Stoan was an Vulcan Starfleet Lieutenant Commander in the 23rd century. He is described as short for a Vulcan, with a slender frame - however, not as short as Marvin Wanglestien. (FASA RPG module: The Strider Incident)
History[]
Stoan was born in the Shil region of Vulcan. From an early age, Stoan took to the sciences, specifically developing a background in chemistry. He grew to have great aspirations of conducting scientific studies, and came to the logical conclusions that Starfleet had more available resources and opportunities for this goal than the Vulcan Science Academy did. Therefore, he left Vulcan to join Starfleet. As he was going to be primarily living amongst Humans, Stoan felt he should try to act slightly more Human, to better integrate. To this end, he began to try to use logic to develop a sense of humor, to little success.
His first posting after graduation was to the USS Randolph, where he served for 3 years. Sometime during his time on the Randolph, Stoan saved the lives of eight fellow officers during a shipboard fire. Stoan received some scarring to his lungs during the blaze that medical technology of the time could not repair. However, this did not seem to be severe enough to impede him in his later Starfleet service. For his heroics, Stoan was awarded the Silver Star of Heroism, First Class. After serving on the Randolph, Stoan was stationed at Starbase 12 for five years. Eventually, he was assigned to the USS Strider, as his superiors saw this as a good opportunity for Stoan to learn more about combat tactics. Aboard the Strider, Stoan served as one of the ship's brightest science officers, earning the respect of Captain Kristine Reardon.
On reference stardate 2/1808, The Strider received a Code Red 1-A emergency transmission on secure Federation channels. Understanding its classified nature, Captain Reardon took the message personally, not on the main viewscreen. Reardon then relayed the message to the other members of Task Force 13 - the USS Vidal and the USS Clark. While Captain Reardon did attempt to not let others hear the classified transmission, Stoan still picked up some parts of it. 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 it was logical to follow orders.
When the task force arrived in the Stogar System, they hid an an asteroid belt, awaiting Task Force 19, who were supposed to be arriving as backup. However, the ships were detected 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. 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 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, Stoan was temporarily reassigned to Defense Outpost 1121. When he learned the crew of the USS Lexington was investigating the incident, he came forward, along with some other members of the Strider's crew, to share what they knew.
Several days later, Stoan was 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. Stoan's part of the plan was to involve sneaking aboard the Strider after-hours, and assisting in jury-rigging repairs enough to be able to make the voyage.
With a jailbroken Captain Reardon in tow, the Strider escaped the Korial system, and made the journey to the Stogar system. The ship began scanning for the buoy they came for, and almost immediately fell into a trap laid by the IKV Bloodsteel. Captains Reardon and Franklin were able to negotiate for the buoy, 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 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. Stoan, and the rest of the Strider crew, were formally cleared of all charges. (FASA RPG module: The Strider Incident)