Jackford Kolk

For the alternate universe counterpart, see Jackford Kolk (alternate).

• Current Primary PC
  • James T. Kolk
    (aka Evil Jack)
• Former Primary PCs
  • Jackford Kolk
  • Syrol
  • Valis
  • Orsisius "Kit" Kizito
• Former Secondary PCs
  • Zita Sesilia
• Personal NPCs
  • Aliah the Cat
  • Alyre
  • Baranduin
  • Alandra Devereaux
  • Jill Granger
  • Ann'ita H'tok'An'l
  • Puddles Peraino
  • Sunny Peraino
  • Jarod Teka
• SIMs
  • Jack Kolk
  • Valis
  • "Evil" Jack Kolk
  • Aliah

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Lieutenant Commander Jackford Kolk, a Human, was recently awarded the Data Artistic Award, the Nebula Bar, the Scotty Cross, and the B-Plot Award aboard the USS Ronin.

Stats

• Full Name: Jackford Benjamin Kolk
• Race: Human
• Date of Birth: Stardate 236106.30
• Place of Birth: Starbase 211
• Age: 22yrs
• Gender: Male
• Telepathic status: N/A

Appearance

• Height: 5'11"
• Weight: 145 lbs.
• Hair Color: Dirty Blonde
• Eye Color: Blue-Green
• Skin Tone: Pale
• Build: Thin and fit.
• Carriage: Walks with purpose.
• Poses: Often leans against walls and crosses arms.
• Handedness: Right

Manner

• Quarters: On Deck 4. A picture of Starbase 211 as seen from a shuttlecraft hangs on the wall near his desk; a painting of downtown Seattle, Earth, in a style reminiscent of Van Gogh's "Starry, Starry Night," prominently displaying the Space Needle, hangs across from the door; and an anti-grav model of the Constitution Class USS Enterprise floats in front of one of the widows. A sword hangs on the wall near the door, it's sheath generally rests in a drawer underneath in case it's needed; it has been in his family for several hundred years.
• Favorite Food: Bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast and chocolate milk any time of the day.
• Mannerisms: Tends to look out windows and let his eyes loose focus when thinking.
• Temperment: Whimsically jovial but with touch of healthy melancholy.
• Habits: Talks to himself with a British accent when no one else is around.
• Religion/Spiritual Devotion: Catholic

Personality

Pensive when alone, outgoing and jovial in public.

Hobbies and Pastimes

• Losing at 3D Chess.
• Building intricately detailed and nearly fully-functional miniatures of starships and then giving them as gifts to his friends.

Likes and Dislikes

• Drinks chocolate milk almost 24/7.
• Severely dislikes his alter ego, "Evil" Jack.

Ambitions and Goals

• Longs to be a Starfleet captain, so that he can serve and protect those he cares about and uphold the values of the Federation.

Personal Achievements

• He was entrusted with the Conn for the first time aboard the USS Ronin on stardate 238410.01 and impressed Commander Mar by getting Engineering to increase the ship's top speed to Warp 9.915.
• Awarded the Neelix Award in his first year of service.
• He recieved command of his own department, Flight Operations aboard the Ronin, for the first time on stardate 238507.29.

Personal Disappointments

• Has never won a game of 3D Chess, even against a complete novice.
• Somehow managed to completely screw up his relationship with Dr. Addison Parker even though, the day they broke up, he thought he was attempting to make the relationship better.
• Failed to save the life of a pilot whose fighter exploded during his first day as Acting Chief of Flight Operations.
• Failed to apprehend Evil Jack before he poisoned Captain Mar.

Family

Spouse

• Marital Status: Single.

