Eileen McCleran
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Eileen McCleran is an Engineering Officer currently serving on the USS Apollo.
Stats
- Full Name: Eileen Lindsey McCleran
- Race: Terran
- Date of Birth: Stardate 235905.13
- Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, Earth (Terra, Sol system)
- Age: 32
- Gender: Female
- Telepathic status: 0
Appearance
- Height: 1.73m (5’7”)
- Weight: 66.5kg (146lbs)
- Hair Color: Rich, bright copper.
- Length of Hair: Shoulder-length, thick
- Eyebrows: Moderately and gently tapered in a soft curve
- Eye Color: Blue
- Skin Tone: Medium fair, smooth and a touch rosy
- Birthmarks, Scars: One ruddy oval at the back/base of the neck (10cm x 5cm)
- Build: Just shy of athletic, toned
- Face: Attentive and open, animated
- Eyes: Pellucid and inset, usually move before her head
- Mouth: Full, rounded lips well balanced with her other features
- Arms: Lithe with light freckling running from shoulder to elbow, rounded
- Legs: Athletic and lean
- Carriage: Calm and steady w/a relaxed stance
- Taste in Clothing (off duty): sundresses or jeans and tanks, moderate casual
- Shoes (off duty): ballet flats (most often)
- Voice: Alto (breathes from the diaphragm by habit)
- Handedness: Right
Biographical Information
Living Arrangements
- Quarters:
- Favorite Room:
Personality
- Habits: Black coffee mornings, chews her PADD stylus, always has a mini-Maglite (black, beat up) with the word “Winchester” in worn lettering on her or near her at all times.
- Mannerisms: Talks w/ her hands, raises her left eyebrow when faced with something perplexing or suspicious, her accent shifts between a South Midland and a Southern Drawl, tends to deal with frustration with vocal sarcasm…”Can’t nothin’ be easy”, tends to run thought experiments with new data or situations...sometimes by pacing and silently or normally talking it through.
Religion/Spiritual Devotion
Not a theist, even though she was raised in a Methodist Christian tradition.
Hobbies and Pastimes
Reads voluminously, loves music and singing, meditates (stress reduction), loves the outdoors.
Likes
Chicago style gyros, Italian food and a broad range of cuisine asides, genuine people, learning, hiking, dogs, dinner at night outside, her stuffed toy raccoon.
Dislikes
Evasive people, Mexican food and replicated versions of Missouri Regional cuisine, being cold, anyone talking about her appearance (positive or negative), assumptions, those that don't respect technology and the scientific realities inherent to it.
Ambitions and Goals
To be the first person to successfully meld two strongly divergent propulsion systems into one greater than it’s constituent parts and to publish same for peer review. To be the Chief Engineer on a Starfleet vessel. To make Commander within 7 years. To publish a unique discovery regarding a subspace/quantum level phenomena for peer review.
Achievements in Life
Honors in wushu competition as a young woman. Having been given her sifu's blessing to conclude her wushu schooling. Being assigned to USS Ursa Major immediately after graduating the Academy. Senior Academy Thesis accepted and published for peer review.
Disappointments in Life
Father's true service record and the damage it's revelation has done to their relationship. Not being able to remember what happened to her for seven years.
Temperament
Lethally blunt, increasingly so with difficult people/situations. Able to be assertive, especially when in discussions or situations relating to engineering/scientific topics. Shy with respect to romantic pursuits. Rarely loses her temper. Prone to be protective of those she works with.
Mental problems (complexes and phobias)
Mild claustrophobia, morbid arachnophobia, psychogenic amnesia (pertaining diagnosis, causation and treatment information [from onset to present] is classified: security clearance Sigma 9)
Physical Limitations
None beyond human norms.
Family
- Marital Status: Single
- Spouse:
- Place of Marriage:
- Children:
- Parents
- Father: John W. McCleran
- Born: Stardate 233409.12
Lieutenant(j.g.) - Starfleet - Last posting was to USS Rutledge: Engineer's Assistant. WIA at Setlik III massacre. Received citation for being severely wounded in the line of duty and a Medical discharge (diagnosed with persistent PTSD) on stardate 236207.04. Currently works for a private shipping consortium as an engineering specialist/designer contracting out of Utopia Planitia.
- Mother: Brenna McCleran; nee Truvalini
- Born: Stardate 233901.05
Clinical Psychology Professor - Currently holds a professorship at New Webster University and maintains a private practice on Mars specializing in Traumatic Dysphorias.
- Siblings: None
Personal History
As a child, Eileen was always drawn into her own world and has always been of a strong mind. The thoughts of what could be being stronger than the recognition of what was to the exasperation of her parents. As an only child, she was doted on a bit, but this never served to imbalance her. Rather, it served to underpin her connection to her family for the most part. Her father had served in Starfleet for the first three years of her life, rarely ever speaking of it, remaining a slightly over-protective parent regarding the topic. Her mother was of a more progressive bent and balanced nature, allowing fault and chance to work in her daughter's life and being there for her at any stumbling moment. This foundation has allowed her own force of will to blossom, becoming one of her strongest traits.
