41648.3 "The
Practical Thing"
Story by Ronaldo Fernandes
After a year of
being comissioned, and with a new crew complement under the command of
Captain Mercedes Hernandez, the USS Yamato is sent to the Primus
planet to evaluate their requisition of Federation membership. The crew
discovers that the Primus people is a very pragmatic one and intends to
acquire the Federation technology by hijacking the Yamato and not
by becoming a part of it. With the help of a cybernetic hacker the Primusians
take control of the ship, but, thanks to an unofficial collaboration between
the crew and the Romulan emissaries, the ship is recovered.
41686.7 "The
Color that Fell from Outer Space"
Story by Fred Furtado
On a routine mission
to deliver supplies to the Beta Sigma III colony, the crew finds a strange
case of poisoning in a farm where a meteor fell. Further investigation
reveals that the meteor is actually a lifeform on a maturation proccess
that is draining the surrounding region, as well as the farmers, of life.
Despite the crew's attempts to destroy, or at least hamper, the vampiric
lifeform, it maturates and leaves the planet in the form of an energy column.
The Yamato follows the creature, who is capable of attaining warp
speed.
Note: This adventure was based on H.P.
Lovecraft's short story The Colour that fell from Outer Space.
41692.1 "The
Awakening, part 1"
Story by Fred Furtado
Following
the vampiric energy creature, the Yamato arrives at Gamma Kesis
I, a Federation archeological site and the next stop in the Yamato's
supply delivery mission. The crew finds out that the crew of the USS Lowell
(the
orbiting ship which served as base for the archeologists), as well as the
planet-bound team, have disappeared. From the data on the ship's computer
and on-site investigation, they find out that the ruins seem to be from
an ancient civilization that predates even the T'kon empire. During the
investigation, Captain Hernandez falls into a mysterious coma and the ship
is attacked by bizarre crustacean creatures. The creatures survive with
no protection in the vaccum of space and do not register in the sensors.
After concluding that the crustaceans' atoms vibrate in a different frequency,
the crew recalibrates the ship's sensors and repell the attack.
Note: This adventure was based on concepts
developed by H.P. Lovecraft.
41692.4 "The
Awakening, part 2"
Story by Fred Furtado
Captain Hernandez
awakes from the coma and order the ship to leave orbit and follow a new
course. The ship enters a previously unknown wormhole and reaches a strange
system with a green star that reads like no other star. The ship enters
orbit around the only planet in the system and, before anyone can do anything,
Captain Hernandez beam down to the surface. There, in front of a bewildered
away team, she activates a huge organic ship through a microwave communication
system and faints. The crew intercept and battle the organic ship, boarding
it afterwards. They find a gigantic creature who resembles an anthropomorphic
lizard in suspended animation. The nine moons that complete the system
move out of orbit and start pursuing the Yamato. The crew decides to head
back to Federation space and enters the wormhole.
Note: This adventure was based on concepts
developed by H.P. Lovecraft.
41693.0 "Mirror,
Mirror"
Story by Fred Furtado
Due to an astrogational
error while entering the wormhole, the Yamato emerges in a parallel
universe, the Mirror universe. Alerted to the situation by an encounter
with an Imperial ship, the crew manages to disguise themselves as Imperials
and dock at the nearest base to conduct repairs. After their cover is blown,
they barely manage to escape a pursuing ISS Yamato, their Mirror
counterpart. During the escape, the ship's transporter catch an unexpected
visitor. A mysterious man, named Logan 5, and what appears to be his pet
falcon, tell the crew that their presence may jeopardize his mission in
that universe and teaches them how to return to their own universe.
41712.2 "Triangle"
Story by Fred Furtado
In order
to catch an Efrosian smuggler, Starfleet Intelligence recruits three crewmembers
of the Yamato, among them Dr. Jor, and sends them on an undercover mission
in the Triangle.
41775.5 "Conspiracy"
Story by Ronaldo Fernandes
Back on
Terra, the crew of the Yamato uses the free time to unwind. Captain
Hernandez and her daughter, Catarina, check on her relatives in Montevideo;
Dr. Jor visits Starfleet Medical and Lt.Cmdr. Daniel Magalhães
drops by to see his foster parents, Ambassador Sidak of Vulcan and his
wife, T'Rami. . However, during his stay, Daniel notices that Sidak is
acting strange. Together with the other senior officers, he finds out that
Sidak is under the control of an alien parasite and intends to put the
rest of the Vulcan population under its sway. The crew intercepts the Ambassador's
ship and, while they confront the Vulcan bodyguards, Daniel reaches his
father and the other Vulcan elders. He tries to convince them about Sidak's
situation, but the Ambassador invokes the Vulcan trial by combat. Sidak
and Daniel battle and the latter dies at the hands of the former. The sight
of his foster son dead, whom he had sworn to raise and care as his own,
enables Sidak to shake off the control of the parasite. Later, they find
out that the invasion was bigger than they thought, but the Enterprise
crew
took care of it in Starfleet Command.
42010.8 "Babysitting"
Story by Fred Furtado
While conducting
diplomatic negotiations with the Hiromi Alliance, the crew intercepts a
lifepod in space. The lifepod contains a baby who, later, is found to be
the heir to the Kaara IV throne. Apparently, his parents sent him away
from the planet before being assassinated. According to Kaaran custom,
he who controls the heir, controls Kaara. The crew finds out that the Regent,
backed by the Ferengi, who are interested in the rich dilithium deposits
of Kaara IV, slew the baby's parents so that he could strike a deal with
them. The crew expose the Regent, who is arrested, and arrange for the
Hiromi Alliance Council to take the baby's custody and Kaara IV's regency,
until he is old enough to govern.
