although hostilities almost broke out between the Odyssey and the Romulan warbird, the shrewd Captain Bennek agreed to meet the Romulan Commander Velek - with Ambassador T'Kella and Lieutenant Davis in tow - on the Odyssey to discuss the fate of the refugees, where Velek is going to question them himself.

During the transport of their Commander, the Romulans secretly beamed a shield disruptor device to the Romulan vessel into the cargobay. One of the Romulan refugees, acting as a spy, was instructed to set of this device. However, the transport was discovered and the spy apprehended.

Meanwhile, Commander Denebris, Lieutenant Helfrump, and Ensign Healey question the refugees, as it seems a matter of extreme convienence that a Romulan warbird ambushed them just as they found the derelict Romulan vessel.

After deciding that the Odyssey would grant the refugees asylum, Commander Velek was send back to the Romulan warbird. The warbird then opened fire on the Odyssey.

The malfunction in the transwarp engine took some time to be fixed. Luckily a Romulan counterspy on the warbird caused the Warbird to cloak. Unable to decloak, the Romulans withdrew. The USS Odyssey safely made it back to Federation space.

## **Stardate 2392.09.20**

After dropping the Romulan refugees on a planet near Outpost 11, the Odyssey returned from the Romulan border. There are numerous crew transfers, so there are many new faces aboard the Odyssey. The staff meeting will be the first opportunity for the new crew to mingle in.

## **Stardate 2392.10.15 - 2392.10.17**

Mission 14: Somewhere only we know

With the new arrivals on board the Odyssey set course for Earth. On their way an old friend from Andor, Caltek, contacts Captain Bennek. Caltek asks Bennek to come to Andor to help him uncover a trail of corruption with the Andorian government. The Odyssey changes course and an away-team is assembled to go down to the planet and meet with Caltek.

Meanwhile a pirate captain meets with an Andorian politician, the Andorian Secretary of Off-World Relations, called Drelev, negotiating a new deal. The new deal 'collapses', when the pirate shoots the roof and runs off with a large amount of latinum and valuable cargo. The pirate captain makes it back to her ship, where a whole crew of pirates is waiting for her.

On the arrival of the Odyssey to Andor the pirate vessel belonging to Sarah Lewis leaves orbit thinking that the Starfleet vessel had arrived to impound her crew's vessel and take them back to see her contact, who she had stolen the latinum and cargo from. After the away-team had successfully made contact with Caltek, the Odyssey is contacted by the Andorian Official of offworld relations and is asked to track the pirate vessel and retrieve the valuable cargo, which the pirate captain and crew had stolen.

Commander Jalando agrees to do this and after contacting Bennek, the Odyssey leaves orbit in hot pursuit of the pirate vessel. Within a short period of time (because of the Odyssey's Transwarp engine) the Odyssey catches up with pirate vessel. At first, it seemed as if Captain Lewis and crew had decided to turn themselves over and have the Odyssey beam an away team onboard. But alas! Captain Lewis had tricked them, and fired on the Odyssey with a strange weapon causing a severe amount of damage! And to make matters worse: Captain Lewis on board the Celestial Dagger now had some unwilling hostages. With that, the Dagger fled the area.

Back on Andor the Captain and away team were having problems have there own: Caltek and Bennek were being held in the Andor Government after being caught trespassing in the Government archives. The remaining members of the away team escaped and returned to a pre-arranged meeting place only to be discovered by an Andorian woman, called Romarana. Things were not looking good for the Odyssey away team.

Two days later after running repairs to the Odyssey, Commander Jalando returns to the pursuit of looking for the pirates. Along the way though, he picks up a relative of the Montgomery family who aided in tracking down the pirate vessel. Also at this time a heavily pregnant T'Kella gave birth in the Captains readyroom, where upon both Greystone and T'Kella named there child Matuga Ch'nel Greystone.

In that time Captain Lewis had settled on a pre-warp civilisation M-Class planet to offload her unwilling hostages so she could carry on without any Starfleet presence. But by no fault of their own they were ambushed by the original owner destined for the cargo they had been carrying. The Ferengi called Yok stole the cargo and ran off into the forest. Sarah asked for help from the Starfleet hostages in return for her capture and the safety of her crew, revealing the true identity of the cargo to the Starfleet Hostages: a deadly pathogen secretly created by the Andorian government during the Dominion War...

With Captain Bennek indisposed, Commander Nerfertii was now in command of the Away Team. He had Nerell, Graves and Jyll take up the guise of visiting Andorians to break out Bennek and Caltek from there prison. They were successful. However, they were not so in protecting Ms. Romarana: the Andorian woman had left the safety of Commander Nerfertii, and went to confront Drelev with his actions. Alas, the poor Andorian woman only found death at Drelev's hands.

The Odyssey, with the deadly pathogen in its cargo hold, returned to Andor to retrieve its away team and head back to Pandora for repairs and to bring the pirates to justice for their crimes against the Federation and Starfleet.

## **Stardate 2392.10.18 - 2393.01.12**

On the return trip to Pandora promotions were handed out too Graves, Termal and Greystone and Doctor Palder was also scheduled to leave the vessel.

The Odyssey has once again arrived at Pandora Station for repairs, and also to be invited to the holiday festivities that were to be held on Pandora Station along with the rest of Frontier Fleet.

The time spent at Pandora was uneventful except for Captain Bennek accepting reassignment to take up a position on Earth with Admiral Morgan and leaving a vacant CO position on the Odyssey and ending Captains Bennek tenure in command of the Odyssey.

## **Stardate 2393.01.13 - 2393.01.21**

Mission #15: Vanishing Point.

With Captain Bennek being promoted away from the Odyssey, the Captaincy of the Intrepid Class Starship fell to the former First Officer: Jeff Jalando. The newly promoted Captain and his new FO, Cmdr. Leon Nerfertii, didn't have time to get used to their new roles. Almost immediately after receiving command of the Odyssey, Captain Jalando was ordered to take the ship out to Tarakana II: a planet home to the Tarakanans. There had been a problem: People were reported missing. Not 10, not a 100, not even a 1000... but tens of thousands of people went missing every day on the planet Tarakana II. The Odyssey was sent to find out what was happening, why those people were vanishing, and what became of them. In order to get this job done, Captain Denorian of Pandora Station allowed extra personnel to board the Odyssey to help out in their mission.

