Kant Jorel

Kant Jorel was a Bajoran male who served as the press liason for the Federation Council and the Federation President in the late 2370s and early 2380s. He assumed the position in March of 2377, approximately six months after the Republic of Bajor became a Federation Member State.

During the Bajoran Occupation, Kant was a member of the Bajoran underground, creating news broadcasts that were illegally broadcast in order to undermine the Cardassian regime on Bajor. During one of his broadcasts, Kant and his associates revealed that they had become aware of a Cardassian plan to ambush a Resistance cell; this unfortunately alerted the Cardassians to a leak in their security and prompted them to attack the cell unexpectedly.

After the liberation of his home planet, Kant served as press liason for the first two Bajoran First Ministers before coming to the Palais in 2377. During his first two and a half years, Kant went through seven assistants before Zhres took a job as his assistant in September of 2379 and refused to be intimidated into quitting. Zhres would stay on at least until 2381. Throughout his first two years, he spent a great deal of time attempting to downplay the influence of a group of Federation secessionists. In September of 2379, he announced that the Federation Council had accepted petitions for the presidential candidacies of Starfleet Admiral William Ross, Cestus III Governor Nanietta "Nan" Bacco, and Federation Special Emissary Arafel "Fel" Pagro of Ktar, and that Ross would not be running in the election.

In 2380, Kant learned of the secret conspiracy to arm the independent world of Tezwa by former president Min Zife, former Zife chief of staff Koll Azernal, and former Secretary of Military Intelligence Nelina Quafina and of another conspiracy to force Zife and company from power at gunpoint by Admiral Ross from Ozla Graniv of Seeker, a Trill news agency. He alerted President Bacco’s chief of staff, Esperanza Piniero, and communicated Graniv’s demand that Ross leave the Federation government and Starfleet in return for not publishing the news of the Tezwan conspiracies.


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