Pava Ek'Noor sh'Aqabaa
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| Biography | |
| Pava Ek'Noor sh'Aqabaa | |
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| Full Name: | Pava Ek'Noor sh'Aqabaa |
| Species: | Andorian |
| Gender: | shen |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Family | |
| Parents: | Mother: Undeieela Noor |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Career | |
| Previous Assignment: | Starfleet Academy |
| Assignment: | USS Titan |
| Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Insignia: | 
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Pava Ek'Noor sh'Aqabaa is an Andorian shen*. She currently serves as a security officer with the rank of Lieutenant aboard the USS Titan under Captain William T. Riker. (TTN novel: Taking Wing)
- *The "sh" prefix in Pava's last name, indicating that she is a shen, was not established until the character appeared in the Titan novel, The Red King.
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[edit] Early Life
One of Pava's mothers was Undeieela Noor, a renowned author of holographic romance novels. One of Undeieela's best selling novels was entitled A Love More Tangled Than A Tholian Web. (SA comic: "Parent's Day")
Before joining the Academy, Pava studied for some time as an exchange student on the Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS, where she became romantically involved with a Klingon student named Kovold. (SA comic: "Love and Death")
[edit] Academy Life
At Starfleet Academy in 2372, Pava was Omega Squad squad mate with Nog, the first Ferengi to join Starfleet, under the command of Commander Kyethn Zund of Trill. Pava and Nog got off to a shaky start, as Pava, believing that it would make Nog more comfortable, honored Ferengi custom and introduced herself to Nog in the nude, falsely believing he would behave as if she were a Ferengi female. The resulting "misunderstanding" resulted in Pava knocking Nog out of his own quarters and into the hallway. Despite this false start, Pava soon considered Nog a friend and team-mate. (SA comic: "Prime Directives").
On her first liberty from the Academy, while on a visit to Sydney Australia, Pava, along with squadron leader Kamilah Goldstein and squad mate T'Priell of Vulcan, became involved in a bar-room brawl after Pava angered one of the drunken locals. (SA comic: "Liberty").
Omega Squad was peripherally involved in the attempted Starfleet military coup of the United Federation of Planets planned by Admiral James Leyton. Pava helped rescue squad-mate Matt Decker when he ran afoul of the traitorous Red Squad during the crisis. (SA comic: "Loyalty Test")
[edit] Kovold
Pava was briefly reunited with Kovold when when Omega Squadron battled First Cadre, a team of Klingon cadets of which Kovold was a member, on an uninhabited planetoid. First Cadre forced Omega Squad's runabout to crash, and attacked them unprovoked on the surface.
As the two squads battled, Pava invoked a sacred Klingon rite of single combat in order to settle the dispute. First Cadre's leader, Murg, chose Kovold represent his unit and accepted the challenge. Kamilah, refusing to let Pava battle the man she loved to the death, ordered Pava to stand down and took Pava's place in the combat challenge.
Kamilah defeated Kovold without killing him, but made the mistake of turning her back on him while he was still envoloped in a battle-rage, and he struck Kamilah down, mortally wounding her. Before dying, she ordered Omega Squad to stand down, not wishing for there to be further blood spilt. Pava, who had grown very close to Kamilah in the short time she had known her, swore an Andorian oath of vengence, vowing to kill Kovold for the death of her friend. (SA comics: "War and Peace", "Love and Death")
[edit] The Telepathy War
[edit] Talos
Pava and her squad mates traveled to the forbidden world of Talos IV, which was Starfleet's only remaining death penalty offense, when new squadmate Betazoid Edam Astrun, who had the strongest telepathic powers recorded in Betazed history, received a compulsive telepathic distress call from the Talosian "Keepers".
Upon arriving at Talos IV, Omega Squad discovered that the Talosians were under siege by the Jem'Hadar, the brutal ground soldiers of the Dominion, who were testing a telepathic virus which they planned to use on the telepathic races of the Alpha Quadrant.
With the assistance of a telepathic illusion of the late Captain Christopher Pike, Omega Squad helped the Talosians defeat the Jem'Hadar. With the telepathic assistance of cadet Astrun, Pava was able to take on several Jem'Hadar soldiers at once for a short period. The genetically enhanced soldiers from the Gamma Quadrant proved to be too skillful for Pava however, and a Jem'Hadar soldier broke Pava's back before Omega Squad was able to save her. (SA comics: "Return to the Forbidden Planet", "A Prelude to War")
Upon returning to Earth to warn the Federation, Omega Squad was arrested and put on trial for the crime of traveling to Talos IV. Despite the best efforts of their defense council, the legendary Spock, the cadets were found guilty and sentenced to death. Pava, recovering from her injuries in the Academy's infirmary, watched the court martial proceedings from her bed. (SA comic: "Judgment")
[edit] Renegades
The event that became known as the Telepathy War began after the now-healed Pava and Omega Squad escaped from custody (with outside help) and traveled to DS9 (SA comic: "Renegades"),where they assisted station personel in beating back a Jem Hadar assault. (DS9 comics: "Command Decisions", "Day of Honor (comic)")
Pava and Matt Decker then journeyed into the Gamma Quadrant aboard the USS Enterprise, where Pava first met her future Captain, then-Commander William T. Riker, in an attempt to head off a suspected attack from the Dominion. Unfortunately, the attack was a ruse designed to keep Starfleet away from a conference of telepathic species on the planet Alaya 2. (TNG comic: "Heart of Darkness")
The Enterprise and the USS Defiant barely arrived at Alaya 2 in time to stop the Dominion's attack. Pava assisted Commander Riker in repelling the Jem'Hadar ground assault against the telepaths.