When the Odyssey arrived in orbit, the planet's populations had been limited to only half of what it first was. Massive panic had erupted on the surface. Cities were in chaos, energy supply had been cut off. The Odyssey crew beamed down to help in maintaining order, restoring control. This was a difficult task. From facing crowds of protesters and nearly getting crushed by burning buildings to escaping raging Roweg beast in the polar regions... the Odyssey crew had a difficult job. They put their lives on the line to help out.

Some didn't want to be helped, though. There were those who believed that this was the Time of Salvation: something that was foretold in ancient proficies. People would vanish, and would then experience the happiest time of their existance, forever. Those who defied this proficy had to be stopped, according to those Tarakanans. So this Time of Salvation movement kidnapped Ambassador T'Kella and tried to force Starfleet away from the planet.

But... there was no effect. The Odyssey crew was here to stay. Or not... In the days after the Odyssey's arrival, various crewmembers started to go missing as well. Those missing people found themselves at a place where they always wanted to be. Could the Time of Salvation movement be correct?

The lack of people caused a great problem for the USS Odyssey. With only 25 people on board, running the ship was getting harder and harder with every person vanishing. Luckily, Ensign Creevel discovered that signals being detected every time someone vanished, came from the Tarakanan moon. With only a few people left on board, the Odyssey made its way there. But would there be time enough to find out what was going on, before every crewmember would vanish?

When they entered the Tarakanan's moon's orbit, the Odyssey crew found their answers: beneath the surface was a huge complex, housing millions of lifesigns! This seemed to be the remains of an ancient alien complex, created by aliens to study the Tarakanan civilisation. Those taken by this 'observatory' would have their minds probed, and a holodeck would then create whatever that person wanted. This 'lab' had gotten activated automatically after this many years had passed, but nobody was there to stop it.

Assisted by Commander Nerfertii who had been taken too, the Odyssey crew found a way to power down the alien laboratory. With the danger of members disappearing gone, Captain Jalando ordered the start of bringing all these people back to the planet. For that, they enlisted the aid of the USS Burbank.

Finally, by 2393.01.21, the last of the Tarakanans was reunited with their families, and the last Starfleet officer was brought on board. It was time to leave, but not before receiving thanks from the Tarakanan Prime Leader, and the assurance that the Odyssey would always be welcome again at Tarakana II.

## **Stardate 2393.05.12**

Mission #16: "Tested Loyalties"

The Odyssey has been asked to join the Klingon ship Kovor in a scientific mission to study a archiological dig at a planet -Seralis IV- close to the Klingon border. This joint venture could very well strengthen the already strong relationships between the Federation and the Klingons, so Captain Jalando decided to beam down himself, along with CSO Palder, SecO Valk and others. The Klingon Captain, K'Vathe, decided to do the same.

Unfortunately, disaster struck: explosions were detected on the surface, and after that no lifesigns were found. The Odyssey FO, Commander Nerfertii, and the Klingon FO, Commander G'Broth, feared the worst: that their teams were dead. Both the Kovor and the Odyssey sent down another away team to discover what happened. Both teams made some startling discoveries though: the Klingon team found evidence of Federation mines, and the Odyssey team found evidence of Klingon mines. Now, tensions on the surface and in orbit seems to be risen to such a scale, that a firefight seems unavoidable. Could the peace between the Klingon Empire and the Federation crumble because of this? Could an all-out war be the result?

Meanwhile, Captain Jalando, Captain K'Vathe and the two teams awoke somewhere else: they hadn't been killed, but transported to an Orion ship, commanded by an Orion called Varun. Captain Varun had planned this all along: he had stolen, and planted these various Klingon and Federation mines on the planet, hoping that it would cause a war between the two major powers. Why? Because then both the Klingons and the Federation would be too busy in fighting each other, to go on pirate patrols. That in turn, would be good news for the Orion Syndicate.

But what would happen to the prisoners? Well, they would be sold as slaves, on a slave market. This was something neither the Federation officers, nor the Klingons liked: so they started to make plans. Ensign Valk and Klingon Officer Keyl cleared a path to Engineering, after which they were incapacitated because of a devise implanted in all of them, called an agoniser. Captains Jalando and K'Vathe though, managed to take control of Engineering, and are now trying to maintain control. However, little do they know that one of the other Orion slaves, a Mr. Soyanka, is trying to give control of Engineering back to the Bridge. . .

In orbit of Seralis IV, the Odyssey and the Kovor prepare for battle. Reinforcements have been called from both sides, and the truce that has kept in place between the two allies for so long, has all but crumbled. On the surface, teams from both sides prepare for battle.

The first shot is fired, the first dagger drawn. Klingons vs. Starfleet: both on the planet and in orbit. Valiant commanders try to outsmart each other. Peace seems but a long distant memory.

Thankfully though, Ensign Valk, on board the Orion ship, manages to decloak Varun's ship, at great personal risk. The crews of both the Odyssey and the Kovor understand what's going on: they have been tricked. Weapons are being fired once again, but this time at the Orion's ship. Just before it jumps to warp, the Odyssey can beam back the Starfleet and Klingon personnel from the ship. Their statements of teamwork and mutual respect convince both Nerfertii and G'Broth that a war can be avoided. The reinforcements are called off, and both ships -allies once again- leave Seralis IV to report these incidents to their respective governments. Peace has once again been preserved. For now.

## **Stardate 2393.09.03**

Mission #17: "Only Time Will Tell"

Commander Nerfertii didn't stay First Officer of the Odyssey for long. He left, went back to his homeworld, to lead his people. The new First Officer of the Odyssey was the old Second Officer: Commander Lorvok. With not much known about this person, Captain Jalando wondered what he would expect from this new FO. But. . . time would tell.

And indeed it would: in more ways than one. During a party to congratulate the crew for their actions on board the Odyssey, the crew suddenly found them and the ship being drawn into some sort of fissure in space and time. It was a bumpy ride. . . but when they emerged, the entire universe had changed. No longer was it 2393.09.03. . . it was 2443.09.03: fifty years in the future.

