Wartime Productions

With the Dominion War well underway, ships are quickly pressed to service, and battles are lost. A unusual finding leads the USS Baldwin (NCC-2013) to investigate using her latest tools.

Summary
No sooner had Baldwin completed its first mission than Richie attended the launch of the USS Edmund Fitzgerald (NCC-75000), commanded by former Hood skipper Robert DeSoto, with Jaimie Petrelli's sister Kelly as XO.

One month later, the clouds of war have darkened the mood aboard Baldwin; however, she hasn't taken any direct losses. Good news falls, however, in a series of promotions. Bridget is given a field commission and made an engineer. Jenna is given her own command, the USS Ottawa (NCC-75057).

After another week of defeat, Baldwin's new second officer, Gloria Dawson, noteed a background anomaly. Richie requests time from Admiral Rooss to investigate the anomaly, and is given a firm 72 hours to investigate. Richie orders the ship cloaked and to set course for the Argolis cluster at maximum warp.

On approach to the Argolis cluster, they are greeted by 20 Jem'Hadar warships, which promptly inform the cloaked ship that they are aware of its presence. The phasing cloak works as promised, but the engineers informed Richie that it will eventually overload under heavy fire.

The source of the anomaly is revealed to be a sensor outpost which was capable of looking well into Federation territory. Baldwin scanned the array and returned to Federation space, while Richie drafted a report to Admiral Ross.

Background
Wartime Productions introduces the USS Edmund Fitzgerald (NCC-75000) and USS Ottawa (NCC-75057) and offers a explanation of just how Starfleet found about about the array the Defiant would later go after in the DS9 episode "Behind the Lines"

Links
Wartime Productions Full text of the story, at the USS Baldwin series home