Jerok
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| Jerok | |
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| Jerok in 2405 | |
| Species: | |
| Homeworld: |
Ra'tleihfi, Romulus |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Born: |
June 26th, 2292 |
| Eyes: |
Black |
| Hair: |
Black |
| Height: |
6'2" |
| Weight: |
188 lbs. |
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| Assignment: | |
| Position: |
Commanding Officer |
| Rank: |
Captain |
| Insignia: |
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| First Mentioned: |
"Excalibur" |
| First Appearence: |
"Excalibur" |
| Player: | |
| Status: |
Active |
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Captain Jerok is the current commanding officer of the Federation flagship USS Enterprise. Jerok transitioned from command of the USS Excalibur, the formerly highly experimental and classified Federation starship, to the Enterprise in 2408. This move was the political brainchild of Fleet Admiral Dan Taylor in order to help bring together a better cohesion between the Romulan people and their other Federation counterparts. For years the Romulans had been fractured into two groups: one who sought separation to flee back to former Romulan space to reform the Romulan Star Empire, and others who were perfectly quaint with the status quo of remaining Federation members. The separationists are much larger in number, and the idea was that if the most highly decorated Romulan Starfleet captain, a former pro-Federation/Romulan alliance advocate (pre-Borg War), a former Romulan warbird commander, and a former Romulan Senator as captain of the Federation flagship it would help show faith in keeping the status quo of the alliance.
As a starship captain, Jerok is purely a no nonsense commander carried over from his time both as a warbird commander and Romulan Senator. It has surprisingly meshed very well with the ideas of Starfleet, and he has earned respect among his fellow officers. Although even since unification of the new Federation, the major species like Klingons and Romulans have tended to generally stick to their own vessel types. This has caused Jerok to be the "man-out" in a sense, and caused tensions between some Klingons who have been assigned to ships under his command. Working through these adversities as well as aiding in the political, economic and social improvements since the end of the Borg War using his skills as both a commanding officer and former Romulan Senator has helped him garner much influence in the politics of the Federation.
History
Jerok was the born the youngest of two brothers to Vorak and the mistress of Clan Servek, Lliar and had an older brother who was five years older, Terrik. During his childhood he was showered with riches and anything a Romulan child could have until a wrong turn was made within his family. His mother, Lliar, was ejected from the Romulan Senate in 2316 for her protest of the Treaty of Algeron that was signed in 2311 and from there they only had his father's position as a vessel commander. While the other members of Clan Servek would help the main family out it still wasn't much. To make things worse Vorak decided to adopt a fostered child when Jerok was in his mid-teens and immediately the adopted child, Tolak, and Terrik clashed with one another.
Jerok was caught in the middle and eventually he found even grounds for them to get along with each other. He knew that was his first step to his career which was still at least five years away. When he was 19 he began his mandatory service in the Romulan Military and after the Military Academy he was assigned to the IRV Vriafwe, a small science vessel, as the ships operations officer. It was a small ship which made keeping operations up-kept was easy for him at the time and made this a great training cruise. Though it turned into much more and Jerok ended up staying in the Military and on the Vriafwe for nearly 22 years.
In 2351 he was reassigned as the Warbird Operations Officer on a D'deridex Class Warbird the D'dentin. During this time the D'dentin was assigned along the neutral zone as first contact with the Federation was inevitable. The vessel prowled the lanes along the zone for 20 years and by this time Jerok had ascended to the rank of Centurion and earned the Romulan Star, the Praetorian Medal and the Ruby Square, which were all quite an accomplishment. When the Dominion War broke out the D'dentin was called to the front lines of Romulan space and a fleet was assembled for anything that could happen. When the Star Empire entered the war the D'dentin was assigned along with sixteen other Romulan vessels to a Klingon-Romulan task force along the Cardassian boarder. During this time Jerok had a chance to spend a lot of time on Klingon vessels and even learned the Klingon language. He also learned that through diversity things can get accomplished, something very un-Romulan of him. When the war was over the D'dentin had six successful engagements under it's belt including the Battle of Chin'toka although it had to limp back to Romulan space on reserve power.
Jerok was then approached with a rather interesting proposal. The Federation was asking for a full exchange officer program which meant that Jerok would become a Starfleet officer and a Starfleet officer would join the Romulan Military. After several days of deliberation Jerok decided to accept the proposal and he was assigned to the USS Highlander as the Chief of Operations where he served for two years with the rank of Lieutenant. Unfortunately things then took a bad turn when he got word that his brother, Terrik, who was also serving in a similar program with Starfleet, had been killed in the line of duty. This put a complete halt on the exchange program because at the time Terrik was up for a seat on the Romulan Senate upon his return. It was unanimously decided by Clan Servek that Jerok take his place. Two days after the decision was made Jerok resigned his commission with both Starfleet and the Romulan Military and took his seat four days later on the Romulan Senate upon his return to Romulus.
