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.
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
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."