Crucial

"Crucial" (or Star Trek: Crucial) was the eighth spin-off of Star Trek: Phoenix-X and seventh spin-off of the third season. It originally stood on its own until it was integrated into Star Trek: Phoenix-X in August 2014. The story focuses on the crew of the USS Crucial and is written as logs from its crew.

Posting guide

Spin-off 8	Posted	Prod. Code	Synopsis	Link
Spin-off 8A	2006	PNX100_O008NA	Hatcha loses a wedding ring and over uses a training program.	[1]
Spin-off 8B	2006	PNX100_O008NB	Menrow: The Crucial loses all its log entries and the crew is forced to start over.	[2]
Spin-off 8C	2006	PNX100_O008NC	Barley sleeps with his instructor from Starfleet Academy, who is now stationed at Deep Space 5.	[3]
Spin-off 8D	2006	PNX100_O008ND	Ferona: Under-appreciated, Ferona is blamed for several mistakes aboard the Crucial.	[4]
Spin-off 8E	2006	PNX100_O008NE	Menrow: The Ferengi marauder Diamond's Link accidentally attacks the Crucial, thinking they were someone else.	[5]
Spin-off 8F	2006	PNX100_O008NF	Jeanne: The Counselor tires of Barley's sob stories.	[6]

Logging characters

• Captain Harley Menrow
• Ensign Hatcha
• Lieutenant Barley
• Lieutenant Ferona

Background information

• The logs first resided on "MSN spaces", in 2006, consisting of only one entry, until they were started up again on blogger.com in 2007. Both blog sites are now extinct and the entries have been migrated to the Star Trek: Phoenix-X website.
• Hatcha's gender isn't specified here, and isn't specified as female until "Into Harshness".

External links

• "Crucial" on the Star Trek: Phoenix-X website