Writer's Block/Faction Missions

Writer's Block: Borg

Mission Name	1st Crew	2nd Crew	3rd Crew	4th Crew	5th Crew	Mission Text	Success	Failed
Collective Cameo	AND	AND	AND			The Borg Queen reports an odd phenomena among her drones: they are hallucinating individuals that look like odd versions of the Voyager crew. She demands your help, insisting if Voyager's crew are behind this, it's the Federation's responsibility.	Your away team finds the culprit to be a version of Photons Be Free! that made its way into the central plexus. You are able to remove it.	While analyzing one of the drone's cortical implants, a holographic projection of an assimilated Marseilles appears and disrupts your access to the Collective.
Decompiled	AND	AND				Captain Janeway has been abducted by a holoship and her crew. Prior to her abduction, Voyager received a communication claiming that she would be held accountable for all of the holograms she decompiled. Tuvok asks you to rescue the captain.	Finally tracking down the holoship, your team is able to convince them to allow you to board and serve as Janeway's defense. You are able to prove that she is not Captain Jenkins from Photons Be Free and the crew reluctantly agree to release her.	Your away team is unable to board the holoship and rescue Captain Janeway.
Last Stand at Ha'Dara				OR	OR	Ships flying in the vicinity of a certain class Y planet in the Delta Quadrant have been attacked and left adrift. Captain Janeway asks your away team to investigate.	From a distance, your team detects ships patrolling the planet's orbit, as well as holo-equipment on the surface. Using a photonic pulse, you force the holoship to show itself, revealing a defiant Iden intent on protecting his new world.	While flying around the planet, your away team is ambushed by a holoship.
Organic Presence	AND		AND			A clandestine distress call has Starfleet looking for a science vessel that has disappeared in the Delta Quadrant. The scientists aboard were working on methods of constructing organic bodies for holograms. Your away team is asked to find them.	Your away team manages to track down the science vessel and indeed, the scientists are being held hostage by the cast of Photons Be Free~ Your away team manages to rescue them and cut off the holograms' access to the ship.	Your away team is unable to locate the missing vessel.
Photonic Privacy	AND	AND	AND			Ships in the Delta Quadrant are being trapped, their computers glitching and their engines stalled. By the time the crews get their ships up and running, they find certain items have gone missing. Your away team is asked to investigate.	Studying readings from the ships that were targeted, your away team is able to reconstruct pulses of photonic energy moving through the ship at the time and finds the signatures correspond to some of the current holograms on the run.	A member of your away team is assessing the computers of one of the impacted ships when they are knocked out by an electric shock.
Photonic Propagation			AND	AND		Borg drones are beginning to manifest individual personalities - specifically the personalities of characters from Photons Be Free! Jurati asks your away team to investigate.	Analyzing data from the Collective, your team finds that a series of files the Collective downloaded into the central plexus also included Photons Be Free! Your away team is able to segregate and remove the influence of the holonovel and cast.	Your away team is unable to discern what happened before they are overwhelmed by drones exhibiting the mannerisms of the Photons Be Free! cast.
Photonic Provocations	AND	AND				Iden appears on viewscreens across the Delta Quadrant with Captain Jenkins and the U.S.S. Vortex crew standing behind him. They make a declaration of war against all organics and have already begun attacking any starship crossing their path. Stop them!	Using data gleaned from the communication, your away team manages to track down their holoship. After an intense battle, you manage to destroy most of their weapon systems and force them into surrender.	Your away team is ambushed while trying to locate Iden's holoship.
The Doctor Will Be You Now	AND	AND	AND			Incidents of stolen identity are running rampant across Starfleet vessels with one common cause: every impacted vessel has recently begun using the EMH Mk. 1. The Doctor asks you to investigate and restore his good name!	Your team finds that, spurred on by Photons Be Free!, some EMHs have been stealing patients' data and using it to gain access to things that would normally be out of their reach. They are punished, though Starfleet agrees to hear their concerns.	While investigating the identity thefts, identities of several members of your crew are stolen.

