Quentin Collins: Difference between revisions

* '''Glasses''': On occasion Quentin makes use of a pair of glasses which he uses to sharpen his vision and take in fine detailing as his eyes are good at a distance, but slightly fail at closer ranges. His first pair (heavy black frames) have since been shattered. Quentin replaced them with a largish pair of horn-rims (also black), but wonders about their long term status as part of his look. Prior to the current mission, Quentin replicated another pair of chunky plastic frames, but at a much smaller, more metropolitan size and now uses those as his go-to pair for the moment. They have just been destroyed once again.  

! style="background:#ffffff;" align="center" | Though Quentin and Chloe's relationship got off to a somewhat rocky start, the pair quickly found a common experience when they opened up to one another over a late-night chat in Chloe's quarters during her momentary confinement. The two shared with each other there personal childhood traumas and feelings of occasional helplessness. From there the officers now enjoy a sort of sibling like care for one another with Chloe using Quentin as a conduit for the outside world and Quentin trying to help guide the Helmsman into being more comfortable in herself. Here recently he oversaw the fabrication of "The Crown of Voices", a new translation device for Waters, which would allow for a greater range of expression for his friend. In the transfer to the Arrow, the pair grew closer as Quentin confided in her his father's death and allowed her to be the shoulder to cry on that he was for her not but a few months earlier during her confinement to quarters. The pair were bonded further after the Arrow's contact with the Sheliak injuried Helmsman Waters, leading Quentin to visit her in Sickbay and help in her rehabilitation efforts.  

Repositing, Quentin worked in conjunction with the ship's new TAC officer, LTjg. Melody Delri'ise, to reveal the power junction that fueled the tetryon cannons. Allowing Mister Delri'ise a firing solution, the ship knocked out the Acen's cannons and then swept their captain up in a bold beaming gambit overseen by Captain Oddas, despoisting the officer in her Ready Room. The Captain then ceded Command to Quentin as she entered "conference" with Captain Orjea, backed by Messrs Risha and Delri'ise.

The Captain then relieved Quentin from Command and retasked him. It seemed the Acen were in need of a critical resource, the Grunn Fern, a sort of superplant that fueled their economy and industry. Working from Main Engineering, supported by Crewman Terumak and Ensign Ferentis of the Engineering Department, and escorted by Mister Risha, the group worked for a solution. The group then moved into Science Lab 4 in order to make use of the compartment's horticultural equipment and hydroponics lab. Quentin proposed a hybridization of the Grun and an inert dilithium crystal. Sewing the shard into the stalk of the Grunn, the group then planted it and attempted to speed up its maturation with energy saturations.

But on the way to the waypoint, the ship was pulled from Warp by a massive Sheliak convoy, lead by a Director Tamazotz claiming that they were collecting on an "outstanding debt account". After some tense negotiations, the Sheliak fired on the Arrow with some kind of pisonic beam device, incapacitating a number of the crew and injuring a few of the Senior Staff. The Arrow then tried escape, tricking the Sheliak vessel slightly by allowing them to advance on the ship, only to punch to high Warp at the moment of near contact. The Sheliak gave chase, but were quickly routed by a nearby spasial phenomena that the Arrow itself was almost sucked into.

Then came a real chance. Atlas Base's water treatment facility junction had started to fall into disrepair so naturally Quentin led a team to repair it, all the name of ingratiating himself and the ship to the Base's staff and leadership. Meanwhile on the ship, Commander Shayne sought to led a discussion with several of the "local luminaries" of the sector, inviting a number of captains and leaders from the refugee ships. Delegates from the Ferengi, Caldonian, Cardassian, and Klingon crews amassed around Theta 122 arrived to the ship to talk about how they could contribute to peace and prosperity for the beleaguered Base world. Also among them was a boisterous Orion pirate captain, Eru Ghant, with her own goals and agenda. All of which would be terrfyingly clear before too long.

Meanwhile on the surface, Quentin, aided by Keneth Nakada, Charlotte DeBarres, and Chief of Security Artinius Serinus, set about repairing the Base's water treatment facility. Greeted by a shifty "overseer" and his crew, Quentin's away team gained a perimeter and started about the work. Work of which was lessened by the unexpected help from some of the sympathetic Base staff. But soon the masquerade was cast away and the "overseer" and his crew were revealed to be pirates! In league with Captain Ghant, who had launched a daring attack on the interior of the Arrow FROM the interior of the Arrow, backed up by her ship the Razor's Edge (a Maquis Heavy Raider).

Quentin was put in charge of an away team, consistening of Messers DeBarres, Wilde, and R'Ariel, with the goal of facilitating the evacuation as well as rounding up any stragglers from the ships that were no longer spaceworthy. However, this delicate work was interuppted by a massive Corporate ship, the return of the Razor's Edge, and a new accelerated time frame for the Corporate's moving on Theta 122. They now had only minutes, instead of hours. Shuttling to the surface, Quentin and his team caught a lucky break. Evacuation efforts had already been largely underway, bouyed by the Arrow's contact with the base and it's staffing.  

It is of the opinion of these programs that Quentin Collins continues to acquit himself as a capable field officer and effective Command presence in tight situations. However it is also the opinion of these programs that Quentin Collins increasingly displays a willful disregard of his own wellbeing and mental stability, usually to "protect" his fellow crewmembers. This sort of brazen selflessness will presumably lead to Quentin either being injured grievously or even killed. It is of the opinions of these programs that he must foster a healthy distance from his subordanates in order to ensure his own well being and continued existence.  

Collins' next mission would find him at the head of a Second Contact effort. The Venthians, a race long beset by wars and destruction and having applied for membership into the Federation, were to play host to the Arrow and her crew. The planet here recently had also undergone vast upward shifts in their technological capabilities. Shifts that would need to be further explored and explained in order to ratify their inculsion into the Federation.

Their hosts also allowed them to look upon their technology's earlier incarnations as well, whisking them to a meeting hall laiden with their former tech and items from Venthis' past. But Quentin became concerned when he and his team scanned the Tower's energy output, spiking well beyond established and even known parameters. When Quentin pushed Alios to explain, they were then introduced to the Venthis Miracle. A colloquial term for the deadly Omega Particle; the very source of Venthis' unexplainable leap in technology.

But before Quentin could wrestle with the discovery, he and Reagan Wilde suddenly took ill! Displaying severe signs of radiation poisioning!  

After a quick beam up into a quarantined and locked down Sickbay, Quentin and his team were faced with a whole new problem. It seemed that Quentin and Regan weren't experiencing radiation poisonings. But instead a locally applied poision, introduced into their systems via some other means. They would get their answers soon enough as Venthian Militants, working from the Southern hemisphere of the planet below, made themselves known, attacking both the surface and inside the ship in a coordinated effort to steal Feren Industries' control of the Omega Moelcule.  

One of the Militants had even gotten himself beamed into Sickbay, fooling the ship's sensors with his own altered body chemistry in order to hopefully see through their multi-pronged plan. This caused a tense standoff in the Bay, as the Militant named Mathias took one of the Medical Staff hostage. CONT...