42047.4 "Konoma
Totah"
Story by Fred Furtado
Following
a weak distress signal, the Yamato reaches an uncharted planet outside
Federation space. Beaming down, they find a klingonoid civilization and
discovers that non-klingonoid are treated as slaves. Save for K'lote, they
are sent to prison. There, they meet the Kurd Vaahr, or "Fallen Ones,"
survivors, and their descendants, of ships who crashed in the planet, Akron,
in the last 80 years. K'lote finds out that the klingonoids were transplanted
from the Klingon homeworld thousands of years before by the Preservers.
The ancient beings also made sure the Akronites would not suffer interference
from other spacefaring races by building the Sky Guardian. The Konoma Totah,
as the Akronites call it, is a powerful tractor beam emitter which forces
orbiting ships to crash. The Yamato discovers this firsthand, as,
soon after the away team beams down, the tractor beam hits them. The Yamato
is
forced to use all its power just to avoid crashing. With the help of Verana,
a native Akronite woman, K'lote helps his crewmates to escape and steal
a ship to take them to the Konoma Totah, where they deactivate it. The
crew manages to start diplomatic negotiations with the Akronites, and K'lote
proposes to Verana, marrying her aboard the Yamato.
42067.6 "Lost
and Presumed Dead"
Story by Greg K. Poehlien
While mapping
a star sector, the Yamato receives a SOS signal in an outdated Federation
code. Following it, they encounter an old Constitution-class ship,
the USS Republic, still operative, and with its crew unaged, although
they have disappeared more than 100 years before. The Republic crew
cannot explain why they haven't aged. They ask that an engineering team
beam over to help them repair the ship. An away team beams and, after a
while, discovers that the crew is dominated by a variant species of the
parasite that infected the Deneva colony in stardate 3287.2 (ST:TOS Operation:
Annihilate!). Fighting their way through the ship, the away team reaches
Engineering, where they modify the life support system and irradiate the
whole ship with UV light, killing the parasites. The Yamato escorts
the Republic back to Federation space and the away team receives
the Starfleet Medal of Honor.
Note: This adventure is part of FASA's
Star Trek RPG rulesbook.
42105.4 "Dr.
Morris' Planet"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato
is
sent to Reidi VI to check on an old Alpha Centauran geneticist, Voxem Morris,
who stopped communicating. Once there, an away team beams down and is captured
by the insane Dr. Morris, who intends to use them in his genetic hybridization
experiments. It seems Dr. Morris have been conducting prohibited experiments
in which he mixed sentient being's with wild animals' DNA. He has some
success and the away team see for themselves the "prototypes," which include
a human-mugato hybrid. The away team escapes, fights the hybrids and arrests
Dr. Morris.
42146.5 "Snakes
of a Feather"
Story by Fred Furtado
Investigating
the disappearance of a covert research team, the Yamato goes to
Takios IV, a planet that is at the technological equivalent of Terra at
the middle of the 20th century. An away team beams down and encounters
nothing but a normal society and no sign whatsoever of the research team.
However,a mysterious old man shows them the true power of the planet. Takios
IV is dominated by large, sentient lizard-like beings, which resembles
the feathered serpents of Aztec mythology, possess powerful psionic abilities
and require human sacrifice. Confrontation with one of the serpents, reveals
that she had the research team killed. The away team escapes from the serpent
and has the Federation declare the planet quarantined.
42148.1 "Nowhere
Kids"
Story by Fred Furtado
Saving a
shuttle from attack, and capturing the pirate who was pursuing it, the
crew finds 4 kids aboard it, Lios, Rina, Bati and Denn. They are siblings
who lived in Gazindri, a free trade planet, and were captured by Karth,
the Klingon pirate, because of their powers. The kids captivate the senior
officers, especially Showalsky, and the Yamato heads for Gazindri.
There, it's revealed that the kids are not from Gazindri, but, supposedly,
from a mythical planet called Athuin, which appears once every 100 years.
Following unconfirmed reports, traders' tales and legends, the Yamato
reaches
a sector of space known for subspace anomalies. By manipulating the emissions
from the warp drive, the crew opens a rift in subspace that reveals Athuin.
Using a shuttle, the crew takes the kids to the planet, where they learn
the kids are children of Athuin gods. The crew returns to the ship and
closes the rift.
42237.9 "Visitors"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato
encounters
a ship of unknown design adrift in space. The life support is operational,
so an away team beams over. They find three individuals in cryogenic suspension.
Two are humanoid, a male and a female, and one resembles an anthropomorphic
dragon. The team's presence automatically revives them. The beings, Koln,
Drehenna and Ka'argrahar, are scouts from an empire from the Andromeda
galaxy, sent to explore and assess the strength of the Milky Way races.
They tell the crew that the empire does not believe in military conquest,
preferring to annex new territories diplomatically. They ask for navigational
information and the crew decide to send them into Romulan space, so as
to let the Romulans deal with them.
42238.8 "The Gang"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Melkot
decide to test the Federation again and selects the Yamato crew
for it. Captain Figueiredo, Counselor Selene, Ensign Purovoke and Dr. Jor
are transformed in an outlaw gang that must avoid being hanged at a town
in the Ancient West. The crew fails to escape their fate, but face it with
honor. This satisfy the Melkot.
