Hitori Sulu
A Starfleet Admiral and architect of the Next Federation conspiracy. Sulu was unhappy with the way he saw Starfleet and the Federation going and decides that it is time to take action and show people the need for a change. The change he had in mind was a return to the way things were when his idol and ancestor, Hikaru Sulu, was in his prime. A time when the Federation explored but also was not afraid to get into a fight.
He first acted subtly, maneuvering events to create situations where Starfleet vessels were staffed with incompetents. This first task fell to Admiral Earl Wyndham. During the process of crewing the USS Secondprize, Wyndham decided that Sulu must be stopped and began working against the Next Federation. Captain Alexander Rydell, meanwhile, went on to command the Secondprize on several odd adventures, none of which were the disaster that Sulu was hoping for.
Sulu changed tactics and, using the Crazy Condor Circus as a front, began gathering material and personnel to construct his own fleet, which he planned to use to usher in a new age: the Next Federation. Starfleet Intelligence Agent Samantha Dallas became suspicious of the circus and opened her own investigation, becoming troublesome enough that Sulu and his compatriot, Admiral Gitt of Starfleet Intelligence, took action to get her out of the way. First she was assigned to cases no one else wanted. When that didn't work, she was shipped off to Tantalus V.
As Sulu prepared to launch his attack against the Federation, Wyndham took additional steps against him, getting Dallas released from Tantalus and leading Dallas, her partner Agent Batyn, and the USS Secondprize to Sulu's base in an area of the Beta Quadrant known as the Demon's Sanctum. Sulu was still able to put his plan in motion, hiding his fleet into multiple subspace generators attached to an innocent looking freighter. He then took over Waystation and stored it in a generator to use as a command base for his assault on Starfleet.
The Secondprize was able to catch up with the freighter and stop Sulu while Dallas and Batyn mopped up the rest of the Crazy Condor Circus. Sulu escaped in a stolen runabout, but his conspiracy had been smashed. He fled to Orlagas, a non-Federation world without an extradition treaty. Rydell and the Secondprize crew followed, but they could not take Sulu into custody without breaking Orlagan law. With the Secondprize officers tormenting him in the real world, Sulu activated his mind expander, a device that allows the wearer to create their reality in a sphere expanding outward a short distance away from their body. Rydell entered the mind expander field where he found that Sulu had created a Starfleet Command where he was in charge. To show Rydell that his way was the right way, Sulu recreated his ancestor, Hikaru Sulu. Even in Hitori's mind, the elder Sulu was horrified at what Hitori had done. Hikaru Sulu scolded Hitori and revealed to Rydell that Hitori had never actually commanded a starship. Instead he rose through the ranks in the accounting corps. His last refuge destroyed, Sulu shut down the mind expanded and left Orlagas in his stolen runabout. Outside of the safety of Orlagan space, he was almost immediately picked up by the USS Explorer under the temporary command of David Conway.
Admiral Hitori Sulu is the prime antagonist of the Next Federation Arc.