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Application for the Barge
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diabolicalfiend
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E-mail: biffingprincess@yahoo.ie
Other Characters: Bob Fraser
Character Name: General Chang
Series: Original Star Trek Movies
Age: Looks sixty two, or thereabouts, but is actually closer to the century.
From When?: When the Enterprise and the Excelsior blow the heck out of his lovely prototype Bird of Prey.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. He used his position as Chief of Staff to the Chancellor to orchestrate a conspiracy that assassinated the Chancellor and blamed the assassination on Kirk and McCoy.
Abilities/Powers: Tough to kill. Klingons have redundant organs. Expert in weaponry and engineering and very well schooled.
Personality: Chang is a complicated man. One thing is obvious, though. He has buckets of charisma. He is softly spoken, rarely needing to raise his voice and shout, but prefers to win his battles by his intelligence and wits. It is this way that he has managed to advance through the ranks, rather than engaging in the boisterous posturing of his fellow officers.
And there have been plenty of battles over the years. It is an activity that Chang has learned to relish, as a human might enjoy a crossword puzzle or a good game of chess. Battle and war is, to him, a true test of mind and character.
He is, though, a man afraid of change. Not the manner of change that accompanies life, he is adaptable, but towards peace, where his role would be as nothing more than a relic of an old time, is a concept that frightens him to the extent where he would work toward betraying his Chancellor.
He was brought up learning about the threat emerging that is humanity and while hate isn’t the word to use, his early schooling was about humans-as-enemies. He has also gotten the opinion that humans tend to think of themselves as superior without any real basis and is well aware that his people’s carnivorous and martial-oriented ways is looked down upon by humans particularly and Starfleet and the Federation as a whole.
As a response to this, he has learned all he can about human culture and literature and comes off as a cultured man, even if he can’t resist an opportunity to bait a human about their own violent natures.
Path to Redemption: Simple talking won’t suffice. You have to earn his respect before you can earn his trust. This is a man who has spent his life among posers and blowhards and is from a culture where actions speak a lot louder than words and words are hardly used at all.
The root of his redemption lies at acknowledging that Chang did what he did out of fear. Fear of being made obsolete. This fear made him work with humans and Starfleet to assassinate his own Chancellor.
It would be a mistake to work at his redemption from a human point of view. It doesn’t apply to him and he’ll consider it not only irrelevant but a direct affront and evidence of human arrogance.
As a child, he was doomed to looking like a human and having to work against prejudice because it was assumed that his kind, known as QuchHa’, were weaker and less successful than their fully foreheaded counterparts. Chang is quite sensitive to insults of Klingon ways, as a result of this, though he would tend to brood on it, rather than speak out loud.
Klingon motives come from a battlefield honour. It is surprisingly complex and makes getting through difficult, getting a full sense of where his motives come from will help the warden break through.
History: Chang was born on Qo’nos, the Klingon homeworld. His father was a lawyer and his family was wealthy and noble. This fine tradition was almost utterly destroyed when a scientist named Antaak, in an attempt to create genetically enhanced Klingons using the DNA retrieved from an attack of the human versions on a Klingon vessel, created a deadly virus.
With the help of the Enterprise’s physician, a Denobulan by the name of Phlox, the virus was stabilised, but left the sufferers, Chang as one of them, smooth skinned and ‘weaker’. In truth, they were slightly stronger than their counterparts, not to mention more intelligent, but their physical appearance held them back socially.
Determined to defeat his people’s misconceptions, he left his studies to become a lawyer and enrolled in the Klingon Defence Force officer academy. He excelled in training, learning how to strategise and advanced quickly through the ranks, earning the name ‘the merciless’ against his enemies.
In the late 2240s, a ‘cure’ for the deformity was found. Chang’s ridges were returned to him, though he remained quite human looking in appearance compared to others that had been cured.
He eventually advanced as far as Chief of Staff of the Klingon Defence Forces, during this time creating the Elite Command Academy, an elite part of the Klingon Academy designed to create better captains for the KDF’s starships.
He lost his eye in a blood duel with a Klingon named Kalnor, who attempted to usurp the government for his own ends.
When Gorkon became chancellor, Chang found the man honourable and easy to work with, finding a lot of respect and even like for the man, given that they both shared a love for Shakespeare and were both men of quiet action rather than the boisterous stereotype often associated with Klingons.
