Lieutenant JG Patrick O'Dell
Name Patrick James O'Dell
Position Assistant Chief Science Officer
Rank Lieutenant JG
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Human | |
| Planet of Origin | Space | |
| Age | 36 | |
| Birth Date | Feb 28th, 2352 | |
| Location of Quarters | Deck 9A, Aft | |
| Player (for PNPCs) | Todd |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'11" | |
| Weight | 165 Lbs/75Kgs | |
| Hair Color | Red | |
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Skin Color | Pale White | |
| Physical Description | Thin, runner's physique. | |
| Accent | Irish-Italian |
Family
| Spouse | n/a | |
| Wedding Date | n/a | |
| Children | Leandra Mudd, 4yrs old - Patrick doesn't know about her. | |
| Father | Daniel Patrick O’Dell, UFP Worker, Kensington Docks | |
| Mother | Maria Angela D’Argentia, Science Officer, USS Drake | |
| Brother(s) | n/a | |
| Sister(s) | n/a | |
| Other Family | Mortimer Kensey O'Dell, Uncle. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Quite frugal, because of the long standing family debt (absolved), but not miserly. Very outgoing though, and makes friends easily. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | +Good at theory and implementation +Can make friend easily -Poor judgement in relationships -Has made a lot of enemies along the way |
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| Ambitions | To get married and settle down | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Soccer, Jazz, Plays Saxaphone | |
| Languages | Federation Standard, Romulan, Italian, some Russian |
| Personal History | Patrick’s younger life was always shadowed by the family debt. Somewhere in the distant past, one of their ancestors purchased a ship, the SS White Rabbit and began a business venture with an individual named Harrcorr “Harry” Mudd. Within a few weeks the O’Dell family found themselves signed onto a debt so large that the family still is paying on it to this very day. During even his childhood days, he found work just to keep the family afloat, from delivery boy in his younger days to laborer and dishwasher when he was old enough to pass for legal age to work. He is quite used to living frugally, though not in a miserly sense. At the age of 16, his mother managed to get him enrolled into Star Fleet Academy on a hardship scholarship. The fighting between his parents over the O’Dell family debt had been reaching a head and as the boy went to the academy, at the same time his parents went their separate ways. His father retained the family dwelling to stay close to his job at the docks, while his mother requested re-assignment on a starship, where she could travel and see what the stars had to offer. Once into the Academy, Patrick felt he was in a whole new world, thought he had escaped the family debt, but the people owed had different ideas. During the mid semester break of his first year, he was out in the San Francisco shopping district when agents of the people the debt was owed to caught up with him. If not for the interference of one of the instructors from the Academy, they would have taught him quite a lesson about family responsibility and that you can’t escape your debt that would have taken quite some time to recover from. The Academy Instructor got him away from them, and got his story out of him. While it started innocently enough, the hard luck case of the student touched the instructor, one Sally Lupinsky. She’d recently found out that her fiancee had been seeing another woman who was stationed on the same ship as him. He’d always been putting off making a commitment The story of this lad who had been working his entire life, and now seemed committed to working more to resolve the debt. So young and so strong willed, he stole away her heart and she his. It lasted throughout the semester before they agreed it had to stop, for both their sakes. While there is still love there, too much time has passed since then. In his second year of academy, Patrick met Anton Martinez, the Academy’s soccer coach. Although he only played on the team for that year, it engrained a love of the sport that sticks with him even to this day. During his third semester he began working on what was to be his final project, a hand-held sensor device that was to revolutionize the modern conception of tricorders and PADDs, expanding their scanning and computational capabilities to what they are today. While developing this, his earlier prototype had additional capabilities, including a master encoding that can slave any of the PADDs or tricorders in use today, as well as often other similar devices used by other organizations. The final version used for his senior project did not use these additional capabilities because of the privacy issues involved, but Patrick keeps one updated that incorporates these unapproved technologies. After the Academy, Patrick was given the rank of ensign and assigned to Starfleet Research & Development’s Starship Development Facility on Deep Space 5, near Ivor Prime. This would normally be a cushy assignment with little danger or excitement, but as luck would have it, this was the year that the Battle of Sector 001... and the battle of Wolf 359 occurred. While testing new sensors for starships, Patrick reported to his supervisor on the incoming Borg threat, a report that was ignored until it was confirmed by the stations sensors during the attack on Ivor Prime. This was already much too late, and the colony on Ivor prime was completely wiped out. One of the survivors was Artemis Knabb, a friend of Patrick’s that Patrick had helped out a few times since he had been assigned to DS5. Artemis blamed Patrick for not pushing his earlier warning, which would have allowed for at least a partial evacuation of the planet. Artemis has since then never failed to miss an opportunity to make Patrick’s life miserable. While he may have served better with the starship development, his supervisor saw fit to assign him to one of the teams that went to Ivor Prime to assist in the rebuilding efforts. Several groups and business helped with the effort, most for charitable reasons, but some for reasons all their own. During his off-shift hours, he still worked, though in different ways. He saw how the children