Meanwhile, on DS9 Cadet Astrun, while assisting station CMO Doctor Julian Bashir, succeeded in finding a telepathic cure for the Dominion's meme virus. Upon returning to Earth, the cadets were exonerated for their "crimes". (ST - Telepathy War comic: "Reality's End")
[edit] Parent's Day
Pava was reunited with her mother Undeieela when she came to visit during the traditional sophomore year "Parent's Day" at the Academy. Undeieela managed to sneak Pava's pet Hybor, Kiffis, past the Earth quarantine and onto the Academy grounds. Unfortunately, Kiffis (and her newly-born litter) picked up on telepathic feelings of unease being projected from Astrun's parents, causing them to revert to their "were"-form and run amok throughout the campus causing considerable damage.
Pava and the rest of the squad managed to lure the Hybors into the Academy's holodeck, which simulated the Hybor's home environment, which calmed the Hybors down and caused them the revert back to their normal state. (SA comic: "Parent's Day")
[edit] Re-Match With First Cadre
In early 2374, Pava managed to lure First Cadre into Federation space (where they could be arrested for the murder of Kamilah Goldstein) by planting false rumors about the discovery of an ancient sword, the ancient Sword of Kahless.
Omega Squad's second encounter with First Cadre took place on a small planetoid near the Klingon border. Pava finally confronted Kovold aboard a shuttlecraft during the battle, and Pava was fully prepared to fulfill her oath to kill him.
However, Kovold had been mutated and driven mad by an ancient artifact created by a race known as the Viators, and battled Pava. Pava defeated Kovold but in the memory of her friend Kamilah, who despised war and acts of vengeance, she spared Kovold's life.
Kovold, however, was beyond saving, his mutations far too severe. After warning Pava that the Viators were returning to this sector of space after an absence of billions of years, he beamed Pava to the planet's surface and destroyed the shuttle and himself and the even more severely mutated Murg with it. (SA comics: "MangHom qaD", "Between Love And Hate")
A few months later, the cadets faced down the threat of the Viators, although the details of that encounter are unavailable. (SA comic: "Between Love And Hate")
[edit] Starfleet Officer
By 2380, Pava had been assigned to the USS Titan as a member of Lieutenant Commander Ranul Keru's security team. (TTN novel: The Red King)
- According to author Andy Mangels, Pava was originally included in an early draft of the prison raid sequence in chapter 17 of Taking Wing, but was edited out.
When Titan investigated the Eye of Erykon in the Orishan system, Pava was a part of an Away Team that boarded an Orishan vessel with Captain Riker. (TTN novel: Sword of Damocles)
During the Borg crisis of early 2381, while the Titan was in orbit of New Erigol, sh'Aqabaa filled in for Keru at the Bridge tactical station when Keru joined an away team that traveled by shuttle to the planet's surface,. (ST - Destiny novel: Mere Mortals)
Subsequently, after Titan's return to Federation space, Pava commanded one of the away teams tasked with securing control of a Borg scoutship. Although she personally killed many drones, she was severely injured in a friendly fire accident. (ST - Destiny novel: Lost Souls)
[edit] Later Life
- The epilogue of the final issue of Starfleet Academy takes place in an unspecified future. This contributor estimates it to be no less than 20 years in the future making it at least the year 2394. The epilogue strongly implies that Pava is still alive at this point in time. (SA comic: "Between Love And Hate")
[edit] Connections
| Omega Squad personnel | ||
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| Class advisor | Kyethn Zund | 
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| Cadets (2350s) | R. Donaldson • K. Osir • P. Rice • H. Thorp • N. Zand | |
| Cadets (2370s) | E. Astrun • M. Decker • K. Goldstein • Nog • P. sh'Aqabaa • T'Priell (Selke) | |
| USS Titan security and tactical personnel | ||||
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| chief of security | R. Keru | other security personnel | Antillea • P. sh'Aqabaa • F. Denken • Dennisar • Hriss • S. Hutchinson • Malaya • Okafor • Rriarr • G. Sortollo • T'Kel • T'Lirin • Tane | 
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| chief tactical officer | R. Keru • Tuvok | other tactical personnel | Rriarr | |
| USS Titan: Senior Staff • Engineering • Flight Control • Medical and Counseling • Operations • Science • Security and Tactical • Misc. | ||||
