John R. Brooks
Biographical Data File
BASIC DATA
Full Name: Brooks, John Robert Service Number: SF-591978-37918090-SI
Billet Information
Current Rank: Admiral (O-10)
Current Billet: Commander in Chief Star Fleet
Background
Race: Human
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Terra, Sol, 5 August 2348
Age: 83 Terran Year
Family
Spouce: Amanda Marie (Sorenson) Brooks, deceased, Born: Izar
Children: CAPT John Robert Brooks, jr., Commanding Officer, USS NOVA
Other relatives of note:
CAPT James Roland Brooks, sr. (brother) - Star Fleet Intelligence, MIA, (James Brooks is nearly 15 years older than John Brooks)
VADM James Roland Brooks, jr. (nephew) - former director of personnel, Office of Star Fleet Intelligence
Physical Description
Height: 1.83 m
Weight: 95 kg
Hair: Dark Brown, Greying
Eyes: Dark Brown
Faith: Roman Catholic
PROMOTION AND SERVICE RECORD
640616 Entered Star Fleet Academy
680529 Graduated Star Fleet Academy, Commissioned as Ensign (O-1)
680604 Assigned to USS GALAXY, NCC-70637, as assistant navigator
690601 Promoted to Lieutenant, junior grade (O-2), chief navigator,
USS GALAXY, NCC-70637
700103 Assigned as electronic warface officer, combat systems department,
USS GALAXY, NCC-70637
700801 Promoted to Lieutenant (O-3), assigned as tactical officer, USS
CRAZY HORSE, NCC-31014
710820 Entered Star Fleet Naval War College, College of Naval Command
and Staff
720610 Graduated Star Fleet Naval War College
720815 Assigned as assistant operations officer, USS CRAZY HORSE, NCC-31014
740601 Promoted to Lieutenant Commander (O-4), assigned as chief operations
officer, USS VICTORY, NCC-1849
780101 Assigned as executive officer, USS HOOD, NCC-31100
790401 Promoted to Commander (O-5), assigned as executive officer, USS
GALAXY, NCC-70637
840901 Promoted to Captain (0-6), assigned to command of USS GALAXY,
NCC-70637
910801 Assigned to command of USS ILLUSTRIOUS, NCC-2525
970211 USS ILLUSTRIOUS listed as missing in action
970211-071231 **CLASSIFIED**
+070412 USS ILLUSTRIOUS mysteriously appears in Gamma Quadrant near
Bajoran Wormhole
+070525 USS ILLUSTRIOUS mysteriously disappears into temporal anomaly
080101 Promoted to Commodore (O-7), assigned as Blue Fleet Executive
Officer
080621 Promoted to Rear Admiral (O-8), Assigned as CINCINDIGO
081030 Promoted to Vice Admiral (O-9)
101020 Promoted to Admiral (O-10), Assigned as CINCSF
130417 Reserve commission, Assigned as Federation Ambassador to the
Star Kingdom of the Dalriada
141022 Resumed active duty, Assigned as CINCGOLD
190401 Assigned as CINCBLUE
261030 Reserve commision, inactive
320414 Resume active duty, Assigned as CINCSF
+From the records of USS NEBULA, NCC-2001
Awards
Medal of Valor (960714)
Star Fleet Cross w/3 clusters (730908, 790520, 850805, 071231)
Latinum Star (910604)
Distinguished Service Medal (941111)
Silver Star w/2 clusters (760315, 820114, 840401)
Legion of Merit w/1 cluster (930212, 080813)
Cross of Alexander (740902)
Bronze Star (751229, 860608, 870614)
Wounded Lion (710201)
Star Fleet Commendation Medal (700711)
Blue Fleet Unit Commendation (950704)
Various theater and battle service ribbons
EDUCATION
MA Space Navy Warfare Studies, Star Fleet Naval War College, College
of Naval Command and Staff
BSE Weapons Systems Engineering, Star Fleet Academy, College of Engineering
and Applied Science
Academic Record
Class Rank: 12/300
Academic Major: Weapons Systems Engineering
Professional Major: Tactical Systems
Qualifications: Tactical, security, navigation, helm, operations,
command
Commendations: 2
Reprimands: 0
Commendation for leading Nova Squadron to sixth consecutive title.
Commendation for saving the life of Cadet Torval Dix during training
accident.
Activities: Nova Squadron, Varsity Letters in swimming, baseball
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
John R. Brooks is one of the few members of the Navy's "old school" left in Star Fleet. His family's history in Star Fleet dates back to its founding and is preceeded by a long and proud tradition of service in the wet navies of Earth which has been definitively been traced back to the American Revolutionary War where a Lieutenant William Brooks served under the Captain John Paul Jones when he captured the SERAPIS.
John Brooks' career has been marked by distinction from his early days in uniform. Even as a young officer, he showed exceptional dedication to his duties. This earned him many admirerers amoung his commanding officers and many jealous peers who accused him of attempting to ingratiate himself with his superiours. Brooks never let this bother him. He continued to do his job to the best of his ability and to conduct himself in the best traditions of the service.
He continued to earn notice and to merit distinction. By the time of his promotion to captain at the age of 36, John Brooks had already been decorated twice with the Star Fleet Cross, the second highest military award in the service.
In short order, however, his distinguised career would take a cryptic turn
that has yet to be fully explained. Five and a half years into his second
command, the USS ILLUSTRIOUS disappeared with all hands on a mission listed
as a supply run. After a massive search effort which turned up no trace
of the cruiser, official Star Fleet records listed the ship as missing in
action and presumed destroyed with all hands presumed lost. As far as Star
Fleet was concerned, at least officially, John Brooks was dead.
Eight years after her "destruction," the USS ILLUSTRIOUS reappeared in the
Gamma Quadrant, ship and crew unaltered and unaged by their eight year absence,
in time to save the USS NEBULA and USS DARIUS from a Dominion attack. The
ship disappeared again into a spacial anomaly off DS9 several days later.
No explaination was ever given on record. None probably will ever be cleared for general release even to the general Admiralty.
More than nine years after his "death" and his ship's "desrtuction" the USS ILLUSTRIOUS came limping back to Memory Alpha, badly damaged. The records were sealed. Brooks was debriefed for months. After that, he was promoted to commodore and ordered to Blue Fleet as executive officer of the fleet. Miraculously, John Brooks had risen from the dead and, equally strangely, he was back in service as if nothing had happened during his decade-long absence.
Six months later, John Brooks was promtoed to rear admiral and sent to begin a new frontier of exploration for the United Federation of Planets in the far coreward regions of the Alpha Quadrant.
After a mere six months as Commander in Chief Indigo Fleet, John Brooks was promoted to vice admiral and confirmed as military governor of Starbase OMEGA and the surrounding sectors. This step, not seen since the early days of the expansion of the Federation, is a clear signal of the confidence that the Star Fleet and Federation Council place in Admiral Brooks. It also seems to indicate that they have accepted the explaination of USS ILLUSTRIOUS disappearance and are anxious to see the legendary John Brooks make up for his lost time in the fleet.
After a distinguished term as CINCINDIGO, including organizing the successful defence of the Terebellum system (home of Starbase OMEGA) from a Dalriadan Alliance war fleet, the Federation Council appointed Admiral Brook as Commander in Chief Star Fleet. It is said that the admiral had mixed reactions to being assigned to an administrative position far from the lines. Nevertheless, he held the post for two and a half years before stepping down to pick up the mantle as Ambassador to the Star Kingdom of the Dalriada.
The role was a massive change for Brooks who had been in space nearly continuously for fourty years.
Last Updated SD 161112