Clause Elberg

For the mirror universe counterpart, see Clause Elberg (mirror).

For counterpart in the timeline created by Nero's incursion, see Clause Elberg (alternate reality)‎.

Clause Elberg was a Federation Starfleet officer who spent much of his career as an engineer (eventually chief engineer) of the USS Eagle. (Star Trek: Eagle)

Early Life

Clause Elberg (right) at age 14, with his father Otto Elberg

Elberg was born in the city of Munich, Germany. He was an only child of Otto Elberg, the owner of a café and beer brewery. In his teen years he enjoyed repairing hovercraft and other vehicles at the local repair center.

At the age of 14, he met a Starfleet officer, Lieutenant Harrison. Harrison asked where the nearest repair shop was located in order to fix a problem with his shuttle's plasma junction. Young Clause was able to help with the repairs, Harrison recommended that Clause join Starfleet one day to put his skills to use.

Starfleet career

He joined Starfleet when he was 18 and became an engineer. In 2258, he married Lena Hertzen after he met her on Alpha Centauri. His first ship to be posted on was the Saladin-class ship T'pau. He would later serve on the USS Potemkin as a transporter lieutenant where he first met and befriended Michele Tyler.

Elberg in 2265

In 2265 he was promoted to lieutenant commander and chief engineer of the transport ship USS Quasar under Captain Allen Clark. Shortly after Elberg was promoted, one of his junior officers, Nick Sather, made some modifications to the warp drive without Elberg’s permission. This change to the warp drive caused an imbalance, which sent the Quasar into a wormhole placing them in Klingon space. The ship was soon captured by a Klingon task force under Commander Kruge. His boarding party stole the ship’s cargo of dilithium, killed several crew members, and sent the ship back to Federation space. (Star Trek: Eagle)

In 2267 Lena gave birth to their son Paul Elberg, Clause was away from his family for most of Paul's childhood. (Star Trek: Valkyrie)

In 2268, Elberg would return to his home town of Munich to work on the Antyllus Project at the Heisenhoff research post.

On the USS Eagle

Elberg and Banner meet for the first time

In 2269 he was chief engineer and third in command of the USS Eagle under Zach Banner. A week after the Eagle was launched, unknown to Elberg, the captain’s Mirror Universe counterpart attempted to kill him and take his place. Zach Banner ordered him to install a device that would cause a reaction with the warp drive to transport the ship to the mirror universe. Once the mirror Banner’s plan was stopped Elberg attempted to reactivate the warp drive that was not working so they could return to their own universe. While the ISS Eagle was chasing the USS Eagle the ship went into the Romulan Neutral Zone, forcing the ISS Eagle to fall back. Elberg would receive help repairing his warp engines from the Romulans of the Romulan Republic. (STE: "Into the Mirror")

Bismarck Infected

In early 2270, Elberg was in command of the Eagle while Banner and Tyler beamed over to investigate the captain's old ship, the USS Bismarck. Unknown to them the ship was under control of an insane alien computer that raised the shields preventing their escape. Elberg took Ensign Oakley Gelson’s idea of using the ship’s phasers to lower the Bismarck's shields but this only caused the computer to fire back at the Eagle, taking out their weapons. Elberg then obeyed Banner’s order to launch a group of shuttlecraft on autopilot filled with antimatter to ram the Bismarck. The plan was only a distraction for Banner to take out the computer and it worked perfectly. Elberg and the crew brought the Bismarck back to a Federation starbase. (STE: "The Bismark")

Pirate Capture

The confrontaton.

During a mission to pick up classified cargo from Epsilon Indi IV, Elberg and the ship’s doctor Charlie Christianson were kidnapped by a group of pirates. Once onboard, Elberg found it was one of his former officers, Nick Sather, who had defected. When the pirates were about to have Elberg and Christianson subjected to their stolen Klingon mind-sifter, the two were able to escape. Elberg found a power sub-junction and was able to temporarily shut down the pirate vessel’s cloaking device, making it possible for the Eagle to find them, but Sather was still able to find Elberg and bring him to the interrogation chamber. However, once there, Sather had a change of heart and rescued Clause at the last moment. After the crew was found by the Eagle, Elberg allowed Sather to continue his career in Starfleet. (STE: "Past Regrets")

War on Ekos

Elberg was part of a shuttle mission aboard the Goddard with Charlie Christianson and Mark Brennen, escorting Commodore Alexander Enwright to a First Federation conference at Deep Space 3. En route to rendezvous with the USS Yorktown, the shuttle was attacked by Elasi pirates under Captain Seluk, who abducted the commodore and left the crew for dead. The survivors crash-landed on a Class M world later identified as Ehre, where Brennen went missing and Christianson discovered the planet’s Ekosian, Nazi-styled regime. After faking a surrender and subduing a soldier, Elberg infiltrated the base in disguise, only for both he and Brennen to be captured and interrogated. Their actions indirectly enabled General Noric’s failed coup and a super-weapon attack that killed thousands before Ekosian and Zeon forces crushed the uprising. Aleea spared Elberg and Brennen, leaving them stranded until their distress call was answered over a week later by Holt Allen and the USS Antyllus. (STE: "Patterns of Destruction")

