[X] Ambassador-class. She'll show the virtues of the Federation to species nobody has met before.
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In order to be peaceful, You must have two things, the will to accept the burdens and responsibilities that peace entails, and the capacity to enact great and terrible violence.
The former without the latter is not peacefulness, is harmlesness.
The Ambassador-class shows and demonstrates the latter. It will be seen if our conduct demonstrates the former.
The former without the latter is not peacefulness, is harmlesness.
The Ambassador-class shows and demonstrates the latter. It will be seen if our conduct demonstrates the former.
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Nobody let this man into Paris.
2341: Project Ambassador (Retrospective: Part One)
Interview with Commander Douglas, Starfleet Liason to Qo'nos, 2340-2345.
The Klingons stonewalled us for two weeks straight over Narendra III, and that was after it took three days for the news to filter through to the Federation Consulate as something to start chasing them over. I can only imagine what it must have been like for the families, to have all these questions over what had happened and just have total silence coming back the other way. It wasn't like the ship just went missing one day - we knew the final thing the Enterprise had relayed back was that they were responding to a Klingon distress call. If you look hard enough I imagine you'll find some redeployments were being made towards the Klingon border by the second week.
You think Starfleet expected this was the opening shot in a new Klingon War?
No, I don't think so. It's not really in the Klingon character to lure you in for a kill, not unless you're already fighting them. But you hear absolutely nothing for long enough and I expect the worst-case scenario starts being seriously considered as a possibility. It was around week two that we started hearing about a Council of the Great Houses that had been called by Chancellor K'mpec, and that probably didn't help.
Is that unusual, a Council of the Great Houses?
No, they happen fairly regularly, about every half-decade or so. Mostly just an excuse for feasting and starting new internal feuds, but out of schedule usually means there's something big happening in the Klingon Empire. I don't think I'll ever be able to describe the feeling when I was notified that the Chancellor was summoning me specifically in my role as the Starfleet representative. Something between nervousness and dread. The ambassador wasn't thrilled at being specifically left out, either, and I had no reason to give him for why that was.
So you essentially entered the Great Hall with the knowledge you might be going to your death?
That's something of an ex post facto exaggeration of events. Had I thought it was a possibility? Sure, but I just as quickly discarded it. After a few years on Qo'nos you get a fairly solid grasp on Klingon honour rites, and there was no reality where I got a formal summons only to get handed a bat'leth. At least not without warning.
So you were summoned and walked right in. What was that like?
There's something about the Klingons at their most unified that's unnerving to watch, that feeling of being an outsider to something formal and sacred. But to be a part of that formality is something else entirely. I had goosebumps from the moment the chancellor's guards flanked me on the way in with their bat'leth's resting on their shoulders.
Sounds intimidating!
It means they were battle-ready, that they were considering me a threat that needed them ready for combat. Before that day I could count on one hand the number of times any Klingon offered me that kind of respect. Then we entered the Great Hall proper and I found two-thirds of the Great Houses with their House Heads standing with Chancellor K'mpec. Including a few of the pro-Romulan ones. And on a funerary platform in the middle of the hall they had starship wreckage. Must have pulled it straight out of Narendra orbit a couple days after the battle and rushed back to Qo'nos with it.
Did you know right away, or?
Yeah. I closed my eyes for a good few seconds when I saw it, just that feeling of knowing, you know? It's not a good one. But getting a closer look was so much worse. I recognised some of it. The only pristine looking part was the data recorder, which must have been ejected before the ship went up. The Klingons never even tried to open it, did you know that?
I didn't.
Guess the aftermath spoke for itself. Seeing a scorched combadge was a real kick in the gut, knowing that someone had been wearing that. Pieces of hull that had disruptor burns. But the worst thing was that they'd found the dedication plaque. The motto was shorn in two and the rest of the plate warped almost beyond recognition, but I could still read the name. When K'mpec announced that the Klingon Empire saluted the bravery of our fallen warriors I-
We can take a small break, if you like.
I think that's a good idea. I'll pour us a cup. Raktajino?
The Klingons stonewalled us for two weeks straight over Narendra III, and that was after it took three days for the news to filter through to the Federation Consulate as something to start chasing them over. I can only imagine what it must have been like for the families, to have all these questions over what had happened and just have total silence coming back the other way. It wasn't like the ship just went missing one day - we knew the final thing the Enterprise had relayed back was that they were responding to a Klingon distress call. If you look hard enough I imagine you'll find some redeployments were being made towards the Klingon border by the second week.
