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Stardate 93654.3
TO Capt D. Konieczko, RAdm N. Perim CC DS-13 Engineering, DS-13 Operations, DS-13 Medical, O FROM LtCmdr R. Jenkins, Acting CO USS Fearless SUBJ USS Fearless Emergency Incident Report |  |
Admiral Perim, Captain Konieczko,
At 0245 hours this morning Fearless suffered a major engineering emergency. While we patrolled around the Donia system, the operations officer noted that five of the port nacelles warp coils had came out alignment, and that their temperature was above normal. Per procedure the captain halted Fearless and had a engineering team go down to realign the coils and to see what was causing the temperature increase. This was at 0110 hours, at 1130 hours the engineer in charge of the work party reported that some of the control runs had degraded due to age and that they would need replacing. He also reported that the warp coils themselves showed heavy wear and that the five would need replacing, it was also reported that they were realigned for the short trip back to DS-13.
Before leaving the Chief Engineer inspected the in place repair and reported that we should have no problems with warp five and that we we were safe for transit. At 2230 the captain ordered Fearless into warp after informing DS-13 of our situation, deeming the situation under control no escort was sent. At 2240 I entered my office to get caught up on paper work.
At 0245 the port nacelles rear section exploded, causing a chain reaction into the rest of the nacelle which destroyed the nacelle. Going at warp five Fearless immediately lost helm control and drive power and tumbled out of warp which caused several hull breaches and the aft roll bar pod the break its starboard strut. At that time plasma fire from ruptured conduits gutted decks five and six, due to the nature of the eps system layout major conduits exploded on decks, one, two, four, five, six, ten and eleven. The intermix chamber on the warp core went into emergency shut down after the eps conduits went and lucky for us a core breach was averted by the Chief Engineer. As I had yet to make it out of my office due to the doors being jammed in place I couldn't do anything during the first half of the event. At the time I was hearing orders from the second officer the Chief Engineer. When I finally did make it out of my office I learned that I was in command due to Commander Wilson being heavily wounded. The captain had been standing near the turbo lift waiting for the lift when the eps conduit next to it exploded.
We were able to get a distress signal out and the USS Moon came to our aid. After transferring the wounded, the Moon towed Fearless to DS-13's shipyard. We are still combing the ship but at last count we have a total thirty-dead, and one hundred and twenty wounded, with the captain WIA I have ordered the remaining crew to DS-13 and have started rudimentary repairs, first estimates indicate that Fearless will need a major refit or to be scrapped but a further report will be coming as we access damage and start the repair process.
From the little inspection that we have been able to do it looks like the rear five warp coils fused and exploded, possibly from age and wear, it also appears the the repair patch that the engineering crew put in place had indeed held and that the explosion was further rear of the patch itself. This just from the sensor logs, as the nacelle itself is gone we cant confirm.
//SIGNED\\
Lieutenant Commander Leroy Jenkins
Acting, Commanding Officer
USS Fearless, Taurus Squadron