Captain Arienne Jalando, daughter of the current Odyssey Captain, had brought the Odyssey to the future to show them the horror and destruction of war. In this timeline, the Transwarp Aliens had started a terrible war. A war the Federation was losing. Badly. The reason: Transwarp. Somehow it still damaged the fabric of space the Transwarp Aliens were living in. With more transwarp ships in the future, their layers of space were torn apart. Billions of Transwarp Aliens died. And in 2423, the Transwarp Aliens decided that it was enough: they had declared war on the Federation.

In 2443, the Federation was on the brink of destruction. The only thing that could save the Federation, the present and the future. . . was timetravel. That was why the future people had brought the Odyssey there. To show them the damage that Transwarp would do. To persuade them not to use it anymore, and to tell their Starfleet Command to abolish it. Transwarp, the newest way to travel. . . had to be stopped.

The crew of the Odyssey got the full brunt of the misery war had brought their future selves. Captain Jalando met his daughter. His future self had suffered a mental breakdown in the future. In this timeline, the Odyssey was destroyed. Most of Bajor was in ruins. Astlantia, the planet of former FO Nerfertii, had been destroyed, causing the future version of the former FO to arrive at Earth with countless refugees. Lt.jg Greystone's future self had died, leaving a child and grandson. Commander Lorvok's future self had become old, grey and pessimistic. He no longer believed in what the younger Lorvok once held so dear. ACONN Jones' son from the future talked to him, telling him about what the future would, or could be like.

There were other members of the once-prized Frontier Fleet, present in this future. Captain Jennifer Su with her wife, Lt. Chris Roberts. Former First Officer and now Captain Paul Velden, now a cynical, pessimistic man. Commodore Denebris, once First Officer of the Odyssey and Captain of the Valkyrie, was present too. And then there was the former FO of the Valkyrie, X'ok PaRel. This bunch of people had sad stories to tell the crew of the USS Odyssey.

Not all was bad, though. Captain Jalando talked to his daughter, Lt.jg Greystone held his grandson in his hands, and Ensign Valk found out she'd be married to Lorvok. However, most of the things that were told to the Odyssey crew were. . . terrible. Billions of dead, billions more to come if this war wouldn't end soon. The Odyssey would need to be sent back through time, with this knowledge and experience. Then this timeline might cease to exist, or change. For the better.

But there were moral implications involved. What \*right\* did they have to change the future? Even though for the Odyssey crew, the future wasn't written yet, was it? Nevertheless, for the future selves, it was. For them, the Odyssey would go and change their history. The history of an entire universe. Fifty years of time, erased or changed. Lives might have never existed, or sent in a totally different direction. What if Jalando's daughter would never been born? What if Chris Roberts died, and thus never got to grow old with Captain Su¬? What if Paul Velden never fell in love with Tessa Elan? But also. . . what if they remained in love, and didn't divorce? And what if Alan Nerell wouldn't die in the future? Or, what if both Greystone and Jalando would live happily ever after? Most of all: what if this war never happened?

There were too many possibilities. The Odyssey had to return, that was obvious. But now that they knew this knowledge, what would they do with it? Would they use it to change their future, or would they ignore it, and let history run it's course?

Commodore Denebris could not let this happen. He enlisted the reluctant aid of Captain Velden, who only had to sabotage the time travel device which the Telemachos -Arienne Jalando's ship- would use to bring the Odyssey back home. That way, the Odyssey would be destroyed, making it look like an accident as a result of transwarp engine faillure, thus forcing Starfleet to abandon the project. X'ok PaRel found this out, and in a final confrontation, he and Denebris killed each other. Velden stood for a choice: either send over 150 innocent men and women to their deaths and make sure this version of the future would never happen, or let them live, and risk this war happening nonetheless.

He chose the latter. The Odyssey set a course for home. . . but not before being engaged in combat by the Transwarp Aliens. An invasion fleet was on its way to Earth, and they would stop for no-one. . . not even for a 24th century Odyssey. Luckily, due to the couragious action of the Telemachos crew and those from the future, the Odyssey was given enough time to escape to their own time again. Lt. Kamal, Cadet Ahn, Lt.Cmdr. Liz Summers and Lt. Valk from the Telemachos got caught in the same temporal stream though. . . and vanished. Their location: unknown.

Back in their own time, the Odyssey crew faced a dilemma. What to do? A meeting was called, and a decision was made. Captain Jalando informed Starfleet, and adviced them to put the Transwarp Project on halt for the time being, until a way can be found to ensure no damage to the Transwarp Aliens' layer of space. A ban on transwarp was the result.

## **Stardate 2394.03.12 - 2394.05.18**

Mission #18: "Wrath of the Gods"

As the Odyssey was doing some nebula research, they received a distress call. A \*Romulan\* distress call. Apparently, one of their science ships was in trouble. When the Odyssey arrived at the place where this distress call originated -planet M-667- there wasn't any ship here. Still, the Odyssey crew found a trail to the planet surface: could it be that the Romulan ship had crashed?

They conducted a high resolution scan of the surface. . . and that was when all hell broke loose. There was a feedbackpulse coming along over the scans, which wreaked havoc on the Odyssey's systems. Helm control, lifesupport, sensors, tactical systems... all went down. The Odyssey could no longer hold its orbit. And before long, they crashed on the planet surface.

And as if things couldn't get any worse, the native population had noticed this crash. Just like they had the last one, of the Romulan ship. This land they were in was called the Griznian Empire. And the Odyssey had fallen on \*their\* land, while the Romulan ship had crashed onto the land of their enemies. Since then, their war had been going badly. Senator Bradius, one of the important people of the Griznian empire, realised that they had to go and march to the object that fell out of the sky. It most certainly was a message from the Gods.

Meanwhile, the Odyssey crew tried to cope with what happened. They had crashed, there were injuries, and it was clear that the ship wasn't going anywhere for a while. Commander Nerfertii, the ship's FO, decided to post guards around the ship, as another group of Starfleet Officers went to explore the region.

Less than half an hour later, Nerfertii and the guards were confronted by the Griznians, who had reached the crash-site. The Griznians started believing that the Starfleet Officers were their Gods come down from the sky. However, due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, the Grizians got to learn the names of the command crew. They rejected their old Gods, and now wanted to learn the teachings of the powerful Gods Jalando and Nerfertii, inside the holy temple of Odyssey. After all, they had made Centurion Gordianus disappear when he had been mortally injured. In fact, the Centurion had been beamed to sickbay, where the medical crew was trying their best to save his life.

