This is a list, by weekly entry, of the news since I took over Command of Deep Space 12 in February 2001. The early entries may be limited as the news was only scribbled down in the beginning. We did not begin detailed records until the middle of June of 2001.
News for previous years can be found
by clicking on the appropriate year:
2001 2002 2003 2004
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Thursday, 01/01/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert, the Ferengi pirates still hold the docking pylons, the docking ring, the habitat ring and crossover bridges.
Thursday, 01/08/2009:
N’tran makes it to the infirmary. He proceeds to repair/heal his wounds with thermoconcrete; While Nitti covers the infirmary with heave fire from his Tommy gun.
Thursday, 01/15/2009:
A damaged U.S.S. Hubble emerges form warp space under the station, missing the sensor pod it is in bad shape. Lieutenant Cmdr. Black, Peregrine after a long internal debate decided to join the attack on the station and beams over with a few men, taking cover and taking out one of Ferengi. One of the men that joined him were hit by phaser fire.
Thursday, 01/22/2009:
Father Vladimir comforts a few wounded and gives last rights to too many men and women. N’tran and Nitti are joined by Faleena who hits a Ferengi. They move out of the infirmary in to the promenade. Commander Scott Wozniak & Quanos fight threw the corridors till they could find a crawlway that leads up to the Operations, center. After arriving Scott knock on the glass of Ken’s office and proceeded to break the security locks on the door.
Thursday, 01/29/2009:
N’tran with the assistance of Nitti and Faleena regain control of the Promenade. N’tran starts a patrol of the promenade, Nitti and Faleena tag along, Faleena replaces her Type 1 phaser with a Romulan Disrupter.
Thursday, 02/05/2009:
N’tran, Nitti and Faleena are ambushed in front of the Dock-masters office, N’tran “jumps” on a grenade, breaking twelve legs. His other 993 although in pain are fully functional
Thursday, 02/12/2009:
Lieutenant Rick Nispel almost gets hit by a phaser round from another Starfleet officer by mistake, he then follows Rebeeka Aphoris into the crawlways. After a fire fight both of them manage to capture three Ferengi and escort them to the brig.
Thursday, 02/19/2009:
Using replicated tear gas grenades, N’tran and crew retake the Dock masters office.
Thursday, 02/26/2009:
N’tran and crew finish a circuit of the Promenade dropping teargas canisters into the crawlspaces making is so only those in environmental suits would be able to get down there for awhile. The New Chief of Operations, Lieutenant J. Roberts was having problems with the systems in operations. With the system locked out he was having trouble getting things unlocked and back into control. An Intel officer was making his approach to the station when he noticed a sensor reading of weapons fire, Ensign James Valtis proceeds to contact the station, and then transports him over to the station. Lieutenant (jg) Rebeeka Aphoris deposits the captives in the brig and posts a Security officer to watch over them and then headed to talk to N’tran. It did not take long for Captain Ken Wozniak fully regains control of himself. Taking the fight to the Ferengi, he left Operations in the control of his brother and headed through the crawlways to the habitat ring. Coming out of the Crawlways in the Crew Quarters section to find Commander Maith and Lieutenant Rennie and about nine Ferengi In the resulting struggle both the Lieutenant and Maith both are killed after taking out many of the Ferengi but as Commander Maith fell she accidentally stabs her knife deeply in the Captain's chest, he blacks out. Ensign Valtis attempts to send a tetrian pulse through the station, but just as he start to start the pulse the console explodes throwing him across the deck into the bulkhead. Lieutenant Roberts ran over and checks on the Ensign making sure he was fine. Roberts then decide to find out where the Captain went. Following the computers location Roberts and Valtis head off to find him.
Thursday, 03/05/2009:
N’tran and Aphoris talk about what is left to do in securing the promenade and then the rest of the station.
Thursday, 03/12/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert. The bulk of the station is still in Ferengi Pirate hands. Nothing new to report.
Thursday, 03/19/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert. The bulk of the station is still in Ferengi Pirate hands. Nothing new to report.
Thursday, 03/26/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert. The bulk of the station is still in Ferengi Pirate hands. Nothing new to report.
Thursday, 04/02/2009:
N’tran sends Aphoris to talk to brig officer Welty about more brig space, and then he sends Nitti to continue tear-gassing the crawlspaces. Commander Scott Wozniak meets the two new crew members. Lieutenant (jg) Aphoris spoke to Petty officer Welty about the brig space. Just as she was about to leave, the brig station explodes. Welty dives to knock Aphoris down but she is blinded by the flash of light it gave off.
Thursday, 04/09/2009:
N'tran sends Nitti off to find a pressure suit so he can deliver more gas to the crawlways. He then proceeds to bargain with a captured Ferengi to get the information on where the pirates command base is and who their leader is. The price is set at 4 bars, 5 strips of latinum. The location is in pylon 3, cargo bay 6. Lieutenant Nispel finds Father Komoscov praying over a few wounded M.A.C.O.s . He then hears an explosion come from the Security office. He heads off to investigate asking the father to follow. N'tran heads towards the pirate command base using a few sneaky methods of using sound to distract the pirates.
Thursday, 04/16/2009:
Welty grabs his tricorder and scans Aphoris twice to see how bad the damage to her eyes is. Nothing permanent. He then grabs some portable shield generators and sees if Aphoris can walk.
Thursday, 04/23/2009:
Lieutenant (jg) Aphoris sits in pain wondering about the walk between the Security office and the Medical bay. N'tran reaches the pirates base. He finds that it is not in a cargo bay but a docking bay. Using his commbadge he shouts the message "Ferengi pirates, surrender at once!" at 120 decibels. Instead of surrendering they charge into an attack. N'tran takes the upper hand (or would that be the upper rocky appendage looking chip on said Horta's back??)
Thursday, 04/30/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert. The bulk of the station is still in Ferengi Pirate hands. Nothing new to report.
Thursday, 05/07/2009:
N'tran finds a force field in his way. Ensign Noet was caught in a situation in which she saw one of her fellow security shot dead, EXPLOSION! Commander Black orders Ensign Noet to investigate the explosion. During her investigation she and Black find the unmoving body of Captain Wozniak. They call for a medical team to transport him back to the Makin Island.
Thursday, 05/14/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert. The bulk of the station is still in Ferengi Pirate hands. Nothing new to report.
Thursday, 05/21/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert. The bulk of the station is still in Ferengi Pirate hands. Nothing new to report.
Thursday, 05/29/2009:
The Captain wakes up in the infirmary on the Makin Island. He finds out Commander Maith has been killed. He then proceeds to pass back out. Kolidok meets up with Commander Black.
Thursday, 06/04/2009:
Security Chief Chandler wakes up. He is attacked by a Ferengi. After disarming him and taking the Ferengi's rifle, he heads for the Security office.
Thursday, 06/11/2009:
N'tran is stopped by the force field. He looks through it at the pirates. One walks up and demands the surrender of the station and crew. N'tran proceeds to gas the pirates by sending a puddle of acid under the force field. After a brief argument between N'tran and the lead pirate, they surrender before almost passing out form the acid gasses.
Thursday, 06/18/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert, bulk of the station still in Ferengi Pirates hands, nothing new to report.
Thursday, 06/25/2009:
The station remains at Red Alert. The bulk of the station is still in Ferengi Pirate hands. Nothing new to report.
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