Children

• N/A

Parents

• Father: Robert Benjamin, Deceased
  • Date of Birth: Stardate 232202.05
  • Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, Earth
  • Date of Death: Stardate 236210.24

• Mother: Elisabeth Marie, Deceased
  • Maiden Name: O'Shea
  • Date of Birth: Stardate 232311.27
  • Place of Birth: Killarney, Ireland, Earth
  • Date of Death: Stardate 238408.14

Siblings

• Eldest Brother: Jarod Matthew
  • Date of Birth: Stardate 235105.13
  • Place of Birth: Starbase 211
  • Current Residence: Earth, Seattle WA
  • Occupation: High School Calculus Teacher

• Sister: Samantha Marie, Deceased
  • Date of Birth: Stardate 235604.10
  • Place of Birth: Starbase 211
  • Date of Death: Stardate 236310.24

Personal History

Jack was born in space--the medical bay of Starbase 211, between Betazed and Cardassian territory--but only lived in space for a year and four months. Shortly after his father and older sister died in a Cardassian attack, he, his eldest brother, and his mother left the Starbase to live on Earth. They were taken in by his uncle on his father's side, who lived in Seattle, WA. From that time on, his brother Jarod refused to ever travel anywhere again, despising all technology and Starfleet especially for "killing" their father. Jack, however, dreamed of the stars from very early on, and loved traveling all over Earth. They had an uncle, Ted, on their mother's side, who lived and taught in Oxford whom Jack would visit nearly every summer from about the age of three on until graduating from Starfleet Academy. Uncle Ted pulled some strings to get Elisabeth a teaching position at Oxford University, but she declined the opportunity because of Jarod's absolute refusal to travel. Instead, she began teaching at a local high school and eventually became the principal of the school. Jarod tought mathematics there until Elisabeth's death, tending to avoid applying his skill in mathematics to anything warp-related, although hedid teach basic warp-field mathematics because the school board requires him to. The brothers hardly spoke to each other at all, though their mother always tried to encourage each of them to "reach out" to the other. Jack was always a bit closer to both of his uncles than to his mother, though he tried to send her regular updates on his life while at the Academy. When their mother died, however, Jarod finally honored her wishes for them to become closer by moving to Deep Space 17 so that he and Jack could see each other whenever the Ronin comes to port. He now teaches in the station's small but growing elementary school.

While Jack was in the Academy, he dated several female students, but none seriously. Upon graduation and assignment to the Ronin he swiftly found himself in a romance with one of the ship's best Medical Officers, Dr. Addison Parker, but the relationship became tenuous when his mother died and he withdrew from her. He was willing to try and patch things up, but she was unexpectedly transferred to another starship at the height of their disassociation.

Timeline

1. Stardate 236106.30: Born, Starbase 211
2. Stardate 236210.24: Cardassian renegades attack Starbase 211, killing Robert and Samantha Kolk.
3. Stardate 236211.01: Elisabeth, Jarod, and Jackford move to Earth to live with Robert's brother, Frank, in Seattle.
4. Stardate 237909.01: Entered Starfleet Academy.
5. Stardate 238402.08: Graduated from Starfleet Academy.
6. Stardate 238402.09: Assigned as Engineering Officer to USS Ronin.
7. Stardate 238405.11: Assigned as Assistant Chief Engineer.
8. Stardate 238405.12: Promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade.
9. Stardate 238408.14: Mother Elisabeth dies of natural causes; Jack rushes home, but is a day late.
10. Stardate 238410.01: First entrusted with the Conn by Commander Mar.
11. Stardate 238411.25: Promoted to full Lieutenant.
12. Stardate 238501.17: Presented with the Neelix Award for exemplary off-duty contributions to the ship and crew.
13. Stardate 238502.02: Began working two shifts per week in Flight Ops under Lt. Commander Wayfel.
14. Stardate 238402.12: Temporarily assigned as Deck Officer while the Ronin was lost somewhere on the Galactic Barrier along with the USS Independence-A and USS Ursa Major.
15. Stardate 238507.29: Assigned as Chief of Flight Operations.
16. Stardate 238509.19: Temporarily assigned as Assistant Chief Engineer aditionally.
17. Stardate 238510.24: Assigned as Chief Tactical Officer.
18. Stardate 238601.21: Promoted to Lieutenant Commander & Awarded the B-Plot Award, the Nebula Bar, & the Scotty Cross

Academy Records

• Date of Entry into Starfleet Academy: Stardate 237909.01
• Date of Graduation: Stardate 238402.08
• Major: Communications/Operations
• Minor: Astronomy
  • Full Academy Transcript