Meanwhile, the Away Team had reached the enemy land of the Bethesdans. They were immediately taken prisoner by the natives. In fact, they were fired at by disruptors! After three days of imprisonment, they found out that the Romulans who crashed here, had given the Bethesdans advanced weaponry to take on the Griznians.

These Romulans seemed to be Romulan Fugitives, who had wanted to cross over to the Federation. They were lead by Lin'Bia: a Romulan counterspy the Odyssey had encountered before. After being found by the Bethesdans, the Romulans had burried their small ship, since they didn't want the Romulan Empire to find them.
The away team officers and these Romulan fugitives felt it was best to work together to get off this planet, and decided that they could dig up the Romulan ship, since it might still have some equipment that the Odyssey could use for repair.

Unfortunately, the rest of the Odyssey crew had more problems than 'just' having to repair a damaged ship. Word had spread through the Griznian population that they were new Gods, and the Griznian Emperor himself, Griznius III, had come here for himself, along with thousands of followers, to talk to the new Gods.

Captain Jalando decided to send Centurion Gordianus back, to tell everyone that the Odyssey crew were \*not\* gods. Gordianus believed this too... however, none of the other Griznians did.

And then an answer came to them. Apparently, a gas only known as 'Liscom gas' was occurring naturally on this planet. It had its uses as a mind-controlling gas. That was the reason why the Grizians -and the Bethesdans- were so easily convinced that the Odyssey crew were gods. It was a naturally occurring process. While that was partially good news -it meant that they weren't entirelly responsible for what was happening- it also posed a problem: the Griznians were very vulnerable to outside influences, because of the plant producing this gas. Should the Odyssey crew try to find a way to stop this?

Finally, the Away Team managed to contact the Odyssey, and were beamed over, together with the Romulan fugitives. Lin'Bia had some worthwhile information for Jalando: a list of 43 Tal'shiar officers within Starfleet... that would be useful, if the Odyssey were to ever get out of here.

Outside of the Odyssey, the people who believed the Starfleet crew were Gods, only increased. But alongside them there was also a group who didn't believe that the Odyssey crew were gods. They believed that the old Gods should still be worshipped. And they felt that something had to be done to stop these new Gods and their believers. At first, they wanted to just scare them away with a huge fire. But something went wrong, and the fire spread through the dense grass, consuming everything in its path. Pretty soon, all those thousands of people were in danger of being burnt alive.

At that point, Captain Jalando felt it was time to act, despite the Prime Directive. He sent out security and medical teams to help guide these people to safety. That only caused the Griznians to believe in the Odyssey Gods more, though... but Jalando simply couldn't let all these people die.

Three days later, with the help of the Romulan fugitives and their equipment, the Odyssey was ready to lift off. But what of the Griznians? As the Odyssey lifted off, the Griznians remained behind, wondering what they had to do \*without\* their gods...

A couple of months later, Captain Jalando was charged of breaking the Prime Directive. He was sentenced to half a year of teaching at Starfleet Academy, regarding the topic of the Prime Directive, while Commander Saylor would take over command of the Odyssey...

## **Stardate 2395.01.06 - 2395.01.10**

Episode #19: "Pandora's Box"

As Captain Jalando returned from his forced teaching at the Academy, he found himself at Pandora Station where the crew of the Odyssey were on leave. However, they found out that their colleagues from the Atlantis have arrived at the Frontier Fleet HQ too for the same reason. Almost all members of both crews beamed on board, and were expecting a nice relaxing shore leave, until all of a sudden a beam of some sorts, coming from one of the underwater ruins of Pandora II, engulfed Pandora Station. . . and made it disappear from normal space.

Pandora Station had been moved to another dimension: one with no sign of the Federation, the planet below filled with industries instead of water, and various large enemy ships converging on their location. These ships -and the planet below- turned out to belong to the Nahim: a lizard like alien race, which wasn't all that friendly. The enemy ships opened fire, and while Pandora Station put up quite a fight, they were no match for the force attacking them. Pretty soon, Captain Denorian of Pandora Station was forced to surrender.

Luckily, just before this happened, Lieutenant Jaal -being the Station's STC- managed to disable the major systems, leaving a disabled Pandora Station for the Nahim to take over. As a result, Captain Denorian was captured and interrogated for the codes. He didn't give in, but that nearly cost him his life.

With Pandora Station captured, Captain Jalando of the Odyssey and Captain Torn of the Atlantis had their crews work together, trying to retake the station and avoid capture themselves. Which was hard to do, since the Nahim soldiers were just about everywhere. Jalando, Saylor, Kennedy and several members of the Odyssey and Atlantis crew beamed down to the surface to activate the interdimensional transporter that the Nahim had built, which would get the Station back to their own dimension, while the rest of the crew did their best to start up a resistance cell to take over Main OPS.

At the same time, Captain Torn of the Atlantis took a small team on board a Nahim shuttle they had taken over to learn more about the large Nahim ships. . . and to find a way to disable them, if possible.

On the planet surface, Jalando's team barely succeeded in their mission, but before they could activate the beam to get Pandora Station back to their own dimension, they were pinned down by Nahim forces \*and\* water coming in from behind. Luckily, Atlantis Commander Montgomery came to the rescue, causing Jalando's team to finish what they started.

At Stardate 2395.01.07, around 0105 hours, the interdimensional transporter was activated, and Pandora Station once again re-appeared in their own dimension with the Odyssey and Atlantis waiting at them. With their assistance, the remaining Nahim which were on the Station were quickly taken care of. . . and the remains of the interdimensional transporter in the ruins of Pandora II were disassembled. Hopefully, nothing like this would happen again.

## **Stardate 2395.08.26 - 2395.12.25**=

Yeager Colony Episode #1: 'A new beginning'.

Planet Alta Minos in the Aldaron system, near the Hekaras Corridor. The home of the recently established Yeager Colony. Set up as a scientific colony to study the effects of the unstable area of space in this region, and to see if they could close the subspacerift left here open about 30 years ago. This place would be the home of Captain Torn of the USS Atlantis. The crew of this Akira class Starship transferred to either the USS Odyssey or to the Colony, since the Atlantis itself was to be a testbed of new propulsion systems.

