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Captain T’Kal
Name T’Kal
Position Commanding Officer
Rank Captain
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Vulcan | |
| Age | 78 (14 February 2212) |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5’ 9” | |
| Weight | 150 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Green | |
| Physical Description | T’Kal is of average height for a Vulcan woman. Though her career has always been one that used her mind over her body, she has made personal fitness a priority in her life. As a result, her physique is trim. She puts a lot of energy into her appearance, in part because it plays a role in diplomacy, but also due to vanity, a rare trait in Vulcans. |
Family
| Spouse | Sten (70) | |
| Children | None | |
| Father | Von (118) | |
| Mother | T’Mir (deceased) | |
| Brother(s) | None | |
| Sister(s) | Solan (71), T’Para (64) | |
| Other Family | Nir (father’s eldest sister and family matriarch, 139) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Logical but appreciates the perspectives of her more emotionally inclined crewmembers. Social at her core. Needs to be around others. Isolation is death. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | +Friendly +Social +Expert diplomat +Skilled artist -Does not cope well with isolation or loneliness -Does not sleep well -Misses her sisters -Could be better at combat (starship and personal) -Vain |
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| Ambitions | Command of a Starfleet ship has been an ambition of hers since the signing of the Organian Peace Treaty. As a former civilian diplomat, she hopes that her efforts aboard the Ark Royal will help bring new planets into the fold and prevent aggression from the Klingons. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | T’Kal is more social than a stereotypical Vulcan. Her career in the Federation Foreign Office required a significant amount of social interaction with alien races both Federation and not. Rather than stay isolated within Federation compounds on other worlds, T’Kal embraced that element of diplomacy. She would prefer to spend time with others than alone. T’Kal finds art very soothing, and she draws as a form of meditation. She keeps a large book of paper in her cabin (which she takes on shore leave) and a small notebook that she keeps on her person at all times. |
| Personal History | T’Kal was born on the Vulcan/Andorian colony on the planet Weytahn in the Earth year 2212. Her parents, both engineers, were among the first children born on the world after peace with the Andorians was reached. T’Kal and her sisters grew up on a multicultural planet, far from the ancestral homeland where logic extremists and Vulcan purists were gaining influence. When she was fifteen, a group of purists attacked a spaceport on Weytahn (their official claim of responsibility referred to it by its old Vulcan name, Paan Mokar), and her mother was killed in the attack. T’Kal was devastated by the loss, and she wondered how she might play a role in preventing such division and violence in the future. After finishing her formal education, T’Kal entered the Vulcan Academy of Political Science, where she studied interstellar politics and diplomacy with foreign powers. Her thesis was an analysis of the likeliest scenario to occur when the borders of the Federation and Klingon Empire fully pushed against each other. Doctorate and ten years of education behind her, she began working with the Federation Foreign Ministry. First, however, she experienced her first Pon Farr, later in life than many, and was bonded with Sten, the son of a family from Vulcan with whom her aunt (the family matriarch) sought an improved relationship. Despite their apparent compatibility according those who paired them, T’Kal and Sten did not work well together, and therefore only saw each other every seven years. She spent years as a Desk Officer on the Klingon file before spending time at the Federation Embassy on Qo’noS. She then became an expert on First Contact protocols, updating the guidance instructions given to science and military vessels. After spending time at the embassy on newly-contacted Betazed, she returned to Earth when the war against the Klingons began. T’Kal became one of several team leads on the Klingon Task Force, aimed at finding diplomatic options at ending the war, or failing that, aiding the Federation. Her team had helped organize the meeting the Federation and two of the Klingon Great Houses on Cancri IV, which the Klingons used as a ruse to take hostages, resulting in the deaths of several Cancri elders. She advocated for the Federation issuing a formal apology to Cancri IV. The Task Force was disbanded after the war ended, and T’Kal was offered a senior position at the newly-reopened Federation Embassy. After two years on Qo’noS, she became fascinated by the good work being done by Starfleet. Her own work had been helpful to the cause of peace and prosperity, but she rarely saw the outcomes. In 2259 she formally resigned from the Foreign Ministry and enrolled in Starfleet Academy. She trained to become a first contact specialist and treaty expert, knowing also that her experience in