Patrick
Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard is the son of a traditional French winemaker. Despite intense pressure from his father and his brother Robert, he decided not to take up the wine trade, but instead enrolled in Starfleet Academy.
His brother Robert took over the vineyard when their father died. (We meet Robert and his wife and son in the episode Family, and also in the movie Generations.
After a rather wild period as an Ensign (described in the episode Tapestry) he buckled down and worked hard. He rose through the ranks quite quickly, and within a few years was given command of the USS Stargazer, a lowly science vessel.
While under attack from an unidentified vessel, he invents a wholly new tactical maneuver, the Picard maneuver, and manages to destroy the attacking vessel. The Stargazer is so badly damaged that it is abandoned. It is rediscovered in the episode The Battle when the events of the attack are replayed.
Later, after gaining considerable experience in first contact situations and in negotiating treaties and trade agreements, Picard was given command of the Federation's brand new flagship, the Enterprise-D (NCC-1701-D)
His interests include acting, archeology, philosophy and classical music. He always drinks hot Earl Grey tea.
He also enjoys a series of novels about
Dixon
Hill, a Bogart-style private detective in 1940s Chicago, and enjoys
acting them out in the Holodeck - see the episode The Long Goodbye.
Jonathan
Frakes as Commander William T Riker, First Officer
Jonathan Frakes also plays Lt.
Thomas Riker, an exact duplicate of Riker created in a freak transporter
accident in the episode Second Chances. Thomas Riker turns up again in
the DS9 episode The Defiant.
Riker was brought up in Alaska, by his ambitious and overbearing father, after his mother died young. (We meet his father in The Icarus Factor.)
After graduating from Starfleet academy, his first posting was on the USS Pegasus which ends in a mutiny (in which he sided with the Captain). The consequences of this are explored in the brilliant episode The Pegasus.
Before joining the Enterprise, Riker
was emotionally involved with Deanna
Troi for several months. When he arrived on board the Enterprise to
take up his posting as First Officer, he found that they are shipmates,
and they have to work together.
Brent
Spiner as Lt Commander Data, Second Officer
(Brent Spiner also plays Lore
and Noonian Soon)
Data is an android, one of two created by Noonian Soon, a brilliant but eccentric cyberneticist. The first android, superficially identical to Data, is called Lore and was shut down when it developed faults.
Data was discovered as the lone survivor when the colony where Noonian Soon was working was destroyed by a mysterious Crystalline Entity. (The Enterprise encounters the Entity in Datalore and Silicon Avatar).
Data soon enrols in Starfleet academy and soon passes with flying colours - the only android ever to do so.
For all his advantages (great strength, enormous intelligence and virtually unlimited processing power), Data has no emotions (until the very last few episodes of TNG), and does not understand much of human behaviour (especially humour!). Data's fondest wish is to understand the human equation, and become human himself.
In the episode The Offspring, Data creates a child android, Lal.
We meet Data's evil twin brother Lore in the episodes DataLore, Brothers, Silicon Avatar, Descent and Descent, Part II.
Although at first we think there were
only two androids created by Noonian Soon, in the episode Inheritance we
discover that there is a third.
LeVar
Burton as Lt Commander Geordi La Forge, Chief Engineer
Blind from birth, Geordi was outfitted with an electromagnetic visor that enables him to see much of the electromagnetic spectrum.
His mother was a Starfleet Captain and goes missing in the episode Interface (in which we also see his father).
An excellent engineer, he started out on board the Enterprise as Navigation Officer (in early episodes) but soon became the Chief Engineer, after the previous Chief Engineer got killed.
Geordi isn't particularly good with
women, and we see him make the occasional disastrous mistake on dates.
One particularly notable mistake occurs in the episode Booby Trap where
he creates a hologram of Dr
Leah Brahms, one of the original designers of the Enterprise, falls
in love with the hologram and later meets the real Leah Brahms in Galaxy's
Child!
Gates
McFadden as Dr Beverly Crusher, Chief Medical Officer Beverley
Crusher is the Enterprise's Chief Medical Officer, except during the second
season when she was teaching at starfleet academy, when Dr
Pulaski took her place on board the Enterprise.
She was married to Jack Crusher with whom she had a son, Wesley.
She has a secret crush on Captain
Picard, which adds a bit of tension to the relationship and occasionally
surfaces (for instance, in The Naked Now). She is a keen dancer, and teaches
Data
to dance in the episode Data's Day. She is also involved in staging amateur
dramatics, featured in several episodes including Frame of Mind.
Marina
Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Deanna Troi is the ship's counsellor - a role that did not exist in the Original Series. She is basically a psychologist who checks that all members of the crew are coping with the stresses and strains of life on board the Enterprise.
She is half-betazoid and half-human. The betazoids are telepathic and empathic. She is only empathic - she can sense emotions, but cannot read minds.
Before joining the Enterprise, Deanna was emotionally involved with Will Riker for several months. When she arrived on board the Enterprise, she found that they are shipmates, and they have to work together. Their relationship comes to the fore in the episode Haven when her mother Lwaxana arranges a marriage for her!
Her formal rank is Lt. Commander until
the fifth season episode Disaster after which she decides to seek promotion
to Commander. She manages this during the final season.
Denise
Crosby as Lt Tasha Yar, (first) Chief Security Officer
(NB: Denise Crosby also
plays Sela).
< Tasha Yar grew up on a remote Federation colony world where law and order broke down irretrievably. After her parents were killed, Tasha and her sister, Ishara (who we meet in the episode Legacy) had to survive alone from the age of 5, having to avoid all the criminal gangs who ran unchallenged throughout the colony - looters, murderers, and the infamous rape gangs.
Her sister Ishara joined the gangs in order to survive, but Tasha kept independent.
At the age of 12, a starfleet ship landed on the planet. the crew found Tasha and a kindly Starfleet Security officer offered to take her off the planet. She left, leaving her sister behind.
In gratitude to her rescuers, Tasha went to Starfleet Academy and soon graduated, and took up a career in security, becoming the Enterprise Chief Security Officer.
Towards the end of the first season, she was tragically killed by an evil entity called Ardros in the episode Skin of Evil.
Worf,
her deputy, was then promoted to Chief Security Officer.
Michael
Dorn as Lt Worf, (second) Chief Security Officer
Worf is the only Klingon in Starfleet. As such, he is in a unique position, and we learn a lot about the Klingon Empire through his experiences.
Worf started on the Enterprise as a Flight Control Officer, and was then promoted to Chief Security Officer when Tasha Yar was killed in Skin of Evil.
Worf continued as Chief Security Officer until the end of TNG.
In the first TNG movie, Star Trek: Generations, Worf was promoted to Lt Commander.
After the Enterprise was destroyed at the end of Star Trek: Generations, Worf accepted a commission on Deep Space Nine, transferred from Security to Command and got promoted again to Commander.
Worf's family are explored in the following TNG episodes:
Wil
Wheaton as Wesley Crusher
Wesley is Beverley Crusher's and Jack Crusher's son.
He is a young, brash and irritating teenager when he is first stationed aboard the Enterprise with his mother.
However, for all his faults, Wesley is something of a prodigy, studying advanced warp theory at the age of 13.
At first, he and Captain Picard do not get on, and he is banned from the Bridge, but eventually he is not only allowed on the Bridge, but is appointed as an Acting Ensign.
He gets into trouble on numerous occasions, nearly getting the ship blown up in The Naked Now, and nearly getting killed in Justice. However, he also saves the Enterprise several times. When the Enterprise is thrown thousands of light years off course after a warp drive experiment (in the episode Where No One Has Gone Before), the crew meet a mysterious alien called The Traveler, who tells them that Wesley is destined for greatness.
Wesley takes the entrance exams for Starfleet Academy twice, failing narrowly the first time, and succeeding the second time. He then leaves the Enterprise for the Academy.
After an excellent start at the Academy, Wesley gets into some serious trouble in the episode First Duty.
In the final season episode Journey's
End, Wesley comes back to the Enterprise as a bitter and angry young man,
disillusioned with Starfleet. He announces his resignment from the Academy,
and encounters a group of American Indians with a mysterious holy man.
