John Kendrick
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| John Kendrick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Security Officer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Lieutenant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Species | Human | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gender | Male | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOB | 237508.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Age | 26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthplace | Kendrick’s Palace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer ID | J239801JK3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lieutenant John Kendrick is currently serving as a Chief of Security and Tactical on Denali Station.
Appearance
Physical
- Height: 1.8m
- Weight: 72kg
- Hair: Dark Brown
- Eyes: Blue
- Build: Athletic
Background
FAMILY BACKGROUND
The Kendrick family are descendents of early 22nd century space boomers from Earth. With the Federation expanding further into the Alpha en Beta Quadrants, John’s grandfather felt that their rules and regulations were starting to hurt his trading business so in the mid 30s of the 24th century, he decided to build a hub outside of Federation controlled space to create his own personal business empire. This hub eventually grew out to become “Kendrick’s Palace”, the headquarters of the Universal Trading Company (UTC) which unites 47 independent freighters in search of business, trading and transport. The Palace is actually a four-armed space station in orbit of a blue gas giant in the Gath system.
Being the eldest son, John was expected to take over the company, just like his father before him. Unfortunately John had other plans for his life and decided he wanted to join Starfleet. That decision caused a rift between him and his family. A painful situation with which he struggles with up until today.
He left home at the age of 18 and traveled to Earth to study at Starfleet Academy.
ACADEMY YEARS
A Starfleet officer has the aura of a 24th century renaissance man or woman. The so-called miracle workers. In reality however, only a small percentage of officers graduating from the Academy are truly gifted to excel in just about everything. John falls in the category of those who, with limited talent but with hard work, managed to struggle their way through those four long years at the Academy. He followed the training course to become a Security officer, but took a minor in Tactical. He believed that, as a Security officer aboard a starship, he’d have front row seats when it came to first contact missions or diplomatic conferences. He joined Starfleet to explore the galaxy, not to sit behind the helm controls all day or down in engineering. At the age of 12, he got his first shuttlepod as a present from his father. So at an early age, he was already familiar with the basics of a warp engine and had the opportunity to hone his skills as a pilot. He had little or no interest in the so-called hard sciences and needed the help of his best friend, Gabriella Morientes, to pass those tests at the Academy. Because of his excellent marksmanship at the phaser range, his fellow cadets nicknamed him Hawkeye Kendrick.
USS JUNEAU
After graduating from the Academy on stardate 239801.03, he was assigned to the USS Juneau NX-99801 - the first Starfleet vessel to be equipped with a Warp VX engine - as a Security officer. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant JG on stardate 239806.25 after their mission to the planet Aturn VII. Another promotion followed three months later, on stardate 239809.18. The peak of his young career followed on stardate 239811.19 when Captain Oddas appointed him as acting Chief of Security and Tactical. On stardate 239905.08 his position was made permanent.
THE WANDERER INCIDENT
While visiting Lightside Station during his shore leave after their mission to Ring 42 (239808), John had an unexpected encounter with the crew of The Wanderer - a freighter in service of his father’s transport company. As their Captain - Hennessey - offered John a tour of the ship, they discovered that their shipment of valuable honey from a place called Butterfly City had been stolen. Apparently transport companies or freighters that did business on the station for the first time, were more likely to be filing reports on missing cargo. John was surprised that station authorities referred to it as ‘missing’ instead of ‘stolen’ cargo, but it didn't take a genius to figure out why. The station’s reputation was at stake - or that of the port authority, to be more precise. Only in a handful of cases were the authorities able to locate the so-called missing cargo. Word was that in those cases the freighter captains were blackmailed to pay huge amounts of credits to get their cargo back . With the authorities unable - or unwilling - to help, John decided to aid the crew of The Wanderer to get their stolen cargo back. Their journey led them to the fifth moon of Orstand III (Orsung) where they found their stolen cargo in a warehouse located in the center of a Balerian settlement. In an attempt to avoid bloodshed, John offered the Balerian leader named Orzuc a trade: Wanderer’s shipment of honey in exchange for John’s ancient chronowatch (a gift from his father’s Ferengi bookkeeper, named Wren). The Balerians agreed and after the exchange, The Wanderer set course back for Lightside Station.
THE DEATH OF MARTUF
Martuf - a Kalinda, the species that built the Lightside Station ages ago - worked for the port authorities aboard the Spike. To maintain his luxurious lifestyle and pay off his many gambling debts, he sold information to a criminal syndicate on the comings and goings of freighters with interesting cargo and made sure that any complaints of those same freighters got buried in the thousands of reports and files that were entered into the system each day. This little neat arrangement had benefited him for years. That was until his encounter with John Kendrick and Moa Andersson, The Wanderer’s first mate and pilot. They kidnapped Martuf and brought him back aboard The Wanderer in a crate for interrogation. After he revealed everything they needed to know to retrieve their stolen cargo, they put him back to sleep and inside the crate and beamed him back over to his quarters on Lightside Station. After twelve hours the effects of sedatives would wear off. As he woke up from his long nap, Martuf would be able to unlock the crate from the inside. For some unknown reason, Martuf wasn’t able to open up the crate and died. The authorities concluded it was probably suicide as the man had a lot of outstanding debts. As John learned about the death of Martuf, shortly after his promotion to Lieutenant, it threw him into a crisis of conscience. Convincing himself that there might be a slight possibility that he wasn’t responsible for his death (Martuf was a criminal and most likely had more enemies than one), he decided to keep quiet until the initial shock subsided and he could look at things more clearly. In the end however, it was just an excuse to avoid taking responsibility. The events still weigh heavily upon him, casting a shadow on both his life and career.
