Jeffrey Adams
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Born inNew Orleans onEarth, Adams had acriminal record for using hisbiochemistry knowledge to scam potential customers. Around2250, Dr. Adams was on board thetransport shipBrass Ring when it was attacked by theRomulans; the result of his injuries left him with artificial intestines.
Around2270, Dr. Adams — along with fellow researchersSepek,Yoshi Takhumara andLara Krovazhadny — was assigned to a secret research base on theplanetTanis, operated by a clandestine group ofStarfleetadmirals led byRodrigo Mendez, the head ofweapons research. Their connection was also somewhat personal; Mendez had lost his wife on theBrass Ring, and Yoshi — another survivor of the incident — was his son. They were assigned to work on avirus intended for use against the Romulans, dubbed the "R-virus". The Vulcan researcher Sepek — who had deceived Mendez into believing he was a rogue — was killed using this virus; however, it accidentally mutated into a form contractible by humans, the "H-virus". Adams, Yoshi and Lara were infected, and Adams sent out adistress call. However — driven by a maddening hunger forblood — he killed both of the others before he was discovered in the darkened base by alanding party from theUSSEnterprise, responding to the distress call.
The virus had made Adams severely anemic and looking almost corpse-like; he was also incredibly photosensitive, so much that light burned holes in his skin. Held in a darkisolation chamber onboard theEnterprise, Dr. Adams responded truthfully tocomputer-monitored questions regarding his work on Tanis (claiming it was "agricultural research"), and denied having killed either Yoshi or Lara, but Dr.Leonard McCoy — observing his demeanor throughinfrared camera, seeing Adams smile in the darkness — was not convinced; he speculated that Adams was sociopathic. Despite apparently being "innocent", Adams luredNurseChristine Chapel into his isolation chamber by faking choking on his food, knocking her unconscious (infecting her via contact with a wound in her head caused by the fall), and attempting to escape isolation, only to be trapped in the brightly-litairlock.
Restrained in isolation afterwards, Adams confessed toCaptainJames T. Kirk that he worked for Admiral Mendez, and that Mendez would kill him if he was left in his custody to prevent word of a secret weapons project run by Starfleetofficers. Though he was reluctant to believe it, the idea unnerved Kirk enough to question Mendez's motives; nonetheless, theEnterprise turned Adams over to Mendez atStarbase 9 and thought that would be the end of it. However, Adams escaped his imprisonment, killed a trader captain and stole several items from her body, including a hooded robe and acommunicator that could send a message into theRomulan Star Empire. TakingEnsignLisa Nguyen, a member of thesecuritycrew, atphaserpoint, Adams returned to theEnterprise. Seeking to stabilize his condition long enough for a rescue, he broke into thequarters of EnsignJonathon Stanger — whose blood type matched his own — and gave himself atransfusion while Stanger slept, then hid in the bowels of theEnterprise.
Intime, however, Adams was captured by the infected Stanger just as a cure for the H-virus was discovered, and aRomulan bird-of-prey arrived to "rescue" him - and retrieve the R-virus sample, which Adams carried in a pendant around his neck. Admiral Mendez, Dr. McCoy andCommanderSpock had been on Tanis' surface searching for the same sample, and were captured by the Romulans. After the Starfleet officers had escaped back to theEnterprise and Mendez had started issuing threats unless he was given the virus sample, Kirk brought Adams (in a containment suit) down to thetransporter room. Adams played on Mendez's fears of infection by lowering theforce field around hiscontainment suit and touching the admiral on the arm. As a sobbing Mendez collapsed to the floor, Adams commented that it was unfortunate he had already been cured, for he had "wanted to do that for a long time". Adams and Mendez were then taken into custody. (TOSnovel:Bloodthirst)