Whoopi
Goldberg as Guinan
Guinan is the Enterprise's resident bar tender. The Enterprise-D has a bar in the forwardmost part of the saucer section, on deck 10. Surprisingly enough, this bar is called Ten Forward.
Guinan is an Envolian, a member of an ancient race who are reputed to be great listeners. Envolians are very long-lived in the episode Time's Arrow we learn that Guinan has been around on the Earth since the 1800s). Guinan is an old friend of Captain Picard and acts as a sort of unofficial confidante to him.
In Best of Both Worlds - Season 3, we learn that Guinan's world was
destroyed by the
Borg many centuries before, and the remaining Envolians are scattered
throughout the Universe.
Colm Meaney as Miles Edward O'Brien, Conn Officer/Transporter
Chief
Miles Edward O'Brien was born on Earth in Ireland. He has a unique talent for all things mechanical and so studied advanced engineering at the Academy. He has served on the USS Rutledge with Captain Benjamin Maxwell as tactical officer. He never forgot the encounter they had on Setlik III with the Cardassians. It left him shaken and gave him a deep hatred for the Cardassians for what they did, and that he had to kill to defend the survivers. After the Setlik III massacre, he was reassigned to the Enterprise. First, he served as Bridge Conn, then he was promoted to Transporter Chief and he became a transporter specialist.
When Miles was on board the Enterprise, he married Keiko Ishikawa (introduced
to him by Lt Cmdr Data) and they had a daughter, Molly (delivered by
Worf!).
Finally, he was assigned to Deep Space 9 as Chief Operations Officer.
Rosalind
Chao as Keiko O'Brien
Keiko comes aboard the Enterprise as a plant biologist. Data introduces her to Chief O'Brien, with whom she falls in love. They are married by Captain Picard in the episode Data's Day, with Data as best man.
Keiko and O'Brien have a child, Molly.
Keiko has major parts in: Data's Day - Season 4 / Disaster - Season
5 / Power Play - Season 5 / Rascals - Season 6.
Majel
Barrett as Lwaxana Troi (Deanna
Troi's mother.)
Lwaxana Troi is a Betazoid Ambassador. As a full-blooded Betazoid, she is both telepathic and empathic. There is a certain amount of tension between her and her daughter Deanna. Lwaxana feels that Deanna should be married, and on one memorable occasion (the episode Haven - Season 1), Lwaxana arranges a marriage for Deanna!
Lwaxana is a colourful character, who rather tends to pursue any male in reach. She tries to seduce Picard and Riker in the episode Manhunt - Season 2 and periodically appears on the Enterprise, usually in search of some man (or even holodeck character!).
Lwaxana appears in: Haven - Season 1 / Manhunt - Season 2 / Menage A Troi - Season 3 / Half A Life - Season 4 / Cost of Living - Season 5 and Dark Page - Season 7.
Majel Barrett is actually Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Gene Roddenberry's widow.
She is the only person to be in the credits on all four Star Trek series:
she played Nurse Christine Chapel in the original series of Star Trek.
She plays Lwaxana in TNG and in Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine and also plays the female voice of Starfleet
computers in TNG, Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.
John
De Lancie as the mysterious Q
Q is the first significant alien the Enterprise crew meet at the start of TNG, and is a member of the Q Continuum, a non-corporeal race with godlike powers. Unfortunately, he is a mischievious character who frequently puts the Enterprise and its crew in great jeopardy.
Q appears in: Encounter At Farpoint - Season 1 / Hide And Q - Season 1 / Q Who - Season 2 / Deja Q - Season 3 / Qpid - Season 4 / True Q - Season 6 / Tapestry - Season 6 / All Good Things - Season 7
He has also appeared on Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine in the episode Q-Less - Season 1 and on Star
Trek: Voyager in the episode Death Wish (Voyager).
Denise Crosby as Sela
As well as playing Tasha Yar, Denise Crosby also plays Sela, the half-Romulan daughter of a Tasha Yar from an alternate timeline, who we meet in the superb episode Yesterday's Enterprise - Season 3, where we also learn the fate of the previous Enterprise, the NCC-1701C.
She appears in: Redemption - Season 4 / Redemption - Part II - Season
5 / Unification - Part I - Season 5 / Unification - Part II - Season 5).
Carel Struycken as Mr Homm (Lwaxana Troi's almost silent servant).
We're not quite sure which Lwaxana Troi episodes Mr Homm appears in
- it's some of the following: / Haven - Season 1 / Manhunt - Season 2 /
Menage A Troi - Season 3 / Half A Life - Season 4 / Cost of Living - Season
5 and Dark Page - Season 7.
Diana
Muldaur as Dr Kate Pulaski
Dr Pulaski takes over from Dr Beverley Crusher as Chief Medical Officer on board the Enterprise in the second season when Dr Crusher is away at Starfleet Academy.
Dr Pulaski has major roles in Unnatural Selection - Season 2 and Elementary,
Dear Data - Season 2.
Leonard Nimoy as Ambassador Spock
Guest starring in "Unification, part I" and " Unification, part II",
spock from the Original series is now an ambassador.
Dwight Schultz as Lt Reg Barclay
Reg Barclay is a very nervy, almost paranoid young Starfleet engineer with profound personal problems and a bad case of hypochondria.
He is something of a comedy character, played by Dwight Schultz who is well known as the wonderful Murdoch in the very silly The A-Team.
Barclay appears in: Hollow Pursuits - Season 3 / The Nth Degree - Season
4 / Ship In A Bottle - Season 6 / Realm of Fear - Season 6 / Genesis -
Season 7.
Patti Yasutake as Nurse Ogawa
Nurse Ogawa appears quite often, but has major roles in: Suspicions
- Season 6 and Genesis - Season 7.
Michele
Forbes as Ensign Ro Laren
Ensign Ro is a starfleet Ensign who was a Bajoran refugee. (In accordance with Bajoran custom, Ro is her last name).
She grew up in a Cardassian concentration camp and passionates hates the Cardassians for murdering her father in front of her eyes!
Ensign Ro is the first Bajoran we meet, and as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is set in orbit around Bajor, it is through her that we learn a lot about the Bajoran/Cardassian situation that underpins Deep Space Nine.
Ensign Ro has major roles in: Ensign Ro - Season 5 / Conundrum - Season
5 / Power Play - Season 5 / The Next Phase - Season 5 / Rascals - Season
6 / Preemptive Strike - Season 7.
Susie
Plakson as K'Ehleyr
K'Ehleyr is a half-human, half-Klingon woman - the first Klingon woman that we meet in TNG!), and she and Worf were involved before he boarded the Enterprise. When they meet again in The Emissary - Season 2 she and Worf mate, and when we see her again in Reunion - Season 4 she brings a little surprise - Worf's son, Alexander.
An excellent strong female character, it is very unfortunate that K'Ehleyr
is killed by Worf's
greatest enemy, Duras
in the events of Reunion - Season 4.
Brian
Bonsall as Alexander
Alexander is Worf and K'Ehleyr's son.
After his mother's death at the hands of Duras in the episode Reunion - Season 4, Alexandar is sent to live with Worf's foster parents Sergey and Helena Rozhenko on Earth.
However, he has problems when growing up that are similar to Worf's own - being the only Klingon child on Earth - so he soon returns to the Enterprise to be with Worf.
Alexandar has major roles in: Reunion - Season 4 / New Ground - Season
5 / Ethics - Season 5 / Cost of Living - Season 5 / A Fistful of Datas
- Season 5 / Firstborn - Season 7
James
Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane
Discoverer of the space warp. Cochrane became one of history's most
renowned scientist when he revolutionized space travel in 2063 with the
invention of the warp drive, making faster-than-light travel possible.
Cochrane worked with an engineer named Lily
Sloane, constructing his warp ship, the Phoenix, in an abandoned missile
complex in central Montana on the North American continent. Ironically,
the booster stage of the Phoenix was originally built as a nuclear weapon
of mass destruction.
