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| - In 2375, the Federation starship USS Voyager entered Devore space on its way from the Delta to the Alpha Quadrant. The Imperium granted passage on the condition that Voyager submit to frequent inspections by Devore personnel. The total of four inspections were carried out by pairs of Devore warships. These were commanded by Kashyk. Voyager detected another dozen warships laying in wait in a Mutara class nebula for ships illegally carrying telepaths. The transport ship continually gave them new coordinates, one of which was a Mutara-class nebula. It was later discovered that the transport ship had been intercepted, and at least one dozen ships were waiting inside the nebula for further ships to fall into the trap. Voyager did not go to the nebula. The Brenari escaped in two Voyager shuttlecraft through the wormhole. (VOY episode: "Counterpoint") In late 2381, the Devore, Karlon, Turei, Vaadwaur and Voth joined the Kinara and began blockading the Gateway to the First World. The Confederacy Interstellar Fleet and the Kinara became embroiled in skirmishes, and the Voth sabotaged the Federation subspace relay network in the Delta Quadrant. At some point before February 2382, the fugitive Neyser criminal Meegan McDonnell took control of Devore, Turei, Vaadwaur, and other leaders by occupying their minds with those of her fellow criminal Neysers. (VOY novels: Protectors, Acts of Contrition) In late 2381, a Kinara fleet attacked the Federation starships USS Voyager and USS Demeter and their wave form allies near the Ark Planet. The CIF Twelfth Lamont led a fleet of the Confederacy Interstellar Fleet and obliterated the Kinara fleet. General Mattings subsequently invited the Federation ships to visit the First World. In February 2382, Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway convinced the Presider of the Confederacy of the Worlds of the First Quadrant, Isorla Cin, to enter negotations with the Kinara fleet blockading the Gateway. Skeen Rigger Meeml of the starship Lightcarrier responded to her hail, and the Confederacy learned of the Kinara's demands for the first time. The diplomatic exchange was enabled by the Federation starship USS Vesta. (VOY novel: Protectors) The Neyser-possessed commanding officer of the Devore warship Manticle, Inspector Kashyk, inserted himself into the conversation and made the extradition of Admiral Janeway a non-negotiable term for peace between the Confederacy and the Kinara. When the Confederacy declined to abide to these terms, the standoff degenerated into open battle. The battle came to a halt when Janeway agreed to be extradited. A shuttle carried her and two subordinates to the Manticle, where Kashyk and a multi-species security team took her into custody to stand trial. The Manticle departed afterwards. (VOY novel: Acts of Contrition)
- Kashyk was a Devore inspector and a member of the Devore Imperium in the 2370s. The Devore considered telepaths a danger to the Imperium because of their ability to read minds. Kashyk considered all strangers and vessels in Devore space to be suspect and subject to search. The Devore were looking for Brenari in particular. Three months prior to Voyager's entrance into Devore space, Kashyk supposedly had a crisis in faith in his job after he was thanked by a Brenari child he found being smuggled in an extraction tank with her family. She was in there for days, barely able to breathe, and he had to send her to a relocation center afterward, which he claimed caused him to question his people's reasons for fearing telepaths before reasserting his belief that they were a danger to the Imperium and that his job was necessary. USS Voyager had rescued a group of telepaths and was hiding them from the Devore. Kashyk was captain of the Devore starship that was inspecting Voyager at regular intervals. Kashyk inspected Voyager so many times that he became familiar with the crew and Voyager's musical database, and made himself at home in Captain Janeway's ready room. Tchaikovsky was his favorite Earth composer and he played his Symphony Number Four over the ship-wide comm. In a plan to uncover telepaths on the Federation vessel, Kashyk asked for asylum on Voyager. Kashyk aided Janeway in avoiding Devore detection, and gave her information on the Devore systems. He tried to gain Janeway's trust by becoming romantically involved with her and pretending to be her ally. He was able to determine that Voyager was smuggling telepaths and Janeway was going to transport them through a wormhole to escape the Devore. He suggested that Janeway apply a fractal coefficient to Torat's sensor data, among other standard algorithms, to find the spatial anomaly, and understood the Captain's subspace harmonics analysis. When he found out its precise position, he announced to Janeway that he doubled-crossed her and fired on the wormhole; however, Janeway had never trusted him, and misled him into firing on a false wormhole. Janeway was able to transport the telepaths through the real wormhole. Kashyk, not wanting the failure on his record, and still harboring feelings for Janeway, failed to report the incident and allowed Voyager to resume its course. (VOY: "Counterpoint") Kashyk was played by Mark Harelik.
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