Writer's Block: Ferengi Alliance

Mission Name	1st Crew	2nd Crew	3rd Crew	4th Crew	5th Crew	Mission Text	Success	Failed
Coping Mechanisms	AND	AND				Bits of personal data about Starfleet crew members have been hacked and stolen recently. When Quark's launches a new "therapeutic" holosuite aimed settling workplace hostility, Odo becomes suspicious and asks you to investigate.	Your team uses Quark's holosuite, finding alternative versions of themselves available to do everything from talking to settling differences in a bat'leth battle. You threaten Quark with legal action, while your team removes the data, just in case.	Your away team plays the holosuite program and ends up mired in interpersonal conflict, their festering frustrations exacerbated by the alternate versions of themselves Quark has created.
Ethical Standards	AND	AND	AND			Concerned about the impacts the fallout from Photons Be Free is having on authorial integrity across the galaxy, Jake Sisko decides he wants to come up with a code of ethics for writers and creators. He asks for your away team's help.	After researching similar codes of ethics, your away team helps Jake create a code that maintains freedom of expression for creators while also easing the fears of those around them that they might end up fodder for a juicy story.	Every code your away team constructs with Jake is rejected by the creative community as being too restrictive.
Far Beyond the Photons				OR	OR	Benny Russell's newest work is announced and it…has strange corollaries to the cast of "Photons Be Free". Not believing Benny to be a plagiarist, Sisko sends you to investigate.	Benny is horrified when you show him Photons Be Free. He reveals that, while on the holodeck one day working on his novel, strange holograms appeared to him. He pulls his work, though he is now inspired to write about malevolent holograms.	Benny and his agent are incensed at the allegtions and his agent throws your away team out for their rudeness before they can say any more.
Leverage	AND		AND			Rumors about the Voyager have spread like wildfire following the release of Photons Be Free, but so have bits of classified information. Nog suspects this too must be connected to the holonovel and asks you to investigate.	Going through the code of the holonovel, your away team finds that in constructing his masterpiece, the Doctor inadvertently pulled in classified data on some crew members. You convince him to release an edit that removes this data.	While going through the holonovel, your away team is distracted by the compelling plight of the Doctor aboard the USS Vortex.
Mortals Be Free!	AND			AND		Inspired by the Doctor, Q decides to write his own holonovel, chronicling his adventures with the mortals of Starfleet - or his unique take on those tales. Picard fears his work could cause more chaos than a snap of his fingers and asks you to help.	Q is resistant to the idea that his work could in any way do that much damage, but you finally convince him to relent. You are unable to convince him that writing about the Continuum instead is worthwhile and he merely goes back to hassling Picard.	Q is outraged at your implication that his work would be in any way salacious and vows to not only include you and every last secret you hold, but to release his work across all universes to ensure your maximum humiliation.
Of Income and Injustice	AND	AND	AND			Quark has begun promoting his new holowork - a harrowing tale of a Ferengi bartender dealing with hu-mons and other less than business savvy species on the edge of space - and war. Sisko fears his fantastical tell-all could spark conflict.	After reviewing Quark's work, your team finds the details of his time on Deep Space Nine have indeed been exaggerated. You convince him to make changes, saying his depiction of Odo as a petty and ruthless enforcer targeting him might give him ideas.	Your away team's attempts to reason with Quark backfire, resulting in him including unflattering depictions of them as well.
Photons Be Intellectual Property	AND	AND	AND			The actions of the Doctor's characters have netted him - and them - a great deal of interest. Quark insists that the Doctor should strike while the iron's hot and ensure he can profit off of his novel - only to face opposition from the cast itself!	Your away team mediates the dispute between the Doctor (represented by an insistent Quark) and his holo-creations. But the Doctor quickly backs down, realizing a lot of the questions of his creations' agency are ones he's had to deal with.	The dispute between the Doctor and his creations becomes a media circus, exacerbating the issue and inflating it far beyond anything your away team can help with.
Seven Years' Confidential	AND	AND				The antics of the Photons Be Free! cast has generated buzz around the real Voyager crew - and what juicy secrets they may hide from their time in the Delta Quadrant. Tuvok asks your help protecting his crewmates' privacy - and perhaps even more.	Your away team helps secure private logs and the like from Voyager's time in the Delta Quadrant, as well as getting them temporary security, at least until the obsessive interest in them dies down.	While attempting to help the Voyager crew, people begin digging into you and your away team members' private logs as well.