You think Starfleet expected this was the opening shot in a new Klingon War?
No, I don't think so. It's not really in the Klingon character to lure you in for a kill, not unless you're already fighting them. But you hear absolutely nothing for long enough and I expect the worst-case scenario starts being seriously considered as a possibility. It was around week two that we started hearing about a Council of the Great Houses that had been called by Chancellor K'mpec, and that probably didn't help.
Is that unusual, a Council of the Great Houses?
No, they happen fairly regularly, about every half-decade or so. Mostly just an excuse for feasting and starting new internal feuds, but out of schedule usually means there's something big happening in the Klingon Empire. I don't think I'll ever be able to describe the feeling when I was notified that the Chancellor was summoning me specifically in my role as the Starfleet representative. Something between nervousness and dread. The ambassador wasn't thrilled at being specifically left out, either, and I had no reason to give him for why that was.
So you essentially entered the Great Hall with the knowledge you might be going to your death?
That's something of an ex post facto exaggeration of events. Had I thought it was a possibility? Sure, but I just as quickly discarded it. After a few years on Qo'nos you get a fairly solid grasp on Klingon honour rites, and there was no reality where I got a formal summons only to get handed a bat'leth. At least not without warning.
So you were summoned and walked right in. What was that like?
There's something about the Klingons at their most unified that's unnerving to watch, that feeling of being an outsider to something formal and sacred. But to be a part of that formality is something else entirely. I had goosebumps from the moment the chancellor's guards flanked me on the way in with their bat'leth's resting on their shoulders.
Sounds intimidating!
It means they were battle-ready, that they were considering me a threat that needed them ready for combat. Before that day I could count on one hand the number of times any Klingon offered me that kind of respect. Then we entered the Great Hall proper and I found two-thirds of the Great Houses with their House Heads standing with Chancellor K'mpec. Including a few of the pro-Romulan ones. And on a funerary platform in the middle of the hall they had starship wreckage. Must have pulled it straight out of Narendra orbit a couple days after the battle and rushed back to Qo'nos with it.
Did you know right away, or?
Yeah. I closed my eyes for a good few seconds when I saw it, just that feeling of knowing, you know? It's not a good one. But getting a closer look was so much worse. I recognised some of it. The only pristine looking part was the data recorder, which must have been ejected before the ship went up. The Klingons never even tried to open it, did you know that?
I didn't.
Guess the aftermath spoke for itself. Seeing a scorched combadge was a real kick in the gut, knowing that someone had been wearing that. Pieces of hull that had disruptor burns. But the worst thing was that they'd found the dedication plaque. The motto was shorn in two and the rest of the plate warped almost beyond recognition, but I could still read the name. When K'mpec announced that the Klingon Empire saluted the bravery of our fallen warriors I-
We can take a small break, if you like.
I think that's a good idea. I'll pour us a cup. Raktajino?
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Neither. No matter how many guns you slap on an Ambassador, it won't be able to survive a battle with four Romulan warbirds.
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Duzzit
CSC 1st Multiversal Fleet Commander
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It was, to be fair, unlikely to ever win. 4:1(or more?) odds battle and all that. Probably gave the Romulans a bloody nose though more so than the Ent-C in canon, especially since the image Sayle put together for us seems closer to the refit than the OTL Ambassador.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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Based on the original episode, they were heavily outnumbered and defending a Klingon outpost from a Romulan raid. Sometimes there are fights you can't win but you have to take regardless, and this was one of them.
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Part 1 interesting. Curious if we get more information in part 2.
I think we did better than Cannon as our ambassador class has the supplementary impulse drives (so it's slightly more maneuverable) which the actual ambassador didn't and has the 5 phaser strips instead of 11 arrays it also has the rapid fire photon toroedo launcher tho wether it has more than the original I don't know
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If they're threatening to kill you, that means they like you! <3
Duzzit
CSC 1st Multiversal Fleet Commander
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Given that they are honouring the ships sacrifice and this is an interview which makes it clear that no fighting came from it, the episode may or may not have occurred, but we are still in something close to OTL.
KlavoHunter
THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO GODS ABOVE ENTERPRISE!
Honestly, I'm astounded that Gorkon came back from Sto'vo'kor!
K'mpec, Gorkon, Gowron, Gowpec, they're all the same.
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Different fellow, same name?
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Same house and named after his grandfather?