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Jhalib Ekal.

Jhalib Ekal is a Rigelian from Rigel V.

History

In 2395, Ekal completed small work on Star Station Esperance, and literally bumped into Sky Blake on a station turbolift. Convinced he looked familiar, she asks if they'd met before, though he claims to merely have worked behind the bar of the officer's lounge aboard the USS Ronin. Though he wasn't told of her destination, he tells Blake to "enjoy the wedding" of Mei'konda and Evan Delano.

Ekal was later seen aboard the SS Rowena as it dropped two Starfleet officers back to Kidman I after rescuing them from a malfunctioning escape pod, performing minor upgrades to the freighter's sensor equipment. When asked, he claims to the Rowena's captain that he is from Rigel V, though opted to leave the Rigel system due to ongoing and heated political debates regarding the Kalar. He would be asked by the freighter's captain to take apart the escape pod, simply shrugging at Tristam Core's insistence that the process may not be worth the work.

On Star Station Esperance in 239508, Ekal would meet with Roshanara Rahman and Mei'konda to individually restore their memories of a premature trip to the USS Veritas, claiming to be with the Department of Temporal Investigations - and providing documentation to prove it. Though he fails to explain the reasoning to Mei'konda, he separately admits to Rahman that the two had perhaps caught a glimpse of something vital to an investigation he was undertaking when they inadvertently entered a second temporal anomaly on their return trip to the USS Mercury. He asks Rahman to describe a battle between Starfleet and Tholian factions, specifically asking whom fired first - though the answer she provides (being a Starfleet quantum torpedo) causes him disappointment. Before she can further ask about the investigation, Ekal vanishes.

Appearance

Despite the strange timing of his appearances, Jhalib Ekal is an otherwise unremarkable, middle-aged, vulcanoid Rigelian, possibly holding a Bajoran relation (given his minor nose ridge). He is described by many as being of medium height with a wiry build, sporting a thick head of short and curly brown hair, wearing clean and crisp clothing. To the common passers-by, his eyes are a generic brown and are nothing overly special - however, they look oddly familiar for a certain few.

The nature of his position within the Department of Temporal Investigations is not made clear, but Ekal carries equipment some would generally find out of the norm. For a day and age when finding the time and stardate was as simple as asking a computer, Ekal instead wears a bulky chronometer on his wrist. He has also been encountered twice carrying a medical kit, one of the instruments within being used to restore a few weeks worth of initially suppressed memories within Roshanara Rahman and Mei'konda.

Ekal seems capable around starship equipment, assisting a civilian crew with minor upgrades to their sensors so to combat the tetryon interference of the Shoals when off the Mother Road, and unfazed with being asked to strip a battered escape pod for parts. However, though often times he is alert, ready and waiting, he has on certain occasion noted to seem dazed or 'out of sorts' - though these small episodes last only for a short period of time, and the Rigelian quickly returns to his usual wide-eyed self.