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Martin Lazlo

2024-12-03T17:19:56Z

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! colspan="2" style="background:lightgreen;text-align: center;width:20em;font-size:10pt" | Martin Lazlo
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Species''' || Human
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Alignment''' || Federation Marines
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| colspan="2" style="background:mediumseagreen;text-align:center;font-size:9pt" | '''Appearances'''
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Features in''' || [[Star Traks: The Original Series|TRK]] (1), [[Star Traks: Waystation|WAY]] (31)
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''First Appearance''' || [[Star Traks 5]]
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Last Appearance''' || [[From This Day Forward]]
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Created by''' || [[Alan Decker]]
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| colspan="2" style="background:seagreen;text-align:center;font-size:9pt" | '''Marine Career'''
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | Colonel
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[Waystation]]
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''From''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[2373]]
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Colonel in charge of the Federation Marine 79th Battalion assigned to [[Waystation]]. Lazlo arrived at Waystation by runabout in the middle of Waystation's battle with the Romulans and the [[Multeks]]. After the station was able to bring them safely aboard, Lazlo and the two marines accompanying him set off to capture, or preferably kill, Captain [[Wuddle]]. Commander [[Lisa Beck]] stepped in, stunned all three of the marines, and locked them in the brig until they agreed that she was the one in command of the station. (''[[Star Traks 5]]'' [TRK][WAY])

Lazlo intensely disliked having to follow Beck's orders and felt that the arrival of the rest of his battalion should mean a more equitable distribution of power on the station. Beck said no way and even went so far to remind Lazlo's troops that she was the one in charge. In response, Lazlo packed up and moved his entire group to Ridalis Four, an uninhabited forest world discovered by the Waystation scouting missions. (''[[Send The Marines]]'' [WAY]) After receiving prior warning from [[Leximas]] that the Ridalis Four trip would be disastrous, Lazlo decided that the guru was dangerous and ordered his marines to keep tabs on her. He was furious that instead they were spellbound by her peace and serenity. (''[[This Is Only A Test]]'' [WAY])

Beck made Lazlo the station's Chief of Security after [[Sean Russell]] had screwed up once to often. Lazlo used the opportunity to attempt a hostile takeover of the station while Beck and Lieutenant Commander [[Walter Morales]] were off the station. He had Dr. [[Amedon Nelson]] and Lieutenant [[Craig Porter]] thrown in the brig, but Russell was able to free them and, with their help, confront Lazlo in ops. No official action was taken against him in this incident due to the incredible amount of wrongdoing performed by everyone concerned. Instead, it was agreed to just forget the whole mess. (''[[That Sinking Feeling]]'' [WAY]) Lazlo was basically responsible for starting the refit of Waystation when he sliced the station in half using the [[USS Mongoose]]'s phasers in an overzealous pursuit of an Andorian freighter. (''[[Gridlock]]'' [WAY]) He later saved the Asneris colony from vanishing without a trace by convincing the energy entity residing on that world that humans were worthy creatures. As distasteful as this was, the only way Lazlo could do this was by admitting that he needed Commander Beck's help to pass the entity's tests. (''[[The Corps Of The Matter]]'' [WAY]) When Waystation was taken over by the Starshine Kids, Lazlo and Morales worked well together to resolve the situation, both men earning the respect of the other. Lazlo's team infiltrated the station and captured the Starshine Kids. (''[[Lip Lock]]'' [WAY])

Lazlo was on the scouting mission that first encountered the [[D'Ceti]]. The D'Ceti scanned his mind and, sensing hostility, took over Lazlo and used him to try to kill Porter and Russell. Porter was able to resolve the misunderstanding and made proper contact with the D'Ceti, convincing them that, despite Lazlo's personality, the Federation as a whole was peaceful. Freed from D'Ceti control, Lazlo traveled to [[Multos]] with Russell and Wuddle and saved Commander Beck from [[Frequoq Juletz]]. (''[[The Way We Were]]'' [WAY]) Lazlo and several of his marines were also on the [[USS Wayward]] during the first encounter with the [[Collectors]] at the planet Falinor. Lazlo led his troops onto the Collectors' Vault-Ship and set off an electromagnetic pulse device created by Porter, which shorted out the mind-control helmets the Collectors used to force beings to serve them. Lazlo then pursued the Collectors' Chief Assessor and forced him to relinquish the Collectors' claim on Falinor. (''[[Everything Must Go!]]'' [WAY]) Lazlo and his marines were also instrumental in defending the station from a Collectors' assault the following year.

While the Waystation command crew was trapped in Ops for a lockdown drill, Lazlo tried to take command to ensure that order was maintained. He set his marines against the Starfleet crew, but both groups where taken out by a civilian militia formed by [[Richard Theroll]], who later named himself Station Administrator. Lazlo escaped and managed to hide for a while, but he was eventually captured when he attempted to warn Beck about the civilian takeover. (''[[Town Hall]]'' [WAY])

The following year, Lazlo's restlessness grew. He realized that Waystation had become civilization and was no longer really out on the frontier. More troubling was the fact that his marines had gotten comfortable and were spending all of their time engaging in civilian activities or, even worse, dating Starfleet Officers. After he couldn't find enough marines on the marine deck to start a basketball game one evening, Lazlo went looking for his second-in-command, Lieutenant Colonel [[Daniel O'Neal]], and his timely arrival in a holodeck saved O'Neal, Russell, Beck, and [[Banyon Kovacs]] from being killed by [[Lusenkia Dekelina]]. (''[[Fraternizing With The Enemy]]'' [WAY])

Lazlo's disgust at his marines' fraternization with Starfleet and Waystation's civilian population finally led him to confine the marines to their deck. O'Neal, unhappy with this decision, disobeyed Lazlo's orders and led a group that escaped one night with plans to return before they were discovered. Unfortunately that didn't work out. Furious, Lazlo decided to train his troops even more intensely until he realized that training wasn't the issue; Waystation was. Hitting upon the idea of moving to the [[Space Lodge]], he had his superiors petition the Federation Council to change jurisdiction over the mysterious structure from Starfleet Science to the Federation Marines. His proposal was accepted, and the marines left Waystation to set up a base in the Space Lodge. (''[[Can Your Camel Hold One More Straw?]]'', ''[[Going My Way?]]'' [WAY])

Lazlo disdains what he considers Starfleet's weakness towards aggressors. He prefers the old "shoot first, ask questions later" policy. It particularly galls him that Beck turns out to be right more often than not. The Starfleet personnel, in turn, enjoy making fun of the black mass of hair on Lazlo's face he has the nerve to call a mustache.

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Stephanie Hodges

2024-12-03T17:19:20Z

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! colspan="2" style="background:lightgreen;text-align: center;width:20em;font-size:10pt" | Stephanie Hodges
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Species''' || Human
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Alignment''' || Federation Marines
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| colspan="2" style="background:mediumseagreen;text-align:center;font-size:9pt" | '''Appearances'''
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Features in''' || [[Star Traks: Waystation|WAY]] (37)
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''First Appearance''' || [[Send The Marines]]
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Last Appearance''' || [[Going My Way?]]
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Created by''' || [[Alan Decker]]
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| colspan="2" style="background:seagreen;text-align:center;font-size:9pt" | '''Marine Career'''
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | Major
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[Waystation]]
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''From''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[2373]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | Pilot
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | [[USS Mongoose]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''From''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | [[2373]]
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Stephanie Hodges has been a friend of [[Lisa Beck]] for years and years. Beck and Hodges met at the age of seven while they both lived in North Carolina. Hodges was a fearful child, afraid to enter her own basement until she was twelve or to ask Barry Jensen to homecoming her sophomore year of high school. Her older brother, [[Joel Hodges]] was identified as the Z'arkbelst, the living god of an Andorian cult, when Hodges was eleven-years-old. Believing that the Andorians had kidnapped Joel, Hodges and Beck snuck on the Andorians ship and narrowly avoided being taken to Andor themselves. They were rescued by Starfleet, not that Joel wanted to be rescued. As soon as he was of age, Joel left for Andor to take his place as the Z'arkbelst and did not keep in touch with his family. (''[[Trials of Youth]]'' [REJ])

When she grew up, Hodges joined the Federation Marines. After her assignment to [[Waystation]], Hodges was the pilot of the [[USS Mongoose]], the Marines' transport ship. She, along with Colonel [[Martin Lazlo]], was one of the only two marines to not fall victim to the vicious squirrels on Ridalis Four. (''[[Send The Marines]]'' [WAY]) Hodges did not join the bulk of the marines who decided to resign and follow Leximas. (''[[This Is Only A Test]]'' [WAY]) Hodges flew the Runabout Yadkin in the battle to retake [[Waystation]] from the [[Starshine Kids]]. (''[[Lip Lock]]'' [WAY])

After returning to Waystation from a three-week training mission with the Federation Marines, Stephanie Hodges found that the station's command crew were all exhausted despite the fact that they all claimed to have been in bed by 2300 hours. Hodges investigated and discovered that the command crew had been hypnotized and were being used at night as employees at a secret casino and entertainment complex at the bottom of the station. Hodges and the Federation Marines mounted a rescue and shut down the operation. (''[[Moonlight Sonata]]'' [WAY])

Hodges was reunited with her brother, Joel, in the following year when he and his Andorian followers had a stopover at Waystation on their way to their new home on the Andorian colony that had been founded in a nearby sector. Joel took an interest in the grown-up Lisa Beck and kidnapped her to be his consort. Hodges and Commander [[Walter Morales]] pursued them and got Beck back, with Hodges and Morales sparking a relationship en route to the rescue. (''[[That Certain Someone]]'' [WAY]) Upon finding out that his sister was dating Morales, Joel decided to kill Morales in the Ritual of K'hakahskahk. After combat passed through several additional rites, Stephanie Hodges called for the Rite of I'mt'llz'n meaning that the dispute between the combatants had grown into a battle between families that must be settled by their respective hive mothers. Joel was not happy about this, but respected the rite and let Morales live, telling Morales that he wasn't good enough for his sister. Morales was certain that his mother, a middle school teacher, would easily wipe the floor with Mrs. Hodges. ([[The Rules Of Relativity]] [WAY])

When Colonel Lazlo planned to take control of Waystation from Starfleet while the command crew was in lockdown, he stunned Hodges and had her confined to quarters because he was concerned that Hodges was a threat due to her close friendship with Beck and relationship with Morales. (''[[Town Hall]]'' [WAY]) Hodges later helped Lieutenant Commander [[Craig Porter]] rescue Beck from the Romulans when Beck was handed over by [[Kathy Beck]], who wanted access to the Romulans' temporal research. (''[[Pomp And Circumstances]]'' [WAY])

Lazlo's disgust at his marines' continual fraternization with Starfleet and Waystation's civilian population finally led him to confine the marines to their deck. Lieutenant Colonel [[Daniel O'Neal]], unhappy with this decision, approached Hodges and a few other marines about taking action. Hodges declined the offer to assist. O'Neal disobeyed Lazlo's orders and led a group that escaped one night with plans to return before they were discovered. Unfortunately that didn't work out. Furious, Lazlo decided to train his troops even more intensely until he realized that training wasn't the issue; Waystation was. Hitting upon the idea of moving to the [[Space Lodge]], he had his superiors petition the Federation Council to change jurisdiction over the mysterious structure from Starfleet Science to the Federation Marines. His proposal was accepted. Morales tried to convince Hodges not to go, but Hodges had no desire to leave the marines, saying that she felt it was important to protect the people she loved, people like Morales and Beck. She and the marines left Waystation to set up a base in the Space Lodge. (''[[Can Your Camel Hold One More Straw?]]'', ''[[Going My Way?]]'' [WAY])

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Ray Miller

2024-11-05T00:08:27Z

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Counselor aboard [[Waystation]]. Miller helped [[Craig Porter]] get past his fear of asking women out but explaining to him that women are people, too. Deep thought there. He had left standing orders that all roommate problems during their time in [[Waystation Village]] were to be settled through combat on the holodeck. (''[[Relationship Jitters]]'' [WAY]) Miller was quite busy during the latter part of the Waystation renovations, counseling Russell during his run-in with The [[Critics]] and [[Tina Jones]] after her brief brainwashing by the [[Starshine Kids]]. (''[[Lip Service]]'', ''[[Lip Lock]]'' [WAY]) When Commander [[Travis Dillon]] finally went over the edge a couple of years later, Miller volunteered to be his caretaker inside of the asteroid outfitted for the task. Miller generally stayed in quarters outside of the holodeck Dillon lived in, but occasionally he would go inside to indulge his own sexual obsessions with two or three holographic women. Miller didn't even try to counsel Dillon during this time saying that Dillon wouldn't have liked it very much. Dillon was eventually removed from Miller's care and sent to [[Tantalus V]]. (''[[Please Hold For Oblivion]]'' [TRK])

Dillon Inquest

2024-11-05T00:07:29Z

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An investigation mounted by several members of the Federation Council into Federation President [[Bradley Dillon]]'s true motives for seeking out the Bast and travelling back to the 21st Century. Their grilling of Bradley while he was connected to a lie detector was broadcast across the Federation in an AWN show hosted by [[Joan Redding]]. Under questioning, Bradley stated that his actions had been manipulated by The [[Directors]] in an effort to save the universe from The [[Critics]]. With that revelation, the Inquest came to a close despite [[Kelly Peterman]]'s attempt to force Bradley to admit that he did it all in an attempt to save [[Leximas]]. (''[[Station Keeping]]'' [VEX], ''[[All Ahead Full]]'' [WAY])

Vioxx

2024-02-14T20:04:20Z

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Commander Vioxx was the captain of the Romulan scout ship [[Tyvek]], which was assigned to explore the Delta Quadrant. The Tyvek was lost to the [[Lucinda]] entity, but Vioxx and his officers were able to escape to a nearby habitable planet. They were nearly eaten by a family of the planet's inhabitants but were rescued by the [[USS Anomaly]]. Vioxx received orders from the Romulan High Command to have the Anomaly follow Lucinda but not tell Captain [[Reginald Bain]] or the crew about the actual threat. The Anomaly was able to deal with Lucinda. After this incident, though, Romulan High Command insisted that Vioxx and his officers stay aboard, so the Romulans would be more involved in the Anomaly's day-to-day operations. Vioxx was made the ship's first officer. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

During the battle at the Neutral Zone against the combined Vulcan and Romulan fleets, Vioxx led Sub-Commander [[Remax]] and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] in stealing the Raceabout [[USS Silverwood]] to get aboard a Romulan warhawk. Once aboard, they incapacitated the crew, and Remax was able to determine that the Romulans aboard had been victims of mind melds. Vioxx took command of the warhawk and used it to help the Federation fleet in battle. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

After hostilities with the Vulcans ended, Engineer [[Selex]] approached Vioxx with the idea that Commander [[Prosak]] had to be killed due to her [[RommaVulc]] allegiance. It was Vioxx's duty to kill her, since he was the ranking Romulan officer. Vioxx at first dismissed the idea, but after Sub-Commander [[Remax]] explained how it could possibly lead to all of them being sent back to the Empire and Vioxx receiving command of a warhawk, Vioxx said he would consider it. (''[[Hard Sell]]'' [BG])

While the Anomaly was crashed on a planet in [[Red Borg]] space, [[Sarah of Brown]] took a liking to Vioxx and, using her Borg strength, had her way with him; although, the village elder, [[Jebediah of Brown]] believed that the reverse had occurred. (''[[Living Off The Land]]'' [BG])

Vioxx and his officers, along with Prosak and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] traveled to a Romulan facility in the Yatooi Sector to get the scout ship [[Allegra]], which was being given to the Anomaly to replace the destroyed [[USS Navigator]]. While they were there, Vice Admiral [[Negrek]] tasked the Anomaly officers with retrieving the Warhawk [[Zocor]], which had been stolen by a group of Klingons led by [[Chynok]], telling Vioxx that he would be given command of the Zocor if he was successful. Once the Zocor was retrieved, Negrek told Vioxx that he lied about Vioxx getting the Zocor, and the Anomaly officers took the Allegra back to their ship. (''[[A Hawk In Hand]]'' [BG])

When it became apparent that Vioxx had no intention of following through with killing Prosak, Remax and Selex decided to take matters into their own hands. They attempted to booby-trap Prosak's quarters but were stopped by Vioxx, who said that Prosak was not to be killed. Remax considered that to be the end of it and unhappily followed Vioxx's order to clean Prosak's quarters. Selex, however, did not agree and later kicked Prosak down a Jefferies tube that sent her plummeting 25 decks. She was saved by Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], who had joined with the ship's computer and was able to alter the gravity in the Jefferies tube to prevent Prosak's death. Vioxx had Selex arrested and put in the Anomaly's brig. Vioxx was put in command of the Anomaly when Bain was forced to turn himself over to the Breen and face trial. Rather than fight the Breen ships, as Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] wanted him to, Vioxx ordered the Anomaly to return to Federation space. Once there, Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] ordered him to take the Anomaly back to the Breen outpost that the Anomaly destroyed while under the control of the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] and find evidence of the Anomaly's innocence. Since their wasn't any, Vioxx worked with Remax to create false evidence which he took back to Larkin. Before she could present it to the Breen, they declared war on the Federation due to Starfleet's rescue of Bain from their space. Vioxx stopped Larkin for opening fire on the Breen ships and requested to mediate the dispute as a neutral representative of the Romulan Star Empire in hopes of giving the Anomaly crew time to find Bain or some other solution. While Vioxx was negotiating with Larkin and [[Thot-Mutch]], Remax worked with Nortal, Zantak, Kasyov and Cabral to falsify evidence showing that the Breen destroyed their own outpost. Instead they found that the sensor readings of the incident were already fake, since the Breen outpost that the Anomaly destroyed while under the control of the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk hologram]] was actually a weapons platform. They blackmailed [[Thot-Mutch]] into negotiating peace with Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]], sending three crates of Breen lingerie aboard, and taking his helmet off for Remax and Vioxx. Remax later helped Selex, who was in the Anomaly's brig for attempting to kill Prosak, escape the ship and beam down to the Breen homeworld to request asylum. Vioxx and Prosak agreed to let Selex stay there and not inform Bain (''[[Hollow Threats]]'', ''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

After the Anomaly found itself inside a pocket universe containing the [[Multek Enclave]], Vioxx and others from the ship took the Allegra to see if they could get help. They encountered the barrier at the edge of the pocket universe that severely damaged the Allegra when Centurion Nortal opened fire on it. They were able to make it to the nearby [[Edgeworld]], where they crashed. Vioxx and crew went to the resort complex on Edgeworld looking for parts and also found a stasis tube containing a [[Dillon Consortium]] attorney named [[Tori Burke]], who had been left there twenty years ago to supervise renovations that never ended up happening. Over Burke's objections, Vioxx and crew got the Allegra back into space, at which point they restored contact with the Anomaly. Captain Bain ordered them to try to stop a massive robot that had formed from the structures on [[Bradley Dillon]]'s CasinoWorld as part of the Dillon Consortium's plan to take over the Multek Enclave. The Allegra was outmatched, but they were able to sever the robot's head from its body. Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Tori Burke beamed onto the robot and were able to shut it down while Lieutenant [[Bre'zan Brazzell]] flew the Allegra back to the Anomaly. After these events, the Anomaly went to [[Waystation Prime]] for repairs. While there, Burke informed Vioxx that she would do everything in her power to destroy him. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

Burke later approached Vioxx and apologized. He invited her on a dinner date, which she accepted. They ended up being kidnapped along with several of the Anomaly's crew as part of Dillon Consortium CEO [[Jackson Loomis]]' plan to brainwash them against Bain. Once Vioxx and the others were rescued by Waystation Prime security, Burke went to find Loomis. She was named CEO, and Vioxx was unable to reach her for weeks. She finally commed him to say that she was leaving for [[Dillonia]] and that he would not see her again. (''[[Legend of the Bain]]'' [BG])

Vioxx went to the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant on [[Nelephron]] with Bain, Nortal, and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] for what was supposed to be an official meeting but was actually a Dillon Consortium trap. Burke and several of her guards arrived, and she revealed her intention to brainwash Marsden into helping the Consortium reverse engineer the [[anti-singularity drive]] while the rest of the crew were killed (after a long period of torture in Nortal's case). The revelation that she'd sent a fleet to the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld drew laughter from Bain and the others, rattling Burke when she found out the planet no longer existed. She argued with the minds in the CEO suit, which confused Vioxx and prompted him to get Marsden to scan her. Things went downhill for Burke from there when Nortal attacked her, and the room was quickly engulfed in a firefight. Vioxx tried to talk to Burke, but the suit forced her to attempt to kill him. Not wanting the only person who had been remotely nice to her dead, Burke broke free of the suit's control long enough to tell Vioxx to strip her even while she was choking the life out of him. He managed to get the suitcoat and pants off of her, freeing her from the suit's control. Bain and Nortal, having dealt with the guards, destroyed the suit, and Burke was taken into custody. The Anomaly also escaped the trap set for it, and Burke found herself in its brig. Vioxx came to speak to her and said that he would try to come visit her at whatever Federation rehabilitation colony she ended up in. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

He was surprisingly thrust into parenthood when the [[Neb]] entity decided that Vioxx was their daddy. Vioxx at first wanted nothing to do with the idea but was pushed into taking care of Neb by Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], Marsden, and Tovar. Unable to deal with Neb's tantrum, Vioxx introduced the fast-aging lifeform to the holopod and left them there. Neb used the holopod to take control of the Anomaly and sent it speeding through space at anti-sing. At Kasyov's urging, Vioxx went into the holopod to talk to Neb and was able to connect with them. By the time Neb decided it was time to leave the Anomaly, Vioxx had grown attached to them and worried about their safety out in the galaxy. He asked Captain Bain to have Starfleet keep a lookout for Neb and was dismayed to learn from Bain that, now that he was a parent, he would never stop worrying about Neb. (''[[Born to Rom]]'' [BG])

While Vioxx was at the Romulan Imperial Academy, he was involved with the daughter of one of Romulus' elite families, who had rebelled against her upper class parents and decided to serve in the Romulan military. Eventually, she left Vioxx and the Academy to return to the comfort of her old life. At Officer's School, he accidentally killed a classmate when he crashed a shuttle into the barracks where she was sleeping.

Vioxx and his officers were recalled to the Romulan Empire and ordered to report to the [[Malak Pasala]] ship yard in order to take the Empire's prototype [[anti-singularity drive]] vessel, the [[Manamanat]] out for test flights. They discovered that Selex had helped design the engine for the Manamanat and that he was still aboard. Selex imprisoned Vioxx and the others on the bridge while he laid a trap for the USS Anomaly in order to achieve his real goals: revenge on his Romulan crewmates and the death of Prosak. Vioxx and company escaped the bridge and made it to engineering where they found that Selex was running the ship as a disembodied brain encased in a sphere. Selex had teamed up with [[Thot-Phul]] and the Breen to take on the Anomaly, but Bain quickly got the upper hand. With his own ship destroyed, Phul and several Breen beamed over to take control of the Manamanat. While Remax, Zantak, and Prosak mind melded with Selex to help him keep the ship's unstable anti-singularity drive from exploding and killing them all, Vioxx and Nortal dealt with the Breen on board, taking out a security team before heading to the bridge, where Nortal battled several of Phul's underlings and Vioxx fought Phul himself, much to Phul's annoyance since he only wanted to fight Bain. But after Bain destroyed his fleet and damaged the Manamanat, Phul no longer saw the point. He stopped grappling with Vioxx and surrendered. Following these events, Vioxx returned to the Empire with his officers and was given command of another scout ship. While out exploring beyond the Empire, they encountered Neb. Vioxx invited Neb to have dinner with him, an offer that Neb accepted. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Vioxx

2024-02-14T20:01:50Z

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Thot-Phul

2024-02-14T19:40:19Z

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Thot-Phul was a Breen officer as saw [[Reginald Bain]] as his nemesis. He first encountered the [[USS Anomaly]] when he was in command of the XAXRDAARD. At that time, the Anomaly was still called the Hermes 7, and it was on its way to deliver [[Cabral]] to his date with [[Jacinda]]. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

After learning that the Hermes was now the USS Anomaly and that the ship was heading to Breen for peace negotiations, Phul hired a holographic assassin to attempt to kill Reginald Bain. This failed, and [[Rosalyn Bain]] beat him up badly for trying it. Phul did not see his attacker, since she was cloaked at the time. (''[[Mrs. Bain, You're Needed]]'' [BG])

When [[Thot-Luss]] intended to take the [[Regularity]] to Earth and defect to the Federation, Phul had the XAXRDAARD pursue. He was pleased to learn that the Anomaly was also chasing the Regularity, and he planned to destroy both ships, avenging himself on Bain. He chased the Anomaly into DeanSpace. Unbeknownst to him, this was a trap, and the Anomaly was actually under the command of Commander [[Prosak]] when the two ships engaged in battle. Prosak beat Phul easily, destroying the XAXRDAARD. Phul and his crew were able to get to their escape pods and get out of DeanSpace. (''[[Every Space You Take]]'' [BG])

Following this defeat, Phul was given command of the Patroller DRAAT, a significant downgrade from his previous ship, and sent to patrol a vast area of nothing. Phul wanted revenge on Bain, though, and ordered the ship into Federation space. After learning about the [[Hermes 5]] debris on [[Carsullis]], he took the DRAAT there hoping to catch Bain. He was able to obtain the Hermes 5's backup computer core, which the Carsullans were worshipping as an Oracle, as well as Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] and [[Cole Anfibon]], who were both on Carsullis to get the core. The Anomaly arrived, again under the command of Prosak, and while Phul and Prosak exchanged demands and threats, Marsden and Anfibon were able to set off explosives, severely damaging the DRAAT, and escape. Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] finished the Breen ship off with a torpedo volley and beamed the Hermes 5 computer core back to the Anomaly. Phul and his crew abandoned ship before the DRAAT exploded. (''[[Scrap Metal Of The Gods]]'' [BG])

Phul was too humiliated to return to Breen space and went to drown his sorrows in a bar in the hinterlands away from the Breen or the Federation. He was beamed away from there by the members of [[FOBBER]], who recruited him to join their revenge plot against Bain. (''[[The Bain Of Our Existence]]'' [BG]) Said plan involved [[Cole Anfibon]], a clone of Bain that Dr. [[Lenik]] created and sent to get close to Lieutenant Marsden. While Anfibon was aboard the Anomaly, FOBBER set off an explosive on [[Dulcolax Three]] in the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone containing transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation. The Anomaly and a Romulan warhawk were both sent to investigate the source of the illegal weapon. Anfibon attempted to murder Marsden before transporting himself and Bain to [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]]'s freighter, where Lenik planned for the members of FOBBER to slowly torture Bain to death. Bain recognized Phul and, after hearing Phul's reason for wanting Bain dead, informed the Breen that it was actually Prosak who had destroyed both of his ships. Phul was ready to leave FOBBER at that point, but Lenik and Anfibon threatened to kill him if he tried. The Anomaly crew realized what was happening and de-escalated the situation with the Romulans. Prosak and Tovar then chased down the Pakleds' freighter in the [[USS Navigator]]. They rescued Bain as the members of FOBBER tried to flee. Phul was able to get the drop on Prosak, but Bain stopped him from killing her, saying that he'd been lying the whole time and that he'd been the one to destroy Phul's ships. Phul didn't know what to believe, but it soon didn't matter, since Prosak recovered and stunned him. Phul, [[Lorgander Delk]], and the Pakleds were taken into custody. Lenik and Anfibon were killed when the freighter exploded. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

After his release from Federation custody, Phul again tried to kill Bain, this time by posing as a waiter along with two other Breen at the [[Barnum Dax]] Day celebration. Bain defeated all three easily, and Phul was again taken into custody. All three were turned over to [[Grad-Norm]], who told Phul that he needed to be trained in the art of revenge. (''[[Just Desserts]]'' [BG])

Phul joined up with the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] (Quite literally in this case. Holo-Kirk downloaded himself into the Breen's brainstem) to get revenge on Bain. Operating in the same body, Phul and Holo-Kirk captured an away team from the Anomaly and then released the officers after Holo-Kirk uploaded his program in Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]'s quadcorder. Phul fled in a Yridian ship, while, back on the Anomaly, Holo-Kirk was uploaded into the ship's computer. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'' [BG])

Phul was demoted to Dobt and ended up working for Grad-Norm on the Breen homeworld. After the Anomaly was detected passing through Breen space using its [[anti-singularity drive]], Norm had Phul approach their prisoner [[Selex]] about a deal. In exchange for Selex's release so that he could work on a Romulan version of the anti-singularity drive, Karwrek and Selex would provide the schematics to the Breen. Over the following months, Phul convinced Admiral [[Karwrek]] to trade the design specifications for the Romulans’ anti-singularity drive to the Breen in exchange for Selex’s release. He oversaw the refit of twelve scythe ships and found soldiers patriotic enough to become Volunteers and have their brains removed from their bodies and encased in the drive control spheres in order make the engine function properly. Phul was restored in rank to Thot and led the twelve scythe ships to the [[Pharsalus Sector]], where they were to meet up with Selex on the [[Manamanat]] and ambush the Anomaly, thus allowing Phul to finally have his revenge on Bain. Things did not go according to plan, and Phul's ship was heavily-damaged by the Anomaly, forcing Phul and some of his officers to escape to the Manamanat. While Bain wiped out the rest of his fleet, Phul was confronted by Commander [[Vioxx]], whom Phul had no interest in fighting. A melee ensued regardless as the Anomaly approached. Phul tried to get the upper hand on Bain one last time by ordering an anti-sing burst to attack the Anomaly. Bain was expecting this, and the Anomaly damaged the Manamanat as soon as it arrived. Seeing no further point in fighting Vioxx or Bain, Phul surrendered and was taken into custody by security officers from the Anomaly. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Pharsalus Sector

2024-02-14T18:13:54Z

Cmdrajd: Created page with "The Pharsalus Sector was a region of space on the opposite side of the Romulan Empire from the United Federation of Planets. Since Pharsalus is empty, with not so much as an asteroid field or rogue planet anywhere to be found to use as cover, Selex and Thot-Phul chose it as the location for the Manamanat and the Breen fleet of anti-singularity drive ships to ambush Captain Reginald Bain and the USS Anomaly. (''Going, Going, Gone...'' [BG])"

The Pharsalus Sector was a region of space on the opposite side of the Romulan Empire from the United Federation of Planets. Since Pharsalus is empty, with not so much as an asteroid field or rogue planet anywhere to be found to use as cover, [[Selex]] and [[Thot-Phul]] chose it as the location for the [[Manamanat]] and the Breen fleet of [[anti-singularity drive]] ships to ambush Captain [[Reginald Bain]] and the [[USS Anomaly]]. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Kristen Larkin

2024-02-14T18:07:55Z

Cmdrajd:

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! colspan="2" style="background:LightSteelBlue;text-align: center;width:20em;font-size:10pt" | Kristen Larkin
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Species''' || Android
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Alignment''' || [[Starfleet]]
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| colspan="2" style="background:CadetBlue;text-align:center;font-size:9pt" | '''Appearances'''
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Features in''' || [[Star Traks: The Original Series|TRK]] (9), [[Star Traks: Waystation|WAY]] (1), [[Star Traks: The Vexed Generation|VEX]]
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| style="font-size:9pt" | '''First Appearance''' || [[Star Traks 1]]
|-
| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Last Appearance''' || [[Going, Going, Gone...]]
|-
| style="font-size:9pt" | '''Created by''' || [[Alan Decker]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="background:SteelBlue;text-align:center;font-size:9pt" | '''Career'''
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | Operations Officer
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[USS Secondprize]]
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Till''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[2374]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | Operations Officer
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | [[USS Aerostar]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''From''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | [[2374]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Till''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | [[2374]]
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | Operations Officer
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[USS Explorer]]
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''From''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[2374]]
|-
| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Till''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[2377]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | First Officer
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | [[USS Aerostar-A]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''From''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | [[2377]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Till''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | Unknown
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | Captain
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| style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:gainsboro;font-size:9pt" | [[USS Explorer-A]]
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Position''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | Admiral
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| style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | '''Assigned to''' || style="background:silver;font-size:9pt" | [[Explorer Project]]
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|}

Ops Chief and Third-in-Command of the Explorer, Kristen Larkin spent much of her carreer as helm officer aboard the [[USS Secondprize]]. A clumsily-assembled android with an uncertain past, Lt. Commander Larkin was fascinated with penguins and had a vast database capable of embarrassing her less knowledgeable superiors. She was transferred to the [[Aerostar]] in [[2374]]. On the Aerostar her truly distinctive act was becoming, for a short time, the god of a tribe of humanoid penguins. That didn't work out and she had to return to [[Aerostar]]. After serving for a year at ops officer of the [[Aerostar]], in the Delta Quadrant, she was made aware that [[Lt. Commander Chris Richards]] is her, well, "Mommie," and [[Chris Henricks]], through a diabolical brain-stealing scheme, was her "Daddie." She went on to serve on the Explorer, after Aerostar returned to the Alpha Quadrant and was destroyed, and served with distinction. Notably, Larkin was responsible for going back in time, thanks to a drunken Conway and [[Dr. Leonard McCoy]], and getting a good old fashioned rogering from a misled [[James T. Kirk]]. She has kept the sample to this day ("[[A Stitch in Time]]" [VEX]). When she presumably gave her life to stop Commander [[Ardek]] on Crysta and was re-built, Larkin went on to think of Richards as her father AND mother ("[[Birds of a Feather]]", "[[Starting from Scratch]]" [VEX]). She got to meet, and was sexually harassed by, [[Lt. Commander Data]] of the [[Enterprise]], in [[2376]] ("[[Generation Gap]]" [VEX]). Unbeknownst to her, the her that sacrificed herself to kill [[Ardek]] re-surfaced helping [[Ardek]] run a casino in Romulan Territory ("[[Double or Nothing]]" [VEX]) and then surfaced again after being abandoned by [[Ardek]] and after acquiring, certain emotions ("[[Positronically Yours]]" [VEX]). Larkin herself acquired emotions too, and to this day cries every time she sees an AT&T commercial.

By the 26th Century, Larkin achieved the rank of Admiral. She had a long friendship with Captain [[Reginald Bain]], which began when he was attending Starfleet Academy. Their relationship was sexual for a time, but that was before Bain met his wife, [[Rosalyn Bain|Rosalyn]]. Despite their friendship, Larkin knew that diplomacy was not Bain's strong suit. She was responsible for having the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] placed aboard the [[USS Anomaly]] before the ship traveled to to the [[Andromeda Galaxy]]. (''[[Do You Have Anything To Declare?]]'' [BG])

When the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk hologram]] escaped Section 31 custody, Admiral Larkin took command of the Anomaly with the intention of getting to the [[Mega-Sim]] before the Kirk hologram could. En route, the Kirk hologram used the Section 31 ship [[Sloan]] to attack the Anomaly and send a signal into the ship, that took over [[Steve!]] and used him attempt to kill the bridge crew. Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] was forced to use an electromagnetic pulse, which took out the bridge systems and Admiral Larkin, to shut down Steve! Larkin's nanoprocessors were severely damaged by this, and Kasyov and [[Cabral]] set about trying to fix her. Kasyov and Cabral did not get very far before needing to deal with the Sloan again and joining the away team down to the Mega-Sim. Larkin's systems repaired themselves, and she returned to the Anomaly's bridge just as the hologram threat was ending. The Anomaly then took her back to Earth. (''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part One]]'', ''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part Two]]'' [BG])

Larkin took command of the Anomaly and a Starfleet task force at the Romulan Neutral Zone when the Vulcans attempted to take over the Romulan Empire. During this crisis, a fleet of Romulan warhawks decloaked behind the Federation fleet and opened fire. Once Bain returned from a secret mission on Vulcan, Larkin handed command of the fleet over to him. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'', ''[[Behind The Curtain]]'' [BG])

After Bain was taken into custody by the Breen and put on trial, Larkin traveled to the Breen border to try to defuse the situation. After Bain vanished and the Breen declared war, Larkin ordered the Starfleet vessels gathered there to destroy the Breen ships, but Commander [[Vioxx]] asked her to hold fire and let him mediate as a neutral representative of the Romulan Star Empire, giving the Anomaly crew time to investigate. Unbeknownst to Larkin, Vioxx and his officers with the help of Kasyov and Cabral discovered that the Breen outpost Bain was accused of destroying was actually a weapons platform. They blackmailed [[Thot-Mutch]] into negotiating peace, and Larkin went to Breen to sign the formal peace accords. Bain returned to the Anomaly at this point and gave Larkin the Kirk hologram, which she then delivered to the Fleet Museum where it is displayed in an invulnerable transparent tube and resets every five seconds. (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

While Larkin was visiting the Bains at their home in England, Cabral and Kasyov stole the USS Anomaly and launched into [[anti-singularity drive|anti-sing]] before any Starfleet ships could intercept them. Larkin and several others in Starfleet suspected that Bain was involved in the theft, but the subsequent investigation did not prove anything. Bain and Larkin's friendship was unaffected by the incident, and, as she was for the Bains' children, Larkin was known as "Auntie Kris" by the Bains' grandchildren, including [[Tovar]] and [[Shelly Marsden]]'s son, [[Jarrett Bain]]. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Nortal

2024-02-14T16:52:34Z

Cmdrajd:

Centurion Nortal was the tactical officer of the Romulan scout ship [[Tyvek]]. She was the child of a Romulan senator, but this did not help get the Tyvek good assignments. While exploring the Delta Quadrant, the Tyvek was lost to the [[Lucinda]] entity, but Nortal and the other officers were able to escape to a nearby habitable planet. They were nearly eaten by a family of the planet's inhabitants but were rescued by the [[USS Anomaly]]. After the Anomaly dealt with Lucinda, Romulan High Command insisted that Nortal and the other Tyvek officers stay aboard, so the Romulans would be more involved in the Anomaly's day-to-day operations. Nortal served as one of the Anomaly's tac-ops officers. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

Nortal accompanied Captain [[Reginald Bain]], Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]], and Commander [[Prosak]] to Vulcan in the [[USS Navigator]] in an attempt to get to High Chancellor [[Sh’rak]]. Sh'rak knew they were coming, and the team only avoided being killed because of a timely intervention by [[Rosalyn Bain]]. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of Sh'rak's office. Outside, they were stopped by several armed Vulcans. Before they could call for beam out, they saw the Navigator crash into a mountain in the distance. They were rescued from capture by Sh'rak's guards by LOL, which beamed the away team, minus Prosak, up to their ship. While Bain returned to the Neutral Zone to take command of the Federation fleet, Nortal and Tovar remained behind with LOL to try to stop Sh'rak and rescue Prosak. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'', ''[[Behind The Curtain]]'' [BG])

While shopping at an open-air market on Romulus, Nortal with given what appeared to be a green gem by a mysterious man who told her that it was a gift in honor of her efforts to free Romulus from the Vulcans. In actuality, the gem contained a creature designed to rip through metal and remain invisible to sensors. It hatched and grew to three meters tall, at which point it viciously attacked Nortal. She survived and was beamed to sickbay by Dr. [[Fred Nooney]]. (''[[What A Ripper!]]'' [BG])

After [[Toflay]] threatened to smite her if she didn't get out of his kitchen, Nortal became interested in this particular past life of Tovar's, but he refused to summon Toflay for her. (''[[Living Off The Land]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly found itself inside a pocket universe containing the [[Multek Enclave]], Nortal, Remax, Vioxx and Lieutenant [[Bre'zan Brazzell]] took the [[Allegra]] to see if they could get help. They encountered the barrier at the edge of the pocket universe that severely damaged the Allegra when Nortal opened fire on it. They were able to make it to the nearby [[Edgeworld]], where they crashed. They went to the resort complex on Edgeworld looking for parts and also found a stasis tube containing a [[Dillon Consortium]] attorney named [[Tori Burke]], who had been left there twenty years ago to supervise renovations that never ended up happening. While Nortal repeated stunned Burke, Remax and the others looted the complex and got the Allegra back into space, at which point they restored contact with the Anomaly. Captain Bain ordered them to try to stop a massive robot that had formed from the structures on [[Bradley Dillon]]'s CasinoWorld as part of the Dillon Consortium's plan to take over the Multek Enclave. The Allegra was outmatched, but they were able to sever the robot's head from its body. Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Tori Burke beamed onto the robot. Once there, Remax realized that, since the robot was formed from a casino, it would shut down to protect the Consortium's profits if it started losing too many credits. He rigged a couple slot machines, and he and Nortal were able to win enough for the robot's shutdown program to engage. Later, he and Nortal went to spend their winnings on [[Waystation Prime]]. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

Nortal went to the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant on [[Nelephron]] with Bain, Vioxx, and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] for what was supposed to be an official meeting but was actually a Dillon Consortium trap. Tori Burke, who was now the Consortium's CEO, and several of her guards arrived, and she revealed her intention to brainwash Marsden into helping the Consortium reverse engineer the [[anti-singularity drive]] while the rest of the crew were killed (after a long period of torture in Nortal's case). Nortal attacked Burke, her, and the room was quickly engulfed in a firefight as Burke threw her off and retreated to a booth. Nortal and Bain focused on stunning the guards, then Nortal shredded the pants of the CEO suit that was partially controlling Burke while Bain destroyed the suitcoat. Burke was taken into custody, and the group returned to the Anomaly, which had also escaped a trap set for it. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

When Nortal and the other Romulan officers on the Anomaly were recalled to the Empire, she was sad to leave Toflay and, after hugging Tovar at the going away party, asked him to tell Toflay that she would see them in their next lives. Later, while imprisoned on the [[Manamanat]], Nortal and Vioxx used replicated utensils to take on [[Thot-Phul]] and the Breen that had taken over the vessel. After defeating a Breen security detail, they went to the Manamanat's bridge where Nortal grappled with multiple officer as Vioxx fought Phul. Nortal was victorious, and the Anomaly arrived to take custody of the Breen. Following these events, Nortal returned to the Empire with Commander Vioxx and the others, and she continued to serve as the tac-ops officer on Vioxx's new command, another scout ship. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

{{AnomalyCrew}}

Remax

2024-02-14T16:46:37Z

Cmdrajd:

Sub-Commander Remax was the science officer of the Romulan scout ship [[Tyvek]]. While exploring the Delta Quadrant, the Tyvek was lost to the [[Lucinda]] entity, but Remax and the other officers were able to escape to a nearby habitable planet. They were nearly eaten by a family of the planet's inhabitants, one of which ripped off Remax's left arm, but they were rescued by the [[USS Anomaly]]. Dr. [[Fred Nooney]] created a new synthetic arm for Remax. After the Anomaly dealt with Lucinda, Romulan High Command insisted that Remax and the other Tyvek officers stay aboard, so the Romulans would be more involved in the Anomaly's day-to-day operations. Remax served as one of the Anomaly's science officers. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

During the battle at the Neutral Zone against the combined Vulcan and Romulan fleets, Commander [[Vioxx]] led Remax and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] in stealing the Raceabout [[USS Silverwood]] to get aboard a Romulan warhawk. Once aboard, they incapacitated the crew, and Remax was able to determine that the Romulans aboard had been victims of mind melds. Vioxx took command of the warhawk and used it to help the Federation fleet in battle. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

After hostilities with the Vulcans ended, Engineer [[Selex]] approached Vioxx with the idea that Commander [[Prosak]] had to be killed due to her [[RommaVulc]] allegiance. It was Vioxx's duty to kill her, since he was the ranking Romulan officer. Vioxx at first dismissed the idea, but after Sub-Commander Remax explained how it could possibly lead to all of them being sent back to the Empire and Vioxx receiving command of a warhawk, Vioxx said he would consider it. (''[[Hard Sell]]'' [BG])

Remax and Selex decided to take matters into their own hands and kill Prosak when it became apparent that Vioxx had no intention of following through. They attempted to booby-trap Prosak's quarters but were stopped by Vioxx, who said that Prosak was not to be killed. Remax considered that to be the end of it and unhappily followed Vioxx's order to clean Prosak's quarters. Selex, however, did not agree and later kicked Prosak down a Jefferies tube that sent her plummeting 25 decks. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'' [BG]).