the Foreign Ministry would be an asset to any Captain. Upon graduation, she was assigned a position on the survey vessel USS Leipzig NCC-4320 (Larson class). The role of a first contact and diplomatic specialist being somewhat undefined on most starships, she had a hard time finding her place on many early ships. In 2265 she returned to the Academy to take additional training in starship operations, learning to be an expert navigator and earning her place on the bridge. She returned to active duty as Chief Navigator aboard USS Georgia NCC-1822 (Miranda class) in April 2267, just in time to experience war for herself. She was at the navigation console when four Klingon D7s and a handful of smaller ships attacked Starbase 27 in the Tir Kapov system. Alongside a handful of other Starfleet ships, they fought the Klingon fleet to a standstill over the course of dozens of hours, feinting, striking, and withdrawing through the system’s various asteroid belts and planetary rings. On day four, all of a sudden weapons controls were hot to the touch, making them impossible to operate even for a disciplined Vulcan such as herself. Her Captain, concerned that the Klingons would attack the civilian population of Tir Kapov with impunity, ordered a ram attack, but the helm was also unusable. The Klingons, however, stopped their attacks as well, arbitrarily, as if the same force preventing their attacks also affected their enemy. T’Kal would later learn the role played by a civilization of omnipotent noncorporeal beings in enforcing galactic peace and imposing the Organian Peace Treaty. The Georgia would spend the next six years patrolling the Neutral Zone and escorting supply ships to colonies in the development area. T’Kal would spend the first of those years in close consultation with old colleagues from the Foreign Ministry and became an expert in the treaty. Her skills and advice were particularly useful during their periodic interactions with Klingon ships, keeping the Georgia in compliance with interstellar law while countering (or at minimum documenting) Klingon treaty violations. In the last year of her tour, she’d been given the rank of Lieutenant and was made the ship’s Second Officer. In 2273, most of the crew of the Georgia were transferred to USS Renown NCC-1870 (Refit Miranda class) to continue their patrol, development, and survey duties along the Klingon border. Occasionally they would be diverted to the Romulan frontier as well, though T’Kal’s diplomatic skills were limited in that area. In 2278 she was made the First Officer of the Renown, a position she would hold for the next eight years. She was with her Captain in the Ready Room watching a live feed of the Federation Council proceedings when Klingon Ambassador Kamarag dueled verbally with Sarek. The Klingon promise that there would be no peace resonated with her. She took her leave from the Renown and took a position at Starfleet Command, leading a team which would identify threats of war and develop plans to counter them, diplomatically or militarily. In early 2290, intelligence reports submitted to her unit revealed the likeliness that Klingon military scientists were developing some new kind of weapon of mass destruction, likely at a facility somewhere in Sector 262. She wrote the recommendation to increase Starfleet presence in that area of space, to support development in the region, show the flag, and investigate what was happening in Klingon space. And so in May of that year she was promoted to Captain and given command of the refit Constitution class ship USS Ark Royal NCC-1791. |
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| Service Record | 2230-2234: Undergraduate Student, Vulcan Academy of Political Science, Vulcan 2234-2240: Graduate Student, Vulcan Academy of Political Science, Vulcan 2240-2243: Desk Officer responsible for Klingon Politics, Federation Foreign Ministry, Earth 2243-2247: Junior Political Officer, Embassy of the United Federation of Planets to the Klingon Empire, Qo’noS 2247-2252: Desk Officer responsible for First Contact Operations, Federation Foreign Ministry, Earth 2252-2256: Senior Political Officer, Embassy of the United Federation of Planets to the Republic of Betazed 2256-2257: Klingon Task Force, Federation Foreign Ministry, Earth 2257-2259: Senior Political Officer, Embassy of the United Federation of Planets to the Klingon Empire, Qo’noS ** 2259-2262: Cadet, Starfleet Academy, Earth 2262-2265: First Contact Specialist / Treaty Expert, USS Leipzig NCC-4320 (Ensign) 2265-2267: Advanced Starship Operations Training, Starfleet Academy (Lieutenant jg) 2267-2272: Chief Navigation Officer, USS Georgia NCC-1822 (Lieutenant jg) 2272-2273: Chief Navigation Officer and Second Officer, USS Georgia (Lieutenant) 2273-2276: Chief Navigation Officer and Second Officer, USS Renown (Lieutenant) 2276-2278: Chief Navigation Officer and Second Officer, USS Renown (Lieutenant Commander) 2278-2281: Chief Navigation Officer and First Officer, USS Renown (Lieutenant Commander) 2281-2286: Chief Navigation Officer and First Officer, USS Renown (Commander) 2286-2290: Senior Advisor, Starfleet Command, Earth (Commander) 2290-present: Commanding Officer, USS Ark Royal (Captain) |