Reports....

Posted on Mon Feb 24th, 2025 @ 5:31pm by Fleet Admiral Mike K`Wor Bremer

987 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Episode 120 - Guardian at the Gate
Location: Starbase 400, Bremer's Office
Timeline: MD1 -Mid day

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In the months that followed the ‘visit’ to the Mirror Universe but several teams from Starbase 400, all had been quiet for the station and her crew. Ship…Starfleet, Klingon, Civilian, and others had visited Starbase 400. Some crew members had moved on to new assignments, most backfilling starship crews that had been depleted after the Frontier Day disaster two years ago.

Starbase 400 was again the Command Base for the entire 4th Fleet again with Bremer it’s CO and T’Lar as XO. The ships that were already assigned to ‘Ares Operational Theater’ were shifted into the newly re-activated 4th Fleet and a few more would soon be assigned. It seemed, at least right now, Starfleet Command had not only learned its lesson when it came in ‘Fleet Mode’, but it also learned how bad of an idea it was to put on their eggs in one basket…especially right after downsizing the fleet as a whole.
That meant a lot of reports. The dreaded R-word was basically all Bremer had been able to do in the last week. Reports regarding the Mirror Universe visit…official after-action type reports, reports about how the Yorktown-G was lost, reports about a new Odyssey class refit…not quiet as intense as the Arlington and Jamestown classes…but a more combat oriented version nonetheless, how how/why Starbase 400 believed it to be needed and would be testing the ship soon. Reports regarding the new Ross Refit Class, and how the ship compared to the Galaxy Refit that Bremer knew so well. Reports about the readiness of the 4th Fleet, reports regarding which ships Bremer and T’Lar wanted to add to the fleet to bring it up to full operational status, and even crew personal reports from their missions into the Mirror Universe.

“…he had it coming.” Mike read as he burst into laughter reading Lieutenant Vox’s report. It wasn’t funny how the Lieutenant had to eliminate someone from the Mirror Universe, but the way she ended it with “…he had it coming” just broke the tension and monotony of the report.

Mike stood from his desk and walked to the food slot. He retrieved a cup of hot raktijno and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He hadn’t eaten a real meal in days, choosing to live off of the ration that was once the heart of kid lunchboxes everywhere while he journeyed through report hell.

Sitting back down, his desk displays beeped. It was, of course, an incoming report. However this one was unexpected…and unwelcomed. Starfleet Command was requesting Starbase 400, specifically, send a dozen ships to re-enforce the barrier near the singularity that had opened a couple of years ago and was watched constantly by Starfleet as group of Borg lead by Queen Jurati. As some in Starfleet called it, ‘weird shit’, it was in the Alpha Quadrant and while Mike had read the official reports, as well as reports from the USS Luna a the handful of Starbase 400 ships that had responded to the event, he didn’t know as much about it as some of the closer commanders. Be that as it may, the whole thing was, well, weird. The reports about a missing Captain and Civilian Scientist just added to the weirdness of the event. However, there was one way to get the facts.

An hour later, after a good convocation with Admiral Picard and Captain Seven, Mike had a lot more information regarding the situation…officially and unofficially.

“A dozen ships.” Mike said aloud as he read the orders from Starfleet Command. Pegasus and Essex were going, of course. But the other ten? Lexington would be a good choice and it would give Commander Stark a chance to look the anomaly and the Borg Singularity ship over. Visionary, George Washington, Repulse, Adventurer, Sutherland, Warspite, Conqueror, Percival, and Vanguard would round out the task force. Most of the ships were new to Starbase 400, new in general, or coming off refit and overhauls and this mission would do them good. As Mike thought longer, he decided to also send the Kearsarge and Akagi too...just in case one of the ships had some kind of issue and needed to be pulled back. He also decided to leave K’Temoc in command of the Starbase and Fleet since both he and T’Lar would be going.

After sending word to the ‘ready crews’ aboard the fourteen ships, he sent the general mission brief to T’Lar, Pike…who’s just returned to Starbase 400 after some time away, McWire, Coleman, Vox, Bagwell and Bagwell, Kyle, K’lar, Monroe-Wayne, Draven, Stark, and Arev…the new Chief Operations Officer. He also sent general information to Grian, MacLeod, Roebuck, K’Wor, and Metsker. Most of personnel making up the crews were either new to Starbase 400 or young Ensigns and JGs. They had a lot to learn and Bremer wanted to be sure that the ship commanders and other experienced officers going were ready.

All of this, as well as the author Jackson Longfellow Cain arrived aboard Starbase 400 earlier in the day. Known for his unfavorable toward Starfleet, the best-selling author is writing a documentary about the Dominion War. The retrospect looking back twenty-five years, the author had asked to interview several of the Station’s senior officers that were in Starfleet during the war. At first, Bremer was reluctant to cooperate, they last thing he wanted was their or his quotes to be misused, or the focus of the book to be a negative...however with this mission, he invited the author to join him aboard the Pegasus so Jackson Longfellow Cain could see just what Starfleet could do.

Once notifications had been sent, Bremer sent a response to Starfleet Command outlining the ships that were being sent, their departure time, and estimated arrival time at the anomaly. The task force would be leaving the following morning.


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