42239.6 "Romulan
Gift"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato
transports
a Vulcan ambassador to mediate a political conflict in a planet near the
Neutral Zone. When coming aboard, the ambassador presents Captain Figueiredo
with a gift, a plaque with a poem written in stylized Vulcanese. During
the negociations, it is revealed that one of the factions is backed by
the Romulans. As if to confirm the revelation, a Warbird decloaks, beams
the ambassador aboard, revealing him to be a Romulan spy, and engages the
Yamato
in
battle. The Yamato takes heavy hits because its shield systems are
being affected by interference. After discovering that the interference
comes from the ambassador's gift, the crew is able to turn the tide of
the battle.
42361.3 "Lession
of History"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato's
senior officers are invited to attend the Kubrul Festival, the 100th anniversary
of the planet Dalia first contact with the Federation. The Dalian Chief
Elder, Tuduk, specifically ask for the senior officers. During the party,
the officers are told that the ship that conducted that first contact was
the original Constitution-class USS Yamato (NCC-1305) and
that its crew saved the Dalians from extinction. One part of the festival
requires the participants to drink a specially prepared ritual beverage,
Chalisse. As honor guests, the officers partake of the drink... and fall
asleep minutes later. When they wake up, they find themselves in the original
Yamato,
100 years in the past, and in the bodies of the senior officers. They encounter
Dalia and help the population survive a strange plague. They also try to
follow a ship of unknown configuration which seems to be linked to the
plague, but it manages to escape. In the end, the crew tells the Dalian
Chief Elder, Arok, about the time travel and how he must make sure that
100 years from now, the Dalians should invite the Yamato's senior
officers to the anniversary. The crew, then, wakes up back at the present.
42445.4 "The
Ferengi Contract"
Story by Fred Furtado
While returning
from an engineering congress Cmdr. Showalsky, Lt. K'lote, Lt. S'monekz
and Ensign Skoll are marooned on a primitive world, Zeta Tao XIII, by an
ion storm. There they encounter a sentient psychic tree that tells them
about Ferengi slavers who are forcing the primitive population of the planet
to stripmine it. The group decides to intervene and is able to throw a
monkey wrench at the Ferengis' plans. Not wanting to see their base completely
obliterated, the Ferengi offer a deal: they will give the group a shuttlepod,
so they can leave the planet, and stop their operations, in exchange for
the group not blowing up their base. The officers accept, but after leaving
the planet, the receive a call from the slavers telling them that the pod
does not possess warp capability. With a Ferengi ship on its way to destroy
them, the group desperately tries to contact the Yamato. At the
last moment, the Yamato appears and saves them.
42531.4 "The Hive"
Story by Fred Furtado
Lt.JG Delacroix
and Ensign Skoll notice that the ship is spending more energy than necessary
due to an increase in mass. The mass increase is revealed to be a gigantic
arachnid creature clamped to the underside of the engineering hull. Another
entity, a female humanoid appears and tells the crew that she has been
trying to contact them during the past months and is responsible for the
mysterious deaths that have been happening. She and the other creature
are "ambassadors" of the Kreelex race, a hive culture, sent to study them.
The arachnid alters the ship warp field and takes the ship, at incalculable
speed, to the Kreelex homeworld, 800 lightyears away. The crew beams down
to establish diplomatic relations, but the Kreelex are interested in a
more physical "contact." The crew manages to escape and also takes the
fledgling queen of the Kreelex with them. Aboard the ship, Counselor Selene
telepathically commune with the queen and is able to establish a peaceful
relationship with the race.
42569.9 "Tomorrow
Today"
Story by Fred Furtado
Q shows
up at the ship and decides to teach the crew some humility. He sends the
ship 100 hundred years in the future. There, the crew discover that all
the races have united against an invasion from Andromeda. It seems that
the scouts they encountered in stardate 42237.9 had a fight months later
with the Romulans. The Andromedans won and returned to their homeworld
certain that the Milky Way races were no match. Now, they have come back
in full force. Q reappears to lecture the crew. They decide to change the
course of history by intervening in the fight with the Andromedans scouts.
Q, satisfied with his work, brings the ship back to the present time.
42609.1 "Contagion"
Story by Steve Gerber & Beth Woods
The Yamato
stops
at a starbase for a major overhaul. The majority of the crew, including
the senior officers, goes on shore leave. Captain Donald Varley, learning
about the possible location of the long-dead planet Iconia, commandeers
the ship, with a skeleton crew, and leaves to investigate. The ship is
later destroyed by an Iconian computer virus. After a couple of months,
a new Galaxy class ship, right out of the Utopia Planitia Yards, is baptized
as USS Yamato, NCC-71807-A.
Cmdr. Showalski's
fame catches up with him and Starfleet Engineering invites him to head
the Department of Research & Development of the Sensors Branch, and
be promoted to Captain. He accepts and leaves the ship amid the wellwishes
of his friends, being substituted by Commander K'wami Camambar.
Note: This was not an adventure of our
campaign, but a second season episode of ST:TNG. As it involves the ship
we were using, I mention it here with slight modifications to fit our campaign.
42800.6 "Daimyo"
Story by Aki Ohnuki
The crew
is sent to a planet with a pre-warp civilization stylized after the feudal
Japan. Their mission is to check a Federation scientist who was conducting
an undercover reasearch, but failed to send his last report. The crew beams
down as natives and eventually finds the scientist.
Having entered
the Officer Exchange Program, Lt. S'monekz is assigned to serve in the
Klingon vessel Pagh.
42860.6 "Judgement
Day"
Story by "Foca"
On stardate
42815.3, Lt. K'lote and Verana's child, Wurg, was born.
The ship
receives a signal from a planet previously thought as uninhabited. The
signal is an invitation. Arriving at the planet, the crew finds a higly
advanced technological complex. Beaming down, they meet their host. He
introduces himself as Dr. Valmont, a scientist who disappeared from Terra
20 years ago, after being accused of conducting unethical experiments.
