Wounds - Book 2 (13 page)

2372

• Fabian Stevens, assigned to the
  U.S.S. Defiant
  as an engineer, works with fellow engineer Enrique Muniz to modify a probe to fire a torpedo on a Jem’Hadar ship in the atmosphere of a gas giant. [“Starship Down” (DS9)]
  

2373

• Muniz is killed on a mission to the Gamma Quadrant. Shortly thereafter, Stevens’s enlistment ends, and, grieving over Muniz, he chooses not to reenlist. He returns home to the Rigel Colonies to work in his family’s shuttle business. [“The Ship” (DS9), #22:
  War Stories
  Book 2 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Bashir is revealed to have received illegal genetic enhanements at the age of six. His father accepts imprisonment for the crime in order for Bashir to retain his rank and medical license. [“Dr. Bashir, I Presume?” (DS9)]
  
• During Yom Kippur, Gold goes to the Captain’s Table to reflect—and fast, until it’s the equivalent of sunset in New York City—and tells a
  midrash
  to several of the bar’s patrons. [“An Easy Fast” by John J. Ordover (
  Tales from the Captain’s Table
  )]
  
• Dominion forces take DS9, signalling the beginning of the Dominion War. [“Call to Arms” (DS9)]
  

2374

• Commander Selden of Starbase 314 calls for an investigation of Lense to see if she, like Bashir, was illegally genetically enhanced. Lense is cleared of the charges after a month of confinement on the starbase. She returns to the
  Lexington
  in time for a battle in the Setlik system, during which her entire medical staff is killed. [#3:
  Hard Crash
  by Christie Golden, #16:
  Oaths
  by Glenn Hauman, #21:
  War Stories
  Book 1 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Stevens reenlists in Starfleet and is assigned to the S.C.E. team on the
  da Vinci,
  joining the crew alongside a Nasat named P8 Blue; the team also includes a pair of Bynar civilians, 110 and 111, temporarily assigned to the ship. They are tasked with studying a piece of Dominion technology while repairing a relay station; when the Dominion attacks during repairs, they figure out the Dominion device and use it to win the battle. [#22:
  War Stories
  Book 2 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Gold’s son, Nathan, and his wife Elaine Welsh, are living on Betazed, and are interviewing Lwaxana Troi for a book Nathan is writing, when the Dominion conquers that world. Nathan and Elaine are killed in the assault. [“In the Pale Moonlight” (DS9), “The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned” by Keith R.A. DeCandido (
  Tales of the Dominion War
  )]
  

2375

• The Evorans are fast-tracked into Federation membership, a process aided by the
  U.S.S. Enterprise
  -E, even though Picard cuts the mission short in order to divert to the Briar Patch. [
  Star Trek: Insurrection
  ]
  
• Faulwell is assigned to Project
  Mungin,
  a top-secret cryptography project. [#63:
  Echoes of Coventry
  by Richard C. White]
  
• Scott at last accepts Admiral William Ross’s offer of Harriman’s former job as S.C.E. liaison. [#4:
  Interphase
  Book 1 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, #62:
  The Future Begins
  by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster]
  
• Leaving a subordinate in charge of the S.C.E., Scott and Admiral Leonard McCoy go on an inspection tour in the Runabout
  Hudson.
  [“Safe Harbors” by Howard Weinstein (
  Tales of the Dominion War
  ), #62:
  The Future Begins
  by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster]
  
• The Breen ally with the Dominion, an alliance they announce by attacking Earth. [“The Changing Face of Evil” (DS9), “Eleven Hours Out” by Dave Galanter (
  Tales of the Dominion War
  ), “Safe Harbors” by Howard Weinstein (
  Tales of the Dominion War
  )]
  
• After a mission to Kropasar, Scott resigns his commission. He eventually takes a job as a greeter on a restaurant on Risa. [#62:
  The Future Begins
  by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster, NF:
  Excalibur
  Book 2:
  Renaissance
  by Peter David]
  
