CAPTAIN ALEXANDER RYDELL - Rydell runs his ship like a college dorm, very little discipline until it becomes absolutely necessary. This laid-back style of command could be seen as weakness, but Rydell can act when he needs to. It just takes him a while to feel that need. He likes his crew and his ship, and he is perfectly content to stay where he is.
COMMANDER TRAVIS DILLON - Dillon is all ambition and ego. He graduated at the top of his Starfleet Academy class academically, but he has no clue how to transfer that knowledge into everyday use. Instead, he insists on following every regulation to the letter, believing that his superior obedience to Starfleet will advance his career. He finds most of the crew, including the captain, lazy and undisciplined. Most of the crew find him incredibly obnoxious, including his steady girlfriend Patricia Hawkins - who seems to like him anyway despite all of this. Why? She really has no idea.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER JAROCH - Jaroch comes from planet Yyns, a place where reincarnation is reality. Jaroch is host to at least six past lives. The most problematic of these is J'Ter, a long dead warrior-prince who has a tendency to take over Jaroch's body at inopportune times. J'Ter is excessively violent and has hampered Jaroch's career despite Jaroch's brillance as a scientist. Now, Jaroch serves as science officer and third in command of the Secondprize.
COMMANDER SCOTT BAIRD - The only thing that has kept Baird in Starfleet is his engineering abilities. Other than that, he is surly, insubordinate, and, at times, just plain mean. He has been banned from ever being put in command of a vessel, which is fine with him. Baird is happy in his engine room or bicycling on the holodeck. Not much beyond that interests him. He recently broke up with his ex-girlfriend Emily Sullivan, who continues to prove to be a thorn in his a**.
LIEUTENANT PATRICIA HAWKINS - Hawkins comes from the Tasha Yar school of Security Chiefs. She's tough, quick with a phaser, and has no patience for idiots, especially when they outrank her. Unfortunately for her though, she has fallen for Commander Travis Dillon, which causes her no end of grief and misery...especially from the other members of the crew. She's quick to kick some sense into Dillon's head when he desperately needs it, which is usually all of the time.
LIEUTENANT EMILY SULLIVAN - Hell hath no fury like a Sullivan scorned. Quick-tempered, sarcastic, yet very mild mannered and pleasant at the same time, she's a poster child for bi-polar disorder. With Andrea Carr, she alternatively handles the conn and ops bridge stations, and spends a lot of her spare time with her good friend, Monica Vaughn. She's completely at odds with her ex-boyfriend Scott Baird, and does not hesitate to cause him no end of grief and misery whenever the opportunity presents itself.
LIEUTENANT MONICA VAUGHN - Vaughn is the Secondprize's head transporter chief, extremely adept at what she does best...nymphomania. Her ability to wield a transporter is legendary, particularly when it comes to materializing people without their clothes on. She is completely insatiable, a stylistic and playful temptress who has only one thing on her mind - sex in most of its forms. How she would like to spend "quality time" with some of the senior members of the crew, especially Captain Rydell.
DOCTOR BETH ALDRIDGE - Extremely stuck for a replacement doctor after the departure of Dr. Rebecca Singer, Starfleet assigned Aldridge to the Secondprize under the threat of court martial. She's marginally competent as a Doctor, given that her specialty is post-mortem autopsies, being a forensic pathologist. She practices as best as she can, in the hope she doesn't do anything that might cause her to practice her specialty once again.
COUNSELOR CLAIRE WEBBER - Who needs empathic powers when you can hug like Claire? Bear hug does not begin to describe the super-power squeeze she puts on people who are in emotional distress. While great for hugs, her overall perky personality and obsession with happiness can drive people crazy.
ENSIGN ANDREA CARR - Carr is a fairly competent young ensign who alternatively handles the conn and ops stations. She is a very agitated kind of person, and rarely walks the path of the others around her, prone to taking risks that often border on the edges of insubordination. Headstrong and independent, she prefers the company of her pet Saint Bernard-Collie cross over socializing with the other members of the crew. She thinks she'll make a great Captain someday, and will go to any length to prove it to everyone else.
ENSIGN TERRY WALKER - Walker is a young engineering officer- a very pleasant kind of person but extremely accident prone. Because he is concerned with the welfare of everyone around him, he gets a little bit paranoid about his own clumsiness, especially when it escapes his realm of self-control. He's extremely helpful and knowledgeable, in a bumbling sort of way...but he always seems to cause worse things to happen all the time without really meaning to.
TRINIAN - The bartender of the Seven Backward lounge has a very mysterious and long past that's unknown to the rest of the members of the crew. Don't count on her for friendly bartender-like advice, because she truly has "heard it all before". Trinian doesn't suffer fools very gladly, so if anyone wants to voice their problems to her...then they had better be prepared to do the listening, and not expect any sympathy at all.
...and this is just to name a few of the characters. Check out the stories to meet the rest of the Secondprize crew!
Starfleet constructed the U.S.S. Secondprize in the race to get the fleet back up to strength after the battle of Wolf 359. In their rush, someone at the shipyards used old blueprints and put an old-style bridge on the ship. Upon construction, the Secondprize had helm and navigation rather than conn and ops. This mistake, along with a few others made during the construction of the Excelsior-class vessel, made the Secondprize out-of-date before it even left spacedock. But, a ship is a ship, so Starfleet sent her on her way. Rather than waste top personnel on an out-of-date heap, Starfleet manned the Secondprize with raw cadets and officers who just weren't cutting it in some way.
Just after Waystation was commissioned, the U.S.S. Secondprize was overhauled with a bridge and systems refit to replace the helm and navigation bridge with a more modern conn and ops style bridge.
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