Banyon Kovacs

Starfleet Intelligence operative assigned to retrieve a stolen item from the Orion Syndicate on Sargonis. Beck hit on him in a bar and ended up saving his life and completing his mission. After Sargonis, he and Beck had a fun couple of weeks together on Starbase 78. ("You May Meet A Stranger" [WAY])

Seven years later, he travelling to Waystation posing as Arthur Mills, the boyfriend of Lusenkia Dekelina. He was investigating Dekelina, who was suspected as the mastermind/financial supplier behind the thefts of several rare items. After learning from her manservant, Lerk, that Kovacs and Beck had been speaking to each other, Dekelina was convinced that her boyfriend was cheating on her and decided to kill him and Beck in the same holodeck death trap she'd devised for her true target, Lieutenant Commander Sean Russell. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel O'Neal, who was playing croquet in the holodeck with Russell when Dekelina put her plan into action, despite being an innocent bystander, was also to suffer the same fate as the others: death by giant croquet balls. Fortunately, Colonel Martin Lazlo, infuriated that his marines weren't spending their off-hours on the marines' deck, stormed into the holodeck looking for O'Neal. Lazlo was quickly able to take down Dekelina and Lerk and rescue the others, not that he had any interest in rescuing Beck, Russell, or Kovacs. Dekelina was taken into custody. A search of her home discovered several stolen items. Kovacs and Beck rekindled their fling.(Fraternizing With The Enemy [WAY])