As the Atlantis left, her former crewmembers tried their best to fit in on the Odyssey, helping out in supplying the colony with everything they needed. Unknown to them though, Director Vasa, the civilian colony Director, found herself having lost contact with a ship with experimental warpengines based on transwarp: the SS Rook. It was supposed to be able to travel through the unstable space without any incidents. . . but the lack of contact now suggested otherwise.

Swallowing her pride, Director Vasa went to talk to Captain Torn, the administrator of the Starbase that had been put up on the North-east side of the colony. Torn contacted the Odyssey about this, and pretty soon Captain Jalando agreed to search for the missing ship.

The Odyssey detected the Rook after a few hours: the Aerie class ship was stuck in a subspace rift that hadn't been there before! Upon closer inspection it was determined that the Rook's experimental engines had caused this rift to form. While the Odyssey tried to tow the Rook out, they were pulled \*into\* the rift, along with the Rook itself. . . after which the rift started closing on them. Pretty soon, the rift would be shut completely and they'd be stuck in subspace.

The only way to get out, it seemed was to start up the Rook's experimental engines, and then destroy that ship, causing the rift to expand enough for the Odyssey to fit through. Hopefully it'd collapse on itself then. The plan was put in motion, and the Rook was destroyed. The Odyssey barely got through, but. . . the rift didn't close. Instead of one rift in this unstable area of space, there were now two. . . the second one closer to Yeager Colony. That would give quite some problems in the near future. . .

The Odyssey was badly damaged by the destruction of the Rook and the escape from the rift. After being towed back to Yeager Colony by the Atlantis who picked up the distress signal, the Odyssey underwent a couple of months of repair.

## **Stardate 2396.01.10 - 2396.02.18**

Yeager Colony Episode #2: 'Winds of Change'

Stardate 2396.01.10

The USS Odyssey was ordered back to Yeager Colony with great haste. Upon arrival, they found out that the weather on the planet was out of control. The few weather control facilities couldn't handle the terrible storms, blizzards, droughts and everything else being created by the planet's atmosphere, affected by the nearby rift. It was quickly decided by Captain Jalando of the Odyssey and Captain Torn of the Yeager Starbase, that something needed to be done. However, Admiral Anyanka, former Academy Commandant, had arrived at the USS Oberon, and was watching them. . . She also relayed surprising orders from Starfleet Command: the Odyssey was now to act as support ship for Yeager Colony. . . indefinitely.

Several teams were put together: one lead by Commander Saylor and one lead by Lt.jg Cameron. These teams needed to repair the major weather control facilities on the surface, while the Odyssey would pick up, repair and re-deploy the weather satellites. That would be enough, hopefully, to combat the effects the nearby rift had on the planet's weather.

Cameron's team quickly went to work, and went to erect a weather control facility -weather station for short- at a remote location at an unnamed continent, in the Caledonian forests. They found heavy rain there, followed by a nice sunshine: it was clear to them all that the rift was having quite some effect on the weather. They also found some sort of substance in the ground which made it virtually impossible to contact the Odyssey or Yeager Colony itself. . .

Saylor's team was delayed somewhat by a distress call from Petty Officer Jabara: apparently she had tried to repair one of the nearby weather control facilities too, but nobody had heard from her ever since. Commander Saylor decided to take her team up in a shuttle and search for the missing Petty officer.

In the meantime, a hurricane was detected, coming closer to Yeager Colony. . . if it would hit, the colony itself would probably be destroyed. . . time was of the essence here.

Things took a turn for the worst when Lieutenant Cameron's team had a 'visit' from hexapods which lived in the Caledonian forests. They wrecked the entire encampment, including the special food that Lieutenant Cameron needed. Without it, he quickly went violent, up to the point where he threatened to hurt his fellow officers. Admiral Anyanka took over command of this operation, but it wasn't enough to calm Cameron down. Far from it, even. Luckily, a surprise visit by the Horta 'Sam' calmed Cameron down, though he still needed medical attention.

Saylor's team had arrived at the weather control facility where Petty Officer Jabara was reportedly heading towards. When they noticed her, she was hanging upside down from one of the beams, stuck by a piece of rope. Apparently she had slipped because of the rain, and had been hanging here for two hours! It took quite some effort, but ultimately Jabara was brought down, and the weather control facility repaired.

In orbit of Alta Minos, the Odyssey continued to repair the satellite network. They were just done when they finally detected the immensely strong hurricane moving directly towards Yeager Colony. Evacuations were underway, but it would be impossible for the entire colony to evacuate before the hurricane hit. Captain Jalando beamed up the eccentric yet brilliant civilian scientist Verrecchia, who was stationed at Yeager Colony, to help. It took a while, but finally Verrecchia found a way to modify the tractorbeam emitter to disperse the hurricane. This meant that the Odyssey needed to get down into the path of this monster, though. . .

Fortunately, it worked. Even though the Odyssey was damaged, most of the colony was saved when the hurricane was dispersed. As the various teams returned from their jobs, it was clear that a minor victory had been achieved over the weather today, but that all the other weather control facilities really needed to be modified. Work started immediately.

It only took a week or two for all the facilities to be updated. They would probably control the weather for a while now, but until the rift was closed, this could very well happen again. . .

During those repairs, Ensign Valk, who had been in a coma since the Nahim incident, was transported to the planet Cait for a specialised treatment. Chances were that she'd never fully regain control over her body though. However, half way there, the Flyer ferrying the Ensign was caught in a tractorbeam by an alien ship. Its crew captured. . . for a little while. When they were returned, the aliens had healed up Valk completely. One message was left:

'we have come'.

About a week later, at Yeager Colony, Doctor Verrecchia and Director Vasa made a terrifying discovery: the rift was expanding. In a couple of years it might have expanded throughout the system, but in about a thousand years it could have swallowed the entire Federation. In a few thousand. . . the universe. . . This was a shocking discovery indeed.

