From: Gershon <jrbowman@london2.skn.net>
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 11:51:35 -0500
Subject: USS CHESAPEAKE: Scribble scribble
Counselor's Office
MD: 6.0645
Wake-up time: Stavay was alone in the Counselor's Office.
Of course, the *neta* was going to hit the air circulator after she
finished her deposition. CPT Bell, who already enjoyed the company of
the counselor so much, would love having this ticking time bomb dropped
on her desk. Ditto for CMDR Brennan.
Even if Stavay had sent the deposition earlier...there would still have
been trouble. This merely meant *more* trouble on Stavay's already full
plate. No matter. Time to get the difficult work over with.
The door chime rang, and a small woman named Petty Officer Third Class
Jane Solomon stepped in with a PADD and stylus. She worked for Commander
Brennan as an admin aide on third shift, undoubtedly wondering why she
had been dragged down to the Counselor's Office so close to shift shange.
One hour later, they had finished the document.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION OF DEPOSITION>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
SD: 90509.0800
From: LTJG Stavay Tats-Marush
Ship's Counselor, USS CHESAPEAKE NCC-31813
To: CAPT Amanda Bell
Commanding Officer, USS CHESAPEAKE NCC-31813
LCDR Daniel Justin Brennan
Executive Officer, USS CHESAPEAKE NCC-31813
Re: Statements regarding confidential information relating to the commission
of an act of felony rape aboard the USS BELLEREPHON on SD 81130.
I, LTJG Stavay Tats-Marush, assigned as the Ship's Counselor
aboard the USS CHESAPEAKE NCC-31813, do swear to the following
testimony.
On SD 90415.0930, I was visited by LT Anne Murray, CScio of the USS
CHESAPEAKE regarding a visit to my office. During this session, she
revealed information that she had been raped by a Kevin Mallory serving
as Counselor aboard the USS BELLEREPHON during her service aboard that
same vessel.
During this interview, no circumstances of the alleged incident were
revealed to me. However, I restated the allogation and LT Murray did
not contradict the statement that I made. We discussed the incident
further, and while no details were given, there can be no question of
misunderstanding LT Murray's allegation (see Appendix A concerning notes
from the relevant portions of the discussion).
There exists no real-time media of this discussion, no audio or full media
recording. All notes were handwritten and compiled immediately after the
session.
LT Murray's psychological file is appended in Appendix B. Many of LT
Murray's behavior, affective, and cognitive characteristics -- agitation,
relationship difficulties, anxiety, fear, depression, anger, and her
obsessive behavior could well be explained by the psychological diagnosis
Rape Trauma Sydrome from C:35/689-717 from the Federation Manual of Mental
Disorders, Sixth Edition (relevant sections from that manual are posted
in Appendix C).
I have no reason to believe that LT Murray was deliberately attempting to
decieve me during her time as a client on SD 90415 (see Appendix D,
"The Rituals of Deceit", from the office of Starfleet Medical, Director of
Counseling).
I swear that the above statements are true under the pains and penalites
of perjury.
Respectfully submitted,
LTJG Stavay Tats-Marush
(assisted by PO/3 Jane Solomon, Legal Division, USS CHESAPEAKE)
COUNS, USS CHESAPEAKE NCC-31813
GREEN FLEET
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<END TRANSCRIPTION OF DEPOSITION>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
She looked up. PO/3 Solomon had recorded their entire conversation with
the tricorder, not for CMDR Brennan to hear, but to provide legal protection
for Stavay if Solomon had transcribed the deposition incorrectly or someone
alleged that Solomon had prompted Tats-Marush into making statements she
didn't intend to make. The data record would remain the property of
the Counselor, and could only be turned over to the Judge Advocate General's
official representatives.
Of course, Brennan would grill Solomon about the entire testimony. What
conclusion Brennan would come up with -- who could say? In that respect,
the Counselor did *not* envy the job of the Executive Officer.
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Counselor's Office
MD 6.1225
How many PADD files of information was Stavay trying to juggle with the
help of the computer? Forty? Reports from travelers, miners, Correlian
officials, ambassadors, and other biased parties had to be filtered down
to a set of consice documents.
LTJG Traran was now running Counseling. Male clients only. Stavay did
not trust Traran at all, and if Murray and Traran intersected, and Traran
were to make a pass at a potential client (as Traran had been rumored to
do), then Traran might find his antennae ripped from his head and there
would be another deposition to file. That last one was fun enough.
Now let's see, thought Stavay...how to sort this out....
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CORELLIS, REGENCY OF
Location: 3 Delta Corellis II
(Third planet in second system)
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Head of Government: Regent
Legislative Body: Senate
Judicial Body: Regency High Court
Federation Membership Status: Pending
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File A: Government and Mythos
The Corellion (the religious text of Corellis' state religion)
tells that King Rellis, the mythical first King of Corellis,
disappeared, leaving only these words behind:
"Await my return."