• The
  da Vinci
  is charged with retrieving a Breen encryption device on Lamenda Prime, with the aid of two people from Starfleet security, who help against the Breen soldiers who don’t want them to get it. Afterward, Duffy and Stevens go on shore leave, where they get very drunk and wake up the next morning without their clothes. [“Field Expediency” by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (
  Tales of the Dominion War
  ), #24:
  Wildfire
  Book 2 by David Mack, #25:
  Home Fires
  by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
  
• A team of linguists and cryptographers, led by Faulwell, are assigned to Starbase 92 to crack the Dominion’s latest code. With aid from a Ferengi trader, they do so. While on the assignment, Faulwell meets Lt. Commander Anthony Mark, and they become a couple. [#21:
  War Stories
  Book 1 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• The
  U.S.S. Sentinel
  is the only surviving ship in a mission to sabotage a Dominion outpost, which paves the way for an offensive in the Orias system. Lt. Commander Gomez, the ship’s chief engineer, alters the ship’s warp field so that they are disguised as a Cardassian freighter while behind enemy lines. [#1:
  The Belly of the Beast
  by Dean Wesley Smith, #21:
  War Stories
  Book 1 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• The
  da Vinci
  must dispose of an alien ship called the
  Dancing Star
  that has entered the Randall V system, which contains a Federation listening post that must be kept secret from the Dominion. Commander Salek, the first officer, is killed during the course of the mission. [#33:
  Collective Hindsight
  Book 1 by Aaron Rosenberg]
  
• Hostilities with the Dominion end when several Cardassian ships turn against their Dominion masters and allied forces take Cardassia. [“What You Leave Behind” (DS9)]
  

2376

January–April:

• At Scott’s long-distance recommendation, Commander Gomez replaces Salek on the
  da Vinci
  . Lt. Commander Duffy is the second officer on the ship, the first time the two of them have seen each other since she left the
  Enterprise
  . [#1:
  The Belly of the Beast
  by Dean Wesley Smith, #7:
  Invincible
  Book 1 by David Mack & Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Gomez’s first mission as
  da Vinci
  first officer is to the Tellarite colony Maeglin, where they encounter Overseer Biron of the Androssi. [#6:
  Cold Fusion
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido, #10:
  Here There Be Monsters
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Ross convinces Scott to rejoin Starfleet and take his job as liaison back, which he does after aiding Morgan Primus and Ensign Robin Lefler on Risa. [#62:
  The Future Begins
  by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster, NF:
  Excalibur
  Book 2:
  Renaissance
  by Peter David, NF:
  Excalibur
  Book 3:
  Restoration
  by Peter David]
  
• The
  da Vinci’s
  S.C.E. team sets up a water system on a desert planet that is a candidate for Federation membership. After that, they are sent to salvage a giant alien vessel that fired on the
  Enterprise,
  with the aid of
  Enterprise
  personnel La Forge and Lieutenant Vale, who is now security chief on that ship. The aliens who have taken over the ship, nicknamed the
  Beast,
  are stopped, but not until after they kill 111. [#1:
  The Belly of the Beast
  by Dean Wesley Smith]
  
• 110 intends to return to Bynaus in order to be re-bonded following the death of 111, but he finds he does not wish to sully her memory by re-bonding. [#2:
  Fatal Error
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Vale returns to the
  Enterprise.
  La Forge remains on the
  da Vinci.
  He aids the S.C.E. team when they are summoned to repair Ganitriul, the computer that runs the world of Eerlik and which has been sabotaged by an extremist group. [#1:
  The Belly of the Beast
  by Dean Wesley Smith, #2:
  Fatal Error
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• The
  da Vinci
  is sent to Intar to stop a ship that is destroying their capital city. The ship is alive, in a symbiotic relationship with its pilot, who died. The S.C.E. crew is able to fix it and send it home. [#3:
  Hard Crash
  by Christie Golden]
  
• The experience on Intar convinces 110 to remain unbonded. This makes him an outcast in Bynar society, and so he takes on the nickname “Soloman,” since he is no longer permitted a numeric designation. He also enlists in Starfleet. [#3:
  Hard Crash
  by Christie Golden]
  