Starfleet Assessments and Records

Professional History Insignia Rank Dates Assignment Post Cadet, 4th Class 237909.01 - 238007.31 Starfleet Academy, San Fransisco, Earth Student Major: Communications/Operations Minor: Astronomy Cadet, 3rd Class 238009.01 - 238107.31 Cadet, 2nd Class 238109.01 - 238207.31 Cadet, 1st Class 238209.01 - 238307.31 238308.01 - 238402.08 USS Centris-A Ensign 238402.09 - 238405.11 USS Ronin Engineer Lieutenant J.G. 238405.12 - 238411.24 Assistant Chief Engineer Lieutenant 238411.25 - 238502.01 Award: 238501.17 Neelix Award Lieutenant 238502.02 - 238507.28 USS Ronin Assistant Chief Engineer & Flight Ops Deck Officer Lieutenant 238507.29 - 238509.18 Chief of Flight Operations Lieutenant 238509.19 - 238510.23 Chief of Flight Operations & Assistant Chief Engineer Lieutenant 238510.24 - 238601.20 Chief Tactical Officer Lt. Commander 238601.21 - Present

• Current Rank: Lieutenant Commander
• Current Assignment: USS Ronin
• Duty Post: Chief Tactical Officer
• Awards & Commendations: Neelix Award, 2384

Mission History

Deep Space 17 (while assigned to USS Ronin)

"Shattered Mirror"

• Stardates 238403.13 to 238404.11
  • Beginning with several unexplained disappearances aboard the station, it becomes aparent that the crew of an alternate Deep Space 17 has opened an interphasic rift into our universe in order to "borrow" engineers to help fight off the Gorn. As the intrepid crew of the USS Ronin works to retrieve the engineers and avert a multi-universal war, it is learned that in the universe responsible for the interphasic rift, Idril Mar died in a shuttle accident and thus was not alive to stop the Gorn at what, in our universe, was the final battle of the Gorn War. In the choas that followed, Danny Wilde became Station Commander of DS17, and Ethan Brice was killed under suspicious circumstance leaving Jack Kolk as the alternate DS17's Chief Engineer. While this universe's version of all involved struggle to counteract the interphasic device created by "Evil" Jack Kolk, the alternate version of Ben Walker, a broken and self-loathing man, finds his way to our universe and gives his life to save another in the final moments of the encounter. The rift is sealed with most parties in their own universes. One however, "Evil" Jack Kolk, who was stripped of his rank and commission by Station Commander Danny Wilde, is known to have ended up on in our universe. Whether or not any more inadvertant cross-overs occurred is debatable.

USS Ronin

"New Fighters & New Friends"

• Stardates 238405.11 to 238408.08
  • With the arrival of six new prototype fighter and a squad of marines, the crew of the Ronin sets off to an remote star system with an indigenous, reportedly pre-warp, civilization to work out some of the fighters' kinks while hidden by the system's asteroid field. Just as the tests get underway, the "pre-warp" civilization successfully completes it's first warp flight, accidentally resulting in a massive subspace shockwave that cripples all three active fighters plus their escorts and concurrently knocks out many of the Ronin's major systems. Senedipitously, the shockwave knocked out the AI-driven prototype "Gremlin" fighter just as it is about to destroy Lt. J.G. Kolk's prototype "Hammerhead." As the ship struggles to recover the downed fighters, their escorts, its malfunctioning systems, and perhaps a bit of its dignity, the crew also carefully conducts first contact with the locals, the Sya-Negan. As if the situation weren't complicated enough, a renegade from the alternate universe discovered in the crew's last mission, "Evil" Jackford B. Kolk (no-longer a Starfleet officer in any universe), escapes from the bridge and terrorizes the crew in a deranged quest for revenge on Lt. Cmdr. Danny Wilde. The crew eventually re-captures "Evil Kolk," placing him in stasis and his stasis chamber behind a force-field in the brig, but not before he seriously wounds Wilde, leaving him in a coma, and makes contact with a mysterious emotion-affecting lifeform that eludes capture or reasoned contact by the crew.

