Bio: Lt. Cdr. Thomas Kennin

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Bio: Lt Cmdr Thomas Kennin

Race: Human

Age: 34

Hair: Sandy Brown

Eyes: Grey

 

Kennin was born in Italy, on Earth. From an early age he demonstrated mechanical aptitude, constructing hundreds of starship models and tinkering with a variety of devices. On one memorable occasion he disassembled the family replicator but was unable to reassemble it. Needless to say, his parents were distinctly unamused. They decided it would be best to channel his curiousity away from household appliances, and enrolled him in an extra-curricular "Young Engineers" program, which met twice a week. Subsequently, Thomas was able to confine his explorations to devices already destined from recycling.

 

At sixteen Kennin entered an Academy preparatory program, which enabled him to pass the exams the first time, and he enrolled in Starfleet Academy at eighteen. There was no question that he would enter the engineering track; in fact, he focused on his engineering courses to the detriment of his general requirements, one of which he nearly failed when he forgot to attend the final exam. (A project he had been working on for another course had developed interesting complications the night before.)

 

After graduation, he served on a variety of ships and stations. He was considered a good, solid engineer with a knack for pinpointing the source of problems quickly, but was easily distracted and thus hardly seemed destined for the Miracle Workers company. Then, in his second year as a Lieutenant, he designed a new sensor system for his ship, the USS Havana, after hers was destroyed in a firefight weeks out from the nearest starbase.

 

The system was so effective that by the time the Havana had reached that base, new orders for Kennin were cut and he was on his way back to Sol to join the Utopia design team. Not long thereafter, he joined the Morningstar project, where he quickly developed a rapport with the lead designer, Captain Alexander Skully. The two men could often be found bouncing ideas off one another at meals or in the corridors, turbolifts, offices, holodecks, construction bays, crew quarters, shuttlecraft, and elsewhere. Kennin took over as second-in-command of the project upon his promotion to Lt. Commander.

 

The only rift that ever came between Kennin and Skully was when Kennin was selected to command the Morningstar on her field trials. Although both men had been flying desks recently, Kennin had more field experience than Skully, who had been working at Utopia much longer. Starfleet decided that they needed someone with that experience in command, and offered a choice between Kennin and someone from outside the project. Given that choice, both men agreed that their baby would be better off in Kennin's hands.