• The
  Constitution
  -class
  Defiant
  reappears in the spatial rift near Tholian space, and the
  da Vinci
  is sent to salvage it, a mission that is complicated by the Tholians attacking in order to keep the evidence of the hundred-year-old attack out of Federation or Klingon hands. [#4-5:
  Interphase
  Books 1-2 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
  
• Gomez is sent to the chimerium-laden world of Sarindar to supervise the construction of a subspace accelerator that will offload the chimerium into orbit. [#7:
  Invincible
  Book 1 by David Mack & Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• A renegade Jem’Hadar ship attacks DS9, destroying the
  U.S.S. Aldebaran.
  The ship is stopped, but one Jem’Hadar transports to the station and irreparably damages the fusion core, almost destroying the station. [DS9:
  Avatar
  Books 1-2 by S.D. Perry]
  
• On the anniversary of Ableen’s death, Lt. Commander Corsi seduces Stevens to avoid thinking about the events that day. She intends for it to be a onetime thing. [#6:
  Cold Fusion
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Several S.C.E. crews are diverted to DS9, but the
  da Vinci
  instead rendezvouses with Lieutenant Nog on the Runabout
  Rio Grande
  to salvage the fusion core from DS9’s long-abandoned sister station Empok Nor. They drive off Biron and his crew, who are attempting to transform Empok Nor into a mobile weapons platform, and then tow the station back to the Bajoran system. A distress call from Gomez forces the
  da Vinci
  to cut their aid short. [#6:
  Cold Fusion
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido, DS9:
  Section 31: Abyss
  by David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang]
  
• The subspace accelerator project on Sarindar is attacked by ancient chameleon robots that look like mutated versions of fauna native to the planet. Eventually, and only after many workers are killed, Gomez is able to stop the robots. When the
  da Vinci
  arrives, Gomez decides to start her relationship with Duffy up again. [#7-8:
  Invincible
  Books 1-2 by David Mack & Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  

May–July

• Dozens of gateways designed by the ancient civilization known as the Iconians start opening, causing chaos throughout the galaxy. Scott is involved in figuring out the reasons behind the openings, though the crisis is eventually solved, mostly due to the efforts of the
  Enterprise.
  [TNG:
  Gateways
  Book 3:
  Doors Into Chaos
  by Robert Greenberger, “The Other Side” by Robert Greenberger (
  Gateways: What Lay Beyond
  )]
  
• The
  da Vinci
  must figure out what destroyed an outpost on BorSitu Minor, which turns out to be a digging device run amok. [#9:
  The Riddled Post
  by Aaron Rosenberg]
  
• The
  da Vinci
  is assigned to cleanup work following the gateways crisis, including towing ships, fixing burned-out relays, and rounding up a group of giant extradimensional creatures that have been trapped on Maeglin. [#10:
  Here There Be Monsters
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• A fleet of Munqu ships attack both the
  da Vinci
  and the mining colony on Beta Argola. [#11:
  Ambush
  by Dave Galanter & Greg Brodeur]
  
• The planet Keorga purchases a computer to run their planet, but find that they cannot read the user manual. Faulwell, Soloman, and cultural specialist Carol Abramowitz are assigned to help out, and then must figure out the problem when the computer threatens to destroy the planet. [#12:
  Some Assembly Required
  by Scott Ciencin & Dan Jolley]
  
• The prison known as the Kursican Orbital Platform malfunctions, and the
  da Vinci
  is called in to repair it, even as the ship and the planet are put in danger by the political extremists who damaged it in the first place—among them Bradford, who is killed, but not before Gold talks him into allowing his daughter and grandson to be saved. [#13:
  No Surrender
  by Jeff Mariotte]
  
• The
  da Vinci
  rescues a Ferengi escape pod that comes from a ship that has been taken over by the Landru computer. [#14:
  Caveat Emptor
  by Ian Edginton & Mike Collins]
  