Dr. Valmont's experiments involved artificial intelligence and he claims
that he has achieved his goals while in exile. His wish now is that the
crew take his work back to Terra, while he dies in peace. However, part
of the crew feels that Dr. Valmont's must answer for his crimes and wants
to take him back to Terra. Another part thinks that they should honor his
last wish. The matter is profoundly discussed and the faction proposing
taking him back is victorious. The matter is made more difficult because
Dr. Valmont's consciousness resides in his main computer, his body being
only an android. But the crew manages to capture his consciousness and
takes him back to Terra.
42868.3
"Witches and Klingons"
Story by "Foca"
A mysterious
force takes the senior officers from the ship and transports them to different
places. Commander Solkan and Counselor Selene are transported to a 17th
century witch trial where they are the witches. Dr. Jor, Lt. K'lote and
Ensign Purovoke are transported to a Federation ship during the Klingon
war. Both parties manage to survive and are returned to the ship. They
never learn what it was all about.
42950.9 "Debts
of Honor"
Story by Fred Furtado
While docked
at the Delticon V starbase, the Yamato receives the visit of Zarkom
Jansen, a famous Federation computer expert. He helps fine-tune the ship's
computer. The ships then checks on a report about the sighting of dragons
in the nearby colony of Delta Erinyes III. The dragons prove to be small
warp-capable ships programmed to attack a target inside Romulan space.
The crew realizes that this will be interpreted as an act of war by the
Romulans and moves to intercept them. However, Jansen left a surprise during
his fine-tunning. Jansen's parents died during the Tomed incident (c. 2311)
and he has harbored an intense hatred of Romulans ever since. He used the
Yamato
to
extract vengeance, by giving her the personality of a female samurai bent
on destroying the Romulan Star Empire. While the senior officers try to
overcome the personality program, Ensign Purovoke tries to reason with
the personality's holographic projection in the Holodeck. They succeed
just in time to destroy the dragon fleet.
The crew's
problem are not over yet. Contacting the Klingon High Council, they ask
for three ships in order to help the Romulans against the Andromedan scouts.
It takes some diplomatic acrobatics, but the crew convinces the Klingons
to lend the ships. The Andromedan scouts have what seems like paranormal
abilities, but the joint force of Romulan and Klingons vessels defeats
them. The Klingons create a cover story to explain their coming to help.
The crew believes it has changed the future and prevented an Andromedan
invasion.
43035.8 "The
Many Faces of Death, part 1"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato's
crew has to juggle 26 not-so-fond-of-each-other diplomatic delegations
during their trip to Parliament. The two-day trip will serve as a preview
of the upcoming discussion. The political tension escalates when one representative
is assassinated. Besides finding the assassin, the crew has to contain
the delegations.
43038.5 "The
Many Faces of Death, part 2"
Story by Fred Furtado
The crew
keeps investigating, but has difficulty locating the assassin. Meanwhile,
another representative is assassinated. Further investigation reveals the
assassin to be a chameloid, a shapeshifter, and he is arrested. Interrogation
of the chameloid points to a Rillian involvement. The Rillian Conclave
is a minor power who would be greatly inconvenienced by the Parliament
agreement.
Captain
Artur Figueiredo is promoted to Rear Admiral and recalled to Starfleet
Command. Cmdr. Solkan is appointed Acting Commanding Officer until the
new CO arrives.
43045.2 "Trojan
Horse"
Story by Fred Furtado
As the Parliament
talks go on, the crew investigate the stealing of a ship from the Federation
depot MF-7, in the Oregalis system. Investigation reveals that the Rillians
have stolen the ship and changed it so that it would appear as a lost ship.
Then they loaded it with explosives and sent it to Parliament. The plan
was for the ship to reach orbit around Parliament and be detonated. But
the arrival of the Yamato and its swift action prevents any loss
of life.
43064.1 "Unfriendly
Fire"
Story by Paulino Soares
The Yamato
is
sent to find a old Klingon ship whose crew has been in suspended animation
for 100 years. However, a Klingon rebel faction, who wants to end the peace
with the Federation, also knows about the ship and is planning to use it
to create a diplomatic incident. The Yamato ends up fighting a rebel
ship and manages to avoid any political tension.
43151.7 "Giant
Star"
Story by Ronaldo Fernandes
The crew
is assigned to solve a murder case in a Federation mining colony.
43252.7 "Till
Death Do Us Part"
Story by Fred Furtado
Counselor
Selene hears a powerful telepathic call that seems to come from a very
far planet, Galvani IV, deep in the Neutral Zone. The call has a strong
emotional charge and Selene feels very compelled to follow it. Obtaining
a leave of absence from Solkan and pulling some strings, Selene manages
to hitch a ride in the Klingon Bird-of-Prey Pagh. Two crewmembers
and friends, Dr. Jor and Ensign Purovoke, join her. Reaching Galvani IV,
they beam down and find a lone Romulan leaving on the mountains. Selene
falls in love with him instantly, and the feeling is reciprocal. During
the next few days, Parvak tells them he was a starship captain whose ship
colided with the energy barrier around the galaxy. After the incident,
he developed powerful psychic abilities. Sensing that his fellow Romulans
distrusted him, he left Romulus and came to that desolate planet. There
he first saw the face of Selene and called to her across the stars. Parvak
and Selene commune. Unfortunately, the "fellow Romulans" followed Parvak
to the planet. A battle ensues and Jor gets killed before Parvak can disable
the Romulans. He tells Selene and Purovoke that it is not safe her and
sends them back to the Pagh, before disappearing in a haze of energy.
