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C.T. Caine

Caine, Christina-T'Prinn

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Name: Christina-T'Prinn Caine (Note: For personal address, prefers simply "Caine").

 

Rank: Lieutenant, Senior Grade

Born: 2350

Age: 47 (approx. physical equivalent to 30- or 35-year-old full human)

Race: Vulcan/Human hybrid

Currently Assigned: USS Agincourt (NCC-81762, Prometheus-class)

Current Position: Chief of Security/Tactical Officer

 

APPEARANCE:

 

Hair: Blonde, short.

Eyes: Gray

Height: 5'9"

Weight: 150 lbs.

 

FAMILY:

 

Father: Saren, child of Talen and T'Renn, former professor of astrophysics, Vulcan Science Academy.

 

Mother: Rebecca Caine, former Federation ambassador to Vulcan. (deceased)

 

Elder Half-Brother: Sorak, professor of astrophysics, Vulcan Science Academy (Saren's son by bonded marriage to T'Mara, child of Stenn and T'Lanna). Age 107.

 

PERSONAL HISTORY:

 

After the death of his first wife, the Vulcan astrophysicist Saren remained unmarried for nearly fifty years until he encountered Rebecca Caine, a fiery Federation diplomatic attache who proved to be nearly his intellectual equal on a variety of subjects from science to politics. The two of them corresponded and occasionally met throughout Caine's career with the diplomatic corps; when she finally left it in 2350, she returned to Vulcan for good. She and Saren were married in 2351.

 

Despite the strength of their marriage (which endured until Rebecca's death in 2382), both Rebecca and Saren were firmly attached to their cultural heritage; as a result, their first and only child bore the unwieldy appellation Christina-T'Prinn Caine. She grew up, unsurprisingly, with many shorter modes of address, generally depending on whose company she was in. To her father and half-brother, she was "T'Prinn." To her mother she was "Chris" or "Chrissy." To any other non-family acquaintances, she was generally just "Caine," by her own preference; she was fiercely independent from a young age and preferred the more generic identifiers rather than taking sides with either parent.

 

A strong-willed and opinionated child, she inherited her mother's vigor and her father's intelligence, and was a voracious reader of almost anything she could get her hands on. By her early teens she could hold her own in debates and discussion with her father's scientific colleagues. Despite Saren's efforts on the subject, she never applied herself to the complex mental discipline and emotional control characteristic to Vulcans, but she did absorb a great deal of their day-to-day philosophies, which would color her outlook for the rest of her life.

 

Her parents instilled within her the ideal that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few," which eventually developed, in their personal family canon, into the creed that it was one's duty to themselves and to the galaxy at large to take advantage of one's abilities for the benefit of a wider whole; to do anything less was illogical. With this in mind, her father assumed that she would follow him into academia, as she had a strong capacity for absorbing and disseminating knowledge on a wide variety of subjects; in Saren's opinion, this ability was her most important talent and he took great pains to cultivate it throughout her childhood.

 

As she grew older, however, Caine's independent personality began to rebel slightly against the rigid mental discipline and intellectualism Saren attempted to foster within her, feeling that she had other skills to offer and that the course of her life was being decided for her. The Vulcan gene being dominant over human physiology, she had also inherited her father's physical strength and stamina, and she enjoyed exercising it as much as challenging her mental faculties. Under the disapproving eyes of her parents, she began training in numerous forms of martial arts, eventually leaving Vulcan several times to participate in competitions.

 

She was quick, strong, and (in that same spirit of not wasting the abilities given to her) a powerful and decisive fighter who wasted no time in bringing an opponent down. She discovered she had a gift for tactical strategy; she could analyze a fight situation very quickly and pursue the most efficient course of attack. Her absolute devotion to victory might have been classified as vindictive, had it not been utterly driven by the idea that it was a crime to do anything less than her best with the skills that she had cultivated.

 

She clearly had a natural aptitude for combat and strategy and took great satisfaction in those abilities, and valued them for their potential for greater public service. As she entered her late teens, she expressed an interest in leaving Vulcan to join Starfleet, viewing it as illogical to remain on her home planet, a scientist among scientists, when she might do more good in the service of their protection. Her father, who had recently been engaged as a professor at the Vulcan Science Academy where her brother was also attending, disapproved of this plan. However, her mother, with her greater experience in the quadrant at large, supported Caine in her decision and approved of her desire to put her more unique skills where they would be most useful. Caine entered Starfleet Academy with security and spaceborne tactical conflict concentrations in 2368.

EDUCATION:

 

She progressed quickly through her training. The protection of "the needs of the many" were her only goal; it drove her as her scientific work never had. Her natural aptitude for physical exertion and tactical strategy in personal combat gave her an edge over her classmates and she found she had a talent for leadership in more elaborate conflict simulations. Additionally, despite the fact that she did not maintain the traditional Vulcan facade, that side of her racial heritage still showed. Her professors noted her ability to think quickly and retain her calm no matter how difficult the situation, and her gift for tactical strategy and for quickly assessing a situation and creating a viable solution, so much like a computer, earned her the nickname "Prototype" from her classmates -- some admiring, others jealous.

 

She also continued her scientific studies but in the context of her security and tactical work -- astrophysics as related to the use and interaction of surrounding phenomena during tactical combat, xenobiology as related to weak spots in different alien physiologies. The latter also led her to a minor in triage medicine and disaster relief strategy, something which her natural calm and leadership abilities lended her ably to.