• The Evorans request the S.C.E.’s assistance with an archaeological find; the mission goes badly when an extremist group attempts to cast the Federation out. [#15:
  Past Life
  by Robert Greenberger]
  
• A deadly disease breaks out on Sherman’s Planet, which Lense is able to cure with a radical therapy. [#16:
  Oaths
  by Glenn Hauman]
  
• The S.C.E. has to stop a runaway ship that has been travelling at high warp for several weeks. They are unable to save the ship, but they do save the Senuta passengers. [#17-19:
  Foundations
  Books 1-3 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
  
• Biron obtains several
  da Vinci
  crew logs in order to study in more depth the crew that has defeated him on two different occasions. [#21-22:
  War Stories
  Books 1-2 by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• The
  da Vinci
  investigates the disappearance of the
  U.S.S. Lincoln
  and the freighter
  Vulpecula
  . It turns out both ships were “swallowed” by a holographic ship that is divided into several sections that provide holographic scenarios to entertain those within. [#20:
  Enigma Ship
  by J. Steven York and Christina F. York]
  
• Gomez and Duffy go on a date on Betazed. Duffy decides he is going to propose to Gomez. [#24:
  Wildfire
  Book 2 by David Mack]
  
• The
  U.S.S. Orion
  under the command of Lian T’su attempts to test the Wildfire device on the gas giant Galvan VI. The test goes horribly awry, and the
  Orion
  crew is killed, the ship plummeting into the planet’s turbulent atmosphere. [#23:
  Wildfire
  Book 1 by David Mack]
  
• Duffy proposes to Gomez while the
  da Vinci
  is constructing a mining platform on Tenber VII. Before he can finish doing so, the
  da Vinci
  is diverted to Galvan VI to salvage the Wildfire device from the
  Orion.
  The first attempt fails, and the
  Orion
  crashes into the
  da Vinci,
  destroying its warp core, sending it deeper into the atmosphere, and killing half its crew. The remaining crew are able to retrieve the warp core from the
  Orion
  and escape, while Duffy sacrifices his own life to stop the Wildfire device from detonating in the atmosphere, saving the lives not only of the remaining
  da Vinci
  crew, but also of the energy beings living inside Galvan VI, the Ovanim. [#23-24:
  Wildfire
  Books 1-2 by David Mack]
  
• The
  U.S.S. Mjolnir
  tows the
  da Vinci
  back to Earth. A funeral is held at Starfleet Headquarters for all those who died, and a board of inquiry clears Gold of any responsibility for those deaths. [#24:
  Wildfire
  Book 2 by David Mack, #28:
  Breakdowns
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• The
  da Vinci
  undergoes repairs at McKinley Station. [#28:
  Breakdowns
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Gold goes home to New York City, where he is greeted by a large portion of his extended family; he spends the next several weeks personally contacting the famililes of those who died. [#28:
  Breakdowns
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Gomez goes home to Vieques to visit her parents and sister, but is despondent over Duffy’s death. [#28:
  Breakdowns
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Blue goes home to Nasat, deciding it isn’t safe for her larvae on the
  da Vinci,
  and while there helps solve an ancient mystery on the Nasat homeworld regarding the other sentient species on the planet. [#27:
  Balance of Nature
  by Heather Jarman]
  
• Corsi goes home to visit her parents. Stevens insists on coming along, as repayment for his being with her that one night. Corsi’s father tells her of how her uncle Giancarlo died, and the two of them come to an understanding for the first time since she left home to join Starfleet. [#25:
  Home Fires
  by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
  
• Lense travels to Pike City on Cestus III. [#57:
  Out of the Cocoon
  by William Leisner]
  
• Ensign Robin Rusconi encounters a strange inter-dimensional portal on the moon. [#28:
  Breakdowns
  by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
  
• Abramowitz goes on a cruise, which is cut short by a mission (with Faulwell and Soloman) to Vrinda, where she needs to get in touch with her feelings. [#26:
  Age of Unreason
  by Scott Ciencin]