Then Praxis was destroyed. It was an important source of power for the Klingon empire and its destruction brought the Klingons into a financial and humanitarian crisis.
There were two possible decisions, either plunge the empire into war with the Federation, possibly dooming the empire, but keeping hold of its pride, or reaching out to them, swallowing that pride, but possibly dooming the empire in the long run.
Gorkon chose the latter. Chang chose the former. He challenged him, but Gorkon in the end was Chancellor and with the help of Captain Spock, set the gears in motion.
Chang also set gears in motion with the Federation. Finding like minded warriors in Admiral Lance Cartwright and Colonel Patrick West, he began plotting a conspiracy to assassinate his chancellor and blaming that on a suitably racist Admiral. Kirk.
The Enterprise was dispatched to rendezvous with the Kronos One, Gorkon’s ship and they had a tense dinner, with Chang shooting barbs at any opportunity and delighted to find that Kirk was equally aggressive. The Klingon contingent returned to their ship.
Thanks to an agent onboard, Valeris, a couple of assassins boarded after the Enterprise was made to look like it fired on the Kronos One, by using a Bird of Prey that could fire when cloaked.
They proceeded on board with little resistance, critically wounding the Chancellor. When power had restored and the assassins made their escape, Chang hailed the Enterprise, suitable enraged.
Kirk immediately surrendered and he and McCoy beamed over to see what they could do. Despite his best efforts, McCoy couldn’t save him and Chang had them arrested immediately.
He then served as the prosecution in their trial. They were sent down but despite Chang’s plans, were not executed, but sent to Rura Penthe. The odds of survival in the ‘Aliens’ Graveyard’ were slim to none, but Chang wasn’t about to leave such things to fate and so arranged with the guards to have them not survive to experience the prison for very long.
They arranged to engineer the escape of the pair (an accident would be too suspicious to befall both men) so that they could be ‘killed while trying to escape’.
This attempt failed because of a timely rescue by Spock, fortunately before the head warden could reveal the extent of the conspiracy.
This meant it took longer for the Enterprise crew to discover Valeris, giving Chang enough time to head towards the conference on Khitomer, where the Federation president was to be assassinated.
Valeris eventually revealed the extent of the conspiracy and with a little help from Sulu and the Excelsior, the Enterprise was fast behind Chang’s Bird of Prey.
Chang attacked them in orbit of the planet, however his faith in the prototype weapon was his undoing as eventually the Enterprise crew figured out a way to track it using its exhaust.
It was fired upon by both the Excelsior and the Enterprise until it and Chang were obliterated.
Sample Journal Entry: [His voice is smooth and light. He is in full control and even amused as he speaks] When should the three of us meet again? In thunder, lighting, or in rain?
When all the uproar is over, When the battle has been lost and won?
Kirk and Spock? Such callow youths you are today?
And the old ship, Enterprise, have their denizens here also? Good news! Good news! [He chuckles as the transmission ends.]
Sample RP: Chang brooded on the events that had brought him here. He was a Klingon. And yet, here he was, among Federation-kind, on a barge.
The only barge he should be on, if he should be on one at all, would be the barge commanded by Kortar headed for Grethor.
Chang had died in battle, honourable, because even though he could fire when cloaked, he had taken on not one, but two Starfleet vessels, one of which held the Great Captain Kirk and the other, with his student, Captain Sulu, who commanded one of Starfleet’s most advanced starships.
Was this some mere Federation trickery, using their high technological skills to somehow transport him out of his starship before he could be released to Sto-vo-kor?
Clearly, some substitution was made, but he had felt the powerful envelopment of the flame charging into his lungs, searing them away. Surely Federation medicine hadn’t advanced to such an extent where they could revive him after such a death.
Chang dismissed that as even a possibility, after all, they could not revive Gorkon for more than a pitiful few seconds, despite that Doctor McCoy pouring out his very heart in his attempt to save the Chancellor.
His anger grew, though an observer wouldn’t notice any change, bar a slight tensing of muscles if they were looking very closely. Chang realised only one explanation. Even in death, the tiny trace of human DNA that had poisoned his body when he was a child had conspired to interfere with his rightful destiny: that of his proper place among the Klingon honoured.
This Admiral, whoever he is, will pay.
