Diana Fornier
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======================================================================== LT Diana Fournier [Antje Bechtoldt] ======================================================================== I. Personal Data ---------------- Surname: Fournier Given Name(s): Diana (Sophie) Service Number: SF-657373-36354751-FG Current Rank: Lieutenant Current Billet: CIC, USS NOVA, NCC-1776-A Species: Homo sapiens sapiens Gender/Sex: Female Age: 29 Terran Years Date of Birth: 18 November 2390 Place of Birth: Cap Frébel, Brittany (France), Earth Parents: Baptiste Fournier Marie-Chritine Fournier Siblings: one brother, Victor Spouse: none Religion: roman catholic HT: 1.78 m; WT: 69 kg; Eyes: Brown*; Hr: Black; Comp: Fair Blood Type: O+ * Note: LT Fournier wears a visor as her eyes were damaged in her youth (see background) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Educational Background --------------------------- A. Academic Institutional Background: -- Cap Frébel General High School -- Star Fleet Academy {Graduated *summa cum laude*} B. Service Schools Attended: -- Star Fleet Space Warfare Officer School C. Qualifications (MOC's) -- MOC: Tactical Officer -- MOC: Operations Officer -- MOC: Electronic Warfare Officer -- CERT: Junior Officer Bridge Tests D. Star Fleet Academy Record: Academy Record: Honors *summa cum laude*; Academic Major(s): Weapon Systems Engineering, Professional Major: Tactical Operations Qualifications: Tactical, Operations, Weapons Engineering Activities: member of the historic research group ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Biographical Notes ----------------------- A. Chronology (tabular form): ----------------------------- 00-13: Lived with parents in Brittany (France) 13 Lost eyesight in a sailing accident, received a VISOR 13-14 Recovered in the Armstrong Hospital on Luna (Earth´s Moon) 14-18 Continued to live with parents in France 18-22: Entered Star Fleet Academy 22 Graduated from Star Fleet Academy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Official Starfleet Record ----------------------------- A. Promotion History: --------------------- 120914.0000 Commissioned as Ensign (O-1). 140401.0000 Promoted to Lieutenant, junior grade (O-2). 150501.0000 Promoted to Lieutenant (O-3) B. Service History: ------------------- 080901.0000 Entered Star Fleet Academy 120901.0000 Graduated Star Fleet Academy 120914.0000 Assigned security officer, USS CHARLES 140619.0000 Assigned OPS, USS HAMILTON 150623.0000 Assigned TAC, USS GODDARD 171215.0000 Assigned TAC, USS NOVA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Skills Profile ----------------- Tactical officer and strategic analyst, qualified Ops, junior weapons engineer -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Recent Fitness Report ------------------------- Physically speaking officer Fournier has completely adopted to the childhood injury that destroyed her eyesight and to the use of a visor. She experiences occasional headaches like virtually all users of a Visual Instrument and Sight Organ Replacement. Due to the particular damage sustained by her optical nerves the insertion of artificial eyes is not possible at the moment. That situation might possible change with proper regenerative stimulation of the optical nerves (see detailed medical files). Medical officers are encouraged to monitor officer Fournier´s condition. Aside from the peculiarities of her visor she is fully fit for all forms of duty. CMDR Raphael Cannon M.D. - Chief Surgeon USS GODDARD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. Psychological Profile -------------------------- After years of counselling Diana Fournier adjusted to the traumatic injury that has destroyed her natural eyesight. There is some indication that her determination to continue surfing and sailing are subconscious attempts to gain control of a situation she could not control in the past but so far even if that theory is right, it has not caused any problems for herself or others. There were isolated incidents of slight depression but her friends and comrades or the demands of duty quickly pulled her out of that. Doctor Tracy McCullan - Counsellor USS HAMILTON Lieutenant Fournier is dedicated worker. She realizes that she like all people will make mistakes but she makes an effort not to repeat a mistake twice. Her approach to tactical situations is that violence though undesirable is sometimes necessary and if you have to wield a weapon you should wield it with skill but not with joy. Lieutenant Alfred Sheppard - Counsellor USS GODDARD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Current Recreational Interests ------------------------------------ Naval History, Surfing, Sailing, Volleyball --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background: ------------------------------------ Diana Fournier was born in Brittany on the French Atlantic Coast. Her parents owned a small hotel that offered sailing tours along with the rooming. Only naturally, Diana felt drawn towards the sea from her early youth. From the age of five onward she frequently accompanied her parents on their sailing trips. Life was happy for Diana. She had a loving family, enjoyed the ocean, various sports and life in general until things were turned upside down a few weeks after her thirteen's birthday. It was just a routine cruise along the Cotes d´Armor with her father when it happened. A sudden, unpredictable gust of wind, the mail sail flung around violently and rope snapped to slash across Diana´s face like a whip. Maybe the impact would have been so bad but the rope scattered her sunglasses and the shards of plastic buried themselves in her eyeballs. Thanks to the trappings of 24th century technology Diana was quickly beamed off the sailing boat into a local