Despite interference from a Borg attack from the future, Cochrane conducted
the first warp flight on April 4, 2063. That historic flight was detected
by a passing Vulcan ship, and was therefore directly responsible for humanity's
first contact with the interstellar community on the following day. Cochrane's
motivation for building the Phoenix had been purely commercial, and he
was uncomfortable with the fame and adulation that was subsequently his,
but he later realized that it was his individuality that made this extraordinary
achievement possible. A decade after his historic flight, Cochrane said
"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man, and let history make its own
judgements." In later years, Cochrane's name became revered throughout
the known galaxy; planets, great universities, and cities were later named
after him. Zefram Cochrane disappeared from Alpha Centauri in 2117 at the
age of 87 and is presumed to have died in space. The area of Montana that
was once the Phoenix's launch facility became a historical monument. A
20-meter marble statue was erected there, showing Cochrane reaching toward
the future.
Alfre Woodard as Lily Sloane Twenty-first
century aerospace engineer who worked with Zefram
Cochrane to build the Phoenix, the first ship from Earth to travel
faster than light. Sloane and Cochrane built that ship largely from parts
scrounged from abandoned military hardware left over from World War III.
Sloane suffered radiation poisoning in a Borg attack that nearly prevented
the launch of the Phoenix. She was later taken on-board the Starship Enterprise-E
for treatment, where she again narrowly escaped death from the Borg. Sloane
returned to Earth, where she took her place in history.
Tony Todd as K'urn (Worf's true brother.)
K'urn appears in: Sins of the Father - Season 3 / Redemption - Season 4 / Redemption - Part II - Season 5 / Sons of Mogh (DS9) - Season 4
(Tony Todd also appeared as the old Jake Sisko in the excellent Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine episode The Visitor)
Patrick
Massett as Duras
Duras is the head of a powerful Klingon family, a member of the Klingon High Council, and stands a good chance of becoming the next Emperor after K'empec.
In Sins of the Father - Season 3 we see Duras attempt to blame Worf's father Mogh for the Khitomer massacre (in which Worf's parents died).
In fact, Duras's own father was the traitor who really betrayed the Khitomer colony to the Romulans.
In Reunion - Season 4 Worf
and
Duras meet again, and matters come to a head when Duras murders
Worf's
mate K'Ehleyr.
Robert O'Reilly as Gowron
Gowron is the second Klingon emperor we meet in TNG, and was crowned by Captain Picard in his unusual role as the Klingon Arbiter of Succession, which he was forced to accept by the first Klingon emperor K'Empec.
Gowron appears in: Redemption - Season 5 / Redemption - part II - Season
5 / Rightful Heir - Season 6 / Barbara March as Lursa (one of
the Duras
sisters.)
After the death of their brother Duras
at Worf's
hands (see the episode Reunion - Season 4), Lursa and her sister B'etor
take over as the acting heads of the Duras family, despite Klingon tradition,
and prove that they are just as devious and greedy as their dead brother.
Lursa and B'etor
appear in: Sins of the Father - Season 3 / Redemption - Season 4 / Redemption
- Part II- Season 5 / Firstborn - Season 7 and Star Trek: Generations.
Gwynyth Walsh as B'etor (the other
Duras
sister.)
See Lursa
for details.
Susan Gibney as Dr. Leah Brahms
Leah Brahms, one of the original designers of the Enterprise, is summoned
up by Geordi
La Forge as a hologram in the episode Booby Trap - Season 3 as a convenient
way to help Geordi visualise the computer's Engineering knowledge of the
Enterprise. However, Geordi rapidly grows attached to the hologram simulation
of Leah Brahms, and falls in love with her.
Geordi finally meets Leah Brahms in: Galaxy's Child - Season 4, where
he has to face up to the fact that she's never met him, doesn't love him,
and that it's altogether more difficult with a real woman than a hologram!
Although Leah Brahms doesn't appear in Star Trek: Generations, there
is a throwaway reference that a future Geordi has married the future Leah.
Doug Wert as Jack Crusher
Jack is Beverley
Crusher's dead husband, and Wesley's
father.
Jack was killed in an accident on the starship on which he served, commanded
by Captain
Picard.
He appears in: Family - Season 4 / Violations - Season 5 / Journey's
End - Season 7).
Eric Menyuk as The Traveler
The mysterious Traveler, a sort of guide to Wesley
Crusher, appears in: Where No One Has Gone Before - Season 1 / Remember
Me - Season 4 and Journey's End - Season 7.
Carolyn McCormick as Minuet
Minuet, a hologram simulation of the perfect women (at least for Will
Riker) appears in: 11001001 - Season 1 and Future Imperfect - Season
4.
Jennifer Hetrick as Vash
Vash is a greedy, unscrupulous and rather charming adventuress who Picard
meets first while on vacation on Captain's Holiday - Season 3, and again
(at the behest of Q)
in Qpid - Season 4 who then turns up with Q on Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine in Q-Less - Season 1.
(Jennifer Hetrick has also appeared as Sharon Skinner in The X-Files.
)
Andreas Katsulas as Commander Tomulak(a
Romulan
officer)
Tomulak appears in: The Neutral Zone - Season 1 / Future Imperfect -
Season 4 / The Enemy - Season 3 / The Defector - Season 3).
(Andreas Katsulas has also appeared as G'kar, the Narn ambassador
in Babylon
5).
Rhonda Alrich as Madeline (Picard's
secretary in his Holodeck detective program)
(Appears in: The Big Goodbye - Season 1 / Manhunt - Season 2 / Clues
- Season 4).
Mark Lenard as Spock's father, Sarek
Sarek appears in: the Original Series / Sarek - Season 3 / Unification
- Part I - Season 5).
Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' great arch-enemy, appears on the Enterprise
as a holodeck character when Data,Geordi
and Dr
Pulaski try to solve a Holmesian mystery in the wonderful episode Elementary,
Dear Data - Season 2.
Unfortunately, due to a mistake on Geordi's part, and a very literal
minded computer, Moriarty becomes a sentient lifeform with the ability
to comprehend the external reality - and influence it!
Moriarty reappears in Ship in a Bottle - Season 6.
Ward Costello as Admiral Gregory Quinn
A member of Starfleet's deeply unpopular Internal Affairs division,
Admiral Quinn and his obnoxious sidekick Remmick
come on board the Enterprise and investigate Picard's
record as Captain.
Both Quinn and Remmick
reappear in the wonderful Conspiracy - Season 1 episode.
Robert Schenkkan as Lt Cmdr. Dexter Remmick
Appears with Admiral
Quinn in Coming of Age - season 1 and Conspiracy - season 1.
After making himself deeply unpopular with the Enterprise crew in Coming
of Age - season 1, at least we get the satisfaction of seeing his head
blow up in Conspiracy - season 1. (Also see the notes at the top of season
one - season 1).
John Hancock as Admiral Haden
Appears in: The Defector - season 3 and The Wounded - season 4.
Lycia Naff as Ensign Sonya Gomez
Ensign Gomez was one of the good characters that never took off in TNG.
She first appears as a nervous new Ensign, determined to impress and trying
way too hard, and manages to make herself memorable by spilling hot coffee
on Captain
Picard!
Appears in: Q Who - season 2 and Samaritan Snare - season 2.
Mary Kohnert as Ensign Tess Allenby
Appears in: Final Mission - season 4 and The Loss - season 4.
Julie Warner as Christy Henshaw
Appears in: Booby Trap - season 3 and Transfigurations - season 3.
Pamela Winslow as Ensign McKnight
Appears in: Clues - season 4 and In Theory - season 5.
Lanei Chapman as Ensign Rager
(Lanei Chapman has also appeared as Vanessa Dampfuss in Space:
Above and Beyond. )
Ashley Judd as Robin Leffler (
Wesley
Crusher's girlfriend for a while)
Appears in: Disaster - season 5 and The Game - season 5.
Robert Picardo as The
Doctor
STARFLEET BIO-FILE: "Doctor"
**SPECIAL NOTE: Captain's Entry by
Kathryn Janeway
While our "doctor" is indeed an Emergency
Medical Hologram pressed into service, his ongoing evolution due to his
adaptive programming compels me to open this file entry to catalog his
numerous contributions to our crew.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
Our ship's Doctor is a holographic
figure - an emergency medical program devised by Starfleet programmers.
When the ship's doctor and entire medical staff were killed in the "Caretaker's"
displacement wave, the Doctor by necessity became the resident physician
aboard the U.S.S. Voyager, assisted by first Paris and then Kes, a quick
study in medical training.
