Command Code

"Command Code"
Attribution
Series:	Star Trek: Voyager
Author(s):	Robert Greenberger
Publication information
Printed:	Distant Shores
Chronology
Date:	2371

Summary

At the beginning of their journey home, the USS Voyager unknowingly enters Dresh territory. A fiercely territorial race who guard their borders with mines. When Captain Janeway is injured in a collision with a Dresh mine, Commander Chakotay must take command to save the ship. However, his attempts to save Voyager is hindered by the fact that Tuvok has disabled his command codes.

References

Characters

Walter Baxter • Joseph Carey • Chakotay • The Doctor • Kathryn Janeway • Kes • Harry Kim • Neelix • Tom Paris • Seska • Tuvok

Referenced only

Asil • Caretaker • Aaron Cavit • Chell • Kenneth Dalby • Jenny Delaney • Megan Delaney • Elieth • Sek • T'Pel • B'Elanna Torres • Varith

Starships and vehicles

USS Voyager (Intrepid-class)

Referenced only

boat • Kazon battle cruiser • Val Jean

Locations

Delta Quadrant • Milky Way • minefield

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Alpha Quadrant • Badlands • Ocampa V

Races and cultures

Cardassian • Dresh • Human • Ocampa • Talaxian • Vulcan

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Bajoran • Bolian • Kazon • Klingon • Nacene

States and organizations

Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Referenced only

Kazon-Ogla • Maquis • Starfleet Academy

Science and technology

concussion • deflector shield • Emergency Medical Hologram • fire-suppression • frequency • holodeck • hologram • impulse reactor • inertial dampener • mine • padd • phaser • photon torpedo • replicator • sensor • shield emitter • subspace • subspace signal • warp bubble • warp core • universal translator • warp drive

Other references

armory • bridge • captain • chief of security • engineer • engineering • evasive maneuvers • first officer • flight officer • freedom fighter • General Order 12 • instructor • Insurrection Alpha • lieutenant • lieutenant commander • lieutenant junior grade • memorial • quartermaster • proximity alarm • ration • red alert • security chief • soup • Starfleet regulations • tactical officer • water

Appendices

Related media

• "Caretaker" (VOY episode) - this story takes place approximately two days afterwards.
• "Parallax" (VOY episode)
• "Worst Case Scenario" (VOY episode)

Connections

Star Trek: Voyager collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Amazing Stories	"A Night at Sandrine's" • "When Push Comes to Shove" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Distant Shores	"Da Capo al Fine" • "Command Code" • "Winds of Change" • "Talent Night" • "Letting Go" • "Closure" • "The Secret Heart of Zolaluz" • "Isabo's Shirt" • "Brief Candle" • "Eighteen Minutes" • "Or the Tiger" • "Bottomless"
Strange New Worlds	I ("Good Night, Voyager" • "Ambassador at Large" • "Fiction" • "I, Voyager" • "Monthuglu") • II ("A Ribbon for Rosie" • "Touched" • "Almost... But Not Quite" • "The Healing Arts" • "Seventh Heaven") • III ("The Ones Left Behind" • "The Second Star" • "The Monster Hunters" • "Gift of the Mourners") • IV ("Iridium-7-Tetrahydroxate Crystals Are a Girl's Best Friend" • "Uninvited Admirals" • "Return" • "Black Hats" • "Personal Log" • "Welcome Home" • "Shadows, in the Dark") • V ("Final Entry" • "The Difficulties of Being Evil" • "Restoration" • "On the Rocks" • "Witness" • "Fragment" • "Who Cries for Prometheus?") • VI ("Homemade" • "Seven and Seven" • "The End of Night" • "Hidden" • "Widow's Walk") • VII ("Redux" • "The Little Captain" • "I Have Broken the Prime Directive" • "Don't Cry") • 8 ("Transfiguration" • "This Drone" • "Once Upon a Tribble" • "You May Kiss the Bride" • "Coffee with a Friend") • 9 ("Choices" • "Unconventional Cures" • "Maturation") • 10 ("The Fate of Captain Ransom" • "A Taste of Spam" • "Adjustments" • "The Day the Borg Came") • 2016 ("The Last Refuge" • "Life Among the Post-Industrial Barbarians" • "Upon the Brink of Remembrance")
Misc. short stories	"Seduced" • "Bitter Fruit" • "Seven v Seven" • "Retribution" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "See and Seen"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"In the Queue" • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent" • "Places of Exile"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Da Capo al Fine	Distant Shores	Next story: Winds of Change
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Final Entry 13th entry	Pocket	Next Adventure: Parallax
Previous Adventure: The Third Artifact Third Interlude	Journey of the USS Voyager	Next Adventure: Parallax