hospital and later transferred to the Armstrong Memorial on Luna. Soon it was evident that her natural eyesight was destroyed and Diana Fournier received a Visual Instrument and Sight Organ Replacement or VISOR for short. Needless to say, the next year was very difficult for the young girl. Diana suffered through depressions and the physical pain and headaches that were part of getting used to her new seeing aid. During these days Lieutenant Trevor Cannon became her best friend. The Star Fleet officer had suffered a similar injury in a deep space accident and knew exactly what the teenager was going through. His tales of the wonders of space not only distracted Diana from her misery but they also instilled a desire to `see´ (one way or another) the stars. When she returned to Earth Dina had made up her mind tat she would become a Star Fleet officer herself despite her handicap. In strictly technical terms her new sense of sight wasn´t inferior to her old one, it was just different and much less natural. In defiance of her electronic `crutch´ and quite possible to prove something to herself, Diana continued to sail and surf while boosting her grades in school back to old levels and beyond to qualify for Star Fleet. For the next four years with the support of her family Diana worked toward that goal and she was accepted into the Academy in San Francisco at the age of eighteen. There for the first time since her accident the young Breton didn´t feel like some kind of freak. Among all those alien races a human wearing a visor didn´t stand out that much. Some cadets even believed it was natural for her species to wear such a device until told otherwise. Again, Diana Fournier was happy and eternally grateful toward Star Fleet for exposing her to such an open-minded community. She learned one of her most important lessons during that time, that being different is a statement and a natural thing but not a judgement. Diana had studied naval history as a hobby and her readings led her to the conclusion that aggression and armed conflict had always been part of human history and that there was no realistic way it would cease to be part the exploration of space in the foreseeable future. Even with all the good intentions the Federation had violent conflicts would occur. So she decided that if violence was unavoidable it would better be applied with skill to minimize the loss of live in any given conflict. Consequently, she enrolled in the tactical / security curriculum after her basic studies were complete. Since she did not share the passion for and the enjoyment of conflict that for example the Klingons celebrated, Diana´s approach to tactical remained clinical and detached. For her battle was an intellectual problem like a mathematical equation. The point was to solve the equation while keeping the variable that represented loss of life as close to zero as possible. After graduation Fournier´s first assignment was in the security department of the USS CHARLES. The CHARLES was a small scout ship where everyone was expected to pull more than just his own weight. As a result she rotated through the departments as the situation required. Soon she found herself more in operations than in security. Effectively qualified as a junior Operations Officer, Diana was transferred as OPS to the USS HAMILTON a ship of the aging Centaur class on border patrol duty. Aboard the HAMILTON Fournier could take advanced classes in space warfare and electronic warfare, especially the new SCIMITAR pinpoint defence system. While she served as adequate OPS and took every opportunity to learn outside her field of expertise, Diana still wanted back into her old profession eventually. She got the chance when the HAMILTON ran into a Miradorn raider. Quarrelsome like all Miradorn the commander of the raider refused to have his cargo inspected, opened open fire instead and tried to make a run for it while the HAMILTON dealt with the damage from the surprise attack. Diana recommended a variation of the Picard Maneuver that brought the HAMILTON directly in front of the raider, slightly above its flight path. Before the Miradorns could reroute their energy from the aft to the forward shields they got hit by a combined salvo of photon torpedoes and phaser fire that brought down their warp core and main power and left them a sitting duck. Then Diana beamed the Miradorns off their ship and sans personal weapons directly into the brig. As it turned out the cargo hold of the raider was full of weaponry and other illegal military hardware. Not long afterwards the USS GODDARD requested a new tactical officer and the name Diana Fournier came up. A Wolfe class frigate the GODDARD´s recent missions had been scientific in nature but as she operated close to the Gorn Hegemony most of the time the protection of the ship from hostile forces was always a concern. While there was little opportunity for Diana to test her skills in a real engagement she made it a point to drill the tactical department until she could drill them no more. Some of her subordinates wee actually relieved when Fournier finally took her first vacation in two years. That vacation left her stranded in a distant corner of the galaxy on an enormous Alderson Disk of unknown origin, a construct roughly the size of a solar system where the ran into the crew of the USS NOVA. They also found the wreckage of the USS GODDARD that shortly after Fournier's leave had gone though a space-time vortex only to crash onto the very same Alderson Disk - roughly two-hundred years in the past. In the present time only Diana and the Vulcan First Officer of the GODDARD - now a man of advanced age by the standards of his race - were still alive. After several encounters with different malicious-minded aliens the NOVA got off the disk and Fournier joined the crew as the new TAC.