Emel Kalain
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Name: Emel Kalain Race: Bajoran Gender: Male Age: 50 (Terran Years) Birthdate: June 6, 2351 (Terran calendar) Birthplace: Tahna Den, Bajor Languages Spoken: English, Bajoran, Vulcan Marital Status: Single Children: None
Description
Height: 6'2" Weight: 176 lbs. Hair: Black, but starting to show some silver around the edges. Eyes: Blue (one natural, one prosthetic.) Description: A fairly tall individual with a medium build, Kalain's most prominent feature is the scarring on the right side of his face, as well as a slightly-melted ornate Bajoran earring. The scars are the result of burns incurred in an Engineering accident. Kalain's right eye is a prosthetic optical implant that allows Kalain to observe much of the electromagnetic spectrum, including infrared and radio waves.
Family Status
Father: Emel Apren (Deceased) Mother: Emel Nara (Deceased) Siblings: Emel Daralen (Sister; Age 55)
Service Record
Starfleet Academy : Cadet, Engineering Major (2368-2373) Starfleet Corps of Engineers : Ensign, Starship Systems Specialist (2373-2375) Starfleet Academy: Ensign, Flight Control Major (2375-2378) USS Kearsarge: Ensign, Chief Flight Control Officer (2378-2379) USS Excalibur-A: Ensign, Assistant Chief Engineer (2379) USS Excalibur-A: Lieutenant (JG), Chief Engineer (2379-2380) USS Excalibur-B: Lieutenant, Chief Engineer (2380-2380) USS Excalibur-B: Lieutenant Commander, Chief Engineer (2381) AWOL (2381-2393) Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards: Lieutenant, Damage Control Specialist (2393-2400) USS Voyager-A: Lieutenant, Chief Engineer (2400-Present)
Decorations
Cochrane Medal of Excellence, 2374 Purple Heart, 2380, 2398
Personality
Kalain has a habit of studying new people he meets, particularly those under his command, and so he tends to base many of his conclusions on first impressions. However, as a rule, he is not a hasty or rash man, as intuition is not as swift in coming to him as it is for some. Likewise, he has trouble adapting to a radically new situation immediately, but Kalain is never one to give up or to be distracted from the task at hand.
Kalain considers himself a realist. He enjoys his work as an Engineer, as well as other logic-oriented activities, but harbors a deep mistrust for religious mysticism, a trait that alienates him from most other Bajorans. While he knows them inside and out, Kalain doesn't enjoy spending time on holodecks as they are nothing more than a simulated form of reality. Kalain thinks of his shipmates almost as a surrogate family, and it is his thankfulness for that surrogate family that ensures his endearing loyalty to Starfleet and the Federation.
Hobbies & Interests
Although Kalain enjoyed his foray into the field of Flight Control in the mid-2370s, he always returns to Engineering in one capacity or another. He became particularly intrested in Experimental Warp Theory and Starship Design while with the Starfleet Corps of Engineeers, and while his work in Warp Theory earned him a Cochrane Medal of Excellence, his interest in Starship design is still speculative. While he enjoys it, Kalain is not a particularly skilled Starship designer because while creativity runs in his family, it doesn't come out in him very often, and he just cannot seem to get away from what has already been accomplished by others.
Biography
The Young Assistant Kalain was born in 2351 in the city of Tahna Den, on Bajor, to Emel Apren and Nara, and as the younger brother of Emel Daralen. Kalain spent the first seventeen years of his life on Bajor in a Cardassian Labor Camp, mining Uridium. He didn't consider his life to be by any means horrible, though, as he was so young that he had nothing better to compare his current situation to, and his family always managed to stay together in the mines. Kalain spent almost all of his free time with his older sister, and they could always be found either being taught by their parents, who had both been school teachers before the occupation, playing old Bajoran children’s games, or sitting and doodling together on walls, floors, or any other flat surface Daralen could find. It was clear that artistry was her calling in life, but Kalain was not nearly as adept as his sister was in these pursuits.
By the year 2363, the various doodles of Daralen and Kalain had evolved into grand murals speaking out against the Cardassian Occupation. These murals were almost entirely the work of Daralen, who was seventeen by this time. Behind the backs of her family, she had become something of a rebel, and while she was not affiliated with any resistance cell, her work was well known to them all. The identity of the artist behind the work, however, remained unknown to Cardassian and Bajoran alike. All the Cardassians knew was that the murals always appeared when and where they were least expected, and that whoever was creating them could not be doing so without help. That help came from Kalain, whose bond with his sister had never diminished over the years. It was now clear to both Kalain and Daralen that Kalain was no artist, and so Kalain aided his sister by scavenging for supplies with which his sister could continue her work. Kalain himself was not, by nature, a rebel. He did what he did, not to strike a philisophical blow against the Cardassians, but because it was what Daralen wanted. Besides, they were just painting… It wasn't going to harm anyone…
The Death of Apren and Nara There were two other people who suspected Kalain and Daralen of creating the various protest-murals: Apren and Nara, their parents. Although they never said anything, they had grown more and more certain as time went on that Daralen, with the aid of Kalain, was creating the works of art that had become infamous all over Tahna Den. So it was that Apren and Nara started to keep close tabs on their daughter, not to prevent her from continuing her work, but to make sure of her safety. Who knew what would happen if she or Kalain were caught?
