Jannek

Jannek was a male Romulan, the son of Keras, who was born in the 23rd century and lived well into the late 24th century.

Jannek grew up with pride in his father, and joined the Romulan military academy hoping to please Keras by following in his footsteps. In 2266, just as his father had been given command of a new starship, Jannek received a promotion to full serving rank, ahead of all his class mates, and pulled some strings to get himself posted on his father's new ship. When Keras returned home that night Jannek, in his new uniform, and his mother, waited to break the good news. Unfortunately Jannek was disappointed when his father outright refused to have him serve on the new ship, all too aware of the dangers the impending mission would entail.

The next day, just before Keras departed on the mission, Jannek met with his father again. The two settled their differences, with Keras making it clear he was very proud of his son and Jannek understanding his father's reasons for not allowing him to serve on the new ship. 

As Keras feared the mission was not one he returned from, after taking the ghost ship across the neutral zone he engaged in a protracted battle with the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) under Captain James T. Kirk and he and his ship were destroyed. 

Following his father's death Jannek continued to serve the Empire and eventually became an ambassador. His interests in adulthood included hunting, and history, with a particular personal interest in Federation history and exploits of James T. Kirk.

At come point in his career Jannek established a friendly relationship with Federation Ambassador Curzon Dax.

Circa 2371, Jannek gained access to his father's final logs, which had survived the destruction of his vessel, and was inspired by Keras's final words to Kirk; "In a different reality, I could have called you friend". Also around that time he traced the Kirk family tree to the present and discovered the existence of Jamie Samantha Kirk, who had recently graduated from Starfleet Academy, and developed an interest in the young Human.

Around that time Jannek was sent as an envoy to Bajor to try and establish a relationship between he Romulan Star Empire and the Bajoran people. He and a small force of Romulan military personnel under his command stayed on Deep Space 9 for duration of the talks.

As Jannek arrived on the station an apparent malfunction in the docking ring caused the death of a Starfleet lieutenant. Jannek and his party accompanied the medical personnel to the Infirmary where he met, and reacquainted himself, with Dax, now in it's new host Jadzia, and to his surprise Jamie Samantha Kirk, who had recently been assigned to the station.

Following the accident Jannek had his men scout around the station to seek an unusual activity. One of his men, Lieutenant Rykhin, became aware of an artifact Kirk, Dax and Doctor Bashir had recently brought back from the Gamma Quadrant, and later became aware of a plot to steal it. When the Rykhin attempted to stop the plot he was shot and killed by the thief. The thief disappeared in an energy serge from the artifact.

Realising the artifact might be dangerous Kirk, Dax and Bashir opted to continue studying it on the USS Orinoco (NCC-72905) away from the station. Unfortunately shortly after they launched the runabout was hijacked by stowaways, members of Bajoran isolationist group, The Circle, who believed the artifact was the Chalice, and that it would allow The Circle rise to power on Bajor. Jannek persuaded Commander Sisko to let him join a rescue party. By tracking a homing signal Dax had been able to activate in the Orinoco Jannek and the team from DS9 took the USS Rio Grande (NCC-72452) in pursuit and found The Circle personnel performing a ritual on Bajor to celebrate their acquisition.

However the artifact was not the Chalice and an energy build up knocked The Circle's leader out as the artifact grew and revealed it's true purpose - The artifact was in fact Ayelborne, the last of the Organians nearing the end of his journey to another plane of existence. Before he departed he wished to bring peace between the Federation and Romulans much as he and the other Organians had begun a century earlier between the Federation and the Klingons, and as such had engineered the recent events to bring Jannek and Kirk together, hopefully the pairing could form the start of a peaceful relationship between the interstellar powers.

Inspired by Aylebourne and his late-father's hopes of peace Jannek requested Kirk serve as his liaison officer with the Federation, and offer she willing accepted. 


 * ''In Blood and Honor, after Kirk accepted Jannek’s offer he says "an old family friend awaiting you is glad you joined our cause" presumably indicating Jannek was in some way affiliated with Spock and the reunification movement.


 * Blood and Honor was written by Mark Lenard who played Jannek's father Keras in the the .