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Mackenzie Calhoun (born M'k'n'zy of Calhoun) is a fictional character from the ''Star Trek'' universe. Created by Peter David, Calhoun is an extraterrestrial from the planet Xenex, and is captain of the Federation starship ''USS Excalibur''. Calhoun appears primarily in ''Star Trek: New Frontier'', a series of spin-off novels and comic books set during the 24th century era of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', in which he is the main character. He first appeared in the 1997 ''New Frontier'' debut novel, ''Star Trek: New Frontier: House of Cards''. Calhoun is the only ''Star Trek'' character that has not appeared in any of the ''Star Trek'' television series or movies to have an action figure. ==Fictional character history== Calhoun is born M'k'n'zy of Calhoun on the planet Xenex, in the city of Calhoun. He grows up under the brutal rule of the Danteri, who occupied his world. As a child, M'k'n'zy witnesses the public execution of his father in a town square by Falkar of Danter, which spurs him to grow into a rebel warlord.〔Peter David. ''Star Trek: New Frontier: House of Cards''; 1997〕 He kills his first person at age 14, and is given command of a strike vessel that marked the beginning of the Xenexian rebellion.〔Peter David. ''Star Trek New Frontier: The Captain's Table, Book 5: Once Burned''〕 By the time M'k'n'zy is 20, he liberates Xenex.〔 Shortly after doing so, he fathers a son, Xyon, with Catrine, a woman from the Calhoun clan whose husband had died, as she requests as part of Xenexian culture.〔Peter David. ''Star Trek: New Frontier: Martyr''〕 Calhoun encounters Jean-Luc Picard, who, while commanding the USS ''Stargazer'', visits Xenex as a representative of the United Federation of Planets to assist in negotiations between Xenex and Danter. Picard convinced Calhoun to join Starfleet, the scientific and defensive arm of the Federation.〔 Calhoun leaves Xenex, a move which rouses the ire of many of his people, to enter Starfleet Academy, where he meets Elizabeth Shelby, who would become his lover, rival and, eventually, fiancée. Their engagement ends after Calhoun took the ''Kobayashi Maru'' test.〔Peter David. ''Star Trek: New Frontier: Stone and Anvil''〕 As a Starfleet officer, Calhoun served aboard the USS ''Grissom'',〔 where he meets Katarina "Kat" Mueller, who would become his lover.〔 It was on the ''Grissom'' that he learns to play poker, and establishes a reputation for being able to bluff his way through any hand, even evading an empath's attempt to get a bead on him.〔Peter David. ''Star Trek: New Frontier: Into the Void''〕 Calhoun was present during a catastrophic event aboard the ''Grissom'', which led to his apparent departure from Starfleet.〔 In reality, he becomes an undercover operative for head of Starfleet Intelligence Admiral Alynna Nechayev who, years afterward, fearing Calhoun was getting "too deep" into the lifestyle of the thugs and criminals he was associating with, pulled him out and gave him his own starship to command, the USS ''Excalibur''. It was in taking this command that he is reunited with both Shelby, who was now his First Officer,〔 and Mueller, whom he picked as his Executive Officer (the terms are normally synonymous on the various television series, but in the ''New Frontier'' novels, a First Officer heads the ship's day shift, while the Executive Officer commands the night shift watch).〔 Calhoun is assigned to Sector 221-G, the area of space of the former Thallonian Empire, which has collapsed, resulting in destabilization of the region.〔 Calhoun makes an appearance in the 2007 ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' novel ''Before Dishonor'' by Peter David. In the novel, Calhoun encounters Picard en route to Sector 001 to defend Earth against a new Borg threat. Calhoun's older brother, D’ndai, dies during an alien invasion of his homeworld, Xenex, in the 2011 novel ''Blind Man's Bluff''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mackenzie Calhoun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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