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James Lee

James Lee
CHARACTER

Actor:	Daniel Dae Kim
Species:	"Human" (Na'arbi)
Gender:	Male
Hair:	black
Eyes:	brown
Height:	1.83 m
Weight:	85 kg
Assignment(s):	Liaison Officer
Stationed:	USS Prospect-A
Occupation:	Starfleet officer
Rank:	Captain
First appearance:	"The Tzenkethi Incident"
Last appearance:	"An Innocent Time"

For the alternate reality versions of James Lee, see James Lee (mirror) or James Lee (Pendragon timeline).

James Lee was a liaison officer aboard the USS Prospect from 2365 until 2367, again in 2370, and then aboard the USS Prospect (NCC-60056-A) in 2371 and 2372. He was also a member of Special Operations.

His appearance is human, but, in reality, he is a Na'arbi undercover agent whose real name is Li'Jaes. His true identity remains a secret to most people.

1 History
- 1.1 Childhood
- 1.2 Starfleet History
2 Alternate history
- 2.1 Star Trek: Pendragon

HistoryEdit

ChildhoodEdit

When he was a boy, his parents and he moved from South Korea to the United States of America on Earth. He had to make new friends, learn a new language and adapt to a new environment. This helped him build trust that other people inherently want to tell the truth. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Starry, Starry Night")

This story may or may not be true, depending on when a Na'arbi takes human form, i.e. is "reborn" in each incarnation.

Starfleet HistoryEdit

Pre-2364Edit

The Na'arbi planted several agents both in the Federation's and other major powers' societies. Li'Jaes, working under the guise James Lee, was one such agent. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Lady Lazarus")

2366/2367Edit

By 2366, Lee was working aboard the Special Operations starship USS Prospect (NCC-60056) as a liaison officer.

Late in that same year, and early into 2367, he assisted the Prospect crew in attempting to get to the Battle of Wolf 359. Unfortunately, the Prospect arrived too late but pursued a mysterious alien ship transmitting some sort of communications beam towards the Borg cube. After the Prospect disabled the alien ship, Lee accompanied Captain John Sill and other members of an away team aboard it.

During their time there, the alien ship's commanding officer, Amila Thon, told the away team Lee would know of foes worse than the Borg. When other members of the away team asked what Thon meant by this, he denied any knowledge of what she was talking about. Thon also whispered in Sill's ear that Lee wasn't who he said he was.

Lee assisted the Prospect crew in the rescue effort at Wolf 359. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "The Burnt Child")

A few weeks later, Sill assigned Lee to lead the engineering away team to Goffan IV, with Brian Fack and Jason Athelstan assigned under his command. The away team's mission was to improve sensor abilities to accurately detect molocine. This was greatly helped by an away team from the Jenchum Suzerainty battle cruiser Alonia, led by their first officer Methia.

Lee built up a relationship of trust with Methia, and she and her team began to assist the Starfleet team.

After making great leaps and bounds in upgrading sensor technology to detect molocine more reliably, Lee asked Methia for assistance in determining if the Jenchum were developing subspace weapons in a secret facility in Enika on Goffan III. Methia was unsure about revealing this information, but, after Lee revealed the Prospect's secondary mission, she revealed the Jenchum testing of subspace weaponry was a failure, with a subspace anomaly opening, killing all the scientists and military personnel present. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Starry, Starry Night")

Lee also received the sensor data from the subspace anomaly from Methia. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Starry, Starry Night", "Honor Thy Father")

Sill warned Lee he would have no choice but to transfer him off ship if Lee continued to overstep boundaries. The Prospect captain attempted to give him a second chance on both Goffan IV and Rychri, the former of which he overstepped the bounds again. For an unknown reason, someone higher up the chain of command kept getting Lee off the hook. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Starry, Starry Night", "Honor Thy Father")

Later in 2367, Lee was celebrating his birthday when the Prospect received a distress call. Investigating it, the crew discovered the USS Artemis had not exploded in 2364 but jumped to warp and survived.

An uneasy Captain John Sill sent counselor Scott Fack, first officer Anne Cobry, security chief George Serigos, Ensign Garrett, Ralf Mendoza and Steven DiCosola to the Artemis. Fack and his escort Garrett attempted to locate bodies, but were instead altered by the M'Tar. Transformed into the Liaison, Fack attempted to assist the M'Tar take control of the Federation, but a battle when Lee spoiled that plan. Lee severed Fack and Garrett from M'Tar control and transported them back to the Prospect before the Artemis exploded, dragging him and the two M'Tar into the M'Tar Domain, sealing the portal between the two dimensions.

Sill and Serigos investigated a strange energy pulse emanating from Lee's cabin to find a holographic transmission, warning Sill the M'Tar were growing in number and not near extinction. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Lady Lazarus")

Neither John Sill nor Starfleet did not reveal the true facts about the M'Tar to Scott Fack as per his comments in "Catalyst, Part One". It is assumed Starfleet was keeping this knowledge close to their chests for unknown reasons.

2370Edit

By 2370, Lee had returned, albeit by unknown means. After the USS Odyssey's destruction by the Jem'Hadar in late 2370, Special Operations quickly assembled the Prospect crew and sent them from Deep Space 9 to the Gamma Quadrant to make first contact with the Founders. This mission failed, resulting in the Prospect's sacrifice in order to halt a Dominion incursion into Federation space. Captain Sill (the commanding officer), and the majority of the Prospect crew, survived on the saucer section, which coasted back through the Bajoran wormhole to Federation space. Lee was instrumental in helping the Prospect team survive. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Pure Massacre")

2371/2372Edit

The Prospect was sent, in 2372, to the Gamma Quadrant to find the Rutherford after it disappeared, and John Sill commanded this mission. Successful in discovering the Rutherford but unsure in the whereabouts of its crew, Sill ordered the Rutherford destroyed to stop it falling into Dominion hands. Lee provided key tactical information Na'arbi agents had gathered on the Jem'Hadar, helping the Prospect survive. Battles with the Jem'Hadar saw the Prospect suffer heavy damage. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Directive")

Working outside Federation and Starfleet protocols, Lee visited Dr. Samantha Delaney aboard Dante Station after the Rutherford mission. Once there, he destroyed her folded space drive prototype and all her research materials relating to them, driving Delaney further mentally unstable. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "An Innocent Time")

The reason the Na'arbi had Lee destroy the data and prototype was, after the disastrous testing of the device and destructive battles with the Dominion, the Na'arbi felt the Federation was not ready for the technology.