When they return to the Yamato, Selene discovers she is pregnant.
43332.2 "Last
Wish"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato's
new commanding officer and executive officer, Captain Phillip Weygand and
Commander Sanvak, arrive. Solkan is promoted to Captain and assume his
first command aboard the USS Saratoga.
Admiral
Antônio Augusto, a retired medical officer who was very fond of the
ship's crew during Hernandez command, falls ill and nobody has a clue to
what is happening. Eventually, they discover that Augusto's condition is
provoked by a hostile plasma creature, that feeds on psychic energy, he
encoutered during his tour with the USS Barracuda, in 2287. In that
encounter, Captain Hideki Gama sacrificed his life and ship to save the
crew, but he didn't actually die. His mind remained locked in the creature
and suffering intense agony. Finally, Hideki managed to use his last drop
of sanity to telepathically contact Augusto and ask for help. However,
the contact was killing Augusto. The crew tracks down the creature and,
after a fierce battle, succeed in destroying it, thus freeing Hideki's
mind and saving Augusto's life.
Captain
Weygand evaluates Ensign Purovoke's records and decides to promote her
to Lieutenant Junior Grade.
Lieutenant
S'monekz returns from his tour in the Pagh and assumes his post
as Conn officer.
43463.6 "Flashback"
Story by Fred Furtado
While the
Yamato
is
in the Seleneca system studying a UV Ceti flare star, a humanoid materializes
on the bridge. He tells them his name is Lokoss and that he is running
from the future, where he is being unjustly persecuted. Lokoss is given
quarters aboard the ship until they can bring him to the nearest starbase.
Meanwhile, strange temporal anomalies begin to plague the ship. Dead crewmembers,
like Daniel Magalhães and Dr. Jor, reappear; ship systems revert
to old models. When questioned about the phenomenon, Lokoss tells the crew
he knows nothing about it. However the arrival of another humanoid, Belgruss,
proves that Lokoss not only knows about it, but is also the cause. Belgruss
tells the crew that Lokoss discovered a chronal particle he called kossion,
that stresses the timespace continuum creating travel fissures, and that
he intended to reshape the time stream. He also tells them that the next
travel fissure will appear when the Yamato
and its crew reverts
to nothing. With his help, the crew manages to capture Lokoss and send
him back to the future to be punished. With the source of kossions gone,
the anomalies disappear.
43534.7 "Lured"
Story by Paulino Soares
An Away
Team to an uninhabited planet has to defend themselves from a hostile crystal
species.
43573.1 "Duty"
Story by Fred Furtado
At Starbase
471, the crew witnesses the arrival of a heavily damaged USS Achilles
(NCC-20100).
While answering a distress signal, the Achilles was ambushed by
several Cardassian ships. It had 90% of casualties and barely made it back
to the starbase. Captain Brax, the Achilles' commanding officer,
demands from Admiral Dausson the formation of a task force to go after
the Cardassians. The admiral denies his request saying that the Federation
is negotiating a peace treaty with the Cardassians and that any rushed
decision might damage the negotiations. Capt. Weygand decides to visit
Brax and talk to him. Arriving at Brax's quarters, he meets three of Achilles'
senior officers, Cmdr. Bartok, Lt.Cmdr. Jeff Grieco and Lt. Brenda Bouvois,
on their way out. The room has also been set to a high temperature, something
that is not very prudent to an Andorian like Brax. He and Weygand end up
arguing. Later, the Achilles is hijacked by Brax and his three senior
officers, who are bent on revenge. The Yamato
is sent to capture
them, but has technical difficulties caused by Bartok. After repairs, the
Yamato
initiates
pursuit. It finds the Achilles
being attacked by Cardassians. Weygand
demands that Brax and his officers withdraw from the battle, but the Andorian
tells him he will self-destruct the Achilles
and take the Cardassians
with him. Weygand, then, appeals to the Starfleet officer buried by the
emotions of the Andorian and manages to convince him to surrender. Unfortunately,
the Achilles is beyond salvation. Immediately after the Yamato
beams
the four officers aboard, the
Excelsior-class ship is destroyed.
The Cardassians demand that the
Yamato hand them the officers responsible
for the attack. However, Weygand tells them that a deeper investigation
of the incident with the
Achilles seems to indicate that the Cardassians
might have had help from cloaked Romulan ships. If they force the issue
with the Achilles's officers, the Federation will have to pursue
that course of investigation and that might seriously affect the peace
talks. The Cardassians back down and the Yamato
takes Brax and the
others to Starbase 471 where they await trial.
43657.0 "The Hunt"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato
is
intercepted by a Haklaxy ship, whose captain wants to speak to the regent
princess. To the surprise of everybody in the Yamato, the princess
is Hayla, the Ten-Forward Lounge hostess. The Haklaxy captain tells Hayla
that her father has died and that she must assume her role as queen. Hayla
asks Captain Weygand to take her to Haklax. Arriving there, Hayla finds
out that a group of nobles, whose leader is Baron Derrak, is invoking an
old Haklaxy ritual, that of the Bride Hunt. In this ritual, suitors must
actually hunt the bride and he who manages to capture her has the right
to marry her, thus becoming the king. Unable to step down from her role
as regent, Hayla accepts the challenge, but asks Weygand, Selene and Purovoke
to be her LecTurr, or "Hunt Mates." The hunt begins and it soon
becomes clear that Derrak is manipulating the events so he can become king.
