Karrik

Karrik
Biographical Information
Full Name	Karrik
Place of Origin	Vulcan
Species	Vulcan
Gender	Male
Date of Birth	3 March 2304
Career Information
Affiliation	Starfleet
Rank	Captain
Posting	USS K'Ehleyr
Position	Commanding Officer
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Captain Karrik is the current commanding officer of the USS K'Ehleyr, the flagship of Task Force 72. He has a long history in Starfleet, but has been content to remain a captain rather than advancing into flag rank. Particularly adept at diplomacy, he's led his ship to numerous important diplomatic achievements since it was launched in 2393.

History

Early Life and Vulcan Science Academy (2304-2330)

Karrik was born in the southern hemisphere of Vulcan in 2304. He had a relatively uneventful childhood, being the third son of a pair of scientists. His parents both studied xenobiology, so it wasn't surprising at all for him to enter the Vulcan Science Academy at age 20, where he, too, would study life on other worlds. Karrik was noted by his instructors not for being particularly imaginative or innovative, but for dutifully following the scientific process methodically and minutely. After six years at the Vulcan Science Academy, Karrik was preparing to join a lab on Vulcan, before he considered that Starfleet would give him better opportunities to actually meet life from other planets.

Starfleet Academy and Early Career (2330-2348)

Despite already being a very competent scientist, Karrik had no experience with starships, and so he matriculated into Starfleet Academy as a cadet in 2330, so that he could fill out his education as a Starfleet Officer. Being around non-Vulcans for the first time in his life was strange, as he'd had an incredibly sheltered adolescence on Vulcan. He found this experience so disconcerting, that following graduation he requested a posting to a starship with an all-Vulcan crew. He was granted this request by being posted as an Ensign to the Excelsior-class starship USS Selar, which was assigned to survey missions in the Beta Quadrant.

The Selar was Karrik's home for 14 years, where he advanced through the lieutenant grades by 2348. Because his family wasn't of any particularly high social standing, he didn't have a betrothed, so it was also here that he met his wife: V'Len, a flight control officer on the Selar. The two of them took a leave of absence from 2348 to 2355 when V'Len became pregnant with their first child.

USS Adelphi (2355-2362)

Following his leave, Karrik applied to rejoin the fleet, while V'Len elected to stay home on Vulcan with their child. Karrik was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and was assigned to the starship Adelphi as its Chief Science Officer. Unlike the Selar, the Adelphi was a mixed-species crew, which took a lot of getting used to for the Vulcan commander, but he acquitted himself well when he realized that the same techniques he used to study unknown lifeforms could also be used to analyze his subordinates to decide which stimuli would achieve the desired results with them.

During this time period, the Adelphi surveyed a number of previously un-charted M-class worlds, which allowed him to publish a number of papers on unique organisms and proper specimen collection techniques. As with his time at the Vulcan Science Academy, though, Karrik was noted for being precise and dutiful, but someone who tended to wow anyone.