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Kyril Finn

aggressive resolute rueful awkward
Kyril Finn operates as a pragmatic Ansata field operative whose conduct alternates between awkward courtesy and uncompromising violence. In private detention he approaches captives with tentative, rueful politeness—offering food and identifying himself—yet in shipboard combat he fights ruthlessly, wounds a senior officer, and employs advanced dimensional technology to abduct a high-value target. He projects a dual presence: a man who performs small, humanizing gestures when useful and a resolute tactical aggressor when the mission demands it, marking him as a dangerous, adaptable agent within the terror cell’s operational cadre.
17 appearances
Tactical operations / Paramiltary sabotage and abduction
Also known as: KYRIL, Finn

Kyril Finn's Journey

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17 moments
S3E12 · The High Ground
Finn's Awkward Courtesy

Tentative and embarrassed on the surface, masking professional calculation and a need to assert control; mildly curious about the wider world.

Enters carrying a plate of food, adopts a shy, hunched posture; offers the food and awkward small talk, sits and eats with his hands, identifies himself and then withdraws, taking …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Bread, Bondage, and the First Breach

Feigningly calm and solicitous on the surface, edged with righteous anger and determined resolve—a man masking harsh intent with small civility to break resistance.

Finn enters carrying a plate, speaks in a disarmingly gentle tone, kneels to release Beverly's ankle restraints, feeds her from the dish, admits he 'hurt them,' rips the dish back, …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
A Forced Meal: Medicine, Motive, and a Mother's Plea

Calmly predatory: a composed exterior that uses small kindnesses to mask an instrumental, simmering anger and ideological conviction.

Finn enters carrying a plate, kneels to release Beverly's ankle restraints, presents food as both kindness and leverage, watches her eat with satisfaction, then abruptly reasserts control by taking the …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Confession and Conditional Mercy

Feigned calm and polished courtesy overlaying a simmering anger and satisfaction — pleased by his control but capable of sudden aggression.

Finn enters carrying a plate, alternates faux-civility with blunt menace, releases Beverly's ankle restraints, forces her to eat by hand, interrogates her about the Federation's supplies and finally offers a …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Infirmary: The Inverter's Slow Kill

Confident and quietly triumphant; he masks aggression with civility and relishes the moral unease he creates for Beverly.

Finn leads Beverly through the camp to the infirmary, answers her about contacting the ship with blunt, controlled irony, then signals a boy to present a sealed box of instruments, …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
The Inverter's Toll — Diagnosis and Martyrdom

Sombre and resigned outwardly, steady in conviction; inwardly fatalistic and willing to accept personal harm for political ends.

Finn admits the inverter's role, explains its tactical value, hears Beverly's diagnosis, registers that he too shows distorted readings, then minimizes the danger and reiterates martyrdom rhetoric to justify continued …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Sketches of Justification

Surface calm and almost clinical; internally resolute and ideologically certain, with a performative conviction that masks moral brutality.

Finn sits apart on a rock, sketching the infirmary scene—occasionally studying Beverly—then defends his actions in a calm, polemical exchange, framing killing as serious, necessary, and historically sanctioned.

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Cavern Ultimatum — Finn Refuses Release and Threatens the Flagship

Righteously angry and grief‑hardened; sorrow underwrites his fury, producing cold resolve rather than despair.

Finn receives the waiter's report, studies a sketch of Beverly, confronts her with the allegation that Starfleet and Rutian police are colluding, refuses to release her, and announces a plan …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Dimensional Ambush: Bridge Assault and Picard's Abduction

Coldly resolute and mission-driven; his violence is instrumental, not frenzied—he prioritizes the abduction outcome over personal risk.

Kyril Finn appears on the bridge amid the assault, wounds Worf in close combat, engages Picard physically—grappling him—then activates a dimensional device to vanish with the captain, converting the attack …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
La Forge Removes the Limpet Charge on the Warp Chamber

Aggressive and mission-focused, calm enough to execute technology mid-struggle; willing to inflict personal harm for the group's objective.

Kyril Finn appears on the bridge with another terrorist, sprays fire around the bridge, wounds Worf, grapples with Picard, keys a dimensional device and vanishes with Picard—exposing the group's ability …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
The Chair at the Table: Finn's Ultimatum

Controlled and contemptuous outwardly; internally confident and driven, seeing his violence as necessary calculus rather than moral failing.

Enters casually, hands in pockets, alternating small courtesies (offering food/using 'Doctor') with a ruthless, strategic exposition: he reframes hostage-taking as a methodical political tool to force Federation concessions.

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Cavern Triage — Doubt, Duty, and Finn's Seat at the Table

Calm, confident, and rhetorically controlled—beneath the civility is a hardened determination to use moral pressure as a weapon.

Enters the cavern casually with hands in his pockets, speaks quietly but forcefully for the captors—deflects accusations, humanizes his actions, offers food, and calmly unfolds a strategic manifesto designed to …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Vanishing Ultimatum: Finn's Twelve‑Hour Demand

Determined and threatening on the surface; focused, pain-masked, and deliberately performative to maximize political leverage.

Finn appears in a sudden burst of light, holding one hand up while recovering from pain, then delivers a calm but menacing political demand for embargo, blockade, and mediated talks …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
The Sketchpad Ultimatum

Surface rage and menace masking wounded pride and insecurity; shifts to a quiet, wordless vulnerability at the end.

Finn walks up carrying a sketch pad, assumes a jealous posture, issues an explicit lethal threat toward Picard to intimidate Beverly, tries to perform control through fear, then—unable to articulate …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Fear as Currency — A Wordless Apology

Outwardly threatening and self-assured; privately wounded and awkwardly seeking connection — defensive pride masking loneliness.

Finn approaches Beverly while she treats the wounded, verbally threatens Captain Picard to intimidate, insists fear is a useful weapon, then, unable to translate wounded feeling into words, silently hands …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Alcove Blackout — Finn Falls

Panicked and frantic—fear-driven aggression that overrides caution or calculated action.

Panicked and desperate, Finn makes a split decision to run for the alcove and raises a phaser at Picard, converting a tense negotiation into direct mortal threat before being struck …

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S3E12 · The High Ground
Confession Interrupted — Beverly's Revelation and the Blackout

Panicked and determined; moving from furtive to aggressively decisive as he attempts a lethal confrontation.

Finn, agitated and desperate, makes a decision mid‑scene to run for the alcove, enters and raises a phaser at Picard—his action precipitates Alexana's shot and his fall; later Beverly checks …

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