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Overview
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| Type |
Orbital starbase |
| Classification |
Research station |
| Affiliation |
United Federation
of Planets |
| Supervisor |
Starfleet |
| Status |
Operational |
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| Description |
The Jupiter Station,
which is situated in an orbit around the class J gas giant Jupiter in the Solar System, is
one of the biggest research stations of Starfleet in the Federation. The station belongs
to the space facilities of Starfleet Research and Development (R & D) and is therefore
equipped with a large number of development laboraties, research centers and production
plants. However, above all the Jupiter Station, which stands out by its unusual design, is
the seat of the Starfleet Holoprogramming Center, that has increasingly gained importance
since the important breakthroughs in holography in the middle of the 24th century. In this
facility, the development team of holo-engineers around Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, who is often
regarded as the father of modern holography, has developed the incredibly sophisticated
Emergency Medical Hologram in four versions until now, coming amazingly close to the
boundary of "holographic life". Some projects were carried out in cooperation
with other departments of Starfleet, for example the project "Trojan Horse",
which includes the development of a micro surveillance and infiltration hologram for
Starfleet Intelligence. Basically, the developments of the holoprogramming center and all
the other research facilities of the Jupiter Station are of interstellar significance and
are used on countless starships, space stations and planetary facilities of Starfleet in
the entire Federation. |
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Position
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| Galaxy |
Milky Way |
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| Quadrant |
Alpha/Beta |
| Sector |
001 |
| System |
Solar System |
| Planet |
 |
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| Jupiter
(5th planet) |
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| Distances |
4.2 AE from Earth |
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- Travelling times
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| Jupiter Station |
Utopia Planitia Fleet
Yards, Mars |
Space dock, Earth |
Terraforming Station,
Venus |
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3.7 AE |
4.2 AE |
4.5 AE |
| 1/4
impulse |
8 h 30 min |
9 h 42 min |
10 h 21 min |
| 1/2 impulse |
4 h 15 min |
4 h 51 min |
5 h 10 min |
| 3/4
impulse |
2 h 41 min |
3 h 4 min |
3 h 16 min |
| Full impulse |
2 h 2 min |
2 h 20 min |
2 h 29 min |
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- Structure
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| Dimensions |
Unknown |
| Mass |
Unknown |
| Structure |
Two identical space
stations with three saucer sections each, interconnected by three parallel pylons, the
middle one being connected with two perpendicular pylons with one subspace antenna
each. |
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| Main facilities |
Research- and
development facilities |
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Holoprogramming center |
| Other facilities |
Station cafe |
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- Technical specifications
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| Power supply |
Fusion reactors |
| Technical equipment |
Scientific sensor
arrays |
|
Subspace antennas |
|
Holographic imaging
systems |
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Personal and cargo
transporters |
| Defensive systems |
Unknown |
- Staff
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| Holoprogramming
center |
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| Dr. Lewis
Zimmerman |
Lt.
Reginald Barclay |
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| Director |
2370-72 Assistant |
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| Medical
section |
| Dr.
Caplin |
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| Station
neurologist |
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- Log
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| 2367 |
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Stardate 44001.4 |
The near Jupiter
outpost 92 detects a Borg cube entering the Solar System. On its way to Earth, the
cube passes Jupiter very closely, and the Jupiter Station is in immediate
danger. However, the cube does not alter course and flies past the gas giant without
attack. |
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| 2367 |
The holoprogramming
center of the Jupiter Station achieves a breakthrough at the field of holographic imaging The completion of the hologram Haley, a
remarkably real simulation of a human being that is fully aware its existence as a
hologram. In the following years, Haley becomes the personal assistant and close friend of
the Director for holographic imaging and programming of the station, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman. |
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| Late
2360s |
Dr. Lewis Zimmerman
and his development team of holo-engineers starts working on the first holographic project
which is planned to be professionally used on hundreds of starships and space stations: an
Emergency Medical Hologram, which is supposed to serve as a short term supplement of the
medical staff of Starfleet facilities in case of emergency. The hologram incorporates a
incredibly sophisticated matrix programmed with the knowledge of countless Federation
doctors and over five million medical treatments. Moreover, the hologram is given the
ability for social interaction with its patients. For the physical appearance, Dr.