 

She graduated with high honors in 2372.

 

SERVICE JACKET

 

Upon leaving the Academy, Caine was assigned to the USS Tripoli (NCC-19386-A, Nebula-class) as a relief tactical officer and assistant security chief, just in time for the outbreak of the Dominion War in 2373. The Tripoli played a large part in the war, fighting at both the Battle of Torros III in 2373 and Operation Return in 2374, both major Allied victories, and Caine distinguished herself at both, though as relief tactical she did not participate in the majority of the fighting. It was not until the Second Battle of Chin'toka in 2375 that she really became immersed in the war.

 

Second Chin'toka was a terrible defeat for the Allies and the Tripoli shared in it entirely. She suffered massive casualties; a full three-quarters of her crew were killed, the majority when a blast from a Cardassian ship sheared off most of their saucer's port side. About half the bridge crew was incapacitated in one form or another by the end of the battle, including the chief tactical officer. Caine took over in the chaos and was mostly responsible for the fact that the ship managed to escape the battle at all. She was highly commended by her commanding officer after the fact for her cool-headedness under pressure, and, thus marked as a valuable officer, was transferred back into the fighting almost at once, this time aboard the USS Drake (NCC-48414, Miranda-class), where she took the tactical console for the ship at the Battle of Cardassia.

 

With the end of the Dominion War, Caine was transferred back to Earth; though offered leave, she refused to take it, preferring to remain in the action where possible. However, Starfleet wished to offer her a respite from the constant battles she had been involved in during the war and thus assigned her to Starbase 54 as part of their security detail, where she remained for the next six years. In 2381 she returned to shipboard duty aboard the USS Adamant (NCC-32351, Nebula-class), a border-patrol and exploration ship which was assigned to a mapping expedition on the edge of Federation territory -- she further distinguished herself there in away-team security work and as a shipboard tactical officer. She remained aboard the Adamant until 2393, when the ship participated in the Federation's contribution to the Battle of Romulus.

 

Having survived that battle, the Adamant served for one more year before being decommissioned and her crew reassigned to various ships throughout the quadrant. Caine was sent back to Starbase 54 for three years, with a diversion for two months when she was assigned to the official Federation security detail at the signing of the 2395 Treaty of Versailles.

 

She returned to Earth for reassignment to shipboard duty in late 2397 just in time to be present at the Soltan attack on the planet; she was in the vicinity of Starfleet Academy when the attack started and ended up taking charge of the evacuation of many of the cadets. She managed to get some of them to relative shelter (though some, she later found, were killed anyway); she herself was inside one of the buildings when it was struck by a Soltan blast and collapsed. In total she was buried in the wreckage with a crushed leg and severe concussion for almost three days. She was finally rescued and sent to a medical facility at Alpha Centauri, where she remained to heal for the next several weeks.

 

When she was deemed physically fit for duty again, she was assigned to the USS Agincourt (NCC-81762, Prometheus-class) as Chief of Security.

 

MEDICAL RECORDS:

 

//MEDICAL PROFILE//

//Lieutenant Commander Angela Ellis, Starfleet Medical//

//Medical Supervisor, Alpha Centauri III//

 

Lieutenant Caine's body has undergone a great deal of abuse -- par for the course in her line of work, but a situation which always engenders a certain amount of concern when the question comes up of whether a given officer is physically fit for duty. However, she is extremely strong both physically and mentally; some of the natural healing prowess and resiliency of her Vulcan ancestry has seen her through a great deal. Aside from a shrapnel wound sustained during the Battle of Cardassia, her greatest injury to date has been that sustained in the recent Soltan attack; however, her leg seems to have been returned to its proper soundness. We have been monitoring her for the last few weeks but all indications seem to suggest that she is returned to a level of physical fitness suitable for a reassignment to starship posting.

 

I endorse Lieutenant Caine's transfer to the USS Agincourt.

 

//PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE//

//Commander Edward Russell, Starfleet Medical-Psychology//

//Commanding Officer/Staff Psychologist, Alpha Centauri III//

 

Lieutenant Caine's psychological evaluations from her Academy days onward suggest that her motivation for a Starfleet career has always been the desire to do good on as grand a scale as possible; however, the earliest of those evaluations suggest that she began with something of a romanticized view of that career, not really taking into account the darker aspects. Beginning with her experience at Second Chin'toka, however, she was forced into a more realistic view of war and Fleet operations, and it seems to have changed her outlook entirely.

 

It did not precisely sour her on the path she had entered upon; if anything it turned her desire to fight, win, and protect into something like an obsessive drive. It has also deepened her personality drastically; though still blunt, outspoken, and independent, she has turned soberer, taking on a little bit more of the Vulcan personality as she has gotten older -- generally, the more dire the situation, the more "Vulcan" in attitude she becomes. This determined calm, combined with one of the finest tactical senses in the Fleet, has made her very accomplished at the job she does.

 

She has recently acquired one psychological weakness which makes me slightly reluctant to sign off on her transfer back to shipboard duty -- she was trapped for three days beneath building wreckage during the Soltan attack on Earth and the experience has left her with a dangerously powerful claustrophobia. However, she assures me that she is aware of the problem and that she will not allow it to interfere with her duties. The strength of character and self-awareness that she has displayed in the past leads me to believe that she is capable of this and so (with this warning) I endorse her transfer to the Agincourt as soon as possible.

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