The program's first statement upon
activation is usually "Please state the nature of the medical emergency";
the automatic command was altered to allow his own creativity, but the
Doctor preferred the known opening to creating his own more clever and
personable lines. Initiation is automatic upon red alert status; the program
is usually set for high magnetic cohesion, but it can be lessened to a
mere image. For security's sake in a crisis it carries its own power grid
separate from the nominal ship's Holodeck system. His wide array of programming
has allowed him to keep Neelix alive with hologrpoahic lungs, save the
Vidiian hematologist Danara Pel via a temporary holographic body, and even
to alter DNA so as to remerge Torres' human and Klingon halves, reform
Paris and Janeway from their retro-evolution as amphibians, and ensure
the safety of Wildman's human-Ktarian baby at birth.
The AK-1 program indeed makes the
Doctor is a genius when it comes to medicine, but his bedside manner leaves
something to be desired - although he has already come far since he was
first the joke and then the bane of the USS Voyager crew. In fact, it's
harder to tell what's evolved more: the Doctor's own self-respect, or the
respect he's given by his colleagues - with thanks on both counts largely
due to his surprise assistant, Kes - though he still rubs Torres the wrong
way and usually can't stand Neelix. Prodded by her and the simple needs
of their predicament, Janeway has seen to it that not only is the Doctor
accorded more briefings and updates, but he can now turn himself off -
a small matter until seen in the light of independence.
Thanks to various crisis - as when
Harry's Holodeck program began "devouring" the crew and later, the Doctor
has even ventured from his familiar and all-but-mastered medical world
to real-life adventures and even fear and heartbreak outside Sickbay. Also
at Kes' urging he has considered a host of names but most recently has
tried "Schmullus," the uncle of Vidiian hematologist Dr. Danara Pel whom
he saved and actually fell in love with, leaning on Paris and Kes for romantic
advice. The experience even prompted the Doctor to open his own personal
log on SD 49504.3, to learn to dance, and to borrow Paris' holo-program
for "parking" in an archaic '57 Chevy ground vehicle on Mars.
Due to the memory circuit degradation
of extremely close kinoplasmic radiation, an EMH malfunction occurred ca.
SD 48892.1 caused by a feedback loop between the Holodeck computer and
the doctor's program, which was running a holo-novel at the time to "relax"
at the captain's suggestion. No one was affected but the program itself,
which was being convinced that it was its human lead programmer, Dr. Lewis
Zimmerman, amid a holographic study simulation of a battle-damaged ship
and crew.
Apart from the clinical and statistical
notes on parenting, he felt unqualified to help Kes with her decision on
motherhood, but she still picked him as an absent parental figure to perform
the rolisisin pre-mating ritual. He in turn took her advice to make himself
sick, literally, to better empathize with patients; his resulting holo-version
of Levodian flu lasted a day longer than he'd intended thanks to Kes, and
I think he "learned" a helpful lesson in patience.
File Update: SD 50500
I never would have believed it, but
our "Doctor" now has more memory and, thanks to the 29th century, is confined
to Sickbay no more. It is taking some getting used to, but he has only
rarely been troubled by glitches in the self-powered armband mobile emitter
he wears after the time-stealing technocrat Starling "donated" it to us.
Despite the scare he gave us when
his memory overloaded and degraded, I see no harm in continuing to allow
and encourage his exploration of humanity -- as long as it does not endanger
the crew's security and B'Elanna assures me we have the technical support
to allow it. I admit I was skeptical when we took the chance of initializing
his memory and then used the diagnostic program to add more, but I would
hope -- La Boheme divas aside -- that these experiences to come will have
a mellowing effect on his personality subroutine, which can only aide the
crew on our very long journey.
We could not get along without him,
and I owe him my life more than once - including his daring mix of diplomacy
and tactics to retrieve the Vidiians' antidote to the virus which quarantined
Chakotay and myself on a world to be left behind. His idea to emit holographic
support ships proved promising, but I must add that I especially commend
his defense of the ship with Crewman Suder against the Kazon-Nistrim, and
against the macrocosms which we subdued together.
And while I opposed his choice, I
will always remember and respect his citing of the Hippocratic Oath to
"do no harm" when I made the difficult decision to deintegrate the entity
Tuvix into its original patterns for Tuvok and Neelix.
The sum total of all these actions
increasingly only leads me to examine our preconceived notions of life
and learning.
Ethan Phillips as Neelix
VOYAGER DELTA QUADRANT UPDATE BIO-FILE:
Neelix
Profile by Capt. Kathryn Janeway
Neelix is a jovial male Talaxian,
a major species of this far side of the Delta Quadrant, whose wit and instincts
have enabled him to survive as a scavenger and merchant. Now he aids our
cause admirably after coming aboard with his Ocampa mate, Kes, from her
home system. Although he takes good-natured abuse at times for it, he has
been invaluable in preparing fresh meals from the flora and fauna of this
region in order to ration food replicator power. In fact, for the human
"37's," he even researched and came up with 20th-Century comfort foods
for all -- with none of his usual custom twists added. In addition, his
past dealings and travels have yielded invaluable information for our command
decisions and strategy. He has begun taking a more active role in senior
staff affairs and even held off the Kazon-Ogla when Commander Chakotay
and I were absent.
Neelix's chores as self-appointed
"chief morale officer" have run the gamut from personal counseling, such
as helping Lt. Ayala deal with separation from his children, to a daily
inter-ship video program for the crew, "A Briefing with Neelix," begun
ca. SD 49483. The latter led to his single-handedly tracking down the Paris
ruse to flush out Crewman Jonas as our Kazon informant, risking his life
but emerging intact after killing Jonas in a raw plasma stream in Main
Engineering after a brawl there.
Neelix has already confronted his
past devils coming aboard, admitting that he avoided military service before
the 2366 conquest of his home planet Talax. The Haakonian Order forced
surrender after it irradiated his family and the rest of the population
of the Talax moon Rinax with the Metreon Cascade weapon. The weapon's inventor,
Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel, tracked us down and led us to Rinax in order to use
our transporters to attempt to regenerate the remains of Neelix's people.
The experience opened up severe old wounds in Neelix, but when Jetrel died
of his own metreon radiation poisoning, Neelix granted the guilt-ridden
scientist forgiveness. It was a difficult but huge step for our Talaxian
crewmate.
Our first encounter with the Vidiians
involved the theft of Neelix's lungs, and it took the Doctor's holographic
substitutes to keep him alive. Fortunately, the mercy I showed our Vidiian
prisoners prompted them to use their superior medical technology to transplant
one of Kes' lungs into Neelix, and adapt his immunogenicity so his physiology
wouldn't reject it.
Neelix is completely in love with
Kes, whom he calls by the endearment "sweeting" and was ready to father
a child when her premature elogium seemed to loom. His jealous nature of
Kes was an ugly monster until he finally settled with its main target,
Tom Paris, after the two helped birth an sentient reptilloid infant in
an abrasive atmosphere.
His long-running feud with the less-than-patient
Doctor is not helped by Kes' early elogium, which finds him pondering the
responsibilities of parenthood and deciding to embrace it, only to be nixed
by Kes herself and other events. Later he assisted with the birth of Ensign
Wildman's baby.
DATABASE UPDATE, SD 50460:
I have grown concerned in recent weeks
about our morale's officer's morale, and now I understand why. Despite
Neelix's cheerful and upbeat demeanor, even he has a down side, and now
I understand that some of it stems from his pessimistic self-view as worthless
to this crew now that we have exceeded the region of his scouting knowledge.
Aside from my regular assurances, I note in this record that I acknowledge
Neelix's past "very" basic combat training on Rinax, per his description,
and intend to merge him more usefully into entry-level defense training,
including the monthly tactical exercises.
This is not to register any displeasure
with his natural diplomatic skills, his ongoing "Briefing with Neelix"
comcasts, and even the cooking. Indeed his quick-thinking as a faux Nagus
during our Ferengi encounter helped save the mission, even if I personally
can do without his people's custom of delivering a history of each meal
while it is served, a practice his mother perfected. I still wonder if
his greatest diplomatic challenge, though, is his constant attempts to
"buddy up" to our most unbuddylike officer, Tuvok. Even his Talax Resort
holoprogram, with modifications by Paris, Kim, Torres, et al, has proved
to be a morale-boosting hit.