Special Notes:
User LJ:
diabolicalfiend AIM/IM: Si Barone Ow
E-mail: biffingprincess@yahoo.ie
Other Characters: Bob Fraser
Character Name: General Chang
Series: Original Star Trek Movies
Age: Looks sixty two, or thereabouts, but is actually closer to the century.
From When?: When the Enterprise and the Excelsior blow the heck out of his lovely prototype Bird of Prey.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. He used his position as Chief of Staff to the Chancellor to orchestrate a conspiracy that assassinated the Chancellor and blamed the assassination on Kirk and McCoy.
Abilities/Powers: Tough to kill. Klingons have redundant organs. Expert in weaponry and engineering and very well schooled.
Personality: Chang is a complicated man. One thing is obvious, though. He has buckets of charisma. He is softly spoken, rarely needing to raise his voice and shout, but prefers to win his battles by his intelligence and wits. It is this way that he has managed to advance through the ranks, rather than engaging in the boisterous posturing of his fellow officers.
And there have been plenty of battles over the years. It is an activity that Chang has learned to relish, as a human might enjoy a crossword puzzle or a good game of chess. Battle and war is, to him, a true test of mind and character.
He is, though, a man afraid of change. Not the manner of change that accompanies life, he is adaptable, but towards peace, where his role would be as nothing more than a relic of an old time, is a concept that frightens him to the extent where he would work toward betraying his Chancellor.
He was brought up learning about the threat emerging that is humanity and while hate isn’t the word to use, his early schooling was about humans-as-enemies. He has also gotten the opinion that humans tend to think of themselves as superior without any real basis and is well aware that his people’s carnivorous and martial-oriented ways is looked down upon by humans particularly and Starfleet and the Federation as a whole.
As a response to this, he has learned all he can about human culture and literature and comes off as a cultured man, even if he can’t resist an opportunity to bait a human about their own violent natures.
Path to Redemption: Simple talking won’t suffice. You have to earn his respect before you can earn his trust. This is a man who has spent his life among posers and blowhards and is from a culture where actions speak a lot louder than words and words are hardly used at all.
The root of his redemption lies at acknowledging that Chang did what he did out of fear. Fear of being made obsolete. This fear made him work with humans and Starfleet to assassinate his own Chancellor.
It would be a mistake to work at his redemption from a human point of view. It doesn’t apply to him and he’ll consider it not only irrelevant but a direct affront and evidence of human arrogance.
As a child, he was doomed to looking like a human and having to work against prejudice because it was assumed that his kind, known as QuchHa’, were weaker and less successful than their fully foreheaded counterparts. Chang is quite sensitive to insults of Klingon ways, as a result of this, though he would tend to brood on it, rather than speak out loud.
Klingon motives come from a battlefield honour. It is surprisingly complex and makes getting through difficult, getting a full sense of where his motives come from will help the warden break through.
History: Chang was born on Qo’nos, the Klingon homeworld. His father was a lawyer and his family was wealthy and noble. This fine tradition was almost utterly destroyed when a scientist named Antaak, in an attempt to create genetically enhanced Klingons using the DNA retrieved from an attack of the human versions on a Klingon vessel, created a deadly virus.
With the help of the Enterprise’s physician, a Denobulan by the name of Phlox, the virus was stabilised, but left the sufferers, Chang as one of them, smooth skinned and ‘weaker’. In truth, they were slightly stronger than their counterparts, not to mention more intelligent, but their physical appearance held them back socially.
Determined to defeat his people’s misconceptions, he left his studies to become a lawyer and enrolled in the Klingon Defence Force officer academy. He excelled in training, learning how to strategise and advanced quickly through the ranks, earning the name ‘the merciless’ against his enemies.
In the late 2240s, a ‘cure’ for the deformity was found. Chang’s ridges were returned to him, though he remained quite human looking in appearance compared to others that had been cured.
He eventually advanced as far as Chief of Staff of the Klingon Defence Forces, during this time creating the Elite Command Academy, an elite part of the Klingon Academy designed to create better captains for the KDF’s starships.
He lost his eye in a blood duel with a Klingon named Kalnor, who attempted to usurp the government for his own ends.
When Gorkon became chancellor, Chang found the man honourable and easy to work with, finding a lot of respect and even like for the man, given that they both shared a love for Shakespeare and were both men of quiet action rather than the boisterous stereotype often associated with Klingons.