But, despite Derrak's manipulations, Hayla, with the help of her Yamato
friends, finishes the hunt without being captured and frees herself from
any ritual bond. After Hayla's coronation, the crew prepares to leave,
but is stopped by a call from Haklax. It is a beam up request from Hayla,
who has passed the royal mantle to her, already married, sister, Layla,
and wishes to resume her job as the Ten-Forward hostess. Weygand grants
her request and changes the name of the Ten-Forward Lounge to Queen's Pub.
Note: Due to an inside joke of my gaming
group, all the important NPCs in this adventure looked like famous movie
stars. Hayla was already established as being like Michelle Pfeiffer. The
Haklaxy captain looked like Sean Connery, the commander like Mel Gibson,
Baron Derrak was Charlton Heston and Layla was Uma Thurman.
43689.4 "Qilling
Time"
Story by Ronaldo Fernandes
Q reappears
on the bridge of the Yamato. Having liked his last encounter with
the crew, he decides to give them another dose of time-traveling action,
but now he sends them to the past. The crew finds themselves transported
to the Terra-Romulus War era. The ship's sensors detect a Romulan convoy
en
route to a Terran colony. The officers discuss if they should attack
the convoy. Although there is no record of the colony being attacked during
the war, Captain Weygand is unsure about the Yamato role in the
event. Lieutenant Damien argues that the reason for the colony not having
been attacked is that the Yamato destroyed the convoy. No record
whatsoever of the convoy exists, which seems to prove Damien's point. He
says that the Yamato can attack and destroy the convoy and still
be undetected by that era's Terran long-distance sensors. They can also
modify the frequency of their weapons, so as to mask its signature and
further hide their presence. Weygand agrees with Damien's rationalization
and the Yamato attacks the convoy. The old Romulan ships prove no
match to the Galaxy-class ship. After the battle, Q returns the
ship to the present and leaves without giving an explanation. Analysis
of the historical database shows no alteration of the course of history.
43689.9 "Borderlines"
Story by Paulino Soares
The ship
and its crew get involved in a border war between the Klingons and the
Romulans.
43747.8 "The Wave"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato
is
supervising an experiment with a new subspace generator prototype. Something
goes wrong and the ship's sensor detects four lifeforms at the epicenter
of the subspace anomaly. Soon after the Yamato beams the lifeforms
aboard, the subspace generator explodes, creating a subspace shockwave
of imense proportion. The wave, traveling at warp 2, is en route
to an inhabited planet and only the Yamato can stop it. Meanwhile,
the four lifeforms rescued are revealed to be a late 23rd century Klingon,
a humanoid shaggy-furred alien of unknown species and two humans, one of
whom has extensive cybernetic implants. They take control of the ship and
prevent the crew from dealing with the wave. Fortunately, a mysterious
extra-dimensional commando team appears and capture the four criminals.
A bureaucrat, also of extra-dimensional origin, apologizes to Lt.Cmdr.
El Kadi for any inconvenience the four might have caused and offer future
help on any problem he might have. Without the interference caused by the
criminals, the crew manages to dissipate the wave.
43818.1 "Trick
or Treaty"
Story by Aki Ohnuki
The brother
of the man killed by Lt. JG Purovoke during her teenage years makes a deal
with a Betazoid terrorist woman. With her help, he manages to lock Purovoke
in a holodeck and the crew, which was attending a Halloween party, in another
one. He fights with Purovoke to the death and is killed at the end. It
is concluded that the lieutenant acted in self-defense and she is cleared
of all charges.
The
Betazoid woman, while disguised as a civilian, manges to befriend Captain
Weygand and learns of his love for Lt. Engel.
Amanda Ween,
the teenage daughter of a Merchant prince, falls in love with Lt. Damien
and, through her father, arranges a promotion to him. Damien declines,
considering himself not yet ready to take the post.
43902.0 "Another
Piece of the Action"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato
goes
to Sigma Iotia II to check on the planet after receiving a signal from
there. They encounter a society that is a mix of Las Vegas with "Miami
Vice" with a technology level similar to Terra's early 21st century. They
are contacted by Sonny Okmyx, Bela's great grandson, who is heading the
planetary Syndicate. After beaming down, the crew discovers that Sonny
has cut a deal with the Ferengi. In exchange for more technology, he helped
to capture a Federation Galaxy-class ship. The contact with the
Ferengi, as well as the signal the Federation received, was possible due
to the research he Iotians conducted on McCoy's communicator. Unable to
beam back to the Yamato, which is being confronted by the Ferengi
ship Levinth, the crew gets involved in the internal politics of
the Syndicate and, with the help of Rick Krako, Jojo's great grandson,
they trick the Ferengi and regain control of the situation.
A month
later, Lt.Cmdr. El Kadi is cleared of the charges that he had been suspected
of and is promoted to Commander. He is assigned as Station Commander of
Deep Space 7, in Denev IV, that serves as a complement to Farpoint Station.
He invites Lt.Cmdr. Engel to be Chief Medical Officer and she accepts.
44032.8 "Cracked
Mirror"
Story by Fred Furtado
On stardate
44013.6, Counselor Selene and Parvak's child is born.
The crew
is surprised by an attack from a decloaking ISS Yamato, the Mirror
universe counterpart of the USS Yamato. After crippling the Yamato,
the Mirror commanding officer, Captain Daniel Magalhães, and a security
complement board the ship and make the crew their prisoners. Magalhães
is interested in acquiring all possible information about the UFP universe
in order to stage an invasion. The idea has been brewing since Magalhães
saw the USS Yamato ("Mirror, Mirror").
