Targen Booker

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Lieutenant Targen Booker, ENG Starbase Serenity

• played by Kevin Thigpen

Biographical Stats

Name: Targen Booker

Species: Human

Age: 26

Rank: Lt

Birthplace: Unknown

Upbringing: Raised on starships and parents were dedicated scientists (both deceased)

Date of Birth: 01-28-2406

Height: 6’11’’

Weight: 205

Eye color: Hazel

Hair color: Black

Nickname: “Booker”

Marital Status: Single

Children: None

Parents (Deceased) Father: Lona Booker (Deceased) Mother: Tera Booker

Siblings: Altair Booker – older brother living on Tau Ceti Prime, brother has occupation as Tree Farmer Likes: Coffee, Vanilla Ice Cream, and a strong love of science

Values

• Endless desire to understand engineering concepts
• Wants to build new class of starships
• A bit overly optimistic even in dire situations

Disciplinary Actions: None

Awards & Commendations

• Task Force Serenity Service Ribbon
• Combat Action Ribbon

Education

A. Academic Institutions

• a. Tau Ceti Prime, School of Forestry
• b. Utopia Planitia Academy
• c. Star Fleet Academy

1. Majors: Advanced Propulsion and Kinetic Energy Transfer Solutions
2. Minors: User Experience Design on control interfaces

B. Qualifications

• a. Orbital Dynamics
• b. Superluminal Impulse Theory
• c. Political Science and History of Federation Member Worlds
• d. Arboreal Practices for Federation and Allied Nature Preserves
• e. Advanced Rheology of both Organic and Inorganic substances
• f. Application of Advanced Vulcan Analytical approaches to augment standard scientific discovery

C. Star Fleet Academy Record

• a. Honors: None
• b. Academic Major: Kinetic Energy Transfer
• c. Professional Major: Advanced Propulsion
• d. Class Rank: 3rd/250
• e. Reprimands: 0
• f. Commendations: 0
• g. Athletics: Racquetball
• h. Activities: Articles published by the Vulcan Science Academy

Attributes

The below information is a representation of the character's relative ability in each of the below mentioned areas.

Physical

Attribute	Value (10 highest, 1 lowest)
Fitness	6
Presence	2
Risk-taking	5
Insight	7
Reasoning	9

Disciplines

Attribute	Value (10 highest, 1 lowest)
Command	2
Security	2
Science	6
NAV	4
Engineering	9
Medicine	3
Counseling	1

Chronology

USS BLUEJAY wreckage on Class L planet

Age: Description of event at that age.

• 0-4: Traveled with scientist parents and older brother, on Raven class science vessel, USS BLUEJAY, funded by Vulcan Science Academy through much of Alpha quadrant
• 4: BLUEJAY crash lands on a minimally Class L uninhabited planet on which he and his brother survived for 6 months as sole survivors
• 4-15: Targen and brother Altair rescued by ship sent to check on USS BLUEJAY and adopted by their uncle on Tau Ceti Prime, a Federation Nature Preserve Planet.
• 15-16: Attended Tau Ceti School of Forestry on scholarship
• 16-18: Joined an advanced “Young Engineers” program at Utopia Planitia on scholarship
• 18: Entered Star Fleet Academy
• 18-22: Attended Star Fleet Academy
• 22: Commissioned as Ensign
• 22-26: Continued studies in Engineering Division at Star Fleet HQ on Earth and promoted to LT(jg).

Background Summary

Targen’s parents were devoted to scientific pursuits, particularly studying the common ancestry of humanoid life throughout the known galaxy. They believed there was a clear defining principle guiding the development of humanoid life that extended beyond the findings by Star Fleet as it related to the Galen-Picard Theory of Humanoid Development. While that theory postulated the existence of a race of superior beings that seeded humanoid life across the galaxy, Targen’s parents were obsessed with finding the order with which that life was seeded so that they could calculate the galactic point of entry for that race of beings and potentially the reverse calculate the galaxy of origins for that species.

To that end, Targen’s parents received funding from the Vulcan Science Academy and Star Fleet and set out on a Raven Class vessel, the USS BLUEJAY, to conduct their scientific inquiries in the far reaches of the Alpha quadrant.

During an exploration in an uninhabited system, the BLUEJAY was attacked and critically damaged by pirates, using the system as a temporary staging ground for attacks on a nearby shipping lane. The BLUEJAY was forced to crash land on a nearby Class L planet, while the pirates fled, fearing immediate reprisals from Star Fleet.

Altair and Targen managed to survive on the barely habitable world for 6 months before a rescue vessel arrived. Details of how they survived is missing from any known records of their experience and during counseling sessions, Targen has offered little to no information about the topic.

Targen’s time at the Academy passed uneventfully and he upon graduation he chose to stay planetside and continue to work with the engineering division on the planet. He keeps in regular touch with his brother, Altair who serves as a Ranger Warden on the tree planet and Federation Nature Preserve, Tau Ceti Prime, where their family’s tree farm exists. Only recently has he made a request to serve on a starship.

Tau Ceti Prime Nature Preserve