However, Edison's resentment twisted into hatred after he and his ship crash-landed on Altamid, with Edison himself, Anderson Le, and Jessica Wolff as the only survivors and never getting any response from the Federation when he sent out a distress call. Battles that Edison endured had deteriorated his better qualities as a person in some ways, given that he deeply resented what he saw as being put out to pasture: His calling as a soldier rendered obsolete by the Federation's embrace of diplomacy and tolerance by the time of its foundation. ~ Edison's final captain log before declaring war on the Federation.īack when he served as a MACO officer in the 22nd century, Edison became an unemotional and hardened man who witnessed millions of Humans perish by alien hands during Xindi and Romulan conflicts. I will do whatever it takes for me and my crew. They have some sort of technology that prolongs life. They left behind sophisticated mining equipment and a drone workforce. I WON'T ALLOW IT! The indigenous race abandoned this planet long ago.
Afterward, Kirk and Commodore Paris closed the file on Krall and the crew members of the USS Franklin.Ĭaptain's log, I don't remember the stardate. Sucked out into space, Krall was enveloped and disintegrated by the very bioweapon he planned to use on the inhabitants of Yorktown. Krall's forces were destroyed, and Krall himself was defeated by Kirk when Kirk opened an airlock on the station. Kirk and the remainder of the surviving Enterprise crew following in pursuit. Once Krall obtained the final component, he left to destroy the nearby Yorktown with the bioweapon, with Captain James T. During the Enterprise to Altamid, Krall and his forces destroyed the starship and took many of the surviving crew prisoners. About one hundred years after the Franklin crashed on Altamid, Krall learned the USS Enterprise had the final component. Learning of an ancient bioweapon, the Abronath, Krall began reassembling the components.
It was this technology that mutated Edison into Krall, at the cost of his already damaged mental health, causing him to lose some of his human personality, have somewhat slurred speech and usually speaking in an alien language. Their equipment included humanoid drones and swarm ships, as well as technology that prolonged life by absorbing the life from other beings, transferring energy from the victim to the user, resulting in the said user being physically morphed and mutated into having at least some of their victim's physical characteristics. Finding a cache of weapons, ships, and technology on Altamid, Krall and his forces began plotting their revenge against the Federation for their embrace of diplomacy and tolerance that he never agreed in the first place. Transformed, Edison began calling himself "Krall" during this time.
Sinking into madness, the survivors came to despise the Federation for its ideals of peaceful cooperation. Having crashed on the M-class planet Altamid, Edison and the other Franklin survivors felt abandoned by the Federation. Popular speculation ranged from the ship being captured by the Romulans to the ship being caught by a giant green hand. In 2163, he was appointed a commanding officer of the USS Franklin, the first Earth ship to have reached warp four.Ī year later, the Franklin disappeared. After the founding of the Federation, MACO was absorbed into Starfleet and Edison was given the Starfleet rank of Captain. In the twenty-second century, Edison joined United Earth's Military Assault Command Organization (MACO), rising to the rank of Major, and fought against the Xindi and then the Romulans in the Earth-Romulan War.