- For other uses, see Lori.
Lori Karen Desmonal was an Alpha Centauran Starfleet Lieutenant in the 23rd century. She is described as having high cheekbones, and a green streak in her light blonde hair. (FASA RPG module: The Strider Incident)
Biography[]
Lori Desmonal was born in the region of Tamen, somewhere in the Alpha Centauri system, to a well-off family. Lori chose to study engineering purely for the enjoyment of it, and this career path eventually led her to join Starfleet, which has proven more challenging than she initially expected.
After failing her first cadet cruise, she underwent a second cadet cruise for one year aboard the USS Hood. After graduating, she served aboard the USS Vidal for 2 years before being transferred to the USS Strider. Aboard the Strider, she served as an engineer, and developed a romantic relationship with Jack Thompson.
In 2283, on reference stardate 2/1808, The Strider received a Code Red 1-A emergency transmission on secure Federation channels. Captain Reardon relayed the message to the other members of Task Force 13 - the USS Vidal and the USS Clark. At the time, Desmonal was in engineering. The task force departed for the Stogar system, as ordered. Since the Stogar system was inside the Organian Neutral Zone, this would have been an act of war, in peacetime, but now, the Federation was at war, and the Strider's followed orders.
When the task force arrived in the Stogar System, they hid an an asteroid belt, awaiting the supposed backup of Task Force 19. However, the ships were detected and persued by a group of five Klingon D7-M battlecruisers, which significantly outmatched and outgunned the three Ranger-class ships. Understanding they stood no chance, Captain Reardon ordered the task force to turn and leave the system. However, the battlecruisers caught up to the Clark and the Vidal, destroying both ships. Captain Reardon barely managed to save the Strider from total destruction, but the ship still took heavy damage, including multiple hull breaches, severe damage to the ship's computer, non-functional weapons, warp coolant leaks in engineering, and a direct hit to a nacelle. Fearing the worst, Captain Reardon ejected the ship's logs in a buoy, and engaged the warp engines at maximum, in a last-ditch effort to save the ship's failing engines from destroying themselves. The Strider escaped, but was barely holding together. The ship was so badly damaged it could only sustain warp one, and had lost a great deal of its crew - however Desmonal was able to avoid serious injury, despite being in the engineering department the entire time. Captain Reardon ordered the ship back to Defense Outpost 1121 for emergency repairs.
On reference stardate 2/1808.28, the Strider made it back to Defense Outpost 1121, and instantly questioned where the additional security forces, that should be required by wartime procedure, were. The Outpost's commander, Captain Carl Curtis, hailed the Strider, asking why Reardon had returned from its mission early. As soon as Reardon said she had engaged the Klingons, Curtis beamed over security officers and arrested the entire crew for treason, as the Federation was not at war - unless the Strider had just started one.
After Kristine Reardon was arrested, and took full responsibility for the actions of her crew, Desmonal was temporarily reassigned to engineering duty aboard Defense Outpost 1121. When Stoan learned the crew of the USS Lexington was investigating the incident, he led Desmonal, and several other members of the Strider crew, to come forward, and share what they knew. Desmonal did not have much to share, but was convinced Reardon's orders were authentic.
Several days later, Desmonal was be part of the combined crew of the Strider and Lexington, who come up with a plan to break Reardon out of prison, and clear her name. The plan also necessitated commandeering the Strider, the only currently-warp-capable ship at the station. Desmonal's part of the plan involved using her engineering credentials to gain access to the 'Fire Directional Control Computer', to allow the Strider to escape without being fired upon.
With a jailbroken Captain Reardon in tow, the Strider made the journey to in the Stogar system, and promptly fell into a trap laid by the IKV Bloodsteel. Captains Reardon and Franklin were able to negotiate for the buoy they had come for, and departed for the Neutral Zone with the Bloodsteel as an escort. After arriving back at the Outpost, Captain Franklin and his crew were instrumental in the unmasking of Commodore Bram Harmonson as a Klingon agent, and proving the Strider's crew only ever did what they were supposed to.
Several weeks later, Commodore Astak arrived to review the incident. Desmonal, and the rest of the Strider crew, were formally cleared of all charges. (FASA RPG module: The Strider Incident)
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Federation, Starfleet | USS Hood (Constitution class) |
Ankee • J. Banks • G. Barton • K. Chin • L. Craig • K. Dodge • D'Uberville • Ellis • En-Lai • M. Harrari • S. Kane • J. Kyle • J. Martinez • Morax • S. M'Ress • Oxley • A. Paultic • H. Revere • M. Rousseau • Simmons • Stuart • Tavi • C. Vayentes • G. Vedra • Umba • P. Yudrin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USS Hood (Enterprise class) |
Lori Desmonal • Lustig | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USS Hood (Excelsior class) |
Abrams • Brian • Buonfiglio • Chandra • Consuela • T. Czierniewski • M. Dayrit • R. DeSoto • R. Green • E. Hayat • R. Holverson • B. Hsu • J. Kojima • G. La Forge • Ledbetter • Lolo • F. Orzon • C. Papadimitriou • W.T. Riker • E. Rose • Tuvok • D. Voyskunsky • L. Weiss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USS Hood (Galaxy class) |
E. Sherwood • W. Crushera | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Terran Empire (mirror universe) | ISS Hood | Martinez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
a : alternate reality |