were suffering. Oh, they had food, medical care and education, but what they didn’t have was recreation. Youth and idle hands is a terrible combination. Patrick did the only thing he could think of, he started a youth soccer league. It was during one of the league games on the colony that Patrick met Vanessa Ivruska. He didn’t know her past or even much of her present beyond that she was a security person of some kind. If he had known at the start that she worked for the Orion Syndicate, he might never have gotten to know her well enough to be her friend. By the time he found out, he knew her well enough that he could pass off her employers as a bad life choice, one that was impossible to escape. Similar to his own debt in ways. They still are pen pals with one another. In the line of his duties, Patrick discovered patches into the code of the software for the array that was to be used to monitor space traffic around Ivor Prime and exposes it publicly. A certain off the books faction within star fleet intelligence begins an investigation of the newly promoted Patrick with an eye to discrediting him. As the end of his initial tour came up, Patrick re-enlisted and was assigned to the Pathfinder Research Project with a goal of improving communications with USS Voyager by using his knowledge of sensors to make improvements to the MIDAS Array. While making only a few usable suggestions, the project overall was considered to be successful and continued past the return of Voyager to support long range communications in the future. During his time there, life was hectic in work, with demanding schedules. It was during his first year there that he met Kathryn Donovan, who was a janitor at the research labs. While initially intended as a one night stand with no promises by either party, the relationship continued on for several months before Patrick discovered that Kathryn was also seeing several other people, and broke it off. A few months later, Patrick re-met Heather Dolinsky, who was a transport captain that made regular supply runs to the station. They had initially met through Kathryn at a party. It was wild and crazy, with short times away in-between while she was on the return runs. It went on for nearly a year when Patrick discovered that Heather was also a regular lover to Kathryn, and had been for years. Heather still sends letters to Patrick, trying to re-ignite what they had. During his second year there he took a trip to earth to visit with his father, who had been hospitalized for heart problems. Before returning, he took the opportunity to go to a jazz concert where he met Lorry Hines, an up and coming popular artist. They hit it off over coffee after the concert and have kept regular contact with one another ever since. During his third year on the colony, he encountered Maria Sanchez at a party, who worked security with Yoyodyne Systems, one of the leading suppliers of specialized replication systems in getting the colony’s manufacturing grid back into operation. They hooked up and dated for some time. The affair only ending when Patrick discovered that she was married to one of her fellow security officers and that he was just her guy on the side. The affair came to light when Patrick was arrested on trumped up charges from an anonymous tip. While he was in jail, Jose Sanchez came to visit him with a warning that messing with another man’s wife could wind him up in such situations on a regular basis. While the charges were dropped, Patrick lost a rank and was reassigned to the USS Nagasaki, a Sabre class vessel on border patrol. Life on the Nagasaki was a massive adjustment for Patrick. Gone was the fresh air and wide spaces he had gotten used to on the colony. The quarters were cramped, 4 people to a room, and there was almost no privacy. The sole consoling factor was meeting James Radcliff, who took the time to teach Patrick how to play the saxaphone, which he picked up quickly, though almost driving his bunk mates crazy in the process. It was soon after that when he was re-assigned to Starbase 86 to help upgrade their sensor arrays. It was during this time that he met Harriet Mudd, a wandering grifter, though he didn’t know it at the time. They carried on for several months, until the time when he came home to a “Dear John” letter and a bunch of people at his door wanting to see Harriet about getting their money back During his time on Starbase 86, he accidentally found out that parts were being written off from inventory that weren’t being used by the station or the ships they were there for repair. He went to secure some parts that he needed to do his work, but the parts weren’t where they were supposed to be, by the time he got back to his office, the parts were no longer listed in the inventory, but there was no sign of them being requisitioned. He reported this to his supervisor and thought nothing more of it. The next day, the ship’s quartermaster was demoted because apparently this had been going on for months, and although there was no proof. The quartermaster met up with him at a bar on the station and made friends with Patrick, talking about things in their lives. Patrick was blindsided when he was called to his supervisor’s quarters and confronted with some of the things that he was told in confidence and divested of the promotion he had received only a few days before. The final straw was when that same supervisor made a quite forceful pass at Patrick’s current girlfriend. A fight ensued over the matter and while the supervisor was reprimanded, Patrick was reassigned to the USS Calypso, with his previous rank restored. |
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| Education | Starfleet Academy Reinholden Technical Institute |
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| Service Record | 2368-2372 Star Fleet Academy 2373 Ensign, Starship Research & Development, DS5 2374-2377 Ensign, Reconstruction Efforts, Ivor Prime Promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade 2378-2382 LJG, Assigned to the Pathfinder Project, Communications Research Center 2383-2384 Ensign, Assistant Chief Science Officer, Assigned to USS Nagasaki 2385-2388 Ensign, LJG, Ensign, LJG, Assistant Chief Science Officer, Starbase 86 2389-Now USS Calypso |