Disintegration
| Star Traks: Waystation | |
| Episode name | Disintegration |
|---|---|
| Season | Stardate 55--- |
| Episode number | 5 |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2378 |
| Stardate | 55815 |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | Free For All |
| Next in series | Collect Call |
| Previous in timeline | Free For All [WAY] |
| Next in timeline | Change Of Plans - Part One [VEX] |
The situation is rapidly getting out of hand as the crew of Waystation prepares to make a stand. Hey! That rhymed! And my professors all said I stunk at poetry. Guess I showed them. Ha!
Summary
This story picks up right after Free For All.
The USS Wayward returns to Waystation with the Collectors' Vault-Ship only three hours away. President Bradley Dillon is not pleased with Captain Lisa Beck's plan. In his mind, the idea was to stop the Collectors, not lead them directly to Waystation. He has little time to bark at her because he is evacuating with everyone else. Waystation's support from Starfleet arrives. It's the Prometheus-class USS Aerostar-A commanded by Captain David Conway. Beck has Conway load up with evacuees and take them to the nearest colony.
Joan Redding attempts to remain on board the station for the attack, planning to use Lieutenant Commander Craig Porter to get her access to information for her story on the event. Porter refuses and escorts her to the Associated Worlds Network transport ship. Redding threatens to end their relationship if Porter makes her leave. Porter ends it for her and forces her to go. Phillip Harper informs Beck that he won't be returning to the station after the attack. His new business on Earth is taking off, and he needs to be there. Redding and Harper leave in the AWN ship, completing the civilian evacuation. Or so Beck thinks. When she and Porter are walking through Starfleet Square Mall a short time later, they find that Ih'mad, Krilik, and several other shopkeepers have remained behind to defend the station. Beck doesn't see that Yeoman Tina Jones is with them. She has disobeyed the evacuation order to remain behind and fight with the others.
As the Vault-Ship enters sensor range, Porter distributes two rifles he has been working on to the Starfleet Security officers and the Federation marines that remained on board to defend the station. The rifles fire projectiles that will, on contact, explode with a small electromagnetic pulse that should short out the Collectors' mind-control helmets. Outside the station, the battle begins. Waystation softens up the Vault-Ship with a barrage of tri-cobalt devices, and then the USS Wayward and Runabouts USS Cumberland and USS Roanoke engage the Collectors' fighters. The Starfleet ships are heavily outnumbered, and the Cumberland is forced to retreat into one of Waystation's docking bays as the Vault-Ship pulls into range of the station. As Waystation and the Vault-Ship begin bombarding each other, the Aerostar-A returns to take some of the pressure off of the Wayward and the Roanoke.
The Vault-Ship takes out one of Waystation's shield generators, creating a small gap in the shield coverage, and then beams a stun bomb aboard followed by almost 500 Collectors. Several of the station's defenders are knocked unconscious by the stun bomb, but the rest, including Jones and the mall shopkeepers, engage the Collectors. Porter builds a mock-up of the New and Improved Extra Super Duper Deluxe Blasting Cannon of Decimation, which he promptly loses to a Collector and narrowly avoids being collected himself. The Collectors beam the mockup of the New and Improved Extra Super Duper Deluxe Blasting Cannon of Decimation back to the Vault-Ship.
The Wayward, Aerostar-A, and Roanoke mop up the last of the fighters and focus their attention on the Vault-Ship. Thanks to a maneuver suggested by Commander Walter Morales, they are quickly able to bring down the Vault-Ship's shields. Commander Kristen Larkin beams aboard from the Aerostar-A and demands that the Collectors surrender. They attempt to slam a mind-control helmet on her head, but, as an android, she is unaffected. She tells the Chief Assessor that she knows that the Vault-Ship has almost no one left on it. He says that's impossible, since no one can scan through their hull. She then informs him that the mock New and Improved Extra Super Duper Deluxe Blasting Cannon of Decimation that he beamed aboard contained scanners and a transmitter, which gave Starfleet all of the information they needed. Beck, Porter, and Lieutenant Commander Sean Russell beam aboard the Vault-Ship, and the Chief Assessor surrenders.
The battle is over, but there is much to be done. Captain Beck also wonders what will happen if another Vault-Ship shows up. She determines that something must be done about the Collectors.
Featuring
- Captain Lisa Beck
- Commander Walter Morales
- Lieutenant Commander Craig Porter
- Lieutenant Commander Sean Russell
- Dr. Amedon Nelson
- Colonel Martin Lazlo
- Yeoman Tina Jones
- Bradley Dillon
Also Featuring
- Phillip Harper
- Joan Redding
- Stephanie Hodges
- Ih'mad
- Captain David Conway
- Commander Kristen Larkin
Author's Comments
Waystation itself has been involved in very little combat over the course of the series. I thought it was time to change that.