Array of Sun

The USS Polaris has just pulled into port for resupply and crew rotation. Starfleet's Office of Mission Operations, looking to expand it's Scientific and Technical Assessment Team program, uses this opportunity to station a STAT on Polaris. The first new STAT in nearly a decade, it is placed under the leadership of a once-promising young officer, Lieutenant MacKenzie Jordan.

The new team doesn't have much time to get to know one another as they are called into action immediately after the Polaris leaves dock. STAT-42, the number derived from the Polaris' registry number, is called upon to investigate a subspace communications array that has gone offline. While the Polaris heads out to conduct a planetary survey, STAT-42 departs on their runabouts to the array. When they arrive, the team finds the array with some substantial systemic failures as well as physical damage. While they begin repairs, they also try to determine what caused the array to go down.