All this is to help explain why, shortly
after my initial entry here, I made the decision to try to regain both
he and Tuvok's lives as separate entities after a freak transporter merging
of the two, despite the "death" of the resulting sentient lifeform dubbed
Tuvix.
On yet another personal note: I note
with concern the separation of he and Kes' continued realtionship, and
I wish them both the best in whatever path they take.
Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine
VOYAGER DELTA QUADRANT UPDATE BIO-FILE:
Seven of Nine
Introductory Medical Notes: EMH Doctor,
AK-1
The Borg formerly known by the designation
"Seven of Nine" has been disconnected from the Borg collective mind through
the neutralization of the upper-spinal column neurotransceiver. In total,
I have extracted eighty-two percent of her Borg hardware implants. The
remaining bio-implants have been stabilized and remain critical to her
life support. I have also stimulated her human metabolism and immune system,
though the Borg Nanobots in her bloodstream will more than suffice until
she has stabilized. Hair follicles have been repaired and stimulated. Left
eyepiece has been replaced by an artificial organ replacement, simulating
her own organic eye.
Starfleet records indicate that Seven
of Nine was formerly Annika Hansen. Annika's parents were last reported
to be leaving a remote outpost in the Omega sector, headed towards the
Delta Quadrant in a small vessel The Raven. It is possible that the Hansen
family were the first humans to be assimilated by the Borg.
For detailed records of the implant
removal process, access U.S.S. Voyager Medical Database 01-022473-007.
See also: Medical logs, U.S.S. Enterprise
NCC-1701-D, SD 44001.4, CMO Beverly Crusher. Subject: Locutus, aka Jean-Luc
Picard.
GArrett Wang as Harry Kim
STARFLEET PERSONNEL FILE -- Kim, Harry
(MIA)
Profile: Report of Starfleet Command
Review Board
Kim had an especially promising career
in engineering and analytical operations when his life was apparently cut
short along with 151 fellow crewmembers on the ill-fated Voyager. Kim,
who was engaged at the time of his disappearance, had played clarinet in
the Julliard Youth Symphony and was editor of the Starfleet Academy newspaper
for one full year, where his series on the mounting Maquis problem fostered
much campus debate.
Though he enjoyed a stellar academic
career and welcomed the challenges and adventures of exploration, Kim was
a bit nervous about living up to his own expectations.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
Fresh from Starfleet Academy and somewhat
naive, my Ops officer feels his loss of home and family as a raw wound
so early in his career. His genius nearly got us home through a micro-wormhole
if not for a time technicality, and he has transported halfway home with
the Sikarians. He has been "devoured" by vengeful sentient energy beings
trapped in his Beowulf holo-program, survived the "afterlife" of the Vhnori,
and returned from the dead on the quantum level as well -- since he is
actually now a twin from a duplicate Voyager that self-destructed. I was
also gratified that he helped retrieve the Doctor from his damaged irradiated
program and that he fought temptation to stay with the "'37s."
Like myself, Kim too is estranged
from a fiancee, but he became instant friends with Paris and stuck with
him despite his problems. In return I believe he has been good-naturedly
badgered to give up Libby's memory in return for shipboard dates. I do
know he is preparing a new orchestral program with Lt. Susan Nicoletti
and her oboe, (although Ensign Baytart next door does not care for the
amplified clarinet sound.) I have been a bit disappointed in his knowledge
of recent history: when mindful of the Mars colony's founding date he had
never heard of aviation pioneer and fellow Terran Amelia Earhart and was
vague on the advent and predecessor to hover cars.
Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway
STARFLEET PERSONNEL FILE: Janeway,
Kathryn (Missing In Action)
Starfleet Career Summary:
prior -- Science officer under Adm.
Paris on the U.S.S. Al-Batani, Arias mission
Bio-Psychological Profile: Report
of Starfleet Medical/Counselor's Office
Janeway is a tough captain who is
not afraid to take chances, while her intelligence, thoughtfulness, dedication
and diplomacy have earned her respect and recognition as one of the best
in Starfleet. Her talents in engineering and science allow her hands-on
expertise, if necessary; as such she has shown a tendency to defy the Starfleet
protocol against beam-down of commanding officers into unsecured away team
missions. She prefers to be addressed as "Captain" rather than either the
gender-based "sir" or "ma'am." Aside from math and the sciences her studies
have included chromo-linguistics, American Sign Language, and the gestural
idioms of the Leyron.
This subject's penchant for the scientific
method and clear-cut choices has given her a healthy dose of skepticism,
which usually provides a command asset in dealing with new situations.
Her preference for difficult studies is self-traced back to childhood,
when she would prefer that to outdoor play. Since then she has indicated
no pleasure in outdoor camping, hiking, or cooking.
For relaxation, Janeway enjoys role-playing
and recreation in Holodeck programs, such as Gothic novels, skiing and
sailing. In her youth in rural agricultural Indiana she played tennis,
and at age 12 walked back from a match she lost for 7 km in a thunderstorm;
however, she has not played the game regularly since 2354, when a member
of her high school tennis team. As a child she also studied beginning ballet
and performed the "Dying Swan" at age 6, but in all her activities - many
of them pushed by her parents, such as gardening - she never studied a
musical instrument. She has often ascribed this situation to her sister
being the artist of the family.
The subject reports one severe depression
in life, when her father died under the polar ice cap on Tau Ceti Prime
in the mid 2350s. She stayed bedridden with grief until her sister finally
coerced her into accepting the fact and moving on, literally dragging Janeway
out of bed. The captain has credited her father with forcing her to learn
her own lessons and not shielding her from life.
In 2371, Janeway gambled on giving
troubled Starfleet renegade Tom Paris a reprieve from his Rehabilitation
Settlement in New Zealand by tapping him as a scout for a search-and-rescue
mission of her security chief gone undercover aboard a Maquis vessel. However,
contact with her new ship, the U.S.S. Voyager, was lost after SD 48307.5
and all hands were presumed lost.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
As with all captains through the ages,
Janeway looks to her crew like a flock of sheep, but being thrown into
the Delta Quadrant and being utterly cut off from home has intensified
that burden to levels few commanders may have endured. The loneliness has
also led her to relax at times the separation that commanders usually impose
upon themselves purely to maintain the "respectful distance" - such as
an occasional Sandrine's Bar pool game on the Holodeck.
Her Starfleet training and the graciousness
and grit obviously instilled in her upbringing are to blame and to credit
for the situation her ship is in: following the Prime Directive to the
letter, even if it means stranding oneself 70 years from home, and melding
a crew of Maquis and other non-regulation members into an effective force
and family that can live as well as merely survive.
Although we have our differences,
my respect and admiration for her grow with each day. I appreciate her
gamble in my suggestion to select B'Elanna Torres as chief engineer, while
we all now know her instincts were correct when she originally opposed
my desire to enter alliances with the Kazon or Trabe. We see eye-to-eye
on numerous issues, especially a healthy respect for life and other cultures
no matter what shape or form, and I cannot fault her on the handling of
our encounter with the suicidal Q and his Q pursuer.
She has not only refrained from creating
a shipboard fraternization policy but feels eventually the crew will pair
off anyway - except for her; I can sense the captain yet fears to "give
up" and fully separate emotionally from her fiance Mark. Her trusted Tuvok's
disobeyal of direct orders on the grounds of logic when it seemed to help
our trek home clearly hit home as well, though overall she takes confidence
in the strength of her people.
Amelia Earhart was a personal heroine,
so meeting her on the '37s planet was an indescribable event - as was the
gratification that not one of the combined Maquis-Starfleet crew would
choose to stay behind on the human colony.
Personnel Medical File, EMH Acting
CMO:
While amazed at her durability and
courage, I must go on record after over two years with my concern at the
captain's bent toward constantly putting her personal security at risk.
I trust it will not be her undoing, and this ship's.
While my confidence in her mental
state has not wavered, I am pleased she has taken my shipwide advice to
pursue arts and recreation forms as a diversion to our long journey. The
captain has returned to tennis after 19 years, taken up watercolors, and
even shared a childhood ballet with the ship on talent night.