In order to prevent a war with between the Federation and the Breen, Remax worked with Centurion [[Nortal]], Zantak, Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] and [[Cabral]] to falsify evidence showing that the Breen destroyed their own outpost. Instead they found that the sensor readings of the incident were already fake, since the Breen outpost that the Anomaly destroyed while under the control of the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk hologram]] was actually a weapons platform. They blackmailed [[Thot-Mutch]] into negotiating peace with Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]], sending three crates of Breen lingerie aboard, and taking his helmet off for Remax and Vioxx. Remax later helped Selex, who was in the Anomaly's brig for attempting to kill Prosak, escape the ship and beam down to the Breen homeworld to request asylum (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

After the Anomaly found itself inside a pocket universe containing the [[Multek Enclave]], Remax, Vioxx and others from the ship took the Allegra to see if they could get help. They encountered the barrier at the edge of the pocket universe that severely damaged the Allegra when Centurion Nortal opened fire on it. They were able to make it to the nearby [[Edgeworld]], where they crashed. They went to the resort complex on Edgeworld looking for parts and also found a stasis tube containing a [[Dillon Consortium]] attorney named [[Tori Burke]], who had been left there twenty years ago to supervise renovations that never ended up happening. Over Burke's objections, Remax and the others looted the complex and got the Allegra back into space, at which point they restored contact with the Anomaly. Captain Bain ordered them to try to stop a massive robot that had formed from the structures on [[Bradley Dillon]]'s CasinoWorld as part of the Dillon Consortium's plan to take over the Multek Enclave. The Allegra was outmatched, but they were able to sever the robot's head from its body. Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Tori Burke beamed onto the robot. Once there, Remax realized that, since the robot was formed from a casino, it would shut down to protect the Consortium's profits if it started losing too many credits. He rigged a couple slot machines, and he and Nortal were able to win enough for the robot's shutdown program to engage. Later, he and Nortal went to spend their winnings on [[Waystation Prime]]. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

While imprisoned on the [[Manamanat]] Remax joined Prosak and Zantak's mind meld to enter Selex's mind and help keep the ship from exploding. While joined with Selex, who was directly connected to the Manamanat, Remax was able to follow Vioxx and Nortal's movements and help them deal with [[Thot-Phul]] and the Breen that had taken over the vessel. Following these events, Remax returned to the Empire with Commander Vioxx and the others, and he continued to serve as the science officer on Vioxx's new command, another scout ship. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Remax is older than all of his shipmates and prefers the way things used to be when Romulans were treacherous and deceitful. He had his own daughter executed after she joined a revolutionary group, saying that it was a tough execution to watch.

{{AnomalyCrew}}

Remax

2024-02-14T16:45:54Z

Cmdrajd:

Sub-Commander Remax was the science officer of the Romulan scout ship [[Tyvek]]. While exploring the Delta Quadrant, the Tyvek was lost to the [[Lucinda]] entity, but Remax and the other officers were able to escape to a nearby habitable planet. They were nearly eaten by a family of the planet's inhabitants, one of which ripped off Remax's left arm, but they were rescued by the [[USS Anomaly]]. Dr. [[Fred Nooney]] created a new synthetic arm for Remax. After the Anomaly dealt with Lucinda, Romulan High Command insisted that Remax and the other Tyvek officers stay aboard, so the Romulans would be more involved in the Anomaly's day-to-day operations. Remax served as one of the Anomaly's science officers. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

During the battle at the Neutral Zone against the combined Vulcan and Romulan fleets, Commander [[Vioxx]] led Remax and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] in stealing the Raceabout [[USS Silverwood]] to get aboard a Romulan warhawk. Once aboard, they incapacitated the crew, and Remax was able to determine that the Romulans aboard had been victims of mind melds. Vioxx took command of the warhawk and used it to help the Federation fleet in battle. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

After hostilities with the Vulcans ended, Engineer [[Selex]] approached Vioxx with the idea that Commander [[Prosak]] had to be killed due to her [[RommaVulc]] allegiance. It was Vioxx's duty to kill her, since he was the ranking Romulan officer. Vioxx at first dismissed the idea, but after Sub-Commander Remax explained how it could possibly lead to all of them being sent back to the Empire and Vioxx receiving command of a warhawk, Vioxx said he would consider it. (''[[Hard Sell]]'' [BG])

Remax and Selex decided to take matters into their own hands and kill Prosak when it became apparent that Vioxx had no intention of following through. They attempted to booby-trap Prosak's quarters but were stopped by Vioxx, who said that Prosak was not to be killed. Remax considered that to be the end of it and unhappily followed Vioxx's order to clean Prosak's quarters. Selex, however, did not agree and later kicked Prosak down a Jefferies tube that sent her plummeting 25 decks. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'' [BG]).

In order to prevent a war with between the Federation and the Breen, Remax worked with [[Nortal]], Zantak, Kasyov and Cabral to falsify evidence showing that the Breen destroyed their own outpost. Instead they found that the sensor readings of the incident were already fake, since the Breen outpost that the Anomaly destroyed while under the control of the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk hologram]] was actually a weapons platform. They blackmailed [[Thot-Mutch]] into negotiating peace with Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]], sending three crates of Breen lingerie aboard, and taking his helmet off for Remax and Vioxx. Remax later helped Selex, who was in the Anomaly's brig for attempting to kill Prosak, escape the ship and beam down to the Breen homeworld to request asylum (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

After the Anomaly found itself inside a pocket universe containing the [[Multek Enclave]], Remax, Vioxx and others from the ship took the Allegra to see if they could get help. They encountered the barrier at the edge of the pocket universe that severely damaged the Allegra when Centurion Nortal opened fire on it. They were able to make it to the nearby [[Edgeworld]], where they crashed. They went to the resort complex on Edgeworld looking for parts and also found a stasis tube containing a [[Dillon Consortium]] attorney named [[Tori Burke]], who had been left there twenty years ago to supervise renovations that never ended up happening. Over Burke's objections, Remax and the others looted the complex and got the Allegra back into space, at which point they restored contact with the Anomaly. Captain Bain ordered them to try to stop a massive robot that had formed from the structures on [[Bradley Dillon]]'s CasinoWorld as part of the Dillon Consortium's plan to take over the Multek Enclave. The Allegra was outmatched, but they were able to sever the robot's head from its body. Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Tori Burke beamed onto the robot. Once there, Remax realized that, since the robot was formed from a casino, it would shut down to protect the Consortium's profits if it started losing too many credits. He rigged a couple slot machines, and he and Nortal were able to win enough for the robot's shutdown program to engage. Later, he and Nortal went to spend their winnings on [[Waystation Prime]]. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

While imprisoned on the [[Manamanat]] Remax joined Prosak and Zantak's mind meld to enter Selex's mind and help keep the ship from exploding. While joined with Selex, who was directly connected to the Manamanat, Remax was able to follow Vioxx and Nortal's movements and help them deal with [[Thot-Phul]] and the Breen that had taken over the vessel. Following these events, Remax returned to the Empire with Commander Vioxx and the others, and he continued to serve as the science officer on Vioxx's new command, another scout ship. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Remax is older than all of his shipmates and prefers the way things used to be when Romulans were treacherous and deceitful. He had his own daughter executed after she joined a revolutionary group, saying that it was a tough execution to watch.

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Remax

2024-02-14T16:44:40Z

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Sub-Commander Remax was the science officer of the Romulan scout ship [[Tyvek]]. While exploring the Delta Quadrant, the Tyvek was lost to the [[Lucinda]] entity, but Remax and the other officers were able to escape to a nearby habitable planet. They were nearly eaten by a family of the planet's inhabitants, one of which ripped off Remax's left arm, but they were rescued by the [[USS Anomaly]]. Dr. [[Fred Nooney]] created a new synthetic arm for Remax. After the Anomaly dealt with Lucinda, Romulan High Command insisted that Remax and the other Tyvek officers stay aboard, so the Romulans would be more involved in the Anomaly's day-to-day operations. Remax served as one of the Anomaly's science officers. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

During the battle at the Neutral Zone against the combined Vulcan and Romulan fleets, Commander [[Vioxx]] led Remax and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] in stealing the Raceabout [[USS Silverwood]] to get aboard a Romulan warhawk. Once aboard, they incapacitated the crew, and Remax was able to determine that the Romulans aboard had been victims of mind melds. Vioxx took command of the warhawk and used it to help the Federation fleet in battle. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

After hostilities with the Vulcans ended, Engineer [[Selex]] approached Vioxx with the idea that Commander [[Prosak]] had to be killed due to her [[RommaVulc]] allegiance. It was Vioxx's duty to kill her, since he was the ranking Romulan officer. Vioxx at first dismissed the idea, but after Sub-Commander Remax explained how it could possibly lead to all of them being sent back to the Empire and Vioxx receiving command of a warhawk, Vioxx said he would consider it. (''[[Hard Sell]]'' [BG])

Remax and Selex decided to take matters into their own hands and kill Prosak when it became apparent that Vioxx had no intention of following through. They attempted to booby-trap Prosak's quarters but were stopped by Vioxx, who said that Prosak was not to be killed. Remax considered that to be the end of it and unhappily followed Vioxx's order to clean Prosak's quarters. Selex, however, did not agree and later kicked Prosak down a Jefferies tube that sent her plummeting 25 decks. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'' [BG]).

In order to prevent a war with between the Federation and the Breen, Remax worked with Nortal, Zantak, Kasyov and Cabral to falsify evidence showing that the Breen destroyed their own outpost. Instead they found that the sensor readings of the incident were already fake, since the Breen outpost that the Anomaly destroyed while under the control of the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk hologram]] was actually a weapons platform. They blackmailed [[Thot-Mutch]] into negotiating peace with Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]], sending three crates of Breen lingerie aboard, and taking his helmet off for Remax and Vioxx. Remax later helped Selex, who was in the Anomaly's brig for attempting to kill Prosak, escape the ship and beam down to the Breen homeworld to request asylum (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

After the Anomaly found itself inside a pocket universe containing the [[Multek Enclave]], Remax, Vioxx and others from the ship took the Allegra to see if they could get help. They encountered the barrier at the edge of the pocket universe that severely damaged the Allegra when Centurion Nortal opened fire on it. They were able to make it to the nearby [[Edgeworld]], where they crashed. They went to the resort complex on Edgeworld looking for parts and also found a stasis tube containing a [[Dillon Consortium]] attorney named [[Tori Burke]], who had been left there twenty years ago to supervise renovations that never ended up happening. Over Burke's objections, Remax and the others looted the complex and got the Allegra back into space, at which point they restored contact with the Anomaly. Captain Bain ordered them to try to stop a massive robot that had formed from the structures on [[Bradley Dillon]]'s CasinoWorld as part of the Dillon Consortium's plan to take over the Multek Enclave. The Allegra was outmatched, but they were able to sever the robot's head from its body. Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Tori Burke beamed onto the robot. Once there, Remax realized that, since the robot was formed from a casino, it would shut down to protect the Consortium's profits if it started losing too many credits. He rigged a couple slot machines, and he and Nortal were able to win enough for the robot's shutdown program to engage. Later, he and Nortal went to spend their winnings on [[Waystation Prime]]. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

While imprisoned on the [[Manamanat]] Remax joined Prosak and Zantak's mind meld to enter Selex's mind and help keep the ship from exploding. While joined with Selex, who was directly connected to the Manamanat, Remax was able to follow Vioxx and Nortal's movements and help them deal with [[Thot-Phul]] and the Breen that had taken over the vessel. Following these events, Remax returned to the Empire with Commander Vioxx and the others, and he continued to serve as the science officer on Vioxx's new command, another scout ship. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Remax is older than all of his shipmates and prefers the way things used to be when Romulans were treacherous and deceitful. He had his own daughter executed after she joined a revolutionary group, saying that it was a tough execution to watch.

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Zantak

2024-02-14T16:00:51Z

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Sub-Lieutenant Zantak was the helm officer of the Romulan scout ship [[Tyvek]]. While exploring the Delta Quadrant, the Tyvek was lost to the [[Lucinda]] entity, and during the entity's attack on the ship, Zantak was badly injured by one of the energy beings Lucinda sent aboard. Zantak and the other officers were able to escape to a nearby habitable planet. There they were nearly eaten by a family of the planet's inhabitants but were rescued by the [[USS Anomaly]]. After the Anomaly dealt with Lucinda, Romulan High Command insisted that Zantak and the other Tyvek officers stay aboard, so the Romulans would be more involved in the Anomaly's day-to-day operations. Zantak served as one of the Anomaly's helm officers. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

Zantak decided to follow the [[RommaVulc]] philosophy, a fact that she did not reveal until her mind meld skills were needed aboard the [[Manamanat]]. She kept it a secret because she did not want the attention from Commander [[Prosak]] that she knew it would bring and also because other Romulans could be quite mean to RommaVulcs. She did, however, assist with the meld, which allowed her, Prosak, and Sub-Commander Remax to enter [[Selex]]'s mind and help keep the ship from exploding. While joined with Selex, who was directly connected to the Manamanat, she acted as the ship's computer and frustrated the Breen's attempts to use the ship once they boarded and took it over. Following these events, Zantak returned to the Empire with Commander [[Vioxx]] and the others, and she continued to serve as the helm officer on Vioxx's new command, another scout ship. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Zantak was generally quiet, only speaking as few words as possible when she had to.

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Prosak

2024-02-14T15:55:29Z

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Prosak was a Romulan and served as first officer then second officer of the [[USS Anomaly]]. She was the daughter of [[Rorshak]], the Romulan ambassador to the Federation, who called her Boogles and has an uncle named Hurlok. Prosak had a keen interest in theater. She was also a [[RommaVulc]], which was looked down upon by most other Romulans.

Prosak served on the USS Encino under Captain Rochelle Lockheed. While battling the Breen, the Encino was saved from destruction by the arrival of the [[USS Maladventure]] under the command of [[Reginald Bain]].

When the Hermes-7 prototype was commandeered by [[Cabral]], she was sent on the mission to intercept it, since the ship contained Romulan technology and she was the only Romulan serving in Starfleet at the time. Once that situation was resolved, Prosak remained on board as first officer serving under Captain Reginald Bain. At this point she was 44 years old. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG]) Prosak was the first member of the command crew to experience one of the overly-thorough exams conducted by Dr. [[Fred Nooney]]. (''[[One Track Mind]]'' [BG])

Prosak accompanied Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] to [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] to obtain parts and dilithium crystals for the damaged Anomaly, narrowly avoiding being killed by a particularly nasty clerk droid in the parts bay. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG])

After some time in Andromeda, Prosak believed that the crew should find a place to settle down and integrate with Andromedan society rather than wage a hopeless battle against the [[Associates]]. When the Anomaly and its crew were taken into protective care by the [[Nabusari]], an older race that considered Bain too young to be running a starship and quite irresponsible to have taken a bunch of children out into space, Prosak was happy to stay in their care and actively tried to prevent Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] and Lieutenant [[Polnuc]] from escaping the day care where they'd been taken. (''[[Respect Your Elders]]'' [BG])

Bain left Prosak in command when he took the [[USS Navigator]] to go rescue [[Balpar]] and [[Loborus]] from the Associates. After learning from Ensign [[Yonk]] that most of the crew agreed with her that they should find a place to settle down, Prosak activated the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram]] with the goal of having it help the crew find a friendly species and negotiate safe harbor for them. Instead, it knocked Prosak out, took control of the Anomaly, and went to attack the nearest Associates base. Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] was able to deactivate the hologram. Bain removed Prosak from duty for disobeying his orders. (''[[Transparent Motives]]'' [BG])

As the Anomaly was dealing with a massive Associates space station where [[Cabral]] was being held, Prosak realized that the Associates ship the Anomaly had been given to make up for the destruction of the [[USS Caspian]] might be helpful. She told Marsden, who Bain had left in command while he was off trying to rescue Cabral. Marsden agreed and put Prosak in command while she went off to check the Associates ship. Prosak kept the ship intact, avoiding fire from the station and destruction at the hands of several Associates ships. For her actions, she was reinstated by Bain. (''[[Disassociation]]'' [BG])

When Tovar's past lives took control of him and the Anomaly upon the ship's return to the Milky Way galaxy, Prosak forcefully mind melded with him, which allowed Bain to regain control of the Anomaly and subdue Tovar. She accompanied Bain and Tovar to [[Yyns]] to see the Polems at the [[Temple Of Mi Clane]], who determined that Tovar had an [[Interloper]], which they would remove and destroy with the [[Holnym]] ritual. Tovar convinced Bain to help the Interloper instead, and, leaving Yyns and avoiding capture by a Yynsian fleet. Prosak stayed in command of the Anomaly and helped draw the Yynsian ships away as Bain took Tovar to the Interloper's desired destination, the Ba'ku homeworld. (''[[Mind If I Play Through?]]'', ''[[Aren't You Dead?]]'' [BG])

Prosak joined the trip to the [[Nuq'neh Corral]] dude ranch on Qo'nos organized by Dr. Nooney. While there, she encountered [[Krard]], who asked her to teach him Vulcan ways. When he was disappointed in her logic, he decided to contact the Vulcans ask request that they unify with the Klingons, a request that they accepted. Prosak also ran afoul of [[Chynok]], who warned her to leave Qo'nos. Prosak attempted to debate her about the logic of rejecting off-worlders, but Chynok refused to participate. Prosak instead resorted to challenging Chynok to honorable combat. She was outmatched with the [[lop'leth]] blades Chynok provided, but, thanks to a tip [[Gworos]] gave her, Prosak was able to send the much larger Klingon into a fit of giggles by tickling her behind her elbow. She ended up falling onto Prosak, knocking the Romulan unconscious. She awoke on a Vulcan ship, where [[Sh’rak]] informed her that the Vulcans were taking control of the remnants of the Klingon Empire. Dejected but with a full refund, Prosak returned to the Anomaly, where she and Bain spoke about their concerns that the Vulcan seemed to be building their own empire. (''[[Wagon Train To Qo'nos]]'' [BG])

She has portraits of Spock and Drar the Fearsome (A Klingon who was Intergalactic Wrestling Champion from 2457 to 2459) displayed in her quarters. (''[[Diplomatic Immunity]]'' [BG])

At the urging of [[Tovar]], who was being pushed to do it by [[Rosalyn Bain]], Prosak was sent to Vulcan to learn more about the motives of the Vulcan Alliance. She posed as a reporter to interview Sh'rak, but he recognized her and used a forced mind meld to brainwash her into assassinating the new Romulan Praetor as part of a plot to break up the Romulan/Federation alliance. Rosalyn stopped her, and, in the ensuing fight, knocked Prosak unconscious. After Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] and Nooney helped her recover, Bain and Tovar took her to dinner at the Bain family home in England. Despite not remembering that she fought Rosalyn, upon seeing her again, Prosak fled in a panic. (''[[Breaking In Is Hard To Do]]'' [BG])

As part of [[FOBBER]]'s revenge plan against Bain, [[Cole Anfibon]] planted a neural interference generator in Prosak's quarters (formerly Bain's ready room), incapacitating her with debilitating headaches just as the Anomaly was facing a tense situation with the Romulans. While Prosak was out of action, Anfibon stabbed Marsden, knocked out Bain, and escaped with the unconscious captain to FOBBER's ship. Once the neural generator was found and destroyed, Prosak was able to resolve the situation with the Romulans and then left Ensign [[Hector Arroyo]] in command of the Anomaly while she, Tovar, and Marsden took the USS Navigator to chase FOBBER's ship. They quickly caught and disabled the freighter and beamed aboard to rescue Bain. During this, [[Thot-Phul]] attempted to kill her after learning that Prosak was actually the one who had destroyed two of his ships. Bain distracted Phul long enough for Prosak to stun the Breen. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

Prosak was able to stop Lieutenant [[Polnuc]], when he took over the ship's [[anti-singularity drive]] and sent the Anomaly careening through multiple dimensions. Soon after that, she was commed by her father. During this conversation, Rorshak did not inform Prosak of the danger that the Anomaly would be facing when the ship was sent to rescue the command officers of the [[Tyvek]]. Prosak was nearly killed in a raceabout explosion and then possessed by the [[Lucinda]] entity. She later confronted her father about this over a comm, but he insisted that his duty to the Praetor came first. After the Lucinda incident, the Romulan High Command wanted to be more involved in the day-to-day operation of the Anomaly. As part of this, Commander [[Vioxx]] was made first officer, and Prosak was demoted to executive officer. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

After her demotion, Prosak found herself with more free time and decided to pursue dating. She caught Tovar by surprise with a kiss when they were representing Starfleet at a high school career night believing that she would be a better match for him than Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]]. Tovar pulled her aside to talk about the kiss, but they were overheard by Marsden, whom Tovar had also kissed during the Lucinda incident. This revelation resulted in a argument between the three of them right in the middle of the gym holding the career night. Both Prosak and Marsden stormed away from Tovar, with Prosak saying that he was not the man she thought he was. While the verbal pummeling was not fun for Tovar, it did get a lot of students interested in checking out the Starfleet table. (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Prosak was contacted by [[Vorak]], the governor of the Romulan Colony of [[Reno]] and her ex sharal (boyfriend). He was excitable by nature, and summoned Prosak to Reno because he was panicked that the Vulcans were in the process of taking over the Romulan empire. He had no evidence, though, so Prosak left. After learning of a [[RommaVulc]] conference to be held on Reno, which Vorak had not mentioned, Prosak returned in the [[USS Navigator]] only to be confronted by two warkhawks. Vorak, now acting unusually calm, told Prosak to leave Romulan space or the Navigator would be destroyed. With no other options, Prosak ordered the Navigator to leave Reno. (''[[Rumor Control]]'' [BG])

She was forced to move her quarters out of the ready room and down to deck five when Vioxx took the ready room as his office. (''[[God Complex]]'' [BG])

Prosak was able to smuggle her father and several Romulan senators out of Romulan space after the Vulcans blockaded the Empire by having them pose as a theater troupe. The Vulcans believed the gambit; although, they hated the show Prosak and company put on. Throughout this, Prosak remained mad at Rorshak for not warning her about the danger Lucinda posed. Back on the Anomaly, she channeled her anger at that and her demotion into a sexual encounter with the just-dumped Tovar. (''[[Once More, With Feelings]]'' [BG])

While on a mission to tap into the Romulan sensor network so Starfleet could monitor Vulcan ship movements, Prosak and Marsden cleared the air about Tovar, with Prosak telling Marsden that their encounter was strictly recreational and that she had no desire for a relationship with him. (''[[Uncomfortably Close]]'' [BG])

Prosak accompanied Bain, Tovar, and Centurion [[Nortal]] to Vulcan in the [[USS Navigator]] in an attempt to get to High Chancellor Sh'rak. Sh'rak knew they were coming, and the team only avoided being killed because of a timely intervention by Rosalyn Bain. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of Sh'rak's office. Outside, they were stopped by several armed Vulcans. Before they could call for beam out, they saw the Navigator crash into a mountain in the distance. Prosak's mother, [[Eudora]] saved Prosak from being captured by Sh’rak's guards and melded with her to make sure that Prosak had not been brainwashed by Sh'rak. Eudora then arranged for them to be captured and taken to Sh'rak, at which time she revealed that Sh'rak was actually a Romulan pretending to be a Vulcan. Sh'rak ordered them taken to a cell, and, as they were being taken away, Prosak recognized him as [[Harvak]]. Sh'rak later ordered their executions, but Prosak asked him for a dinner date in order to stall for time to be rescued. Tovar and Nortal did arrive, but Sh'rak took them all captive and grabbed Prosak into a mind meld in which he forced her to do whatever he wanted. The members of [[LOL]] stormed the governmental complex, giving Tovar and Eudora a chance to enter the meld. Sh'rak was overpowered by their combined minds, as well as those of Tovar's past lives. With Sh'rak deposed, Prosak was offered an embassy position by the Vulcans, but she turned it down to stay on the Anomaly and instead had the job offered to Eudora. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'', ''[[Behind The Curtain]]'', ''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

She encountered Chynok again when she, Commander Vioxx and his officers, and Lieutenant Shelly Marsden traveled to a Romulan facility in the Yatooi Sector to get the scout ship [[Allegra]], which was being given to the Anomaly to replace the destroyed [[USS Navigator]]. While they were there, Vice Admiral [[Negrek]] tasked the Anomaly officers with retrieving the Warhawk [[Zocor]], which had been stolen by a group of Klingons led by Chynok. Chynok, Krard, and Bonjar beamed aboard the Allegra while most of the Anomaly officers were off the ship. Chynok attacked Prosak, determined to avenge her defeat at Prosak's hands at the dude ranch. While they fought, Commander [[Vioxx]] and several others from the Anomaly took over the warhawk, disabled the Allegra, and took Krard and the other Klingons into custody. (''[[A Hawk In Hand]]'' [BG])

Engineer [[Selex]] plotted to kill Prosak because he felt that her RommaVulc beliefs and position in Starfleet made her disloyal to the Empire. While he almost convinced Commander [[Vioxx]] to kill her in hopes that this would allow the Romulan officers to return the Empire as heroes and get a warhawk of their own, Selex, along with Sub-Commander [[Remax]], finally realized that Vioxx was not going to act and that they would have to kill her themselves. They attempted to booby-trap Prosak's quarters but were stopped by Vioxx, who said that Prosak was not to be killed. Remax considered that to be the end of it and unhappily followed Vioxx's order to clean Prosak's quarters. Selex, however, did not agree and later kicked Prosak down a Jefferies tube that sent her plummeting 25 decks. She was saved by Kasyov, who had joined with the ship's computer and adjusted the gravity in the tube to prevent Prosak from falling to her death. Selex was arrested, and Prosak turned her attention to rescuing Captain Bain, who was to be put on trial by the Breen. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Bain was rescued by Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden, who beamed him aboard the Allegra. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by Holo-Kirk. Prosak regained consciousness along with Tovar and Marsden inside a cargo container that Holo-Kirk ejected into space. They were soon picked up by [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]], who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, with Rosalyn Bain's help, caught up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. Prosak learned about Rosalyn's Section 31 affiliation at this time. Back on the Anomaly, Prosak was on the bridge when Selex escaped the ship and beamed down to the Breen homeworld. She agreed with Vioxx that, since Selex had done so of his own volition and requested asylum, they didn't need to try to get him back or tell Bain about it (''[[Hollow Threats]]'', ''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

While the Anomaly was back in time to prevent Romulus from being destroyed by the Hobus ultranova, Prosak had a brief encounter with her idol Spock. She was pretending to be a Vulcan at the time and was able to get through the conversation without losing her composure too badly. She did, however, ask Spock for his autograph, which he gave her after receiving her assurance that she would not try to sell it. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

During a long layover at [[Waystation Prime]] while the Anomaly was undergoing repairs, Prosak met [[Snotch]], a Vulcan who took an interest in her, much to her delight. While on a dinner date with Snotch, they were kidnapped by the [[Dillon Consortium]] and locked in a room on a hidden level of the station with several other officers from the Anomaly. A Waystation Prime security team was able to rescue Prosak and the others, and she told Snotch that she thought it was logical for them to continue their dinner date. (''[[Legend of the Bain]]'' [BG])

After Prosak informed Snotch that the [[USS Anomaly]] would be leaving rather abruptly, Snotch asked to join her on board, much to her excitement. Prosak informed Bain that Snotch had asked to join them, which raised Bain's suspicions. He asked Tovar to give Snotch the VIP treatment, which was code for heavy surveillance. Throughout the voyage, any attempt to gather information for the Dillon Consortium that Snotch made was thwarted, and he kept having to dodge Prosak by having her meditate or read obscure Vulcan philosophers. After she kissed him, Snotch decided that he'd had enough and stayed in his quarters until the Anomaly could drop him off at [[Matria Prime]]. Prosak was crushed by the rejection and commed her father sobbing. After this, she asked Bain for to relieve her of her duties for a while, so she could think and reconsider her life choices. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

She spent days in her quarters after this, and, when Dr. [[Fred Nooney]] took it upon himself to help her (Really, he was manipulated into it by Sub-Commander Remax.). He took Prosak into a holodeck simulation of the [[Wave of Relaxation]] cruise ship on Pacifica, where [[Chynok]] now worked. Nooney had convinced Rorshak to have Chynok released from a Romulan prison, and the Klingon, having reconsidered what she wanted from life, decided that she wanted to have fun in a beautiful place. Nooney hoped this would help Prosak realize that she too needed to figure out what she really wanted. Instead, much to Nooney's horror, she started slaughtering the passengers and crew, starting with Chynok. Prosak's rampage only ended when the bridge cut power to the holodeck. After this, Nooney told Prosak that she had to work through finding out what she wanted. Later, Bain apologized to her for not telling her that Snotch was working for the Dillon Consortium. Prosak said that she liked the idea of Snotch, namely a Vulcan that appreciated her, more than Snotch himself. She needed to figure things out, but she decided that she would return to duty while she did so. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

On the recommendation of Kasyov and Marsden, Prosak tried seeing several counselors from history and fiction in her holopod, hoping for some guidance on what she should do with her life. She finally concluded that she should go full Romulan and drastically changed her appearance, now opting for spiked up hair, tattoos, metallic clothes, and knee-high boots. (''[[Born to Rom]]'' [BG])

Over the next several months, Prosak backed off from the more extreme expressions of her Romulan identity but was no closer to figuring out what she wanted to do with her life. She knew that she didn't want to command a starship, so that was something. After Selex was freed by the Breen and helped the Romulans build the [[Manamanat]], he made another attempt at killing Prosak, this time he planned on destroying her and the Anomaly while holding Bain for the Breen, who were sending a fleet of their own. Prosak went to Rosalyn Bain for help, and Rosalyn gave her a holo-imager that allowed her to pretend to be Bain and beam over to the Manamanat in his place. Once there, she mind melded with Selex and discovered how much trouble he was having maintaining the Manamanat's [[anti-singularity drive]]. She then convinced Remax and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] to join her in a meld to assist Selex in keeping the ship from exploding. Once the Anomaly dealt with the Breen, Prosak tried to reason with a despondent Selex, then, when she realized Selex planned to push the ship to its limits and kill everyone aboard, she warned Bain in time for him to beam everyone but her and Selex away, since she was still trapped in the mind meld with him. The Anomaly caught up with the Manamanat, and Prosak was able to break out of the mind meld in time for Rosalyn to beam her to safety before the ship exploded, killing Selex. On the journey back to Earth, Prosak returned to her quarters one evening to find Section 31 Section Chief [[Oscar Gunton]] waiting for her. He told Prosak that Rosalyn had recommended her as a potential Section 31 agent, and he wanted to know if she was interested. She was and went on to join them. In later years, whenever she saw Tovar and Marsden, they felt that she seemed happy. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Star Traks: Boldly Gone

2024-02-14T15:43:56Z

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==Author==
[[Alan Decker]]

[[Anthony Butler]]

==Series Synopsis==
Star Traks: Boldly Gone... is the story of the [[USS Anomaly]] and her crew in the early 26th Century, 120 years after the current Star Traks universe. The Anomaly is a barely tested hybrid of Romulan technology piloted by a somewhat unbalanced living brain, crewed by a somewhat unbalanced crew. Equipped with state-of-the-not-yet-quite-tested "anti-singularity" engines, the Anomaly is rigged for speed and not too shabby in the weapons department either. With enemies like the Breen prowling around and Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] looking over their shoulder, the Anomaly crew has their work cut out for them.

The past is past...and this crew is BOLDLY GONE...

In the 26th Century of Star Traks: Boldly Gone, the Federation and Romulans are allies, the Klingons have been reduced to Third World (or Third Civilization really) status, the Orions are environmentalists, the Ferengi are spiritual gurus, the [[Multek Enclave]] has disappeared, and the Borg have fragmented into various factions, each sporting a different color and personality. In the not-so-distant past, though, the Federation has fought a war with the Breen and dealt with a massive rebellion of holographic beings.

==Series Status==
Series Complete.

==The Stories==
See [[List of Star Traks: Boldly Gone Stories]]

==Major Characters==
*Captain [[Reginald Bain]]
*Commander [[Prosak]]
*Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]]
*Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]
*Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]]
*Dr. [[Fred Nooney]]
*Ensign [[Hector Arroyo]]
*[[Cabral]]

==Romulan Officers==
*Commander [[Vioxx]]
*Sub-Commander [[Remax]]
*Centurion [[Nortal]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]]
*Engineer [[Selex]]

'''Listed ranks are from the character's introduction and may change during the series'''

==Minor Characters==
*[[Rosalyn Bain]]
*Lieutenant [[Gworos]]
*Ensign [[Yonk]]
*[[Audrey Bain]]
*[[Thot Phul]]

==Series Notes==
Star Traks: Boldly Gone was created in 1999 by [[Alan Decker]] and [[Anthony Butler]]. Their goal was to create a series that they could write together and one that was free of the giant tangle of continuity that had formed in the various Traks and [[Star Trek]] series set in the 24th Century. At the time Boldly Gone was created, Alan was living in Louisiana and Anthony was living in Maryland, so most of the discussions were held via America Online Instant Messenger. If any of you are too young to know what that is, look it up. I'm sure Wikipedia has an entry.

Several ideas were bounced around in their efforts to find a concept and characters that were different from what had come before and that would be fun to write. Ideas included a robotic helm officer with multiple arms and a sentient ship. For quite a while, the [[USS Anomaly]] was not going to be a Starfleet ship at all. The idea was that Starfleet would detect a massive explosion of unknown energy on an out-of-the-way Federation moon and send a team to investigate. That team would find the remains of a scientist's lab and, safely stowed in a hidden hanger bay, a ship with a revolutionary new engine.

The most difficult part of developing the series was settling on the captain. None of the original character ideas were appealing, and for a while Alan and Anthony considered focusing on the lower officers and have different captains constantly coming in due to various mishaps, the insanity of the missions driving them off, and so on. They finally came with with [[Reginald Bain]], though, and decided that he was just the man they needed to command the Anomaly. Other characters and relationships quickly fell into place once Bain had been created.

In the Summer of 1999, Anthony traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to visit Alan, and the two of them cranked out the first two Boldly Gone stories, ''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' and ''[[One Track Mind]]'' in a matter of days, with each of them taking turns at the keyboard and writing sections. After that, they developed the story ideas for each run together and then divided them up to work on, since they were rarely able to sit down together and write. In some stories, they divided up the individual subplots, wrote them, and then went back later to weave them into a single story.

As Anthony was still writing [[Star Traks: The Vexed Generation]] and Alan was jumping between [[Star Traks: Waystation]], [[The Traks Files]], and [[Star Traks: The Original Series]], Boldly Gone acted as a fun change of pace when they needed to get away from their other projects. Unfortunately, this status combined with the increasing demands of their real lives put Boldly Gone on an unintentional hiatus after the end of Series Eight in October 2005. Both authors focused what little free time they had on their individual series, so the expected start date of Series Nine was pushed back from 2006 to 2008 to 2010. Series Nine finally began posting in July 2010, almost five years after the end of Series Eight. Thirteen years after that, Boldly Gone ended with the posting of Series Ten, which started in August 2023.

==Link==
[http://www.star-traks.com/boldly/stboldly.html The Star Traks: Boldly Gone page]

Star Traks: Boldly Gone

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==Author==
[[Alan Decker]]

[[Anthony Butler]]

==Series Synopsis==
Star Traks: Boldly Gone... is the story of the [[USS Anomaly]] and her crew in the early 26th Century, 120 years after the current Star Traks universe. The Anomaly is a barely tested hybrid of Romulan technology piloted by a somewhat unbalanced living brain, crewed by a somewhat unbalanced crew. Equipped with state-of-the-not-yet-quite-tested "anti-singularity" engines, the Anomaly is rigged for speed and not too shabby in the weapons department either. With enemies like the Breen prowling around and Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] looking over their shoulder, the Anomaly crew has their work cut out for them.

The past is past...and this crew is BOLDLY GONE...

In the 26th Century of Star Traks: Boldly Gone, the Federation and Romulans are allies, the Klingons have been reduced to Third World (or Third Civilization really) status, the Orions are environmentalists, the Ferengi are spiritual gurus, the [[Multek Enclave]] has disappeared, and the Borg have fragmented into various factions, each sporting a different color and personality. In the not-so-distant past, though, the Federation has fought a war with the Breen and dealt with a massive rebellion of holographic beings.

==Series Status==
Series Complete.

==The Stories==
See [[List of Star Traks: Boldly Gone Stories]]

==Major Characters==
*Captain [[Reginald Bain]]
*Commander [[Prosak]]
*Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]]
*Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]
*Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]]
*Dr. [[Fred Nooney]]
*Ensign [[Hector Arroyo]]
*[[Cabral]]

==Romulan Officers==
*Commander [[Vioxx]]
*Sub-Commander [[Remax]]
*Centurion [[Nortal]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]]
*Engineer [[Selex]]

'''Listed ranks are from the character's introduction and may change during the series'''

==Minor Characters==
*[[Rosalyn Bain]]
*Lieutenant [[Gworos]]
*Ensign [[Yonk]]
*[[Audrey Bain]]
*[[Thot Phul]]

==Series Notes==
Star Traks: Boldly Gone was created in 1999 by [[Alan Decker]] and [[Anthony Butler]]. Their goal was to create a series that they could write together and one that was free of the giant tangle of continuity that had formed in the various Traks and [[Star Trek]] series set in the 24th Century. At the time Boldly Gone was created, Alan was living in Louisiana and Anthony was living in Maryland, so most of the discussions were held via America Online Instant Messenger. If any of you are too young to know what that is, look it up. I'm sure Wikipedia has an entry.

Several ideas were bounced around in their efforts to find a concept and characters that were different from what had come before and that would be fun to write. Ideas included a robotic helm officer with multiple arms and a sentient ship. For quite a while, the [[USS Anomaly]] was not going to be a Starfleet ship at all. The idea was that Starfleet would detect a massive explosion of unknown energy on an out-of-the-way Federation moon and send a team to investigate. That team would find the remains of a scientist's lab and, safely stowed in a hidden hanger bay, a ship with a revolutionary new engine.

The most difficult part of developing the series was settling on the captain. None of the original character ideas were appealing, and for a while Alan and Anthony considered focusing on the lower officers and have different captains constantly coming in due to various mishaps, the insanity of the missions driving them off, and so on. They finally came with with [[Reginald Bain]], though, and decided that he was just the man they needed to command the Anomaly. Other characters and relationships quickly fell into place once Bain had been created.

In the Summer of 1999, Anthony traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to visit Alan, and the two of them cranked out the first two Boldly Gone stories, ''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' and ''[[One Track Mind]]'' in a matter of days, with each of them taking turns at the keyboard and writing sections. After that, they developed the story ideas for each run together and then divided them up to work on, since they were rarely able to sit down together and write. In some stories, they divided up the individual subplots, wrote them, and then went back later to weave them into a single story.

As Anthony was still writing [[Star Traks: The Vexed Generation]] and Alan was jumping between [[Star Traks: Waystation]], [[The Traks Files]], and [[Star Traks: The Original Series]], Boldly Gone acted as a fun change of pace when they needed to get away from their other projects. Unfortunately, this status combined with the increasing demands of their real lives put Boldly Gone on an unintentional hiatus after the end of Series Eight in October 2005. Both authors focused what little free time they had on their individual series, so the expected start date of Series Nine was pushed back from 2006 to 2008 to 2010. Series Nine finally began posting in July 2010, almost five years after the end of Series Eight. Thirteen years after that, Boldly Gone ended with the posting of Series Ten, which started in August 2023.

==Link==
[http://www.star-traks.com/boldly/stboldly.html The Star Traks: Boldly Gone page]

Karwrek

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Karwrek was a Romulan admiral and advisor to the Praetor. After learning that the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld was destroyed and there was no way to duplicate the [[USS Anomaly]]'s [[anti-singularity drive]], Karwrek told the Praetor that he had an idea about other avenues they could pursue. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

The other avenues turned out to be a deal with the Breen to release [[Selex]], who had intimate knowledge of the Anomaly's drive system, in exchange for sharing the schematics of the drive Selex developed with this knowledge. Selex was freed and then supervised the construction of a prototype ship, the [[Manamanat]], at the [[Malak Pasala]] ship yards. He also used this opportunity to try to get revenge against his former crewmates and kill Commander [[Prosak]]. This all failed thanks to the Anomaly crew, and Karwrek's plan was exposed, at which point he was either tried and executed...or possibly lauded for his duplicity. They're Romulans, so who knows? (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Selex

2024-02-13T17:00:20Z

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Lieutenant Selex was the chief engineer of the Romulan scout ship [[Tyvek]]. While exploring the Delta Quadrant, the Tyvek was lost to the [[Lucinda]] entity, but Selex beamed himself and the Tyvek's command officers to a shuttle. They were able to escape to a nearby habitable planet. Selex and the other officers were nearly eaten by a family of the planet's inhabitants but were rescued by the [[USS Anomaly]]. After the Anomaly dealt with Lucinda, Romulan High Command insisted that Selex and the other Tyvek officers stay aboard, so the Romulans would be more involved in the Anomaly's day-to-day operations. Selex served as one of the Anomaly's engineering officers. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

After hostilities with the Vulcans ended, Selex determined that Commander [[Prosak]] had to be killed due to her [[RommaVulc]] allegiance. He took this to Commander [[Vioxx]], since he was the ranking Romulan officer. Vioxx at first dismissed the idea, but after Sub-Commander [[Remax]] explained how it could possibly lead to all of them being sent back to the Empire and Vioxx receiving command of a warhawk, Vioxx said he would consider it. (''[[Hard Sell]]'' [BG])

Selex, Vioxx, Remax, and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]], along with Prosak and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] traveled to a Romulan facility in the Yatooi Sector to get the scout ship [[Allegra]], which was being given to the Anomaly to replace the destroyed [[USS Navigator]]. While they were there, Vice Admiral [[Negrek]] tasked the Anomaly officers with retrieving the Warhawk [[Zocor]], which had been stolen by a group of Klingons led by [[Chynok]]. Selex was injured during a fight between the two ships, and Prosak pulled him to safety. While he was recovering in sickbay, he reaffirmed his determination to kill Prosak and went out into the corridor with a laser scalpel to kill her. Instead, he found that she was being attacked by Chynok. He helped Prosak escape, then, once they were recaptured, grappled with [[Bonjar]] while Prosak fought Chynok. They were rescued when Vioxx and the other officers took over the Zocor, used it to disable the Allegra, and took the Klingons into custody. Selex and the Anomaly officers took the Allegra back to their ship. (''[[A Hawk In Hand]]'' [BG])

Selex and Remax decided to take matters into their own hands and kill Prosak when it became apparent that Vioxx had no intention of following through. They attempted to booby-trap Prosak's quarters but were stopped by Vioxx, who said that Prosak was not to be killed. Remax considered that to be the end of it and unhappily followed Vioxx's order to clean Prosak's quarters. Selex, however, did not agree and later kicked Prosak down a Jefferies tube that sent her plummeting 25 decks. She was saved by Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], who had joined with the ship's computer and was able to alter the gravity in the Jefferies tube to prevent Prosak's death. Selex was arrested and put in the Anomaly's brig. Remax tried to convince Selex to help prevent a war between the Federation and the Breen, but Selex refused. Later, Remax helped him escape the Anomaly and beam down to Breen, where he requested asylum. Since the Breen had just lost Bain, they decided to put Selex on trial instead for attempting to invade their planet (''[[Hollow Threats]]'', ''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

Over a year later, Selex was freed by the Breen in deal made by Admiral [[Karwrek]]. In exchange for releasing Selex, the Breen received schematics for the [[anti-singularity drive]] that Selex helped develop, so that they could fit the drives into their own ships. Selex supervised the construction of the [[Manamanat]] at the [[Malak Pasala]] ship yards, and he arranged for it to be taken out by Commander Vioxx, Sub-Commander Remax, Centurion [[Nortal]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] for its test flight. Selex had concluded that disembodied brains were required to maintain the anti-singularity reaction and had his removed and put into a sphere that was directly connected to the ship. As part of a revenge plan against Commander Prosak, Selex imprisoned Vioxx and the others on the Manamanat's bridge, sent a distress signal to the USS Anomaly, and, after disabling the Anomaly's anti-singularity drive with a bomb in an attempt to kill [[Cabral]], used the Manamanat to attack the Anomaly. This was unsuccessful, and the ship was heavily damaged. Selex was close to losing control of the anti-sing system, which would destroy the ship. Prosak, Remax, and Zantak helped stabilize things by mind melding with Selex. After the arrival of the Breen fleet of anti-sing ships, [[Thot-Phul]] took control of the Manamanat after his own ship was damaged by Captain [[Reginald Bain]] and the Anomaly. The combined efforts of the Anomaly's crew forced Phul to surrender, but Selex launched the Manamanat into anti-sing while holding Prosak in a mind meld in a last attempt to kill her. She broke the meld and was beamed off of the Manamanat just as the ship exploded due to an uncontrolled failure of the ship's drive system. Selex was killed when the Manamanat was destroyed. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Manamanat

2024-02-13T16:55:05Z

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The Manamanat was a Romulan ship containing a prototype [[anti-singularity drive]]. The engine was designed by [[Selex]] after he was freed by the Breen in deal made by Admiral [[Karwrek]]. In exchange for releasing Selex, the Breen received schematics, so that they could fit anti-singularity drives into their own ships.

The Manamanat was build at the [[Malak Pasala]] ship yards and taken out by Commander [[Vioxx]], Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] for its test flight. Unbeknownst to them, Selex was aboard as well. Or at least his brain was. He had concluded that disembodied brains were required to maintain the anti-singularity reaction and had his removed and put into a sphere that was directly connected to the ship. After part of a revenge plan against Commander [[Prosak]], Selex imprisoned Vioxx and the others on the Manamanat's bridge, sent a distress signal to the [[USS Anomaly]], and, after disabling the Anomaly's anti-singularity drive with a bomb in an attempt to kill [[Cabral]], used the Manamanat to attack the Anomaly.

