Robert Whitney: Difference between revisions

His first posting following graduation was as Assistant Chief Engineering Officer aboard the USS Freedom-A. The USS Freedom-A was acting as an experimental testbed for a new shield technology referred to as the “Wall of Light.” Despite Robert’s efforts to overcome some of the flaws in the “Wall of Light” design, the Freedom-A was lost to another dimension.   

With the loss of the Freedom-A, Robert was transferred and promoted to Chief Engineering Officer aboard the USS Caledonia.  While on the Caledonia’s first mission, Robert was taken prisoner by the Cardassians and impersonated by a Founder. Soon, the Maquis and his brother Eric rescued him. Robert continued to take part in several important missions and eventually obtained the rank of full Lieutenant.  

While the clone took Robert’s place on the Caledonia, the real Robert was discovered barely alive by an elderly smuggler who resided on the Devil’s Planet. The smuggler nursed Robert back to health and took care of him. The smuggler, whose name was Laro, died six months later of a disease he had been living with for years. Robert took Laro to the caverns to bury him when he encountered Starfleet personnel from the USS Nemesis and USS Indria-A.  He soon learned that his clone was dead and that the crew of the Indria-A were mostly former crewmates from the Caledonia.  Captain Valarious McGregor reinstated Robert as Chief Engineering Officer aboard the Indria-A with the rank of Lieutenant Commander.  

Shorty thereafter, Robert was transferred to the USS Wallace where he was posted as Chief Engineering Officer. During a routine patrol by the Wallace, former Captain Willard Decker appeared aboard the bridge. Decker was the leader of a Borg faction from the machine planet where V’Ger was created. These Borg assimilated Robert, renamed him “Peregrinus,” and used his knowledge to attack the Wallace. This Borg faction was operating from a small moon where members of the Wallace crew arrived by shuttlecraft and rescued Robert. Being convinced by the Wallace crew that assimilation was not necessary to achieve his goals, Decker and his Borg faction left for parts unknown.