At an early age, Eileen showed a mixed intrinsic aptitude for mathematics, mechanics and physical law. She began martial arts training (Wing-Chun Kung Fu) at her father's behest at age 7 (erroneously thinking that it might serve to draw her attention and focus from the sciences), eventually developing strong skills with changquan(Northern Longfist Style), taijiquan(Supreme ultimate fist), and baguazhang(Eight trigram palm) styles.
In 2367, at age 10, she was involved in a minor mishap involving a project her father was working on. A supplemental support system for warp propulsion that would hopefully allow usage of low-yield warp-fields further within spatial gravity wells. She was poking her nose about when the safeties of the experiment failed and a cascade failure of the system triggered low-energy, geometrically constricted warp fields to erect, trapping her within a rapidly diminished physical space for a relatively short time (five minutes, by reports). She was quickly extricated without physical injury and the project rescued, but ever since then she has had a slight case of claustrophobia but has yet to suffer any attack of same in her adult life.
At age 15, during a tour of Starfleet Academy, she was introduced to one of her father's ex-shipmates, one Professor Miles E. O'Brien. It was over the course of the following year and a few conversations with him that her focus in education and choice of career was finalized towards engineering and starship duty, against the adamant prejudice of her father. In the latter half of 2376, she was awarded recognition in a Martial Arts competition held on Mars. Afterwards, her attention for it waned slightly as she devoted more towards the sciences, though she still practices her sets daily and enjoys sparring given the opportunity.
Graduated an above average student from Lindbergh High School in St. Louis, Missouri.
Upon entering Starfleet academy, her first day, an incident report was filed stating that she had unknowingly said "please" to a Zaldan, which precipitated into an altercation within her dorm. The Zaldan was discharged from Medical two days later. While she was not the aggressor in the incident (she, like some, was not at all familiar with Zaldan social norms), a reprimand exists on her record for the aggressiveness of the defense she employed.
Achieved honors for her academy Senior Thesis for a paper entitled "Side-stepping Warp Mechanic Translations: The Substantiation of Transwarp and so-called "Hyper"-warp mechanics within current technological/ecological standards." which postulated the co-mingling of standard and non-standard warp technologies to propagate more efficient travel between the arms of the galaxy.
During her sophomore year of the Academy in San Francisco, the Massacre of Setlik III was assigned as a research project to her Starfleet Military History class. During her research, through happenstance and then further intrigued investigation, she uncovered the reality of her father's role in the Massacre, aside from what little she had been aware of as a child. He had frozen in the line of duty, that being the reason that he was wounded, officers were killed, and why her father had so vehemently opposed her desire to join Starfleet. She was mortified and over time found herself growing more and more isolated socially and academically, against her best efforts to move beyond the revelation. She brought the matter to a professor at the academy and after informing him of the situation, requested a letter of recommendation for transfer to another campus. He acceded, resulting in her mid-term transfer to Starbase 118’s campus.
She graduated on stardate 238304.01 with honors majoring in Engineering and a focus towards Warp Field Theory and Mechanics. Five days later she was assigned and posted to USS Ursa Major (Sovereign-class).
There, for three months, she served dutifully and happily...the last project with her involvement being the systematic overhaul of Ursa Major's sensor systems.
Immediately after the finalization of the overhaul (238307), Eileen's file and name shows as having been removed from the Ursa Major's crew roster and no order for her transfer is on record. The next instance any official record of even her existence can be found is regarding her being listed on a casualty report from USS Hippocrates being one of two eventual survivors out of the twenty researchers caught in the blast at a research facility's propulsion test-bed hanger.
Has an affinity for animals. Terran Canines, most notably, preferring Corgi-mix breeds.
Itemized Timeline
- 235905.13: Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Earth.
- 236907.05: "Laboratory Incident" at father's lab within Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards.
- 236910.02: Begins training in wu shu at her father's behest.
- 2376**.**: Introduced by her Mother to her father's former crew-mate, Professor Miles O'Brien (against her father's desires), beginning an infrequent "snail-mail" exchange regarding her joining Starfleet.
- 238006.18: Graduated with honors from Lindbergh High School in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 238009.23: "Zaldan" incident on the opening of her first semester in Starfleet Academy.
- 238305.22: Received honors for her academy Senior Thesis, entitled "Side-stepping Warp Mechanic Translations: The Substantiation of Transwarp and so-called "Hyper"-warp mechanics within current technological/ecological standards." Her thesis was published for peer review in the Daystrom Institute Journal in the fall of the same year.
- 238304.01: Graduated Starfleet Academy with honors majoring in Engineering and a focus towards Warp Field Theory and Mechanics.
- 238304.06 - 238307.24: Assigned to and posted for duty on USS Ursa Major as Engineering Officer.
- 238307.24 to 239006.1: NO AVAILABLE INFORMATION
- 239006.02: Recorded as transferred for hospitalization at Bethesda Starfleet Hospital by USS Hippocrates for severe injuries received after an explosion at the Clarke Quantum Research Facility on stardate 239006.1.
- 239010.13: Applied for re-accreditation for return to active duty within Starfleet Corps of Engineers.
- 239101.15: Passed re-assessment and received clearance and assignment for USS Apollo as Engineering Officer.
- 239101.27: Posted to USS Apollo as an Engineering Officer.
Rank and Career History
Career Overview
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