"Runabout Down"

• Stardates 238408.29 to 238410.31
  • When a small team of Cardassians infiltrate the Ronin while most of the crew are at a celebration on Deep Space 17, the ship scrambles to chase them down while undoing the damage and possible espionage the assault team inflicted. Just moments after the ship jumps to warp, the engines fail and Commander Mar is forced to send a runabout and two fighter squadrons out ahead. This leaves Lt. J.G. Kolk in charge of Engineering, which pleases him to no end. Once the engines are repaired and elusive Spathis dealt with (if only to a small extent), the Ronin gets on its way again. After running into a Keldon class Cardassian warship and leaving them licking their wounds, the ship again hurries off to catch up with the fighter group who've all but been wiped out except for the runabout USS Cedar which crash landed on a moon being orbited by a Galor class warship. before the Galor can hunt the crashed runabout down, an ion storm moves into the system. The Ronin swoops in, uses some sensor buoys to find the downed Cedar and crew while also sending false sensor readings to the Cardassians and their mercenary friends. The sensor ghosts allow the Ronin to fly one of the mercenary ships into the rear of the Galor, weakening it. Then, just before the Keldon limps into the system, the Ronin fires on the Galor to preempt an attack, but it unexpectedly leads to a cascade that destroys the ship. When the Keldon arrives, they accuse the Ronin of intensionally destroying a Cardassian ship and promise to tell their government what happened here. Commander Mar informs the Cardassian Gul that it was an accident which happened in self-defense and promises to tell Starfleet the same. The Keldon flies off, and the Ronin hires the rest of the mercenaries to help them retrieve their crew and clean up the mess.

"Pirates & Hotheads"

• Stardate 238411.28 to 2385
  • A routine mission to the Gorn border ceases to be routine when Lt. J.G. Valis picks up unusual subspace oscillations on the Gorn side of the border and shortly thereafter sensors pick up Gorn ships set to intercept an FTU convoy in Federations space. Captain Mar decides to take a pair of runabouts to investigate the subspace disturbance while Lt. Cmdr. Walker takes the Ronin to prevent an interstellar incident. The subspace oscillations turn out to be a crude lighthouse transmitted from a remote system populated by cutthroats and thieves. The arrival of the Ronin's officers and Marines provide an opportunity to kill an old rival and destroy the small space station that the pirate, Captain Antilles, can't pass up. While the encounter is short and leaves the Ronin crew relatively unscathed, it also gives a reluctant pirate, Alandra Devereaux a chance to seek assylum with the Starfleet crew and start a new life. Meanwhile, the Ronin arrives just as hostilities are beginning and places itself between the two fleets. As the crew begin to investigate the cause of the hostilities, sensors detect a transient presence flitting unpredictably around the battleground. Thanks to empathic and telepathic members of the crew, it becomes clear that the unknown presence is an alien ship from a hostility-centric species known as the K'nl'got'he. Shortly before a diplomatic conference with the Gorn, Lt. Cmdr. Walker orders the Ronin to fire on the small alien craft, while a small security force boards one of the FTU freighters to gather samples of the Gorn eggs they're carrying. At the conference aboard the Ronin, the crew presents their evidence and proves to them that both sides were manipulated by the K'nl'got'he into fighting each other, and the Gorn agree to leave the convoy be and return to Gorn territory.

"Galactic Gloria"

• Stardate 238502.05 to 238503.08
  • When the USS Ronin rendezvouses with the USS Independence and USS Ursa Major at Wheeler Colony, a diplomatic mission to the surface is cut short by a wormhole that momentarily disrupts all power on the three ships and draws them to the far edge of the galaxy, directly adjacent to the Galactic Barrier, leaving the First Officers in charge. Tragically, when the power fails on the Ronin, the Flight Deck door happens to be open and nearly everyone on the Deck is blown out into open space. When the casualties are all counted, 27 are found dead from explosive decompression. Before the crew can mourn, however, the Independence reports an intruder and two alien fleets appear on sensors. One fleet warns the Starfleet ships that they may have a hostile alien on board. The other informs them that they believe the Federation ships have "the One" on board. Each of the Starfleet ships have severe damages due to their trip through the wormhole, so the Ronin deploys all of it's fighters to screen the wounded starships from the incoming flotillas. Before the flotilla's arrive, however, the blue non-corporeal being, who injures itself repairing some of the Independence's problems, gets a power transfusion from the Indy's warp core and undergoes a transfiguration. At the same time, those left behind on Wheeler reconstruct the activation of the wormhole and re-open it, sending a communications probe through to contact the lost ships. As soon as they realize the gate has re-opened, all three First Officers order their ships through, the Ronin's fighters and shuttlecraft leading the way. En-route, one of the ships, a prototype left over from the Sya-Negan mission explodes due to faulty construction, killing the pilot. His is the first death of an officer directly under Lt. Kolk's command.