## **Stardate 2396.05.07 - 2396.05.21**

Yeager Colony Episode #3

As the Odyssey returned from a trip to the Gorn homeworld, the crew held a 'welcome home' party. Indeed, Yeager Colony has become their home. Unfortunately, the party is disrupted when the lifeless body of a scientist, Darko Maldenovic, was found. It was clear a murderer walked loose around the Colony. Immediately a search got started, but that would be one which most of the Odyssey crew wouldn't participate in. The Odyssey, after all, was ordered to go on a hazardous mission: to close the subspace rift that was created when the SS Rook exploded. Dr. Verrecchia had a theory to close it, as did Professor Milaz. Unfortunately both scientists disagreed on how to close the rift, so they both went along with the Odyssey. One thing was for sure: it would be dangerous, and the chances of survival were minimum, at best. Because of this, Lieutenant Cameron, now promoted to First Officer, re-assigned Captain Jalando's girlfriend Emily Watson to the colony, without consulting the Captain first. He did this to protect Jalando, Ms. Watson \*and\* their unborn baby. At least, if the Odyssey were to be destroyed, Jalando's family would live on. Captain Jalando though, was far from amused.

Back at Yeager Colony, the tension rose to a new level when another murder was committed: the Cardassian/Bajoran scientist, Doctor Maentra Duret. The Pilgrim, as the murderer seemed to call him- or herself, had struck again. Always leaving a note, always with quotes from various religious books. Lieutenant Stevens and Ensign T'Parren, who were leading the investigation, had no leads... so far the murderer was still at loose.

The panic at the colony rose even further when everyone got a message with the text saying 'you are next'. This caused a riot: an angry mob started protesting outside Yeager Base, demanding that Security would find the murderer. It took a lot of effort, but finally the mob calmed down, and everyone went home. It was unsure how long it would take until the citizens of Yeager Colony would once again become restless though. . .

Meanwhile, on the Odyssey, the crew started studying the rift, in hopes of finding ways to close it. The plan was to use the communications array to send a subspace pulse to the rift, in order to close it. There was a very likely possibility that a feedbackpulse would destroy the Odyssey, but it was the only option the crew could think of. Luckily, Professor Milaz had been working on an invention which could absord large amounts of energy. It would need to be constructed though, and nothing like this had ever been done on this large a scale...

There were more problems on their way though. When the Odyssey arrived at the rift, they discovered space dwelling creatures who seemed to thrive in the proximity of the rift. When the Odyssey approached them, the creatures attacked the ship, to protect what seemed to be either their home or their feeding grounds. It soon became clear that if the Odyssey crew managed to destroy the rift, these creatures would starve to death. There didn't seem to be any other foodsource for them.

It was a moral dilemma that the Odyssey crew had to deal with. Would they try and shut down the rift and thus condemn these creatures to death, or would they leave it open and thus allow the rift to threaten both the Hekarans and Yeager Colony?

When Dr. Verrecchia discovered that this wasn't just a rift in subspace, but also in time, it was clear what needed to be done. This rift was a danger to all of reality, and needed to be destroyed... even if it meant destroying the Odyssey in the process.

On the colony, another murder was committed. Abe Johnson, the person who discovered the body of Dr. Duret, was found dead, his heart cut out. This time there was evidence though: a small drop of Romulan blood. Was there a Romulan nearby?

It took another death -Dr. Bob Reilly- to really get things going. Lieutenant Watson -Captain Jalando's girlfriend- worked together with former Valkyrie CO Lieutenant Denebris to narrow the list of suspects down. She brought the list to Ensign T'Parren, only to find T'Parren pointing a phaser at her. It was this Vulcan who was actually the Romulan agent. . . T'Parren was the Pilgrim! T'Parren had planned her escape well: she played the classical overture '1812' over all the speakers in the colony, to act as a countdown of sorts. When it was finished, the building of the Industrial Replicators blew up, along with the security office, making it seem as if both T'Parren and Watson had been killed. In reality, T'Parren had beamed both of them to a shuttlecraft, imprisoned Watson, and left at high warp.

At the Odyssey, it was decision time. Captain Jalando ordered the rift to be closed, while doing the only humane thing possible: killing these alien creatures with a single phaserblast, so that they wouldn't feel any pain. The plan worked, and the vacuole -Professor Milaz's invention- absorbed enough of the feedback from the rift to let the Odyssey survive. She was battered, but the rift was closed. Their mission was completed, so they headed home.

But when they got back within communications range, they found out that T'Parren and Watson had flew off, with T'Parren being responsible for all the murders. Quickly, Jalando ordered the Odyssey to pursue, leaving Yeager Colony to fend for itself.

T'Parren had brought Watson to a Ferengi named Grax, who wanted to purchase the Lieutenant. After the purchase was done and the Romulan agent left, the Odyssey arrived. It took quite some persuasion and even some weapons fire, but ultimately Watson was beamed over. . . just in time, since T'Parren detonated a bomb she had hidden on the Ferengi Marauder, killing everyone who was still on board.

Even though their mission was a success and the murders had stopped, the Yeager crew didn't feel as if they'd won. A lot of damage had been done, and it would take time to get over it.

## **Stardate 2396.11.14 - 2397.01.19**

Yeager Colony episode #4: "A-hunting we will go"

An unexpected visit from an alien ship caused the crew some headaches: the heavily armed cruiseship, the S.S. Alpha Queen, requested to land. When granted, Its Captain, a K'Tarian called Bawan, invited Captain Jalando for dinner. There, he revealed that he and his crew were actually hunters, eager to find and capture the alien subspace creatures that the Odyssey had encountered six months ago. Bawan asked for Jalando's help to catch some more. When that proved to be impossible, Bawan asked if he and his crew could have the bodies stored in Yeager's morgue. Those would still be worth a lot of latinum. Obviously, Jalando denied the request.

However, Bawan and his crew were not easily discouraged. They sent over a small armed team to the morgue and stole the bodies, before taking off again. Jalando and the Odyssey crew quickly found out and prevented the Alpha Queen from taking off too far, using a modified tractorbeam to push the ship down again. Unfortunately, the Alpha Queen's pilot sent a feedbackpulse through the Odyssey's tractor beam, creating havoc in the ship's systems. Navigational controls failed, and the ship was forced to crash-land, approximately 15 miles or roughly 25 kilometres north
of the colony.

The Alpha Queen didn't fare much better though: it too crashed: they landed in a tropical area 50 miles or 80 kilometres east of the colony. However, not all of the hunters were on board the Alpha Queen when it crashed: one of the hunters, called 'Big Dan Barlett', was on a hunt of his own: to capture and kill the Horta named Sam.

