Msafiri Bakari
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 Criminal Investigator Deep Space 10 
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| Aboard the Mercury and DSX About the Writer |
Msafiri Bakari is a criminal investigator with Starfleet Security currently assigned to the Deep Space 10. He previously served in the security department of Deep Space 17 from 2385 to 2390 and was the highest ranking survivor of the Vaadwaur Occupation of 2387. After DS17's recapture by Starfleet later that year through Operation Bright Star, he briefly served as the station's acting commanding officer. He then served as chief of security and second officer until his reassignment to DSX in 2390.
Starfleet Career
Tone/VoiceBakari is a man who, after his time spent during the Vaadwaur Occupation, has little patience for being anything less than direct. He once told his friend Ayelet Kadosh that "patience is a virtue, and I harbor few of those these days." This directness can come off as aggressive, but he is fair in his treatment of others and fiercely protective of those under his command, especially his fellow Federation resistance comrades.
Friends and Notable ColleaguesDeep Space 17See also: Members of the Federation Resistance during the Vaadwaur Occupation
USS Mercury
Msafiri Bakari was born on 236003.13 in Colony 1 of the Martian colonies. He attended Starfleet Academy in 2378 before receiving his first assignment to the USS Tempest in 2382 as a security officer. He was then assigned to Deep Space 17 in 2385.
Bakari was still a low ranking security officer when the Vaadwaur captured the station in 2387. After the attack and occupation of the station, then-Lieutenant Junior Grade Bakari became the senior officer on the station, a "promotion" that involved witnessing many of his superior officers--his teachers, mentors, and friends--killed or worse. Along with a handful of other surviving Federation personnel, Bakari hid and planned an insurgency. Week by week, they did their best to stall the Vaadwaur's progress, but they were outnumbered and outmatched. Among those whom he saved was Ayelet Kadosh, a nurse who would become a close friend of his. He promised the survivors that they would not be abandoned, but two months into the occupation, he confided to Kadosh one night that he felt Starfleet had abandoned them all to face death alone. Post-Vaadwaur OccupationAfter Starfleet retook Deep Space 17 through Operation Bright Star, Bakari was named acting station commanding officer, and most of the DS17 survivors slowly became reacquainted with how things worked again in an ordered Starfleet. Kadosh noticed, however, that Bakari seemed increasingly agitated as that sense of order was rebuilt on the station. That agitation had been building up especially after word had quickly spread throughout the station that the senior staff of the docked USS Independence-A was to take over most of the station's leadership positions. Bakari briefly clashed with Marine Captain Alexandria Somers and her marines from the Independence on SD 238711.18 as the two faced a civilian demonstration against the presence of the remaining Vaadwaur on the station. The crowd on the station's promenade were quickly swept into a riot that required a response from the combined efforts of station security and the Independence marines. During this situation, Bakari took note of the attention Somers paid to his concerns regarding the use of an aggressive stance towards the protesters, most of whom, like Bakari and his security staff, were survivors from the Vaadwaur occupation. Shortly afterwards, a promotion and commendations for Bakari were finally approved after Starfleet had finished the processing of personnel records from Operation Bright Star. He was promoted to the rank of full lieutenant in recognition of his actions during the Vaadwaur occupation and subsequent leadership of the station's crew in the aftermath. Although offered the chance to become part of the station's command staff as DS17's second officer, Bakari initially declined, choosing to remain among his Starfleet security brethren as the station's chief of security. On 238809.01, nearly one year after the end of the Vaadwaur Occuption, Bakari was again offered the position of second officer with a promotion to lieutenant commander. He accepted with the condition that he remain chief of security. In late 2388, months after Bakari had sent in the nominations, he and the surviving Federation resistance members were invited to attend a ceremony in Paris, Earth, where the Federation President was to award the late Staff Sergeant Jennifer Brockton and Corporal Tashaun James with the Medal of Honor. Notable SIMs
In 2390, Bakari was reassigned to the USS Mercury and Deep Space 10 as part of Starfleet Security's Criminal Investigative Division. Notable SIM
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