Zimmerman chooses himself so that the EMH is practically a reproduction of his own
personality. |
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| 2370 |
The system diagnostics
engineer Lt. Reginald Barclay joins Zimmerman team on the Jupiter Station. He is mainly
responsible for testing the interpersonal relations of the EMH. |
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In the holoprogramming
center of the Jupiter Station, the working on the Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I is
finished. The starships of the new Intrepid class are the first one to be equipped with
the program, which is permanently intregrated into the sickbay systems. In the
following period, the EMH is installed in hundreds of facilities in the entire Federation,
including the new starships of the Sovereign class in 2372. |
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| 2372 |
Lt. Barclay leaves the
development team of Dr. Zimmerman and the Jupiter Station to serve aboard the new USS
Enterprise-E. |
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The development team
of the holoprogramming center of the Jupiter Station encounters a major setback, when
Starfleet Medical decides after only a few years of use that the EMH Mark I is a failure,
unsuitable for the practical, albeit only short-term use as a professional medical aid.
Due to his numerous deficiencies, for instance the restriction to sickbay, the instability
of the matrix after longer use because of too low storage capacities and problems with
decision-making leading to a unresolvable feedback loop, but above all the underdeveloped
human streaks of the EMH, which neither shows sympathy for its patients nor has the
ability to a sensitive, patient interaction with them, all 675 installed copies of the
program are gradually removed until late 2373.
Against the wishes of Dr. Zimerman, they are reconfigurated for the cleaning of plasma
conduits on waste transfer barges. |
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| 2372-73 |
Dr. Zimmerman locks
himself away in his laboratory on the Jupiter Station for nearly two years in order to
repair all the deficiencies and defects of the EMH Mark I. |
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| 2373 |
Dr. Zimmerman gives up
the hopeless, unsuccessful improvement of the EMH Mark I and together with his team
on the Jupiter Station, he starts the design of a completely new matrix for the EMH Mark
II. This hologram is supposed to become a Longterm Medical Hologram for a possible
permanent use, that isn't restricted to sickbay any longer. It is equipped with the basic
software package of the EMH, however, it is shall be programmed with a carefully developed
character and personality and sophisticated social abilities. |
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|
Stardate 50564.2 |
Dr. Zimmerman leaves
the Jupiter Station for some weeks in order to work together with Dr. Julien Bashir on
Deep Space Nine, whom he wants to use as a template for the physical and psychological
profile of the EMH Mark II. He returns to the Jupiter Station as soon as he realizes that
Bashir is unsuitable for this purpose. |
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| 2374 |
|
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Stardate 51346.6 |
The development team
around Dr. Zimmerman proceeds with the work on the EMH Mark II in the holoprogramming
center of the Jupiter Station so that a practical field test can be started. For this
purpose, it is installed aboard the experimental USS Promentheus, which is equipped with
holographic projectors on every deck. |
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| 2374-76 |
Even after the
completion of the Mark II Dr. Zimmerman is unsatisfied with the character and social
interaction of his hologram, so that he and his team in the holoprogramming center in the
Jupiter Station perfect the program and develop it into the Mark III and finally into the
Mark IV. |
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| 2376 |
Dr. Zimmerman, the
director of holographic imaging and programming on the Jupiter Station is taken ill from a
mysterious subcellar degradation. Neither the medical officer of the station nor the EMHs
Mark III and IV and the best doctors of Starfleet suceed in making a diagnose, let alone
develop a cure. Due to the recent breakthroughs at the Pathfinder project, Lt.
Barclay, who visits the doctor aboard the Jupiter Station, can transfer the EMH Mark I of
the USS Voyager from the Delta Quadrant to the station. Lt. Barclay and Counselor Deanna
Troi, who flies from the USS Enterprise-E to the Jupiter Station, can help Zimmerman to
overcome his aversion to the "failed" EMH Mark I and to let the EMH cure him
with Borg regeneration techniques. |
 
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