Biography of Dave Grey

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Starfleet Biography

 

Name: Dave Grey

Gender: Male

Birthdate: September 20, 2129

Place of Birth: Canada, Earth

Age: 26

Species: Human

Rank: Lieutenant, Senior Grade

Height: 6'2"

Eyes: Blue (both of 'em)

Hair: Brown (all of it)

Distinguishing features: Tall and thin, therefore easy to pick out in a crowd. Uncomfortable in dress uniforms or anything with a tight collar.

Current Assignment: Challenger NX-05

Last Assignment: Starfleet Academy

 

Interests: Reading (21st century literature), Writing, Computer Programming, Science, Theoretical Physics, Philosophy

 

Family:

Irene Grey (originally Carter), Mother, Marine Biologist

Mark Grey, Father, Martial Arts Expert

Harriet Grey, Twin Sister, Geologist

Nicholas Grey, Brother, Child

Henry Rawel, Cousin, Computer Programmer

Robin Rawel, Cousin, travel correspondent for The Not Totally Disreputable News Service

 

Medical History:

No serious medical ailments.

No serious psychological conditions.

-Broke a leg playing high school soccer

 

Service History:

 

2147 – Entered Starfleet Academy

2153 – Graduated Starfleet Academy

2153 – Posted to Jupiter Station as science officer

Sept. 2154 – Transferred to Challenger NX-05 as science officer

Dec. 6, 2154 – Promoted to Lieutenant, Junior Grade.

June 27, 2155 – Promoted to Lieutenant.

August 7, 2155 – Assigned as Chief Science Officer.

July 30, 2156 – Promoted to Lieutenant, Senior Grade.

 

Biographical Information:

 

Although he spent most of his childhood in Canada, Dave’s mother was constantly on expeditions as she studied marine life. As a result, Dave lived in a variety of places and was constantly making new friends, some he kept in touch with and others he did not.

 

His father was a master of various martial arts from Earth’s past, and made his living by teaching students and entering them in martial arts competitions. From him, Dave learned many martial disciplines, but also learned that he was not very interested in the martial arts. Dave is proficient in many of the disciplines, but not outstandingly so. He still engages in the breathing and meditation practices taught to him by his father, and through them achieves a calm state of mind. However, when there’s a scientific discovery around the corner, Dave cannot help but get excited.

 

Throughout high school, Dave took an interest in everything academic. He was not very athletic, but in lieu of a martial arts team he joined the high school soccer team for all four years of his education. His third year was cut short by an unfortunate injury, where he broke his leg. Although this injury would not have drastically hindered him on Mars, Dave did not accompany his family that year for their vacation.

 

Dave entered Starfleet Academy when he was 19, the same year that his sister Harriet left to study geology on the Lunar Colony and Mars. It was during this time that his younger brother Nicholas was born. For the first two years, Dave did not choose a particular field to major in, preferring to sample everything. However, like his mother and sister, he tended toward the scientific disciplines and theoretical physics especially. By this time Dave had developed an innate stubbornness and was loath to give up on an attempt at something.

 

He also studied to obtain a PhD in astrophysics while at the Academy. Dave always overcommitted when it came to intellectual study, and as a result is somewhat introversive. Starfleet psyche evaluations reveal that he is somewhat unorthodox and abstract in his methods, but selectively so.

 

When the Enterprise launched in 2151, Dave followed the mission with deep interest. Unlike many other theoretical physicists of the day, Dave was anxious to experience empirical evidence of the theories. He was not interested in application, but rather observation. This was probably why he had joined Starfleet in the first place.

 

After graduation, Dave was slated to be stationed near Jupiter for planetary gravitational studies. However, during this time he learned of the Challenger Project and applied for a transfer to the new ship. His application was accepted and he was posted as assistant science officer.

 

Since being assigned to Challenger, Dave has been involved in a number of its missions. He assisted in the capture of animal specimens on Acamar III when the Challenger saught replacement sources of food after a malfunction to the protein resequencers. When the animals were subsequently relocated to Khitomer, he was among the away team that was assaulted by Klingons.

 

On planet Epsilon Indi II, Andorians working at a secret base known as "Cold Stone" captured a Challenger away team, including Dave. The entire crew was later sworn to secrecy of Cold Stone's very existence. Dave's ineptitude at resisting capture during this period, and capture by the Orions a month later, motivated him to begin practicing at martial arts again, something that he believed would help him become a more competent officer.

