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Turock T'Kill

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(Matt Morris)  Turock T’Kill is a Romulan/Human hybrid born on Romulus on May 30, 2320.  T’Kill is the son of Starfleetofficer Michael T. Morris and a former Romulan commander who had fallen from grace after an incident involving Federation Constitution class starship Enterprise (NCC-1701) in 2268.  T’Kill is currently retired from the admiralty.

     One of Admiral T’Kill’s interests is watching or listening to old twentieth and twenty-first century Pittsburgh Steelers football games, an interest he had acquired while attending Starfleet Academy.

Origins and Early life:  Turock T’Kill was the offspring of Starfleet officer Captain Michael T. Morris, command officer of Federation Constitution class starship USS Endeavour (NCC-1895) and a Romulan officer who had once been a high ranking officer in the Romulan fleet, and fell from grace after an incident involving Federation Constitution class starship Enterprise (NCC-1701) on an espionage mission conducted by the Federation to obtain cloaking technology in 2268.

      On May 7, 2311, Captain Morris was ordered to the Tomed system with four other starships to engage Romulan forces.  His ship was severely damaged and boarded by the Romulans.  The Federation-class explorer Maximillian was destroyed and the four remaining vessels were severely damaged, and it was generally believed by the Federation that there had been no survivors among the five starships.

     Before Captain Morris could set the auto-destruct on Endeavor, the Romulans had already captured main engineering, the main bridge, and several key sections of the vessel.  Endeavor took heavy casualties, but Morris was among the some twenty-seven survivors left alive after the battle.  The survivors were taken to Romulus for interrogation, most of which were executed.  Turok’s mother, the commander of the prison camp in which Captain Morris was held, was still extremely bitter from her experience with the Enterprise some forty-three years ago, and her subsequent fall from grace with the Romulan Praetor, mated with Morris to spite the Federation.  Approximately a year later, she gave birth to young Turock in the capital city of Romulus.

     Turock had a standard Romulan upbringing, learning much about Romulan culture, civilization, history, and military tactics.  He did exceptionally well in school, and despite his lineage, was accepted into the Romulan Military Academy upon his twelfth birthday.  Because he was half human, he had to work exceptionally hard to prove his worth to his instructors and his classmates, and eventually become one of the best officer candidates in his class, ranking third upon his graduation class at eighteen years of age.  He spent many years aboard various Romulan warships, ranging from Birds-of-Prey to the Klingon D-7 starships traded many years ago during the ill-fated Romulan/Klingon Alliance to the early Romulan warbirds.  His service career was exceptional until one day in 2344, when prisoners of Federation Ambassador class starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-C), captured at Narendra III, were brought back to Romulus to be interrogated.  Captain Morris, though a reluctant citizen of Romulus, was still loyal to the Federation, and attempted to help the prisoners escape from Romulus, and was caught in the act.  Charged with treason for his actions, he was publicly executed.  Among the witnesses was the 24-year-old Turock, who, while witnessing the execution of his father, felt betrayed by the very government for which he served.  After a great deal of thought and consideration, Turock decided to defect from the Romulan fleet, and stowed away on board a Corvallen freighter bound for worlds within Federation territory.  Once within Federation space, he found transport to Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, where he requested and was granted asylum in exchange for intelligence on Romulan strength and activity.  He had expressed interest in joining Starfleet to follow in his late father’s footsteps.  Though his initial request met with great resistance, his conviction was eventually proven to be genuine, and as a result he was granted entrance into Starfleet Academy the following year.

Starfleet Career:  T’Kill’s entrance into the academy in 2345 was only part of the battle.  During his first year at the Academy, he met a Starfleet officer named Robert Lyon, then a lieutenant commander serving as an instructor in starfighter and starship combat and strategy tactics, who gave a lecture on what was then the top-of-the-line Warbird, first encountered at Tomed.  T’Kill blatantly countered him in class, saying that Lyon’s assessment of the Warbird was inaccurate.  Commander Lyon did not like being contradicted in class, especially by a first-year cadet.   It was simply never done.  When the lecture was over, Lyon asked T’Kill to report to his office.  Lyon found the cadet curious, and for hours they talked about the Romulans and their starship tactics and capabilities as well as T’Kill’s own background.  Lyon was truly fascinated  by the cadet, and recommended him for a position as his assistant.  Due to his heritage, many Starfleet officers and cadets serving at the Academy were suspicious of T’Kill’s heritage.  Lyon had been convinced that he was not a spy, and pushed hard to support the cadet throughout his career.

     Another individual among T’Kill’s few friends at the Academy was an unusual being he, along with most everyone at school including Commander Lyon, called “Blobbin” since his real name was long and hard to pronounce.  Cadet Blobbin had befriended him when he had few or no friends.  Blobbin did not know much about Romulans, but then again, Blobbin didn’t really care either.  Though these two did not serve together until 2369, they always kept in touch.

