Town Hall

Star Traks: Waystation
Episode name	Town Hall
Season	Stardate 57---
Episode number	8
Writer(s)	Alan Decker
Year	2380
Stardate	57864
Chronology
Previous in series	Lockdown
Next in series	Just Undo It
Previous in timeline	Lockdown [WAY]
Next in timeline	Just Undo It [WAY]

So just what was going on while the command crew was in lockdown?

Summary

This story picks up right after Lockdown.

As Captain Lisa Beck and the other Waystation command officers are being led at gunpoint to see the Station Administrator, Beck wonders what was going on while she and the others were on lockdown in Ops.

48 Hours Earlier...

After an aggravating meeting with Captain Beck in her office, the head of the Waystation Residents' Council, Richard Theroll, leaves Ops irritated that Beck believes she's the one with all of the power on the station so she can ignore the wishes of the Waystation Residents' Council and the Waystation Merchants' Association. He tries to go back to Ops to argue with her some more, but learns that Ops is now under lockdown and that control of the station has been routed to Auxiliary Control. He has no idea what the lockdown is about, so he decides to head to Auxiliary Control to get some answers.

About the same time, Colonel Martin Lazlo learns about the lockdown, and he too heads to Auxiliary Control for answers. The two men arrive at the same time and, after exchanging a few unpleasantries, confront the officer in charge of auxiliary control, Lieutenant Oliver Mason. Mason informs them that, by order of Fleet Admiral Nosira Ra'al he is in command while the command crew are undergoing the lockdown drill. Neither Theroll nor Lazlo are pleased with this turn of events and, unable to enter auxiliary control due to a force field, both storm off.

Featuring

• Captain Lisa Beck
• Commander Walter Morales
• Lieutenant Commander Craig Porter
• Lieutenant Commander Sean Russell
• Yeoman Tina Jones
• Colonel Martin Lazlo
• Bradley Dillon

Also Featuring

• Stephanie Hodges
• Ih'mad
• Baughb
• Lieutenant Colonel Dan O'Neal

Author's Comments

It can be incredibly annoying to try to write stories that are supposed to be happening at the same time and to get all the events to sync up. I already did this once in this run with All Ahead Full and the Star Traks: The Vexed Generation story Station Keeping. I complained about it then, yet here I am doing it again with Lockdown and "Town Hall". I must be some kind of literary masochist.

Coming into this story, I knew I needed to do something with Colonel Martin Lazlo. He and the marines in general had been fairly well ignored since the first story of the previous run. I wanted to give him some time in the spotlight, which meant I needed to get him away from the other main characters. Oh wait. I just locked all of the other main characters in Ops. How convenient!

Richard Theroll has appeared before way back in "Waiting for the Other Shoe..." At the time I wrote that story I was thinking about changing the focus of the series to treat Waystation more like a town than a Starfleet facility. The Ops crew would still be involved, but I had visions of something along the lines of a Trek version of Twin Peaks with a lot more stories dealing with civilian life. Obviously that didn't happen, and Theroll was shoved so far into the background that he wasn't heard from again until I realized he'd be perfect for "Town Hall."

Links

Town Hall (text)

The Star Traks: Waystation web page