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- 3,The Vanguard Chronicles
- 4,by Stuart Mackaness
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- STAR TREK: THE VANGUARD CHRONICLES
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- This series of stories covers the voyages of the starship Vanguard.
- They are set in the 24th century and so are in the TNG/DS9/VOYAGER
- timeline. The crew are not quite the same as the seemingly faultless
- Next Generation cast and are in some respects more in the DS9 mold.
- The information below was acurate in the year 2370 (TNG season 7).
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- USS VANGUARD NCC 47201 - Excelsior class
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- The vessel of the series. An immense history behind her and has taken
- part in almost every significant event since the Khitomer conference
- (ST:VI). Built shortly after the Enterprise-B she serves Starfleet in
- the same role as she did nearly eighty years ago.
-
- Captain Jonathan Warner
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- Commanding officer of the Vanguard. A human with over twenty years of
- service in the fleet. He has been in command of the ship for two
- years but is beginning to have doubts as to the direction of his
- career. He was once married, but his wife died and he hasn't felt
- comfortable around women when they aren't on duty. He is also aware
- that Starfleet intends his tenure as captain of the Vanguard to be
- the ship's last before retirement.
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- Commander Lyrinda Halk
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- Human executive officer of the ship. She was once captain of the deep
- space vessel Marco Polo but an event occured in 2368 which involved
- her demotion to commander and the scrapping of her ship. She is
- certainly bitter about the experience and the way that Starfleet has
- treated her. There may be some resentment towards her new commanding
- officer, whether she acts on it or not has yet to be seen. She has
- had a romantic history with her childhood friend William Riker from
- their hometown in Alaska.
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- Lieutenant Commander Karma
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- Head of ship's operations and also the third in command. Karma is a
- Farenoid and is only a foot high. This, coupled with her elfin
- features and inate telekenetic ability has given her nickname of 'The
- Fairy'. She certainly resents this and also has a fiery temper. Were
- it not for her almost unbelievibly versitile mind and ease in the
- field of science she would not have graduated from the academy. Karma
- is the last of her race as the normally xenophobic Farenoids were
- made extinct when their sun went nova and vapourised their homeworld.
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- Chief Medical Officer, Lieutenant Commander Li Levitt
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- Once a doctor in the Bajoran underground, he joined Starfleet at a
- late age. From the same class as Captain Warner, the two are firm
- friends. Lacking the bedside manner of Beverly Crusher and the
- youthful enthusiasm of Julian Bashir, Li can sometimes be seen as
- heartless. His friends know differently though. This does not stop
- him alienating people, notably Karma, although she has her own
- reasons.
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- Counselor, Lieutenant Natasha Reboxski
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- Being Human, she feels she has less to offer her captain than other
- counselors do with empathic or telepathic abilities. She has little
- to do aboard the ship as there are few families in the harsh
- environment. The Russian finds it hard to communicate with the
- command crew as many of them have dark pasts they would rather
- forget. Instead she repeatedly finds herself off the ship attending
- conferences and seminars at various locations throughout the
- Federation.
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- Chief of Security, Lieutenant Macha Hermandez
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- Hispanic tactical officer. Friendly to those she knows, highly
- suspicious of those she doesn't, Macha makes an excellent security
- officer. Loyal to her captain, yet wary of strangers. Definately not
- command material as she usually forgets her responsibilities in the
- heat of battle. She has noticed Lieutenant Dean's interest in her and
- is unsure how serious he is. For all her outward bravado she is very
- vunerable to her feminine emotions.
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- Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Gart
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- A Tellarite with a sense of humour, a rare thing indeed. Stout both
- phisically and mentally, he is fond of both his food and drink. Gart
- is only at peace with his engines. Naturally prefers Warner not to
- burn out the nacelles too often, Gart still loves repairing things.
- He is also an opportunist and will turn anything to his advataage. In
- some ways he could be an fat, hairy Ferengi.
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- Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Robert Dean
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- Young, observant and definatly a ladies man. Dean initally imagined
- his assignment as the Vanguard's helmsman as a chance to stay with
- the opposite sex in an enclosed environment. Rapidly brought down to
- earth by Commander Halk, he respects all of the command crew and sees
- the women as senior officers and so well out of his leauge. Secretly
- thinks he may be in with a chance with Hermandez although she is
- uneasy about him.
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