As the Odyssey and Yeager personnel worked hard to repair the Odyssey's damage, several Yeager crewmembers were sent on a mission to find and arrest the Alpha Queen's crew. However, when they got to the crashsite, they found only the pilot, who had died in the crash. Bawan and the other hunters had already left the wreckage of their ship to head to the colony: Bawan wanted revenge for the destruction of his ship and the death of his pilot. Someone had to pay. And that someone was the person who Bawan figured had caused the crash: Captain Jalando.

About a day later, the hunters were still nowhere to be found. Engineers were still busy repairing the Odyssey, but progress was slow. Then, however, the unthinkable happened: there was an explosion at the main power generators. It turned out the small hunting party had arrived at Yeager Colony, and they were doing everything they could to make life miserable for the colonists. One of the hunters, Ruilli, beamed onto the Odyssey unseen, and kidnapped Jalando and Watson's child, Arienne. In the meantime, Bawan himself confronted Jalando, as he beamed the two of them about 5 kilometers away from the colony. Bawan was intent on killing Jalando.

Fortunately, after a long game of cat-and-mouse, Captain Jalando and Lieutenant Watson managed to retreive their child and defeat Bawan. The Odyssey's and Yeager's crew captured the remaining hunters.

A few days later, the Odyssey was once again fully repaired. The hunters were all transferred to Starfleet Security, and the colonists' spirits were rising. Things were looking up... but not for long.

## **Stardate 2397.07.05 - 2397.07.19**

Yeager episode #5: "The Eleventh Hour"

It was a joyous day for the crews of Yeager Colony \*and\* the USS Valkyrie: Lt.Cmdr. Denebris of Yeager was marrying Lt.Cmdr. Davis of the Valkyrie. It caused the two crews to come together, talk, relax for a while. Yes, life was good, especially for the two newlyweds.

The week after that, the Valkyrie stayed in orbit of Alta Minos. Both crews interacted and new friends were made. However, all good things came to an end when two scientists arrived with a mission from Starfleet: the crews of the Odyssey/Yeager Colony and the USS Valkyrie were ordered to help them in constructing \*and\* testing an anti-Borg weapon. This device, if successful, could wipe out the Borg everywhere in one shot.

While moral and ethical dilemma's were raging on both dutystations, both crews figured they should obey orders and help these scientists test their weapon on a small scale: with a small cannister of Borg nanoprobes. The two scientists, called Furgenson and Iverson, activated their device... but it failed. Only a big flash illuminated the area, and it seemed to reach even the two ships in orbit. The nanoprobes however, were still active.

The next morning, disaster struck: Captain PaRel of the Valkyrie received an urgent transmission from Earth. It was an old friend of his, reporting a Borg presence on Earth. Right in front of PaRel's eyes, the man got turned into a Borg himself. Further reports of people turning into Borg spontaneously, came in from all over the Federation.

It was decided that the Valkyrie would go to Pandora Station to find out what was happening, while the Yeager crew would work together with the two scientists to make their anti-Borg weapon work. It seemed to be all that remained between the Federation and the Borg... if it wasn't too late already.

As the Valkyrie made its way to Pandora, the Yeager crew started preparing for the worst: a full fledged Borg incursion. Luckily, the new weapon platform in orbit had just been completed. But would it be enough to stop the Borg?

At the 15th of June, the Valkyrie returned... but upon arrival, they immediately went to red alert. As it turned out, at Pandora Station they discovered some sort of airborne nanoprobes: a new form of assimilation, created by the Borg. Anyone infected with this would eventually be assimilated from within.

The crew's worst nightmare became a reality, when the Valkyrie contacted the Odyssey: they had determined that the particle which caused the assimilation, was already airbourne on board the Odyssey. There was no sign of it on the planet, though. However, when the Odyssey tried to scan for that particle themselves, they found nothing: not on the surface or on board of either ship! While the Odyssey crew was relieved, the Valkyrie crew didn't trust the Odyssey's sensors. After all, their own sensors still indicated that this particle was present.

Captain PaRel gave Captain Jalando an ultimatum: leave the system before 0800 hours, or be fired upon.

Captain Jalando though, decided \*not\* to leave. Since they weren't infected, they shouldn't have to go: if the Federation was indeed taken over by the Borg, they needed every ship available. Sending the Odyssey away would be a mistake.

At 0800 hours, Captain Jalando ordered the Odyssey to warp away... but only for a moment. He gave the most difficult order in his career: to fire at the Valkyrie. While the Prometheus class ship was superior in both offence and defence, the Odyssey had one advantage: they had Denebris, the Valkyrie's former Captain. He knew all the little vulnerabilities. Plus, they had the new weapons platform at their disposal.

What at first started as a battle to scare the other off, soon became a battle for survival. Neither side wanted to give up. Ultimately though, after a massive battle where both sides took a \*lot\* of damage... the Valkyrie took one hit too many. Its warpcore breached. As the Valkyrie sent out escape pods with most of the crew, Captain X'ok PaRel died as he piloted the doomed ship away from the lifeboats, protecting them one last time.

But the battle wasn't over yet. The surviving Valkyrie crewmembers landed at Yeager, taking over the colony. Now, the Odyssey crew had another fight on their hands: after a battle for survival, they were now doing battle to retake their home.

What they didn't know though... was that none of it was real.

As it turned out, the flash generated by the 'anti-Borg device' had been a way to cause everyone, both on the planet and on the two ships, to fall asleep and enter a dream, controlled by these two scientists and... the Orion Syndicate. They acquired this technology recently, and were now using it to steal supplies from Yeager, the Odyssey and the Valkyrie, without anyone knowing it.

Thankfully, occupants of a shuttle arriving at Yeager, found out what was going on, and managed to shut down the device controlling the dream. Both crews woke up, and started working together, albeit with some distrust. Finally, they managed to drive the Syndicate away from the planet.

It was clear now that there was no Borg threat, no anti-Borg weapon... not even orders from Starfleet to help these scientists. But while everything both crews had experienced had just been a dream, it had \*seemed\* real to them. Friends had turned to foes, allies to enemies and trust had turned to fear. It would take some time for both crews to recover from this terrible incident.

## **Stardate 2397.12.11 - 2398.07.21**

Yeager Colony, Episode #6: "Dum Spiro, Spero" ("While I breathe, I hope)

Finally, after over two years, the mission ship USS Albatross, with Captain Torn on board, is heard from. The USS Odyssey is chosen to transwarp to the Gamma Quadrant and rendezvous with the ship. It's just a three-week mission, with a skeleton crew under command of Captain Jalando. Nothing to worry about: Commander Cameron and Lieutenant Wilson remain behind.

The crew at Yeager had their work cut out too though: the Cardassians released an old Defiant class from their custody, which they had captured during the Dominion War. This old ship, called the USS Daring, was in desperate need of repair. Lieutenant Wilson took charge of this project.

About a week and a half later, the crew at Yeager got a message from the Odyssey: they had encountered the Albatross, and they'd be back within two weeks. Mission accomplished.

However, two weeks later, there was no sign of the Odyssey. No communication that they would be late, no transwarpsignatures... nothing. It was as if the ship, and everyone on board, had vanished into thin air.

Almost seven months passed. The crew at Yeager had mourned the apparent loss of the Odyssey, even though some were still unwilling to give up. The USS Daring had taken the Odyssey's place as ship assigned to protect the colony. Life went on. Yeager Colony was now the site of a diplomatic meeting, between Romulans, Tzenkethi, Klingon, Federation and Gorn diplomats. Tensions were running high, as the new colony CO arrived to replace Jalando: Captain Edward Blake.

The diplomatic conference started with a rather unusual phenomenon: the lights went out, the room grew cold and a green light that seemed to appear from nowhere at all. Out of that light, a figure moved forward. It screamed... and then it disappeared.

This incident wasn't a one-time event, though. All over the colony and on board the Daring, similar lights appeared and disappeared. Yeager's scientists found out that these anomalies were actually coming from subspace. Was someone or something trying to contact them?

At first, these anomalies didn't seem harmful to anyone... until one of the creatures coming out of the anomaly, started rummaging through the Daring's engineering consoles. When Wilson tried to stop it, he himself got injured, as the phaserbolts went straight through the creature without even harming it!

When Lt.Cmdr. Wilson was unconscious, he found himself somewhere else. He was actually on the Bridge of the Odyssey, with the mission crew. They all looked terrified. One person there didn't fit in though: it was a small child. When Wilson refused to play with it, it caused the 2O/STC unimaginable pain...

Apparently, Wilson's vision wasn't imaginary: it was real. As it turned out, the USS Odyssey had been hijacked by powerful alien children. The alien's parent appeared, stating that he could not stop his children: he could only give Wilson and a Zakdorn aide, Gernarth, some information to get the Odyssey back. That, however, would probably kill them.

The only way to get the Odyssey back, and to stop all the anomalies from appearing at the surface, was to open one big anomaly in orbit. With knowledge given to them by the alien's father, Wilson and Gernarth managed to open the anomaly. After seven months, the Odyssey returned home. But at a cost: the crew had been tortured, being forced to play with these alien children.

To make matters worse, the anomaly wouldn't close! It just kept getting bigger and bigger. Gernarth did what he could to stop it... he even died in the attempt. But it wasn't enough. Lt.Cmdr. Denebris, now in command of the Daring, made the only choice available to him: he sacrificed the ship - and almost himself - in order to close the portal. It worked.

As the Odyssey crew recovered from their torture and the Yeager crew came to terms with the destruction of their new ship and the return of their long-lost friends and family, Wilson found out that his link with the alien had a residual side effect: part of that alien's consciousness would forever remain in his mind. It was something he had to learn to live with.

## **Stardate 2398.07.30 - 2398.08.01**

Yeager Colony Episode #7: "Critters"

The Odyssey crew were slowly getting used to being alive, after being captured and tortured by these alien children. The Yeager crew, in the meantime, were getting used to having their friends and family around again. This was a time for contemplation. For reflecting on what had happened.

But there was no time for that, though. During a gathering to celebrate the return of the Odyssey, two scientists discovered a strange, unknown bug crawling around. It was big: about a meter tall, with transparent, folded wings beneath its incredibly strong exoskeleton. If this bug was native to Alta Minos, it hadn't been discovered before. Andrew Bohr, one of the scientists, decided to capture it for study.

In the meantime, the party was crashed by the arrival of a strange, hooded man: a Sident Abbot. The Sident were first discovered by the Calhoun, back in the Delta Quadrant. That first contact had proven to be one of the worst ever: their Captain Summers had been forced to surrender herself, otherwise the massive, way too powerful Sident ship would blow up the Calhoun. What did this Sident Abbot have in store for Yeager?

That became apparent the next day: more and more large bugs started appearing everywhere. They used their acid saliva to eat through almost everything. While the Sident Abbot was explaining that 'all those who don't walk in the Light of Escad will be eaten by the Shadows', Captain Blake was the very first victim of the bugs: one of these critters spat him in the chest. The man was eaten up alive.

Since shields seemed to slow the bugs down somewhat, Captain Jalando ordered all the colonists to report to shielded areas. One of those was the landing strip where the Odyssey had landed. Unfortunately, that meant that patrols had to be sent out to protect the civilians who were trying to get there.

At the same time, in order to know more about these bugs, two teams were sent out in shuttlecraft. Unfortunately, both teams encountered a swarm of bugs, which caused the shuttles to crash. A third team was dispatched with ATV's... hopefully they would be more lucky.

The more time went by, the more it became clear that this Sident Abbot, and his Kazon accomplice, were in control of these large insects. It seemed the Abbot was controlling them with his staff. That wasn't the only thing he could do, though: he managed to use telekinesis, and protect himself from harm. He also seemed to know things about Captain Jalando, and the Yeager crew...

After a long and difficult search, the three away teams reunited, and made their way back to Yeager, fighting off even more bugs. At the colony itself, things weren't much better: the entire colony was under siege. However, just when things got desperate, the bug captured by Andrew Bohr escaped, and presented its help. It was the actual queen of the hive, at least until the Abbot had taken over. With her help, the Starfleet crew managed to fight off the bugs long enough for a small team of bugs and officers to destroy the Abbot's staff. With the source of most of his power broken, the Abbot's hold over the bugs evaporated.

As the insects went away from the colony, to a small island in the southern hemisphere, the Abbot and his Kazon apprentice were captured. The damage they had caused was immense: many casualties, loads of damaged buildings. The message was clear: thwart the Sident, and bad things happen to you.

If the Sident ever decided to fully attack, then the Federation might not be ready for them...