ENSIGN
ECOLOGIST
DEEP SPACE 13
(Kevin Faux)
Age:
24
Species:
Human
Place of Birth:
New Scotia Colony, Cemina III
Languages:
Federation Standard, Vulcan
Interests
3D Chess, Boxing, Swimming,
Tai Chi, Playing the Vulcan Lute, Anything to do
with Sciences
Education
2340 - 2350
Home taught on Farm world of Cemina III
2350 - 2358
Various Shipboard schools and Vulcan schools
2358 - 2362
Starfleet Academy. Majored in Sciences, Minor in Ops
2369 - 2370
Starfleet Academy Command School
Background Profile
Moojal K'nars was born on the
farming colony world of Cemina III to John and
Helena K'nars. John K'nars had
been a
Starfleet Security Officer on
several ships, serving as the Chief of
Security on board the USS Legacy
when his own father
passed away. With John's mother
having died 5 years earlier he decided to
give up his commission and return
home to the
colony. While he enjoyed being
in Starfleet John knew that the family farm
had been very important to his
father. He just
couldn’t see the old place go
to ruin. When John returned home he brought
with him his new wife Helena,
also ex-Starfleet
from the sciences department
of the Legacy.
It didn’t take long for the two
to settle in to the quiet life
as farmers, and shortly
thereafter Moojal was born.
Life for Moojal was an odd mix. He learned how
to work the farm from his father,
and how to
work the laws of physics from
his mother. He loved to hear the stories of
his parents days in Starfleet,
and of his fathers
best friend St'cha, a Vulcan
security officer.
Moojal secretly wished he
could go and join Starfleet
himself, but he knew he
would live his life on the farm
as his dad now did...after all, if John
K'nars could give up his career,
could Moojal give any less?
However life on Cemina III was
not in young Moojals future...or any one
else’s for that matter. One
night, as everyone in the
colony slept, explosions shattered
the silence. The colony was utterly
destroyed from orbit as a Cardassian
Galor class ship
eliminated the "Federation Incursion"
into their space as a symbol of their
strength. It didn’t take long
for Federation ships to
arrive on the scene, but it
would be far too late to actually stop the
carnage.
Among the three ships that came
to investigate
was the USS Legacy, an Ambassador
class ship on patrol duty in the area. It
wasn’t coincidence that, among
the rescue party
that beamed down that morning
was the Legacys Chief of Security Lt. St'cha.
St'cha had been to the K'nars
home before and
had a fairly good idea where
it was located. The farm and the house were in
ruins, but hidden among the
debris was the
unconscious body of young Moojal.
It would take 3 days in
the Legacy's
sickbay before the boy was mobile
again...it would
take much longer for the psychological
scars to heal.
St'cha, feeling a debt
that needed to be paid to his
mentor John K'nars,
took Moojal in as his own. He
adopted the boy soon after, loving him as if
the boy was his own.
From the age of 10 until he was
18 Moojal would alternate living
with St'cha on board whatever ship he
served on, or on Vulcan with
his "relatives" when St'cha
couldn't take the lad with him.
Moojal drove himself physically and mentally
to follow in his parent's and
in his mentor's
footsteps so that he might be
able to apply to Starfleet Academy.
He learned
what he could from the Vulcan
teachers, but
was never able to learn the
Vulcan art of self-control. More then once
Moojal would be caught partaking
in strictly human
endeavors.
He was very much his fathers
son, and he enjoyed taking the
advanced mathematics he was
taught and turn
them to such subjects as figuring
out the probability of pulling a Straight
Flush twice in a row. Moojal's
"grandfather", a crusty
old Vulcan named St'mora, channeled
the boy's excessive energies into his
natural talents, that of science.
At the age of 18
Moojal K'nars applied, and was
accepted, to the Academy enrolling into the
Science division.
Moojal's time at Starfleet
seemed short in retrospect,
four years melting away like ice in the summer's
heat. While Moojal did have
some difficulty
with the more esoteric courses
such as philosophy, he seemed to easily glide
through classes in mathematics
and physics.
By the time Moojal served his
cadet cruise aboard the USS Montana, a Miranda
class vessel on standard patrol
duty of the
outlying sectors of the Federation,
he had earned himself a degree in
Mathematics and was close to
completing a second
degree in Computer Sciences.
The one real surprise in his
education was in
the field of Temporal Mechanics,
an area that
he excelled in but wanted nothing
to do with. By the time he had graduated
from the Academy he, and just
about everyone
else in that class, had sworn
up, down and sideways that they would never
get themselves involved in any
temporal anomalies.
Personality Profile
Moojal K'nars is an odd mix
of a man. He carries some heavy influences from
his adoptive Vulcan family,
and while on duty he
can truly act like a Vulcan
at times. This is interspersed with comments on
how to best beat the Dabo tables
on Risa, and about
some Yeoman down on the lower
decks.
While his clear mind and scientific
talents have made him invaluable
in both the
science labs as well as on the
bridge, his lack of protocol has been noticed
more than once by superior officers.
While off duty
Moojal spends his time quietly
either in his quarters or on the Holodeck
practicing Tai Chi or, more
likely, some gambling program.
Moojal learned early the value
of getting to know those who he served with
and as a result he will make
himself socialize despite
his rather closed personality.
However most of the crew would come to
comment on how little of the
man they truly know.
To this
day Moojal still has difficulties
dealing with Cardassians, and shows signs
of an unhealthy interest in
their culture and ways. As
a result Moojal has gained quite
a bit of knowledge on Cardassian tactics.
Physical Profile
Moojal stands at an imposing
6 feet in height, a legacy from his mother's
side of the family. As is normal
with such tall people
Moojal could be best described
as a "bean pole", though he has gone to great
effort to keep a bit of meat
on his bones by
keeping to a regular routine
of weight lifting and diet.
Moojal usually
likes to sport a goatee. His
hair is a dark brown in color,
while his eyes are a sparkling
ice blue.
Special Notes
While Moojal was at the Academy
he showed special interest and aptitude in
mathematics. This led him to
major in some
of the most difficult classes
that the Academy offered. Moojal paid special
attention to the Temporal Physics
classes, writing
his final thesis on the "time
displacement of wormholes and its effect on
local stellar bodies".