     During T’Kill’s second year at the Academy, he was assigned to tutor a first-year Bajoran cadet named Teela Amor in Romulan combat strategy.  He introduced Teela to Blobbin and she had already known Commander Lyon from her strategy and tactics class.

     T’Kill graduated from Starfleet Academy with the class of ’51, ranking second in his class.  Upon commissioning as an ensign, T’Kill was assigned to the fleet aboard Ambassador class starship Excalibur (NCC-26517) as tactical officer.  Excalibur was on Neutral Zone patrol along the Romulan/Federation border.  T’Kill’s knowledge of the Romulans’ deployment proved to be invaluable to Excalibur captain Emerson.  In 2353, T’Kill was promoted to lieutenant, junior grade.

     T’Kill served aboard Excalibur until 2355, when he was transferred to a ground assignment as a Starfleet consultant with the Starfleet Advisory Staff at the Federation Embassy on Betazed.  With this assignment, T’Kill was made a full lieutenant.

     On Betazed, T’Kill learned Federation diplomacy, which would open the doors to a possible command later on in his career.  T’Kill didn’t necessarily prefer ground assignments, but he did feel that his experience would further his career.

     After three years on Betazed, it was time for T’Kill to return to the fleet.  He was assigned to Alaska class starship Quasar (NCC-6669) as tactical officer, where he served in combat against the Tarellians and the Cardassians.

     In 2363, he received a request from his old friends at the Academy, Captain Lyon and Lieutenant Commander Blobbin for a transfer to their staff at Helium Ship Yards on Mars.  He accepted the offer and the transfer to Mars without hesitation.  He was finally able to work with the development of Federation weapons and tactical systems aboard the new Nebula class starship Maximillian (NCC-72016), which at the time was under construction.  Research and development of these systems was something he had wanted to do since his days at the academy.

     He worked at Helium Ship Yards until shortly after the Borg attack on Earth in 2367, where experienced officers were needed throughout the decimated fleet.  T’Kill’s experience at tactical, his experience at Betazed, and at Helium Shipyards all paid off when he received a promotion to the rank of lieutenant commander and a posting as operations manager aboard Excelsior class starship Columbus (NCC-2006).

     The mid-sixties and early seventies proved to be an era for rapid promotion of good, experienced officers, mainly because of the lack thereof resulting from the heavy casualties suffered during the battle of Wolf 359.  In 2368, T’Kill was ordered to assume the posting of first officer aboard Nebula-Class starship Endeavor (NCC-71805) as a full commander.

     T’Kill found it ironic that he was serving aboard a starship which bore the name of the vessel commanded by his father.  Additionally he was surprised to find that his old friend, Lieutenant Commander Teela Amor also served aboard Endeavor as operations manager.  He was also surprised by the fact that he was being promoted so quickly throughout the ranks.  As the fleet continued to grow, new starship postings became available.  Experienced senior officers were often selected for captaincy whether they wanted it or not.  When T’Kill received orders to command the Nebula class starship Maximillian (NCC-72016) in 2369 at the request of Commander Blobbin, he did not complain.  Maximillian was the very ship he worked on while stationed at Helium Ship Yards only two years earlier.

     Captain T’Kill assumed command of Maximillian, asking Lieutenant Commander Teela Amor to transfer with him as his operations manager.  When Commander Blobbin was reassigned in early 2371, T’Kill promoted Teela to the rank of commander to serve as his first officer.  In 2372, after a vicious battle in the Gamma Quadrant where he almost lost his ship, he was promoted to the flag rank of rear admiral lower half, and the Maximillian served as flagship to Fleet Admiral Robert Lyon.

     Maximillian had since returned to the Gamma Quadrant as flagship to Task Force Gamma-Two under the command of Admiral Lyon, on a mission of patrol and reconnaissance.  During the mission, the task force engaged the Jem’Hadar at planet Semtar III, a Class-M world with a primitive civilization similar to that of the late 20th century Earth.  Though the task force was successful in defeating the Jem’Hadar, the price for victory was high.  Two starships, the Chicago and the Maximillian were lost.

    Admiral T’Kill returned as commanding officer for a short time for the building and launch of the Sovereign class Maximillian, but soon after entering the Menkare Expanse turned command over to his friend Tamak, in favor of his admiral duties.  Later T’Kill would become a full admiral following the Marconian invasion and the death of Robert Lyon, and T’Kill quickly named the Maximillian as his flagship in order to speed repairs.

     T’Kill initially resisted the placement of Critch Starblade as Captain in 2380, but came to realize he was doing the same thing that so many had done to him both on Romulus and in the Academy, and came to an understanding with Starblade.  Though they were never as close as Lyon had been with both of them, they kept a friendship, and T’Kill trusted Starblade enough to  handle most issues on his own.

     Following the events of “Order of the Sword”, Admiral T’Kill has retired from Starfleet.

 

    

 

 

 

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