 

In early 2155, when Challenger returned to Earth for the launch of its sister-ship, Columbia, Dave learned that a terrible fate had befallen his twin, Harriet. (See "Mortal Coil", Parts 1 and 2 and "Hope".) Having contracted the neurological disorder known as "tovanengitis" after a fall from a Martian cliff, Harriet was doomed to slowly slip into death. Dave found himself forced to attempt to cope with this terrible burden even as he left Earth again. He had always been closest to his sister, and now as his family left him in charge of the medical procedures, he wondered what he could do. In order to at least try, Dave cultivated a closer relationship to the Dr. McCellan as he began to research neurology.

 

In an alternate "mirror" parallel universe, Dave Grey assisted Dr. McCellan in engineering a retroviral form of tovanengitis that could be used as a bioweapon. The retrovirus was docile in a human host but soon developed into a deadly infection of neurological tovanengitis in any alien.

 

During this period, Dr. McCellan and Dave discovered that the crew were being inexplicably replaced by quantum counterparts from an alternate reality. Viewing this as a hostile invasion, they alerted the Commodore to the events. A conflict built between the two factions until the last of the mirror universe crew (including Dave) were replaced by the crew from this universe.

 

Tools of the Tholians in order to destroy an advanced starship from their own future, the Challenger crew works to introduce a computer virus into the Imperial Palace computers while another team destroys the USS Defiant. Dave is part of this former initiative, and is part of the team that gets captured by Empress Sato in the Imperial Palace along with Commodore Moose, Lieutenant Sergio Giovanni, and Lieutenant (jg) T'Parek. They eventually escaped at the cost of being separated from Commodore Moose in the Palace catacombs.

 

T'Parek was killed in a duel with the Empress, who was then stunned by Dave and Sergio and dragged into the throne room, where they were confronted with Neptune Rex who was seizing this opportunity to stage a coup. In the ensuing commotion, the ceiling of the room collapses, killing its occupants and returning Dave and Sergio to their real universe.

 

His homecoming as a shortlived celebration, however. He soon discovered that he had been absent for six months, and his sister had declined sharply during this time. Faced with a dreadful decision, Dave decided to allow the doctors to induce a coma, hoping this would buy her more time. (See "Stormward Bound" and "Travelling into the Deep".) This decision further wore at Dave's pysche and emotional state, leaving him to wonder if he was truly making the correct decisions ("Worries from the Sleep-Deprived Idiot").

 

Starfleet Command dispatched Challenger to oversee the consolidation of the Nequencian system, with the construction of a colony on the surface of Nequencia III and a starbase in orbit. Dave was promoted to Chief Science Officer after Sergio transferred to the security department. As his first assignment as chief, Dave surveyed two sites on Nequencia III to determine their suitability for a colony.

 

Dave developed a far-fetched scheme to track a criminal using the remants of their quantum signature through the principles of quantum entanglement. His efforts fell short of coming up with a practical demonstration of the theory, however, and they were not able to track the Bolian Nagen with this method.

 

Nagen was not working alone. He was, in fact, working with conspirators who were dissidents from a planet known only as "Midgard". Several of these dissidents later returned to Challenger and the Achilles. Meanwhile, Dr. McCellan discovered a potential treatment for Harriet ("The Fading Days", "The First Glimmer of Hope is Doubt").

 

Upon their return to Nequencia, the Challenger crew had to decipher a strange alien weapon found beneath the surface of the colony. Working with Sean Xiang and Jason Craz, Dave Grey helped to translate portions of the weapon's commands and shut it down before it destroyed Challenger in orbit.

 

Once the safety of the Nequencia colony was assured, Starfleet sent Challenger on a mission into Klingon territory, undercover, to recover the kidnapped crew members of the Enterprise and ascertain what had happened. Dave continued to second-guess his decision about Harriet's coma, and debate using the treatment recommended by Dr. McCellan ("That's the Question"). Eventually he decides to proceed with the treatment, even though it has many possible ethical and legal ramifications ("No Question About It").

 

To accomplish this, Dave needed someone back on Earth to help Dr. Tratos. He contacted his cousin, Robin Rawel, whom he knew to have contacts within the less legitimate spheres of society. Robin received Dave's letter and agreed to help him obtain the resources he needed ("The Bonds We Share").

 

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Edited August 3, 2006 by Tachyon