T’LEA
During their mission to Aturn VII, John, together with Lieutenant-Commander T’Lea and Doctor Rel, were taken prisoner by the Ferengi DaiMon named KayBay and beamed to the Golden Feather. In the DaiMon’s brig, Commander T’Lea devised a plan to escape, using a faux Vulcan nerve pinch on both John and Doctor Rel. Suffering from the early effects of Pon Farr, T’Lea’s emotions seeped through into John’s unconsciousness, thus creating a bond between the two of them. Three months later, during their shore leave, John was traveling aboard The Wanderer when he received a holo-message from T’Lea. Apparently she had tracked down the murderer of her mother, a Cardassian woman named Dal Selta. Fearing that she might get killed and that Dal would escape, T'Lea asked John to follow her to the planet Phorth to help her capture the Dal. Arriving at Phorth, John beamed over to the planet's surface, only to find T’Lea and two other Romulans: T’Lea’s mother Raivus and a man named Ajen. As John laid eyes upon T’Lea, he felt a deep longing for her he could barely keep under control. As the four of them were beamed back aboard the cargo bay of The Wanderer, John soon found himself in a hand-to-hand combat with Ajen, the so-called Kal-if-fee. The Romulan was much stronger than him and as he was thrown down on his back, ready to receive the final blow, his opponent was stunned by a shot fired at his chest - courtesy of Moa. As T’Lea tended to John’s wounds in sickbay, both eventually gave in to their deep longing for each other and mated to satisfy the hunger of Pon Farr. As The Wanderer returned to Lightside Station, Raivus was handed over to Starfleet Intelligence. Ajen however was released since there was no warrant out against him. Afterwards T’Lea and John parted ways, without ever really talking about what happened.
Service History
Starfleet Service Record
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Missions & Shore Leaves
- Visitors in the Night (239801.10 – 239802.19)
- The crew of the USS Juneau is investigating a black hole circling a quasar, when probes pick up evidence of a derelict vessel on the verge of being pulled in. Closer inspection shows it to be a pair of vessels, a large vessel of unknown origin and a smaller but still large Mithgiln vessel.
- Shore Leave (239802.20 – 239803.12)
- John visits Lightside Station for the first time and goes to Fusion Haven where he chooses to take a mud bath to relax a little bit after his first mission aboard the Juneau. Unfortunately his day out to the spa is suddenly interrupted as Captain Han contacts him, informing him about the disappearance of both doctor Indobri and science officer T’Lea. John joins the SAR-mission to Orstand III to find their missing crew members.
- The Brave Ferengi (239803.13 – 239805.22)
- The Jem'Hadar found a new home on Aturn VII, a planet claimed by the Ferengi DaiMon Kaybay. Captain Oddas is called upon by First Bekanar’Klan to mediate a peaceful resolution.
- Shore Leave (239805.23 – 239806.26)
- After another intense mission, John is debriefed by First Officer Iovianus. After that he joins a training session at the phaser range aboard Juneau, organized by Major Han. Showing off his skills as an excellent marksman, Lieutenant JG Silveira nicknames him Bullseye Kendrick. He also attends a counseling session with Counselor Tierney, discussing his difficult relationship with his family. Before the Awards Ceremony he meets up with Commander Williams from Starfleet Intelligence, who just recently transferred to the ship, to discuss how they could improve the ship’s sensor internal sensors to detect weapons that can’t be filtered out by the ship’s transporter.
- Return to the Ring (239806.27 – 239808.20)
- Captain Melchor of the USS Grace Hopper contacts the USS Juneau after their Away Team has gone missing on Ring 42 in the Dialran system.
- Shore Leave (239808.21 – 239809.21)
- While visiting Lightside Station, John has an unexpected encounter with the crew of The Wanderer – a freighter in service of his father’s transport company. As their Captain - Hennessey - offers John a tour of the ship, they discover that their cargo has been stolen. With no help from the authorities, John decides to help the crew get their stolen cargo back. Their journey leads them to the fifth moon of Orstand III (Orsung) where they find their stolen cargo in a warehouse located in the center of a Balerian settlement. In an attempt to avoid bloodshed, John offers the Balerian leader named Orzuc a trade: Wanderer’s shipment of honey in exchange for an ancient chronowatch. The Balerians agree and after The Wanderer sets course back for Lightside Station, John receives an urgent message from Lieutenant-Commander T’Lea. Realizing her life is in danger, John asks Hennessey to alter course for the planet Phorth. Once there, they beam the Commander aboard – together with her mother (Raivus) and a Romulan male named Ajen. John suddenly finds himself fighting for the right to mate with T’Lea – the ancient Vulcan ritual of Kal-If-Fee. After he’s knocked down by Ajen and is about to lose the fight, Ajen is stunned down by Moa, ultimately making John the winner. As they conclude the ritual of Pon Farr, John is left with more questions than answers. Are they in a relationship now?
