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Hello, Alpha Quadrant. Independent captain, Nick Locarno here with a message for anyone who feels like an afterthought. You may have been told scary of ships being destroyed these past few months, but that was a lie! They weren't destroyed. They were liberated. They're part of the first totally independent, unaligned fleet in the Alpha Quadrant. If you're tired of risking your life for souless, bureaucratic captains who don't even know your name, if you fear following the orders of incompentent commanders who failed into seats of power, if you're stuck on the lower decks, then I invite you to join us in the Detrion system. Detrion, a forgotten system now protected by my indestructible trynar shield. And in case anyone wants to try and force their way in, I've acquired a little insurance, a black market Ferengi Genesis Device. The Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Empire. Everyone has to respect Nova Fleet.
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~ Locarno's speech to the Alpha Quadrant.
Nick Locarno is the main antagonist of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The First Duty" and the fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. He is a former Starfleet Cadet, who, after he got his friend Joshua killed in a flight maneuver, decided to form a fleet independent of any outside power for him to lead.
As a Starfleet cadet, Locarno was an exceptional pilot and became the commander of Starfleet Academy's Nova Squadron. To mark his graduation, he convinced the rest of the squadron that they should end their exhibition flight with a Kolvoord Starburst, a dangerous manoeuvre in which ships fly close together and ignite their plasma stream, which had been banned since the last attempt resulted in the deaths of all the cadets involved. The attempt ended in disaster when Cadet Joshua Albert, who had been the most reluctant to perform the manoeuvre, lost his nerve and collided with one of the other ships, starting a chain reaction that destroyed all five ships. Locarno and most of the others managed to beam to safety but Albert was killed. Locarno convinced the other survivors to keep quiet about what they were attempting.
Since Wesley Crusher was a member of Locarno's squadron, the investigation drew the attention of Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew. During the enquiry, the cadets stuck to their story even though surveillance evidence contradicted it. Picard worked out what had happened and confronted Wesley, threatening to reveal the truth if he didn't. Wesley told Locarno, who insisted Wesley should keep quiet and, if Picard accused them, they should just deny it, adding that if Wesley's conscience troubled him, he should leave the academy. Instead, during the final session, Wesley admitted the truth. Locarno took responsibility and was expelled.
Over the next decade, Locarno's resentment about his treatment by Starfleet built. In the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks fourth season, "The Inner Flight", he was revealed to be the one behind a number of disappearances of ships. Locarno had been contacting similarly disgruntled junior officers and convincing them to mutiny against their superiors. The senior officers were stranded on a planet, with the ships, now commanded by the junior officers, joining Nova Fleet, a non-aligned fleet commanded by Locarno, who had stolen a decommissioned Starfleet vessel, the USS Passaro, to act as his flagship. He also acquired a Genesis Device from the Ferengi to stop anyone moving against him.
Locarno contacted Lieutenant Beckett Mariner, an acquaintance from the Academy with a history of insubordination, who he believed would be a willing recruit to his fleet: Since she was the daughter of a Starfleet captain, he saw it as a coup to turn her. However, Mariner still held true to the beliefs of Starfleet and knew that Locarno wasn't trustworthy, meaning she wanted no part of Nova Fleet. She ended up warning every lower decker in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants that Locarno was a reckless narcissist with no regard for the lives of others and stealing the Passaro with the Genesis Device on board. Locarno and the rest of Nova Fleet pursued her, with Locarno chasing her into an ion storm and beaming over. Mariner activated the Genesis Device as the two of them fought. Mariner's crewmates from the USS Cerritos had tracked her down and beamed her to safety but Locarno raised shields and refused evacuation, believing he could disarm the device. He nearly succeeded only to learn the Ferengi had programmed it to request a payment of two bars of gold-pressed latinum to complete the disarmament. He was killed when the Device detonated.