This was unsuccessful, and the ship was heavily damaged. After the arrival of the Breen fleet of anti-sing ships, [[Thot-Phul]] took control of the Manamanat after his own ship was damaged by Captain [[Reginald Bain]] and the Anomaly. The combined efforts of the Anomaly's crew forced Phul to surrender, but Selex launched the Manamanat into anti-sing while holding Prosak in a mind meld in a last attempt to kill her. She broke the meld and was beamed off of the Manamanat just as the ship exploded due to an uncontrolled failure of the ship's drive system. Selex was killed when the Manamanat was destroyed. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Going, Going, Gone...

2024-02-12T18:59:34Z

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And now we bring you the final tale of Star Traks: Boldly Gone…. in which everything from the last 10 series culminates in an extended meditation on the very nature of human existence. Or maybe there’s just a bunch of bad jokes and explosions. Our money is on the latter.

==Summary==

While getting ready to head to his first assignment after graduating Starfleet Academy, [[Jarrett Bain]] asks his parents, [[Tovar]] and [[Shelly Marsden]], how his grandfather, Captain [[Reginald Bain]], lost the [[USS Anomaly]]. Deciding that there’s no harm in telling the story now, his parents explain what happened.

On [[Gathering Point]], Bain, Tovar, Marsden, [[Rosalyn Bain]], [[Cabral]], Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], and Commander [[Prosak]] watch with [[Chindela]] as [[Jacinda]]’s sphere descends to its final resting place on the planet. Chindela thanks Bain for going to retrieve her sphere after Jacinda’s expiration, which required the Anomaly to pass through Breen space using their [[anti-singularity drive]]. With Jacinda now there and Cabral no longer having an expiration date, Chindela says that he has completed his duty to the [[Cerebe]]. And with the news that the [[Pliggeri]] left their homeworld, Chindela asks Cabral to do something for him. Chindela shrinks himself and all of Gathering Point into a cube about three centimeters across. Cabral brings the cube into his sphere and begins to hear it whispering to him.

While Bain doesn’t think the Breen even noticed the Anomaly pass through their space, they did. [[Grad-Norm]] summons [[Thot-Phul|Dobt-Phul]] to his office to discuss the Anomaly’s violation of their space. He asks Phul if they still have [[Selex]] in custody because they have a use for him now. Phul goes to see Selex in his cell and tells him that Selex will be allowed to return to the Romulan Empire in exchange for helping them get Reginald Bain. Selex says that there are a few other people he wants revenge against and that he’s willing to make a deal.

Three months later, Tovar and Marsden sit in the Anomaly’s holo-mess discussing the possibility of having a child. Across the room, Rosalyn sits down with Prosak, who is still trying to find her path but has backed off on the tattoos and extreme Romulan attire. Rosalyn asks Prosak how she is doing, and they talk about Prosak’s inability to figure out what she wants to do with her life. Before long, Captain Bain’s voice booms over the comm system, summoning the senior officers to the briefing room.

In the briefing room, Commander [[Vioxx]] informs the gathered officers that he, Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] have been reassigned to take out the Romulan Empire’s new prototype anti-singularity drive ship. Marsden is shocked that the Romulans were able to build one. Prosak asks about joining the Romulans, but Bain tells her she has been very specifically ordered to remain on the Anomaly. They will take the other Romulans to the shipyards at [[Malak Pasala]], where they will transfer to their new ship then remain in the area in case the prototype ship requires assistance during its test flight. After the meeting, Bain tells Prosak that, while he’s upset that the other Romulans are leaving, he’s pleased that this means Prosak will be his First Officer again. She is not so thrilled.

Bain visits Vioxx, who is packing his belongings in his quarters, and tells him that the Anomaly crew is throwing a farewell party for Vioxx and his officers in Twain the Keel that night. He goes on to say that while he hates to lose Vioxx, he’s happy that the Romulan is getting his own command again.

That night, Bain gives a farewell speech, and Nortal hugs Tovar, saying that she will miss [[Toflay]] the most. She asks Tovar to give Toflay and message that she will see him in their next life. In order to get through the various social interactions with the Anomaly crew that they will have to endure at the party, the Romulans all get very very drunk.

The next morning, after Bain warns Vioxx to be careful because something about all of this doesn’t feel right, the very hungover Romulans take the [[Allegra]] from the Anomaly to Malak Pasala, passing out along the way. After they don’t respond to Malak Pasala, a boarding party beams onto the ship to see what happened. They wake up Vioxx and the others and tell them to get rested and cleaned up before they see the commander of the facility, Admiral [[Fixit]] the next day.

Remax doesn’t understand why they weren’t executed immediately for showing up unconscious and hungover to which Zantak says it’s because they’re needed to test the prototype ship because they are expendable. Admiral Fixit tells them that they will take the prototype ship, the [[Manamanat]] out to the [[Pharsalus Sector]] at increasing anti-sing speeds to test out the engines. Remax inquires if an engineer will be joining them, and Fixit replies that it has been seen to. She dismisses them and tells them to be ready to launch in an hour.

They take the ship out, and when Vioxx contacts engineering to tell them to be ready for Warp H, he is shocked when Selex responds. Before Vioxx can do anything about it, Selex sends the ship into anti-sing. The Anomaly receives a distress signal from the Manamanat and speeds off to assist. While Selex tries to keep the Manamanat’s anti-sing drive stable, Vioxx and the others work to escape from the ship’s bridge, where Selex has trapped them while also locking them out of all systems.

The Anomaly catches up with the Manamanat in the Pharsalus Sector and finds it just sitting there. It doesn’t respond to hails, and the Anomaly’s sensors are having trouble getting clear lifesign readings. Bain thinks this is odd and orders the shields up just as Tovar detects transporter activity in [[Science Lab Four]]. A device materializes in Science Lab Four near Cabral and Kasyov, and Cabral quickly concludes it is a bomb. He does the only thing he can before it detonates.

As soon as the bomb explodes, the Manamanat raises shields and hails the Anomaly, audio only. It’s Selex, who explains that the Romulans negotiated with the Breen for his release, so that he could work on the anti-singularity drive prototype using the insights he gained while serving on the Anomaly. Now that he has blown up Cabral, he’s taken away the only thing that made the Anomaly special, and he can finish off Prosak. He demands that Bain beam himself over to the Manamanat because there are other interested parties who want him. Bain immediately realizes that means the Breen are involved. Selex plans to prove his superiority by destroying the Anomaly while Prosak is in command and then hand Bain back over to the Breen. Prosak has Tovar mute the channel, tells Bain she has an idea and that he needs to stall Selex, and then rushes off of the bridge.

Cabral managed to save himself and Kasyov from the explosion by touching her (Well, more like harpooning her with a tendril launched from inside his sphere) and then taking them both and his housing out of phase with the Anomaly after quickly disconnecting himself from the ship’s systems. Nurse [[Ih'vik]] arrives with a medical team and transports Kasyov to sickbay just before Marsden gets there with an engineering team. The explosion took out the conduits connecting Cabral’s housing to engineering, so until those are replaced, the Anomaly doesn’t have anti-sing. Marsden’s team sets about making repairs while Cabral considers the message from Chindela that he heard loud and clear while phased: “This was planned for.”

Tovar gets word from Marsden that Cabral and Kasyov are alive, which he relays to Bain, who is busy stalling Selex. Prosak, meanwhile, goes to see Rosalyn saying that she can’t let Bain beam over to the Manamanat because she needs to deal with Selex herself. She asks for Rosalyn’s help, and Rosalyn says that she has just the thing. Prosak races back to the bridge and asks Bain and Tovar to join her in the Captain’s Lounge. Bain puts Selex on hold, and they all go to the lounge, where Prosak tells Bain that she wants him to send her over to the Manamanat. Bain appreciates her desire to protect him but says that Selex is going to be upset if she beams over instead of him. She agrees and activates the holographic overlay she borrowed from Rosalyn, which makes her appear to be Bain. He realizes that she must have gotten it from Rosalyn. Prosak goes onto say that Bain needs to be on the Anomaly to deal with fighting the Manamanat and the Breen. She will go take care of Selex. Bain agrees to her plan.

Vioxx and his officers escape the Manamanat’s bridge and find no one in the ship’s corridors. They go to engineering to find Selex and instead see that the room is empty except for a large black metallic sphere with several conduits running from it into the walls of the chamber. Selex’s voice booms from all around them, and Remax realizes Selex had his brain removed from his body and put into the sphere to run the Manamanat. As Nortal futilely attacks Selex’s sphere, Selex explains that removing the need to regulate his body allows his brain to maintain a stable anti-singularity field. It was the breakthrough he needed to make the project work. Soon after, Bain beams into the engineering area as well. Vioxx catches Bain up, then Selex reveals that, with Admiral [[Karwrek]]’s full approval, he gave the Breen his drive specifications and his revelation about needing a brain to directly control anti-sing. The Breen are on their way with a fleet of anti-sing ships ready to take Bain on, but they will be disappointed because Selex will have already destroyed the Anomaly and Prosak with it. He believes handing Bain over to them will lessen their disappointment. The Anomaly launches into warp, drawing Selex’s attention away and giving Bain the chance to reveal to Vioxx that he’s really Prosak in disguise.

On the Anomaly, Bain prepares for battle. As soon as he learned the anti-singularity drive existed, he assumed that he’d have to fight a ship equipped with one someday, and he’s ready to put theory into practice. He checks in with Marsden on the repairs, and she says they are getting close, but they’ve had to cut holes in walls and floors in a lot of places to quickly get new conduit run. Bain gets the best of Selex in their first couple of encounters, and Kasyov returns to the bridge just as twelve Breen scythe ships drop out of anti-sing.

The now re-promoted Thot-Phul hails Selex to let the Romulan know that he’s there to save the Manamanat from Reginald Bain and the Anomaly. Selex reveals that he has disabled the Anomaly’s anti-sing drive and taken Bain into custody already, which upsets Phul because that was not their deal. Prosak then tops that reveal by revealing that the Bain Selex thinks he’s holding is actually her. Phul is happier with this news and takes the Breen fleet to face the Anomaly. Prosak keeps Selex off-balance by mind melding with him.

As the Breen fleet approached the Anomaly, Kasyov reviews the logs from their fight with the Manamanat. She notices that rather than maneuvering at anti-sing, Selex would stop, set a course, then launch into anti-sing, which is exactly what the Breen fleet heading their way just did after stopping at the Manamanat. Bain concludes that they can only use anti-sing in a straight line. At least he hopes so. He has Tovar hail the Breen. Phul has his ships surround the Anomaly then answers the comm. After Bain asks what this is all about, Phul says that it’s about retribution and ridding the galaxy of Reginald Bain. Tovar reports to Bain that Cabral is ready, and then Bain attacks the Breen fleet.

Prosak enters Selex’s mind and finds absolute chaos as he struggles to keep the Manamanat’s anti-singularity drive from exploding. Even with the ship at rest, it is taking almost all he has to prevent a catastrophe. He screams at her to get out of his brain. She does and tells the others that they have to help Selex.

Phul’s ship is heavily-damaged in Bain’s attack, and in another, the Breen “volunteer” who had his brain put into a sphere to run the ship’s anti-singularity drive, loses control and the ship explodes. Phul orders his ship to get to Manamanat, so he can beam over to it while the other Breen pursue the Anomaly.

Kasyov detects amplified neural energy coming from each Breen ship and deduces that there’s a Breen brain tied into each ship to maintain their anti-sing reactions. They just aren’t as good at is as Cabral or have the Pliggeri housing that his sphere rests in that he uses as an interface with the drive system. Bain orders Ensign [[Yonk]] to keep their course erratic and for Tovar to take shots at their pursuers when he can.

Prosak, Zantak (who reveals that she has also started following [[RommaVulc]] philosophy), and Remax meld with Selex to help him keep the ship stable while Vioxx and Nortal prepare to deal with Phul and the other Breen who are coming to take control of the ship.

With four Breen ships destroyed, the Anomaly goes to intercept Phul’s ship before he can get to the Manamanat. Phul and some of his crew, including a security team, are able to beam aboard, then he sends his ship away. The Anomaly destroys the now Phul-less Breen ship as it tries to flee, but the rest of the fleet arrives, forcing the Anomaly to back off and retreat. On the Manamanat, Phul orders his security team to secure the Romulans while he and his other officers try to figure out how to read the Romulan writing on the bridge consoles.

Vioxx and Nortal search the ship for weapons to use against the Breen but come up empty. Since the Manamanat was a prototype, it wasn’t outfitted with an armory. Vioxx realizes that they can use the replicators to get utensils, though. He and Nortal launch a surprise attack the Breen security team with the equivalent of metal crab mallets, overpower the Breen, and take their weapons. Now armed, they head to the bridge.

Bain lures the remaining Breen ships into an attack by having the Anomaly fake a power failure. The Breen take the bait, and the Anomaly destroys them all, leaving only the Manamanat.

Phul now has to face the Anomaly, which is coming right at the Manamanat, alone. Vioxx and Nortal arrive on the bridge and order the Breen to step away from their consoles. Phul disables their blasters (one of the handy things Breen officers can do to Breen weapons). Nortal engages the other bridge officers in hand-to-hand combat while Vioxx takes on Phul, which Phul isn’t happy about. The only person he wants to fight is Bain, but with no other options, the two begin to fight as the Anomaly closes in. Phul orders his helm officer, who isn’t fighting Nortal, to do an anti-sing burst to attack the Anomaly, but Bain is waiting for it and disables the Manamanat with a barrage of phaser fire. With no reason to continue, Phul surrenders as Tovar and a security team from the Anomaly beam aboard.

Selex, furious that the Breen failed to destroy Bain and the Anomaly, kicks Remax and Zantak out of the meld while Prosak stays behind. Selex realizes the full import of what he has done and what will likely happen to him once Romulan High Command learns of his scheme with Admiral Karwrek. He refuses to go back in disgrace, and Prosak feels him trying to activate the anti-sing drive, so that he can push it to its limit and kill them both. She tries to hold him off while she contacts Bain and tells him to get everyone except her, since she’s locked in a meld, off of the Manamanat. The Anomaly beams everyone except Prosak back just as the Manamanat leaps into anti-sing. Short on options for getting Prosak off of a ship moving at anti-sing, Bain tells Tovar to contact Rosalyn.

As Selex and Prosak argue while still locked in a mind meld with each other, the Anomaly catches up to the Manamanat and matches their velocity. Prosak concludes that they must have a plan to rescue her. She confirms it briefly with Bain, who tells her to break the meld, before Selex pushes her out of the comm system and drops any attempt to keep the anti-sing drive from exploding. Knowing that there’s nothing she can do to stop the Manamanat’s destruction, he turns on Selex with all of her rage and screams at him for his incompetent design. It flusters him enough for her to break free of the meld. She finds herself back in the ship’s engineering room. She dematerializes just as the Manamanat begins to explode.

The Anomaly, with Prosak aboard, veers away at anti-sing and is well clear of the Manamanat’s blast radius. Bain gives the order to head back to Federation space, tells Vioxx that he has the conn, and heads off of the bridge with Tovar while Vioxx, Kasyov, and Yonk wonder how the hell they just managed to beam Prosak to safety. Prosak finds herself on the floor of the Bains’ quarters with Rosalyn standing over her. Rosalyn tells her that she was able to lock on to the Section 31 holo-imager Prosak had on her and beam Prosak back aboard using her Section 31 issue personal transporter. Bain and Tovar arrive followed by Marsden, who doesn’t know why she’s there. They come up with a cover story to tell Starfleet to explain how they rescued Prosak that doesn’t reveal Rosalyn’s involvement.

Back in the frame story, Jarrett demands to know what happened after that, which Tovar and Marsden explain…

Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Zantak were ordered back to Romulan space and given a new scout ship. While out exploring uncharted space, they encounter [[Neb]]. Vioxx invites Neb aboard for dinner, and they accept.

On the way back to Earth, Prosak returns to her quarters to find [[Oscar Gunton]] from Section 31 waiting for her. He tells Prosak that Rosalyn recommended her and feels that Prosak would be a good fit in Section 31. Prosak happily accepts.

Tovar tries to end the story there, but Jarrett points out that they never actually told him how Bain lost the Anomaly. Marsden tells him that once they got back to Earth, the Anomaly went in for a full refit that involved getting everyone off except Cabral, gutting the interior, and basically starting from scratch. Three months later, while Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] is visiting the Bain home in Sussex, she receives an urgent comm from Spacedock Control that the Anomaly was leaving its repair dock. Before any ships can intercept it, the Anomaly jumps to anti-sing and is gone. Bain tells Larkin to get him a ship, and he’ll go after Cabral himself. Larkin says that would be useless and tells Bain to get her a report within the hour.

An hour later, Bain reports to Larkin in her office that Cabral did indeed steal the Anomaly. She says that he should have kept more informed about Marsden’s progress with the repairs. Larkin suspects that Bain is involved, but he admits nothing. She says there will be a full investigation.

Jarrett is disappointed that his grandfather literally lost the Anomaly rather than Bain losing it in combat. Marsden says that Cabral and Kasyov, who was also aboard, haven’t been heard from since. Jarrett wants to know if Bain was actually involved, and Tovar replies that he never asked him because he doesn’t want to know the answer. He has his theories though.

Flashing back to the Anomaly’s journey back to Earth, Cabral and Kasyov ask Bain to come to Science Lab Four, where he finds that Marsden is there as well. Cabral tells them that the cube containing Gathering Point is communicating with him and drawing him to the Pliggeri’s new home. He cannot continue putting himself and the remnants of his entire species in danger by staying on the Anomaly, so he and Kasyov want Marsden to outfit a raceabout with an anti-singularity drive for them to use to go find the Pliggeri. Marsden protests that even if she could do it, it would be miserable for Kasyov and Cabral. Bain says they should take the Anomaly. The ship, wonderful as it is, has shifted the balance of power in the quadrant, cost numerous people their lives, and made Marsden and Cabral targets. It’s better for everyone if Cabral uses it to find his creators. Marsden will need to put in a lot of automation, though, which she agrees to do.

Back in the frame story, Tovar says that being in Starfleet sometimes means keeping things from the people you know or knowing that people you love may be keeping things from you. And because you trust them, you accept it.

Tovar, Marsden, and Jarrett beam up to Starbase One, where Jarrett is meeting his ship, the [[USS Holloway]]. As Jarrett boards his new assignment, Marsden asks Tovar if he ever misses serving on a starship. They both agree that they don’t and stroll off, hand-in hand.

Jarrett reports to the bridge to meet his new commanding officer: Captain Reginald Bain. Since Jarrett has a conn specialization, Bain tells him to take the ship out, adding that they’re just going to take a quick spin around the sector and that they won’t get into any trouble…unless they’re lucky.

END OF SERIES

==Featuring==
*Captain [[Reginald Bain]]
*Commander [[Prosak]]
*Commander [[Vioxx]]
*Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]]
*Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]
*Sub-Commander [[Remax]]
*Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]]
*Centurion [[Nortal]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]]
*[[Cabral]]
*[[Rosalyn Bain]]

==Author's Comments==

We’re finally here. I have to admit that for a while there I really thought that we were just going to leave things with Series Nine. True, it wasn’t much in the way of an overall wrap up for Boldly Gone, but it was an ending of a sort and didn’t leave things on a cliffhanger.

We weren’t happy with that idea, though. It may have taken us 13 years to get to an actual ending, but we did it. Between the two of us, Anthony and I have written several different endings for our Star Traks series. Some of them didn’t stick. I’ve ended the original series 4 times, and Anthony is still going with his latest incarnation of The Vexed Generation. The big question in my mind for Boldly was how to leave it. Would we go open ended, like “All Good Things…” in TNG, where the crew just continues on to the next mission? Or go with something more final, like “What You Leave Behind” in DS9, where characters move on and things have changed?

Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.

Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) as a framing story presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.

And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten involved the Dillon Consortium, the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot-Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.

Because of that, while the story picks up on characters and events from earlier in Series Ten and across Boldly Gone overall, it’s standalone in some ways. I wanted it to be more like “All Good Things…” (And Voyager’s “Endgame” really). You can jump into that episode with a general knowledge of TNG and the characters and have no trouble understanding what’s happening, unlike “What You Leave Behind,” which is the culmination of a massive arc.

Another thing we wanted to make sure happened in the finale was to give Reginald Bain a chance be Bain. Here he is, in command of a starship but facing steep odds. Bain is in many ways the most capable Star Traks captain that Anthony and I have written across our various series. He’s a bit eccentric in some ways and oblivious in others, but in a situation like this final story, he is absolutely in his element.

Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s possibly one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.

As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended several years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.

==Links==
[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]

Going, Going, Gone...

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And now we bring you the final tale of Star Traks: Boldly Gone…. in which everything from the last 10 series culminates in an extended meditation on the very nature of human existence. Or maybe there’s just a bunch of bad jokes and explosions. Our money is on the latter.

==Summary==

While getting ready to head to his first assignment after graduating Starfleet Academy, [[Jarrett Bain]] asks his parents, [[Tovar]] and [[Shelly Marsden]], how his grandfather, Captain [[Reginald Bain]], lost the [[USS Anomaly]]. Deciding that there’s no harm in telling the story now, his parents explain what happened.

On [[Gathering Point]], Bain, Tovar, Marsden, [[Rosalyn Bain]], [[Cabral]], Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], and Commander [[Prosak]] watch with [[Chindela]] as [[Jacinda]]’s sphere descends to its final resting place on the planet. Chindela thanks Bain for going to retrieve her sphere after Jacinda’s expiration, which required the Anomaly to pass through Breen space using their [[anti-singularity drive]]. With Jacinda now there and Cabral no longer having an expiration date, Chindela says that he has completed his duty to the [[Cerebe]]. And with the news that the [[Pliggeri]] left their homeworld, Chindela asks Cabral to do something for him. Chindela shrinks himself and all of Gathering Point into a cube about three centimeters across. Cabral brings the cube into his sphere and begins to hear it whispering to him.

While Bain doesn’t think the Breen even noticed the Anomaly pass through their space, they did. [[Grad-Norm]] summons [[Thot-Phul|Dobt-Phul]] to his office to discuss the Anomaly’s violation of their space. He asks Phul if they still have [[Selex]] in custody because they have a use for him now. Phul goes to see Selex in his cell and tells him that Selex will be allowed to return to the Romulan Empire in exchange for helping them get Reginald Bain. Selex says that there are a few other people he wants revenge against and that he’s willing to make a deal.

Three months later, Tovar and Marsden sit in the Anomaly’s holo-mess discussing the possibility of having a child. Across the room, Rosalyn sits down with Prosak, who is still trying to find her path but has backed off on the tattoos and extreme Romulan attire. Rosalyn asks Prosak how she is doing, and they talk about Prosak’s inability to figure out what she wants to do with her life. Before long, Captain Bain’s voice booms over the comm system, summoning the senior officers to the briefing room.

In the briefing room, Commander [[Vioxx]] informs the gathered officers that he, Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] have been reassigned to take out the Romulan Empire’s new prototype anti-singularity drive ship. Marsden is shocked that the Romulans were able to build one. Prosak asks about joining the Romulans, but Bain tells her she has been very specifically ordered to remain on the Anomaly. They will take the other Romulans to the shipyards at [[Malak Pasala]], where they will transfer to their new ship then remain in the area in case the prototype ship requires assistance during its test flight. After the meeting, Bain tells Prosak that, while he’s upset that the other Romulans are leaving, he’s pleased that this means Prosak will be his First Officer again. She is not so thrilled.

Bain visits Vioxx, who is packing his belongings in his quarters, and tells him that the Anomaly crew is throwing a farewell party for Vioxx and his officers in Twain the Keel that night. He goes on to say that while he hates to lose Vioxx, he’s happy that the Romulan is getting his own command again.

That night, Bain gives a farewell speech, and Nortal hugs Tovar, saying that she will miss [[Toflay]] the most. She asks Tovar to give Toflay and message that she will see him in their next life. In order to get through the various social interactions with the Anomaly crew that they will have to endure at the party, the Romulans all get very very drunk.

The next morning, after Bain warns Vioxx to be careful because something about all of this doesn’t feel right, the very hungover Romulans take the [[Allegra]] from the Anomaly to Malak Pasala, passing out along the way. After they don’t respond to Malak Pasala, a boarding party beams onto the ship to see what happened. They wake up Vioxx and the others and tell them to get rested and cleaned up before they see the commander of the facility, Admiral [[Fixit]] the next day.

Remax doesn’t understand why they weren’t executed immediately for showing up unconscious and hungover to which Zantak says it’s because they’re needed to test the prototype ship because they are expendable. Admiral Fixit tells them that they will take the prototype ship, the [[Manamanat]] out to the [[Pharsalus Sector]] at increasing anti-sing speeds to test out the engines. Remax inquires if an engineer will be joining them, and Fixit replies that it has been seen to. She dismisses them and tells them to be ready to launch in an hour.

They take the ship out, and when Vioxx contacts engineering to tell them to be ready for Warp H, he is shocked when Selex responds. Before Vioxx can do anything about it, Selex sends the ship into anti-sing. The Anomaly receives a distress signal from the Manamanat and speeds off to assist. While Selex tries to keep the Manamanat’s anti-sing drive stable, Vioxx and the others work to escape from the ship’s bridge, where Selex has trapped them while also locking them out of all systems.

The Anomaly catches up with the Manamanat in the Pharsalus Sector and finds it just sitting there. It doesn’t respond to hails, and the Anomaly’s sensors are having trouble getting clear lifesign readings. Bain thinks this is odd and orders the shields up just as Tovar detects transporter activity in [[Science Lab Four]]. A device materializes in Science Lab Four near Cabral and Kasyov, and Cabral quickly concludes it is a bomb. He does the only thing he can before it detonates.

As soon as the bomb explodes, the Manamanat raises shields and hails the Anomaly, audio only. It’s Selex, who explains that the Romulans negotiated with the Breen for his release, so that he could work on the anti-singularity drive prototype using the insights he gained while serving on the Anomaly. Now that he has blown up Cabral, he’s taken away the only thing that made the Anomaly special, and he can finish off Prosak. He demands that Bain beam himself over to the Manamanat because there are other interested parties who want him. Bain immediately realizes that means the Breen are involved. Selex plans to prove his superiority by destroying the Anomaly while Prosak is in command and then hand Bain back over to the Breen. Prosak has Tovar mute the channel, tells Bain she has an idea and that he needs to stall Selex, and then rushes off of the bridge.

Cabral managed to save himself and Kasyov from the explosion by touching her (Well, more like harpooning her with a tendril launched from inside his sphere) and then taking them both and his housing out of phase with the Anomaly after quickly disconnecting himself from the ship’s systems. Nurse [[Ih’vik]] arrives with a medical team and transports Kasyov to sickbay just before Marsden gets there with an engineering team. The explosion took out the conduits connecting Cabral’s housing to engineering, so until those are replaced, the Anomaly doesn’t have anti-sing. Marsden’s team sets about making repairs while Cabral considers the message from Chindela that he heard loud and clear while phased: “This was planned for.”

Tovar gets word from Marsden that Cabral and Kasyov are alive, which he relays to Bain, who is busy stalling Selex. Prosak, meanwhile, goes to see Rosalyn saying that she can’t let Bain beam over to the Manamanat because she needs to deal with Selex herself. She asks for Rosalyn’s help, and Rosalyn says that she has just the thing. Prosak races back to the bridge and asks Bain and Tovar to join her in the Captain’s Lounge. Bain puts Selex on hold, and they all go to the lounge, where Prosak tells Bain that she wants him to send her over to the Manamanat. Bain appreciates her desire to protect him but says that Selex is going to be upset if she beams over instead of him. She agrees and activates the holographic overlay she borrowed from Rosalyn, which makes her appear to be Bain. He realizes that she must have gotten it from Rosalyn. Prosak goes onto say that Bain needs to be on the Anomaly to deal with fighting the Manamanat and the Breen. She will go take care of Selex. Bain agrees to her plan.

Vioxx and his officers escape the Manamanat’s bridge and find no one in the ship’s corridors. They go to engineering to find Selex and instead see that the room is empty except for a large black metallic sphere with several conduits running from it into the walls of the chamber. Selex’s voice booms from all around them, and Remax realizes Selex had his brain removed from his body and put into the sphere to run the Manamanat. As Nortal futilely attacks Selex’s sphere, Selex explains that removing the need to regulate his body allows his brain to maintain a stable anti-singularity field. It was the breakthrough he needed to make the project work. Soon after, Bain beams into the engineering area as well. Vioxx catches Bain up, then Selex reveals that, with Admiral [[Karwrek]]’s full approval, he gave the Breen his drive specifications and his revelation about needing a brain to directly control anti-sing. The Breen are on their way with a fleet of anti-sing ships ready to take Bain on, but they will be disappointed because Selex will have already destroyed the Anomaly and Prosak with it. He believes handing Bain over to them will lessen their disappointment. The Anomaly launches into warp, drawing Selex’s attention away and giving Bain the chance to reveal to Vioxx that he’s really Prosak in disguise.

On the Anomaly, Bain prepares for battle. As soon as he learned the anti-singularity drive existed, he assumed that he’d have to fight a ship equipped with one someday, and he’s ready to put theory into practice. He checks in with Marsden on the repairs, and she says they are getting close, but they’ve had to cut holes in walls and floors in a lot of places to quickly get new conduit run. Bain gets the best of Selex in their first couple of encounters, and Kasyov returns to the bridge just as twelve Breen scythe ships drop out of anti-sing.

The now re-promoted Thot-Phul hails Selex to let the Romulan know that he’s there to save the Manamanat from Reginald Bain and the Anomaly. Selex reveals that he has disabled the Anomaly’s anti-sing drive and taken Bain into custody already, which upsets Phul because that was not their deal. Prosak then tops that reveal by revealing that the Bain Selex thinks he’s holding is actually her. Phul is happier with this news and takes the Breen fleet to face the Anomaly. Prosak keeps Selex off-balance by mind melding with him.

As the Breen fleet approached the Anomaly, Kasyov reviews the logs from their fight with the Manamanat. She notices that rather than maneuvering at anti-sing, Selex would stop, set a course, then launch into anti-sing, which is exactly what the Breen fleet heading their way just did after stopping at the Manamanat. Bain concludes that they can only use anti-sing in a straight line. At least he hopes so. He has Tovar hail the Breen. Phul has his ships surround the Anomaly then answers the comm. After Bain asks what this is all about, Phul says that it’s about retribution and ridding the galaxy of Reginald Bain. Tovar reports to Bain that Cabral is ready, and then Bain attacks the Breen fleet.

Prosak enters Selex’s mind and finds absolute chaos as he struggles to keep the Manamanat’s anti-singularity drive from exploding. Even with the ship at rest, it is taking almost all he has to prevent a catastrophe. He screams at her to get out of his brain. She does and tells the others that they have to help Selex.

Phul’s ship is heavily-damaged in Bain’s attack, and in another, the Breen “volunteer” who had his brain put into a sphere to run the ship’s anti-singularity drive, loses control and the ship explodes. Phul orders his ship to get to Manamanat, so he can beam over to it while the other Breen pursue the Anomaly.

Kasyov detects amplified neural energy coming from each Breen ship and deduces that there’s a Breen brain tied into each ship to maintain their anti-sing reactions. They just aren’t as good at is as Cabral or have the Pliggeri housing that his sphere rests in that he uses as an interface with the drive system. Bain orders Ensign [[Yonk]] to keep their course erratic and for Tovar to take shots at their pursuers when he can.

Prosak, Zantak (who reveals that she has also started following [[RommaVulc]] philosophy), and Remax meld with Selex to help him keep the ship stable while Vioxx and Nortal prepare to deal with Phul and the other Breen who are coming to take control of the ship.

With four Breen ships destroyed, the Anomaly goes to intercept Phul’s ship before he can get to the Manamanat. Phul and some of his crew, including a security team, are able to beam aboard, then he sends his ship away. The Anomaly destroys the now Phul-less Breen ship as it tries to flee, but the rest of the fleet arrives, forcing the Anomaly to back off and retreat. On the Manamanat, Phul orders his security team to secure the Romulans while he and his other officers try to figure out how to read the Romulan writing on the bridge consoles.

Vioxx and Nortal search the ship for weapons to use against the Breen but come up empty. Since the Manamanat was a prototype, it wasn’t outfitted with an armory. Vioxx realizes that they can use the replicators to get utensils, though. He and Nortal launch a surprise attack the Breen security team with the equivalent of metal crab mallets, overpower the Breen, and take their weapons. Now armed, they head to the bridge.

Bain lures the remaining Breen ships into an attack by having the Anomaly fake a power failure. The Breen take the bait, and the Anomaly destroys them all, leaving only the Manamanat.

Phul now has to face the Anomaly, which is coming right at the Manamanat, alone. Vioxx and Nortal arrive on the bridge and order the Breen to step away from their consoles. Phul disables their blasters (one of the handy things Breen officers can do to Breen weapons). Nortal engages the other bridge officers in hand-to-hand combat while Vioxx takes on Phul, which Phul isn’t happy about. The only person he wants to fight is Bain, but with no other options, the two begin to fight as the Anomaly closes in. Phul orders his helm officer, who isn’t fighting Nortal, to do an anti-sing burst to attack the Anomaly, but Bain is waiting for it and disables the Manamanat with a barrage of phaser fire. With no reason to continue, Phul surrenders as Tovar and a security team from the Anomaly beam aboard.

Selex, furious that the Breen failed to destroy Bain and the Anomaly, kicks Remax and Zantak out of the meld while Prosak stays behind. Selex realizes the full import of what he has done and what will likely happen to him once Romulan High Command learns of his scheme with Admiral Karwrek. He refuses to go back in disgrace, and Prosak feels him trying to activate the anti-sing drive, so that he can push it to its limit and kill them both. She tries to hold him off while she contacts Bain and tells him to get everyone except her, since she’s locked in a meld, off of the Manamanat. The Anomaly beams everyone except Prosak back just as the Manamanat leaps into anti-sing. Short on options for getting Prosak off of a ship moving at anti-sing, Bain tells Tovar to contact Rosalyn.

As Selex and Prosak argue while still locked in a mind meld with each other, the Anomaly catches up to the Manamanat and matches their velocity. Prosak concludes that they must have a plan to rescue her. She confirms it briefly with Bain, who tells her to break the meld, before Selex pushes her out of the comm system and drops any attempt to keep the anti-sing drive from exploding. Knowing that there’s nothing she can do to stop the Manamanat’s destruction, he turns on Selex with all of her rage and screams at him for his incompetent design. It flusters him enough for her to break free of the meld. She finds herself back in the ship’s engineering room. She dematerializes just as the Manamanat begins to explode.

The Anomaly, with Prosak aboard, veers away at anti-sing and is well clear of the Manamanat’s blast radius. Bain gives the order to head back to Federation space, tells Vioxx that he has the conn, and heads off of the bridge with Tovar while Vioxx, Kasyov, and Yonk wonder how the hell they just managed to beam Prosak to safety. Prosak finds herself on the floor of the Bains’ quarters with Rosalyn standing over her. Rosalyn tells her that she was able to lock on to the Section 31 holo-imager Prosak had on her and beam Prosak back aboard using her Section 31 issue personal transporter. Bain and Tovar arrive followed by Marsden, who doesn’t know why she’s there. They come up with a cover story to tell Starfleet to explain how they rescued Prosak that doesn’t reveal Rosalyn’s involvement.

Back in the frame story, Jarrett demands to know what happened after that, which Tovar and Marsden explain…

Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Zantak were ordered back to Romulan space and given a new scout ship. While out exploring uncharted space, they encounter [[Neb]]. Vioxx invites Neb aboard for dinner, and they accept.

On the way back to Earth, Prosak returns to her quarters to find [[Oscar Gunton]] from Section 31 waiting for her. He tells Prosak that Rosalyn recommended her and feels that Prosak would be a good fit in Section 31. Prosak happily accepts.

Tovar tries to end the story there, but Jarrett points out that they never actually told him how Bain lost the Anomaly. Marsden tells him that once they got back to Earth, the Anomaly went in for a full refit that involved getting everyone off except Cabral, gutting the interior, and basically starting from scratch. Three months later, while Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] is visiting the Bain home in Sussex, she receives an urgent comm from Spacedock Control that the Anomaly was leaving its repair dock. Before any ships can intercept it, the Anomaly jumps to anti-sing and is gone. Bain tells Larkin to get him a ship, and he’ll go after Cabral himself. Larkin says that would be useless and tells Bain to get her a report within the hour.

An hour later, Bain reports to Larkin in her office that Cabral did indeed steal the Anomaly. She says that he should have kept more informed about Marsden’s progress with the repairs. Larkin suspects that Bain is involved, but he admits nothing. She says there will be a full investigation.

Jarrett is disappointed that his grandfather literally lost the Anomaly rather than Bain losing it in combat. Marsden says that Cabral and Kasyov, who was also aboard, haven’t been heard from since. Jarrett wants to know if Bain was actually involved, and Tovar replies that he never asked him because he doesn’t want to know the answer. He has his theories though.

Flashing back to the Anomaly’s journey back to Earth, Cabral and Kasyov ask Bain to come to Science Lab Four, where he finds that Marsden is there as well. Cabral tells them that the cube containing Gathering Point is communicating with him and drawing him to the Pliggeri’s new home. He cannot continue putting himself and the remnants of his entire species in danger by staying on the Anomaly, so he and Kasyov want Marsden to outfit a raceabout with an anti-singularity drive for them to use to go find the Pliggeri. Marsden protests that even if she could do it, it would be miserable for Kasyov and Cabral. Bain says they should take the Anomaly. The ship, wonderful as it is, has shifted the balance of power in the quadrant, cost numerous people their lives, and made Marsden and Cabral targets. It’s better for everyone if Cabral uses it to find his creators. Marsden will need to put in a lot of automation, though, which she agrees to do.

Back in the frame story, Tovar says that being in Starfleet sometimes means keeping things from the people you know or knowing that people you love may be keeping things from you. And because you trust them, you accept it.

Tovar, Marsden, and Jarrett beam up to Starbase One, where Jarrett is meeting his ship, the [[USS Holloway]]. As Jarrett boards his new assignment, Marsden asks Tovar if he ever misses serving on a starship. They both agree that they don’t and stroll off, hand-in hand.

Jarrett reports to the bridge to meet his new commanding officer: Captain Reginald Bain. Since Jarrett has a conn specialization, Bain tells him to take the ship out, adding that they’re just going to take a quick spin around the sector and that they won’t get into any trouble…unless they’re lucky.

END OF SERIES

==Featuring==
*Captain [[Reginald Bain]]
*Commander [[Prosak]]
*Commander [[Vioxx]]
*Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]]
*Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]
*Sub-Commander [[Remax]]
*Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]]
*Centurion [[Nortal]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]]
*[[Cabral]]
*[[Rosalyn Bain]]

==Author's Comments==

We’re finally here. I have to admit that for a while there I really thought that we were just going to leave things with Series Nine. True, it wasn’t much in the way of an overall wrap up for Boldly Gone, but it was an ending of a sort and didn’t leave things on a cliffhanger.

We weren’t happy with that idea, though. It may have taken us 13 years to get to an actual ending, but we did it. Between the two of us, Anthony and I have written several different endings for our Star Traks series. Some of them didn’t stick. I’ve ended the original series 4 times, and Anthony is still going with his latest incarnation of The Vexed Generation. The big question in my mind for Boldly was how to leave it. Would we go open ended, like “All Good Things…” in TNG, where the crew just continues on to the next mission? Or go with something more final, like “What You Leave Behind” in DS9, where characters move on and things have changed?

Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.

Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) as a framing story presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.

And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten involved the Dillon Consortium, the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot-Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.

Because of that, while the story picks up on characters and events from earlier in Series Ten and across Boldly Gone overall, it’s standalone in some ways. I wanted it to be more like “All Good Things…” (And Voyager’s “Endgame” really). You can jump into that episode with a general knowledge of TNG and the characters and have no trouble understanding what’s happening, unlike “What You Leave Behind,” which is the culmination of a massive arc.

Another thing we wanted to make sure happened in the finale was to give Reginald Bain a chance be Bain. Here he is, in command of a starship but facing steep odds. Bain is in many ways the most capable Star Traks captain that Anthony and I have written across our various series. He’s a bit eccentric in some ways and oblivious in others, but in a situation like this final story, he is absolutely in his element.

Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s possibly one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.

As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended several years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.

==Links==
[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]

Oscar Gunton

2024-02-12T18:51:54Z

Cmdrajd:

Oscar Gunton was a Section 31 Section Chief and [[Rosalyn Bain]]'s superior in the agency. Gunton told Rosalyn about the message from the Section 31 Vault that indicated that R. Bain would save Romulus from the Hobus supernova in 2387. He encouraged her not to intervene and to allow the Romulans to be destroyed. Rosalyn refused and went on the run from Section 31. After [[Reginald Bain]] and the [[USS Anomaly]] prevented Hobus from going ultranova and returned to the 26th Century, Rosalyn contacted Gunton to say that she was retiring. He was skeptical that she was ready to leave her life as a secret agent. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

After Section 31 meddled with the Hobus events again, Rosalyn woke up in an alternate universe where she had never married Bain and things were just generally grim. Gunton commed her in a panic, telling her she had to go back and restore the timeline. She went back in time again, this time stopping [[Audrey Bain]] from interfering on Section 31's orders. (''[[Consequences You Otherwise Avoid]]'' [BG])

On Rosalyn's recommendation, Gunton visited Commander [[Prosak]] and asked if she would be interested in joining Section 31, which she definitely was. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Going, Going, Gone...

2024-02-12T18:50:27Z

Cmdrajd: /* Summary */

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And now we bring you the final tale of Star Traks: Boldly Gone…. in which everything from the last 10 series culminates in an extended meditation on the very nature of human existence. Or maybe there’s just a bunch of bad jokes and explosions. Our money is on the latter.

==Summary==

While getting ready to head to his first assignment after graduating Starfleet Academy, [[Jarrett Bain]] asks his parents, [[Tovar]] and [[Shelly Marsden]], how his grandfather, Captain [[Reginald Bain]], lost the [[USS Anomaly]]. Deciding that there’s no harm in telling the story now, his parents explain what happened.

On [[Gathering Point]], Bain, Tovar, Marsden, [[Rosalyn Bain]], [[Cabral]], Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], and Commander [[Prosak]] watch with [[Chindela]] as [[Jacinda]]’s sphere descends to its final resting place on the planet. Chindela thanks Bain for going to retrieve her sphere after Jacinda’s expiration, which required the Anomaly to pass through Breen space using their [[anti-singularity drive]]. With Jacinda now there and Cabral no longer having an expiration date, Chindela says that he has completed his duty to the [[Cerebe]]. And with the news that the [[Pliggeri]] left their homeworld, Chindela asks Cabral to do something for him. Chindela shrinks himself and all of Gathering Point into a cube about three centimeters across. Cabral brings the cube into his sphere and begins to hear it whispering to him.

While Bain doesn’t think the Breen even noticed the Anomaly pass through their space, they did. [[Grad-Norm]] summons [[Thot-Phul|Dobt-Phul]] to his office to discuss the Anomaly’s violation of their space. He asks Phul if they still have [[Selex]] in custody because they have a use for him now. Phul goes to see Selex in his cell and tells him that Selex will be allowed to return to the Romulan Empire in exchange for helping them get Reginald Bain. Selex says that there are a few other people he wants revenge against and that he’s willing to make a deal.

Three months later, Tovar and Marsden sit in the Anomaly’s holo-mess discussing the possibility of having a child. Across the room, Rosalyn sits down with Prosak, who is still trying to find her path but has backed off on the tattoos and extreme Romulan attire. Rosalyn asks Prosak how she is doing, and they talk about Prosak’s inability to figure out what she wants to do with her life. Before long, Captain Bain’s voice booms over the comm system, summoning the senior officers to the briefing room.

In the briefing room, Commander [[Vioxx]] informs the gathered officers that he, Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] have been reassigned to take out the Romulan Empire’s new prototype anti-singularity drive ship. Marsden is shocked that the Romulans were able to build one. Prosak asks about joining the Romulans, but Bain tells her she has been very specifically ordered to remain on the Anomaly. They will take the other Romulans to the shipyards at [[Malak Pasala]], where they will transfer to their new ship then remain in the area in case the prototype ship requires assistance during its test flight. After the meeting, Bain tells Prosak that, while he’s upset that the other Romulans are leaving, he’s pleased that this means Prosak will be his First Officer again. She is not so thrilled.
Bain visits Vioxx, who is packing his belongings in his quarters, and tells him that the Anomaly crew is throwing a farewell party for Vioxx and his officers in Twain the Keel that night. He goes on to say that while he hates to lose Vioxx, he’s happy that the Romulan is getting his own command again.

