Welcome
to the Project Staff Biography page! Here, you will meet the officers
trying to bring the USS Voyager home. Starfleet has chosen it's brightest
and best to run the project, under the control of Lieutenant Reginald Barclay,
who worked previously on the Pathfinder Project. The entire project
itself is directed by Admiral Owen Paris.
Simply
click on the officers name below to bring up their biography file from
the L-CARS Database.
Lieutenant
Reginald Barclay
Lieutenant
Alicia Cooper
Lieutenant
Franklin Harris
Ensign
Richard Garin
Lieutenant
Reginald Barclay
Lieutenant
Barclay has spend most of his Starfleet career as a systems diagnostic
engineer, serving on such notable ships as the USS Zhukov and the USS Enterprise
D & E. He was offered a position at Starfleet Command, Communications
Division, after serving on the Enterprise E for less than a year.
He accepted the position, where he was a project member for the Pathfinder
Project, a project designed to locate and communicate with the USS Voyager,
which is stranded in the Delta Quadrant. After several ideas failed
to communicate with Voyager, Barclay used the MIDAS array and a pulsar
to create a wormhole to the Delta Quadrant, and thus allowing for two way
communication between Voyager and Starfleet. He was successful in
his attempt, although he did go against orders to do so. He was not
punished, although a note was placed in his permanent file. Following
this successful attempt at communicating with Voyager, Admiral Owen Paris
assigned Lieutenant Barclay to head the new Project: Voyager, with
the goal of establishing permanent communication with Voyager, as well
as finding a way for the stranded vessel and crew to return home.
Barclay
is credited as being a very talented engineer, but tends to become timid
and awkward when in social situations. This timidness led to a Holodeck
Addiction that Barclay suffered from prior to 43807.4, where he created
a lavish Holodeck fantasy world where members of the Enterprise served
as characters in his controlled world. Barclay has also been diagnosed
with Transport Psychosis, from which he has also been able to recover.
Barclay
has also received many commendations throughout his Starfleet carrer.
Both
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Commander Geordie LaForge commended Barclay
for saving the USS Enterprise on stardate 43807.4, when he realized what
was causing a fatal problem with the injectors on the Enterprise, a problem
which meant certain destruction for the Federation Flagship. On stardate
46091.1, Lieutenant Barclay overcame his fear of transporters to save the
lives of four officers that served on board the USS Yosemite.
On
stardate 47653.2, a rare diease which afflicted the crew of the Enterprise
D, was named by Dr. Beverly Crusher in honour of Lieutenant Barclay:
Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome. The disease caused the Enterprise
crew to 'de-evolve' into lesser species.
Lieutenant
Alicia Cooper
Lieutenant
Cooper was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Following
her graduation from secondary school, she immediately applied and was accepted
to Starfleet Academy in San Francisco.
Lieutenant
Alicia Cooper has had an active Starfleet career. Upon graduating
from the Academy in 2360, she began serving on board the USS Al Batani
under command by Captain Owen Paris in Engineering. During the Cardassian-Federation
War, she and another officer, Kathryn Janeway, crawled through the thick
brush to save the life of one Cardassian. For their heroic actions,
each received a medal of valour.
Following
her assignment on the Al Batani, Cooper received a promotion from Ensign
to Lieutenant Junior Grade in 2365. She then had brief assignments
on board the Enterprise-D as a mechanical engineer in 2366, and as well
the USS Lexington as Assistant Chief Engineer. Following her assignment
on board the Lexington, she transferred to Starfleet Command and worked
in the Starship Development Division for several years. She was promoted
to Lieutenant Senior Grade in 2369.
When
the Project: Voyager began, Admiral Paris specifically requested
Lieutenant Cooper to join the team, due to her Engineering expertise, but
as well due to her strong determination and familiarity with the Hyper-Subspace
Communication Technology.
Lieutenant
Franklin Harris
Lieutenant
Harris was born on the lunar colony on Earth's Moon, and moved to Saturn
colony while still a child. Both his parents were teachers, and when
transferred to Earth, Harris decided to apply to the Academy. He
was accepted immediately, and then proceeded to graduate with high honours
at the top of his class in 2364.
Following
graduation, Lieutenant Harris began work at Starfleet Command Communications
Division as a Field Technician. He had many projects including working
on deep space communication beacons, as well as devising new more efficient
means of communication, which traveled faster than warp.
In
2371, Lieutenant Harris was offered the position as Operations Officer
on board the USS Voyager. However, he was unable to accept after
being offered a position to work at the Daystrom Institute. He received
his promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade in 2370.
In
2376, Lieutenant Harris requested to work on Project: Voyager, feeling
a connection to the vessel after turning down a position on the vessel.
As well, Harris was quite familiar with the Hyper-subspace communication,
and felt he could bring his knowledge to the project. Admiral Paris
accepted his request, and he joined the Project: Voyager team in
2376.
Ensign Richard
Garin
Ensign
Richard Garin, born in San Francisco, recently graduated from the Academy
in 2372, at the top of his class. He then began serving on board
the USS Intrepid as the Operations officer.
Garin
received special recognition in 2374 when he managed to devise an ingeneous
method to transmit hundreds of letters from Starfleet to the USS Voyager.
They had been previously unsuccesful as the messages began to degrade in
the communications network following transmission. Mr. Garin was
able to boost the message signal and still maintain the messages integrity.
In
2376, following his term assignment on the USS Intrepid, Garin joined the
Project: Voyager team after being selected from dozens of candidates
by Admiral Owen Paris. Admiral Paris believed that his Operations
and knowledge of Communications would allow him to work with Harris to
devise a way to implement the Hyper-Subspace Communication to communicate
with Voyager.
End Datalog