[THE FOLLOWING REPORT HAS BEEN DECLASSIFIED PER STARFLEET INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE AB132. ELEMENTS HAVE BEEN REDACTED PER STARFLEET SPECIAL OPERATIONS OPSEC PROTOCOL]
On Stardate 2012.0218, the USS Loma Prieta received orders to infiltrate the Creation Con Star Trek Convention on Earth in San Francisco, California. The Convention was taking place mere miles from Starfleet Headquarters and the Academy, so potential security risks required the involvement of SFSO Intelligence assets. Unbeknownst to the convention’s delegates, the members of the USS Loma Prieta’s Starfleet Special Operations team (ADU-008, aka “Section 8”) was tasked with a recon mission the day prior to the crew’s away team beaming down. Unfortunately while the ship’s Chief Engineer, LCDR Tom Hesser, and I were interrogating a high ranking Gorn officer (TOS actor Bobby Clark), a member of the local media captured a picture of our activities. Thankfully at this point, maintaining our cover wasn’t high priority. It was determined that there was little risk to the rest of the Loma Prieta crew, so it was deemed suitable for the away team to beam down in full uniform the following day.
Prior to the convention, ASU-008 discussed the possibility of recruiting new Loma Prieta crew members to our ranks. A challenge was devised and executed. An intelligence gathering mission in the form of a scavenger hunt was issued and accepted by a good number of the crew. While many participated, there was only a few that really excelled in searching out all of the listed items. One of the requirements of this hunt was that it was required to get a holo-image or video of the piece of intel in question (see mission orders below):
By the end of the convention invitations to join ADU-008 were offered to three people. LCDR Tom Hesser accepted and was awarded with an SFSO pin denoting his new status on board the ship. Other offers went out to LT(JG) Amy Sloan and LT Jesse MacKinnon. Due to her amazing intelligence gathering skills and other great work on board the ship, Commanding Officer (and covert operative of ADU-008) CAPT Zach Perkins promoted her to Chief Science Officer and awarded her the rank of full Lieutenant. Her and LT MacKinnon decided to defer their acceptance into ADU-008 for now. In light of her new duties, Lt Sloan didn’t want to put her job as Chief of Sciences in jeopardy. I can appreciate that and have held the offer open both her and MacKinnon. They have both proven themselves worthy of joining SFSO’s ranks.
This report has finally been deemed unclassified for Fleet consumption as all of the information contained herein has been processed and found to be in compliance with standard OPSEC measures.
Currently, as I write this I come from the head office where we are in discussions of upgrading a lot of our systems and am working my way to help set up an excellent tactical training simulator that was created by Artemis systems. The crew of the USS Loma Prieta will be putting on a public demonstration of this new system and details of the even can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/360287100744873/.
CAPT Erik Roberts
Chief of Security/Tactical
USS Loma Prieta
Starfleet, Region 4
Team Leader
ADU-008 “Section 8”
Starfleet Special Operations