Since then, the subsequent rulers of Corellis have taken on the
title of Regents of King Rellis. Sons of the Regent and their
descendants have precedence over daughters in the succession to
the Regency. Daughters take precedence over the sovereign's
brothers. Regents and their offspring carry the title of Prince
or Princess, and the Regent him-/herself is styled the Prince or
Princess Regent (Regent in ordinary address).
The present Regent is a young man who has just inherited the
Regency. He is unmarried, and has no children. The application
to join the Federation was begun during his father's reign.
His older sister served the previous Regent as his minister of
external affairs, and she has continued to hold that office after
her younger brother inherited the seat. She is currently heir
presumptive. She is married to the Commander of the Corellian
armed forces. She also has no children.
The Senate works similarly to the 20C Parliament of Great Britain.
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File B: A Sketch of Society and Culture
Despite the title of Regent, the original reason for this
tradition has become shrouded in myth and legend, and is currently
considered merely that. Most (with the exception of the extreme
religious fringe) look upon the "Return" with much secular
skepticism (much like how the 20C British monarchy looked on the
Arthurian legends).
There is an active aristocracy with the following ranks in
descending order: Duke/Duchess, Count/Countess, and
Baron/Baroness.
There are also several orders of knighthood, whose members are
addressed as Sir/Dame. The spouses of Knights and Dames are
addressed as Lord/Lady.
Men and women have reached relative equity in Corellian society.
The only exception is that of the rights of succession, in which
case men are given preference over women (much like the British
monarchy of the 20C).
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File C: Technology
Corellis is about fifty years behind the Federation in terms of
general technology level. Civilian technology is comparable to
mid-24th century Federation; military technology, as with many
societies, is more advanced, but certainly not current. SFIA
estimates that three to four of the Corellian military ships can
battle equitably with one 25C HOOD-class vessel.
Transportation: The RC has not yet discovered Heisenberg Compensation
and has therefore not discovered complex matter transportation.
Shuttlecrafts are used for transportation. On the homeworld, aircars
and personal flight devices called "flight disks" are used for long-distance
transportation.
Tactical Advantages: The Correllian sensor sweeping devices are believed
to be very complicated, able to penetrate a Federation vessel's shields to
some degree. Most of Correllian sensor technology is focused on providing
voice and visual detection -- a technology often used against
separatist factions on the homeworld.
The Correllians do have their ships and planetary defense batteries armed
with primitive anti-matter torpedoes. Their beam technology is equivalent
to a Starship vessel of fifty years ago.
Power: Antimatter based. The Correllians abandoned cold fusion only sixty
years ago; Correllian antimatter technology does not compare favorably with
Federation advances.
Medicine: Correllian medicine can be effectively compared with Federation
medicine minus the capacity to transport organs by beam.
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File D:
Correllian Institutions as Contrasted with the Federation
The Regency of Correllis
(RC) consist of six Class M type planets spread
across three star systems. On SD 90128, the President of Correllis,
Tho Carn, applied for membership in the Federation as a "combined government"
with special privileges, following up an earlier application from
Prince Regent Iba XI some ten years earlier.
Ambassadors began to examine the institutions of Correllis and its civil rights
record very closely. After careful examination, the RC was given a rating
of 77 out of 100, indicating that if Correllis is accepted into the Federation,
it would have proportional representation in the Federation Council as a full
member state like Terra or Andor.
The most populated of these planets is Correllis (pop. = 4 billion), the
smallest is Geador (pop. = 1.75 billion). Total population of the DUC is
12 billion.
The honoring of IDIC in Correllis is affected by a separatist dispute
on three of the six planets -- Soday in the Correllis system, and
Pivak and Geador in the least populated and most recently settled of the
three systems. This is the system whose settlement and rights and currently
in dispute with ShipOres LTD, a chartered Federation deep ore mining company.
For the last 250 years, Correllis has attempted to put out the fires of
separatist movements on each of the five planets. One hundred fifty
years ago, several cities on Correllis were "firebombed", or attacked with
low-grade nuclear weapons by a prominent separatist group. The death toll
of this firebombing would reach 100 million over the next decade on all
of the four planets which were then DUC states. Martial law was declared in
the RC and after a bitter thirty-year interplanetary action, movements on
Lilacha and Pendra (the planets in the
second system) were quelled and martial law was lifted.
As a result, the Correllis goverment refuses to allow the flames of
separatism to spread. Even though Correllians may travel freely in the
RC and may peacefully assemble, passports of RC government opponents have
been withdrawn, effectively trapping them on their home planets. There
are guidelines to free discussion in the educational centers, and three
universities have been closed by the RC. Lecturers have been detained.