Writer's Block: Terran Empire

Mission Name	1st Crew	2nd Crew	3rd Crew	4th Crew	5th Crew	Mission Text	Success	Failed
But to Create…				OR	OR	Inspired by The Doctor, Zora decides she would like to try her hand at telling stories, starting with those based on her time with the crew of the Discovery. Things quickly take a turn for the sinister when she begins acting strangely. Investigate.	Replaying Zora's holonovel with security precautions in place, you find distorted versions of Discovery's crew trying to access Sphere data through Zora's memory, as she was using it to craft the holonovel. She agrees to postpone her work for now.	While investigating Zora's data, she becomes hostile and tries to harm your away team by removing vital life support functions.
Disturbed Genius	AND	AND	AND			The Doctor reaches out to you, completely flustered. His work on his next great masterpiece is being stalled by the invasion of characters from works past. He says that though you may lack his level of creative genius, he would still like your help.	After talking to the Doctor to ensure his troubles aren't just writer's block, you dig into his code and find that, indeed, the holograms have actually invaded his subroutines. Expunging them seems to unleash the Doctor's creativity once again.	Your away team's attempts to interview the Doctor for more information only lead them to end up listening to a five hour diatribe on the subtle nuances of holograms versus other forms of artificial intelligence.
Doctor's Orders	AND	AND				A series of medical malpractice instances throughout Starfleet aboard ships using an EMH Mk. 1 have the fleet on edge. Lewis Zimmerman asks you to investigate.	Your team investigates and finds that the EMHs in question seem to have had their data altered to resemble the EMH from Tom Paris' edit of Photons Be Free, causing them to act callously. Your away team is able to restore their programs to normal.	Your away team is investigating one of the EMHs when he goes on the offensive, incapacitating one of your team members with an electric charge.
Infiltration Tactics			AND	AND		Starfleet vessels across the galaxy are experiencing malfunctions big and small. Admiral Janeway suspects foul play, as just before each malfunction, an extra crew member was briefly detected. Your away team is asked to investigate.	Your away team launches an investigation. You link the case of the disappearing crew members back to the cast of Photons Be Free and apprehend the holograms.	Your away team is unable to determine the cause.
Photons Seize Glory	AND		AND			Voyager's EMH has been offline for over a week now and no one can seem to figure out what happened to him. Captain Janeway asks you to track the Doctor down and bring him back.	Following the last known data surrounding the Doctor's program, you see he was transmitted to the Mirror Universe, not of his own volition. You track him down aboard the Charon, where Georgiou has forced him to write of her infamous reign.	Your away team is unable to locate the Doctor.
Reflected Masterpiece	AND	AND	AND			The Doctor is in a tizzy! Someone has accused him of plagiarism - specifically, an alternate universe counterpart whose world mirrors his holonovel exactly! Settle the dispute!	Your away team connects the two Doctors and though both are stubborn, they both come to an agreement. Spurred on by the prime universe EMH's holonovel, his counterpart decides to put a different spin on his own reality.	As stubborn as both EMHs are, your away team is unable to get either side to make any concessions.
Refracted Light	AND			AND		An Imperial Starfleet battlecruiser has appeared and attacked your ship! When you hail the antagonistic vessel, the commander on-screen is none other than Marseilles of Photons Be Free! Before you can get any further information, he fires again!	You engage Marseilles head on. Meanwhile, the away team you deployed is able to board his ship and sabotage the photonic emitters keeping him materialized, neutralizing the threat. As for how he came to join the Empire, that remains a mystery.	You and your away team attempt to take Marseilles by surprise, but your crew is unable to fend off his attacks in your absence.
The Path to Photonic Freedom	AND	AND	AND			Questions have arisen as to how the holoprogram characters have escaped their holonovel and seem to have made their way across the galaxy and even into other universes. Doctor Bashir asks you to investigate.	The holographic characters are reclusive, having discerned your intent. Still, analyzing data from everywhere they have been recently, your away team is able to reach some useful conclusions. You share your findings with Doctor Bashir.	Your away team is unable to collect any useful data.