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/ || \ UCIP Starfleet Command, Eighth Fleet
/ || \ U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
.-/ || \-. Fleet Captain Tebrun Lora Kor, Commanding
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Via subspace, Reor was barely 20 minutes away from Micropolis, so
Fleet Captain Tebrun Lora Kor entered his Ready Room exactly 40
minutes after transmitting his recommendation. He took another
minute to request a cup of tea from the replicator and settle himself
into the chair behind the desk. He then relaxed and waited for a
call. He suspected that he would not have to wait long.
Twenty minutes after he sat down, the first message came back from
Reor: a bare acknowledgement that his transmission had been received
and understood. An hour after that, still waiting for a meaningful
response, Lora Kor started to become bored. After two hours, he
became annoyed. The Trill knew for a fact that the moment he stood
up and left his Ready Room, the call would come in, a call that
would almost certainly have to be taken in private. That more or
less tied the Captain to the Ready Room.
He therefore started calling up library computer records for
starships that had been in similar circumstances to Coronado and how
the Commanding Officers of those ships had handled the situation.
That turned out to be quite a long list of names and situations.
The applied solutions, however, tended to group themselves neatly
into two piles: COs that had noted another race's gross violation of
the Prime Directive with regret, but had left the interfered-with
species to its own devices... and those who had taken it upon
themselves to step into the situation. Since Lora Kor knew how the
first option tended to turn out, he concentrated on reading about
the situations in the second group.
Amusingly, the same two names kept coming up in that group: Captain
James T. Kirk and Captain Enrique Lopez. Lora Kor had heard both
names, of course: both were legends in Starfleet, Kirk from more
than a century before, Lopez from twenty-five years prior. Lora Kor
had always assumed that the stories about both were exaggerated...
the records told another story.
In Kirk's pile, the situation the Captain could find that was closest
to Coronado's situation involved a planet near the Klingon border
called Neural. The natives of Neural had been even more primitive
than the Micropolis natives, but due to the planet's strategic
location, the Empire had supplied one group of the natives with more
modern weapons. Hoping to artificially advance their technology and
install a puppet government, the Klingons had been remarkably
subtle... until Kirk discovered what was happening. Kirk's solution
had been novel: he responded by supplying the rival faction on the
planet with weapons similar to those the Klingons were providing.
Stalemated, the Klingons had eventually grown bored with the
resulting impasse and withdrew their support from the planet some
years later.
The most similar situation that Lopez had found himself in was even
more applicable. Prior to the Dominion War, Lopez had uncovered a
Dominion plan to annex a Federation protectorate called Berengaria.
In this case, the Dominion had acted more openly, making it clear to
the Renaissance-level Berengarians that Dominion technology would be
used to wipe out the population if their planet did not join the
Dominion. Lopez intervened, using the Federation's extensive
knowledge of Berengarian culture against the Dominion. Neutralizing
each use of Dominion technology with his own and without revealing
himself, Lopez had led the planet's inhabitants to believe that the
Dominion soldiers were simply perpetrating a vast hoax and had
eventually turned the Berengarians against the Dominion.
Overwhelmed by sheer numbers, the Jem'Hadar had been destroyed, the
Vorta forced to flee.
In both cases, despite the obvious Prime Directive implications,
both Captains had been commended for developing original solutions
to the problem at hand. Lora Kor could also find nearly a dozen
other cases where Starfleet Captains had directly interfered with
another race's attempts to violate the Prime Directive and later
been commended for it.
He could find only two cases were commendations were granted for
noting the situation but taking no action, and two Starfleet
Captains had even been reprimanded for doing this. One Vice Admiral
had been especially explicit: "I am not impressed when one of my
Captains proudly reports that he has chosen to do nothing today."
Lora Kor had to admit that the idea of standing idly by while a
culture was destroyed rankled.
The Captain was still reading over the archives, frown lines growing
deeper on his face, when the first real response to his message came
in. It wasn't the response he expected.
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Crew Roster:
Commanding Officer: FCapt. Tebrun Lora Kor (Jester)
Executive Officer: Cmdr. William Daren (Daren)
Marine Commandant: Col. Jeremy Ironside (Fraser)
Command Liaison: Cmdr. Savant (Savant)
Chief of Operations: Cmdr. Olme Tlaloco (Tlaloco)
Chief Tactical Officer: LCdr. Sieven Drexler (Brad)
Assistant Tactical: Lt. Kyle Marcy (Marcy)
Chief Flight Operations: Lt. JG Ananda Wilk (Baralu)
Intelligence Officer: Lt. Kariasa Ma'Aru (Kari)
Chief Science Officer: Lt. JG Kathleen Hammond (Kath)
Company Commander: MCpt. Jacob Prescot (Shadow-FjP)
Wing Leader: 1Lt. Craig Serrold (Aggie)
Chief Engineer: Cmdr. Zunite Oswald (Sonya)
Assistant Engineer: LCdr. Jack C. Farley (CCC)
Assistant Engineer: Lt. Aramis Skylooker (LewisSharp)
Systems Specialist: Lt. JG Caring-Thoughts (Alffred)
Chief Medical Officer: Lt. Jason Thompson (Thompson)
Civilian: Alados ha-Soron (McC)
On Extended Leave of Absense:
Wing Leader: 2Lt. Andrew Stylus (JadeFalcon)
Positions Available:
None!
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Jester
Fleet Captain Tebrun Lora Kor
Commodore Selectee
Commanding, U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
http://www.jestertrek.com/coro2400/