"Lost at Sand"

• Stardate 238503.30 to 238504.26
  • En route back to Deep Space 17 for repairs, the USS Ronin passes through the Aurona Nebula and suffers a sudden cascade failure, necessitating a complete evacuation to a nearby Class-L planet which the crew would come to call Rakis. Some of the crew never manage to make it off the ship, staving off death by being beamed to the runabout USS Wye, where the craft's sensors alert them to the presence of small Ferengi vessel come to "salvage" the Ronin. From there Lt. Cmdr. Wilde and Petty Officer Doubleaux beam to the bridge, using it's own power to restore life support and main sensors, while Cmdr. Walker and Ens. Garlone ramain on the Flight Deck. On the planet, the majority of the crew's escape pods land in the equatorial regions while one pod and the Captain find themselves in the polar region. An indigenous life form resembling the Worms of Frank Herbert's Dune whom the crew comes to call Land Sharks begin attacking and eating the newly arrived link on their somewhat limited food chain. On the pole, Captain Mar find safety in a cave while the main camp is forced to be a bit more ingenious. After a the first bloody attack, the investigation of two dead Sharks lead Security to construct a device that disables the Sharks' mode of travel through the desert dands while Engineering develops an Impulse powered water cannon that kills them. In orbit, Walker and Garlone disable one Ferengi while Wilde and Doubleaux strike a deal with their DaiMon, Nekil. The two small groups then restore minimal power and make contact with the USS Wellington, which Starfleet has sent to investigate the Ronin's disapperance. The next morning, the crew's ingenuity pays off just moments before the Wellington contacts Lt. Cmdr. Maria and begins the evacuation from Rakis.

Earth (while assigned to USS Ronin)

"Revenge of the Alternates"

• Stardates 238506.08-238507.25
  • While on shoreleave with the rest of the crew, Jack spends his time flirting with Lt.J.G. Reed and attending the wedding of Captain Mar & Lt.Cmdr. Wilde... until the Captain turns up missing from her own honeymoon and the senior staff is called in to a small Inn in Whitby, England to investigate. After a long day with few clues, the Roninites reconviene in the inn's conference room and soon discover that Lt.Cmdr. Wilde had been replaced by Station Commander Wilde who, in cohorts with Evil Jack kidnapped both newly-weds. After the Alternate Danny escapes via a home-made transporter jurry-rigged by Evil Kolk, part of the crew chase him to his secret lair in Calais, France. Jack's team follows Jack's own alternate to the basement-maze of the Inn where a Boridium bomb is purported to be. The "bomb" turns out to be a mishmash of parts and devices, including a transporter, defensive cutting beams, and some sort of chemical replication device. After Evil Jack uses it to transport himself (via the shuttlecraft Kursk) to Alt. Danny's hideout in Calais, the device uses it's cutting beams to force Lt. Kolk's team away from it and then self-destructs. Once the team extricates itself from the underbelly of the inn, they join the rest of the senior staff at the Wilde Manor and learn that Lt. Thelev's team has managed to rescue LtCmdr. Wilde, but arrived too late to stop Evil Kolk from stunning the kidnapped Captain Mar and injecting her with some kind of poison. An alternate of Lt. Thelev appeared as well, and allowed Evil Kolk to escape with Alt. Danny's personal shuttle craft, the SS Idril Mar, then talked Alt. Danny into letting go of his claim on Idril as well. In the end, Alt. Danny injected Captain Mar with his own Borg nanoprobes in order to counteract the poinson that was killing her. In the process, his supply was depleted and the Acute Cellular Decay that plagues both versions of the man quickly overcame him. With no one left to serve in this universe, Alt. Thelev detonated an explosive of some kind, killing himself and engulfing the remnants of Alt. Wilde in the blast. No one else was directly harmed, however. Once everyone is back at the Wilde Manor, the doctors learn that Captain Mar has contracted a highly contagious Trill-specific renal disease. Lt. Brice is also injured, temporarily losing his eye-sight and severly limitting the use of one leg and one arm.
  • Oddly enough, on the very same day, an unknown group of mercenaries attempts Grand Theft Starship aboard the USS Ronin, but are thwarted by the efforts of a few of the ship's repair crews, the USS Arthur Royale, and, bizzarely, Evil Jack. On his way out of the system, and presumably back to the Ithassa Region, Evil Kolk apparently scans the Ronin, picks up the lifesigns of a Gorn who is part of the hijacking group, and beams him off the ship... mostly. He leeaves the Gorn's head in Lt. Kolk's quarters in order to torment his alter ego.