DQ Addendum, Cmdr. Chakotay
The captain would never admit it,
but for the record I would note her action beyond the call of duty in almost
single-handedly saving this ship from the strain of macrovirus that nearly
killed its crew. The captain also amazed me by offering to sacrifice her
life to save Kes on Nichristi, even though its spiritualism was a puzzle
to her, and her strength of will was never stronger than when defeating
what I would call a life entity succubus.
As our journey grows I cannot help
but grow in respect and affection for our captain, stirred on by our short-lived
planetary abandonment before our viral infection could be cured. Thanks
to that incident I have every confidence that Kathryn Janeway will see
us through our predicament with high spirits in, dare I say it, the best
Starfleet tradition.
Robert Beltran as Chakotay
A Native American descendant, this
onetime Starfleet lieutenant commander resigned from his position as an
instructor in Starfleet's Advanced Tactical Training in 2370 to join the
Maquis, sparked by his father's death fighting Cardassians on the tribe's
homeworld along the Demilitarized Zone. Chakotay is a gentle man but resolute,
and is one of the Maquis who are truly in the fight for principle, not
mercenary gain or violent outlet - as was one of his students, Lt. Ro Laren.
Today Chakotay looks to his spiritual
Mayan background for inner comfort - and doesn't mind sharing that belief
with others, when asked, or even enduring some good-natured ribbing about
it from Torres and Paris, among others. He uses a spririt guide summoned
by his medicine bundle, prays to speak with his father for guidance, and
uses a Mayan-descended medicine wheel for self-healing. With amother suffering
from ongoing neck muscle spasms, he is also reportedly an excellent masseuse.
However, he didn't always have such
reverence for his ancestors' ways. His father Kolopak was insistent upon
finding their peoples' ancestral home and did so in the Central American
jungle in 2350, when Chakotay was 15. But the young man had already been
casting his lot with Starfleet crews patrolling the border, and stunned
his father on that trip with the news he'd be leaving the tribe to attend
Starfleet Academy after his newfound aquaintance Captain Sulu agreed to
sponsor him at Starfleet Academy, even at his young age. Despite that resistance,
Chakotay dis learn many survival skills from his father, such as building
log cabins and fire-starting.
Chakotay's piloting skills trace back
to extensive and early Starfleet Academy training. From a freshman course
over adjacent North America, he went to Venus to master atmospheric storms
and had yet another semester dealing with asteroids in the Sol asteroid
belt.
The virtual estrangement between father
and son lasted until 2371 when Kolopak died defending his home in the early
days of Cardassian harassment, even as the final border treaty was being
signed. Chakotay took to wearing his tattoo, a symbol of those jungle descendants,
to honor his father, who wore it also; even his own name is a cherished
gift from his tribe. Later Chakotay reported considering archeology as
a second occupation, either in the field or in academics.
Chakotay's people, tracing their lineage
back past Mayans to the Rubber Tree People of Central America, resisted
the intrusion of more technological societies until the devleopment of
warp drive in the 21st century allowed them to leave Earth and find their
own home for good. One 20th century forebear he knows of was a schoolteacher
in Arizona.
Even today its members avoid modern
devices such as transporters wherever they can, and he was taught that
nothing is personally owned save the courage and loyalty in one's own heart.
Despite his tribe's move, the adult Chakotay means Earth when he thinks
of "home" - from the Arizona desert and the Baja California peninsula over
to the Gulf of Mexico.
Known members of Chakotay's Maquis
crew include B'Elanna Torres, Lon Suder, Kurt Bendera, Kenneth Dalby, Mariah
Henley, (First Name Unknown) Ayala, (FNU) Hogan, (FNU) Jackson; Bajoran
nationals Seska, Gerron and Jarvin; and a Bolian, Chell.
With an undercover agent from the
crew of Captain Kathryn Janeway aboard, Chakotay's craft disappeared in
the Badlands a week before Janeway's new U.S.S. Voyager itself was lost
on SD 48307.5 and presumed destroyed.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
The former Maquis leader has had his
share of pains before: the revelation that Tuvok was Janeway's spy; the
death of Kurt Bendera in a Kazon battle, after he'd helped in out in a
brawl on Telfas Prime; and the defection of his former lover Seska - whom
he's further shocked to realize was a Cardassian spy all along in his Maquis
crew, and who continues to manipulate that guilt.
Despite such trials, and his Maquis
sympathies, Chakotay's own moral courage rings out as strongly as mine
when the chips are down - and it is to his credit that he has accepted
my command and enforced the embracing of Starfleet ways among his old crew
fully and with vigor, including assuming equal discipline - and, I've heard,
a right cross if necessary. And I am especially indebted that he convinced
me to gamble on his nominee for chief engineer - although I must take the
blame in overriding my convictions in seeking an alliance with the Trabe
or Kazon as he'd suggested.
The convictions of both his people
and Starfleet served him well when keeping his life and dealing with the
Kazon boy Kar and his elders - and putting his own safety on the line to
fake his death, saving Kar's naming honor. He apparently has more than
one medicine bundle made up, or else he thought to take it with him in
the rush to beam out with Kar.
Chakotay had seemed to be on the way
to mending fences with Tom Paris when our ruse that couldn't include the
commander had to be hatched to trap our Maquis informant to Seska; I know
he was not only annoyed at the act but miffed that he was left out of the
loop, but it did further the performance beautifully.
Checkout review update, Kathryn Janeway,
SD 50100:
Seska is dead. Having secured our
vessel once and for all from the recent short-lived Kazon take-over, I
note not only Chakotay's heroics in securing our planetside position with
the suspicious but sentient natives, but also his mixed mood in learning
that Seska's child, presumed to be his, proved not to be. I only trust
that Seska's demise will allow the commander to leave this phase of his
life behind without guilt and manipulation.
Personal addenda, Level 1 classification,
for SFC eyes only:
I write this after having spent six
weeks quaratined alone with the commander on an immunizing Class M planet
under threat of carrying a viral epidemic to the crew. While personal log
are not the purview of this file entry, I feel compelled to comment on
Chakotay's survival skills and his commitment to easing our personal burdens
alone, before we had any hope of seeing our ship again. We likely have
a long journey ahead of us, and I feel somehow invigorated that he and
I have fostered such a smooth relationship. Where our personal feelings
lie beyond that is an issue that must not interfere with crew safety and
security, but there are times when I believe the commander, depite his
best effort, gets downright jealous or giddy.
Roxann Dawson as B`Elanna Torres
FEDERATION BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE FILE:
Torres, B'Elanna (Wanted; Missing)
Biography Sketch: Report of Starfleet
Security
After a brilliant but troubled two
years heading toward an engineering specialty at Starfleet Academy, subject
Torres seemed to be constantly at odds with the Klingon heritage of her
maternal side and after several disruptive episodes agreed to leave school.
She and her Klingon mother had lived on Kessick IV along among humans after
her father, a human Starfleet officer, left them when she was 5.
She later joined the Maquis rebellion
in its early stages and by mid-2370 was acting as engineer for former Starfleet
officer Chakotay's crew, her position at last report and the crew to which
Lt. Tuvok of the U.S.S. Voyager under Captain Kathryn Janeway had infiltrated
undercover. Her ship was last heard from a week before the Voyager went
looking for it in the DMZ Badlands; both vessels are missing and presumed
lost, last detected SD 48307.5.
When she turns to recreation as an
outlet, she has been known to play both hoverball and Parrises Squares.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
I have never regretted my decision
to assign Torres the brevet rank of lieutenant or make her my chief engineer.
She is tough, knowledgeable and independent, and sometimes seems an echo
of myself at her age in her department, but her mixed heritage has manifested
itself in a state of confusion and denial that I hope is not personally
insurmountable. Now that B'Elanna is unable to release her frustrations
through fighting the Cardassians, she must learn to accept herself and
her conflicting heritage.
I recall how far she has come since
her diatribe against my order to destroy the Caretaker's Array when we
first arrived, and her reaction to Tuvok's grumbling "boot camp" Maquis
bears out my faith in her.