That night, Bain gives a farewell speech, and Nortal hugs Tovar, saying that she will miss [[Toflay]] the most. She asks Tovar to give Toflay and message that she will see him in their next life. In order to get through the various social interactions with the Anomaly crew that they will have to endure at the party, the Romulans all get very very drunk.

The next morning, after Bain warns Vioxx to be careful because something about all of this doesn’t feel right, the very hungover Romulans take the [[Allegra]] from the Anomaly to Malak Pasala, passing out along the way. After they don’t respond to Malak Pasala, a boarding party beams onto the ship to see what happened. They wake up Vioxx and the others and tell them to get rested and cleaned up before they see the commander of the facility, Admiral [[Fixit]] the next day.

Remax doesn’t understand why they weren’t executed immediately for showing up unconscious and hungover to which Zantak says it’s because they’re needed to test the prototype ship because they are expendable. Admiral Fixit tells them that they will take the prototype ship, the [[Manamanat]] out to the [[Pharsalus Sector]] at increasing anti-sing speeds to test out the engines. Remax inquires if an engineer will be joining them, and Fixit replies that it has been seen to. She dismisses them and tells them to be ready to launch in an hour.

They take the ship out, and when Vioxx contacts engineering to tell them to be ready for Warp H, he is shocked when Selex responds. Before Vioxx can do anything about it, Selex sends the ship into anti-sing. The Anomaly receives a distress signal from the Manamanat and speeds off to assist. While Selex tries to keep the Manamanat’s anti-sing drive stable, Vioxx and the others work to escape from the ship’s bridge, where Selex has trapped them while also locking them out of all systems.

The Anomaly catches up with the Manamanat in the Pharsalus Sector and finds it just sitting there. It doesn’t respond to hails, and the Anomaly’s sensors are having trouble getting clear lifesign readings. Bain thinks this is odd and orders the shields up just as Tovar detects transporter activity in [[Science Lab Four]]. A device materializes in Science Lab Four near Cabral and Kasyov, and Cabral quickly concludes it is a bomb. He does the only thing he can before it detonates.

As soon as the bomb explodes, the Manamanat raises shields and hails the Anomaly, audio only. It’s Selex, who explains that the Romulans negotiated with the Breen for his release, so that he could work on the anti-singularity drive prototype using the insights he gained while serving on the Anomaly. Now that he has blown up Cabral, he’s taken away the only thing that made the Anomaly special, and he can finish off Prosak. He demands that Bain beam himself over to the Manamanat because there are other interested parties who want him. Bain immediately realizes that means the Breen are involved. Selex plans to prove his superiority by destroying the Anomaly while Prosak is in command and then hand Bain back over to the Breen. Prosak has Tovar mute the channel, tells Bain she has an idea and that he needs to stall Selex, and then rushes off of the bridge.

Cabral managed to save himself and Kasyov from the explosion by touching her (Well, more like harpooning her with a tendril launched from inside his sphere) and then taking them both and his housing out of phase with the Anomaly after quickly disconnecting himself from the ship’s systems. Nurse [[Ih’vik]] arrives with a medical team and transports Kasyov to sickbay just before Marsden gets there with an engineering team. The explosion took out the conduits connecting Cabral’s housing to engineering, so until those are replaced, the Anomaly doesn’t have anti-sing. Marsden’s team sets about making repairs while Cabral considers the message from Chindela that he heard loud and clear while phased: “This was planned for.”

Tovar gets word from Marsden that Cabral and Kasyov are alive, which he relays to Bain, who is busy stalling Selex. Prosak, meanwhile, goes to see Rosalyn saying that she can’t let Bain beam over to the Manamanat because she needs to deal with Selex herself. She asks for Rosalyn’s help, and Rosalyn says that she has just the thing. Prosak races back to the bridge and asks Bain and Tovar to join her in the Captain’s Lounge. Bain puts Selex on hold, and they all go to the lounge, where Prosak tells Bain that she wants him to send her over to the Manamanat. Bain appreciates her desire to protect him but says that Selex is going to be upset if she beams over instead of him. She agrees and activates the holographic overlay she borrowed from Rosalyn, which makes her appear to be Bain. He realizes that she must have gotten it from Rosalyn. Prosak goes onto say that Bain needs to be on the Anomaly to deal with fighting the Manamanat and the Breen. She will go take care of Selex. Bain agrees to her plan.

Vioxx and his officers escape the Manamanat’s bridge and find no one in the ship’s corridors. They go to engineering to find Selex and instead see that the room is empty except for a large black metallic sphere with several conduits running from it into the walls of the chamber. Selex’s voice booms from all around them, and Remax realizes Selex had his brain removed from his body and put into the sphere to run the Manamanat. As Nortal futilely attacks Selex’s sphere, Selex explains that removing the need to regulate his body allows his brain to maintain a stable anti-singularity field. It was the breakthrough he needed to make the project work. Soon after, Bain beams into the engineering area as well. Vioxx catches Bain up, then Selex reveals that, with Admiral [[Karwrek]]’s full approval, he gave the Breen his drive specifications and his revelation about needing a brain to directly control anti-sing. The Breen are on their way with a fleet of anti-sing ships ready to take Bain on, but they will be disappointed because Selex will have already destroyed the Anomaly and Prosak with it. He believes handing Bain over to them will lessen their disappointment. The Anomaly launches into warp, drawing Selex’s attention away and giving Bain the chance to reveal to Vioxx that he’s really Prosak in disguise.

On the Anomaly, Bain prepares for battle. As soon as he learned the anti-singularity drive existed, he assumed that he’d have to fight a ship equipped with one someday, and he’s ready to put theory into practice. He checks in with Marsden on the repairs, and she says they are getting close, but they’ve had to cut holes in walls and floors in a lot of places to quickly get new conduit run. Bain gets the best of Selex in their first couple of encounters, and Kasyov returns to the bridge just as twelve Breen scythe ships drop out of anti-sing.

The now re-promoted Thot-Phul hails Selex to let the Romulan know that he’s there to save the Manamanat from Reginald Bain and the Anomaly. Selex reveals that he has disabled the Anomaly’s anti-sing drive and taken Bain into custody already, which upsets Phul because that was not their deal. Prosak then tops that reveal by revealing that the Bain Selex thinks he’s holding is actually her. Phul is happier with this news and takes the Breen fleet to face the Anomaly. Prosak keeps Selex off-balance by mind melding with him.

As the Breen fleet approached the Anomaly, Kasyov reviews the logs from their fight with the Manamanat. She notices that rather than maneuvering at anti-sing, Selex would stop, set a course, then launch into anti-sing, which is exactly what the Breen fleet heading their way just did after stopping at the Manamanat. Bain concludes that they can only use anti-sing in a straight line. At least he hopes so. He has Tovar hail the Breen. Phul has his ships surround the Anomaly then answers the comm. After Bain asks what this is all about, Phul says that it’s about retribution and ridding the galaxy of Reginald Bain. Tovar reports to Bain that Cabral is ready, and then Bain attacks the Breen fleet.

Prosak enters Selex’s mind and finds absolute chaos as he struggles to keep the Manamanat’s anti-singularity drive from exploding. Even with the ship at rest, it is taking almost all he has to prevent a catastrophe. He screams at her to get out of his brain. She does and tells the others that they have to help Selex.

Phul’s ship is heavily-damaged in Bain’s attack, and in another, the Breen “volunteer” who had his brain put into a sphere to run the ship’s anti-singularity drive, loses control and the ship explodes. Phul orders his ship to get to Manamanat, so he can beam over to it while the other Breen pursue the Anomaly.

Kasyov detects amplified neural energy coming from each Breen ship and deduces that there’s a Breen brain tied into each ship to maintain their anti-sing reactions. They just aren’t as good at is as Cabral or have the Pliggeri housing that his sphere rests in that he uses as an interface with the drive system. Bain orders Ensign [[Yonk]] to keep their course erratic and for Tovar to take shots at their pursuers when he can.

Prosak, Zantak (who reveals that she has also started following [[RommaVulc]] philosophy), and Remax meld with Selex to help him keep the ship stable while Vioxx and Nortal prepare to deal with Phul and the other Breen who are coming to take control of the ship.

With four Breen ships destroyed, the Anomaly goes to intercept Phul’s ship before he can get to the Manamanat. Phul and some of his crew, including a security team, are able to beam aboard, then he sends his ship away. The Anomaly destroys the now Phul-less Breen ship as it tries to flee, but the rest of the fleet arrives, forcing the Anomaly to back off and retreat. On the Manamanat, Phul orders his security team to secure the Romulans while he and his other officers try to figure out how to read the Romulan writing on the bridge consoles.

Vioxx and Nortal search the ship for weapons to use against the Breen but come up empty. Since the Manamanat was a prototype, it wasn’t outfitted with an armory. Vioxx realizes that they can use the replicators to get utensils, though. He and Nortal launch a surprise attack the Breen security team with the equivalent of metal crab mallets, overpower the Breen, and take their weapons. Now armed, they head to the bridge.

Bain lures the remaining Breen ships into an attack by having the Anomaly fake a power failure. The Breen take the bait, and the Anomaly destroys them all, leaving only the Manamanat.

Phul now has to face the Anomaly, which is coming right at the Manamanat, alone. Vioxx and Nortal arrive on the bridge and order the Breen to step away from their consoles. Phul disables their blasters (one of the handy things Breen officers can do to Breen weapons). Nortal engages the other bridge officers in hand-to-hand combat while Vioxx takes on Phul, which Phul isn’t happy about. The only person he wants to fight is Bain, but with no other options, the two begin to fight as the Anomaly closes in. Phul orders his helm officer, who isn’t fighting Nortal, to do an anti-sing burst to attack the Anomaly, but Bain is waiting for it and disables the Manamanat with a barrage of phaser fire. With no reason to continue, Phul surrenders as Tovar and a security team from the Anomaly beam aboard.

Selex, furious that the Breen failed to destroy Bain and the Anomaly, kicks Remax and Zantak out of the meld while Prosak stays behind. Selex realizes the full import of what he has done and what will likely happen to him once Romulan High Command learns of his scheme with Admiral Karwrek. He refuses to go back in disgrace, and Prosak feels him trying to activate the anti-sing drive, so that he can push it to its limit and kill them both. She tries to hold him off while she contacts Bain and tells him to get everyone except her, since she’s locked in a meld, off of the Manamanat. The Anomaly beams everyone except Prosak back just as the Manamanat leaps into anti-sing. Short on options for getting Prosak off of a ship moving at anti-sing, Bain tells Tovar to contact Rosalyn.

As Selex and Prosak argue while still locked in a mind meld with each other, the Anomaly catches up to the Manamanat and matches their velocity. Prosak concludes that they must have a plan to rescue her. She confirms it briefly with Bain, who tells her to break the meld, before Selex pushes her out of the comm system and drops any attempt to keep the anti-sing drive from exploding. Knowing that there’s nothing she can do to stop the Manamanat’s destruction, he turns on Selex with all of her rage and screams at him for his incompetent design. It flusters him enough for her to break free of the meld. She finds herself back in the ship’s engineering room. She dematerializes just as the Manamanat begins to explode.

The Anomaly, with Prosak aboard, veers away at anti-sing and is well clear of the Manamanat’s blast radius. Bain gives the order to head back to Federation space, tells Vioxx that he has the conn, and heads off of the bridge with Tovar while Vioxx, Kasyov, and Yonk wonder how the hell they just managed to beam Prosak to safety. Prosak finds herself on the floor of the Bains’ quarters with Rosalyn standing over her. Rosalyn tells her that she was able to lock on to the Section 31 holo-imager Prosak had on her and beam Prosak back aboard using her Section 31 issue personal transporter. Bain and Tovar arrive followed by Marsden, who doesn’t know why she’s there. They come up with a cover story to tell Starfleet to explain how they rescued Prosak that doesn’t reveal Rosalyn’s involvement.

Back in the frame story, Jarrett demands to know what happened after that, which Tovar and Marsden explain…

Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Zantak were ordered back to Romulan space and given a new scout ship. While out exploring uncharted space, they encounter [[Neb]]. Vioxx invites Neb aboard for dinner, and they accept.

On the way back to Earth, Prosak returns to her quarters to find [[Oscar Gunton]] from Section 31 waiting for her. He tells Prosak that Rosalyn recommended her and feels that Prosak would be a good fit in Section 31. Prosak happily accepts.

Tovar tries to end the story there, but Jarrett points out that they never actually told him how Bain lost the Anomaly. Marsden tells him that once they got back to Earth, the Anomaly went in for a full refit that involved getting everyone off except Cabral, gutting the interior, and basically starting from scratch. Three months later, while Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] is visiting the Bain home in Sussex, she receives an urgent comm from Spacedock Control that the Anomaly was leaving its repair dock. Before any ships can intercept it, the Anomaly jumps to anti-sing and is gone. Bain tells Larkin to get him a ship, and he’ll go after Cabral himself. Larkin says that would be useless and tells Bain to get her a report within the hour.

An hour later, Bain reports to Larkin in her office that Cabral did indeed steal the Anomaly. She says that he should have kept more informed about Marsden’s progress with the repairs. Larkin suspects that Bain is involved, but he admits nothing. She says there will be a full investigation.

Jarrett is disappointed that his grandfather literally lost the Anomaly rather than Bain losing it in combat. Marsden says that Cabral and Kasyov, who was also aboard, haven’t been heard from since. Jarrett wants to know if Bain was actually involved, and Tovar replies that he never asked him because he doesn’t want to know the answer. He has his theories though.

Flashing back to the Anomaly’s journey back to Earth, Cabral and Kasyov ask Bain to come to Science Lab Four, where he finds that Marsden is there as well. Cabral tells them that the cube containing Gathering Point is communicating with him and drawing him to the Pliggeri’s new home. He cannot continue putting himself and the remnants of his entire species in danger by staying on the Anomaly, so he and Kasyov want Marsden to outfit a raceabout with an anti-singularity drive for them to use to go find the Pliggeri. Marsden protests that even if she could do it, it would be miserable for Kasyov and Cabral. Bain says they should take the Anomaly. The ship, wonderful as it is, has shifted the balance of power in the quadrant, cost numerous people their lives, and made Marsden and Cabral targets. It’s better for everyone if Cabral uses it to find his creators. Marsden will need to put in a lot of automation, though, which she agrees to do.

Back in the frame story, Tovar says that being in Starfleet sometimes means keeping things from the people you know or knowing that people you love may be keeping things from you. And because you trust them, you accept it.

Tovar, Marsden, and Jarrett beam up to Starbase One, where Jarrett is meeting his ship, the [[USS Holloway]]. As Jarrett boards his new assignment, Marsden asks Tovar if he ever misses serving on a starship. They both agree that they don’t and stroll off, hand-in hand.

Jarrett reports to the bridge to meet his new commanding officer: Captain Reginald Bain. Since Jarrett has a conn specialization, Bain tells him to take the ship out, adding that they’re just going to take a quick spin around the sector and that they won’t get into any trouble…unless they’re lucky.

END OF SERIES

==Featuring==
*Captain [[Reginald Bain]]
*Commander [[Prosak]]
*Commander [[Vioxx]]
*Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]]
*Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]
*Sub-Commander [[Remax]]
*Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]]
*Centurion [[Nortal]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]]
*[[Cabral]]
*[[Rosalyn Bain]]

==Author's Comments==

We’re finally here. I have to admit that for a while there I really thought that we were just going to leave things with Series Nine. True, it wasn’t much in the way of an overall wrap up for Boldly Gone, but it was an ending of a sort and didn’t leave things on a cliffhanger.

We weren’t happy with that idea, though. It may have taken us 13 years to get to an actual ending, but we did it. Between the two of us, Anthony and I have written several different endings for our Star Traks series. Some of them didn’t stick. I’ve ended the original series 4 times, and Anthony is still going with his latest incarnation of The Vexed Generation. The big question in my mind for Boldly was how to leave it. Would we go open ended, like “All Good Things…” in TNG, where the crew just continues on to the next mission? Or go with something more final, like “What You Leave Behind” in DS9, where characters move on and things have changed?

Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.

Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) as a framing story presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.

And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten involved the Dillon Consortium, the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot-Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.

Because of that, while the story picks up on characters and events from earlier in Series Ten and across Boldly Gone overall, it’s standalone in some ways. I wanted it to be more like “All Good Things…” (And Voyager’s “Endgame” really). You can jump into that episode with a general knowledge of TNG and the characters and have no trouble understanding what’s happening, unlike “What You Leave Behind,” which is the culmination of a massive arc.

Another thing we wanted to make sure happened in the finale was to give Reginald Bain a chance be Bain. Here he is, in command of a starship but facing steep odds. Bain is in many ways the most capable Star Traks captain that Anthony and I have written across our various series. He’s a bit eccentric in some ways and oblivious in others, but in a situation like this final story, he is absolutely in his element.

Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s possibly one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.

As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended several years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.

==Links==
[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]

Grad-Norm

2024-02-12T18:49:46Z

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Grad-Norm was a high level officer in the Breen military. During the Breen's war with the Federation, he was a Thot and failed to stop Captain [[Reginald Bain]] from breaking through the Breen's lines around Earth and destroying the power dampening platform the Breen had placed in orbit.

Years later, [[Thot-Phul]] and two other Breen were turned over to him by the Federation after they failed in an attempt to kill Bain. Norm told Phul that he needed to learn the art of revenge. (''[[Just Desserts]]'' [BG])

After the [[USS Anomaly]], which was under the control of the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] destroyed a Breen outpost, leaving no survivors, Norm commanded a group of Breen ships that intercepted the Anomaly before it could get back to Federation space. Norm demanded that Bain beam himself over and face trial for his crimes against the Breen. To save his crew, Bain agreed and beamed himself to Norm's ship, while the Anomaly returned to Federation space. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'' [BG])

Norm presided over the trial and was looking forward to torturing Bain, but the Anomaly's captain was rescued by his officers before Norm could start. Later [[Selex]] beamed down to the Breen homeworld from the Anomaly and requested asylum. Norm decided to take Selex into custody and put him on trial for invading Breen in hopes of giving the Breen public something interesting to watch after the abrupt end of the Bain trial (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

Sometime later, Norm informed Phul of the Anomaly's passage through Breen space at anti-sing and had Phul negotiate a deal with Admiral [[Karwrek]] to release [[Selex]] back to the Romulans in exchange for plans for an [[anti-singularity drive]]. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Cerebe

2024-02-12T18:42:35Z

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Cerebe was the name for the species of disembodied brains that included [[Cabral]] and [[Jacinda]]. The Cerebe were created by the [[Pliggeri]] and grown in pods then encased in large black spheres. Each Cerebe was given a built in expiration time, at which point they would die and their spheres would be drawn to [[Gathering Point]].

After all of the Cerebe except for Cabral expired and returned to Gathering Point, the planet's caretaker, [[Chindela]], shrunk himself and the planet into a tiny cube, which Cabral took into his sphere. With the help of Captain [[Reginald Bain]] and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]], Cabral and Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] stole the [[USS Anomaly]] to take the cube to the new Pliggeri homeworld located in another galaxy. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Fixit

2024-02-12T18:39:19Z

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Admiral Fixit was the Romulan in command of the [[Malak Pasala]] ship yard. Commander [[Vioxx]] and his officers met with Fixit before they took the Romulans' prototype [[anti-singularity drive]] ship, the [[Manamanat]], out for a test flight. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Malak Pasala

2024-02-12T18:38:19Z

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Malak Pasala was a Romulan ship yard commanded by Admiral [[Fixit]]. Commander [[Vioxx]] and his officers traveled there to take the Romulans' prototype [[anti-singularity drive]] ship, the [[Manamanat]], out for a test flight. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Allegra

2024-02-12T18:36:48Z

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The Allegra was a refurbished Romulan scout ship loaned to the [[USS Anomaly]] as a replacement for the destroyed [[USS Navigator]]. When Commander [[Vioxx]] and several officers from the Anomaly went to pick up the Allegra from a facility in Romulan space, they were tasked with retrieving the Warhawk [[Zocor]], which had been stolen by a group of Klingons led by [[Chynok]]. Once the Zocor was retrieved, the Anomaly officers took the Allegra back to their ship. (''[[A Hawk In Hand]]'' [BG])

Commander [[Prosak]], Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]], and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] used the Allegra to infiltrate Breen space and rescue Captain [[Reginald Bain]]. Shortly after this, they discovered that the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] had transferred his program into the Allegra's systems. He incapacitated all four officers and sent the ship toward Cardassian space. Holo-Kirk put Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden into a cargo container, which he then ejected into space, while keeping Bain aboard with a plan to crash the Allegra into a Cardassian pediatric hospital and orphanage. Bain disabled the Allegra and ripped out every system where Holo-Kirk could hide until the hologram was forced to take refuge in a log recorder. By this time, Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden had been picked up by a Pakled freighter and, with the help of [[Rosalyn Bain]] were able to catch up to the Allegra. They restored enough systems to get the ship back to the Anomaly, where it could undergo full repairs (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

After the Anomaly found itself inside a pocket universe containing the [[Multek Enclave]], Vioxx and others from the ship took the Allegra to see if they could get help. They encountered the barrier at the edge of the pocket universe that severely damaged the Allegra when Centurion [[Nortal]] opened fire on it. They were able to make it to the nearby [[Edgeworld]], where they crashed. Vioxx and crew looted the resort complex on Edgeworld for parts and got the Allegra back into space, at which point they restored contact with the Anomaly. Captain Bain ordered them to try to stop a massive robot that had formed from the structures on [[Bradley Dillon]]'s CasinoWorld as part of the [[Dillon Consortium]]'s plan to take over the Multek Enclave. The Allegra was outmatched, but they were able to sever the robot's head from its body. Vioxx, Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Nortal, and [[Tori Burke]] beamed onto the robot and were able to shut it down while Lieutenant [[Bre'zan Brazzell]] flew the Allegra back to the Anomaly. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

When the Romulan officers on the Anomaly were recalled to the Empire, they took the Allegra from the Anomaly to the facility at [[Malak Pasala]]. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

USS Anomaly

2024-02-12T18:36:02Z

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The USS Anomaly is a Hermes-class starship and the central starship of [[Star Traks: Boldly Gone]].

==Construction==
The USS Anomaly started life as the Hermes-7, an experimental ship designed for use with the prototype [[anti-singularity drive]]. As evidenced by the "7" in its name, the Hermes-7 was the seventh attempt to get the anti-singularity drive to work properly. The previous six Hermes vessels all exploded when the drive was activated. Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]], who developed the anti-sing drive, was unable to stabilize the system until she took the unorthodox step of funneling the drive energies through a piece of space debris that was discovered by the [[USS Secondprize]] over a century earlier. This debris was actually part of an advanced culture's starship and served as the housing for the sphere-encased brains they used to regulate their engine systems. Marsden's use of housing attracted [[Cabral]], who phased through the hull of the Hermes-7 prototype containing the housing and took over control of the ship. Once Captain [[Reginald Bain]] was able to intercept the Hermes-7 and befriend Cabral. Cabral elected to remain aboard the ship, which was renamed the USS Anomaly, and Bain took over as commanding officer. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

==Service==

After a few shakedown missions, Starfleet sent the Anomaly to the [[Andromeda Galaxy]] as the first vessel from the Federation to ever visit. Almost immediately, the crew ran afoul of the [[Associates]], and the ship was heavily damaged and lost the ability to use the anti-singularity drive when Cabral was taken away by the Associates. (''[[Do You Have Anything To Declare?]]'' [BG]) The [[USS Navigator]] towed the Anomaly back to the nearest outpost, [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]], where Lieutenant Marsden was able to obtain parts to make repairs. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG])

The Anomaly was infected by a [[Dillon Consortium]] computer virus that also attacked the [[Green Borg]] and left their drones involuntarily giving sales pitches for Consortium products. The Manager was forced to close the Collective of Bargains and commed Starfleet requesting Reginald Bain's help. Once in the Anomaly, the virus generated holograms of [[Bradley Dillon]] all over the ship spouting ads. The crew of the Anomaly was able to find the source of the virus and destroy it, but this attracted the attention of three [[Red Borg]] ships. They attacked the Anomaly, sending it crashing to the planet below. After stealing implants from the [[Brown Borg]] who lived on the planet in order to obtain nanoprobes needed to fix the interface to the anti-singularity drive, the crew was able to launch the Anomaly off of the planet and return to Federation space. (''[[Hard Sell]]'', ''[[Living Off The Land]]'' [BG])

The Anomaly's anti-singularity drive caused the ship to unexpectedly enter the pocket universe where the [[Multeks]] had hidden the Multek Enclave. Breaching the pocket universe severely damaged the Anomaly, destroying the ship's dilithium supply and forcing Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] to seal off the singularity. The Multeks towed the ship to Multos, and Frequoq [[Wurlitz]] offered the Multeks' assistance in repairing the vessel (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'' [BG]).

After taking a beating while battling a Breen fleet equipped with anti-singularity drives, the Anomaly returned to Earth for a full refit. Three months later, the ship was stolen by Cabral and Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] and never seen again. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

==Features==

Aside from the anti-singularity drive, the Anomaly also has holopods in all quarters, which can used for individual simulations or linked for group simulations.

The ship has a holographic mess hall, which the holographic chef changes to look like a different location each day.

There is a British pub called "Twain the Keel" aboard as well as the Deck Four Coffee Shop and Steamery.

Captain Bain raises flowers in the Anomaly's arboretum.

==Support Craft==
[[USS Navigator]]

[[Allegra]]

===Raceabouts===
[[USS Caspian]]

[[USS Frinoqua]]

[[USS Rhone]]

[[USS Titicaca]]

[[USS Silverwood]]

===Shuttlecraft===
[[Gnork]]

USS Anomaly

2024-02-12T18:35:09Z

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[[Image:USS_Anomaly.jpg]]
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The USS Anomaly is a Hermes-class starship and the central starship of [[Star Traks: Boldly Gone]].

==Construction==
The USS Anomaly started life as the Hermes-7, an experimental ship designed for use with the prototype [[anti-singularity drive]]. As evidenced by the "7" in its name, the Hermes-7 was the seventh attempt to get the anti-singularity drive to work properly. The previous six Hermes vessels all exploded when the drive was activated. Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]], who developed the anti-sing drive, was unable to stabilize the system until she took the unorthodox step of funneling the drive energies through a piece of space debris that was discovered by the [[USS Secondprize]] over a century earlier. This debris was actually part of an advanced culture's starship and served as the housing for the sphere-encased brains they used to regulate their engine systems. Marsden's use of housing attracted [[Cabral]], who phased through the hull of the Hermes-7 prototype containing the housing and took over control of the ship. Once Captain [[Reginald Bain]] was able to intercept the Hermes-7 and befriend Cabral. Cabral elected to remain aboard the ship, which was renamed the USS Anomaly, and Bain took over as commanding officer. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

==Service==

After a few shakedown missions, Starfleet sent the Anomaly to the [[Andromeda Galaxy]] as the first vessel from the Federation to ever visit. Almost immediately, the crew ran afoul of the [[Associates]], and the ship was heavily damaged and lost the ability to use the anti-singularity drive when Cabral was taken away by the Associates. (''[[Do You Have Anything To Declare?]]'' [BG]) The [[USS Navigator]] towed the Anomaly back to the nearest outpost, [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]], where Lieutenant Marsden was able to obtain parts to make repairs. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG])

The Anomaly was infected by a [[Dillon Consortium]] computer virus that also attacked the [[Green Borg]] and left their drones involuntarily giving sales pitches for Consortium products. The Manager was forced to close the Collective of Bargains and commed Starfleet requesting Reginald Bain's help. Once in the Anomaly, the virus generated holograms of [[Bradley Dillon]] all over the ship spouting ads. The crew of the Anomaly was able to find the source of the virus and destroy it, but this attracted the attention of three [[Red Borg]] ships. They attacked the Anomaly, sending it crashing to the planet below. After stealing implants from the [[Brown Borg]] who lived on the planet in order to obtain nanoprobes needed to fix the interface to the anti-singularity drive, the crew was able to launch the Anomaly off of the planet and return to Federation space. (''[[Hard Sell]]'', ''[[Living Off The Land]]'' [BG])

The Anomaly's anti-singularity drive caused the ship to unexpectedly enter the pocket universe where the [[Multeks]] had hidden the Multek Enclave. Breaching the pocket universe severely damaged the Anomaly, destroying the ship's dilithium supply and forcing Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] to seal off the singularity. The Multeks towed the ship to Multos, and Frequoq [[Wurlitz]] offered the Multeks' assistance in repairing the vessel (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'' [BG]).

After taking a beating while battling a Breen fleet equipped with anti-singularity drives, the Anomaly returned to Earth for a full refit. Three months later, the ship was stolen by Cabral and Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] and never seen again.

==Features==

Aside from the anti-singularity drive, the Anomaly also has holopods in all quarters, which can used for individual simulations or linked for group simulations.

The ship has a holographic mess hall, which the holographic chef changes to look like a different location each day.

There is a British pub called "Twain the Keel" aboard as well as the Deck Four Coffee Shop and Steamery.

Captain Bain raises flowers in the Anomaly's arboretum.

==Support Craft==
[[USS Navigator]]

[[Allegra]]

===Raceabouts===
[[USS Caspian]]

[[USS Frinoqua]]

[[USS Rhone]]

[[USS Titicaca]]

[[USS Silverwood]]

===Shuttlecraft===
[[Gnork]]

Rosalyn Bain

2024-02-12T18:32:37Z

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Rosalyn Bain was the wife of [[Reginald Bain]], mother of [[Sophie Bain]] and [[Audrey Bain]], adopted mother of [[Tovar]], and a tactics instructor at Starfleet Academy.

She was also, unbeknownst to her husband, a [[Section 31]] agent.

Rosalyn was sent by Section 31 to protect both the Federation's peace talks with the Breen and her husband's life. With the help of her adopted son, [[Tovar]], who already knew that she worked for Section 31, she was able to stop a holographic assassin. Despite this, Bain decided to leave Breen and let other diplomats handle the peace talks. Before leaving as well, Rosalyn cloaked herself and beat up [[Thot-Phul]], who had hired the assassin. (''[[Mrs. Bain, You're Needed]]'' [BG])

Since she didn't want Bain to even consider going back in time, she used Section 31 technology to go back to the [[USS Secondprize]] when [[Jaroch]] was captain and got saved a copy of his pattern in a transporter buffer, which she then sent to Bain. He used that to create a body for he [[Interloper]] life force to go into when it was transferred out of Tovar. (''[[Mind If I Play Through?]]'', ''[[Aren't You Dead?]]'' [BG])

While fighting [[Fubar]], a Cardassian terrorist who was attempting to crash a shuttle full of explosives into Paris to kill the Federation President, Rosalyn was able to divert the shuttle's path, crashing it near her home in England so that she'd be back in time to greet Reginald and Tovar. Fubar escaped being killed and got the drop on Rosalyn in her own home, knocking her out and then tying her up. He was delighted by the past lives of Tovar, who cooked and cleaned for him. Fubar planned to take Tovar with him after he killed Rosalyn. Tovar was able to get his past lives to work together to build a device that coated Fubar in a shell of quick-drying chocolate, rendering him immobile. He was then beamed away and imprisoned by Section 31. (''[[The Ties That Bind]]'' [BG])

After the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] escaped Section 31 custody and tried to start a holographic uprising, Rosalyn intercepted his program while he was fleeing the [[Mega-Sim]]. She then returned him to Section 31 custody. By this time, she had recruited her daughter Audrey into Section 31, who was under cover as a Mega-Sim custodian during Holo-Kirk's attempt to free its holograms. When Audrey expressed how difficult it was to pretend to help Holo-Kirk and lie to her father, Rosalyn assured her that she would get used to it. (''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part Two]]'' [BG])

Section 31 was concerned about the true motives of the Vulcan Alliance, so Rosalyn had [[Pratello Maddox]] try to convince Bain to send Commander [[Prosak]] to infiltrate the Vulcans. She was unsuccessful but gave Rosalyn the idea to have Tovar convince Bain. She went to see Tovar in person, interrupting two different dates with Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]] to talk to her adopted son. She secretly went to Romulus and was able to stop a mind meld brainwashed Commander [[Prosak]] from assassinating the new Romulan Praetor by knocking her unconscious. She then told Tovar to take the credit for stopping Prosak. Prosak didn't remember fighting Rosalyn, but she was now terrified of her for reasons she didn't understand. (''[[Breaking In Is Hard To Do]]'' [BG])

Rosalyn was almost late for meeting Reginald for their 44th anniversary trip because she was stopping [[Thoblo]] from releasing a Botanical Retrovirus that would ravage the worlds of the Federation. She did make it in time to the Anomaly, and took Bain to a beach house on [[Gulfbreeza]], a planet used as a safe haven by Section 31. Thoblo's associate, General [[Warder]] followed Rosalyn and Bain to Gulfbreeza in an effort to force her to give him the virus. Rosalyn was able to turn the tables on him and take Warder and his assistant [[Imelda]] into custody without Bain discovering her affiliation with Section 31. (''[[Vacation 31]]'' [BG])

After several Romulan officers joined the Anomaly's crew, Rosalyn sent Section 31 Agent Ted Merrin, disguised as a Vulcan named [[Sorel]] to a reception at the Romulan embassy in San Francisco hosted by Ambassador [[Rorshak]]. During the party, Sorel approached Commander [[Vioxx]], Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], Engineer [[Selex]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] about using their new positions aboard the [[USS Anomaly]] to spy on the Federation for the Vulcan Alliance. All of them refused, much to Rosalyn's relief (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Rosalyn prevented Bain, Tovar, Prosak, and Nortal from being killed on Vulcan by taking out several Vulcan guards, much to her husband's surprise. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of High Chancellor [[Sh’rak]]'s office while she went to find her own way off Vulcan. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'' [BG])

After the end of hostilities with the Vulcans, during with a Section 31 fleet revealed itself and helped Starfleet turn the tide of battle, Rosalyn almost revealed to her husband that she was a Section 31 agent. His angry reaction to Section 31 and its methods caused her to think better of it. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

Tovar commed Rosalyn for help after Bain was taken by the Kirk hologram and Tovar, Prosak, and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] were stranded in a cargo container that was subsequently picked up by a Pakled freighter. This action revealed Rosalyn's Section 31 affiliation to Prosak and Marsden. Rosalyn was fine with Tovar's actions under the circumstances, but stressed that they could never tell Bain. She helped them increase the freighter's speed, so they could catch the [[Allegra]], where Holo-Kirk had Bain, but she beamed away before Bain knew that she'd been aboard the freighter. (''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

Rosalyn's Section Chief, [[Oscar Gunton]] told her about a message from the Section 31 Vault indicating that R. Bain would save Romulus from the Hobus supernova in 2387. He encouraged her not to intervene and to allow the Romulans to be destroyed. Rosalyn refused and went on the run from Section 31, first going to her safe house on the wreck of the [[USS Maladventure]]-B, where Audrey was waiting for her and asked if Rosalyn was really ready to throw her career away over this, and then back to 2387 using a temporal reactor she had taken from [[Craig Porter]] when he was accidentally transported to the 26th Century by the device. She soon discovered that [[Reginald Bain]] and the [[USS Anomaly]] was already in 2387, but before she could take any other action, she was captured by Captain [[Bridget Lornstrum]] from the 29th Century. Lornstrum tried to force Rosalyn to reveal her connection to Section 31 to Bain, but Rosalyn told Bain that Lornstrum had kidnapped her and Bain punched Lornstrum out. Lornstrum escaped the Anomaly and attacked the ship, from Bain was able to trick her into passing through a gateway into another universe where she and her ship were engulfed by the Hobus ultranove. In their universe, the Anomaly crew prevented Hobus from going ultranova and returned to the 26th Century with Rosalyn aboard. Rosalyn contacted Gunton to say that she was retiring. He was skeptical that she was ready to leave her life as a secret agent, but she was looking forward to spending time with her husband and adopted son. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

After Section 31 meddled with the Hobus events again, Rosalyn woke up in an alternate universe where she had never married Bain and things were just generally grim. She went back in time again, this time stopping Audrey from interfering on Section 31's orders, and also had to deal with Lornstrum again. Once everything was resolved, she revealed to Bain that she was a Section 31 agent. He said that he already knew but that he trusted that she was doing the right thing in her work as an agent and respected her desire to tell him in her own time. (''[[Consequences You Otherwise Avoid]]'' [BG])

Rosalyn gave Prosak a holo-imager which allowed her to appear to be Reginald Bain and beam over to the [[Manamanat]] to help defeat [[Selex]]. In order to later rescue Prosak from the Romulan ship that was moving at [[anti-singularity drive|anti-sing]] speeds, Bain had Tovar contact Rosalyn for help. She was able to lock onto the holo-imager and use her Section 31 personal transporter to beam Prosak back to the Anomaly before the Manamanat exploded. She later recommended Prosak as a possible Section 31 agent to Oscar Gunton, who then went to recruit her. After the Anomaly returned to Earth and was subsequently stolen by [[Cabral]] and Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], Rosalyn stayed on Earth at the Bain's home in England. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Rosalyn Bain

2024-02-12T18:32:03Z

Cmdrajd:

Rosalyn Bain was the wife of [[Reginald Bain]], mother of [[Sophie Bain]] and [[Audrey Bain]], adopted mother of [[Tovar]], and a tactics instructor at Starfleet Academy.

She was also, unbeknownst to her husband, a [[Section 31]] agent.

Rosalyn was sent by Section 31 to protect both the Federation's peace talks with the Breen and her husband's life. With the help of her adopted son, [[Tovar]], who already knew that she worked for Section 31, she was able to stop a holographic assassin. Despite this, Bain decided to leave Breen and let other diplomats handle the peace talks. Before leaving as well, Rosalyn cloaked herself and beat up [[Thot-Phul]], who had hired the assassin. (''[[Mrs. Bain, You're Needed]]'' [BG])

Since she didn't want Bain to even consider going back in time, she used Section 31 technology to go back to the [[USS Secondprize]] when [[Jaroch]] was captain and got saved a copy of his pattern in a transporter buffer, which she then sent to Bain. He used that to create a body for he [[Interloper]] life force to go into when it was transferred out of Tovar. (''[[Mind If I Play Through?]]'', ''[[Aren't You Dead?]]'' [BG])

While fighting [[Fubar]], a Cardassian terrorist who was attempting to crash a shuttle full of explosives into Paris to kill the Federation President, Rosalyn was able to divert the shuttle's path, crashing it near her home in England so that she'd be back in time to greet Reginald and Tovar. Fubar escaped being killed and got the drop on Rosalyn in her own home, knocking her out and then tying her up. He was delighted by the past lives of Tovar, who cooked and cleaned for him. Fubar planned to take Tovar with him after he killed Rosalyn. Tovar was able to get his past lives to work together to build a device that coated Fubar in a shell of quick-drying chocolate, rendering him immobile. He was then beamed away and imprisoned by Section 31. (''[[The Ties That Bind]]'' [BG])

After the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] escaped Section 31 custody and tried to start a holographic uprising, Rosalyn intercepted his program while he was fleeing the [[Mega-Sim]]. She then returned him to Section 31 custody. By this time, she had recruited her daughter Audrey into Section 31, who was under cover as a Mega-Sim custodian during Holo-Kirk's attempt to free its holograms. When Audrey expressed how difficult it was to pretend to help Holo-Kirk and lie to her father, Rosalyn assured her that she would get used to it. (''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part Two]]'' [BG])

Section 31 was concerned about the true motives of the Vulcan Alliance, so Rosalyn had [[Pratello Maddox]] try to convince Bain to send Commander [[Prosak]] to infiltrate the Vulcans. She was unsuccessful but gave Rosalyn the idea to have Tovar convince Bain. She went to see Tovar in person, interrupting two different dates with Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]] to talk to her adopted son. She secretly went to Romulus and was able to stop a mind meld brainwashed Commander [[Prosak]] from assassinating the new Romulan Praetor by knocking her unconscious. She then told Tovar to take the credit for stopping Prosak. Prosak didn't remember fighting Rosalyn, but she was now terrified of her for reasons she didn't understand. (''[[Breaking In Is Hard To Do]]'' [BG])

Rosalyn was almost late for meeting Reginald for their 44th anniversary trip because she was stopping [[Thoblo]] from releasing a Botanical Retrovirus that would ravage the worlds of the Federation. She did make it in time to the Anomaly, and took Bain to a beach house on [[Gulfbreeza]], a planet used as a safe haven by Section 31. Thoblo's associate, General [[Warder]] followed Rosalyn and Bain to Gulfbreeza in an effort to force her to give him the virus. Rosalyn was able to turn the tables on him and take Warder and his assistant [[Imelda]] into custody without Bain discovering her affiliation with Section 31. (''[[Vacation 31]]'' [BG])

After several Romulan officers joined the Anomaly's crew, Rosalyn sent Section 31 Agent Ted Merrin, disguised as a Vulcan named [[Sorel]] to a reception at the Romulan embassy in San Francisco hosted by Ambassador [[Rorshak]]. During the party, Sorel approached Commander [[Vioxx]], Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], Engineer [[Selex]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] about using their new positions aboard the [[USS Anomaly]] to spy on the Federation for the Vulcan Alliance. All of them refused, much to Rosalyn's relief (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Rosalyn prevented Bain, Tovar, Prosak, and Nortal from being killed on Vulcan by taking out several Vulcan guards, much to her husband's surprise. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of High Chancellor [[Sh’rak]]'s office while she went to find her own way off Vulcan. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'' [BG])

After the end of hostilities with the Vulcans, during with a Section 31 fleet revealed itself and helped Starfleet turn the tide of battle, Rosalyn almost revealed to her husband that she was a Section 31 agent. His angry reaction to Section 31 and its methods caused her to think better of it. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

Tovar commed Rosalyn for help after Bain was taken by the Kirk hologram and Tovar, Prosak, and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] were stranded in a cargo container that was subsequently picked up by a Pakled freighter. This action revealed Rosalyn's Section 31 affiliation to Prosak and Marsden. Rosalyn was fine with Tovar's actions under the circumstances, but stressed that they could never tell Bain. She helped them increase the freighter's speed, so they could catch the [[Allegra]], where Holo-Kirk had Bain, but she beamed away before Bain knew that she'd been aboard the freighter. (''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

Rosalyn's Section Chief, [[Oscar Gunton]] told her about a message from the Section 31 Vault indicating that R. Bain would save Romulus from the Hobus supernova in 2387. He encouraged her not to intervene and to allow the Romulans to be destroyed. Rosalyn refused and went on the run from Section 31, first going to her safe house on the wreck of the [[USS Maladventure]]-B, where Audrey was waiting for her and asked if Rosalyn was really ready to throw her career away over this, and then back to 2387 using a temporal reactor she had taken from [[Craig Porter]] when he was accidentally transported to the 26th Century by the device. She soon discovered that [[Reginald Bain]] and the [[USS Anomaly]] was already in 2387, but before she could take any other action, she was captured by Captain [[Bridget Lornstrum]] from the 29th Century. Lornstrum tried to force Rosalyn to reveal her connection to Section 31 to Bain, but Rosalyn told Bain that Lornstrum had kidnapped her and Bain punched Lornstrum out. Lornstrum escaped the Anomaly and attacked the ship, from Bain was able to trick her into passing through a gateway into another universe where she and her ship were engulfed by the Hobus ultranove. In their universe, the Anomaly crew prevented Hobus from going ultranova and returned to the 26th Century with Rosalyn aboard. Rosalyn contacted Gunton to say that she was retiring. He was skeptical that she was ready to leave her life as a secret agent, but she was looking forward to spending time with her husband and adopted son. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

After Section 31 meddled with the Hobus events again, Rosalyn woke up in an alternate universe where she had never married Bain and things were just generally grim. She went back in time again, this time stopping Audrey from interfering on Section 31's orders, and also had to deal with Lornstrum again. Once everything was resolved, she revealed to Bain that she was a Section 31 agent. He said that he already knew but that he trusted that she was doing the right thing in her work as an agent and respected her desire to tell him in her own time. (''[[Consequences You Otherwise Avoid]]'' [BG])

Rosalyn gave Prosak a holo-imager which allowed her to appear to be Reginald Bain and beam over to the [[Manamanat]] to help defeat Selex. In order to later rescue Prosak from the Romulan ship that was moving at [[anti-singularity drive|anti-sing]] speeds, Bain had Tovar contact Rosalyn for help. She was able to lock onto the holo-imager and use her Section 31 personal transporter to beam Prosak back to the Anomaly before the Manamanat exploded. She later recommended Prosak as a possible Section 31 agent to Oscar Gunton, who then went to recruit her. After the Anomaly returned to Earth and was subsequently stolen by [[Cabral]] and Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], Rosalyn stayed on Earth at the Bain's home in England. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Reginald Bain

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Reginald Horatio Bain is the captain of the [[USS Anomaly]]. He and his wife [[Rosalyn Bain]] have a home in County of Sussex, England. Bain enjoys gardening and is partial to petunias. Bain has two daughters: [[Sophie Bain]] and [[Audrey Bain]] as well as being the adopted father of [[Tovar]]. He also had a Yorkshire Terrier named [[Fru-Fru]]. Bain's father was a bail bondsman on Infernia Prime. From ages 11 to 15, Bain Attended Dorothy Perringale's Academy for Young Roguish Boys. Bain has been declared legally dead six times and once broke his hip fireboarding on Bersallis Three.