Then Praxis was destroyed. It was an important source of power for the Klingon empire and its destruction brought the Klingons into a financial and humanitarian crisis.
There were two possible decisions, either plunge the empire into war with the Federation, possibly dooming the empire, but keeping hold of its pride, or reaching out to them, swallowing that pride, but possibly dooming the empire in the long run.
Gorkon chose the latter. Chang chose the former. He challenged him, but Gorkon in the end was Chancellor and with the help of Captain Spock, set the gears in motion.
Chang also set gears in motion with the Federation. Finding like minded warriors in Admiral Lance Cartwright and Colonel Patrick West, he began plotting a conspiracy to assassinate his chancellor and blaming that on a suitably racist Admiral. Kirk.
The Enterprise was dispatched to rendezvous with the Kronos One, Gorkon’s ship and they had a tense dinner, with Chang shooting barbs at any opportunity and delighted to find that Kirk was equally aggressive. The Klingon contingent returned to their ship.
Thanks to an agent onboard, Valeris, a couple of assassins boarded after the Enterprise was made to look like it fired on the Kronos One, by using a Bird of Prey that could fire when cloaked.
They proceeded on board with little resistance, critically wounding the Chancellor. When power had restored and the assassins made their escape, Chang hailed the Enterprise, suitable enraged.
Kirk immediately surrendered and he and McCoy beamed over to see what they could do. Despite his best efforts, McCoy couldn’t save him and Chang had them arrested immediately.
He then served as the prosecution in their trial. They were sent down but despite Chang’s plans, were not executed, but sent to Rura Penthe. The odds of survival in the ‘Aliens’ Graveyard’ were slim to none, but Chang wasn’t about to leave such things to fate and so arranged with the guards to have them not survive to experience the prison for very long.
They arranged to engineer the escape of the pair (an accident would be too suspicious to befall both men) so that they could be ‘killed while trying to escape’.
This attempt failed because of a timely rescue by Spock, fortunately before the head warden could reveal the extent of the conspiracy.
This meant it took longer for the Enterprise crew to discover Valeris, giving Chang enough time to head towards the conference on Khitomer, where the Federation president was to be assassinated.
Valeris eventually revealed the extent of the conspiracy and with a little help from Sulu and the Excelsior, the Enterprise was fast behind Chang’s Bird of Prey.
Chang attacked them in orbit of the planet, however his faith in the prototype weapon was his undoing as eventually the Enterprise crew figured out a way to track it using its exhaust.
It was fired upon by both the Excelsior and the Enterprise until it and Chang were obliterated.
Sample Journal Entry: [His voice is smooth and light. He is in full control and even amused as he speaks] When should the three of us meet again? In thunder, lighting, or in rain?
When all the uproar is over, When the battle has been lost and won?
Kirk and Spock? Such callow youths you are today?
And the old ship, Enterprise, have their denizens here also? Good news! Good news! [He chuckles as the transmission ends.]
Sample RP: Chang brooded on the events that had brought him here. He was a Klingon. And yet, here he was, among Federation-kind, on a barge.
The only barge he should be on, if he should be on one at all, would be the barge commanded by Kortar headed for Grethor.
Chang had died in battle, honourable, because even though he could fire when cloaked, he had taken on not one, but two Starfleet vessels, one of which held the Great Captain Kirk and the other, with his student, Captain Sulu, who commanded one of Starfleet’s most advanced starships.
Was this some mere Federation trickery, using their high technological skills to somehow transport him out of his starship before he could be released to Sto-vo-kor?
Clearly, some substitution was made, but he had felt the powerful envelopment of the flame charging into his lungs, searing them away. Surely Federation medicine hadn’t advanced to such an extent where they could revive him after such a death.
Chang dismissed that as even a possibility, after all, they could not revive Gorkon for more than a pitiful few seconds, despite that Doctor McCoy pouring out his very heart in his attempt to save the Chancellor.
His anger grew, though an observer wouldn’t notice any change, bar a slight tensing of muscles if they were looking very closely. Chang realised only one explanation. Even in death, the tiny trace of human DNA that had poisoned his body when he was a child had conspired to interfere with his rightful destiny: that of his proper place among the Klingon honoured.
This Admiral, whoever he is, will pay.
Special Notes:
