USS Jonas Salk NCC - NCC-92841

The **USS *Jonas Salk* (NCC-92841)** is a *Rhode Island*-class starship commanded by Lieutenant Commander Mogedu assigned to Task Group Amaterasu of Task Force Avalon.

# Ship Service History

* 2382 - USS Jonas Salk is launched from the  Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards under Command of Captain Joe Hammersmith.

* 2384 - 2 year shakedown cruiser completed and docked for all problems found during cruise

* 2385 - Jonas Salk launched after shakedown problems corrected

* 2413 - The *Jonas Salk* first saw service during the Undine Assault on Earth Spacedock. Once the Undine Assault was quelled the *Jonas Salk* underwent a refit equipping the vessel with a complete Solanae Tech upgrade (2413).

* 2415 - The Jonas Salk saw action during a relief effort to Mol'Rihan at the start of the Iconian War, Captain and Executive Officer killed during engagement and Lieutenant Commander Meyer took command.  After the battle Lieutenant Commander Meyer was made Commanding Officer of the vessel after distinguishing himself and saving the vessel from destruction.

* 2416 -  The Jonas Salk reassigned to the 26th Fleet and under goes Outback refit.  Just recently received a new sensor suite as developed by her Chief Science Officer.  This new sensor array has a good chance to detect the Dark Matter within the Outback.   Stardate 94515.55 USS Jonas Salk enters into reserve status.

* 2417 The Jonas Salk resumes active service under the Command of LCDR Mogedu. During a Warp Drive test, the USS Destiny suffers a catastrophic failure and is locked into an uncontrollable warp jump. The Jonas Salk is instrumental in freeing the 'Destiny' from this phenomenon with the implementation of inverse graviton beams. The action is successful and the Destiny is freed from her uncontrollable warp jump.

* 2417 The U.S.S. Jonas Salk is lost to Kingdom of Cevant forces while responding to humantarian aid. Due to damage incurred, she is deemed unsalvageable and towed back to Utopia Planitia.

# Senior Staff

## Command Division

* , Commanding Officer: CDR Mogedu

* , Executive Officer: LT Kasumi Sato

* , Second Officer: LTJG Holly Americk

## Tactical Division

* , Chief of Tactical: LT Agar Ibn-La'Ahad

## Operations Division

* , Chief of Operations: LTJG S'tal

* , Chief of Engineering: MCPO Amy MacDonald

* , Chief of Security: SCPO Dietrich Hasselhof

## Sciences Division

* , Chief Science Officer: LT Merrill

* , Stellar Cartographer: Charlie Algar, Civilian contractor.

## Medical Division

* , Chief Medical Officer: LT Azuron

* , Counselor: LT Leslie Beals

# Namesake History

* Jonas Edward Salk was born October 28, 1914 in New York City, the eldest of three sons to Russian-Jewish immigrants Daniel and Dora Salk. The first member of his family to attend college, he earned his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine in 1939 and became a scientist physician at Mount Sinai Hospital.

In 1942, Salk went to the University of Michigan on a research fellowship to develop an influenza vaccine. He soon advanced to the position of assistant professor of epidemiology. He also reconnected with his NYU friend and mentor, Thomas Francis, Jr., head of the epidemiology department at Michigan’s new School of Public Health, who taught him the methodology of vaccine development.

In 1947, Salk was appointed director of the Virus Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. With funding from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis—now known as the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation—he began to develop the techniques that would lead to a vaccine to wipe out the most frightening scourge of the time: paralytic poliomyelitis.

Contrary to the era’s prevailing scientific opinion, Salk believed his vaccine, composed of “killed” polio virus, could immunize without risk of infecting the patient. Salk administered the vaccine to volunteers who had not had polio, including himself, his lab scientist, his wife and their children. All developed anti-polio antibodies and experienced no negative reactions to the vaccine.

In 1954, national testing began on one million children, ages six to nine, who became known as the Polio Pioneers. On April 12, 1955, the results were announced: the vaccine was safe and effective. In the two years before the vaccine was widely available, the average number of polio cases in the U.S. was more than 45,000. By 1962, that number had dropped to 910. Hailed as a miracle worker, Salk never patented the vaccine or earned any money from his discovery, preferring it be distributed as widely as possible.

Founding the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla in 1963 was Salk’s second triumph. He was aided with a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation and support from the March of Dimes.

Salk spent his last years searching for a vaccine against AIDS. He died on June 23, 1995 at the age of 80 in La Jolla, California. His life’s philosophy is memorialized at the Institute with his now famous quote: “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."

# Decks

Legend

(P/S) – Port/Starboard

(#) Number

Ex: (2 - 1 P/S) – “Two <object>, 1 Port and 1 Starboard”

**Deck 1:** Bridge, Captain’s Ready Room, Conference Room, Senior Officer’s Quarters, and Escape Pods

**Deck 2:** VIP Quarters, Executive Officer’s Office, Junior Officers Quarters, Observation Lounge, Mess Hall, Transporter Room, Holodecks 1&2, Aft Ventral Cargo Bay, Storage (5), Main Computer Core, Escape Pods, Primary Impulse Engine (Amidships), and Impulse Engine Deuterium Surge Tanks

**Deck 3:** Sickbay, Primary Sickbay Support Systems (ICU, Biohazard Support, Surgical Ward, Critical Care, Null-Gravity Treatment, Isolation Suites, etc.), Chief Medical Officer’s Office, Counselor’s Office, Security Office/Brig, Armory, Crew Quarters, Transporter Room 2, Auxiliary Shuttlebay, Escape Pods, Auxiliary Deflector Control, Torpedo Launching Systems (P/S) Photon Torpedo Magazine, and Photon Torpedo Loading Mechanism

**Deck 4:** Arboretum, Botany Lab, Geology Lab (Planetary), Geology Lab (Astronomical), Planetary Development Lab, Chief Science Officer’s Office, Crew Quarters, EPS Node Monitoring, SIF Systems, Dorsal Main Phaser Emitters (P/S), Aft Saucer Phaser Emitters (P/S), Aft Ship Phaser Emitters (P/S), Ventral Main Phaser Emitters (P/S), Ventral Sensor Dome, and WaveRider Shuttlecraft Docking Port

**Deck 5:** Main Shuttlebay, Flight Control, Storage (8), Crew Quarters, Astrophysics Lab, Stellar Cartography, Photon Torpedo Magazine, and Photon Torpedo Loading Mechanism

**Deck 6:** Main Deflector Control, Operations Office, Crew Quarters, Repair Bay, Deuterium Fuel Storage, and Multi-Purpose Laboratories (3), Cargo Bays (3)

**Deck 7:** Crew Quarters, Main Engineering, Dilithium Reaction Chamber, Engineering Lab, Chief Engineer’s Office, Cargo Transporters, Science lab (P) Triage Center (S)

**Deck 8:** Escape Pods, Anti-Matter Storage Pods, Warp Core Ejection Systems, and Anti-Matter Pod Ejection Systems, Phaser Emitter, and Tractor Beam Systems.