Episodes such as the Vidiians' kidnapping
of her to test Klingon tissue for its Phage-resistance does not hurt, although
I was gratified to see she allowed such a sample taken a year later to
aid Dr. Danara Pel, who later in turn helped our crew when Chakotay and
I were fatally infected and left behind. It hurt me to put her on report
following the Sikaris insubordination.
Torres was also driven by guilt to
stop "Dreadnought", the code name of a Cardassian doomsday missile she
reprogrammed as a Maquis in mid-2370 to hit its makers' fuel depot at Aschelon
V and swept up by the Array to into the Delta Quadrant. She launched it
as a super-killer without Chakotay's permission - even though she programmed
it to warn Federation ships. B'Elanna was also away from us when a Cravic
fighter robot she reactivated here kidnapped her to its vessel to give
its kind the secret of replication that had all but halted their undying
war with Praylor robots, since neither could reproduce after both sides
eliminated their makers and kept fighting.
CROSS-EXCERPT, related file, Chakotay
personal log, SD 50246:
Sometimes I wonder about my B'Elanna.
I know she's honest, but the erotic Enaran dreams she experienced are I
trust not a product of her own psyche. It' s none of my business of course,
but even though she dates I do worry about her keeping to herself too much.
I just hope the flirtatious sparring she gets from Tom Paris these days
doesn't lead to more hurt for her.
Personnel file addendum, report of
CO Janeway, SD 50450:
I have nothing but praise for my chief
engineer as we near our third year in returning home, despite her unusual
behavior with the Enarans, whom I had hoped to make as a new ally. But
B'Elanna is nothing if not brutally honest, and though my own inquiry failed
to turn up concrete proof of her story I cannot help but feel we are better
off without allies whom she claim engaged in a Holocaust-like purge and
then ignored the horror.
Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris
FEDERATION DATABASE FILE: Paris, Tom
(Missing)
Biographical Sketch:
Paris, born into a long line of distinguished
Starfleet officers, had a troubled relationship with the high expectations
of his father, an admiral, who joined his friends and teachers to praise
him as a child but remained tough and remote, telling him for instance
that crying was a sign of weakness. He managed to graduate from Starfleet
Academy after a stormy four years, almost failing stellar cartography as
a freshman; he chose Marseilles, France as the site of his physical training
second semester. He did hone his natural aptitude for piloting skills on
craft large and small and proved adept at holo-engineering.
Despite his family legacy, Paris buckled
under to the self-imposed pressure and tried to cover-up an error that
caused the deaths of three officers at Caldrik Prime; it was only his self-confession
at the point he would have been exonerated that netted him a discharge
rather than harsher punishment. After leaving Starfleet he turned to the
Maquis for fulfillment as a fighter pilot, but was captured by Starfleet
on his first mission and this time was sentenced to the Federation Penal
Settlement near Auckland, New Zealand, wearing an alarm anklet.
Paris was given a reprieve of sorts
in early 2371 when he was temporarily released from the rehab colony and
given a second chance by Captain Janeway, who needed him to scout her new
starship through the Badlands in search of her lost security chief who
had been undercover among a Maquis crew Paris had served with, led by former
Lt. Cmdr. Chakotay. Had he successfully completed the mission Paris could
have applied for permanent parole, but ironically he and the rest of the
Voyager crew are missing and presumed lost in the Badlands plasma storms,
last contact SD.
In later counseling, Paris revealed
an unsatisfying relationship with women that has fostered no long-term
associations, including a relationship with Susie Crabtree as an Academy
freshman and a French woman, "Ricky," met during his Marseilles semester.
He also has an affinity for antique Earth ground vehicles and Terran American
history and culture, especially of the 20th century, and has enjoyed sailing
in true life and in holo-programs.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
After his actions during the ship's
odyssey into the Delta Quadrant and the "Caretaker" encounter, I have granted
Paris a field promotion to lieutenant. Given a second chance, he has stood
tall, not only keeping the ship safe through his piloting skills but counseling
Torres through the wrenching division of her soul and saving his onetime
Maquis enemy Chakotay, though his stint as an aide to the EMH Doctor was
short.
Before our encounter with the '37s
he had never landed a starship of this variety before - I am unclear whether
he literally included smaller craft as Runabouts - but he landed within
the 2 km range I specified.
Special Addendum: Stardate 49372
I am pleased to record for posterity
that Lieutenant Tom Paris has to our knowledge become the first person
to break Warp 10 barrier. We hope some one, someday, will learn of his
achievement back home before it is duplicated.
File Update: Janeway Report
I must again commend Lt. Paris for
his actions in carrying out our operation to flush out Seska's informant
among our crew, Michael Jonas. I regret not having filled in Chakotay of
the plan, but the resulting "drama" played directly into our hands; at
least the commander and Lt. Rollins found themselves in a fight with Paris
for all the crew to see, although Neelix and his new "broadcast" nearly
ruined our secret.
Psych profile: Report of Ship's Doctor,
EMH-1
Paris fancies himself a lady's man
in the 24th century sense of the word, and though he was framed for murder
it almost cost him his and sanity when punished by a Badean court . He
may yet lead up-tight Harry into trouble with the Delaney sisters or elsewhere
onboard ship, but while the mystery of the "Ricky" of his Holodeck programs
remains he's introduced everyone aboard to the relaxation of pool and his
Marseilles hangout, Sandrine's Bar; I personally have enjoyed his "'57
Chevy parked on Mars" holo-program, which includes the period tune "I Only
Have Eyes For You." Paris was surprised to discover he did have a slight
attraction to Kes and fought to suppress it, confirming Neelix's long-running
jealousy of he and Kes. Their raucousness was finally settled when the
two men were forced to save themselves and nurture an infant alien on its
native world.
Paris Medical Update: Supplemental
Collective medical science has triumphed
again. I have restored the original DNA genome for the Captain and Lt.
Paris after their Warp 10 experience in "Infinite Velocity" and momentary
multi-dimensional existence speeded up their human evolution into an retro-amphibian
lifeform which we retrieved after they gave birth. The condition with both
subjects, I feel, clears it of any link to from the slight enzymatic imbalance
in Paris' cerebellum I detected pre-flight, which I predicted could lead
to a 2% chance of brain hemorrhage amid subspace stress. In the euphoria
of the moment before his first test flight Paris remarked that it was the
first time in 10 years (or since 2362) that he felt himg src="images/s self-esteem was
capable of taking risks; I am unsure to what life event he is referring.
A personal note: a thanks to the lieutenant
for his advice on dating and his '57 Chevy holo-program.
Special Addendum: Stardate 50025
I find myself making more and more
of these commendations to take great pride in my gamble/ Thi is to note
that Lt. Paris played a major role in recovering our vessel against incredible
odds from its Kazon-Nistrim marauders, along with the EMH Doctor and Crewman
Suder, who gave his life.
Special Addendum: Stardate 50315:
Had I known that 20th century American
pop culture would be such an asset to a Starfleet officer's diplomatic
bag of tricks I would have taken and lobbied for the class as curriculum
years ago. But once again Lt. Paris has aided this crew immeasurably with
his knowledge during our recent incident in AD 1996 Los Angeles.
Notation: Security chief Tuvok, SD
50316.2:
My praise is added to that of Mr.
Paris's file. However I must point out that while he is an excellent starship
helmsman, as a taxi driver he leaves much to be desired.
Paris Medical Update: Supplemental
Because our special circumstance of
isolation requires ongoing monitoring of fraternization, I have observed
a shifting of attention in Lt. Paris' affectations, from playing to field
-- especially Megan Delaney -- to a flirtatious sparring with none other
that Lt. Torres. As I am a doctor and not a voyeur, I maintain this observation
simply for historical record on our unique scenario.
***
Tim Russ as Tuvok
STARFLEET PERSONNEL FILE: Tuvok (Missing
In Action)
Starfleet Career Summary (partial)
2293 -- Graduated Starfleet Academy
2293 -- VOYAGER ANNOTATION: Served
on U.S.S. Excelsior, junior science officer
2298 -- VOYAGER ANNOTATION: Resigned
Starfleet, from Excelsior
2343 -- Returned to Starfleet, assigned
to U.S.S. Wyoming
2371 -- Security chief and second
officer, U.S.S. Voyager under Capt. Kathryn Janeway (MIA)
2372 -- Assumes command for six weeks
during quarantine of Voyager CO and XO
Profile: Report of Starfleet Security
Security chief and tactical officer
under Captain Kathryn Janeway who had gone undercover to infiltrate the
Maqui as part of Chakotay's crew when both ships disappeared in the Badlands
of the Demilitarized Zone, presumably destroyed by plasma storms; the smaller
craft disappeared a week before the Voyager was last heard from on SD 48307.5.
