Jackford Kolk/Mission Summaries: Difference between revisions

** When a small team of Cardassians infiltrate the ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|Ronin]]'' hires the rest of the mercenaries to help them retrieve their crew and clean up the mess.

=='''"Pirates & Hotheads"'''==

** 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, Idril|Mar]] decides to take a pair of runabouts to investigate the subspace disturbance while Lt. Cmdr. [[Walker, Benjamin J.|Walker]] takes the ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|Ronin]]'' crew relatively unscathed, it also gives a reluctant pirate, [[Devereaux, Alandra|Alandra Devereaux]] a chance to seek assylum with the Starfleet crew and start a new life. Meanwhile, the ''[[USS Ronin|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, Benjamin J.|Walker]] orders the ''[[USS Ronin|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 ''[[USS Ronin|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.