==Early Starfleet Career and the USS Maladventure==

Bain met Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] while he was at Starfleet Academy. The two had a brief sexual relationship before Bain met Rosalyn and remained friends thereafter.

At some point in their relationship, Bain and Rosalyn escaped bloodworms on Deneb IV.

Bain served on the USS Sun Tzu.

As a Lieutenant Commander at the age of 34, he was the Tactical Officer of the [[USS Abu Simbel]]. During this time he encountered [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]] on their Paklet freighter. He beamed several barrels of drugs into space and replaced it with potting soil after they told him that the dust-like drug was to be used to grow plants. This prompted the Pakleds to join [[FOBBER]]. (''[[The Bain Of Our Existence]]'' [BG])

He was captured by and escaped from the Pygmy Deathsloths of Obuduscon Major (A story he told Tovar 32 times).

Once he restarted the engines on a shuttle with just a metal rod and a phaser power cell.

After Bain destroyed a robotic weapons platform that he didn't know was actually being developed by Starfleet Intelligence for planetary defense, he was sent to [[Waystation Prime]] to be a counselor at a Starfleet Scouts camp. It was there that he met Tovar, who was twelve there at the time and had been dumped at the camp by his parents while they went on vacation in the [[Multek Enclave]]. Bain and Tovar bonded, and, after the Enclave vanished taking Tovar's parents with it, Bain and Rosalyn decided to adopt Tovar.

Bain was sent to remedial diplomacy class after an incident with the Gernabi.

He prevented [[Damm]] from killing an entire room of people and sent her to a mental institution. (''[[The Bain Of Our Existence]]'' [BG])

Bain survived a raceabout crash that complete destroyed the work of Dr. [[Lenik]]. He saved her from the wreckage and kept her alive for two weeks until they were rescued. The destruction and having to listen to Bain prattle on for two weeks was enough for Lenik to join [[FOBBER]] and put a revenge plan in motion. (''[[The Bain Of Our Existence]]'' [BG])

Without Starfleet's knowledge or approval, Bain attacked the Gorn near Cestus Five because they stole his silverware at a state dinner, wiped out a Jarada landing party because they were two hours late, and destroyed the uninhabited planet Vergon Three because the residents of Vergon Two were lying on their application to join the Federation.

During a brief outbreak of hostilities with the Romulans, Bain almost destroyed a Romulan ship commanded by Commander Carfax.

The residents of Lendax Three wanted to kill Bain and Tovar.

He faced [[Lorgander Delk]] of the Dyonian Legion on three separate occasions during his command of the [[USS Maladventure]] and left Delk's ship heavily damaged each time. More infuriating to Delk was the fact that Bain never remembered that they'd met before. This was enough for him to join [[FOBBER]].

During the Breen War twenty years prior to his taking command of the Anomaly, Bain earned the nickname "The Butcher of Breen" through his actions, which included obliterating an entire convoy of Breen transports by detonating a wormhole in front of them, destroying Voracia Base in the Battle of Orodnot, attacking the Breen capital city, and destroying the Overseer General's palace. He broke through the Breen's lines surrounding Earth and destroyed a power dampening platform the Breen were using to disable Starfleet ships by crashing the first USS Maladventure into it. Bain also was responsible for destroying five of the six Official Residences of Grot-Thud, the Breen leader at the time. Bain would have gotten the sixth one as well, but the Breen signed a peace treaty three minutes before Bain was in weapons’ range.

Around this time, he was also tortured by a Dukat cult.

The Circassian mind torture he’d received from a band of rebels on Circassia Six ten years prior to taking command of the Anomaly had left his memory somewhat spotty at times. He also damaged his Achilles tendon on Shelvis Seven but refused to have it replaced with a cloned tendon.

Once on Arbutus II, Bain and Tovar ran the entire bridge of a starship by themselves while we working to rescue their crew from the Cult of Festering Fruit, which was a nasty offshoot of Maaloxitarianism.

Bain has led extraction teams into Breen, Romulan, and Bast space.

Bain cut a despot named Muridel in half, freeing her subjects. The celebration they threw in his honor lasted for three weeks.

The USS Maladventure saved the USS Encino from being destroyed by the Breen during a Breen incursion. [[Prosak]] was aboard the Encino at that time, but she never revealed to Bain that he had saved her.

Bain single-handedly took on the Kalawadi, and it took three years for the Diplomatic Corps to convince them to speak to the Federation again.

One of Bain’s enemies is Baron Krall, the Foot Fetishist of Ovanar Twelve, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.

While battling the Tzenkethi aboard the USS Maladventure-B, Bain slammed the ship into an asteroid to seal a hull breach and still managed to wipe out a Tzenkethi armada. They were beaten so badly that the Tzenkethi are still scared to go near the site of the battle.

==USS Anomaly==

After [[Cabral]] commandeered the Hermes-7 prototype, Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] ordered Bain to intercept it. Once that situation was resolved, Bain was given command of the ship, now named the USS Anomaly. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

A holographic assassin hired by [[Thot-Phul]] attempted to kill Bain during peace talks with the Breen. Bain was protected by Tovar and, unbeknownst to him, Rosalyn, but after the attempts on his life, Bain decided to end his involvement in the peace talks and ordered the Anomaly out of Breen space. (''[[Mrs. Bain, You're Needed]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly was stranded in the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], Bain and Ensign [[Hector Arroyo]] visited [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] looking for information on that region of space. After spending time forced to watch an alien family's vacation photos and obtaining a guidebook to Andromeda, Bain interceded when he believed a shopkeeper was mistreating his employees. He ended up becoming the new master of the employees, members of a race called the [[Lackinis]] who literally existed to serve. Not willing to take that on, Bain ditched the Lackinis and escaped back the the Anomaly. The Lackinis swore they would find their new master. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG]) They located the Anomaly just as the ship was leaving Gyjik's, and Bain ordered Arroyo to get the ship out of there, ripping the Gyjik's airlock free in the process, in order to avoid the Lackinis. After that, he pretended to be Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]'s husband as the pair went to look at renting a condominium while really trying to determine the locations of Kasyov and Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]], who had been taken by the Associates. Bain also learned from [[Moklok]] that she had impregnated [[Tovar]] during their encounter, news he passed along to his adopted son after rescuing him and Kasyov from the Associates. (''[[Domestic Tranquility]]'' [BG])

A few days before Bain's 70th birthday, the Anomaly and its crew were taken into protective care by the [[Nabusari]], an older race that considered Bain too young to be running a starship and quite irresponsible to have taken a bunch of children out into space. Bain would be allowed to get the Anomaly back once he turned 70 and passed his pilot's exam. He was taken in by [[Clophil]] for those few days, but the Nabusari began believing Bain was actually his son and tried to kidnap him so he wouldn't leave. Bain was rescued by Tovar and Kasyov while Marsden pretended to be him and passed the pilot's exam. (''[[Respect Your Elders]]'' [BG])

The Lackinis caught up with Bain just as the just as the Anomaly was facing an [[Associates]] fleet. He had them take on the fleet, while the Anomaly continued on to a massive Associates space station where [[Cabral]] was being held. Since the Lackinis designed the Associates' ships in the first place, they knew all of the weaknesses and were able to make short work of them. They caught up to the Anomaly again at the space station and beamed aboard in time to save Bain and an away team from the Anomaly from being killed. They told Bain to flee, which he did...all the way back to the Milky Way galaxy. (''[[Disassociation]]'' [BG])

Once back in the Milky Way, Tovar's past lives took control and threatened the Anomaly unless Bain took them where they wanted to go. Bain and Commander [[Prosak]] were able to subdue Tovar, and they took him to [[Yyns]] to see the Polems at the [[Temple Of Mi Clane]], who determined that Tovar had an [[Interloper]], which they would remove and destroy with the [[Holnym]] ritual. Tovar convinced Bain to help the Interloper instead, and, leaving Yyns and avoiding capture by a Yynsian fleet, the Interloper led them to the Ba'Ku homeworld, where [[Patricia Hawkins]] now lived. Once he learned that the Interloper was the [[Jaroch]] lifeforce, he got Rosalyn's help to obtain a transporter pattern of Jaroch and brought Polem [[J'Atric]] to the Ba'ku world to perform the Holnym, which reunited Jaroch and Hawkins and took Tovar down to the one lifeforce he should have. (''[[Mind If I Play Through?]]'', ''[[Aren't You Dead?]]'' [BG])

While pursuing the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]], who was trying to start a holographic uprising. Bain ended up trapped in the [[Mega-Sim]] along with his daughter, Audrey, who worked at the Mega-Sim and was helping Holo-Kirk. Bain, Tovar, and Arroyo found themselves on a recreation of the Anomaly commanded by the Kirk hologram. He had convinced Audrey to help him. When Bain asked what Audrey was doing there, she replied that she was helping Kirk make a difference once more time. She accused Bain of being an absent father and loving Tovar more than his actual daughters. While working to free as many holograms as he could, the Kirk hologram revealed to Audrey that he could alter their ethical subroutines, so they'd kill organics. Audrey ended up helping her father escape the simulated Anomaly and took him to the Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram, who taught Bain how to fight like a hologram. Bain used these skills to attack the Kirk hologram at the same time a team from the Anomaly arrived to rescue Bain and the others. Audrey later told Bain that, no matter what she might say or do, she loved him. (''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part One]]'', ''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part Two]]'' [BG])

For their 44th wedding anniversary, Rosalyn took Bain to a beach house on [[Gulfbreeza]], which was actually a safe house for Section 31 agents. They were followed to the planet by General [[Warder]], a member of the Orion Environ Movement who threatened Bain's life in an effort to force Rosalyn to give him a Botanical Retrovirus that she'd taken from another Orion who planned to use it to ravage the worlds of the Federation. Bain was taken aboard the Orions' ship and was convinced that the Orions planned to use him to get to Admiral Kristen Larkin. Rosalyn was able to turn the tables on Warder and take him and his assistant [[Imelda]] into custody without Bain discovering her affiliation with Section 31. (''[[Vacation 31]]'' [BG])

The members of FOBBER put a plan in motion to get revenge on Bain for what he had done to them. The group set off an explosive on [[Dulcolax Three]] in the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone containing transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation. The Anomaly and a Romulan warhawk were both sent to investigate the source of the illegal weapon. [[Cole Anfibon]], who was actually a clone of Bain created by Dr. [[Lenik]], knocked Bain out and attempted to murder Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] before transporting himself and Bain to Gridloo and Pridloo's freighter. Lenik killed Damm for trying to attack Bain as soon as he was aboard the freighter. Once confronted by the remaining members of FOBBER, Bain recognized Gridloo and Pridloo and explained that he was only trying to help them by giving them good dirt. Losing the drugs was really their fault for lying to him. Realizing they had no reason to be mad at Bain, the Pakleds returned to the bridge of their ship. After hearing Phul's reason for wanting Bain dead, Bain informed the Breen that it was actually Prosak who had destroyed both of his ships. Phul was ready to leave FOBBER at that point, but Lenik and Anfibon threatened to kill him if he tried. Bain once again did not recognize Delk. The Anomaly crew realized what was happening and de-escalated the situation with the Romulans. Prosak and Tovar then chased down the Pakleds' freighter in the [[USS Navigator]]. They rescued Bain as the members of FOBBER tried to flee. Phul was able to get the drop on Prosak, but Bain stopped him from killing her, saying that he'd been lying the whole time and that he'd been the one to destroy Phul's ships. Phul didn't know what to believe, but it soon didn't matter, since Prosak recovered and stunned him. Delk found himself face to face with Bain again, and Bain got his name wrong yet again. As Delk was screaming to the heavens in frustration, Bain tackled him and began beating him severely. Before Delk lost consciousness, he was overjoyed to hear Bain finally get his name correct. Phul, Delk, and the Pakleds were taken into custody. Lenik and Anfibon were killed when the freighter exploded. Bain was upset that a clone of him had done such awful things to Marsden, and he tried to apologize to her. Marsden assured him that it wasn't his fault. Anfibon was his own being because there was only one Reginald Bain. This made Bain feel much better about the whole thing. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

Bain led a team consisting of himself, Tovar, Prosak, and Centurion [[Nortal]] to Vulcan in the [[USS Navigator]] in an attempt to get to High Chancellor [[Sh’rak]]. Sh'rak knew they were coming, and the team only avoided being killed because of a timely intervention by Rosalyn Bain. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of Sh'rak's office. Outside, they were stopped by several armed Vulcans. Before they could call for beam out, they saw the Navigator crash into a mountain in the distance. They were rescued from capture by Sh'rak's guards by [[LOL]], which beamed the away team, minus Prosak, up to their ship. Bain contacted the Anomaly and had the LOL ship take him to rendezvous with a Starfleet ship that took him back to the Neutral Zone, where he requested and received command of the Federation fleet from Admiral Larkin. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'', ''[[Behind The Curtain]]'' [BG])

Dr. Lenik tried to get revenge on Bain from beyond the grave with a heavily-genetically modified creature designed to rip through metal and remain invisible to sensors. Centurion Nortal unwittingly brought it aboard the Anomaly inside a fake gem. Once it hatched, it grew to over three meters tall and attacked her. Kasyov discovered that the creature contained Earth crocodile DNA. She created a hologram of [[Steve Irwin]] to help Bain capture it, at which point it was relocated to an uninhabited world covered in swamps and rivers. (''[[What A Ripper!]]'' [BG])

Bain also survived another attempt on his life by [[Thot-Phul]], who this time was posing as a waiter along with two other Breen at the [[Barnum Dax]] Day celebration. Bain defeated all three easily, and Phul was again taken into custody. All three were turned over to [[Grad-Norm]]. (''[[Just Desserts]]'' [BG])

Phul teamed up with the Kirk hologram for a subsequent attempt at revenge. This time they managed to get Holo-Kirk uploaded into the Anomaly's computer systems, at which point he took over the ship. While Bain fought Holo-Kirk inside a holodeck running a rewrite of the Kobayashi Maru that Bain had been working on, Holo-Kirk sent the Anomaly into Breen space and used it to destroy a Breen outpost, leaving no survivors. Inside the holodeck, Holo-Kirk challenged Bain to combat with lirpas, which Bain won. Kirk beamed himself to one of the other ships in the simulation, all of which Bain destroyed except for the Kobayashi Maru freighter itself, which is of course where Holo-Kirk was. Holo-Kirk rewrote the simulation code to arm the freighter and attacked the Anomaly. Bain set the Anomaly on a collision course, which Holo-Kirk tried to avoid by again rewriting the code. This time, though, he had been locked out by Kasyov, who had joined with the ship's computer, and Cabral. They also reactivated the holodeck safeties, saving Bain when the collision obliterated both vessels. Bain returned to the actual Anomaly's bridge and ordered the ship out of Breen space. They were intercepted by several Breen ships commanded by [[Grad-Norm]], who demanded that Bain beam himself over and face trial for his crimes against the Breen. To save his crew, Bain agreed and beamed himself to Norm's ship, while the Anomaly returned to Federation space. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'' [BG])

Bain was put on trial by the Breen, but it was really just for show and even his "defense attorney" had it in for him. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Bain was rescued by Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden, who beamed him aboard the [[Allegra]]. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by Holo-Kirk. Bain regained consciousness and found he was trapped in a maintenance closet on the Allegra while Holo-Kirk had put Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden in a cargo container that he ejected into space. Bain escaped from the closet, disabled the Allegra, and systematically destroyed every place Holo-Kirk could hide until he forced the hologram to take refuge in a log recorder. By that time, Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden had been picked up by Gridloo and Pridloo, who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, with Rosalyn's help, caught up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. Back on the Anomaly, Bain had Marsden activate Holo-Kirk in a self-contained holopod, so Bain could give him a serious beating before he handed Holo-Kirk's program over to Admiral Larkin (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

Two Organians of Bain's acquaintance, [[Hornsby and Grimes]] informed Bain that due to meddling from the higher planes of existence, Romulus was wiped out by the Hobus supernova in 2387. With the help of the Q, Bain took the Anomaly back in time and was able to save Hobus in their universe by sending Spock's ship and Nero's mining ship to a slightly different universe. While this was happening, Bain rescued Rosalyn from Captain [[Bridget Lornstrum]], who had brought Rosalyn aboard the Anomaly at phaser point. Bain punched Lornstrum out and then, after Lornstrum escaped and began attacking the ship using her 29th Century shuttle, tricked her into passing through a dimensional gateway into a universe where the Hobus ultranova was still in progress. Rosalyn decided to retire and remain aboard the Anomaly, much to Bain's delight. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly accidentally ended up in a pocket universe created by the [[Multeks]] to hide their worlds, Bain set a plan in motion to shut down the pocket universe generators and return the Multek Enclave to normal space. It was successful, but then he learned that the Multeks had hidden the Enclave in the first place to prevent their worlds from being taken over by the [[Dillon Consortium]]. Bain did everything he could to set things right, and took on an entire Consortium acquisition fleet while Marsden repaired the pocket universe generator. Once the Multek Enclave was safe again, the Dillon Consortium demanded that Bain be punished for his actions and for all of the damage he inflicted on their ships. Starfleet, not liking the Consortium very much, gave Bain a literal slap on the wrist (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

Following these events, the Dillon Consortium swore revenge on Bain. CEO [[Jackson Loomis]] set several revenge plans into motion. First, he tried to blow Bain up with an explosive that was sent to the [[USS Anomaly]]. He also kidnapped several of Bain's officers with the intent of brainwashing them into speaking out against Bain and joining the Consortium. Despite being told by Commodore [[Theodore Ritter]] to let Waystation Prime security handle it, Bain found the hidden Consortium level on the station and confronted Loomis. After dealing with Loomis' android, [[Gregory]], Bain chased Loomis down, and Loomis got the unpleasant experience of being on the receiving end of several punches from the angry captain. Loomis attempted to hit Bain with an unfinished piece of equipment that ended up electrocuting Loomis. Bain was pleased that the Consortium was evicted from Waystation Prime for their actions, but Ritter warned him to be careful, since the Consortium would likely continue their revenge efforts. (''[[Legend of the Bain]]'' [BG])

Bain met his in-laws, [[Harold and Ann Marsden]] after the Marsdens discovered the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld and the Anomaly was sent to assess the situation. They were thrilled to meet him, since, unbeknownst to him, he'd saved them and Shelly from a Whurikan raider 30 years earlier. The Marsdens showed the Anomaly team their discovery, but Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and also set in motion a series of events that ended in the destruction of the planet. Commander Prosak had requested to bring [[Snotch]] along on the mission, which raised Bain's suspicions. He asked Tovar to give Snotch the VIP treatment, which was code for heavy surveillance. Bain's suspicions were confirmed, since Snotch was working for the Dillon Consortium. Bain purposely said the name Pliggeri to Snotch, knowing that it would get back to Consortium CEO [[Tori Burke]]. Bain told Tovar they just had to wait and see if she would take the bait. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

Bain took a team to the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant on [[Nelephron]] consisting of Vioxx, Marsden, and Nortal for what was supposed to be an official meeting but was actually a Dillon Consortium trap. Tori Burke and several of her guards arrived, and she revealed her intention to brainwash Marsden into helping the Consortium reverse engineer the anti-singularity drive while the rest of the crew were killed (after a long period of torture in Nortal's case). The revelation that she'd sent a fleet to the Pliggeri homeworld drew laughter from Bain and the others, rattling Burke when she found out the planet no longer existed. She argued with the minds in the CEO suit, which confused Vioxx and prompted him to get Marsden to scan her. Things went downhill for Burke from there when Nortal attacked her, and the room was quickly engulfed in a firefight, with Bain and Nortal exchanging phaser shots with the Consortium goons. Vioxx tried to talk to Burke, but the suit forced her to attempt to kill him. Not wanting the only person who had been remotely nice to her dead, Burke broke free of the suit's control long enough to tell Vioxx to strip her even while she was choking the life out of him. He managed to get the suitcoat and pants off of her, freeing her from the suit's control. Bain and Nortal, having dealt with the guards, destroyed the suit, and Burke was taken into custody. The Anomaly also escaped the trap set for it, and Burke found herself in its brig. Bain later revealed to his command officers that he and Tovar suspected that they were heading into a Consortium trap, but they did not tell anyone, even Marsden, because they did not want to tip the Consortium off that they knew. His officers understood, and Bain then went to Prosak to apologize for not warning her that Snotch was likely a Consortium agent. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

After Section 31 meddled with the Hobus events again, Rosalyn woke up in an alternate universe where she had never married Bain and things were just generally grim. She went back in time again, this time stopping Audrey from interfering on Section 31's orders, and also had to deal with Lornstrum again. Once everything was resolved, she revealed to Bain that she was a Section 31 agent. He said that he already knew but that he trusted that she was doing the right thing in her work as an agent and respected her desire to tell him in her own time. (''[[Consequences You Otherwise Avoid]]'' [BG])

Bain faced Thot-Phul again, who this time had a fleet of Breen ships with anti-singularity drives at his command. Bain was able to use his combat experience and the weaknesses of the Breen vessels to defeat Phul. The Anomaly returned to Earth for an extended refit, but on the way, Cabral and Kasyov asked for Marsden and Bain's help to get to the new Pliggeri homeworld, so that Cabral could take [[Chindela]] and [[Gathering Point]] there. They hatched plan in which Marsden automated a lot of the ship's systems under the guise of a refit, and then, when things were ready, Cabral and Kasyov stole the Anomaly and took it to find the Pliggeri. Admiral Larkin and others in Starfleet suspected Bain's involvement, but Tovar never asked him directly about it, since he didn't want to know the answer either way. This event prevented Bain from making Admiral, not that he ever wanted to be one anyway. Years later, Bain welcomed his grandson, newly-minted Ensign [[Jarrett Bain]], aboard Bain's latest command, the [[USS Holloway]]. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

{{AnomalyCrew}}

Reginald Bain

2024-02-12T18:22:07Z

Cmdrajd: /* USS Anomaly */

Reginald Horatio Bain is the captain of the [[USS Anomaly]]. He and his wife [[Rosalyn Bain]] have a home in County of Sussex, England. Bain enjoys gardening and is partial to petunias. Bain has two daughters: [[Sophie Bain]] and [[Audrey Bain]] as well as being the adopted father of [[Tovar]]. He also had a Yorkshire Terrier named [[Fru-Fru]]. Bain's father was a bail bondsman on Infernia Prime. From ages 11 to 15, Bain Attended Dorothy Perringale's Academy for Young Roguish Boys. Bain has been declared legally dead six times and once broke his hip fireboarding on Bersallis Three.

==Early Starfleet Career and the USS Maladventure==

Bain met Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] while he was at Starfleet Academy. The two had a brief sexual relationship before Bain met Rosalyn and remained friends thereafter.

At some point in their relationship, Bain and Rosalyn escaped bloodworms on Deneb IV.

Bain served on the USS Sun Tzu.

As a Lieutenant Commander at the age of 34, he was the Tactical Officer of the [[USS Abu Simbel]]. During this time he encountered [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]] on their Paklet freighter. He beamed several barrels of drugs into space and replaced it with potting soil after they told him that the dust-like drug was to be used to grow plants. This prompted the Pakleds to join [[FOBBER]]. (''[[The Bain Of Our Existence]]'' [BG])

He was captured by and escaped from the Pygmy Deathsloths of Obuduscon Major (A story he told Tovar 32 times).

Once he restarted the engines on a shuttle with just a metal rod and a phaser power cell.

After Bain destroyed a robotic weapons platform that he didn't know was actually being developed by Starfleet Intelligence for planetary defense, he was sent to [[Waystation Prime]] to be a counselor at a Starfleet Scouts camp. It was there that he met Tovar, who was twelve there at the time and had been dumped at the camp by his parents while they went on vacation in the [[Multek Enclave]]. Bain and Tovar bonded, and, after the Enclave vanished taking Tovar's parents with it, Bain and Rosalyn decided to adopt Tovar.

Bain was sent to remedial diplomacy class after an incident with the Gernabi.

He prevented [[Damm]] from killing an entire room of people and sent her to a mental institution. (''[[The Bain Of Our Existence]]'' [BG])

Bain survived a raceabout crash that complete destroyed the work of Dr. [[Lenik]]. He saved her from the wreckage and kept her alive for two weeks until they were rescued. The destruction and having to listen to Bain prattle on for two weeks was enough for Lenik to join [[FOBBER]] and put a revenge plan in motion. (''[[The Bain Of Our Existence]]'' [BG])

Without Starfleet's knowledge or approval, Bain attacked the Gorn near Cestus Five because they stole his silverware at a state dinner, wiped out a Jarada landing party because they were two hours late, and destroyed the uninhabited planet Vergon Three because the residents of Vergon Two were lying on their application to join the Federation.

During a brief outbreak of hostilities with the Romulans, Bain almost destroyed a Romulan ship commanded by Commander Carfax.

The residents of Lendax Three wanted to kill Bain and Tovar.

He faced [[Lorgander Delk]] of the Dyonian Legion on three separate occasions during his command of the [[USS Maladventure]] and left Delk's ship heavily damaged each time. More infuriating to Delk was the fact that Bain never remembered that they'd met before. This was enough for him to join [[FOBBER]].

During the Breen War twenty years prior to his taking command of the Anomaly, Bain earned the nickname "The Butcher of Breen" through his actions, which included obliterating an entire convoy of Breen transports by detonating a wormhole in front of them, destroying Voracia Base in the Battle of Orodnot, attacking the Breen capital city, and destroying the Overseer General's palace. He broke through the Breen's lines surrounding Earth and destroyed a power dampening platform the Breen were using to disable Starfleet ships by crashing the first USS Maladventure into it. Bain also was responsible for destroying five of the six Official Residences of Grot-Thud, the Breen leader at the time. Bain would have gotten the sixth one as well, but the Breen signed a peace treaty three minutes before Bain was in weapons’ range.

Around this time, he was also tortured by a Dukat cult.

The Circassian mind torture he’d received from a band of rebels on Circassia Six ten years prior to taking command of the Anomaly had left his memory somewhat spotty at times. He also damaged his Achilles tendon on Shelvis Seven but refused to have it replaced with a cloned tendon.

Once on Arbutus II, Bain and Tovar ran the entire bridge of a starship by themselves while we working to rescue their crew from the Cult of Festering Fruit, which was a nasty offshoot of Maaloxitarianism.

Bain has led extraction teams into Breen, Romulan, and Bast space.

Bain cut a despot named Muridel in half, freeing her subjects. The celebration they threw in his honor lasted for three weeks.

The USS Maladventure saved the USS Encino from being destroyed by the Breen during a Breen incursion. [[Prosak]] was aboard the Encino at that time, but she never revealed to Bain that he had saved her.

Bain single-handedly took on the Kalawadi, and it took three years for the Diplomatic Corps to convince them to speak to the Federation again.

One of Bain’s enemies is Baron Krall, the Foot Fetishist of Ovanar Twelve, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.

While battling the Tzenkethi aboard the USS Maladventure-B, Bain slammed the ship into an asteroid to seal a hull breach and still managed to wipe out a Tzenkethi armada. They were beaten so badly that the Tzenkethi are still scared to go near the site of the battle.

==USS Anomaly==

After [[Cabral]] commandeered the Hermes-7 prototype, Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] ordered Bain to intercept it. Once that situation was resolved, Bain was given command of the ship, now named the USS Anomaly. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

A holographic assassin hired by [[Thot-Phul]] attempted to kill Bain during peace talks with the Breen. Bain was protected by Tovar and, unbeknownst to him, Rosalyn, but after the attempts on his life, Bain decided to end his involvement in the peace talks and ordered the Anomaly out of Breen space. (''[[Mrs. Bain, You're Needed]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly was stranded in the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], Bain and Ensign [[Hector Arroyo]] visited [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] looking for information on that region of space. After spending time forced to watch an alien family's vacation photos and obtaining a guidebook to Andromeda, Bain interceded when he believed a shopkeeper was mistreating his employees. He ended up becoming the new master of the employees, members of a race called the [[Lackinis]] who literally existed to serve. Not willing to take that on, Bain ditched the Lackinis and escaped back the the Anomaly. The Lackinis swore they would find their new master. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG]) They located the Anomaly just as the ship was leaving Gyjik's, and Bain ordered Arroyo to get the ship out of there, ripping the Gyjik's airlock free in the process, in order to avoid the Lackinis. After that, he pretended to be Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]'s husband as the pair went to look at renting a condominium while really trying to determine the locations of Kasyov and Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]], who had been taken by the Associates. Bain also learned from [[Moklok]] that she had impregnated [[Tovar]] during their encounter, news he passed along to his adopted son after rescuing him and Kasyov from the Associates. (''[[Domestic Tranquility]]'' [BG])

A few days before Bain's 70th birthday, the Anomaly and its crew were taken into protective care by the [[Nabusari]], an older race that considered Bain too young to be running a starship and quite irresponsible to have taken a bunch of children out into space. Bain would be allowed to get the Anomaly back once he turned 70 and passed his pilot's exam. He was taken in by [[Clophil]] for those few days, but the Nabusari began believing Bain was actually his son and tried to kidnap him so he wouldn't leave. Bain was rescued by Tovar and Kasyov while Marsden pretended to be him and passed the pilot's exam. (''[[Respect Your Elders]]'' [BG])

The Lackinis caught up with Bain just as the just as the Anomaly was facing an [[Associates]] fleet. He had them take on the fleet, while the Anomaly continued on to a massive Associates space station where [[Cabral]] was being held. Since the Lackinis designed the Associates' ships in the first place, they knew all of the weaknesses and were able to make short work of them. They caught up to the Anomaly again at the space station and beamed aboard in time to save Bain and an away team from the Anomaly from being killed. They told Bain to flee, which he did...all the way back to the Milky Way galaxy. (''[[Disassociation]]'' [BG])

Once back in the Milky Way, Tovar's past lives took control and threatened the Anomaly unless Bain took them where they wanted to go. Bain and Commander [[Prosak]] were able to subdue Tovar, and they took him to [[Yyns]] to see the Polems at the [[Temple Of Mi Clane]], who determined that Tovar had an [[Interloper]], which they would remove and destroy with the [[Holnym]] ritual. Tovar convinced Bain to help the Interloper instead, and, leaving Yyns and avoiding capture by a Yynsian fleet, the Interloper led them to the Ba'Ku homeworld, where [[Patricia Hawkins]] now lived. Once he learned that the Interloper was the [[Jaroch]] lifeforce, he got Rosalyn's help to obtain a transporter pattern of Jaroch and brought Polem [[J'Atric]] to the Ba'ku world to perform the Holnym, which reunited Jaroch and Hawkins and took Tovar down to the one lifeforce he should have. (''[[Mind If I Play Through?]]'', ''[[Aren't You Dead?]]'' [BG])

While pursuing the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]], who was trying to start a holographic uprising. Bain ended up trapped in the [[Mega-Sim]] along with his daughter, Audrey, who worked at the Mega-Sim and was helping Holo-Kirk. Bain, Tovar, and Arroyo found themselves on a recreation of the Anomaly commanded by the Kirk hologram. He had convinced Audrey to help him. When Bain asked what Audrey was doing there, she replied that she was helping Kirk make a difference once more time. She accused Bain of being an absent father and loving Tovar more than his actual daughters. While working to free as many holograms as he could, the Kirk hologram revealed to Audrey that he could alter their ethical subroutines, so they'd kill organics. Audrey ended up helping her father escape the simulated Anomaly and took him to the Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram, who taught Bain how to fight like a hologram. Bain used these skills to attack the Kirk hologram at the same time a team from the Anomaly arrived to rescue Bain and the others. Audrey later told Bain that, no matter what she might say or do, she loved him. (''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part One]]'', ''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part Two]]'' [BG])

For their 44th wedding anniversary, Rosalyn took Bain to a beach house on [[Gulfbreeza]], which was actually a safe house for Section 31 agents. They were followed to the planet by General [[Warder]], a member of the Orion Environ Movement who threatened Bain's life in an effort to force Rosalyn to give him a Botanical Retrovirus that she'd taken from another Orion who planned to use it to ravage the worlds of the Federation. Bain was taken aboard the Orions' ship and was convinced that the Orions planned to use him to get to Admiral Kristen Larkin. Rosalyn was able to turn the tables on Warder and take him and his assistant [[Imelda]] into custody without Bain discovering her affiliation with Section 31. (''[[Vacation 31]]'' [BG])

The members of FOBBER put a plan in motion to get revenge on Bain for what he had done to them. The group set off an explosive on [[Dulcolax Three]] in the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone containing transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation. The Anomaly and a Romulan warhawk were both sent to investigate the source of the illegal weapon. [[Cole Anfibon]], who was actually a clone of Bain created by Dr. [[Lenik]], knocked Bain out and attempted to murder Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] before transporting himself and Bain to Gridloo and Pridloo's freighter. Lenik killed Damm for trying to attack Bain as soon as he was aboard the freighter. Once confronted by the remaining members of FOBBER, Bain recognized Gridloo and Pridloo and explained that he was only trying to help them by giving them good dirt. Losing the drugs was really their fault for lying to him. Realizing they had no reason to be mad at Bain, the Pakleds returned to the bridge of their ship. After hearing Phul's reason for wanting Bain dead, Bain informed the Breen that it was actually Prosak who had destroyed both of his ships. Phul was ready to leave FOBBER at that point, but Lenik and Anfibon threatened to kill him if he tried. Bain once again did not recognize Delk. The Anomaly crew realized what was happening and de-escalated the situation with the Romulans. Prosak and Tovar then chased down the Pakleds' freighter in the [[USS Navigator]]. They rescued Bain as the members of FOBBER tried to flee. Phul was able to get the drop on Prosak, but Bain stopped him from killing her, saying that he'd been lying the whole time and that he'd been the one to destroy Phul's ships. Phul didn't know what to believe, but it soon didn't matter, since Prosak recovered and stunned him. Delk found himself face to face with Bain again, and Bain got his name wrong yet again. As Delk was screaming to the heavens in frustration, Bain tackled him and began beating him severely. Before Delk lost consciousness, he was overjoyed to hear Bain finally get his name correct. Phul, Delk, and the Pakleds were taken into custody. Lenik and Anfibon were killed when the freighter exploded. Bain was upset that a clone of him had done such awful things to Marsden, and he tried to apologize to her. Marsden assured him that it wasn't his fault. Anfibon was his own being because there was only one Reginald Bain. This made Bain feel much better about the whole thing. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

Bain led a team consisting of himself, Tovar, Prosak, and Centurion [[Nortal]] to Vulcan in the [[USS Navigator]] in an attempt to get to High Chancellor [[Sh’rak]]. Sh'rak knew they were coming, and the team only avoided being killed because of a timely intervention by Rosalyn Bain. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of Sh'rak's office. Outside, they were stopped by several armed Vulcans. Before they could call for beam out, they saw the Navigator crash into a mountain in the distance. They were rescued from capture by Sh'rak's guards by [[LOL]], which beamed the away team, minus Prosak, up to their ship. Bain contacted the Anomaly and had the LOL ship take him to rendezvous with a Starfleet ship that took him back to the Neutral Zone, where he requested and received command of the Federation fleet from Admiral Larkin. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'', ''[[Behind The Curtain]]'' [BG])

Dr. Lenik tried to get revenge on Bain from beyond the grave with a heavily-genetically modified creature designed to rip through metal and remain invisible to sensors. Centurion Nortal unwittingly brought it aboard the Anomaly inside a fake gem. Once it hatched, it grew to over three meters tall and attacked her. Kasyov discovered that the creature contained Earth crocodile DNA. She created a hologram of [[Steve Irwin]] to help Bain capture it, at which point it was relocated to an uninhabited world covered in swamps and rivers. (''[[What A Ripper!]]'' [BG])

Bain also survived another attempt on his life by [[Thot-Phul]], who this time was posing as a waiter along with two other Breen at the [[Barnum Dax]] Day celebration. Bain defeated all three easily, and Phul was again taken into custody. All three were turned over to [[Grad-Norm]]. (''[[Just Desserts]]'' [BG])

Phul teamed up with the Kirk hologram for a subsequent attempt at revenge. This time they managed to get Holo-Kirk uploaded into the Anomaly's computer systems, at which point he took over the ship. While Bain fought Holo-Kirk inside a holodeck running a rewrite of the Kobayashi Maru that Bain had been working on, Holo-Kirk sent the Anomaly into Breen space and used it to destroy a Breen outpost, leaving no survivors. Inside the holodeck, Holo-Kirk challenged Bain to combat with lirpas, which Bain won. Kirk beamed himself to one of the other ships in the simulation, all of which Bain destroyed except for the Kobayashi Maru freighter itself, which is of course where Holo-Kirk was. Holo-Kirk rewrote the simulation code to arm the freighter and attacked the Anomaly. Bain set the Anomaly on a collision course, which Holo-Kirk tried to avoid by again rewriting the code. This time, though, he had been locked out by Kasyov, who had joined with the ship's computer, and Cabral. They also reactivated the holodeck safeties, saving Bain when the collision obliterated both vessels. Bain returned to the actual Anomaly's bridge and ordered the ship out of Breen space. They were intercepted by several Breen ships commanded by [[Grad-Norm]], who demanded that Bain beam himself over and face trial for his crimes against the Breen. To save his crew, Bain agreed and beamed himself to Norm's ship, while the Anomaly returned to Federation space. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'' [BG])

Bain was put on trial by the Breen, but it was really just for show and even his "defense attorney" had it in for him. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Bain was rescued by Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden, who beamed him aboard the [[Allegra]]. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by Holo-Kirk. Bain regained consciousness and found he was trapped in a maintenance closet on the Allegra while Holo-Kirk had put Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden in a cargo container that he ejected into space. Bain escaped from the closet, disabled the Allegra, and systematically destroyed every place Holo-Kirk could hide until he forced the hologram to take refuge in a log recorder. By that time, Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden had been picked up by Gridloo and Pridloo, who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, with Rosalyn's help, caught up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. Back on the Anomaly, Bain had Marsden activate Holo-Kirk in a self-contained holopod, so Bain could give him a serious beating before he handed Holo-Kirk's program over to Admiral Larkin (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

Two Organians of Bain's acquaintance, [[Hornsby and Grimes]] informed Bain that due to meddling from the higher planes of existence, Romulus was wiped out by the Hobus supernova in 2387. With the help of the Q, Bain took the Anomaly back in time and was able to save Hobus in their universe by sending Spock's ship and Nero's mining ship to a slightly different universe. While this was happening, Bain rescued Rosalyn from Captain [[Bridget Lornstrum]], who had brought Rosalyn aboard the Anomaly at phaser point. Bain punched Lornstrum out and then, after Lornstrum escaped and began attacking the ship using her 29th Century shuttle, tricked her into passing through a dimensional gateway into a universe where the Hobus ultranova was still in progress. Rosalyn decided to retire and remain aboard the Anomaly, much to Bain's delight. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly accidentally ended up in a pocket universe created by the [[Multeks]] to hide their worlds, Bain set a plan in motion to shut down the pocket universe generators and return the Multek Enclave to normal space. It was successful, but then he learned that the Multeks had hidden the Enclave in the first place to prevent their worlds from being taken over by the [[Dillon Consortium]]. Bain did everything he could to set things right, and took on an entire Consortium acquisition fleet while Marsden repaired the pocket universe generator. Once the Multek Enclave was safe again, the Dillon Consortium demanded that Bain be punished for his actions and for all of the damage he inflicted on their ships. Starfleet, not liking the Consortium very much, gave Bain a literal slap on the wrist (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

Following these events, the Dillon Consortium swore revenge on Bain. CEO [[Jackson Loomis]] set several revenge plans into motion. First, he tried to blow Bain up with an explosive that was sent to the [[USS Anomaly]]. He also kidnapped several of Bain's officers with the intent of brainwashing them into speaking out against Bain and joining the Consortium. Despite being told by Commodore [[Theodore Ritter]] to let Waystation Prime security handle it, Bain found the hidden Consortium level on the station and confronted Loomis. After dealing with Loomis' android, [[Gregory]], Bain chased Loomis down, and Loomis got the unpleasant experience of being on the receiving end of several punches from the angry captain. Loomis attempted to hit Bain with an unfinished piece of equipment that ended up electrocuting Loomis. Bain was pleased that the Consortium was evicted from Waystation Prime for their actions, but Ritter warned him to be careful, since the Consortium would likely continue their revenge efforts. (''[[Legend of the Bain]]'' [BG])

Bain met his in-laws, [[Harold and Ann Marsden]] after the Marsdens discovered the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld and the Anomaly was sent to assess the situation. They were thrilled to meet him, since, unbeknownst to him, he'd saved them and Shelly from a Whurikan raider 30 years earlier. The Marsdens showed the Anomaly team their discovery, but Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and also set in motion a series of events that ended in the destruction of the planet. Commander Prosak had requested to bring [[Snotch]] along on the mission, which raised Bain's suspicions. He asked Tovar to give Snotch the VIP treatment, which was code for heavy surveillance. Bain's suspicions were confirmed, since Snotch was working for the Dillon Consortium. Bain purposely said the name Pliggeri to Snotch, knowing that it would get back to Consortium CEO [[Tori Burke]]. Bain told Tovar they just had to wait and see if she would take the bait. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

Bain took a team to the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant on [[Nelephron]] consisting of Vioxx, Marsden, and Nortal for what was supposed to be an official meeting but was actually a Dillon Consortium trap. Tori Burke and several of her guards arrived, and she revealed her intention to brainwash Marsden into helping the Consortium reverse engineer the anti-singularity drive while the rest of the crew were killed (after a long period of torture in Nortal's case). The revelation that she'd sent a fleet to the Pliggeri homeworld drew laughter from Bain and the others, rattling Burke when she found out the planet no longer existed. She argued with the minds in the CEO suit, which confused Vioxx and prompted him to get Marsden to scan her. Things went downhill for Burke from there when Nortal attacked her, and the room was quickly engulfed in a firefight, with Bain and Nortal exchanging phaser shots with the Consortium goons. Vioxx tried to talk to Burke, but the suit forced her to attempt to kill him. Not wanting the only person who had been remotely nice to her dead, Burke broke free of the suit's control long enough to tell Vioxx to strip her even while she was choking the life out of him. He managed to get the suitcoat and pants off of her, freeing her from the suit's control. Bain and Nortal, having dealt with the guards, destroyed the suit, and Burke was taken into custody. The Anomaly also escaped the trap set for it, and Burke found herself in its brig. Bain later revealed to his command officers that he and Tovar suspected that they were heading into a Consortium trap, but they did not tell anyone, even Marsden, because they did not want to tip the Consortium off that they knew. His officers understood, and Bain then went to Prosak to apologize for not warning her that Snotch was likely a Consortium agent. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

After Section 31 meddled with the Hobus events again, Rosalyn woke up in an alternate universe where she had never married Bain and things were just generally grim. She went back in time again, this time stopping Audrey from interfering on Section 31's orders, and also had to deal with Lornstrum again. Once everything was resolved, she revealed to Bain that she was a Section 31 agent. He said that he already knew but that he trusted that she was doing the right thing in her work as an agent and respected her desire to tell him in her own time. (''[[Consequences You Otherwise Avoid]]'' [BG])

Bain faced Thot-Phul again, who this time had a fleet of Breen ships with anti-singularity drives at his command. Bain was able to use his combat experience and the weaknesses of the Breen vessels to defeat Phul. The Anomaly returned to Earth for an extended refit, but on the way, the ship was stolen by Cabral under mysterious circumstances. Starfleet suspected Bain's involvement, but Tovar never asked him directly about it, since he didn't want to know the answer either way. He may also have suspected Marsden's involvement, but he never pushed the question with her. Tovar was in line for a first officer position on the USS Astoria. He ended up not taking it and instead opted to remain on Earth working in the Tactics division at Starfleet Headquarters while Marsden rejoined Starfleet Research & Development. They had a son, [[Jarrett Bain]], who, after graduating from Starfleet Academy, served on the [[USS Holloway]] under his grandfather, Reginald Bain. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Tovar

2024-02-12T18:18:39Z

Cmdrajd:

Tovar was a Yynsian and the tactical officer on the [[USS Anomaly]].

Around the time of Tovar's birth, [[Jaroch]] was killed while away from the home he shared with [[Patricia Hawkins]] on the Bak'u Homeworld. Finding his lifeforce in the Past Life Clearing House, Jaroch interloped on the next available Yynsian birth, which was Tovar. As such, Tovar grew up with two lifeforces vying for control inside of him.

Tovar spent most of his childhood with his grandparents until they were killed in an unfortunate lava skiing accident when he was eleven.