Jerok served with distinction on the Romulan Senate for a couple of years until word arrived... the Borg were on their way in full force. The Romulan Military was immediately called into action starting by recalling nearly the entirety of it's forces to Romulus and all major worlds within the Empire and reactivated the "reserve" fleet of older D-7 Class Battlecruisers. The Empire even went as far as sacrificing resources to restart a rebuilding policy on the Scimitar Class Warbirds. Finally the day had come for the fight and Jerok felt the Romulans were ready for anything that could happen and even had a fallback plan with Romulan Defense Base ch'Haven 28. The Romulan fleet fought its best but several of the top ranking admirals in the Romulan Military decided it was best if they fell back to RDB since Romulus and Remus were evacuated for the most part. A fleet of 30 ships lead by Admiral Donatra was sent to Earth with a majority of the Romulan Senate including Jerok. The fate of the Romulan forces left to fight for Romulus is unknown, as was the fate of the fallback fleet that retreated to Romulan Defense Base 28 until 2406. When the Romulan fleet finally reached Earth the Federation Council was quick to offer the Romulans sanctuary and a Federation membership for the Romulans could teach the Federation many things to help them fight the Borg.
At first the remaining Romulans were reluctant to accept the proposal but with little choice a vote was passed and the Romulans became members of the Federation. Jerok and four other senators were offered seats on the Federation Council at the time but only three of them accepted it with Jerok deciding to stay as a civilian from then on, or at least as long as the Borg were around. Although since Jerok was well versed in vessel operations and ship-to-ship tactical maneuvers and strategic operations he was asked to be at Starfleet Command when the Borg attacked the Sol System. He agreed and was there during most of the battle however at some point of the battle he took a small shuttle he had bought and escaped to the Klingon space station in orbit of Earth. When the dust cleared and the smoke settled he came out of hiding and found the Federation victorious.
After a few years Jerok learned through several contacts that Starfleet was finally going to set out of the Sol System again and re-explore the galaxy and look for survivors as well. Immediately Jerok asked that his commission be reactivated and it was. However he also dropped the surname of his Romulan Clan, Servek, as he saw little reason to keep it anymore. While he was a proud member of the clan his people and family were obviously not what they were before and customs were changing. He was immediately assigned to the USS Archer as Chief of Operations and spent a couple years there making his way to Lieutenant Commander. Eventually Admiral Paris recommended him for command of a starship and Jerok accepted the recommendation awaiting command of a starship. Finally his waiting paid off and he was assigned to command the USS Excalibur; one of the newest ships and ship designs in Starfleet. He was also tasked with knocking out all of the kinks of the Excalibur as the Starfleet Corp of Engineers knew there were plenty.
With the turn of the year into 2404, Jerok was offered a position as the executive officer of the Starfleet Rapid Response Task Force. He accepted and command of the Excalibur was handed over to his first officer, Commander Joesph Hennigan. Jerok decided to set up office on Vriha, the large orbital Romulan ch'Haven space station in the Sol System. After only a few months behind a desk he returned to command of the Excalibur for an emergency mission. Upon completion of the mission Jerok assumed full command with Commander Hennigan becoming his first officer again. Jerok remained in command of the Excalibur for the second time until 2407 when the Excalibur was returned to space dock to have it's quantum slipstream drive disassembled being deemed a "partial" success. Helping to improve overall warp power and efficiency, it's flaws were just too great to pay off. While the Excalibur's refit was scheduled to take well into four months, Jerok was offered command of the Federation flagship Enterprise; in return this would hopefully help improve relations with the Romulans. He began to choose a command staff and head off to the Enterprise which was adrift in orbit of Nimbus III awaiting resupply to fix it's critically damaged engines. The Excalibur was repaired in time, now under the command of Captain Hennigan, to ferry the new senior staff of the Enterprise out to the starship.
Upon arriving on board the USS Enterprise, Jerok and his staff relieved Captain Bryan Horlocker and much of his staff who were scheduled to return to Earth for debriefing. As soon as assuming command, repairs began immediately with the Excalibur helping by supplying extra engineering teams and the essential supplies needed to repair the Enterprise's warp and power systems.