In December of 2363, Daralen was finally caught red-handed by the Cardassian Intendant of the Uridium Mines. Although Kalain was currently in search of more supplies, Apren and Nara both witnessed the discovery of their daughter and went immediately to her aid. They tried desparately to convince the Superintendant that the murals had been their doing and not that of their daughter, and that the punishment for the rebellious murals should fall on them rather than Daralen. The Superintendant saw through the attempts of Apren and Nara to protect Daralen, however… but he didn't plan to make a matyr out of the rebellious mystery-artist. He decided to disuade Daralen from continuing in her work…
Kalain returned then with more supplies for his sister to find his sister, the Cardassian Intendant, a half-completed mural, and his parents at the work site. None of them noticed his presence however, and so Kalain decided to wait and watch what was going to happen. If he had known what he was about to witness, he would've acted, but all he did was remain in the shadows and the Cardassian Intendant silently drew a disruptor and vaporized his parents before turning and walking away.
Escaping Bajor For nearly five long years, there were no more murals speaking out against the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor in Tahna Den. Kalain and his sister grew distant, as Kalain blamed his sister for the death of their parents. But still, they remained together, and worked in the Uridium Mines under the close supervision of the Cardassians. The Intendant had achieved his goal, and crushed the spirits of Daralen and her younger brother… But soon, he would find himself with much more than just protest-murals to deal with.
The year 2368 marked the end of the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor, and the months leading up to the withdrawl were chaotic for Cardassian and Bajoran alike. It was during these months that the Bajoran Resistance took control of the Tahna Den Uridium Mines in a suprise raid, which succeeded largely due to support from the laborers, most of whom proved eager to fight that they might gain their freedom. The Cardassian Intendant proved thoroughly unprepared for the attack, and though he tried to escape during the chaos of the raid, he was eventually forced to barracade himself in his own office. Many of the laborers would've taken the life of the vicious Intendant givent he opportunity, but Daralen and Kalain got there first. In an attempt to make amends with her brother over the death of their parents, Daralen gave her brother the first chance to bring what they both saw as justice to their parents' murderer. But Kalain, much to his own surprise and confusion, found himself unwilling to kill the Intendant. Seeing an opportunity, the Superintendant attacked Kalain, hoping to take him hostage and escape the overrun labor camp, but Daralen took matters into her own hands and killed the Intendant herself before he could even lay a hand on her younger brother.
Soon after, Kalain and Daralen finally parted ways. While Daralen chose to remain on Bajor and fight, Kalain found a ship bound out of the Bajoran System for the safety of Federation Space. The ship, the first vessel Kalain had been aboard in his life, fascinated the young Bajoran. It was a stolen Cardassian Freighter packed with refugees from dozens of Labor Camps much like his own seeking to escape Bajor. The Freighter was not designed to accomodate so many people, any, including Kalain, were packed onto the bridge. Although he was ordered to stay out of the way, Kalain took as much of the action on the bridge as he possibly could as the Freighter made it's way out of the system so it could go to warp unnoticed by the Cardassian Authorities. However, the large quantity of passengers made the the Freighter easy to spot, and it was discovered and attacked just beyond Bajor VIII by a Galor-class Warship. The first hit took down the Freighter's Warp Engines, and subsequent shots threw the Freighter, which was no match for a Cardassian Warship, into a state of sheer panic. Power went down, lights went out, and people screamed as various console on the bridge sparked and exploded as the Cardassians continued their attack. One of these exploding consoles cauht the Freighter's Conn Officer by surprise, knocking him unconscious. The helm controls themselves, however, were not yet damaged, and so Kalain took the controls and, using the knowledge he had gained by watching the Conn Officer before the attack, he evaded the Warship long enough for the Warp Drive to be repaired, and for the Freighter to escape the system.
Searching For Home Kalain never returned to the Bajoran System, and as time passed he convinced himself that he didn't want to ever go back there again. His life did not improve immediately though, despite having escaped from the clutches of the Cardassian fist. Kalain found himself on the galatic border between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union with no family, no home, no occupation, and no money. So it was that he began put any skills he could muster to work on any freighter that would take him for however long he would be accepted. The first was a Ferengi vessel, where he spent nearly two weeks as both Cabin Boy and Engineer's Mate. He lasted as long as three days aboard a Klingon Military Freighter as a stowaway, and served as a relief Conn Officer and Lab Assistant aboard a family-held Human Freighter for nearly another week. These fast paced changes in occupation frustrated the introspective Bajoran youth, and when Kalain suddenly found himself on the legendary grounds of Starfleet Academy on Earth, he applied on a whim, hoping to change the direction in which his life was headed, and much to his own surprise, he was accepted.
In the relatively controlled environment of the Academy, Kalain thrived. He chose to study Engineering, as that was the only major field in which he had received anything that even vaguely resembled a formal education. (Aboard the Ferengi Freighter he served on, several of the Engineers went so far as to teach Kalain basic Warp Mechanics, hoping to increase the value and marketability of the young Bajoran they secretly intended to sell to whomever would buy him. And while Kalain had despised his instructors, their lessons had been, for the most part, accurate, and Kalain had enjoyed the curriculum.) Four years at Starfleet Academy had quite an effect on Kalain, transforming him from a withdrawn, insecure, Bajoran refugee into a competent, sociable, Starfleet Engineer who had graduated fourth in his class as an Ensig