The following year, Tovar's parents, [[Tanta]] and [[Jimsok]] disappeared along with the entire [[Multek Enclave]]. Tovar was attending a Starfleet camp at the time on [[Waystation Prime]], where he met [[Reginald Bain]]. Bain took to Tovar and adopted him after his parents vanished.

Shortly before he left for Starfleet Academy, Tovar learned that his adopted mother, [[Rosalyn Bain]], was actually a Section 31 agent.

Tovar helped Rosalyn prevent Captain Bain from being killed by a holographic assassin hired by [[Thot-Phul]] while the Anomaly was at the Breen homeworld for peace talks. (''[[Mrs. Bain, You're Needed]]'' [BG])

When the Anomaly was sent to the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], one of Tovar's past lives took control of him insisting that they were going the wrong way. While controlled by this past life, Tovar threatened several engineering officers and demanded that they turn the ship around. He was sedated by a well-thrown hyprospray from Nurse [[Ih'vik]]. Tovar awoke with no memory of the incident. (''[[Do You Have Anything To Declare?]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly was heavily damaged and stranded in Andromeda, Tovar went with Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] aboard the raceabout [[USS Caspian]] to try to find [[Cabral]], who had been forcibly removed from the ship by the [[Associates]]. He and Kasyov went to see Gyjik, the owner of [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] but were prevented from seeing him by his secretary [[Moklok]]. Kasyov convinced Moklok that Tovar was attracted to the squidoid being, and while Moklok turned her amorous attention to Tovar, Kasyov was able to slip in to Gyjik's office to speak to him. Upon leaving Gyjik's, their raceabout was intercepted by the Associates, who took Tovar and Kasyov with the intent of studying them in an experiment. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG])

In the experiment, Tovar and Kasyov were to live as husband and wife. Kasyov was given a job at a testing facility, but most of what she did involved tasting various jam. Tovar, meanwhile, was assigned to be a homemaker, a task simplified by his [[Tarva]] and [[Toflay]] past lives. Kasyov met [[Balpar]] who introduced her to another disembodied brain, and the group plotted to escape. Before they could put a plan into action, Tovar attacked the testing facility with a device constructed by his past life [[Totap]]. The Anomaly arrived in the chaos and rescued Kasyov and Tovar. Tovar learns that he is now pregnant from his encounter with Moklok and carrying hundreds of little squidlings in what he thought was a rash. (''[[Domestic Tranquility]]'' [BG])

After the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram]] incapacitated most of the crew and started attacking the Associates, Tovar worked with the [[Steve!]] hologram to blow up the Anomaly's primary holographic junction, which disabled all holograms on the ship. (''[[Transparent Motives]]'' [BG])

While the Anomaly was rescuing Cabral from an Associates space station, Tovar was giving birth, the stress of which caused him to lose control of his past lives. Moklok arrived just in time, thanks to hitching a ride with the [[Lackinis]], and took all of the squid babies away, saying that Tovar was too unstable to be a parent. On the return voyage to the Federation, Tovar's past lives continued to intrude until finally once they were back in the Milky Way, they took Tovar over completely and went to the Anomaly's bridge with a bomb demanding that Bain take them "the right way." (''[[Disassociation]]'' [BG])

Bain and Commander [[Prosak]] were able to subdue Tovar, and they took him to [[Yyns]] to see the Polems at the [[Temple Of Mi Clane]], who determined that Tovar had an [[Interloper]], which they would remove and destroy with the [[Holnym]] ritual. Tovar convinced Bain to help the Interloper instead, and, leaving Yyns and avoiding capture by a Yynsian fleet, the Interloper led them to the Ba'Ku homeworld, where [[Patricia Hawkins]] now lived. With the help of Polem [[J'Atric]], the Interloper was transferred into a body created from a saved transporter pattern of [[Jaroch]], reuniting Jaroch and Hawkins and getting Tovar down to the one life force he should have had. (''[[Mind If I Play Through?]]'', ''[[Aren't You Dead?]]'' [BG])

After the Interloper was removed, Tovar's remaining past lives fought for control of his body. When the Cardassian terrorist [[Fubar]] got the drop on [[Rosalyn Bain]] in her own home, knocking her out and then tying her up, he was delighted by Tovar's past lives, who cooked and cleaned for him. Fubar planned to take Tovar with him after he killed Rosalyn. Tovar was able to get his past lives to work together to build a device that coated Fubar in a shell of quick-drying chocolate, rendering him immobile. He was then beamed away and imprisoned by Section 31. After this, Tovar's past lives allowed him to keep control of his body for the most part. (''[[The Ties That Bind]]'' [BG])

[[Carn]], the head of Section 31, tried to recruit Tovar into organization, promising to help Tovar find out what happened to his missing parents. Carn sent Tovar to [[Huryl]] where Fleet Admiral [[Holden Sollars]] was vacationing with his mistress. Sollars was cheating on his wife, Section 31 Agent [[Clara Sollars]], with a Bajoran woman named [[Seddi Tral]]. Tovar's assignment was to the relationship between Sollars and Tral, which he did. Carn then sent Tovar back to the [[USS Anomaly]] to deal with a malfunctioning holographic duplicate of Tovar. Once Tovar stopped the hologram, he told Carn that he would not be joining Section 31. Around the same time, Tovar was starting to date Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]]. (''[[Privileges Of Membership]]'' [BG])

Tovar continued to date Torgerson; although, his mother put an inadvertent strain on their relationship when she interrupted two of their dinner dates to discuss the Vulcan Alliance and Prosak. Concerned about Prosak's odd behavior after returning from a spy mission to Vulcan, Tovar followed her while they were attending a ceremony to install a new Praetor on Romulus. He arrived in the Praetor-to-be's office just after Rosalyn stopped a brain-washed Prosak from assassinating the new Praetor. Rosalyn told Tovar to take the credit for stopping Prosak and to have the Romulans scan her for signs of a forced mind meld, which there were. (''[[Breaking In Is Hard To Do]]'' [BG])

A couple years after the Anomaly's return from Andromeda, Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway sent Marsden a final notice about the large debt she and the crew racked up in the Andromeda Galaxy, then after getting no response (the message bounced off of the Great Barrier surrounding the Milky Way), turned her over to Associates Acquisitions to collect what she owed. The Associates ship traveled to the Milky Way looking for the Anomaly. With no way to pay them back, Marsden beamed over to their ship with Tovar to work off her debt, since Bain had volunteered him to go along, much to Tovar's chagrin. The Anomaly crew realized that the Associates shuttle they brought back from Andromeda might be worth enough to pay off what Marsden owed, so they got it from Earth and, thanks to [[Cole Anfibon]] preventing the Associates from leaving the galaxy by crashing a microshuttle into their engines, were able to catch up to the Associates and give them the shuttle plus some engine repairs to satisfy Gyjik's debt. Tovar, Marsden, and Anfibon were returned to the Anomaly, and the Associates went back to Andromeda. (''[[Past Due]]'' [BG])

During the [[Lucinda]] incident, Tovar and Marsden acknowledged their attraction to each other and ended up engaging in a heavy makeout session in the Anomaly's Jefferies tubes. Tovar, however, did not want to end his relationship with Torgerson. Marsden knew that he was trying to do the right thing. Torgerson wanted Tovar to be more present when he was with her, but he was finding it difficult due to his attraction to both Marsden and Prosak. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

While were representing Starfleet at a high school career night, Prosak caught Tovar by surprise with a kiss and told him that she would be a better match for him than Torgerson. Tovar pulled her aside to talk about the kiss, but they were overheard by Marsden. This revelation resulted in a argument between the three of them right in the middle of the gym holding the career night. Both Prosak and Marsden stormed away from Tovar, with Marsden telling him to stay away from her until he figured out what he wanted and Prosak saying that Tovar was not the man she thought he was. While the verbal pummeling was not fun for Tovar, it did get a lot of students interested in checking out the Starfleet table. (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Torgerson learned that Marsden had feelings for Tovar thanks to posts on the shipwide messaging system put there by Ensign [[Yonk]], who over heard Marsden talking to Captain Bain in the ship's pub. She stormed out of Tovar's quarters upon discovering this. (''[[Rumor Control]]'' [BG]) Tovar chased her down, and she told him that she loved him. She asked Tovar if he felt the same way, but Bain summoned him before he could respond. After an omnipotent [[Megan Hartley]] interfered in the situation, Tovar realized that he was falling in love with Marsden. He resolved to end things with Torgerson, but was again called to the bridge because the Vulcans had cut the Romulan Empire off from the rest of the galaxy. (''[[God Complex]]'' [BG])

Realizing that Tovar was in love with Marsden, Torgerson broke things off. Tovar said that he would try to make things work, then, once it was clear they were breaking up, asked if they could be friends. Torgerson was not interested in either option. With that relationship over, Tovar raced to find Marsden to tell her that he loved her. She was receptive until she found out that Torgerson broke up with him rather than Tovar having the guts to do it himself. She stormed off saying that Tovar didn't deserve her. Crushed, he went to see Prosak to talk. Having had a rough day of her own, Prosak jumped him and pulled him into her quarters, kissing him and pulling at his clothes. Tovar responded in kind, and the two fell onto her sofa together. (''[[Once More, With Feelings]]'' [BG])

After sleeping with Prosak, Tovar went to talk to Marsden, something Kasyov told him specifically not to do, which led to an argument in which he revealed that he had sex with Prosak. Marsden was furious with him, telling him that they would never be together or even friends. With hostilities starting with the Vulcan Alliance, Tovar took the opportunity to escape his troubles on the Anomaly by volunteering to serve as a tactical officer on the Romulan Warhawk [[Shakalak]]. Marsden came to see him in the transporter room before he left and told him that he was an idiot for leaving. She also said to look her up when he returned to the Anomaly. Once aboard the Shakalak, Tovar learned that the ship's first officer, Sub-Commander [[Nural]] was actually his adopted sister [[Audrey Bain]], who had been sent by Section 31 because events on the Shakalak and with the Vulcans were not what they seemed. She told him that they would be saving Earth but they wouldn't be coming back. Prior to Tovar's arrival, the Shakalak had ambushed a Vulcan frigate and beamed a cargo crate from it into the Shakalak's cargo bay. The ship was then in battle with other Vulcan ships before being rescued by the Anomaly. Tovar and Audrey later discovered that the cargo crate was actually a transporter unit holding twenty Vulcan soldiers under the command of Colonel [[Strep]]. Tovar and Audrey were able to briefly escape while the Vulcan soldiers that took control of the Shakalak, but they were eventually captured. Audrey was sent to the cargo hold with the rest of the crew while Tovar was put in the brig. Strep set the ship on a course for Earth and tried to force Tovar to give him information about Earth's defenses through a mind meld. Strep was not ready to deal with Tovar's past lives, who left him catatonic long enough for Tovar to get a message out to the Anomaly. Strep returned him to tbe brig, but when the Shakalak arrived at Earth, Audrey was able to help him escape. Strep and the Vulcans were attempting to retrieve the [[Kolch'ak Device]] from the [[Kantelov Annex]] on Earth to see if it could be used to control Romulans. It did indeed work on Romulans, but Tovar, Audrey, and a team from the [[USS Anomaly]], including Marsden, was able to stop the Vulcans and destroy the device before they were able to escape with it. Tovar and Marsden decided to have dinner together and talk through everything. (''[[Strategic Retreat]]'', ''[[Uncomfortably Close]]'', ''[[Devastating Logic]]'', ''[[Scratching The Surface]]'' [BG])

Tovar and Marsden's dinner was interrupted, but they later found themselves working together closely in a Jefferies tube which escalated quickly to kissing to sex. Soon after, Tovar accompanied Bain, Prosak, and Centurion [[Nortal]] to Vulcan in the [[USS Navigator]] in an attempt to get to High Chancellor [[Sh’rak]]. Sh'rak knew they were coming, and the team only avoided being killed because of a timely intervention by Rosalyn Bain. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of Sh'rak's office. Outside, they were stopped by several armed Vulcans. Before they could call for beam out, they saw the Navigator crash into a mountain in the distance. They were rescued from capture by Sh'rak's guards by [[LOL]], which beamed the away team, minus Prosak, up to their ship. While Bain returned to the Neutral Zone to take command of the Federation fleet, Tovar and Nortal remained behind with LOL to try to stop Sh'rak and rescue Prosak. Tovar and Nortal infiltrated the government complex disguised as sanitation workers, but Sh'rak took them all captive and grabbed Prosak into a mind meld in which he forced her to do whatever he wanted. The members of LOL stormed the governmental complex, giving Tovar and [[Eudora]] a chance to enter the meld. Sh'rak was overpowered by their combined minds, as well as those of Tovar's past lives. With Sh'rak deposed, Tovar returned to the Anomaly and had a dinner date with Marsden and resulted in them heading to the bedroom before the even got around to eating. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'', ''[[Behind The Curtain]]'', ''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

After [[Toflay]] threatened to smite her if she didn't get out of his kitchen, Nortal became interested in this particular past life of Tovar's, but he refused to summon Toflay for her. (''[[Living Off The Land]]'' [BG])

Tovar was asked by Prosak to assist her in rescuing Captain Bain, who was to be put on trial by the Breen. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden were able to locate Bain and beam him aboard the [[Allegra]]. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]]. Tovar regained consciousness along with Prosak and Marsden inside a cargo container that Holo-Kirk ejected into space. They were soon picked up by [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]], who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, seeing no other way to catch up with the Allegra, Tovar contacted Rosalyn, revealing her Section 31 affiliation to Marsden and Prosak. Rosalyn beamed aboard with equipment to help boost the freighter's speed, and they were able to catch up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

When the [[USS Anomaly]] accidentally ended up in the pocket universe containing the Multek Enclave, Tovar was reunited with his parents, but neither Tanta or Jimsok had much interest in getting to know him. Captain Bain set a plan in motion to shut down the pocket universe generators and return the Multek Enclave to normal space. It was successful, but then he learned that the Multeks had hidden the Enclave in the first place to prevent their worlds from being taken over by the [[Dillon Consortium]]. Bain did everything he could to set things right, and took on an entire Consortium acquisition fleet while Lieutenant Marsden repaired the pocket universe generator. Marsden realized that she would have to stay inside the Enclave to activate the generators, separating her from Tovar forever. Tanta revealed to Marsden that she'd designed the system in the first place and told Marsden to get back to Tovar and to tell him to be happy. Marsden returned to the Anomaly, and, in a last comm before she reactivated the generators, Tanta told Tovar to call her "Tanta" instead of mother, since the Bains were his true parents. Once the Enclave was safe again, the Anomaly went to Waystation Prime, where Tovar officially added "Bain" as his last name and married Shelly Marsden. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

Tovar finally met his in-laws, [[Harold and Ann Marsden]] after the Marsdens discovered the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld and the Anomaly was sent to assess the situation. They liked Tovar immediately and kindly didn't hold a grudge when the Anomaly crew's actions resulted in the destruction of the entire planet. (''[[Primary Sources]]'' [BG])

While Bain, Marsden. Commander [[Vioxx]], and Nortal went to the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant on [[Nelephron]] for what was supposed to be an official meeting, Tovar was left in command of the Anomaly. It was all a Dillon Consortium trap. The Anomaly was called away to a nearby asteroid field by a fake distress call. Once there, the ship was disabled by an interference array hidden in multiple false asteroids as five Consortium vessels moved in to kill the crew and take possess of the Anomaly and its [[anti-singularity drive]]. Tovar came up with a plan to get the Anomaly operational again and surprise the Consortium ships. After escaping the asteroid field, they were confronted by a Consortium fleet, but Tovar successfully stalled for time until a Starfleet/Romulan force arrived, prompting the Consortium fleet to surrender. Afterwards, Marsden learned that Bain and Tovar had suspected a trap all along, and that Bain had specifically ordered Tovar not to warn her about it. While she was upset briefly, Marsden understood that it was part of their jobs and one of the things that made their professional and personal connections messy. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly faced a fleet of Breen ships with anti-singularity drives and returned to Earth for an extended refit, the ship was stolen by Cabral under mysterious circumstances. Starfleet suspected Bain's involvement, but Tovar never asked him directly about it, since he didn't want to know the answer either way. He may also have suspected Marsden's involvement, but he never pushed the question with her. Tovar was in line for a first officer position on the USS Astoria. He ended up not taking it and instead opted to remain on Earth working in the Tactics division at Starfleet Headquarters while Marsden rejoined Starfleet Research & Development. They had a son, [[Jarrett Bain]], who, after graduating from Starfleet Academy, served on the [[USS Holloway]] under his grandfather, Reginald Bain. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

One of Tovar's past lives plays the Yynsian equivalent of the bagpipes. Another [[Ch'tot]] used to be a gigolo.

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Shelly Marsden

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Shelly Marsden was the Chief Engineer of the [[USS Anomaly]].

Marsden was the only child of [[Harold and Ann Marsden]], two xeno-archaeologists who specialized in ancient alien technology. When she was a toddler, the Marsdens were working at a dig site on Pyadall when they were attacked by Whurakan raiders. They were saved by a ship commanded by [[Reginald Bain]], a fact that Marsden never shared with her future captain (''[[Primary Sources]]'' [BG]). After a few such incidents, her parents decided it would be safer for her to live on Earth, so she went to live with her great-grandparents in Eastern Ohio. She saw her parents whenever they got back to Earth, which was actually quite often. Marsden's great-grandmother had been a Starfleet Engineer, so she showed Marsden a lot while she was growing up. Her great-grandfather was used a hoverchair due to a transwarp racer accident, so Marsden learned to helped her great-grandmother with chair maintenance and eventually most other things around the house. In her teen years, she attended the Federation Magnet High School, where she became friends with [[Natalia Kasyov]]. Marsden's great-grandmother was friends with a couple of Starfleet admirals, who sponsored Marsden's application to Starfleet Academy.

After the Academy, Marsden worked in Starfleet Special Projects, where she developed the [[anti-singularity drive]]. This drive combined elements of Federation and Romulan technologies to achieve incredible speeds. She was unable to stabilize the system, though, until she took the unorthodox step of funneling the drive energies through a piece of space debris that was discovered by the [[USS Secondprize]] over a century earlier. This debris was actually part of an advanced culture's starship and served as the housing for the sphere-encased brains they used to regulate their engine systems. Marsden's use of housing attracted [[Cabral]], who phased through the hull of the Hermes-7 prototype containing the housing and took over control of the ship, taking Marsden and [[Hector Arroyo]] along for the ride. Once Captain [[Reginald Bain]] was able to intercept the Hermes-7 and befriend Cabral. Cabral elected to remain aboard the ship, which was renamed the USS Anomaly. Bain was made Captain and Marsden ordered to serve as his Chief Engineer. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

Marsden was upset that Bain took command of the Anomaly away from her (and also that he changed the name to the Anomaly), so she attempted to get a transfer rather than serve as Bain’s chief engineer. Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] denied the request and threatened to bill Marsden for all of the destroyed prototypes if she resigned from Starfleet. (''[[One Track Mind]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly was damaged in the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], Marsden signed up for a credit account at [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] and used it to get parts for repairs, narrowly avoiding being killed by a particularly angry clerk droid in the process. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG]) After making repairs and getting the Anomaly moving again, she pretended to be Bain's wife as the pair went to look at renting a condominium while really trying to determine the locations of Kasyov and Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]], who had been taken by the Associates. (''[[Domestic Tranquility]]'' [BG])

When the Anomaly and its crew were taken into protective care by the [[Nabusari]], an older race that considered Bain too young to be running a starship and quite irresponsible to have taken a bunch of children out into space, Marsden led a small group in escaping the day care facility that all of the crew except Bain were taken to. She was able to establish contact with Bain and later pretended to be him to pass a pilot's exam in order to get the Anomaly back. (''[[Respect Your Elders]]'' [BG])

Upon returning to Earth from Andromeda, Marsden helped Arroyo investigate the disappearance of his fiancee, [[Janie]], who used to work with them in Starfleet R&D. Arroyo revealed to her that he and Janie were only pretending to be engaged in order to get Arroyo's parents off his back about his dating life and marriage prospects. In return, Janie had gotten a recommendation from Senator Arroyo that allowed her to get her position with Admiral [[Okawa]]'s office in Starfleet Sciences. Arroyo and Marsden took the [[USS Navigator]] to investigate and discovered that Okawa and Janie had been captured by the Serellan artist [[Veraxe']], who was working on a massive unauthorized space painting. They were briefly captured as well, but Arroyo was able to escape Veraxe', destroying multiple robots in the process, then free Marsden, Janie, and Okawa. They fled Veraxe's ship only to find that he had completed the painting, which was absolutely gorgeous. They decided not to destroy it. (''[[The Ties That Bind]]'' [BG])

After learning that the several bits of debris survived the destruction of the [[Hermes 5]] prototype ship two years earlier, Marsden was sent to [[Carsullis]] to retrieve it before it could affect the development of the planet's pre-industrial population. She discovered that the ship's backup computer core had also survived and that the Carsullans were now worshipping as [[The Oracle]]. Additionally, [[Cole Anfibon]] was on Carsullis looking to get the core and sell it to a group interested in replicating the anti-singularity drive. Marsden took Anfibon into custody, but, after a banter-filled dinner, let him go as long as he left the planet. He didn't leave. Instead, he gathered up all of the explosives Marsden had placed around the Oracle's shrine with the intention of blowing the structure up and beaming out the core. Before she could actually arrest him for interfering in her mission, Marsden and Anfibon were beamed up along with the computer core to a Breen ship commander by [[Thot-Phul]]. The Anomaly arrived soon after this. While Phul and Commander [[Prosak]] exchanged demands and threats, Marsden and Anfibon were able to set off their explosives, severely damaging the DRAAT, and escape. Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] finished the Breen ship off with a torpedo volley and beamed the Hermes 5 computer core back to the Anomaly. Phul and his crew abandoned ship before the DRAAT exploded. Captain [[Reginald Bain]] decided to let Anfibon go, since he helped Marsden escape the Breen, and returned him to his ship. Before he left the Anomaly, Anfibon told Marsden that he hoped to see her again and commed her later that same day, beginning a long distance relationship between the two. (''[[Scrap Metal Of The Gods]]'' [BG])

A couple years after the Anomaly's return from Andromeda, Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway sent Marsden a final notice about the large debt she and the crew racked up in the Andromeda Galaxy, then after getting no response (the message bounced off of the Great Barrier surrounding the Milky Way), turned her over to Associates Acquisitions to collect what she owed. The Associates ship traveled to the Milky Way looking for the Anomaly. With no way to pay them back, Marsden beamed over to their ship with Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] to work off her debt. The Anomaly crew realized that the Associates shuttle they brought back from Andromeda might be worth enough to pay off what Marsden owed, so they got it from Earth and, thanks to [[Cole Anfibon]] preventing the Associates from leaving the galaxy by crashing a microshuttle into their engines, were able to catch up to the Associates and give them the shuttle plus some engine repairs to satisfy Gyjik's debt. Back on the Anomaly, Marsden and Anfibon were actually able to spend a night together in person. (''[[Past Due]]'' [BG])

Anifbon was actually a clone of Bain that Dr. [[Lenik]] created and sent to get close to Marsden as part of a plan to get revenge on Bain for destroying her research. While Anfibon was aboard the Anomaly, [[FOBBER]] set off an explosive on [[Dulcolax Three]] in the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone containing transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation. The Anomaly and a Romulan warhawk were both sent to investigate the source of the illegal weapon. Anfibon attempted to murder Marsden before transporting himself and Bain to [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]]'s freighter. The Anomaly crew realized what was happening and de-escalated the situation with the Romulans before then chasing down the Pakleds' freighter and rescuing Bain. Marsden, despite her injuries, confronted Anfibon, who attempted to convince her that he really did love her and that he was forced by Lenik to do what he had done. Really, Anifbon was just trying to get close enough to stab Marsden again. Marsden stunned him before he could strike. He and Lenik were killed when the Pakleds' freighter exploded. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

During the [[Lucinda]] incident, Marsden and Tovar acknowledged their attraction to each other and ended up engaging in a heavy makeout session in the Anomaly's Jefferies tubes. Tovar, however, was dating Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]] and did not want to end that relationship. Marsden knew that he was trying to do the right thing. Marsden also lost her friend Hector Arroyo during this, when he gave up his physical form and merged with Lucinda. Marsden couldn't understand why Arroyo had never told her about Lucinda. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

While were representing Starfleet at a high school career night, Prosak caught Tovar by surprise with a kiss and told him that she would be a better match for him than Torgerson. Tovar pulled her aside to talk about the kiss, but they were overheard by Marsden. This revelation resulted in a argument between the three of them right in the middle of the gym holding the career night. Both Prosak and Marsden stormed away from Tovar, with Marsden telling him to stay away from her until he figured out what he wanted. While the verbal pummeling was not fun for Tovar, it did get a lot of students interested in checking out the Starfleet table. (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Much to Marsden's horror, rumors of what happened between her and Tovar started spreading around the Anomaly. She eventually found out that Ensign [[Yonk]] was responsible, but she was not able to get him to remove the posts about it that he put on the shipwide messaging system before Torgerson read them. (''[[Rumor Control]]'' [BG])

Realizing that Tovar was in love with Marsden, Torgerson broke things off with Tovar. Tovar raced to find Marsden to tell her that he loved her. She was receptive until she found out that Torgerson broke up with him rather than Tovar having the guts to do it himself. She stormed off saying that Tovar didn't deserve her. Crushed, he went to see Prosak to talk. Having had a rough day of her own, Prosak jumped him and pulled him into her quarters, kissing him and pulling at his clothes. Tovar responded in kind, and the two fell onto her sofa together. (''[[Once More, With Feelings]]'' [BG])

After sleeping with Prosak, Tovar went to talk to Marsden, something Kasyov told him specifically not to do, which led to an argument in which he revealed that he had sex with Prosak. Marsden was furious with him, telling him that they would never be together or even friends. With hostilities starting with the Vulcan Alliance, Tovar took the opportunity to escape his troubles on the Anomaly by volunteering to serve as a tactical officer on the Romulan Warhawk [[Shakalak]]. Marsden came to see him in the transporter room before he left and told him that he was an idiot for leaving. She also said to look her up when he returned to the Anomaly. (''[[Strategic Retreat]]'' [BG])

While on a mission to tap into the Romulan sensor network so Starfleet could monitor Vulcan ship movements, Marsden and Prosak cleared the air about Tovar, with Prosak telling Marsden that their encounter was strictly recreational and that she had no desire for a relationship with him. (''[[Uncomfortably Close]]'' [BG])

Marsden joined the away team to stop the Vulcans were were attempting to retrieve the [[Kolch'ak Device]] from the [[Kantelov Annex]] on Earth to see if it could be used to control Romulans. She saw Tovar again at the Annex, but they had to deal with the Vulcans first, which they did. Once the danger was past, Tovar and Marsden decided to have dinner together and talk through everything. (''[[Scratching The Surface]]'' [BG])

Tovar and Marsden's dinner was interrupted, but they later found themselves working together closely in a Jefferies tube which escalated quickly to kissing to sex. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'' [BG]) Marsden was injured in a collapsed Jefferies tube during the battle against the combined Vulcan and Romulan fleets, but Cabral was able to free her. After a short stay in sickbay, she was reunited with Tovar, who had returned from a mission to Vulcan. Their dinner date resulted in a trip to the bedroom before the even got around to eating. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

Marsden joined Tovar and Prosak in an attempt to rescue Captain Bain, who was to be put on trial by the Breen. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden were able to locate Bain and beam him aboard the [[Allegra]]. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]]. Marsden regained consciousness along with Tovar and Prosak inside a cargo container that Holo-Kirk ejected into space. They were soon picked up by [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]], who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, with Rosalyn Bain's help, caught up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. Marsden learned about Rosalyn's Section 31 affiliation at this time. (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

When the [[USS Anomaly]] accidentally ended up in the pocket universe created to hide the [[Multek Enclave]], Bain tasked Marsden with shutting down the pocket universe generators and returning the Multek Enclave to normal space. Marsden was successful, but then Bain learned that the Multeks had hidden the Enclave in the first place to prevent their worlds from being taken over by the [[Dillon Consortium]]. Bain did everything he could to set things right and took on an entire Consortium acquisition fleet while Marsden repaired the pocket universe generator. She realized that she would have to stay inside the Enclave to activate the generators, separating her from Tovar forever. Tovar's mother [[Tanta]] revealed to Marsden that she'd designed the system in the first place and told Marsden to get back to Tovar and to tell him to be happy. Marsden returned to the Anomaly, and, after the Multeks were safe, married Tovar on [[Waystation Prime]]. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

After her parents discovered the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld, Marsden and the Anomaly were sent to assess the situation. While there, she introduced Harold and Ann to Tovar, Bain and Rosalyn. The Marsdens showed the Anomaly team their discovery, but Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and also set in motion a series of events that ended in the destruction of the planet. Before that happened, Marsden was able to free Kasyov and Cabral in time for the Anomaly to beam them all up to the ship. She said farewell to her parents, who moved on to other worlds to explore while they reviewed the scans they took of the Pliggeri planet before it was obliterated. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

Marsden was targeted by the [[Dillon Consortium]], which intended to brainwash her into helping them reverse engineer the anti-singularity drive and build their own. She was part of Bain's team that was trapped by the Consortium at the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant, but the Anomaly officers were able to turn the tables on their captors and take Consortium CEO [[Tori Burke]] into custody. Afterwards, Marsden learned that Bain and Tovar had suspected a trap all along, and that Bain had specifically ordered Tovar not to warn her about it. While she was upset briefly, Marsden understood that it was part of their jobs and one of the things that made their professional and personal connections messy. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly faced a fleet of Breen ships with anti-singularity drives and returned to Earth for an extended refit, Cabral and Kasyov asked for Marsden and Bain's help to get to the new Pliggeri homeworld, so that Cabral could take [[Chindela]] and [[Gathering Point]] there. They hatched plan in which Marsden automated a lot of the ship's systems under the guise of a refit, and then, when things were ready, Cabral and Kasyov stole the Anomaly and took it to find the Pliggeri. Tovar may also have suspected Marsden's involvement, but he never pushed the question with her. Marsden opted to remain on Earth and Marsden rejoined Starfleet Research & Development while Tovar joined the Tactics Division at Starfleet Headquarters. They had a son, [[Jarrett Bain]], who, after graduating from Starfleet Academy, served on the [[USS Holloway]] under his grandfather, Reginald Bain. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Marsden plays golf in her holopod to relax. Despite 15 years of playing, she is terrible and spends a lot of the game yelling.

{{AnomalyCrew}}

Shelly Marsden

2024-02-12T18:16:00Z

Cmdrajd:

Shelly Marsden was the Chief Engineer of the [[USS Anomaly]].

Marsden was the only child of [[Harold and Ann Marsden]], two xeno-archaeologists who specialized in ancient alien technology. When she was a toddler, the Marsdens were working at a dig site on Pyadall when they were attacked by Whurakan raiders. They were saved by a ship commanded by [[Reginald Bain]], a fact that Marsden never shared with her future captain (''[[Primary Sources]]'' [BG]). After a few such incidents, her parents decided it would be safer for her to live on Earth, so she went to live with her great-grandparents in Eastern Ohio. She saw her parents whenever they got back to Earth, which was actually quite often. Marsden's great-grandmother had been a Starfleet Engineer, so she showed Marsden a lot while she was growing up. Her great-grandfather was used a hoverchair due to a transwarp racer accident, so Marsden learned to helped her great-grandmother with chair maintenance and eventually most other things around the house. In her teen years, she attended the Federation Magnet High School, where she became friends with [[Natalia Kasyov]]. Marsden's great-grandmother was friends with a couple of Starfleet admirals, who sponsored Marsden's application to Starfleet Academy.

After the Academy, Marsden worked in Starfleet Special Projects, where she developed the [[anti-singularity drive]]. This drive combined elements of Federation and Romulan technologies to achieve incredible speeds. She was unable to stabilize the system, though, until she took the unorthodox step of funneling the drive energies through a piece of space debris that was discovered by the [[USS Secondprize]] over a century earlier. This debris was actually part of an advanced culture's starship and served as the housing for the sphere-encased brains they used to regulate their engine systems. Marsden's use of housing attracted [[Cabral]], who phased through the hull of the Hermes-7 prototype containing the housing and took over control of the ship, taking Marsden and [[Hector Arroyo]] along for the ride. Once Captain [[Reginald Bain]] was able to intercept the Hermes-7 and befriend Cabral. Cabral elected to remain aboard the ship, which was renamed the USS Anomaly. Bain was made Captain and Marsden ordered to serve as his Chief Engineer. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

Marsden was upset that Bain took command of the Anomaly away from her (and also that he changed the name to the Anomaly), so she attempted to get a transfer rather than serve as Bain’s chief engineer. Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] denied the request and threatened to bill Marsden for all of the destroyed prototypes if she resigned from Starfleet. (''[[One Track Mind]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly was damaged in the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], Marsden signed up for a credit account at [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] and used it to get parts for repairs, narrowly avoiding being killed by a particularly angry clerk droid in the process. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG]) After making repairs and getting the Anomaly moving again, she pretended to be Bain's wife as the pair went to look at renting a condominium while really trying to determine the locations of Kasyov and Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]], who had been taken by the Associates. (''[[Domestic Tranquility]]'' [BG])

When the Anomaly and its crew were taken into protective care by the [[Nabusari]], an older race that considered Bain too young to be running a starship and quite irresponsible to have taken a bunch of children out into space, Marsden led a small group in escaping the day care facility that all of the crew except Bain were taken to. She was able to establish contact with Bain and later pretended to be him to pass a pilot's exam in order to get the Anomaly back. (''[[Respect Your Elders]]'' [BG])

Upon returning to Earth from Andromeda, Marsden helped Arroyo investigate the disappearance of his fiancee, [[Janie]], who used to work with them in Starfleet R&D. Arroyo revealed to her that he and Janie were only pretending to be engaged in order to get Arroyo's parents off his back about his dating life and marriage prospects. In return, Janie had gotten a recommendation from Senator Arroyo that allowed her to get her position with Admiral [[Okawa]]'s office in Starfleet Sciences. Arroyo and Marsden took the [[USS Navigator]] to investigate and discovered that Okawa and Janie had been captured by the Serellan artist [[Veraxe']], who was working on a massive unauthorized space painting. They were briefly captured as well, but Arroyo was able to escape Veraxe', destroying multiple robots in the process, then free Marsden, Janie, and Okawa. They fled Veraxe's ship only to find that he had completed the painting, which was absolutely gorgeous. They decided not to destroy it. (''[[The Ties That Bind]]'' [BG])

After learning that the several bits of debris survived the destruction of the [[Hermes 5]] prototype ship two years earlier, Marsden was sent to [[Carsullis]] to retrieve it before it could affect the development of the planet's pre-industrial population. She discovered that the ship's backup computer core had also survived and that the Carsullans were now worshipping as [[The Oracle]]. Additionally, [[Cole Anfibon]] was on Carsullis looking to get the core and sell it to a group interested in replicating the anti-singularity drive. Marsden took Anfibon into custody, but, after a banter-filled dinner, let him go as long as he left the planet. He didn't leave. Instead, he gathered up all of the explosives Marsden had placed around the Oracle's shrine with the intention of blowing the structure up and beaming out the core. Before she could actually arrest him for interfering in her mission, Marsden and Anfibon were beamed up along with the computer core to a Breen ship commander by [[Thot-Phul]]. The Anomaly arrived soon after this. While Phul and Commander [[Prosak]] exchanged demands and threats, Marsden and Anfibon were able to set off their explosives, severely damaging the DRAAT, and escape. Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] finished the Breen ship off with a torpedo volley and beamed the Hermes 5 computer core back to the Anomaly. Phul and his crew abandoned ship before the DRAAT exploded. Captain [[Reginald Bain]] decided to let Anfibon go, since he helped Marsden escape the Breen, and returned him to his ship. Before he left the Anomaly, Anfibon told Marsden that he hoped to see her again and commed her later that same day, beginning a long distance relationship between the two. (''[[Scrap Metal Of The Gods]]'' [BG])

A couple years after the Anomaly's return from Andromeda, Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway sent Marsden a final notice about the large debt she and the crew racked up in the Andromeda Galaxy, then after getting no response (the message bounced off of the Great Barrier surrounding the Milky Way), turned her over to Associates Acquisitions to collect what she owed. The Associates ship traveled to the Milky Way looking for the Anomaly. With no way to pay them back, Marsden beamed over to their ship with Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] to work off her debt. The Anomaly crew realized that the Associates shuttle they brought back from Andromeda might be worth enough to pay off what Marsden owed, so they got it from Earth and, thanks to [[Cole Anfibon]] preventing the Associates from leaving the galaxy by crashing a microshuttle into their engines, were able to catch up to the Associates and give them the shuttle plus some engine repairs to satisfy Gyjik's debt. Back on the Anomaly, Marsden and Anfibon were actually able to spend a night together in person. (''[[Past Due]]'' [BG])

Anifbon was actually a clone of Bain that Dr. [[Lenik]] created and sent to get close to Marsden as part of a plan to get revenge on Bain for destroying her research. While Anfibon was aboard the Anomaly, [[FOBBER]] set off an explosive on [[Dulcolax Three]] in the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone containing transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation. The Anomaly and a Romulan warhawk were both sent to investigate the source of the illegal weapon. Anfibon attempted to murder Marsden before transporting himself and Bain to [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]]'s freighter. The Anomaly crew realized what was happening and de-escalated the situation with the Romulans before then chasing down the Pakleds' freighter and rescuing Bain. Marsden, despite her injuries, confronted Anfibon, who attempted to convince her that he really did love her and that he was forced by Lenik to do what he had done. Really, Anifbon was just trying to get close enough to stab Marsden again. Marsden stunned him before he could strike. He and Lenik were killed when the Pakleds' freighter exploded. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

During the [[Lucinda]] incident, Marsden and Tovar acknowledged their attraction to each other and ended up engaging in a heavy makeout session in the Anomaly's Jefferies tubes. Tovar, however, was dating Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]] and did not want to end that relationship. Marsden knew that he was trying to do the right thing. Marsden also lost her friend Hector Arroyo during this, when he gave up his physical form and merged with Lucinda. Marsden couldn't understand why Arroyo had never told her about Lucinda. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

While were representing Starfleet at a high school career night, Prosak caught Tovar by surprise with a kiss and told him that she would be a better match for him than Torgerson. Tovar pulled her aside to talk about the kiss, but they were overheard by Marsden. This revelation resulted in a argument between the three of them right in the middle of the gym holding the career night. Both Prosak and Marsden stormed away from Tovar, with Marsden telling him to stay away from her until he figured out what he wanted. While the verbal pummeling was not fun for Tovar, it did get a lot of students interested in checking out the Starfleet table. (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Much to Marsden's horror, rumors of what happened between her and Tovar started spreading around the Anomaly. She eventually found out that Ensign [[Yonk]] was responsible, but she was not able to get him to remove the posts about it that he put on the shipwide messaging system before Torgerson read them. (''[[Rumor Control]]'' [BG])

Realizing that Tovar was in love with Marsden, Torgerson broke things off with Tovar. Tovar raced to find Marsden to tell her that he loved her. She was receptive until she found out that Torgerson broke up with him rather than Tovar having the guts to do it himself. She stormed off saying that Tovar didn't deserve her. Crushed, he went to see Prosak to talk. Having had a rough day of her own, Prosak jumped him and pulled him into her quarters, kissing him and pulling at his clothes. Tovar responded in kind, and the two fell onto her sofa together. (''[[Once More, With Feelings]]'' [BG])

After sleeping with Prosak, Tovar went to talk to Marsden, something Kasyov told him specifically not to do, which led to an argument in which he revealed that he had sex with Prosak. Marsden was furious with him, telling him that they would never be together or even friends. With hostilities starting with the Vulcan Alliance, Tovar took the opportunity to escape his troubles on the Anomaly by volunteering to serve as a tactical officer on the Romulan Warhawk [[Shakalak]]. Marsden came to see him in the transporter room before he left and told him that he was an idiot for leaving. She also said to look her up when he returned to the Anomaly. (''[[Strategic Retreat]]'' [BG])

While on a mission to tap into the Romulan sensor network so Starfleet could monitor Vulcan ship movements, Marsden and Prosak cleared the air about Tovar, with Prosak telling Marsden that their encounter was strictly recreational and that she had no desire for a relationship with him. (''[[Uncomfortably Close]]'' [BG])

Marsden joined the away team to stop the Vulcans were were attempting to retrieve the [[Kolch'ak Device]] from the [[Kantelov Annex]] on Earth to see if it could be used to control Romulans. She saw Tovar again at the Annex, but they had to deal with the Vulcans first, which they did. Once the danger was past, Tovar and Marsden decided to have dinner together and talk through everything. (''[[Scratching The Surface]]'' [BG])

Tovar and Marsden's dinner was interrupted, but they later found themselves working together closely in a Jefferies tube which escalated quickly to kissing to sex. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'' [BG]) Marsden was injured in a collapsed Jefferies tube during the battle against the combined Vulcan and Romulan fleets, but Cabral was able to free her. After a short stay in sickbay, she was reunited with Tovar, who had returned from a mission to Vulcan. Their dinner date resulted in a trip to the bedroom before the even got around to eating. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

Marsden joined Tovar and Prosak in an attempt to rescue Captain Bain, who was to be put on trial by the Breen. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden were able to locate Bain and beam him aboard the [[Allegra]]. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]]. Marsden regained consciousness along with Tovar and Prosak inside a cargo container that Holo-Kirk ejected into space. They were soon picked up by [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]], who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, with Rosalyn Bain's help, caught up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. Marsden learned about Rosalyn's Section 31 affiliation at this time. (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

When the [[USS Anomaly]] accidentally ended up in the pocket universe created to hide the [[Multek Enclave]], Bain tasked Marsden with shutting down the pocket universe generators and returning the Multek Enclave to normal space. Marsden was successful, but then Bain learned that the Multeks had hidden the Enclave in the first place to prevent their worlds from being taken over by the [[Dillon Consortium]]. Bain did everything he could to set things right and took on an entire Consortium acquisition fleet while Marsden repaired the pocket universe generator. She realized that she would have to stay inside the Enclave to activate the generators, separating her from Tovar forever. Tovar's mother [[Tanta]] revealed to Marsden that she'd designed the system in the first place and told Marsden to get back to Tovar and to tell him to be happy. Marsden returned to the Anomaly, and, after the Multeks were safe, married Tovar on [[Waystation Prime]]. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

After her parents discovered the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld, Marsden and the Anomaly were sent to assess the situation. While there, she introduced Harold and Ann to Tovar, Bain and Rosalyn. The Marsdens showed the Anomaly team their discovery, but Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and also set in motion a series of events that ended in the destruction of the planet. Before that happened, Marsden was able to free Kasyov and Cabral in time for the Anomaly to beam them all up to the ship. She said farewell to her parents, who moved on to other worlds to explore while they reviewed the scans they took of the Pliggeri planet before it was obliterated. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

Marsden was targeted by the [[Dillon Consortium]], which intended to brainwash her into helping them reverse engineer the anti-singularity drive and build their own. She was part of Bain's team that was trapped by the Consortium at the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant, but the Anomaly officers were able to turn the tables on their captors and take Consortium CEO [[Tori Burke]] into custody. Afterwards, Marsden learned that Bain and Tovar had suspected a trap all along, and that Bain had specifically ordered Tovar not to warn her about it. While she was upset briefly, Marsden understood that it was part of their jobs and one of the things that made their professional and personal connections messy. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly faced a fleet of Breen ships with anti-singularity drives and returned to Earth for an extended refit, Cabral and Kasyov asked for Bain and Marsden's help to get there. They hatched plan in which Marsden automated a lot of the ship's systems under the guise of a refit, and then, when things were ready, Cabral and Kasyov stole the Anomaly and took it to find the Pliggeri. He may also have suspected Marsden's involvement, but he never pushed the question with her. Tovar was in line for a first officer position on the USS Astoria. He ended up not taking it and instead opted to remain on Earth working in the Tactics division at Starfleet Headquarters while Marsden rejoined Starfleet Research & Development. They had a son, [[Jarrett Bain]], who, after graduating from Starfleet Academy and serving on the [[USS Holloway]] under his grandfather, Reginald Bain. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Marsden plays golf in her holopod to relax. Despite 15 years of playing, she is terrible and spends a lot of the game yelling.

{{AnomalyCrew}}

Shelly Marsden

2024-02-12T18:15:07Z

Cmdrajd:

Shelly Marsden was the Chief Engineer of the [[USS Anomaly]].