Some ethnic publications are subject to restrictions if the ethnic groups
are seen to be in sympathy with the separatists.
The RC has no system of slavery or forced labor. A well-refined code of
civil law is firmly in place, and there is no such thing as an extrajudicial
killing or disappearance. Some city police forces, however, have been known
to coerce or torture confessions out of government opponents.
Some planets such as Soday are known to be more severe than others in
assuming guilt when a case is political. The Correllian
Prime Minister has the right to order a secret trial in state cases of
terrorism; otherwise all trials are public and the rule is innocent until
proven guilty.
There is still a nominal capital punishment law, but the only two remaining
capital punishment offenses are for treason and murder. The last legal
execution was 79 years earler. However, corporal punishment thrives on
Correllis in the form of flogging, both in private institutions and as a
public spectacle. This flogging, however, is subject to the RC Civil Code,
which indicates exactly what crimes are punishable by flogging, the duration
of the flogging, and medical treatment, equipment, and rules of supervision
concerning flogging. Corporal punishment violates the Federation Charter,
but on Correllis it has been brought under the control of the strict RC
Civil Code, and the Civil Code is rarely violated with respect to flogging
under the threat of heavy fine or imprisonment.
Certain parts of the Civil Code permit long detentions without charge if
terrorism is suspected. The Regency has been faithful to the
intent of those laws and have never used them to detain other types of
political opponents. A Correllian *must* be brought to trial within 17
days after detained according to the Civil Code, however, judges may extend
detention to 35 days in serious cases.
The RC, furthermore, has not attempted to control the thoughts of its people.
There is no compulsory religion. The religion of the Correllians is called
Kiedabala, and 99 percent of the DUC population is Kiedabalans. There are
only two religious holdovers left in the Civil Code: A non-Kiedabalan may
not marry a Kiedabalan, and compulsory religious education is required alongside
the teaching of contraception. The Correllis Government intends to eliminate
compulsory religious education in an attempt to please the Federation: the
Kiedabalan religion has little remaining political clout, and there are only
marginal numbers of fundamentalist Kiedabalans.
However, there are no compulsory memberships in state parties or compulsory
ideologies. Art and the Press remain free from government interference. There
is no state censorship and the police can only tap into private communication
for terrorist surveillance.
Fear of separtist influences has, however, meant that those advocating
compromise or non-military solutions are seen as subversives -- both by the
government and by the general public. All elections
are secret with a universal ballot. The role of women in the government is
slightly limited, due to Kiedabalan traditional influences, and males dominate
government at a 3:1 ratio although there are female admirals and state
presidents. In rural areas, women's roles are more traditional, although few
could argue that equal rights are not part of the RC.
There is some influence on low-duration media (newspapers, faxpost) as the
RC owns a monopoly on newsprint. Furthermore, the government has been known
to bribe papers to support controversial issues. The existance of "Law 905"
gives the RC the right to regulate and ban high-duration media (plastext,
durabooks), usually of separatist works.
As for the information nets, the Correllian Freenet is a government service
and its administrators are careful to support the DUC. Private nets are
much more critical of the government, and the DUC can only spy and monitor
those services.
The RC is a four-party system of proportional representation. The two
major parties are the Correllian Liberty Party (liberal) and the Honor Party
of Correllis (conservative). The state effectively supports a two party
system, and membership in the CLP or the HPC is compulsory for those seeking
advancement. In local governments that are liberal or conservative hotbeds,
CLP or HPC membership may be required to obtain land grants or landcar
operator licenses. Unions may not be involved in politics according to the
Civil Code, but remain otherwise unimpeded.
Correllians traveling outside the system have been known to have their
passports revoked, particularly if they are pro-separatist or are illegal
emigrants. A visa from the Customs Office can be obtained by the
Correllian Ministry of State by download.
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Stavay finished the work, sending a copy to CMDR Brennan. The social and
military analyses would probably not take as long. A copy of the social
analysis would be sent to LT Murray when it was finished, but a copy of
this particular document was sent to ENS Keyrin. It would let the Ensign
know what troubles the CHESAPEAKE might be facing....
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Respectfully submitted,
James Bowman
LTJG Stavay Tats-Marush, COUNS, USS CHESAPEAKE
jrbowman@london2.skn.net AND JBowman489@aol.com
Takako Nagumo
CMDR Daniel J. Brennan, XO, USS CHESAPEAKE
tnagumo@pop.pitt.edu
All: Hello...no long postscripts...this took a long time to write...right
now, your characters don't know the information, except for the Captain Bell,
Commander Brennan, LTJG Tats-Marush and ENS Keyrin. Soon, everyone will
be given the documentation...
The documentation on LT Murray, of course, is for the eyes of the CO and
XO only.
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