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... just found this site, thought I'd pop in.

I wrote down an idea for a new series, and being a sucker for abuse, thought I'd post it here as well.

Star Trek: Covert

Five individuals that are on the wrong side of the Federation's law are given the opportunity to regain their freedom: perform dangerous, near suicidal missions that Starfleet cannot possibly admit being involved in.

Using a small ship as their mobile training grounds and HQ, they are known only as the Project; the best of the worst.

Andrew Clarke (former Leutenant): A brilliant student of Starfleet Academy, but with a strong streak of anti-authoritism and violence. On his second posting, he defended his ship against a pirate raid, but was witnessed bludgeoning a defeated man to death. (The fact that the star witness had a long standing career rivalry with Clarke never entered the picture).

Now he is the field leader of The Project. Clarke is exceptionally brilliant and dangerous. He'd prefer to shoot someone in the leg rather than stun someone. There is no reason, psychologically or pshyiologically to explain his nature. One quote from his trial states 'When somebody pushes me, I push back ... and God help them if they think about getting back up.'

Lore: The only other Soong type android in existence. Starfleet engineers rebuilt and reconditioned him, and the Project took him for their own uses.

A governing unit in his neural net prevents him from acting against other members of The Project - but it won't be long before he finds a way to override it ...

It is unknown if his reconstruction started to give Lore what could be termed as 'psychosis'. His abilities are too valuable to ignore, but he is becoming more and more of a liability ...

T'venn: Romulan. Former member of the Romulan Secret Police, instrumental in the recent coup de'at and assention of Shinzon, saw which way the wind was turning, and rapidly defected to the Federation. Was held in custody until she was made the offer to join the Project.

Once an engineer with a talent for design and invention, T'venn's ambition led her to join the Tal Shiar. Now she ruminates the irony of working for a Federation covert miliatary unit. The most experienced in espionage, she is content to bide her time ...

Lois Dunn (Leutenant Commander): The team medic, her training involved field surgery in combat situations, as well as combat (armed and unarmed) However, Lois gave the wrong medication to her ships captain, and he died on the table. It was also shown that she was under the effects of a self-administered mood enhancer at the time. The Project offered her a chance to have her conviction overturned ...

Daniel Barker (former Leutenant Commander): Spent some time in Starfleet, demonstrated aptitude as a flyer and commando before resigning, getting married, and taking a job with one of the large corporations. However, on the night of his divorce, he got into a drunken fight with a Klingon, and the next thing he remembered, he was arrested for murder, and facing deportation to face Klingon justice (the fight was judged honourable, but the victim's brother had some political influence, and demanded a rematch.) The Project decided he was perfect ...

Thoughts?

Don't they have section 31 for this kind of thing? I mean there's no chance of rebellious feeling since the members of Section 31 that we have seen are Fanatically loyal to the Federation. while having people do these types of missions in order to win their freedom? If I were in that position, after a sense of "trust" or what not, I would turn on who ever forced me to choose. But that's just me.

This needs to be in the Fanfic forum.

And by the way, welcome aboard!

Admiral Johnason wrote:This needs to be in the Fanfic forum.

I dunno. We've already done 'what would you do for the next series/movie' here before; unless he plans to write it up, it isn't fanfic.

Are they gonna have their own custom-built Starfleet ship? A modified Defiant maybe?

generator_g1 wrote:Are they gonna have their own custom-built Starfleet ship? A modified Defiant maybe?

If they're on the wrong side of the law then wouldn't it be preudent to give them a non-starfleet vessel? Perhaps something Romulan or Klingon?

This does indeed sound like a workable plot seed. Flesh it out a bit and add some dimensions to the characters, and I could see it becoming a nice enough fanfic.

desertjedi wrote:Don't they have section 31 for this kind of thing? I mean there's no chance of rebellious feeling since the members of Section 31 that we have seen are Fanatically loyal to the Federation. while having people do these types of missions in order to win their freedom? If I were in that position, after a sense of "trust" or what not, I would turn on who ever forced me to choose. But that's just me.

I actually had the idea that this would be created by a faction of Starfleet that didn't want Section 31 anywhere near their operations - this was their own black ops, and they didn't want anybody else sticking their noses in ...

That would be tricky, given how deep Section 31 seems to have it's tendrils in Starfleet.