Jackford Kolk: Difference between revisions

** Endowed with the turmoil of an almost completely reshuffled crew roster, the ''[[USS Ronin]]'' departs [[Deep Space 17]] with half of her senior staff replaced with that of the ''[[USS Independence-A]]'' and sets off for the pre-warp world of [[Layte]] to attempt to undo the damage recently done there by [[Shepard, Jack|Lt.J.G. Shepard]] whose shuttle had crashed there almost a year before. En route, the crew bickers during two painfully tumultuous staff meetings but somehow manages to come up with a plan to remove the Federation technology still on the planet without being caught by the locals. Before arriving in the system, they are notified of the shuttle's self-destruct mechanism activating, presumably due to [[Shepard, Jack|Shepard's]] attempting to arm it prior to its crashing on the planet. Arriving in the system, they deceive the locals' primitive satellite defense grid, bolster a storm on the surface, and sneak in aboard another shuttle. Meanwhile on the ''[[USS Ronin|Ronin]]'', something unleashes Trellium into the life-support systems, causing most of the Vulcan population to lose emotional control. The crew isolated and sedates them rapidly, and continue monitoring the situation on the surface. Due to the fact that [[Layte]] is apparently constantly within a temporal distortion that causes their world to experience time at a rate 7 times faster than the rest of the universe, the ship is faced with the problem of conflicting temporal fields in orbit. One of which passes through Lt. Kolk and knocks him unconscious. On the surface, [[Shepard, Jack|Lt.J.G. Shepard]] infiltrates the government compound where his downed shuttle is being held only to struck down by a local illness that he neglected to inform the rest of the crew about. [[Wood, Daniel|Lt. Wood]] disables the shuttle's self destruct and wipes its memory banks while [[Shepard, Jack|Shepard's]] Laytean wife is called in to tend to her husband. [[Wilde, Danny|LtCmdr. Wilde]] removes the Shepards from the government medical facility, leaving evidence that they were killed in the explosion that he soon causes, and the away team retreats to their shuttle. Inside the compound, international tensions lead to a suicide bombing of the [[Shepard, Jack|Shepard's]] shuttle, which finally removes the last bit of Federation technology on the planet surface. Both the [[USS Ronin|Ronin]] and the away team discover some vague evidence that Tholians might've crashed on the planet prior to [[Shepard, Jack|Shepard's]] arrival, but when or where is unclear. Satisfied that all that can be done has been done, [[Walker, Benjamin|Cmdr. Walker]] returns the ship to [[Deep Space 17|DS17]] for shoreleave.