Sean Russell

Sean Russell attended Starfleet Academy with Craig Porter where the two were roommates and became close friends. After graduation, Russell was posted to Earth's McKinley Station as a member of the station's security detail. It was a prime assignment for an officer whose spirit of adventure was heavily outweighed by his instinct for self-preservation. Russell's superiors quickly noticed that he was far more interested in cruising for dates than in performing his duties, so they transferred him to the recently-commissioned USS Secondprize.

On the Secondprize, Lt. Russell served a member of Patricia Hawkins' security detail, and he led the away team sent down to Ugilious to rescue Captain Alexander Rydell and the other captured Secondprize officers from the Joegonots. Russell's team found themselves heavily outnumbered and had to be beamed back to the ship. (Star Traks 1 [TRK]) Russell was briefly promoted to Chief of Security on the USS Edsel during Travis Dillon's tenure as the Edsel's captain. When the Edsel was sent to Gulax Four, Russell brought along Darla, a woman he'd just met on the beach. Darla was quickly wooed away by the Edsel's science officer, Kantura Dransein, though. To make matters worse, Russell was forced to remain on the planet with Dillon in an attempt to prevent the Klingons from taking an artifact found there. Russell provided color commentary for the contest between Dillon and Donask. (Star Traks 3 [TRK])

Russell was the officer ordered to guard Lt. Hawkins when Myna put her in the brig. She talked him into letting her out and laying in the brig bed with a wig on pretending to be her while she went to find Cmdr. Dillon. (Star Traks 4 [TRK]) Later, Russell accompanied a Secondprize away team down to Edgeworld at the border of the Multek Enclave. The away team was captured by the Multeks but managed to escape. This mission led to the construction of Waystation and Russell's posting as the station's Chief of Security. On an assignment to pick up Waystation's new Chief Medical Officer, Russell and Yeoman Tina Jones infiltrated a terrorist strong hold and freed Lt. Porter and Dr. Amedon Nelson, who had been captured by the Hinaree. After finally arriving on Waystation itself, Russell quickly annoyed Dr. Nelson by taking her supply of unlogi, the drug that maintained her symbiosis with Midon. Russell also had to track and calm down Captain Wuddle after the Multek thought the station's personnel were out to get him. (Star Traks 5 [TRK])

Once life on Waystation settled into a routine, Russell illicitly built Compucop, a computerized security device designed to allow Russell to spent more time relaxing. Compucop was a bit overzealous and arrested almost everyone on the station, including Russell, before Walter Morales and Jones could stop it. (House Arrest [WAY]) Russell further aggravated Commander Lisa Beck by allowing the Klingon dress thief Qolesh to escape and take Beck hostage briefly. She then ordered him to attend a diplomatic function at a nearby colony, an order he ignored in order to keep a date with Ensign Krause. Discovering this, Beck removed him from his position and ordered him off the station. Before he could leave, Karyna arrived to tempt Beck with a life of absolute power and hedonism. Beck tortured Russell briefly but quickly realized what she was doing. Dumped back on Waystation, which had been taken over by Colonel Martin Lazlo's Federation Marines, Russell managed to free Porter and Dr. Nelson from the brig, incapacitate the vast majority of the marines, and help Beck and Porter get to ops. Russell, in an almost-certainly suicidal move, dove at Karyna to stop her from killing Beck, an act which most likely saved everyone on Waystation. It also got him his job back. (That Sinking Feeling [WAY])

Several months later, Russell's attempt to intervene in a dispute between two Tellarite women fighting over one of Krilik's dresses added to the riot that almost destroyed the station. (Gridlock [WAY]) For the most part, the renovation of Waystation was fairly quiet from Russell's point of view, that is until he was enlisted by the Critics to find followers for them. Russell was a complete failure at finding followers and narrowly avoided being brainwashed into joining the Starshine Way. Leximas's interference saved Russell from both Sesil and the Critics. (Lip Service [WAY]) Russell was one of the Waystation officers who helped retake the renovated station from the Starshine Kids after he narrowly escaped the exploding Runabout USS Yadkin. Despite the threat of death, he also managed to ask Stephanie Hodges out for a drink. (Lip Lock [WAY])

By the time of the Forever incident, Russell had been promoted to commander and was serving as Waystation's first officer. (Please Hold For Oblivion [TRK])