The crew manages to defeat the Mirror crew, but fail to capture the ISS
Yamato,
which returns to the Mirror universe carrying a wounded Magalhães.
44210.7 "And
the Fallen Shall Rise..., part 1"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato
is
called to Gamma Kesis I by the new archeological research team there. The
research leader asks Captain Weygand and Counselor Selene to beam down
to show them something they had found out. A newfound chamber contains
a holographic message from Weygand and Selene, dressed in Terran 20th century
clothes, urging their future selves to travel back in time to 1922. After
some preparation, like producing appropriate clothing and disguising communicators,
tricorders and phasers, the pair heads to another chamber where the researchers
detected massive subspace and chronal distortions. Entering the chamber,
they lose consciousness. Waking up, they find themselves in 1922 Massachusetts.
Selene detects a powerful psionic signature and they decide to investigate
it. The signature is revealed to be from Howard Phillip Lovecraft, the
horror writer. Lovecraft is a powerful latent ESPer whose stories are,
actually, based on his dream-like extra sensorial perceptions. Weygand
and Selene manage to convince him of that, despite the writer's strong
skepticism. He tells them that he has been dreaming about strange crustacean
creatures mining in the nearby mountains. These creatures seem similar
to the ones the Yamato fought in Gamma Kesis I, so Weygand and Selene
decide to investigate.
44205.3 "And
the Fallen Shall Rise..., part 2"
Story by Fred Furtado
Up in the
mountains, Weygand and Selene locate a beaming platform manned by the crustacean
creatures. Apparently, the creatures are beaming ore to somewhere. Weygand
and Selene attack the creatures and, after killing them and destroying
most of the equipment, beam over. They materialize at the ruins in Gamma
Kesis I. There they fight more creatures and cripple most of the instalations,
setting the Old Ones' plans back for 400 years. Then they find the holographic
chamber and record the message. The chamber they used to travel back in
time, however, it's not working, but they find a stasis chamber where they
spent the next 445 years. They are found by the research team two days
before they were called to Gamma Kesis I, in normal time, and wait until
their past selves travel back to 1922 to reveal themselves.
44257.2 "Out of
Phase"
Story by Fred Furtado
Investigating the
disappearance of another ship, the Yamato is attacked by a subspace alien
race, the Sythians. Their battlecastle, and their phase technology, proves to
be more than a match to the Yamato. They kidnap Captain Weygand and hold
the Yamato captive. Weygand manages to escape from confinement and beams
back to the Yamato with information which enables the crew to use the
phase technology to defeat the Sythians, who return to their subspace domain.
44429.7 "Inheritance,
part 1"
Story by Fred Furtado
The Yamato
stops
at Deep Space 7 for shore leave. Captain Weygand takes the chance to speak
to Commander El Kadi and to see Anke Engel again. Meanwhile, Lieutenat
JG Purovoke, who was strolling through the station, is assaulted by three
unidentified armed men. Despite their numeric superiority, Purovoke defeats
them. Interrogation reveals that they were hired to kidnap the lieutenant
and take her to a set of coordinates in the Triangle. Aside from her rough
childhood as an orphan in Zet 101, Purovoke does not know why someone would
want to kidnap her. So, the crew goes to Zet 101 to investigate. There,
they contact the orphanage manager, who gives Purovoke a box with things
she left there when she went away from Zet 101. Among the items is a pendant,
a gift from her father, with an optical chip that contains what appears
to be incomplete astrogational coordinates. Returning to DS7, the crew
decides to go on with the kidnappers' plan and a group composed of Purovoke,
S'monekz and Sanvak takes the assailants' freighter to the designated coordinates,
with the Yamato providing cover. At the meeting coordinates, the
group is confronted by a Romulan scout that beams them aboard and cloaks.
44448.9 "Inheritance,
part 2"
Story by Fred Furtado
The group
is made prisoner by the Romulans. Commander Ravar, the scout's commanding
officer, reveals that he has a part of the astrogational data and that,
together, with Purovoke's part, is enough to narrow it down to a sector,
but he doesn't explain what he will find in that sector. Unknown to him
and the crew of the Yamato, a Starfleet Intelligence officer is
undercover aboard the scout. He is the scout's sub-commander. He frees
and arms the Yamato officers, and, with their help, commandeers
the scout. They make it back to the border of the Federation, where the
Yamato
picks
them up. However, Ravar manages to activate the self-destruct mechanism
of the scout and destroys it, dying along with it.
44451.6 "Inheritance,
part 3"
Story by Fred Furtado
With two
thirds of the astrogational data, the Yamato reaches the Arokis
sector, a sparsely settled region of space outside Federation territory.
There, they are attacked by a Romulan warbird. Apparently, the scout's
commander had sent the data to Romulus before the characters had freed
themselves. The Yamato is helped in the fight by a Klingon K'Tinga
cruiser, the Q'Nar, and defeats the warbird. The Klingon captain,
K'Turr, has the final part of the astrogational data, and with it they
head towards the Banuri system. Weygand, Sanvak, Purovoke and K'Turr beam
down to the third planet, where the Klingon tells them his story. 25 years
before, he was an intelligence agent who, following clues he had gathered,
found out the aproximate location of what appeared to be an extremely powerful
alien weapon; one capable of destroying planets with ease. However, he
was not the only one. A Romulan and a human, Purovoke's father, also found
out about the weapon. They made a pact and, by using their data together,
made it to Banuri III. At first, they fought for the weapon, but, eventually,
the three of them realized that that weapon would create an unbalance between
the powers that would result in galactic-wide genocide. As none of them
wanted their species destroyed, and knew that, alone, wouldn't be able
to get the weapon, they made a second pact. They swore never to reveal
its existence to anyone. They left Banuri III and never saw each other
again. Purovoke's father resigned from Intelligence. Months later, he started
being followed. Fearing that one of the others had broken the pact, he
took his family to Zet 101, where he thought they would be safe, and left.