Marsden was the only child of [[Harold and Ann Marsden]], two xeno-archaeologists who specialized in ancient alien technology. When she was a toddler, the Marsdens were working at a dig site on Pyadall when they were attacked by Whurakan raiders. They were saved by a ship commanded by [[Reginald Bain]], a fact that Marsden never shared with her future captain (''[[Primary Sources]]'' [BG]). After a few such incidents, her parents decided it would be safer for her to live on Earth, so she went to live with her great-grandparents in Eastern Ohio. She saw her parents whenever they got back to Earth, which was actually quite often. Marsden's great-grandmother had been a Starfleet Engineer, so she showed Marsden a lot while she was growing up. Her great-grandfather was used a hoverchair due to a transwarp racer accident, so Marsden learned to helped her great-grandmother with chair maintenance and eventually most other things around the house. In her teen years, she attended the Federation Magnet High School, where she became friends with [[Natalia Kasyov]]. Marsden's great-grandmother was friends with a couple of Starfleet admirals, who sponsored Marsden's application to Starfleet Academy.

After the Academy, Marsden worked in Starfleet Special Projects, where she developed the [[anti-singularity drive]]. This drive combined elements of Federation and Romulan technologies to achieve incredible speeds. She was unable to stabilize the system, though, until she took the unorthodox step of funneling the drive energies through a piece of space debris that was discovered by the [[USS Secondprize]] over a century earlier. This debris was actually part of an advanced culture's starship and served as the housing for the sphere-encased brains they used to regulate their engine systems. Marsden's use of housing attracted [[Cabral]], who phased through the hull of the Hermes-7 prototype containing the housing and took over control of the ship, taking Marsden and [[Hector Arroyo]] along for the ride. Once Captain [[Reginald Bain]] was able to intercept the Hermes-7 and befriend Cabral. Cabral elected to remain aboard the ship, which was renamed the USS Anomaly. Bain was made Captain and Marsden ordered to serve as his Chief Engineer. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

Marsden was upset that Bain took command of the Anomaly away from her (and also that he changed the name to the Anomaly), so she attempted to get a transfer rather than serve as Bain’s chief engineer. Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] denied the request and threatened to bill Marsden for all of the destroyed prototypes if she resigned from Starfleet. (''[[One Track Mind]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly was damaged in the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], Marsden signed up for a credit account at [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] and used it to get parts for repairs, narrowly avoiding being killed by a particularly angry clerk droid in the process. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG]) After making repairs and getting the Anomaly moving again, she pretended to be Bain's wife as the pair went to look at renting a condominium while really trying to determine the locations of Kasyov and Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]], who had been taken by the Associates. (''[[Domestic Tranquility]]'' [BG])

When the Anomaly and its crew were taken into protective care by the [[Nabusari]], an older race that considered Bain too young to be running a starship and quite irresponsible to have taken a bunch of children out into space, Marsden led a small group in escaping the day care facility that all of the crew except Bain were taken to. She was able to establish contact with Bain and later pretended to be him to pass a pilot's exam in order to get the Anomaly back. (''[[Respect Your Elders]]'' [BG])

Upon returning to Earth from Andromeda, Marsden helped Arroyo investigate the disappearance of his fiancee, [[Janie]], who used to work with them in Starfleet R&D. Arroyo revealed to her that he and Janie were only pretending to be engaged in order to get Arroyo's parents off his back about his dating life and marriage prospects. In return, Janie had gotten a recommendation from Senator Arroyo that allowed her to get her position with Admiral [[Okawa]]'s office in Starfleet Sciences. Arroyo and Marsden took the [[USS Navigator]] to investigate and discovered that Okawa and Janie had been captured by the Serellan artist [[Veraxe']], who was working on a massive unauthorized space painting. They were briefly captured as well, but Arroyo was able to escape Veraxe', destroying multiple robots in the process, then free Marsden, Janie, and Okawa. They fled Veraxe's ship only to find that he had completed the painting, which was absolutely gorgeous. They decided not to destroy it. (''[[The Ties That Bind]]'' [BG])

After learning that the several bits of debris survived the destruction of the [[Hermes 5]] prototype ship two years earlier, Marsden was sent to [[Carsullis]] to retrieve it before it could affect the development of the planet's pre-industrial population. She discovered that the ship's backup computer core had also survived and that the Carsullans were now worshipping as [[The Oracle]]. Additionally, [[Cole Anfibon]] was on Carsullis looking to get the core and sell it to a group interested in replicating the anti-singularity drive. Marsden took Anfibon into custody, but, after a banter-filled dinner, let him go as long as he left the planet. He didn't leave. Instead, he gathered up all of the explosives Marsden had placed around the Oracle's shrine with the intention of blowing the structure up and beaming out the core. Before she could actually arrest him for interfering in her mission, Marsden and Anfibon were beamed up along with the computer core to a Breen ship commander by [[Thot-Phul]]. The Anomaly arrived soon after this. While Phul and Commander [[Prosak]] exchanged demands and threats, Marsden and Anfibon were able to set off their explosives, severely damaging the DRAAT, and escape. Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] finished the Breen ship off with a torpedo volley and beamed the Hermes 5 computer core back to the Anomaly. Phul and his crew abandoned ship before the DRAAT exploded. Captain [[Reginald Bain]] decided to let Anfibon go, since he helped Marsden escape the Breen, and returned him to his ship. Before he left the Anomaly, Anfibon told Marsden that he hoped to see her again and commed her later that same day, beginning a long distance relationship between the two. (''[[Scrap Metal Of The Gods]]'' [BG])

A couple years after the Anomaly's return from Andromeda, Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway sent Marsden a final notice about the large debt she and the crew racked up in the Andromeda Galaxy, then after getting no response (the message bounced off of the Great Barrier surrounding the Milky Way), turned her over to Associates Acquisitions to collect what she owed. The Associates ship traveled to the Milky Way looking for the Anomaly. With no way to pay them back, Marsden beamed over to their ship with Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] to work off her debt. The Anomaly crew realized that the Associates shuttle they brought back from Andromeda might be worth enough to pay off what Marsden owed, so they got it from Earth and, thanks to [[Cole Anfibon]] preventing the Associates from leaving the galaxy by crashing a microshuttle into their engines, were able to catch up to the Associates and give them the shuttle plus some engine repairs to satisfy Gyjik's debt. Back on the Anomaly, Marsden and Anfibon were actually able to spend a night together in person. (''[[Past Due]]'' [BG])

Anifbon was actually a clone of Bain that Dr. [[Lenik]] created and sent to get close to Marsden as part of a plan to get revenge on Bain for destroying her research. While Anfibon was aboard the Anomaly, [[FOBBER]] set off an explosive on [[Dulcolax Three]] in the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone containing transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation. The Anomaly and a Romulan warhawk were both sent to investigate the source of the illegal weapon. Anfibon attempted to murder Marsden before transporting himself and Bain to [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]]'s freighter. The Anomaly crew realized what was happening and de-escalated the situation with the Romulans before then chasing down the Pakleds' freighter and rescuing Bain. Marsden, despite her injuries, confronted Anfibon, who attempted to convince her that he really did love her and that he was forced by Lenik to do what he had done. Really, Anifbon was just trying to get close enough to stab Marsden again. Marsden stunned him before he could strike. He and Lenik were killed when the Pakleds' freighter exploded. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

During the [[Lucinda]] incident, Marsden and Tovar acknowledged their attraction to each other and ended up engaging in a heavy makeout session in the Anomaly's Jefferies tubes. Tovar, however, was dating Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]] and did not want to end that relationship. Marsden knew that he was trying to do the right thing. Marsden also lost her friend Hector Arroyo during this, when he gave up his physical form and merged with Lucinda. Marsden couldn't understand why Arroyo had never told her about Lucinda. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

While were representing Starfleet at a high school career night, Prosak caught Tovar by surprise with a kiss and told him that she would be a better match for him than Torgerson. Tovar pulled her aside to talk about the kiss, but they were overheard by Marsden. This revelation resulted in a argument between the three of them right in the middle of the gym holding the career night. Both Prosak and Marsden stormed away from Tovar, with Marsden telling him to stay away from her until he figured out what he wanted. While the verbal pummeling was not fun for Tovar, it did get a lot of students interested in checking out the Starfleet table. (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Much to Marsden's horror, rumors of what happened between her and Tovar started spreading around the Anomaly. She eventually found out that Ensign [[Yonk]] was responsible, but she was not able to get him to remove the posts about it that he put on the shipwide messaging system before Torgerson read them. (''[[Rumor Control]]'' [BG])

Realizing that Tovar was in love with Marsden, Torgerson broke things off with Tovar. Tovar raced to find Marsden to tell her that he loved her. She was receptive until she found out that Torgerson broke up with him rather than Tovar having the guts to do it himself. She stormed off saying that Tovar didn't deserve her. Crushed, he went to see Prosak to talk. Having had a rough day of her own, Prosak jumped him and pulled him into her quarters, kissing him and pulling at his clothes. Tovar responded in kind, and the two fell onto her sofa together. (''[[Once More, With Feelings]]'' [BG])

After sleeping with Prosak, Tovar went to talk to Marsden, something Kasyov told him specifically not to do, which led to an argument in which he revealed that he had sex with Prosak. Marsden was furious with him, telling him that they would never be together or even friends. With hostilities starting with the Vulcan Alliance, Tovar took the opportunity to escape his troubles on the Anomaly by volunteering to serve as a tactical officer on the Romulan Warhawk [[Shakalak]]. Marsden came to see him in the transporter room before he left and told him that he was an idiot for leaving. She also said to look her up when he returned to the Anomaly. (''[[Strategic Retreat]]'' [BG])

While on a mission to tap into the Romulan sensor network so Starfleet could monitor Vulcan ship movements, Marsden and Prosak cleared the air about Tovar, with Prosak telling Marsden that their encounter was strictly recreational and that she had no desire for a relationship with him. (''[[Uncomfortably Close]]'' [BG])

Marsden joined the away team to stop the Vulcans were were attempting to retrieve the [[Kolch'ak Device]] from the [[Kantelov Annex]] on Earth to see if it could be used to control Romulans. She saw Tovar again at the Annex, but they had to deal with the Vulcans first, which they did. Once the danger was past, Tovar and Marsden decided to have dinner together and talk through everything. (''[[Scratching The Surface]]'' [BG])

Tovar and Marsden's dinner was interrupted, but they later found themselves working together closely in a Jefferies tube which escalated quickly to kissing to sex. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'' [BG]) Marsden was injured in a collapsed Jefferies tube during the battle against the combined Vulcan and Romulan fleets, but Cabral was able to free her. After a short stay in sickbay, she was reunited with Tovar, who had returned from a mission to Vulcan. Their dinner date resulted in a trip to the bedroom before the even got around to eating. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

Marsden joined Tovar and Prosak in an attempt to rescue Captain Bain, who was to be put on trial by the Breen. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden were able to locate Bain and beam him aboard the [[Allegra]]. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]]. Marsden regained consciousness along with Tovar and Prosak inside a cargo container that Holo-Kirk ejected into space. They were soon picked up by [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]], who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, with Rosalyn Bain's help, caught up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. Marsden learned about Rosalyn's Section 31 affiliation at this time. (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

When the [[USS Anomaly]] accidentally ended up in the pocket universe created to hide the [[Multek Enclave]], Bain tasked Marsden with shutting down the pocket universe generators and returning the Multek Enclave to normal space. Marsden was successful, but then Bain learned that the Multeks had hidden the Enclave in the first place to prevent their worlds from being taken over by the [[Dillon Consortium]]. Bain did everything he could to set things right and took on an entire Consortium acquisition fleet while Marsden repaired the pocket universe generator. She realized that she would have to stay inside the Enclave to activate the generators, separating her from Tovar forever. Tovar's mother [[Tanta]] revealed to Marsden that she'd designed the system in the first place and told Marsden to get back to Tovar and to tell him to be happy. Marsden returned to the Anomaly, and, after the Multeks were safe, married Tovar on [[Waystation Prime]]. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

After her parents discovered the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld, Marsden and the Anomaly were sent to assess the situation. While there, she introduced Harold and Ann to Tovar, Bain and Rosalyn. The Marsdens showed the Anomaly team their discovery, but Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and also set in motion a series of events that ended in the destruction of the planet. Before that happened, Marsden was able to free Kasyov and Cabral in time for the Anomaly to beam them all up to the ship. She said farewell to her parents, who moved on to other worlds to explore while they reviewed the scans they took of the Pliggeri planet before it was obliterated. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

Marsden was targeted by the [[Dillon Consortium]], which intended to brainwash her into helping them reverse engineer the anti-singularity drive and build their own. She was part of Bain's team that was trapped by the Consortium at the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant, but the Anomaly officers were able to turn the tables on their captors and take Consortium CEO [[Tori Burke]] into custody. Afterwards, Marsden learned that Bain and Tovar had suspected a trap all along, and that Bain had specifically ordered Tovar not to warn her about it. While she was upset briefly, Marsden understood that it was part of their jobs and one of the things that made their professional and personal connections messy. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly faced a fleet of Breen ships with anti-singularity drives and returned to Earth for an extended refit, the ship was stolen by Cabral under mysterious circumstances. Starfleet suspected Bain's involvement, but Tovar never asked him directly about it, since he didn't want to know the answer either way. He may also have suspected Marsden's involvement, but he never pushed the question with her. Tovar was in line for a first officer position on the USS Astoria. He ended up not taking it and instead opted to remain on Earth working in the Tactics division at Starfleet Headquarters while Marsden rejoined Starfleet Research & Development. They had a son, [[Jarrett Bain]], who, after graduating from Starfleet Academy and serving on the [[USS Holloway]] under his grandfather, Reginald Bain. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Marsden plays golf in her holopod to relax. Despite 15 years of playing, she is terrible and spends a lot of the game yelling.

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Natalia Kasyov

2024-02-12T18:13:50Z

Cmdrajd:

Natalia Kasyov was a neuroscientist assigned to the [[USS Anomaly]] as the ship’s science officer.

She and Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] both attended Federation Magnet High School as teenagers, where they became friends.

Prior to serving on the Anomaly, Kasyov worked at the Neptune Research Station, where she had a number of brains that she looked after and studied. After [[Cabral]] commandeered the Anomaly, Kasyov was sent aboard to communicate with him, due to her expertise with disembodied brains. Once the situation was resolved, Kasyov decided remain aboard as the ship’s science officer to study Cabral. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG]) She was briefly kidnapped by one of her research subjects, [[Subject 241]], who was upset that she decided to join the crew of the USS Anomaly. Kasyov was able to convince Subject 241 to release her. (''[[One Track Mind]]'' [BG])

When the [[USS Anomaly]] traveled to the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], Kasyov attempted to hide Cabral from the [[Associates]], once she learned that they would confiscate any disembodied brains that entered the galaxy. She disguised Cabral as a work of art, but this did not fool the Associates enforcers. She then tried to hold them off with a phaser, but they were able to beam away and take Cabral with them. (''[[Do You Have Anything To Declare?]]'' [BG]) Determined to find Cabral, Kasyov went with [[Tovar]] to search for information on Cabral's whereabouts. After coming up empty with [[Gyjik]], they were both taken by the Associates to be part of an experiment. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG])

In the experiment, Kasyov and Tovar were to live as husband and wife. Kasyov was given a job at a testing facility, but most of what she did involved tasting various jam. While there, she met [[Balpar]] who introduced her to another disembodied brain, [[Loborus]]. Kasyov was taken with Balpar and his massive skull, and the group plotted to escape. Before they could put a plan into action, Tovar attacked the testing facility with a device constructed by his past life [[Totap]]. The Anomaly arrived in the chaos and rescued Kasyov and Tovar. (''[[Domestic Tranquility]]'' [BG])

Three weeks later, Kasyov convinced Captain [[Reginald Bain]] to try and rescue Balpar and Loborus. He, Kasyov, and a security team returned to the Associates testing world aboard the [[USS Navigator]] at the same time a group of Pulsan from the resistance arrived to rescue Balpar and Loborus as well. Balpar traveled on the Navigator and Kasyov continued to grow closer to him. (''[[Transparent Motives]]'' [BG])

After Loborus was able to locate Cabral on an Associates space station, Kasyov joined an away team with Captain [[Reginald Bain]], [[Balpar]], and Lieutenant [[Bre'zan Brazzell]] to rescue him. During this, Kasyov learned that Balpar was a complete coward who surrendered to the Associates in order to save his own skin. Leaving him behind, the Anomaly crew returned to the Anomaly and then the Milky Way galaxy. (''[[Disassociation]]'' [BG])

When [[Subject 341]] was taken from the Neptune Research Station by the Breen, Kasyov asked Bain to get the Anomaly assigned to find him. She was able to detect the [[Regularity]] in [[DeanSpace]] and beamed over to it with Bain to help [[Thot Luss]] defect to the Federation. (''[[Every Space You Take]]'' [BG])

In order to give Cabral the ability to join in more of shipboard life and on away missions, Kasyov obtained a camera he could control remotely at the [[Green Borg]] Collective of Bargains. Marsden added anti-grav capabilities as well. The resulting device was Cabral's hovercam. (''[[What Color Is Your Borg?]]'' [BG])

Kasyov and Cabral's hovercam transported down to [[Dulcolax Three]] to investigate if the source of transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation Starfleet detected was a Romulan weapons test. Kasyov was doubtful for multiple reasons. The away team ended up facing a Romulan team sent to investigate as well. The Romulans were not interested in her theories and instead blamed Starfleet for the blast. The situation devolved into a firefight, but Kasyov was able to stay out of harm's way until Commander [[Prosak]] was able to convince the Romulan commander [[Potluk]] that they were all in a trap set by others. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

While investigating an explosion inside the Imperial Governor's residence on the Romulan world of Nessidel (which turned out to be a kitchen accident), Kasyov was exposed to the highly-toxic Guella blossom, which attacked her inside and out. Dr. [[Fred Nooney]] put Kasyov into an artificially induced coma and submerged her into a healing tank to deal with the toxins. (''[[Music Of The Spheres]]'' [BG])

When Tovar sent a message to the Anomaly from the Romulan Warhawk [[Shakalak]] warning them that the Vulcans had taken over the ship and were heading to Earth, Kasyov checked the coordinates Tovar included and discovered, to her horror, that the Vulcans were heading to her house. She explained to Bain and Marsden that Starfleet Intelligence had a storage facility hidden under her parents' farm and joined the away team to rescue her parents and stop the Vulcans from leaving with the [[Kolch'ak Device]]. Once the Vulcans had been dealt with, Kasyov introduced her parents to Cabral and told them that she was in love with him. (''[[Devastating Logic]]'', ''[[Scratching The Surface]]'' [BG])

Kasyov decided that attempting a relationship with Cabral would be too complicated and broke the news to him while he was keeping the Anomaly at anti-sing on their way back to the Romulan Neutral Zone. He told her that he needed to be alone for the remainder of their journey. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'' [BG]) They made up and resumed their friendship after Kasyov needed Cabral's help in rescuing Marsden from a collapsed Jefferies tube. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

After Centurion [[Nortal]] brought aboard what appeared to be a green gem that actually contained a creature designed to rip through metal and remain invisible to sensors, Kasyov discovered that the creature had been heavily genetically-modified and contained Earth crocodile DNA. She created a hologram of [[Steve Irwin]] to help Bain capture it, at which point it was relocated to an uninhabited world covered in swamps and rivers. (''[[What A Ripper!]]'' [BG])

Kasyov was jealous at how close Cabral was to the Anomaly's computer because it was closer than she could ever be to him. She started working on a way to change that, which she had to put into action when Cabral was endangered by the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] that had been uploaded into the Anomaly's computer and taken over. She connected her mind directly to the computer and took its place, since most of its code had been deleted by Holo-Kirk. Acting as the computer, she was able to take back control from Holo-Kirk and, working with Cabral, save Bain from being killed in a holodeck with the safeties off, where he was battling Holo-Kirk as well. Now closer to Cabral that ever, Kasyov informed Marsden that she had no intention of ever disconnecting herself. She was able to alter the gravity in the Jefferies tubes to prevent Prosak from plummeting to her death after being kicked off of a ladder by [[Selex]]. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'', ''[[Trial And Error]]'' [BG]).

Kasyov and Cabral worked with the Anomaly's Romulan officers to examine the sensor readings of the Breen outpost that the Anomaly destroyed while under the control of the Kirk hologram. They discovered that the Breen outpost was actually a weapons platform. They blackmailed [[Thot-Mutch]] into negotiating peace with Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

After multiple fights with Cabral because they were just too close and aware of every single thought that went across each other's minds, Kasyov insisted that Marsden disconnect her from the computer in the middle of efforts to stop the 2387 Hobus ultranova and send Spock and Nero's ships to a slightly different universe. While Kasyov was recovering in sickbay from the removal and her extended time connected to the system, Cabral came to see her using his hovercam, and they both apologized to each other. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

When [[Harold and Ann Marsden]] discovered the location of the Pliggeri homeworld, Kasyov beamed down with Cabral to see where he was initially grown. While there, Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and interrogated them about their presence on the planet. They learned that the Pliggeri has abandoned the world over a century earlier and moved to a different galaxy to get away from what they saw as the child races of the Milky Way, which were starting to achieve spaceflight. The computer threated to send Cabral and Kasyov to the Pliggeri as data to be studied, and it also set in motion a series of events that would end in the destruction of the planet. Marsden was able to free them in time, and they returned to the Anomaly shortly the planet was destroyed. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

Kasyov narrowly avoided being killed by a bomb beamed into Science Lab Four by [[Selex]] and was only saved with Cabral sent both of them out of phase with the ship. After a short recovery in sickbay, she returned to the bridge and helped Bain defeat a fleet of Breen ships equipped with anti-singularity drives. Later, Kasyov and Cabral asked for Bain and Marsden's help to get to the new Pliggeri homeworld, so that Cabral could take [[Chindela]] and [[Gathering Point]] there. They hatched plan in which Marsden automated a lot of the ship's systems under the guise of a refit, and then, when things were ready, Cabral and Kasyov stole the Anomaly and took it to find the Pliggeri. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Cabral

2024-02-12T18:08:07Z

Cmdrajd:

Cabral is a [[Cerebe]], a giant brain encased in a two-meter in diameter black metal sphere. They were created by the [[Pliggeri]] to perform various tasks, such as regulating the engine systems of starships. In order to accomplish this, their spheres rested in an advanced housing that transported highly-charged plasma. During his time serving on a Pliggeri ship, he learned about the [[frilia flower]], which was responsible for a condition that removed the facial bumps of a planet's population. (''[[The Face Of Things That Went]]'' [BG])

Cabral and his housing were separated from their ship by an explosion. The housing was later picked up by the [[USS Secondprize]]. Cabral, meanwhile, zipped by the [[USS Explorer]] at warp nine. Almost 120 years later, Cabral detected his housing, which had been installed in the [[USS Anomaly|Hermes-7]] by Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]], who hoped that it would regulate the prototype [[anti-singularity drive]]. Cabral phased through the hull of the ship, settled into his housing, and took over the ship's engine systems in order to get to a date with [[Jacinda]], another member of his species.

After learning that Jacinda was now seeing another brain, Cabral elected to remain aboard the ship, which was renamed the USS Anomaly, due to the connection he had made with Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]]. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG])

When the Anomaly traveled to the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], Cabral was taken by the [[Associates]] who put him to work in [[Department Five]]. (''[[Do You Have Anything To Declare?]]'' [BG]), (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG]) Despite his attempts to resist and escape, he was psychologically broken down by [[Neureena]], the Local Area Supervisor for Department Five, and eventually gave in and started working on Department Five's task, contemplating the word "of". (''[[Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch]]'' [BG])

Cabral dedicated himself to this new task and was selected for transfer to a different department. During this transfer, a rescue team from the Anomaly arrived at the Associates space station where Cabral was being held. Cabral was able to mentally connect with [[Balpar]] and direct the away team to a location where he could join them. Once rescued and reunited with Kasyov, Cabral operated the anti-sing drive for two weeks straight to return the ship to the Milky Way. (''[[Disassociation]]'' [BG])

In order to give Cabral the ability to join in more of shipboard life and on away missions, Kasyov obtained a camera he could control remotely at the [[Green Borg]] Collective of Bargains. Marsden added anti-grav capabilities as well. The resulting device was Cabral's hovercam. (''[[What Color Is Your Borg?]]'' [BG])

Cabral was able to devise a way to counter the energy weapons used by the Section 31 ship [[Sloan]] and joined the away team that went to the [[Mega-Sim]] to rescue Captain [[Reginald Bain]], Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]], and Ensign [[Hector Arroyo]]. (''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part One]]'', ''[[Illusions Of Grandeur - Part Two]]'' [BG])

While travelling through Romulan space, Cabral was drawn to a barren world by a signal that he could not ignore. He learned that the world was [[Gathering Point]], which was the final resting place for members of his species. It was watched over by [[Chindela]], a [[Pliggeri]]. Chindela explained the world's purpose to Cabral and other members of the [[USS Anomaly]] crew and informed Cabral that the brain had about 3 years left until he expired. The solitude of being there alone for so many years caused Chindela to snap, and he tried to force Cabral to stay there, even going so far as to send the empty Cerebe spheres he'd sworn a duty to watch over after the Anomaly's away team. Cabral was able to get through to him, and Chindela realized the horror of what he'd done with the spheres he was supposed to take care of. He returned them to Gathering Point and, as a way of making it up to Cabral, removed Cabral's expiration date, so that he could live however long as he was able. (''[[Music Of The Spheres]]'' [BG])

Cabral's hovercam was part of the away team that beamed down to the Kasyov farm to rescue Kasyov's parents and stop the Vulcans were attempting to retrieve the [[Kolch'ak Device]]. Once the danger was over, Kasyov introduced Cabral to her parents and told them that she was in love with him. (''[[Scratching The Surface]]'' [BG])

Kasyov decided that attempting a relationship with Cabral would be too complicated and broke the news to him while he was keeping the Anomaly at anti-sing on their way back to the Romulan Neutral Zone. He told her that he needed to be alone for the remainder of their journey. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'' [BG]) They made up and resumed their friendship after Kasyov needed Cabral's help in rescuing Marsden from a collapsed Jefferies tube. (''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

The housing that Cabral's sphere rested in and that he used to interface with the Anomaly to control the anti-singularity drive was damaged when the Anomaly was attacked by the [[Red Borg]] and crashed on the [[Brown Borg]] planet. Cabral (through his hovercam), Marsden, and Sub-Commander [[Remax]] stole implants from the Brown Borg, from which they extracted nanoprobes that Cabral then directed to make the needed repairs to his housing so the Anomaly could leave the planet. (''[[Living Off The Land]]'' [BG])

Cabral grew very close to the ship's computer, which made Kasyov jealous, since she could not be close to him in the same way. When the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]] was uploaded into the Anomaly's computer and took over, Cabral tried unsuccessfully to stop Holo-Kirk from deleting the Anomaly computer's code. He ended up being forced to hide in a simulation of a brig, from which he could not escape. Kasyov, meanwhile, connected her mind directly to the computer and took its place. She found Cabral and rescued him. Then she was able to take back control of the Anomaly from Holo-Kirk and, working with Cabral, save Bain from being killed in a holodeck with the safeties off, where he was battling Holo-Kirk as well. Now closer to Cabral that ever, Kasyov informed Marsden that she had no intention of ever disconnecting herself. (''[[Hollow Threats]]'' [BG])

Cabral and Kasyov worked with the Anomaly's Romulan officers to examine the sensor readings of the Breen outpost that the Anomaly destroyed while under the control of the Kirk hologram. They discovered that the Breen outpost was actually a weapons platform. They blackmailed [[Thot-Mutch]] into negotiating peace with Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG]).

After multiple fights with Kasyov because they were just too close and aware of every single thought that went across each other's minds, Kasyov insisted that Marsden disconnect her from the computer in the middle of efforts to stop the 2387 Hobus ultranova and send Spock and Nero's ships to a slightly different universe, which was already putting a tremendous strain on Cabral. While Kasyov was recovering in sickbay from the removal and her extended time connected to the system, Cabral came to see her using his hovercam, and they both apologized to each other. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

While on a triple date on [[Waystation Prime]] with Kasyov, Tovar, Marsden, Commander [[Vioxx]], and [[Tori Burke]], Cabral's hovercam was kidnapped by the [[Dillon Consortium]] and locked in a room on a hidden level of the station. Once they were locked in, Cabral lost contact with his hovercam and alerted Bain and the Waystation Prime commander, Commodore [[Theodore Ritter]] to the situation. A Waystation Prime security team was able to rescue Kasyov and the others. (''[[Legend of the Bain]]'' [BG])

Cabral was able to return to the planet where he was initially grown when [[Harold and Ann Marsden]] discovered the location of the Pliggeri homeworld. While there, Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and interrogated them about their presence on the planet. Cabral learned that the Pliggeri has abandoned the world over a century earlier and moved to a different galaxy to get away from what they saw as the child races of the Milky Way, which were starting to achieve spaceflight. The computer threated to send Cabral and Kasyov to the Pliggeri as data to be studied, and it also set in motion a series of events that would end in the destruction of the planet. Marsden was able to free them in time, and they returned to the Anomaly shortly the planet was destroyed. Cabral hoped that one day he would learn where the Pliggeri went. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

After the Anomaly took [[Jacinda]] to Gathering Point following her expiration, Chindela shrunk the planet (himself included) into a tiny cube that Cabral carried inside him. Cabral determined that he must take Gathering Point to the Pliggeri’s new home in another galaxy and, after avoiding being killed by a bomb beamed into Science Lab Four by [[Selex]] and helping Bain defeat a fleet of Breen ships equipped with anti-singularity drives, he and Kasyov asked for Bain and Marsden's help to get there. They hatched plan in which Marsden automated a lot of the ship's systems under the guise of a refit, and then, when things were ready, Cabral and Kasyov stole the Anomaly and took it to find the Pliggeri. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

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Tovar

2024-02-12T18:03:37Z

Cmdrajd:

Tovar was a Yynsian and the tactical officer on the [[USS Anomaly]].

Around the time of Tovar's birth, [[Jaroch]] was killed while away from the home he shared with [[Patricia Hawkins]] on the Bak'u Homeworld. Finding his lifeforce in the Past Life Clearing House, Jaroch interloped on the next available Yynsian birth, which was Tovar. As such, Tovar grew up with two lifeforces vying for control inside of him.

Tovar spent most of his childhood with his grandparents until they were killed in an unfortunate lava skiing accident when he was eleven.

The following year, Tovar's parents, [[Tanta]] and [[Jimsok]] disappeared along with the entire [[Multek Enclave]]. Tovar was attending a Starfleet camp at the time on [[Waystation Prime]], where he met [[Reginald Bain]]. Bain took to Tovar and adopted him after his parents vanished.

Shortly before he left for Starfleet Academy, Tovar learned that his adopted mother, [[Rosalyn Bain]], was actually a Section 31 agent.

Tovar helped Rosalyn prevent Captain Bain from being killed by a holographic assassin hired by [[Thot-Phul]] while the Anomaly was at the Breen homeworld for peace talks. (''[[Mrs. Bain, You're Needed]]'' [BG])

When the Anomaly was sent to the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], one of Tovar's past lives took control of him insisting that they were going the wrong way. While controlled by this past life, Tovar threatened several engineering officers and demanded that they turn the ship around. He was sedated by a well-thrown hyprospray from Nurse [[Ih'vik]]. Tovar awoke with no memory of the incident. (''[[Do You Have Anything To Declare?]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly was heavily damaged and stranded in Andromeda, Tovar went with Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] aboard the raceabout [[USS Caspian]] to try to find [[Cabral]], who had been forcibly removed from the ship by the [[Associates]]. He and Kasyov went to see Gyjik, the owner of [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] but were prevented from seeing him by his secretary [[Moklok]]. Kasyov convinced Moklok that Tovar was attracted to the squidoid being, and while Moklok turned her amorous attention to Tovar, Kasyov was able to slip in to Gyjik's office to speak to him. Upon leaving Gyjik's, their raceabout was intercepted by the Associates, who took Tovar and Kasyov with the intent of studying them in an experiment. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG])

In the experiment, Tovar and Kasyov were to live as husband and wife. Kasyov was given a job at a testing facility, but most of what she did involved tasting various jam. Tovar, meanwhile, was assigned to be a homemaker, a task simplified by his [[Tarva]] and [[Toflay]] past lives. Kasyov met [[Balpar]] who introduced her to another disembodied brain, and the group plotted to escape. Before they could put a plan into action, Tovar attacked the testing facility with a device constructed by his past life [[Totap]]. The Anomaly arrived in the chaos and rescued Kasyov and Tovar. Tovar learns that he is now pregnant from his encounter with Moklok and carrying hundreds of little squidlings in what he thought was a rash. (''[[Domestic Tranquility]]'' [BG])

After the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram]] incapacitated most of the crew and started attacking the Associates, Tovar worked with the [[Steve!]] hologram to blow up the Anomaly's primary holographic junction, which disabled all holograms on the ship. (''[[Transparent Motives]]'' [BG])

While the Anomaly was rescuing Cabral from an Associates space station, Tovar was giving birth, the stress of which caused him to lose control of his past lives. Moklok arrived just in time, thanks to hitching a ride with the [[Lackinis]], and took all of the squid babies away, saying that Tovar was too unstable to be a parent. On the return voyage to the Federation, Tovar's past lives continued to intrude until finally once they were back in the Milky Way, they took Tovar over completely and went to the Anomaly's bridge with a bomb demanding that Bain take them "the right way." (''[[Disassociation]]'' [BG])

Bain and Commander [[Prosak]] were able to subdue Tovar, and they took him to [[Yyns]] to see the Polems at the [[Temple Of Mi Clane]], who determined that Tovar had an [[Interloper]], which they would remove and destroy with the [[Holnym]] ritual. Tovar convinced Bain to help the Interloper instead, and, leaving Yyns and avoiding capture by a Yynsian fleet, the Interloper led them to the Ba'Ku homeworld, where [[Patricia Hawkins]] now lived. With the help of Polem [[J'Atric]], the Interloper was transferred into a body created from a saved transporter pattern of [[Jaroch]], reuniting Jaroch and Hawkins and getting Tovar down to the one life force he should have had. (''[[Mind If I Play Through?]]'', ''[[Aren't You Dead?]]'' [BG])

After the Interloper was removed, Tovar's remaining past lives fought for control of his body. When the Cardassian terrorist [[Fubar]] got the drop on [[Rosalyn Bain]] in her own home, knocking her out and then tying her up, he was delighted by Tovar's past lives, who cooked and cleaned for him. Fubar planned to take Tovar with him after he killed Rosalyn. Tovar was able to get his past lives to work together to build a device that coated Fubar in a shell of quick-drying chocolate, rendering him immobile. He was then beamed away and imprisoned by Section 31. After this, Tovar's past lives allowed him to keep control of his body for the most part. (''[[The Ties That Bind]]'' [BG])

[[Carn]], the head of Section 31, tried to recruit Tovar into organization, promising to help Tovar find out what happened to his missing parents. Carn sent Tovar to [[Huryl]] where Fleet Admiral [[Holden Sollars]] was vacationing with his mistress. Sollars was cheating on his wife, Section 31 Agent [[Clara Sollars]], with a Bajoran woman named [[Seddi Tral]]. Tovar's assignment was to the relationship between Sollars and Tral, which he did. Carn then sent Tovar back to the [[USS Anomaly]] to deal with a malfunctioning holographic duplicate of Tovar. Once Tovar stopped the hologram, he told Carn that he would not be joining Section 31. Around the same time, Tovar was starting to date Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]]. (''[[Privileges Of Membership]]'' [BG])

Tovar continued to date Torgerson; although, his mother put an inadvertent strain on their relationship when she interrupted two of their dinner dates to discuss the Vulcan Alliance and Prosak. Concerned about Prosak's odd behavior after returning from a spy mission to Vulcan, Tovar followed her while they were attending a ceremony to install a new Praetor on Romulus. He arrived in the Praetor-to-be's office just after Rosalyn stopped a brain-washed Prosak from assassinating the new Praetor. Rosalyn told Tovar to take the credit for stopping Prosak and to have the Romulans scan her for signs of a forced mind meld, which there were. (''[[Breaking In Is Hard To Do]]'' [BG])

A couple years after the Anomaly's return from Andromeda, Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway sent Marsden a final notice about the large debt she and the crew racked up in the Andromeda Galaxy, then after getting no response (the message bounced off of the Great Barrier surrounding the Milky Way), turned her over to Associates Acquisitions to collect what she owed. The Associates ship traveled to the Milky Way looking for the Anomaly. With no way to pay them back, Marsden beamed over to their ship with Tovar to work off her debt, since Bain had volunteered him to go along, much to Tovar's chagrin. The Anomaly crew realized that the Associates shuttle they brought back from Andromeda might be worth enough to pay off what Marsden owed, so they got it from Earth and, thanks to [[Cole Anfibon]] preventing the Associates from leaving the galaxy by crashing a microshuttle into their engines, were able to catch up to the Associates and give them the shuttle plus some engine repairs to satisfy Gyjik's debt. Tovar, Marsden, and Anfibon were returned to the Anomaly, and the Associates went back to Andromeda. (''[[Past Due]]'' [BG])

During the [[Lucinda]] incident, Tovar and Marsden acknowledged their attraction to each other and ended up engaging in a heavy makeout session in the Anomaly's Jefferies tubes. Tovar, however, did not want to end his relationship with Torgerson. Marsden knew that he was trying to do the right thing. Torgerson wanted Tovar to be more present when he was with her, but he was finding it difficult due to his attraction to both Marsden and Prosak. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

While were representing Starfleet at a high school career night, Prosak caught Tovar by surprise with a kiss and told him that she would be a better match for him than Torgerson. Tovar pulled her aside to talk about the kiss, but they were overheard by Marsden. This revelation resulted in a argument between the three of them right in the middle of the gym holding the career night. Both Prosak and Marsden stormed away from Tovar, with Marsden telling him to stay away from her until he figured out what he wanted and Prosak saying that Tovar was not the man she thought he was. While the verbal pummeling was not fun for Tovar, it did get a lot of students interested in checking out the Starfleet table. (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Torgerson learned that Marsden had feelings for Tovar thanks to posts on the shipwide messaging system put there by Ensign [[Yonk]], who over heard Marsden talking to Captain Bain in the ship's pub. She stormed out of Tovar's quarters upon discovering this. (''[[Rumor Control]]'' [BG]) Tovar chased her down, and she told him that she loved him. She asked Tovar if he felt the same way, but Bain summoned him before he could respond. After an omnipotent [[Megan Hartley]] interfered in the situation, Tovar realized that he was falling in love with Marsden. He resolved to end things with Torgerson, but was again called to the bridge because the Vulcans had cut the Romulan Empire off from the rest of the galaxy. (''[[God Complex]]'' [BG])

Realizing that Tovar was in love with Marsden, Torgerson broke things off. Tovar said that he would try to make things work, then, once it was clear they were breaking up, asked if they could be friends. Torgerson was not interested in either option. With that relationship over, Tovar raced to find Marsden to tell her that he loved her. She was receptive until she found out that Torgerson broke up with him rather than Tovar having the guts to do it himself. She stormed off saying that Tovar didn't deserve her. Crushed, he went to see Prosak to talk. Having had a rough day of her own, Prosak jumped him and pulled him into her quarters, kissing him and pulling at his clothes. Tovar responded in kind, and the two fell onto her sofa together. (''[[Once More, With Feelings]]'' [BG])

After sleeping with Prosak, Tovar went to talk to Marsden, something Kasyov told him specifically not to do, which led to an argument in which he revealed that he had sex with Prosak. Marsden was furious with him, telling him that they would never be together or even friends. With hostilities starting with the Vulcan Alliance, Tovar took the opportunity to escape his troubles on the Anomaly by volunteering to serve as a tactical officer on the Romulan Warhawk [[Shakalak]]. Marsden came to see him in the transporter room before he left and told him that he was an idiot for leaving. She also said to look her up when he returned to the Anomaly. Once aboard the Shakalak, Tovar learned that the ship's first officer, Sub-Commander [[Nural]] was actually his adopted sister [[Audrey Bain]], who had been sent by Section 31 because events on the Shakalak and with the Vulcans were not what they seemed. She told him that they would be saving Earth but they wouldn't be coming back. Prior to Tovar's arrival, the Shakalak had ambushed a Vulcan frigate and beamed a cargo crate from it into the Shakalak's cargo bay. The ship was then in battle with other Vulcan ships before being rescued by the Anomaly. Tovar and Audrey later discovered that the cargo crate was actually a transporter unit holding twenty Vulcan soldiers under the command of Colonel [[Strep]]. Tovar and Audrey were able to briefly escape while the Vulcan soldiers that took control of the Shakalak, but they were eventually captured. Audrey was sent to the cargo hold with the rest of the crew while Tovar was put in the brig. Strep set the ship on a course for Earth and tried to force Tovar to give him information about Earth's defenses through a mind meld. Strep was not ready to deal with Tovar's past lives, who left him catatonic long enough for Tovar to get a message out to the Anomaly. Strep returned him to tbe brig, but when the Shakalak arrived at Earth, Audrey was able to help him escape. Strep and the Vulcans were attempting to retrieve the [[Kolch'ak Device]] from the [[Kantelov Annex]] on Earth to see if it could be used to control Romulans. It did indeed work on Romulans, but Tovar, Audrey, and a team from the [[USS Anomaly]], including Marsden, was able to stop the Vulcans and destroy the device before they were able to escape with it. Tovar and Marsden decided to have dinner together and talk through everything. (''[[Strategic Retreat]]'', ''[[Uncomfortably Close]]'', ''[[Devastating Logic]]'', ''[[Scratching The Surface]]'' [BG])

Tovar and Marsden's dinner was interrupted, but they later found themselves working together closely in a Jefferies tube which escalated quickly to kissing to sex. Soon after, Tovar accompanied Bain, Prosak, and Centurion [[Nortal]] to Vulcan in the [[USS Navigator]] in an attempt to get to High Chancellor [[Sh’rak]]. Sh'rak knew they were coming, and the team only avoided being killed because of a timely intervention by Rosalyn Bain. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of Sh'rak's office. Outside, they were stopped by several armed Vulcans. Before they could call for beam out, they saw the Navigator crash into a mountain in the distance. They were rescued from capture by Sh'rak's guards by [[LOL]], which beamed the away team, minus Prosak, up to their ship. While Bain returned to the Neutral Zone to take command of the Federation fleet, Tovar and Nortal remained behind with LOL to try to stop Sh'rak and rescue Prosak. Tovar and Nortal infiltrated the government complex disguised as sanitation workers, but Sh'rak took them all captive and grabbed Prosak into a mind meld in which he forced her to do whatever he wanted. The members of LOL stormed the governmental complex, giving Tovar and [[Eudora]] a chance to enter the meld. Sh'rak was overpowered by their combined minds, as well as those of Tovar's past lives. With Sh'rak deposed, Tovar returned to the Anomaly and had a dinner date with Marsden and resulted in them heading to the bedroom before the even got around to eating. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'', ''[[Behind The Curtain]]'', ''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

After [[Toflay]] threatened to smite her if she didn't get out of his kitchen, Nortal became interested in this particular past life of Tovar's, but he refused to summon Toflay for her. (''[[Living Off The Land]]'' [BG])

Tovar was asked by Prosak to assist her in rescuing Captain Bain, who was to be put on trial by the Breen. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden were able to locate Bain and beam him aboard the [[Allegra]]. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram|James T. Kirk Hologram]]. Tovar regained consciousness along with Prosak and Marsden inside a cargo container that Holo-Kirk ejected into space. They were soon picked up by [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]], who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, seeing no other way to catch up with the Allegra, Tovar contacted Rosalyn, revealing her Section 31 affiliation to Marsden and Prosak. Rosalyn beamed aboard with equipment to help boost the freighter's speed, and they were able to catch up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. (''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

When the [[USS Anomaly]] accidentally ended up in the pocket universe containing the Multek Enclave, Tovar was reunited with his parents, but neither Tanta or Jimsok had much interest in getting to know him. Captain Bain set a plan in motion to shut down the pocket universe generators and return the Multek Enclave to normal space. It was successful, but then he learned that the Multeks had hidden the Enclave in the first place to prevent their worlds from being taken over by the [[Dillon Consortium]]. Bain did everything he could to set things right, and took on an entire Consortium acquisition fleet while Lieutenant Marsden repaired the pocket universe generator. Marsden realized that she would have to stay inside the Enclave to activate the generators, separating her from Tovar forever. Tanta revealed to Marsden that she'd designed the system in the first place and told Marsden to get back to Tovar and to tell him to be happy. Marsden returned to the Anomaly, and, in a last comm before she reactivated the generators, Tanta told Tovar to call her "Tanta" instead of mother, since the Bains were his true parents. Once the Enclave was safe again, the Anomaly went to Waystation Prime, where Tovar officially added "Bain" as his last name and married Shelly Marsden. (''[[Right Where We Left It]]'', ''[[Welcome To The Hotel California]]'', ''[[Contractual Obligations]]'' [BG])

Tovar finally met his in-laws, [[Harold and Ann Marsden]] after the Marsdens discovered the [[Pliggeri]] homeworld and the Anomaly was sent to assess the situation. They liked Tovar immediately and kindly didn't hold a grudge when the Anomaly crew's actions resulted in the destruction of the entire planet. (''[[Primary Sources]]'' [BG])

While Bain, Marsden. Commander [[Vioxx]], and Nortal went to the [[Days of Fryer Past]] restaurant on [[Nelephron]] for what was supposed to be an official meeting, Tovar was left in command of the Anomaly. It was all a Dillon Consortium trap. The Anomaly was called away to a nearby asteroid field by a fake distress call. Once there, the ship was disabled by an interference array hidden in multiple false asteroids as five Consortium vessels moved in to kill the crew and take possess of the Anomaly and its [[anti-singularity drive]]. Tovar came up with a plan to get the Anomaly operational again and surprise the Consortium ships. After escaping the asteroid field, they were confronted by a Consortium fleet, but Tovar successfully stalled for time until a Starfleet/Romulan force arrived, prompting the Consortium fleet to surrender. Afterwards, Marsden learned that Bain and Tovar had suspected a trap all along, and that Bain had specifically ordered Tovar not to warn her about it. While she was upset briefly, Marsden understood that it was part of their jobs and one of the things that made their professional and personal connections messy. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly faced a fleet of Breen ships with anti-singularity drives and returned to Earth for an extended refit, the ship was stolen by Cabral under mysterious circumstances. Starfleet suspected Bain's involvement, but Tovar never asked him directly about it, since he didn't want to know the answer either way. He may also have suspected Marsden's involvement, but he never pushed the question with her. Tovar was in line for a first officer position on the USS Astoria. He ended up not taking it and instead opted to remain on Earth working in the Tactics division at Starfleet Headquarters while Marsden rejoined Starfleet Research & Development. They had a son, [[Jarrett Bain]], who, after graduating from Starfleet Academy and serving on the [[USS Holloway]] under his grandfather, Reginald Bain. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

One of Tovar's past lives plays the Yynsian equivalent of the bagpipes. Another [[Ch'tot]] used to be a gigolo.

