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Events

January

Stardate 66009.0

The USS Black Hawk-A crosses the barrier into the Finnean Convergence Zone. In transit, the ship loses power and veers out of control. After it emerges, the crew finds that their memories have disappeared, including knowledge of who they are and what they are doing (Mission 13: Crossing Over). After an unfortunate encounter with natives, the crew have their memories restored and begin to repair the ship.

February

Stardate 66088.8

Having finished repairs, the ship arrives at the Alpha Trios system to conduct an extensive survey of it and its inhabitants in hopes of finding its first set of clues to the mysterious danger to the Federation. The crew study several destroyed planets, survey various locals, and barter for goods, but do not come up with most information (Mission 14: The Search Begins).

Stardate 66094.2

Captain Geisler orders the Black Hawk into a nearby nebula to disseminate and process the information the crew has collected. During a final debriefing, the ship is rocked by several quantum filaments, scattering the crew throughout different points in time. Through some quick thinking, and dangerous manipulation of their antimatter, the crew is reunited in one time zone. Captain Geisler orders the immediate evacuation of what is now known as the Time Warp Nebula (Mission 15: Fractured).

March

Stardate 66176.6

The Black Hawk arrives at the Kalisa Sector in hopes to gain access to a mysterious planetary archive to find more information, only to find it surrounded by a massive minefield. The crew retrofits the Runabout Mississippi with multi-adaptive shielding and dispatches an away team to the archive to gather more information. While the Away Team is absent, the Black Hawk's hull is infested by a tritanium-eating parasite. The parasites are removed by the time the Away Team returns with new intelligence to sift and decipher (Mission 16: The Kalisa Conundrum).

Stardate 66239.8

The Black Hawk arrives at Penduli V to investigate where the clues have led them so far. An Away Team is dispatched to the surface, and is immediately captured and infected with parasitic organisms known as the Dolmoqour which assume total control of the host's bodies and memories. When the Away Team return to the ship, the Away Team systematically assume control of the ship, despite the fact that Captain Geisler is able to escape their clutches and launch the probe that will drift aimlessly for a hundred years, disappear into the past, and be recovered in 2388 by the USS Vasco da Gama. Captain Geisler is apprehended by The Guardians, but is freed and allowed to return to the Black Hawk, with a team, to free his starship. Over the course of the day, the Black Hawk is freed from the Dolmoqour. Including those who had perished since entering the zone, eighty-four lives are counted as lost ([Mission 17: Truth and Justice).

April

• The Black Hawk returns to the Alpha Trios system
• The first shuttles depart the Black Hawk, taking wounded back to the Gamma Quadrant through the barrier
• Smaller ships, Norway and Diligent classes, break through the barrier to perform emergency structural repairs to the Black Hawk

May

• Repairs continue as “replacement crew” is brought into the Convergence Zone to allow some of the traumatized crew to depart
• Overtures are made by the Federation to the Guardians. Pledges are made to increase security against the Dolmoqour, and begin improving the quality of life in the zone
• Work begins on punching a permanent hole in the barrier

June

• The Black Hawk is declared ready to punch through the barrier. It does so with a skeleton crew and suffers additional structural damage, leading it to be towed back to New Bajor.
• The Black Hawk arrives at New Bajor where significant repairs and upgrades begin.
• The command crew is given temporary assignments throughout the quadrant.

External References

• Missions of the USS Black Hawk