When he was about to be captured, he killed himself rather than revealing
anything. K'Turr found this years after Purovoke's death. He also found
out that the Romulan was tortured by the Tal Shiar, the Romulan secret
police, and ended up giving them his part of the information before dying.
Weygand, Sanvak and K'Turr decide to destroy the weapon once and for all.
Days later,
Purovoke tells Weygand she has decided to request a transfer to Intelligence.
Weygand recommends her and she is granted the transfer.
Interlude
(2368-2371 AD)
After four years of adventures
together, the crewmembers of the USS Yamato go their
separate ways.
Captain Mikhail Showalky
is promoted to rear admiral and becomes the director of the Sensors Branch
of Starfleet Engineering.
Captain Phillip Weygand
stays as commanding officer for one year more. Then, Starfleet Command
gives the go-ahead for the Highflyer Project and puts him as head of it.
He spends the next four years working on it, dividing his time between
the Utopia Planitia and the 40 Eridani-A yards. He also starts a romantic
relationship with Lieutenant Commander Anke Engel.
Commander Sanvak stays
as executive officer aboard the Yamato during these four years.
Commander Selene is
transferred to Deep Space 9, where she works as a diplomatic consultant.
Lieutenant S'monekz
stays two more years as Yamato's conn officer. Then, he is promoted
to lieutenat commander and assigned to the USS Reliant as Chief
Operations Officer.
Lieutenant Damien stays
four more years as Yamato's Chief Operations Officer.
Lieutenant Commander
Anke Engel serves as Chief Medical Officer of Deep Space 7 for a total
of four years. She then applies and receives a grant to work as a genetics
researcher at Starfleet Medical. Back on Terra, she starts a romantic relationship
with Captain Phillip Weygand.
48645.7 Star
Trek VII B: Reckoning
Story by Fred Furtado
While patrolling the sector where
Gamma Kesis I is located, the Reliant detect the reactivation of the
wormhole first encountered by the Yamato ("The
Awakening, part 2"). Investigating the phenomenon, the Reliant arrives
just in time to witness the appearance of the organic ship. The Reliant
is attacked and crippled by the organic ship. Lt.Cmdr. S'monekz barely manages
to leave the ship, with six other crewmates, aboard a runabout before the Reliant
is destroyed. The explosion damages the runabout and prevents them from warning
the Federation about the alien ship. A few days later, the Klingon ship Pagh,
locates the runabout and takes the surviving crewmembers to Deep Space 9.
Meanwhile, aboard DS9, Commander
Selene's daughter is having strange nightmares about alien ships and horrific
beings. She also dreams of a human that is trying to warn her of the great danger
posed by those beings, the Old Ones. Selene identifies the man as being Lovecraft
and the arrival of S'monekz confirms her suspicions that the Old Ones are the
beings who lived in Gamma Kesis I.
Other members of the Yamato's
crew are also dreaming of the Old Ones. Starfleet Command, aware of the danger
posed by these aliens, assigns the old crewmates back to the Yamato and
sends them to investigate the matter while preparing for what could be a war.
Using data they gathered years ago, during their first missions, Rear Admiral
Showalsky, Rear Admiral Figueiredo, Captain Weygand, Commander Sanvak, Commander
Selene, Lt. Commander S'monekz and the rest of the crew go to Daikysis IV. According
to their data, this was one of the first stops the organic ship would make on
its way to Terra. Taking a shuttle to the planet, Sanvak, Selene and S'monekz
locate huge compartments in the ocean floor. The compartments open and 64 ships
shaped like nautilus shells emerge from the planet. The Yamato tries
unsuccessfully to communicate with the aliens, which attack the Galaxy-class
ship. The nautilus ships prove to be tough, but the Yamato manages to
destroy three of them. However, the rest go to warp and speed away. The crew
informs Starfleet Command, who sends a task force, commanded by Rear Admiral
Mercedes Hernandez, to intercept the nautilus ships.
The crew follows the path of
the organic ship and finds it. During combat, the Yamato's shields collapse
and Selene's daughter is beamed away. The organic ship then leaves. Unable to
pursue, the Yamato returns to Terra for repairs and to investigate what
might be their last chance to defeat the Old Ones.
One of the dreams of Selene's
daughter, involved a cat woman on Terra's moon. Scanning the moon for any abnormality,
the crew detects a subspace emission on the dark side. Beaming down, they find
what appears to be a crypt with a sarcophagus. The presence of the crew deactivates
the cryogenic mechanism on the sarcophagus, awakening the cat woman, actually
a proto-Caitian. She tells them she is a guardian posted there to prevent the
Old Ones returning from their exile. She also reveals that they will use Selene's
daughter powerful psychic abilities to awaken their ships simultaneously and,
once they have done that, they will be unstoppable.
The crew speeds up the repair
on the Yamato and leaves to intercept the organic ship with the help
of the cat woman. They also count with Hernandez's task force. The ensuing battle
is intense, with most of the task force being destroyed. Selene and a small
group manages to beam aboard the organic ship and free her daughter. Finally,
with the help of the cat woman, the Yamato destroys the organic ship.
Back at the moon, the cat woman
tells sthe crew that the timespatial configurations that opened the wormhole
will only appear again in 15,000 years and she will be there to help. She then
returns to her sarcophagus and the whole crypt disappear back into the subspace
domains.