Alynna Nechayev
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Alynna Nechayev was a female Human who served in Starfleet in the 24th century. Throughout the 2360s and 70s she was a prominent figure in the Starfleet admiralty.
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[edit] Early life
Nechayev was born circa 2307. [citation needed]
Nechayev entered Starfleet Academy determined to prove herself - years later, when Jean-Luc Picard was discussing her with Boothby, the Academy gardener described her as having "a chip on her shoulder the size of Jupiter, so ready to prove a beautiful woman could be a starship captain". (TNG comic: "An Inconvenient Truth")
By 2328, Nechayev was a lieutenant in Starfleet Intelligence. At the request of Keeve Falor, she travelled to Bajor, disguised as a Bajoran named Alla and accompanied by a similarly disguised mission expert named Gwen Jones, to investigate claims that the Cardassians were planning to occupy the planet. The pair uncovered evidence that the claims were correct but on returned to the USS Gettysburg, Nechayev was horrified to learn Starfleet intended to do nothing, instead prioritising the capture of a Cardassian listening post in Federation space. Nechayev later informed Bajoran refugee Darrah Mace that she disagreed with the decision and would do all she could to help the Bajorans resist the Cardassians. (DS9 novel: Day of the Vipers)
By 2342, she had reached the rank of Commander, when and was assigned to lead a small team on the Ganymede colony. (TNG novel: Rogue Saucer)
[edit] Admiral Nechayev
In 2341, Rear admiral Nechayev met with Data who was hoping to join Starfleet. Nechayev allowed Data to skip the entrance exams and to move to an accelerated track with credit for individual study. (TNG novel: A Time to Be Born)
- Nechayev's rank of rear admiral (with two pips on her collar) is inconsistent with her rank of commander at nearly the same time in Rogue Saucer.
[edit] 2360s
By the early 2360s, Nechayev had attained the rank of Vice Admiral and oversaw operations at Starfleet Intelligence. (NF novel: House of Cards)
In 2365, Nechayev was contacted by Elias Vaughn regarding a Cardassian informant, Gaten Russol, who wanted to give information about the occupation of Bajor. She reassigned Vaughn to Starbase 375]] so that he could make contact with Russol, but gather only information relating to the Federation and not discuss Bajor. (TLE - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles)
By the late 2360s, Nechayev was responsible for liaisons with the Cardassian Union. In 2369, she assigned Jean-Luc Picard to an undercover operation on Celtris III and oversaw both that mission and concurrent negotiations with the Cardassians onboard the USS Enterprise. (TNG episode: "Chain of Command")
In 2369, Nechayev commanded a task force assembled to defend the Federation from an anticipated Borg attack. At that time, she dressed down Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard for failing to use an invasive program to destroy the Borg the previous year. She directly ordered Picard to put aside any moral qualms and to use the weapons the next time the opportunity presented itself. (TNG episode: "Descent, Part I") Even following Picard's contact with a cell of non-aggressive Borg headed by Hugh, Nechayev's orders stood, and were disseminated to all Starfleet commanders. (VOY short story: "Seventh Heaven")
[edit] 2370s
In 2370, she assigned Mackenzie Calhoun to do undercover work on the frontier, after Calhoun resigned from Starfleet. She continued to give him new assignments, but after a few years, became worried that he was becoming corrupted by the nature of his work. (NF novel: House of Cards)
In the early 2370s, with the rise of the Maquis, Nechayev became a point-person for issues arising between Federation expatriates and Cardassian forces. (VOY novella: The Brave and the Bold - "The Third Artifact")
Admiral Nechayev and Captain Picard recruited Lieutenant Ro to infiltrate the Maquis in late 2370. The Maquis was a group of Federation citizens and former Starfleet officers who were fighting off the Cardassians in the De-militarized Zone in defiance of a recent Federation treaty with the Cardassian Union. Ro would find that she both symapatized and fit in better with the Maquis more than she ever did in Starfleet, so she once again defied orders, betrayed Starfleet and joined the Maquis. (TNG episodes: "Ensign Ro", "Preemptive Strike")
Also in that year Nechayev was in some way associated with a conspiracy within Starfleet, which had been using discoveries from the logs of Starfleet vessels to create weapons and forward a political agenda in the Alpha Quadrant. However, she was not totally compliant with the conspiracy - while she promised to "handle Picard" she saved the life of Jean-Luc Picard when an assassin within the conspiracy was trying to kill him, and in the process beamed the captain to into the conspirator's base of operations. (TNG comic: "An Inconvenient Truth")
- Nechayev's saving Picard is implied rather than explicitly shown in the comic. Her involvement in the conspiracy is similarly ambiguous, as is the exact nature of the conspiracy - it is comparable to Section 31, but never actually identified as such.
In 2371, Nechayev was part of Borath's mental simulation in which Benjamin Sisko, Jadzia Dax, Julian Bashir and T'Rul were placed. In the simulation, Nechayev negotiated a pro-Dominion treaty. (DS9 episode: "The Search, Part II")
Also in 2371 Nechayev ordered Captain Picard to test a new Galaxy-class saucer section while the Enterprise's saucer section was undergoing repairs, and she accompanied the Enterprise crew during these tests. She confronted the Maquis when they attempted to hijack the saucer section, which later crash landed in the ocean of a nearby planet and was later destroyed. (TNG novel: Rogue Saucer)
Later that year, she participated in a subspace conference with Admirals Judith Hayman, Hajime Shoji and Kirshbaum, Captain Benjamin Sisko and Professor T'Kreng of the Vulcan Science Academy about a possible Fury invasion.
The other purpose of the discussion was the discovery of the USS Defiant frozen in Earth's Oort cloud. Nechayev suggested that the present Defiant be kept in drydock at Deep Space 9 until the future version disappeared. (DS9 novel: Time's Enemy)
In 2373, Nechayev controlled key aspects of Starfleet's response to the collapse of the Thallonian Empire. After being convinced by Captain Picard, Commander Riker, and Ambassador Spock, she decided that the best course of action was to send a Starfleet vessel, the Excalibur, into Sector 221-G to observe the situation and offer humanitarian assistance. She asked Picard to retrieve Calhoun from his operative work to command the Excalibur. (NF novel: House of Cards)
In 2374, she engaged in a heated debate on the Dominion War with Tomas Roeder in a Federation News Service broadcast. (DS9 novel: Hollow Men)
In 2379, Admiral Nechayev was one of five Starfleet admirals who along with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Ambassador Lagan Serra decided the fate of Federation President Min Zife after the disasterous Tezwan affair. Nechayev pressed especially hard for the position that Zife had to be removed from office and punished for what he had done. The group decided to force Zife, Koll Azernal, and Nelina Quafina to step down but not to reveal to anyone where the weapons had come from. Nechayev was upset that this was effectively helping them cover up their crimes, but eventually she was convinced that it was necessary for the good of the Federation.
A short time later, she, Admiral Ross, and Admiral Nakamura confronted Zife with their threat and watched as agents of Section 31 came to escort Zife, Azernal, and Quafina away. (TNG novel: A Time to Heal)
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