USS Ronin

"The Hunt for Old Alchilles"

• Stardates 238409.15 to 238410.24
  • In response to Captain Mar's dire need for a cure to the disease caused by Evil Kolk, the crew enters the Ithassa Region in search of the USS Achilles, a rogue Starfleet ship manned and controlled solely by an AI named THETIS, or Tess. She had been presumed destroyed years ago, but numerous sightings by Gorn, FTU, and other species suggested otherwise. The crew plans, once they have found the Achilles, to use her inside knowledge of the region to help them track down Evil Kolk and pump him for any information that might lead to a cure for Captain Mar. After the mission briefing, Lt. Kolk talks with LtCmdr. Maria in her quaters about his overwhelmingly dark thoughts about his alternate. The Betazoid/Human hybrid helps him to see past the evil that his other self has done and glimpse the possiblity of redemption. The two officers also deepen their bond as surrogate sibblings. Next LtCmdrs. Brice, Thelev, Wilde, and Lt. Kolk meet privately to discuss, off the record, what's to be done with Evil Jack. LtCmdr. Thelev almost immediately suggests hiring someone to kill the villain, and for a time it seems the group is entertaining the idea. Once he works through his shock at what his best friend is suggesting, Lt. Kolk speaks up and refuses to participate in any such plan, citing their duty as Starfleet Officers to uphold the law and as enlightened individuals to maintain a higher standard than that of someone like Evil Jack. With the issue settled and the group agreeing to hunt, capture, and prosecute the man but not to use lethal force, they disband and meet with their respective teams. Soon enough a course to the Igloo Cluster is settled on and the ship is underway. On the edge of the cluster, they encounter a group of Grendellai who ambush them. instead of using their full force and defeating the scavengers easily, Cmdr. Walker decides to play wounded to lure Tess out of hiding. The Ronin dives between two Grendellai ships, scraping the Flight Operations pod and picking up a pair of boarding parties. This causes Tess to soar to the "rescue" and reveal herself. She disables half the attacking ships in a matter of seconds, and offers to "help" with the boarding parties. When Walker lowers the shields, she beams the Grendellai into space, shocking the Ronin's crew and convincing the remaining Grendellai ships to withdraw. An away team beams over to negotiate with Tess regarding the larger mission, but before much progress is made, LtCmdr. Brice uses a failsafe only he knew about and disconnects Tess from the rest of the ship. Cmdr. Walker convinces him to undo what he'd done, and Tess instantly beams him to the aft end of the Ronin's port nacelle. Tess agrees to follow the Ronin back to DS17 at least, and the away team beams back, disgruntled but none the worse for wear.

Jackford's SIMs

• Cadet Kolk: "Beyond Mere Training"
• Ensign Kolk: "First Impressions Could Get You Fired"
• Ensign Kolk: "In Memorium"
• Lieutenant J.G. Kolk: "The Long Road Home"
• Lieutenant J.G. Kolk: "Breakdown"
• Lieutenant Kolk: "Echoes of the Past Long Past"
• Lieutenant Kolk: "Home"
• Lieutenant Kolk: "The Nature of Command"
• Lieutenant Kolk: The Whole Kitten Cab-oodle

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