Earlier in his career Tuvok served
on the U.S.S. Wyoming and was a teacher and cadet trainer at Starfleet
Academy for 16 years before joining Janeway's crew on her ship prior to
the U.S.S. Voyager; for a brief time he was on leave with a temporary assignment
at Jupiter Station. In his youth he was an opponent of the Federation-Klingon
treaties but later came to see the wisdom of fellow Vulcan Spock's drive
for alliance.
In his personal life, Tuvok is a devoted
parent and husband - his wife was in labor for 96 hours with their third
child - and engages his interest in the traditional Vulcan lute, playing
it for his children when they could not fall asleep at bedtime. His youngest
son was especially fond of "Falor's Journey," a 347-verse epic ode. Tuvok
also is an expert botanist with growing orchids a specialty he continues
in his own quarters, practices the Keethara meditation routine, and began
his interest in the Vulcan game kal-toh with master studies at age 5. Prior
to his stint on the Wyoming he taught archery science at the Vulcan Institute
for Defensive Arts, and has maintained a scholarly interest in the study
of violence for over a century.
****CLASSIFIED to Level 1 security
at Subject request, AD 2349 With the best of Vulcan rationality, Tuvok
was pressured by his parents into following them into Starfleet and graduated
the Academy at the age of 29 in 2293, originally posted to Capt. Hikaru
Sulu on the U.S.S. Excelsior. He resigned in 2398 to pursue his people's
kohlinar regimen of true non-emotion after becoming disillusioned with
non-Vulcans in the service, but went into pon farr six years later and
began a family. His return to Starfleet was marked by a maturity and a
reconsideration of the benefits service provided.
File Update: Delta Quadrant Addendum
Tuvok's physical, investigative and
tactical skills are an inspiration to this crew, while his Vulcan equanimity
and calm demeanor make him a valued peacekeeper aboard the ship. With his
combination of wisdom, experience and vitality Tuvok is one of the most
respected members of the crew, even grudgingly among the former Maquis.
And he is certainly my most trusted confidant aboard this far-flung vessel,
although I regret to put him on report for his formal insubordination regarding
my orders banning black-market bartering for a possible shortcut home with
the Sikarians.
Tuvok has recently demonstrated to
me the good and bad of the mystique of the unique Vulcan mental abilities.
While he has helped Kes develop her latent Ocampan abilities, he nearly
made himself criminally insane despite his Vulcan self-disciplines after
a mind-meld while attempting to aid psychopathic murderer and former Maquis
Lon Suder, a Betazoid, after the murder of a fellow crewman.
UPDATE SD 50530: K. Janeway, addendum
Re: Crewman Suder: I underestimated
Tuvok's patience and Suder's heart. The crewman had made substantial progress
toward a healthy outlook before giving his life to retake this ship from
Kazon-Nistrim raiders, ca. SD 49000.
Despite our earlier problems on this
mission I have come to cherish my decision to retain Tuvok as second officer,
and feel such experiences as his captaincy during Chakotay and my's medical
quarantine will benefit him in the long run. I know it weighed heavily
on him to recant my orders against Vidiian involvement, but I cannot fault
the growth he showed in considering the pleas of the entire ship. Reversing
his accidental and unprecedented transporter merging with Neelix into an
all-new third being was in turn a tough choice for this commander, but
one in which - as the Vulcans say - I had to place the needs of the many
above the needs of the one.
As for the incredible incident prompted
by his viral parasite disguised as a submerged memory from his Excelsior
days, I thank my friend for a look at living history - Starfleet's and
his own.
Daniel
Davis as Professor Moriarty
Appears in: Night Terrors - season 4 / Relics - season 6 and Schisms
- season 6.
Emergency Medical Holographic Doctor
*Includes updates, addenda through
SD 50500 (2373)
Rank: Uncommissioned
Current assignment: Chief medical
officer, U.S.S. Voyager
Full File Name: Emergency Medical
Hologram AK-1
Activation Date: SD 48308.2. (2371)
Reinitialized Date: SD 50252 (2373)
Origin of program: Jupiter Station
Holo-Programming Center
Original Programmer: Dr. Lewis Zimmerman,
Starfleet
Programming: Taken from among 3,000
cultures and 47 specific surgeons
Office: Adjoining Sickbay on Deck
5, U.S.S. Voyager
Report by Cmdr. Chakotay, First Officer,
U.S.S. Voyager
Report by Capt. K. Janeway
Chef, Diplomatic Adviser, Morale Officer
*Includes updates, addenda through
SD 50500 (2373)
Species: Talaxian
Current assignment: U.S.S. Voyager:
Chef, diplomatic adviser, "morale officer"
Full Name: Neelix
Place of birth: Rinax, a Talax moon
Marital status: Single
Entry by K. Janeway
Honorary Crewmember
Species: Human, Cybernetic
Current assignment: U.S.S. Voyager
: no formal assignment
Full Name at Birth: Annika Hansen
Place of birth: Tendara Colony, SD
25479
Marital status: Single
All records classified.
Operations Officer
Rank: Ensign
Current assignment: Operations Officer:
U.S.S. Voyager (ship lost and unaccounted for SD 48307.5)
Species/gender: Human male
Year of birth: 2349
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2367-71
Marital status: Single
Last known whereabouts: The Badlands
Report by Capt. Kathryn Janeway,
U.S.S. Voyager
Captain
*Includes updates, addenda through
SD 50500 (2373)
Rank: Captain
Current assignment: Commanding officer,
U.S.S. Voyager
Full Name: Kathryn Janeway
Home region: Indiana, North America,
Earth
Birthday: May 20
Parents: Admiral Edward Janeway (d.
2358) and Gretchen Janeway
Siblings: One sister
Education: Starfleet Academy graduate
Marital status: Single, engaged
Office: U.S.S. Voyager, Deck 1 Ready
Room adjoining Bridge
2371 -- Given command of U.S.S. Voyager,
new Intrepid-class starship. Ship disappeared in Badlands during mission
to pursue Maquis ship.
Report by Cmdr. Chakotay, First Officer,
U.S.S. Voyager
SD 50500
SD 50525
FEDERATION BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE
FILE: Chakotay (Wanted; Reported Missing)
*Includes updates, addenda through
SD 50500 (2373)
Status: Maquis commando and felon
Full Name: Chakotay
Species: Human
Year of birth: 2335
Parents: Son of Kolopak
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2350-54
Marital status: Single
Appended by Capt. Kathryn Janeway,
U.S.S. Voyager
Chief Engineer
*Includes updates, addenda through
SD 50500 (2373)
Full Name: Torres, B'Elanna
Species: Half-Klingon, Half-Human
Education: Starfleet Academy, incomplete
second year
Marital status: Single
Report by Capt. Kathryn Janeway,
U.S.S. Voyager
*Includes updates, addenda through
SD 50500 (2373)
Status: Trusty, UFP Rehabilitation
Commission
Current assignment: Observer/scout,
U.S.S. Voyager (presumed lost with ship)
Full Name: Thomas Eugene Paris
Parents: Admiral and Mrs. Paris
Education: Starfleet Academy graduate
Marital status: Single
Report by Capt. Kathryn Janeway,
U.S.S. Voyager
Security Chief
*Includes updates, addenda through
SD 50500 (2373)
Played By:
Rank: Lieutenant
Current assignment: Detached leave,
security chief of U.S.S. Voyager, for undercover Maquis mission; both ships
lost and unaccounted for SD 48307.5
Full Name: Tuvok
Year of birth: 2264 (Terran equivalent)
Place of birth: Vulcan
Education: Starfleet Academy, 89-93
Marital status: Married 2304, to
T'Pel
Children: Three sons, one daughter
****
Report by Capt. Kathryn Janeway,
U.S.S. Voyager