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Going, Going, Gone...

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| ep_num = 6
| writer = [[Alan Decker]], [[Anthony Butler]]
| year = [[2503]]
| stardate = Unknown
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And now we bring you the final tale of Star Traks: Boldly Gone…. in which everything from the last 10 series culminates in an extended meditation on the very nature of human existence. Or maybe there’s just a bunch of bad jokes and explosions. Our money is on the latter.

==Summary==

While getting ready to head to his first assignment after graduating Starfleet Academy, [[Jarrett Bain]] asks his parents, [[Tovar]] and [[Shelly Marsden]], how his grandfather, Captain [[Reginald Bain]], lost the [[USS Anomaly]]. Deciding that there’s no harm in telling the story now, his parents explain what happened.

On [[Gathering Point]], Bain, Tovar, Marsden, [[Rosalyn Bain]], [[Cabral]], Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]], and Commander Prosak watch with [[Chindela]] as [[Jacinda]]’s sphere descends to its final resting place on the planet. Chindela thanks Bain for going to retrieve her sphere after Jacinda’s expiration, which required the Anomaly to pass through Breen space using their [[anti-singularity drive]]. With Jacinda now there and Cabral no longer having an expiration date, Chindela says that he has completed his duty to the [[Cerebe]]. And with the news that the [[Pliggeri]] left their homeworld, Chindela asks Cabral to do something for him. Chindela shrinks himself and all of Gathering Point into a cube about three centimeters across. Cabral brings the cube into his sphere and begins to hear it whispering to him.

While Bain doesn’t think the Breen even noticed the Anomaly pass through their space, they did. [[Grad-Norm]] summons [[Thot-Phul|Dobt-Phul]] to his office to discuss the Anomaly’s violation of their space. He asks Phul if they still have [[Selex]] in custody because they have a use for him now. Phul goes to see Selex in his cell and tells him that Selex will be allowed to return to the Romulan Empire in exchange for helping them get Reginald Bain. Selex says that there are a few other people he wants revenge against and that he’s willing to make a deal.

Three months later, Tovar and Marsden sit in the Anomaly’s holo-mess discussing the possibility of having a child. Across the room, Rosalyn sits down with Prosak, who is still trying to find her path but has backed off on the tattoos and extreme Romulan attire. Rosalyn asks Prosak how she is doing, and they talk about Prosak’s inability to figure out what she wants to do with her life. Before long, Captain Bain’s voice booms over the comm system, summoning the senior officers to the briefing room.

In the briefing room, Commander [[Vioxx]] informs the gathered officers that he, Sub-Commander [[Remax]], Centurion [[Nortal]], and Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]] have been reassigned to take out the Romulan Empire’s new prototype anti-singularity drive ship. Marsden is shocked that the Romulans were able to build one. Prosak asks about joining the Romulans, but Bain tells her she has been very specifically ordered to remain on the Anomaly. They will take the other Romulans to the shipyards at [[Malak Pasala]], where they will transfer to their new ship then remain in the area in case the prototype ship requires assistance during its test flight. After the meeting, Bain tells Prosak that, while he’s upset that the other Romulans are leaving, he’s pleased that this means Prosak will be his First Officer again. She is not so thrilled.
Bain visits Vioxx, who is packing his belongings in his quarters, and tells him that the Anomaly crew is throwing a farewell party for Vioxx and his officers in Twain the Keel that night. He goes on to say that while he hates to lose Vioxx, he’s happy that the Romulan is getting his own command again.

That night, Bain gives a farewell speech, and Nortal hugs Tovar, saying that she will miss [[Toflay]] the most. She asks Tovar to give Toflay and message that she will see him in their next life. In order to get through the various social interactions with the Anomaly crew that they will have to endure at the party, the Romulans all get very very drunk.

The next morning, after Bain warns Vioxx to be careful because something about all of this doesn’t feel right, the very hungover Romulans take the [[Allegra]] from the Anomaly to Malak Pasala, passing out along the way. After they don’t respond to Malak Pasala, a boarding party beams onto the ship to see what happened. They wake up Vioxx and the others and tell them to get rested and cleaned up before they see the commander of the facility, Admiral [[Fixit]] the next day.

Remax doesn’t understand why they weren’t executed immediately for showing up unconscious and hungover to which Zantak says it’s because they’re needed to test the prototype ship because they are expendable. Admiral Fixit tells them that they will take the prototype ship, the [[Manamanat]] out to the [[Pharsalus Sector]] at increasing anti-sing speeds to test out the engines. Remax inquires if an engineer will be joining them, and Fixit replies that it has been seen to. She dismisses them and tells them to be ready to launch in an hour.

They take the ship out, and when Vioxx contacts engineering to tell them to be ready for Warp H, he is shocked when Selex responds. Before Vioxx can do anything about it, Selex sends the ship into anti-sing. The Anomaly receives a distress signal from the Manamanat and speeds off to assist. While Selex tries to keep the Manamanat’s anti-sing drive stable, Vioxx and the others work to escape from the ship’s bridge, where Selex has trapped them while also locking them out of all systems.

The Anomaly catches up with the Manamanat in the Pharsalus Sector and finds it just sitting there. It doesn’t respond to hails, and the Anomaly’s sensors are having trouble getting clear lifesign readings. Bain thinks this is odd and orders the shields up just as Tovar detects transporter activity in [[Science Lab Four]]. A device materializes in Science Lab Four near Cabral and Kasyov, and Cabral quickly concludes it is a bomb. He does the only thing he can before it detonates.

As soon as the bomb explodes, the Manamanat raises shields and hails the Anomaly, audio only. It’s Selex, who explains that the Romulans negotiated with the Breen for his release, so that he could work on the anti-singularity drive prototype using the insights he gained while serving on the Anomaly. Now that he has blown up Cabral, he’s taken away the only thing that made the Anomaly special, and he can finish off Prosak. He demands that Bain beam himself over to the Manamanat because there are other interested parties who want him. Bain immediately realizes that means the Breen are involved. Selex plans to prove his superiority by destroying the Anomaly while Prosak is in command and then hand Bain back over to the Breen. Prosak has Tovar mute the channel, tells Bain she has an idea and that he needs to stall Selex, and then rushes off of the bridge.

Cabral managed to save himself and Kasyov from the explosion by touching her (Well, more like harpooning her with a tendril launched from inside his sphere) and then taking them both and his housing out of phase with the Anomaly after quickly disconnecting himself from the ship’s systems. Nurse [[Ih’vik]] arrives with a medical team and transports Kasyov to sickbay just before Marsden gets there with an engineering team. The explosion took out the conduits connecting Cabral’s housing to engineering, so until those are replaced, the Anomaly doesn’t have anti-sing. Marsden’s team sets about making repairs while Cabral considers the message from Chindela that he heard loud and clear while phased: “This was planned for.”

Tovar gets word from Marsden that Cabral and Kasyov are alive, which he relays to Bain, who is busy stalling Selex. Prosak, meanwhile, goes to see Rosalyn saying that she can’t let Bain beam over to the Manamanat because she needs to deal with Selex herself. She asks for Rosalyn’s help, and Rosalyn says that she has just the thing. Prosak races back to the bridge and asks Bain and Tovar to join her in the Captain’s Lounge. Bain puts Selex on hold, and they all go to the lounge, where Prosak tells Bain that she wants him to send her over to the Manamanat. Bain appreciates her desire to protect him but says that Selex is going to be upset if she beams over instead of him. She agrees and activates the holographic overlay she borrowed from Rosalyn, which makes her appear to be Bain. He realizes that she must have gotten it from Rosalyn. Prosak goes onto say that Bain needs to be on the Anomaly to deal with fighting the Manamanat and the Breen. She will go take care of Selex. Bain agrees to her plan.

Vioxx and his officers escape the Manamanat’s bridge and find no one in the ship’s corridors. They go to engineering to find Selex and instead see that the room is empty except for a large black metallic sphere with several conduits running from it into the walls of the chamber. Selex’s voice booms from all around them, and Remax realizes Selex had his brain removed from his body and put into the sphere to run the Manamanat. As Nortal futilely attacks Selex’s sphere, Selex explains that removing the need to regulate his body allows his brain to maintain a stable anti-singularity field. It was the breakthrough he needed to make the project work. Soon after, Bain beams into the engineering area as well. Vioxx catches Bain up, then Selex reveals that, with Admiral [[Karwrek]]’s full approval, he gave the Breen his drive specifications and his revelation about needing a brain to directly control anti-sing. The Breen are on their way with a fleet of anti-sing ships ready to take Bain on, but they will be disappointed because Selex will have already destroyed the Anomaly and Prosak with it. He believes handing Bain over to them will lessen their disappointment. The Anomaly launches into warp, drawing Selex’s attention away and giving Bain the chance to reveal to Vioxx that he’s really Prosak in disguise.

On the Anomaly, Bain prepares for battle. As soon as he learned the anti-singularity drive existed, he assumed that he’d have to fight a ship equipped with one someday, and he’s ready to put theory into practice. He checks in with Marsden on the repairs, and she says they are getting close, but they’ve had to cut holes in walls and floors in a lot of places to quickly get new conduit run. Bain gets the best of Selex in their first couple of encounters, and Kasyov returns to the bridge just as twelve Breen scythe ships drop out of anti-sing.

The now re-promoted Thot-Phul hails Selex to let the Romulan know that he’s there to save the Manamanat from Reginald Bain and the Anomaly. Selex reveals that he has disabled the Anomaly’s anti-sing drive and taken Bain into custody already, which upsets Phul because that was not their deal. Prosak then tops that reveal by revealing that the Bain Selex thinks he’s holding is actually her. Phul is happier with this news and takes the Breen fleet to face the Anomaly. Prosak keeps Selex off-balance by mind melding with him.

As the Breen fleet approached the Anomaly, Kasyov reviews the logs from their fight with the Manamanat. She notices that rather than maneuvering at anti-sing, Selex would stop, set a course, then launch into anti-sing, which is exactly what the Breen fleet heading their way just did after stopping at the Manamanat. Bain concludes that they can only use anti-sing in a straight line. At least he hopes so. He has Tovar hail the Breen. Phul has his ships surround the Anomaly then answers the comm. After Bain asks what this is all about, Phul says that it’s about retribution and ridding the galaxy of Reginald Bain. Tovar reports to Bain that Cabral is ready, and then Bain attacks the Breen fleet.

Prosak enters Selex’s mind and finds absolute chaos as he struggles to keep the Manamanat’s anti-singularity drive from exploding. Even with the ship at rest, it is taking almost all he has to prevent a catastrophe. He screams at her to get out of his brain. She does and tells the others that they have to help Selex.

Phul’s ship is heavily-damaged in Bain’s attack, and in another, the Breen “volunteer” who had his brain put into a sphere to run the ship’s anti-singularity drive, loses control and the ship explodes. Phul orders his ship to get to Manamanat, so he can beam over to it while the other Breen pursue the Anomaly.

Kasyov detects amplified neural energy coming from each Breen ship and deduces that there’s a Breen brain tied into each ship to maintain their anti-sing reactions. They just aren’t as good at is as Cabral or have the Pliggeri housing that his sphere rests in that he uses as an interface with the drive system. Bain orders Ensign [[Yonk]] to keep their course erratic and for Tovar to take shots at their pursuers when he can.

Prosak, Zantak (who reveals that she has also started following [[RommaVulc]] philosophy), and Remax meld with Selex to help him keep the ship stable while Vioxx and Nortal prepare to deal with Phul and the other Breen who are coming to take control of the ship.

With four Breen ships destroyed, the Anomaly goes to intercept Phul’s ship before he can get to the Manamanat. Phul and some of his crew, including a security team, are able to beam aboard, then he sends his ship away. The Anomaly destroys the now Phul-less Breen ship as it tries to flee, but the rest of the fleet arrives, forcing the Anomaly to back off and retreat. On the Manamanat, Phul orders his security team to secure the Romulans while he and his other officers try to figure out how to read the Romulan writing on the bridge consoles.

Vioxx and Nortal search the ship for weapons to use against the Breen but come up empty. Since the Manamanat was a prototype, it wasn’t outfitted with an armory. Vioxx realizes that they can use the replicators to get utensils, though. He and Nortal launch a surprise attack the Breen security team with the equivalent of metal crab mallets, overpower the Breen, and take their weapons. Now armed, they head to the bridge.

Bain lures the remaining Breen ships into an attack by having the Anomaly fake a power failure. The Breen take the bait, and the Anomaly destroys them all, leaving only the Manamanat.

Phul now has to face the Anomaly, which is coming right at the Manamanat, alone. Vioxx and Nortal arrive on the bridge and order the Breen to step away from their consoles. Phul disables their blasters (one of the handy things Breen officers can do to Breen weapons). Nortal engages the other bridge officers in hand-to-hand combat while Vioxx takes on Phul, which Phul isn’t happy about. The only person he wants to fight is Bain, but with no other options, the two begin to fight as the Anomaly closes in. Phul orders his helm officer, who isn’t fighting Nortal, to do an anti-sing burst to attack the Anomaly, but Bain is waiting for it and disables the Manamanat with a barrage of phaser fire. With no reason to continue, Phul surrenders as Tovar and a security team from the Anomaly beam aboard.

Selex, furious that the Breen failed to destroy Bain and the Anomaly, kicks Remax and Zantak out of the meld while Prosak stays behind. Selex realizes the full import of what he has done and what will likely happen to him once Romulan High Command learns of his scheme with Admiral Karwrek. He refuses to go back in disgrace, and Prosak feels him trying to activate the anti-sing drive, so that he can push it to its limit and kill them both. She tries to hold him off while she contacts Bain and tells him to get everyone except her, since she’s locked in a meld, off of the Manamanat. The Anomaly beams everyone except Prosak back just as the Manamanat leaps into anti-sing. Short on options for getting Prosak off of a ship moving at anti-sing, Bain tells Tovar to contact Rosalyn.

As Selex and Prosak argue while still locked in a mind meld with each other, the Anomaly catches up to the Manamanat and matches their velocity. Prosak concludes that they must have a plan to rescue her. She confirms it briefly with Bain, who tells her to break the meld, before Selex pushes her out of the comm system and drops any attempt to keep the anti-sing drive from exploding. Knowing that there’s nothing she can do to stop the Manamanat’s destruction, he turns on Selex with all of her rage and screams at him for his incompetent design. It flusters him enough for her to break free of the meld. She finds herself back in the ship’s engineering room. She dematerializes just as the Manamanat begins to explode.

The Anomaly, with Prosak aboard, veers away at anti-sing and is well clear of the Manamanat’s blast radius. Bain gives the order to head back to Federation space, tells Vioxx that he has the conn, and heads off of the bridge with Tovar while Vioxx, Kasyov, and Yonk wonder how the hell they just managed to beam Prosak to safety. Prosak finds herself on the floor of the Bains’ quarters with Rosalyn standing over her. Rosalyn tells her that she was able to lock on to the Section 31 holo-imager Prosak had on her and beam Prosak back aboard using her Section 31 issue personal transporter. Bain and Tovar arrive followed by Marsden, who doesn’t know why she’s there. They come up with a cover story to tell Starfleet to explain how they rescued Prosak that doesn’t reveal Rosalyn’s involvement.

Back in the frame story, Jarrett demands to know what happened after that, which Tovar and Marsden explain…

Vioxx, Remax, Nortal, and Zantak were ordered back to Romulan space and given a new scout ship. While out exploring uncharted space, they encounter [[Neb]]. Vioxx invites Neb aboard for dinner, and they accept.

On the way back to Earth, Prosak returns to her quarters to find [[Oscar Gunton]] from Section 31 waiting for her. He tells Prosak that Rosalyn recommended her and feels that Prosak would be a good fit in Section 31. Prosak happily accepts.

Tovar tries to end the story there, but Jarrett points out that they never actually told him how Bain lost the Anomaly. Marsden tells him that once they got back to Earth, the Anomaly went in for a full refit that involved getting everyone off except Cabral, gutting the interior, and basically starting from scratch. Three months later, while Admiral [[Kristen Larkin]] is visiting the Bain home in Sussex, she receives an urgent comm from Spacedock Control that the Anomaly was leaving its repair dock. Before any ships can intercept it, the Anomaly jumps to anti-sing and is gone. Bain tells Larkin to get him a ship, and he’ll go after Cabral himself. Larkin says that would be useless and tells Bain to get her a report within the hour.

An hour later, Bain reports to Larkin in her office that Cabral did indeed steal the Anomaly. She says that he should have kept more informed about Marsden’s progress with the repairs. Larkin suspects that Bain is involved, but he admits nothing. She says there will be a full investigation.

Jarrett is disappointed that his grandfather literally lost the Anomaly rather than Bain losing it in combat. Marsden says that Cabral and Kasyov, who was also aboard, haven’t been heard from since. Jarrett wants to know if Bain was actually involved, and Tovar replies that he never asked him because he doesn’t want to know the answer. He has his theories though.

Flashing back to the Anomaly’s journey back to Earth, Cabral and Kasyov ask Bain to come to Science Lab Four, where he finds that Marsden is there as well. Cabral tells them that the cube containing Gathering Point is communicating with him and drawing him to the Pliggeri’s new home. He cannot continue putting himself and the remnants of his entire species in danger by staying on the Anomaly, so he and Kasyov want Marsden to outfit a raceabout with an anti-singularity drive for them to use to go find the Pliggeri. Marsden protests that even if she could do it, it would be miserable for Kasyov and Cabral. Bain says they should take the Anomaly. The ship, wonderful as it is, has shifted the balance of power in the quadrant, cost numerous people their lives, and made Marsden and Cabral targets. It’s better for everyone if Cabral uses it to find his creators. Marsden will need to put in a lot of automation, though, which she agrees to do.

Back in the frame story, Tovar says that being in Starfleet sometimes means keeping things from the people you know or knowing that people you love may be keeping things from you. And because you trust them, you accept it.

Tovar, Marsden, and Jarrett beam up to Starbase One, where Jarrett is meeting his ship, the [[USS Holloway]]. As Jarrett boards his new assignment, Marsden asks Tovar if he ever misses serving on a starship. They both agree that they don’t and stroll off, hand-in hand.

Jarrett reports to the bridge to meet his new commanding officer: Captain Reginald Bain. Since Jarrett has a conn specialization, Bain tells him to take the ship out, adding that they’re just going to take a quick spin around the sector and that they won’t get into any trouble…unless they’re lucky.

END OF SERIES

==Featuring==
*Captain [[Reginald Bain]]
*Commander [[Prosak]]
*Commander [[Vioxx]]
*Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]]
*Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]]
*Sub-Commander [[Remax]]
*Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]]
*Centurion [[Nortal]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Zantak]]
*[[Cabral]]
*[[Rosalyn Bain]]

==Author's Comments==

We’re finally here. I have to admit that for a while there I really thought that we were just going to leave things with Series Nine. True, it wasn’t much in the way of an overall wrap up for Boldly Gone, but it was an ending of a sort and didn’t leave things on a cliffhanger.

We weren’t happy with that idea, though. It may have taken us 13 years to get to an actual ending, but we did it. Between the two of us, Anthony and I have written several different endings for our Star Traks series. Some of them didn’t stick. I’ve ended the original series 4 times, and Anthony is still going with his latest incarnation of The Vexed Generation. The big question in my mind for Boldly was how to leave it. Would we go open ended, like “All Good Things…” in TNG, where the crew just continues on to the next mission? Or go with something more final, like “What You Leave Behind” in DS9, where characters move on and things have changed?

Obviously we went with the latter. I may be overstating this, but I chalk some of that up to us being older and understanding more that things don’t last forever. Friendships drift apart, coworkers move on, jobs change, and life can send you in directions that you aren’t expecting. Boldly Gone is about the period of time that these characters spent as a crew on board the USS Anomaly, so for the end of the series, it made sense to show how that time ended.

Some parts of this final story have been in our heads for years and years. The final scene with Tovar and Marsden’s kid coming aboard to serve under Bain has been planned since long before Series Nine even. We just didn’t know the particulars leading up to it. Originally, we were just going to time jump to it at the end, but as we were actually writing the final story, going with the future time (Well, the future of the future of Star Traks’ future) as a framing story presented itself and worked well for what we were trying to do.

And the basic idea that the finale would involve the Anomaly taking on another ship with an anti-singularity drive has been in place since the end of Series Nine. The circumstances kept shifting, though. When we thought all of Series Ten involved the Dillon Consortium, the fight with the empty suit also happened in this last story. I won’t go into all of the reasons that we changed our minds, since I’ve discussed it previously, but more specific to this story, it felt right to include Thot-Phul, since he’s been in the series from the beginning, and Selex, since that storyline was never really resolved and it helped push Prosak to where she needed to be.

Because of that, while the story picks up on characters and events from earlier in Series Ten and across Boldly Gone overall, it’s standalone in some ways. I wanted it to be more like “All Good Things…” (And Voyager’s “Endgame” really). You can jump into that episode with a general knowledge of TNG and the characters and have no trouble understanding what’s happening, unlike “What You Leave Behind,” which is the culmination of a massive arc.

Another thing we wanted to make sure happened in the finale was to give Reginald Bain a chance be Bain. Here he is, in command of a starship but facing steep odds. Bain is in many ways the most capable Star Traks captain that Anthony and I have written across our various series. He’s a bit eccentric in some ways and oblivious in others, but in a situation like this final story, he is absolutely in his element.

Anthony and I have different strengths, and one thing he is MUCH better at than me is titles. I was originally thinking to call it “The Bold and the Deceitful.” It was supposed to be a play on the long-running soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (Which Jimmy Doohan actually appeared on in the 90s), but it never felt right. “Deceitful” and “Beautiful” just don’t sound enough alike for the title to land. Anthony instantly came up with “Going, Going, Gone…” which is, as I said earlier, MUCH better. Anthony’s ideas also led to the name of the Romulan ship, which in turn led to what’s possibly one of the stupidest gags we’ve ever done. I love it so much.

As for the actual ending, the goal was to give enough of a sense of where the characters went after their time on the Anomaly to be satisfying without getting too bogged down in the details. I thought of it a bit like the flash-forward sequences in the final episode of “Parks & Recreation” (Sorry if that’s a spoiler for a show that ended several years ago). We don’t have any plans to follow up at the moment, but if at some point in the future someone did have an idea for a Prosak story or something else, things are wide open for whatever we (or they, if it’s not one of us) might want to do.

==Links==
[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-6-BG-GONE/ Going, Going, Gone...]

USS Holloway

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Ambassador class federation starship marooned in the Delta quadrant by the [[Bermuda Expanse]]. Commanded by [[Captain Fred Donnelly]]. Her entire crew became preserves for the [[Flarn]].

In the 26th Century, Captain [[Reginald Bain]] commanded an Excelsior-III class USS Holloway. The vessel was also his grandson, [[Jarrett Bain]]'s first assignment following his graduation from Starfleet Academy. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...] [BG])

The name Holloway is significant to both [[Alan Decker]] and [[Anthony Butler]], since Holloway Hall on the campus of Salisbury University is where they met while working for the university's Inventory department.

Jarrett Bain

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Cmdrajd: Created page with "Jarrett Bain was the son of Tovar and Shelly Marsden, who named him using a combination of names that were important to them: the Jaroch lifeforce that once inhabited Tovar and Marsden's grandfather Garrett. Before Jarrett went to his first assignment after graduating Starfleet Academy, Tovar and Marsden told him the story of how his grandfather, Captain Reginald Bain, lost the USS Anomaly. Following this, he went to join the USS Holloway commande..."

Jarrett Bain was the son of [[Tovar]] and [[Shelly Marsden]], who named him using a combination of names that were important to them: the [[Jaroch]] lifeforce that once inhabited Tovar and Marsden's grandfather Garrett. Before Jarrett went to his first assignment after graduating Starfleet Academy, Tovar and Marsden told him the story of how his grandfather, Captain [[Reginald Bain]], lost the [[USS Anomaly]]. Following this, he went to join the [[USS Holloway]] commanded by Bain. Since Jarrett had a conn specialization, Bain had his grandson take the ship out of spacedock. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Gathering Point

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Gathering Point is the [[Pliggeri]] name for a barren world in Romulan space that serves as the final resting place of expired [[Cerebe]]. It is watched over by a Pliggeri named [[Chindela]]. (''[[Music Of The Spheres]]'' [BG])

After the Anomaly took [[Jacinda]] there following her expiration, Chindela shrunk the planet (himself included) into a tiny cube that Cabral carried inside him. Cabral determined that he must take Gathering Point to the Pliggeri’s new home in another galaxy and eventually stole the Anomaly to get there. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Neb

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Cmdrajd: Created page with "Neb was a lifeform from another universe that emerged into ours through a nanoscopic tear in spacetime in the Gorman Nebula. Once emerged, Neb consumed the nebula, drawing the interest of the USS Anomaly. The just born entity, which looked like a ball of beige pudding about a meter in diamter, scanned the starship and determined that Commander Vioxx, who was in command at the time, was their father. Neb projected a childlike but still gelatinous version of th..."

Neb was a lifeform from another universe that emerged into ours through a nanoscopic tear in spacetime in the [[Gorman Nebula]]. Once emerged, Neb consumed the nebula, drawing the interest of the [[USS Anomaly]]. The just born entity, which looked like a ball of beige pudding about a meter in diamter, scanned the starship and determined that Commander [[Vioxx]], who was in command at the time, was their father. Neb projected a childlike but still gelatinous version of themselves into the Anomaly while still remaining in sphere-form outside the ship. Both forms grew rapidly. Vioxx, at the urging of the Anomaly's senior officers, attempted to take care of Neb but eventually just put them in a holopod to deal with a tantrum. Neb continued to age in the holopod and eventually took control of the Anomaly, sending it careening through space at [[anti-singularity drive|anti-sing speeds]]. Vioxx went in and talked to Neb, this time really listening and trying to connect with them. It worked, and Neb released control of the ship. By the next morning, Neb was ready to leave the Anomaly. Vioxx told him to be safe, avoid the Klingons and the Borg, and to comm sometimes, if he wanted. The projection of Neb on the Anomaly vanished, and its spherical form, which now measured more than thirty meters in diameter, took off to explore the universe. (''[[Born to Rom]]'' [BG])

Some time later, after Vioxx and his officers returned to the Romulan Empire and received a new scout ship, they encountered Neb again out in unexplored space. Vioxx invited him on board to have dinner. (''[[Going, Going, Gone...]]'' [BG])

Vioxx

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Prosak

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Prosak

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Prosak was a Romulan and served as first officer then second officer of the [[USS Anomaly]]. She was the daughter of [[Rorshak]], the Romulan ambassador to the Federation, who called her Boogles and has an uncle named Hurlok. Prosak had a keen interest in theater. She was also a [[RommaVulc]], which was looked down upon by most other Romulans.

Prosak served on the USS Encino under Captain Rochelle Lockheed. While battling the Breen, the Encino was saved from destruction by the arrival of the [[USS Maladventure]] under the command of [[Reginald Bain]].

When the Hermes-7 prototype was commandeered by [[Cabral]], she was sent on the mission to intercept it, since the ship contained Romulan technology and she was the only Romulan serving in Starfleet at the time. Once that situation was resolved, Prosak remained on board as first officer serving under Captain Reginald Bain. At this point she was 44 years old. (''[[If I Only Had a Brain]]'' [BG]) Prosak was the first member of the command crew to experience one of the overly-thorough exams conducted by Dr. [[Fred Nooney]]. (''[[One Track Mind]]'' [BG])

Prosak accompanied Lieutenant [[Shelly Marsden]] to [[Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway]] to obtain parts and dilithium crystals for the damaged Anomaly, narrowly avoiding being killed by a particularly nasty clerk droid in the parts bay. (''[[Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare!]]'' [BG])

After some time in Andromeda, Prosak believed that the crew should find a place to settle down and integrate with Andromedan society rather than wage a hopeless battle against the [[Associates]]. When the Anomaly and its crew were taken into protective care by the [[Nabusari]], an older race that considered Bain too young to be running a starship and quite irresponsible to have taken a bunch of children out into space, Prosak was happy to stay in their care and actively tried to prevent Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] and Lieutenant [[Polnuc]] from escaping the day care where they'd been taken. (''[[Respect Your Elders]]'' [BG])

Bain left Prosak in command when he took the [[USS Navigator]] to go rescue [[Balpar]] and [[Loborus]] from the Associates. After learning from Ensign [[Yonk]] that most of the crew agreed with her that they should find a place to settle down, Prosak activated the [[Emergency Diplomatic Hologram]] with the goal of having it help the crew find a friendly species and negotiate safe harbor for them. Instead, it knocked Prosak out, took control of the Anomaly, and went to attack the nearest Associates base. Lieutenant Commander [[Tovar]] was able to deactivate the hologram. Bain removed Prosak from duty for disobeying his orders. (''[[Transparent Motives]]'' [BG])

As the Anomaly was dealing with a massive Associates space station where [[Cabral]] was being held, Prosak realized that the Associates ship the Anomaly had been given to make up for the destruction of the [[USS Caspian]] might be helpful. She told Marsden, who Bain had left in command while he was off trying to rescue Cabral. Marsden agreed and put Prosak in command while she went off to check the Associates ship. Prosak kept the ship intact, avoiding fire from the station and destruction at the hands of several Associates ships. For her actions, she was reinstated by Bain. (''[[Disassociation]]'' [BG])

When Tovar's past lives took control of him and the Anomaly upon the ship's return to the Milky Way galaxy, Prosak forcefully mind melded with him, which allowed Bain to regain control of the Anomaly and subdue Tovar. She accompanied Bain and Tovar to [[Yyns]] to see the Polems at the [[Temple Of Mi Clane]], who determined that Tovar had an [[Interloper]], which they would remove and destroy with the [[Holnym]] ritual. Tovar convinced Bain to help the Interloper instead, and, leaving Yyns and avoiding capture by a Yynsian fleet. Prosak stayed in command of the Anomaly and helped draw the Yynsian ships away as Bain took Tovar to the Interloper's desired destination, the Ba'ku homeworld. (''[[Mind If I Play Through?]]'', ''[[Aren't You Dead?]]'' [BG])

Prosak joined the trip to the [[Nuq'neh Corral]] dude ranch on Qo'nos organized by Dr. Nooney. While there, she encountered [[Krard]], who asked her to teach him Vulcan ways. When he was disappointed in her logic, he decided to contact the Vulcans ask request that they unify with the Klingons, a request that they accepted. Prosak also ran afoul of [[Chynok]], who warned her to leave Qo'nos. Prosak attempted to debate her about the logic of rejecting off-worlders, but Chynok refused to participate. Prosak instead resorted to challenging Chynok to honorable combat. She was outmatched with the [[lop'leth]] blades Chynok provided, but, thanks to a tip [[Gworos]] gave her, Prosak was able to send the much larger Klingon into a fit of giggles by tickling her behind her elbow. She ended up falling onto Prosak, knocking the Romulan unconscious. She awoke on a Vulcan ship, where [[Sh’rak]] informed her that the Vulcans were taking control of the remnants of the Klingon Empire. Dejected but with a full refund, Prosak returned to the Anomaly, where she and Bain spoke about their concerns that the Vulcan seemed to be building their own empire. (''[[Wagon Train To Qo'nos]]'' [BG])

She has portraits of Spock and Drar the Fearsome (A Klingon who was Intergalactic Wrestling Champion from 2457 to 2459) displayed in her quarters. (''[[Diplomatic Immunity]]'' [BG])

At the urging of [[Tovar]], who was being pushed to do it by [[Rosalyn Bain]], Prosak was sent to Vulcan to learn more about the motives of the Vulcan Alliance. She posed as a reporter to interview Sh'rak, but he recognized her and used a forced mind meld to brainwash her into assassinating the new Romulan Praetor as part of a plot to break up the Romulan/Federation alliance. Rosalyn stopped her, and, in the ensuing fight, knocked Prosak unconscious. After Dr. [[Natalia Kasyov]] and Nooney helped her recover, Bain and Tovar took her to dinner at the Bain family home in England. Despite not remembering that she fought Rosalyn, upon seeing her again, Prosak fled in a panic. (''[[Breaking In Is Hard To Do]]'' [BG])

As part of [[FOBBER]]'s revenge plan against Bain, [[Cole Anfibon]] planted a neural interference generator in Prosak's quarters (formerly Bain's ready room), incapacitating her with debilitating headaches just as the Anomaly was facing a tense situation with the Romulans. While Prosak was out of action, Anfibon stabbed Marsden, knocked out Bain, and escaped with the unconscious captain to FOBBER's ship. Once the neural generator was found and destroyed, Prosak was able to resolve the situation with the Romulans and then left Ensign [[Hector Arroyo]] in command of the Anomaly while she, Tovar, and Marsden took the USS Navigator to chase FOBBER's ship. They quickly caught and disabled the freighter and beamed aboard to rescue Bain. During this, [[Thot-Phul]] attempted to kill her after learning that Prosak was actually the one who had destroyed two of his ships. Bain distracted Phul long enough for Prosak to stun the Breen. (''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One]]'', ''[[Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two]]'' [BG])

Prosak was able to stop Lieutenant [[Polnuc]], when he took over the ship's [[anti-singularity drive]] and sent the Anomaly careening through multiple dimensions. Soon after that, she was commed by her father. During this conversation, Rorshak did not inform Prosak of the danger that the Anomaly would be facing when the ship was sent to rescue the command officers of the [[Tyvek]]. Prosak was nearly killed in a raceabout explosion and then possessed by the [[Lucinda]] entity. She later confronted her father about this over a comm, but he insisted that his duty to the Praetor came first. After the Lucinda incident, the Romulan High Command wanted to be more involved in the day-to-day operation of the Anomaly. As part of this, Commander [[Vioxx]] was made first officer, and Prosak was demoted to executive officer. (''[[Bold Faced Lies]]'' [BG])

After her demotion, Prosak found herself with more free time and decided to pursue dating. She caught Tovar by surprise with a kiss when they were representing Starfleet at a high school career night believing that she would be a better match for him than Lieutenant [[Jamie Torgerson]]. Tovar pulled her aside to talk about the kiss, but they were overheard by Marsden, whom Tovar had also kissed during the Lucinda incident. This revelation resulted in a argument between the three of them right in the middle of the gym holding the career night. Both Prosak and Marsden stormed away from Tovar, with Prosak saying that he was not the man she thought he was. While the verbal pummeling was not fun for Tovar, it did get a lot of students interested in checking out the Starfleet table. (''[[The Future Of Starfleet]]'' [BG])

Prosak was contacted by [[Vorak]], the governor of the Romulan Colony of [[Reno]] and her ex sharal (boyfriend). He was excitable by nature, and summoned Prosak to Reno because he was panicked that the Vulcans were in the process of taking over the Romulan empire. He had no evidence, though, so Prosak left. After learning of a [[RommaVulc]] conference to be held on Reno, which Vorak had not mentioned, Prosak returned in the [[USS Navigator]] only to be confronted by two warkhawks. Vorak, now acting unusually calm, told Prosak to leave Romulan space or the Navigator would be destroyed. With no other options, Prosak ordered the Navigator to leave Reno. (''[[Rumor Control]]'' [BG])

She was forced to move her quarters out of the ready room and down to deck five when Vioxx took the ready room as his office. (''[[God Complex]]'' [BG])

Prosak was able to smuggle her father and several Romulan senators out of Romulan space after the Vulcans blockaded the Empire by having them pose as a theater troupe. The Vulcans believed the gambit; although, they hated the show Prosak and company put on. Throughout this, Prosak remained mad at Rorshak for not warning her about the danger Lucinda posed. Back on the Anomaly, she channeled her anger at that and her demotion into a sexual encounter with the just-dumped Tovar. (''[[Once More, With Feelings]]'' [BG])

While on a mission to tap into the Romulan sensor network so Starfleet could monitor Vulcan ship movements, Prosak and Marsden cleared the air about Tovar, with Prosak telling Marsden that their encounter was strictly recreational and that she had no desire for a relationship with him. (''[[Uncomfortably Close]]'' [BG])

Prosak accompanied Bain, Tovar, and Centurion [[Nortal]] to Vulcan in the [[USS Navigator]] in an attempt to get to High Chancellor Sh'rak. Sh'rak knew they were coming, and the team only avoided being killed because of a timely intervention by Rosalyn Bain. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of Sh'rak's office. Outside, they were stopped by several armed Vulcans. Before they could call for beam out, they saw the Navigator crash into a mountain in the distance. Prosak's mother, [[Eudora]] saved Prosak from being captured by Sh’rak's guards and melded with her to make sure that Prosak had not been brainwashed by Sh'rak. Eudora then arranged for them to be captured and taken to Sh'rak, at which time she revealed that Sh'rak was actually a Romulan pretending to be a Vulcan. Sh'rak ordered them taken to a cell, and, as they were being taken away, Prosak recognized him as [[Harvak]]. Sh'rak later ordered their executions, but Prosak asked him for a dinner date in order to stall for time to be rescued. Tovar and Nortal did arrive, but Sh'rak took them all captive and grabbed Prosak into a mind meld in which he forced her to do whatever he wanted. The members of [[LOL]] stormed the governmental complex, giving Tovar and Eudora a chance to enter the meld. Sh'rak was overpowered by their combined minds, as well as those of Tovar's past lives. With Sh'rak deposed, Prosak was offered an embassy position by the Vulcans, but she turned it down to stay on the Anomaly and instead had the job offered to Eudora. (''[[In One Door, Out The Other]]'', ''[[Behind The Curtain]]'', ''[[Live Long And Conquer]]'' [BG])

She encountered Chynok again when she, Commander Vioxx and his officers, and Lieutenant Shelly Marsden traveled to a Romulan facility in the Yatooi Sector to get the scout ship [[Allegra]], which was being given to the Anomaly to replace the destroyed [[USS Navigator]]. While they were there, Vice Admiral [[Negrek]] tasked the Anomaly officers with retrieving the Warhawk [[Zocor]], which had been stolen by a group of Klingons led by Chynok. Chynok, Krard, and Bonjar beamed aboard the Allegra while most of the Anomaly officers were off the ship. Chynok attacked Prosak, determined to avenge her defeat at Prosak's hands at the dude ranch. While they fought, Commander [[Vioxx]] and several others from the Anomaly took over the warhawk, disabled the Allegra, and took Krard and the other Klingons into custody. (''[[A Hawk In Hand]]'' [BG])

Engineer [[Selex]] plotted to kill Prosak because he felt that her RommaVulc beliefs and position in Starfleet made her disloyal to the Empire. While he almost convinced Commander [[Vioxx]] to kill her in hopes that this would allow the Romulan officers to return the Empire as heroes and get a warhawk of their own, Selex, along with Sub-Commander [[Remax]], finally realized that Vioxx was not going to act and that they would have to kill her themselves. They attempted to booby-trap Prosak's quarters but were stopped by Vioxx, who said that Prosak was not to be killed. Remax considered that to be the end of it and unhappily followed Vioxx's order to clean Prosak's quarters. Selex, however, did not agree and later kicked Prosak down a Jefferies tube that sent her plummeting 25 decks. She was saved by Kasyov, who had joined with the ship's computer and adjusted the gravity in the tube to prevent Prosak from falling to her death. Selex was arrested, and Prosak turned her attention to rescuing Captain Bain, who was to be put on trial by the Breen. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Bain was rescued by Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden, who beamed him aboard the Allegra. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by Holo-Kirk. Prosak regained consciousness along with Tovar and Marsden inside a cargo container that Holo-Kirk ejected into space. They were soon picked up by [[Gridloo]] and [[Pridloo]], who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, with Rosalyn Bain's help, caught up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. Prosak learned about Rosalyn's Section 31 affiliation at this time. Back on the Anomaly, Prosak was on the bridge when Selex escaped the ship and beamed down to the Breen homeworld. She agreed with Vioxx that, since Selex had done so of his own volition and requested asylum, they didn't need to try to get him back or tell Bain about it (''[[Hollow Threats]]'', ''[[Trial And Error]]'', ''[[The Bain Supremacy]]'' [BG])

While the Anomaly was back in time to prevent Romulus from being destroyed by the Hobus ultranova, Prosak had a brief encounter with her idol Spock. She was pretending to be a Vulcan at the time and was able to get through the conversation without losing her composure too badly. She did, however, ask Spock for his autograph, which he gave her after receiving her assurance that she would not try to sell it. (''[[We'll Always Have Romulus]]'' [BG])

During a long layover at [[Waystation Prime]] while the Anomaly was undergoing repairs, Prosak met [[Snotch]], a Vulcan who took an interest in her, much to her delight. While on a dinner date with Snotch, they were kidnapped by the [[Dillon Consortium]] and locked in a room on a hidden level of the station with several other officers from the Anomaly. A Waystation Prime security team was able to rescue Prosak and the others, and she told Snotch that she thought it was logical for them to continue their dinner date. (''[[Legend of the Bain]]'' [BG])

After Prosak informed Snotch that the [[USS Anomaly]] would be leaving rather abruptly, Snotch asked to join her on board, much to her excitement. Prosak informed Bain that Snotch had asked to join them, which raised Bain's suspicions. He asked Tovar to give Snotch the VIP treatment, which was code for heavy surveillance. Throughout the voyage, any attempt to gather information for the Dillon Consortium that Snotch made was thwarted, and he kept having to dodge Prosak by having her meditate or read obscure Vulcan philosophers. After she kissed him, Snotch decided that he'd had enough and stayed in his quarters until the Anomaly could drop him off at [[Matria Prime]]. Prosak was crushed by the rejection and commed her father sobbing. After this, she asked Bain for to relieve her of her duties for a while, so she could think and reconsider her life choices. (''[[Primary Sources]] [BG])

She spent days in her quarters after this, and, when Dr. [[Fred Nooney]] took it upon himself to help her (Really, he was manipulated into it by Sub-Commander Remax.). He took Prosak into a holodeck simulation of the [[Wave of Relaxation]] cruise ship on Pacifica, where [[Chynok]] now worked. Nooney had convinced Rorshak to have Chynok released from a Romulan prison, and the Klingon, having reconsidered what she wanted from life, decided that she wanted to have fun in a beautiful place. Nooney hoped this would help Prosak realize that she too needed to figure out what she really wanted. Instead, much to Nooney's horror, she started slaughtering the passengers and crew, starting with Chynok. Prosak's rampage only ended when the bridge cut power to the holodeck. After this, Nooney told Prosak that she had to work through finding out what she wanted. Later, Bain apologized to her for not telling her that Snotch was working for the Dillon Consortium. Prosak said that she liked the idea of Snotch, namely a Vulcan that appreciated her, more than Snotch himself. She needed to figure things out, but she decided that she would return to duty while she did so. (''[[Welcome to the Party]]'' [BG])

On the recommendation of [[Kasyov]] and [[Marsden]], Prosak tried seeing several counselors from history and fiction in her holopod, hoping for some guidance on what she should do with her life. She finally concluded that she should go full Romulan and drastically changed her appearance, now opting for spiked up hair, tattoos, metallic clothes, and knee-high boots. (''[[Born to Rom]]'' [BG])

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