- The Pied Piper (239809.22 – 239810.22)
- After successfully concluding the peace process between the Caglan and the Zik, the Juneau sets course for nebula DE-678912 - dubbed the Dirty Elbow Nebulae by the locals - after receiving a distress call from an old Cardassian listening post, claiming Nauscican pirates are targeting transport vessels in one of the most prominent trading routes in the Aavaro Wilds.
- Shore Leave (239810.23 – 239811.21)
- John and Intelligence Officer, Commander Williams, join Commander T’Lea on an archaeological expedition deep in the jungle of Hendrikspool on Bajor. They accidentally meet up with Science Officer Ensign Falt and his father Erik, who were on a camping trip, and continue their journey through the jungle. Their search for a crashed Cardassian transport vessel some eighty years ago, at the beginning of the occupation, eventually leads to the discovery of a settlement of the survivors - all followers of the Oralian Way. T’Lea manages to convince their Bajoran protector, Vedek Re, to return to the civilized world to treat his medical condition.
- The Silent Monster (239811.22 – 239901.02)
- As the Juneau is surveying the planet Anadasa, an M-class world inhabited by a pre-industrialized civilization, the Tactical Department detects a crashed Borg ship deep within the planet’s ocean.
- Shore Leave (239901.03 – 239902.15)
- As Juneau arrives at Ring 42 to help the crew of the Grace Hopper with the construction of their research facilities, John spends his free hours reading and analysing padds upon padds on Security and Tactical procedures to improve his skills. His study is interrupted by Commander Qinn’s request to join Engineering officer Velehk Careno and Ensign Thand – one of the Grace Hopper’s linguists – to explore one of the ancient labs they discovered on Ring 42. As three of them try to make sense of the installations inside the lab, they accidently activate one of the devices and are shifted out of phase with normal space. Unable to contact their ships, they start exploring the lab until they stumble upon what looks like a turbolift car, octagonal shaped, but without a door. They conclude it is some kind of teleportation device. Ensign Thand is able to figure out its mechanics and realizes it’s a device built to transfer people in and out of phase. Relieved to have found a way out, he three of them step onto the pad and activate the machine to return to normal space.
- Special Mission (LOA 239902.16 - 239903.18)
- After the Awards Ceremony aboard Juneau, John receives an urgent call from Starfleet Command. Apparently Command wants him to join the security detail of a Federation diplomatic mission to the Kalari Republic. Starfleet has only recently made first contact with this reptilian race, but his family’s company - the Universal Trading Company - already established a trade route deep into Kalari space years ago, which means Starfleet believes John’s knowledge of the Kalari could prove to be invaluable to the success of their mission. Unfortunately - as John had tried to warn them beforehand - the Kalari weren’t interested in any real diplomatic relationship with the Federation. To them, the Federation and - according to their propaganda - its military instrument, Starfleet, was a virus that infected the galaxy, imposing their rules and values on other civilizations.
- Finders Keepers (239903.19 - 239904.19)
- Returning to Juneau after his special mission for Starfleet, John finds the ship and crew in the middle of a mission to retrieve an ancient artifact, stolen from the Grace Hopper by a group of pirates. Deep inside an asteroid field in the Xurov system, out of nowhere, a Cardassian freighter appears and it's on a ramming course towards Juneau. Barely able to deflect the attack, John and Major Leix are ordered to beam over to the vessel to further investigate the incident. Aboard the freighter they learn it was a group of pirates who had manipulated the ship's computer to set a course for Juneau, leaving its crew behind as bait. Leix and John manage to rescue the freighter's crew before life support fails.
- Shore Leave (239904.20 - 239906.14)
During shore leave John, together with the rest of the senior crew, makes the transfer to Denali Station and works 26/7 to set up their offices at Soldotna.
- A Web Unbound (239906.15 - 239907.31)
- John joins Commander Qinn’s team as they investigate a Spire on the far edge of the city that had previously been inaccessible but has suddenly opened the door for the new residents of the City. After entering the tower, they find themselves shut in. The crew figures out the tower’s original purpose, namely to serve as some kind of automated maintenance center for the city. Its systems, however, have been degraded after centuries of disuse and lack of maintenance. Establishing communications with the robotic avatar of the AI that runs the facility, the crew assures the system they would help it repair itself. Seemingly satisfied to have new occupants to communicate with, the tower allows the team to leave and return to Denali Station.
- Shore Leave (239908.01 - )
- As shore leave starts, the staff of Denali Station welcomes a new influx of Starfleet officers. John meets one of his new Security officers, Ensign Barric, and unexpectedly has to stand in as examiner for the phaser recertification of officers T’Lea and Yael.
Notable Sims
Denali Station Crew
NPC Listing · Denali Station Crew Manifest · Crew History
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