For other uses, see Field Trip.

Field Trip is a 1994 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comic by Mike W. Barr.

When Sisko and Dax are injured on a visit to the Gamma Quadrant, Keiko, Jake and Nog must work together to get the Orinoco home.

Summary

Sisko and Dax have taken Keiko's schoolchildren, including Jake and Nog, on a field trip to a planet in the Gamma Quadrant aboard the runabout Orinoco. Sisko worries that his presence may be inhibiting for Jake, but Jake has fun playing with Nog.

When the trip is over, the Orinoco lifts off from the planet's surface, but the magnetopause interferes with the engines of the runabout, and Sisko and Dax are rendered unconscious when the control panel in the cockpit overloads.

Keiko realizes that they don't have enough power to return to the planet and land and should head for the wormhole, wherever it is. On Deep Space 9, Chief O'Brien begins to worry, but with the Rio Grande away from the station and the Ganges under repair they expedite repairs to the Ganges.

On the Orinoco, the life support systems have started to fail. The guidance and telemetry systems have already failed, making impossible to locate the wormhole that way. Nog unexpectedly gives them an idea: they can use Dax's tricorder to scan for the neutrinos that the wormhole emits. Jake pilots the runabout and they successfully enter the wormhole.

Safely back home, Sisko and Dax are treated for their injuries. Sisko jokes that Jake, Nog and Keiko should run the station while he recovers.

References

Characters

Julian Bashir • Cadara • Jadzia Dax • Kira Nerys • Nog • Keiko O'Brien • Miles O'Brien • Benjamin Sisko • Jake Sisko

Locations

Bajoran wormhole • Deep Space 9 • Gamma Quadrant • operations center

Starships and vehicles

USS Orinoco (Danube-class runabout)

Referenced only

USS Ganges • USS Rio Grande

Races and cultures

Bajoran • Ferengi • Human • Trill

States and organizations

Bajoran Militia • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Ranks and titles

captain • commander • lieutenant • science officer

Other references

atmosphere • guidance system • life support • magnetopause • medical kit • neutrino • telemetry system • thruster • tractor beam • tricorder • warp engine

Appendices

Background information

• This story was the first of the issue, with the other two stories being "Pickpocket" and "Program 359".

External link

• Field Trip (comic) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

Connections

published order
Previous comic: Emancipation, Part II	DS9 comics (Malibu Comics)	Next comic: Pickpocket
chronological order
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