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| - Stefan DeSeve était un officier Humain de Starfleet qui s'est exilé dans l'Empire Stellaire Romulien au 24ème siècle.
- Stefan DeSeve was a Human Starfleet officer who defected to the Romulan Empire in 2349. He was an ensign at the time of his defection. He originally defected because he considered the Romulans to have clear moral values and an absolute certainty about the purpose of life, something he called a "strict moral compass". After living on Romulus for twenty years he became disillusioned with the Romulan system. Their desire for conquest and the deception used for this purpose did not sit well with him. By the late 2360s, DeSeve began to sympathize with the Romulan underground movement, and decided, in part, to return to the Federation to deliver a message from Ambassador Spock. In 2369, DeSeve was picked up by the USS Enterprise-D at Research Station 75, where he was summarily arrested for treason, which DeSeve both expected and accepted. Following his arrest, DeSeve insisted on speaking to Captain Jean-Luc Picard on an urgent matter. Picard agreed to meet with him, and relayed the message from Spock, explaining that a Corvallen freighter would arrive shortly in the Kaleb sector, carrying an important cargo that was to be transported back into Federation space. Picard considered DeSeve's request, after making a request of his own, to uncover DeSeve's motives for defecting back to the Federation. After due consideration, Picard ultimately agreed to DeSeve's request and set a course for the Kaleb sector. Unknown at the time, however, the Corvallen freighter, which was transporting the cargo, was destroyed during its rendezvous with the Romulan warbird IRW Khazara. When the freighter did not arrive at its designated coordinates, Picard became suspicious of DeSeve once again, who himself did not understand why the freighter had not arrived. Picard pried DeSeve for more information, only to learn that DeSeve had neglected to mention the type of ship to expect, what the cargo was, nor that he had not in fact received his information directly from Spock as he had earlier alluded to. DeSeve explained that, at the time, the information "didn't seem necessary," and that on "Romulus you learn not to volunteer information," describing it as "a hard habit to break." After efforts to locate the freighter resulted in the discovery of its debris, and an anomalous polarized magnetic distortion. DeSeve speculated that the distortion may very well be a cloaked Warbird, and once the anomaly was discovered to be fact, revealed what he knew of Romulan tactics in these types of situations. When the Warbird finally revealed itself to the Enterprise-D, and transported three Romulans to the Enterprise-D's bridge, via a disruptor beam, DeSeve was able to quickly identify the "cargo" as Romulan Vice-proconsul M'ret and his two aides. (TNG: "Face of the Enemy" )
- DeSeve defected due to a desire to live in a society that had a "strict moral compass", believing the Romulans to possess this quality. After trading information on Federation starship engineering with the Romulan forces, DeSeve chose to enlist in the Romulan military, training as an engineer. Twenty years later, DeSeve had risen to the position of subcenturion in Engineering, but felt stifled; with no further chance of career advancement in the Romulan Empire due to his status as a defector, and feeling lonely and untrusted, DeSeve fell in with the Romulan underground. Upon deciding to return to the Federation, he was given a message from Ambassador Spock to deliver to Federation authorities. DeSeve was picked up by the USS Enterprise-D in 2369. He was immediately arrested, and charged with treason. DeSeve fully accepted that a court-martial and dishonorable discharge were the most likely outcomes of his return to the Federation, followed by a term of detention in the New Zealand Penal Settlement. He presented Spock's message to Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who acted upon it with some reluctance. The Enterprise attempted to rendezvous with a Corvallen freighter, but found that it had been destroyed; locating its debris resulted in DeSeve correctly identifying a magnetic distortion sensor reading as a Romulan Warbird. The Warbird, temporarily under the command of Starfleet Commander Deanna Troi (posing as Major Rakal of the Tal Shiar), beamed its cargo - and Troi herself - to the Enterprise. This cargo was soon revealed to be Romulan Vice-proconsul M'ret and his aides N'veran and Revaik. Shortly after retrieving the Vice-proconsul, the Enterprise was critically damaged by a Romulan radiation grenade; in addition, the transporter beam from the Romulan Warbird had damaged the ship's power couplings, and the warp core was threatening to breach. DeSeve offered to defuse the grenade, knowing that his knowledge of Romulan technology made him the only person able to do so. Crawling through a Jefferies tube, he was able to deactivate the grenade and force the power couplings closed - however, he suffered extreme radiation poisoning from the device, and succumbed to his injuries moments after saving the ship. Captain Picard later recommended to Starfleet Command that all charges against DeSeve be dropped, and ordered that he be buried in space, with full military honours - although he had not specified which military honours would be used, he suspected that it would not matter. (TNG episode: "Face of the Enemy", TNG - The Sky's the Limit short story: "Turncoats", ST website: Startrek.com)
- thumb|Stefan DeSeve (2369) Stefan DeSeve ist ein Fähnrich der Sternenflotte. 2349 läuft er, fasziniert von deren Kultur, zu den Romulanern über. 20 Jahre später kehrt er zurück und überbringt eine Botschaft von Spock. (TNG: ) Stefan DeSeve wurde von Barry Lynch gespielt und von Michael Telloke synchronisiert.
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