Stolvez incident

Elberg was in temporary command of the Eagle while Banner and Tyler were on a diplomatic mission to the Stolvez system in 2270. The talks were over a Federation treaty for mining on their homeworld but the events of the talks went in a different direction as planned. After an emergency transmission from Captain Banner from the surface, Clause ordered the Eagle to give covering orbital fire to assist the captain and crew on the surface who were engaged in a firefight with Stolvez rebels. (Starship Antyllus: "247")

During the battle Elberg was forced to give the order to abandon ship. The landing party consisting of Captain Banner, Commander Tyler, and others were listed as MIA.

Clause was one of the last to escape the ship. His shuttle was attacked by Na'kuhl attack pods that were attempting to disrupt the time stream (unknown to Elberg). Clause crash landed on an alien planet and rescued by the officer Elizabeth Coleman. She guided him to safety until a rescue ship arrived. After which the surviving crew of the Eagle were rescued by the USS Crusader (NCC-9011) along with other vessels. The surviving Eagle crew were sent back to Earth and given other assignments. ( "The Long Road")

Mars Fleet Yard

Clause was given a promotion to commander and was stationed at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards.

During his time there he served on a test mission as an observer on the USS Harrison. (CROSSROADS: A Question of Balance)

While there he was made aware of certain elements of the United Federation of Planets that allowed a mutated version of the Psi 2000 virus to proliferate. He was confronted about the conspiracy by another engineer, Erick Minard. While he had knowledge of the virus, he was skeptical of its significance and lethality; he also supported preventing panic and misinformation. (Constar Completed: Endless Winter)

Over a year later Elberg was informed by Admiral Heihachiro Nogura that the Eagle had been found in the capacity of Elasi pirates. The ship was taken back to Utopia Planitia to be repaired and refitted.

Once in dock there was an incident when a squad of Romulans were found trying to sabotage the engineering systems, but Elberg and the Eagle were saved by a Lieutenant Ryan. Elberg thanked Ryan but quickly realized he was not a member of the Eagle's crew. While doing research Elberg was beamed aboard the time vessel Phoenix. It was there that Ryan introduced himself as a temporal agent from the 31st century. (STE: "Agents of Destiny")

Elberg continued his work on the refit until its refit was complete although chose to stay on Mars fleet yards for the time being. ( "The Long Road")

Later career

By the 2280s Elberg had resumed his post as chief engineer of the Eagle under her new captain, Katy Garretson. (STE: "The Bismark")

After his time on the Eagle Elberg was promoted to Captain and transferred to Starfleet academy where he taught engineering to future Starfleet officers. (Star Trek: Nature's Hunger Captain Simian's First Command)

Ancestry

Elberg's x11 greats grandfather during the seconded World War

The Elberg line can be traced back several centuries on earth. One of Clause's ancestors, although reluctant of him to admit, was an officer in the Waffen SS. Dietrich Elberg had reached the rank of colonel and in 1942 was stationed in Romania during a massive bombing raid by American forces. (Star Trek: Nature's Hunger "Bomber Girl")

His x10 greats grandfather was a member of the Hitler Youth. Johann Elberg, at the age of 14, also saw combat in World War II during the battle of Berlin in 1945. ("Patterns of Destruction")

Chronology

• 2237: Clause Elberg is born on Earth
• 2255: Elberg enters Starfleet Academy
• 2265: Elberg is promoted to lieutenant commander and chief engineer of the SS Quasar
• 2269: Elberg is promoted to chief engineer of the USS Eagle

Service record

	Cadet	2255-2259	attending Starfleet Academy
	Ensign	2259- 2263	assigned as engineering technician aboard the USS T'pau
	lieutenant junior grade
	Lieutenant	2263-2265	transporter operator on the USS Potemkin
	Lieutenant commander	2265-2268	Chief engineer on the USS Quasar
		2268-2269	Assistant on the Antyllus project at the Heisenhoff research post
		2269-2270	Chief engineer on the USS Eagle
	Commander	2270- 2272	Chief of drydocks at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards.
		227X-	Chief engineer/First Officer on the USS Eagle
	Captain	2297	Instructor, Starfleet Academy

Appendices

Appearances

• Star Trek: Eagle
• Starship Saladin
  • Star Trek: Eye of the Tempest
• Starship Antyllus
  • "247"
• Constar Completed
  • Endless Winter
• Crossroads - Project Gemini
  • A Question of Balance
• Star Trek: Nature's Hunger
  • Captain Simian's First Command