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* '''Sister''': Elizabeth Michelle Holmes (23 yrs old) | * '''Sister''': Elizabeth Michelle Holmes (23 yrs old) | ||
[[Image:Quinn02.jpg|left| | <h2 style="margin:0; background:#800000; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Personal History</h2> | ||
A San Francisco native, Quinn was born and raised not far from Starfleet Academy San Francisco. As a child, he used to spend hours watching crafts ascend from and descend to the Academy grounds, which Quinn admits was one of a few factors in his deep seated love for machines and gagetry. His first bike never made it. Quinn shameless admits he took the two-wheeler apart to figure out how it worked before learning how to ride it. While possessed of an innate ability regarding hardware construction and design, Quinn isn't necessarily the smartest or brainiest of the bunch. But he is tenacious with a competative spirit. Quinn takes the build it/reverse engineer approach over theoretical data. | |||
Of course, having two younger sisters might have had something to do with that competitive edge. Being the oldest of the Holmes lot, Quinn got the short end of the stick since while the kids grew up, he was labeled the "older brother", ergo, the one both Elizabeth and Veronica looked up to (or as they like to say, "beat up on when he wasn't paying attention to us!"). All three kids have their own distinct personalities, which is why Quinn has a deep rooted love for his siblings and never contended with rivalry since their interests were so varied. | |||
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Quinn's first success came during his teens. Over the course of three years, Quinn had salvaged various parts off of scrapped vessels that were slated for destruction. The San Francisco Ship Part and Salvage Yards was Quinn's second home, unbeknownst to StarFleet. Between the ages of 13 through 15, Quinn had phfilfered enough material to build an one-seater atmospheric plane. He test flew it himself just two days shy of his 16th birthday on March 22nd, 2377. Unfortunately, the calibration of the fusion cell engine was off by one decible and Quinn's engine blew while flying over Japan. He was forced to make a crash-landing and side-swiped a basic pre-flight training group of StarFleet Academy, Japan, cadet pilots. | |||
Upon review, the StarFleet Corps of Engineers were able to identify the individual parts Quinn had "liberated" from demolition and decided not to prosecute him. Quinn's first set of scars came out of the crash where he got burned from radiation exposure. Live and learn? Sort of... | |||
Quinn's second attempt yeilded better results with the construction of a planetary hopper, a short-range, five seater dart with wings to buffer breakaway and slowdown speeds. He found the use of magnetic constrictors extremely useful for wing shielding and dedicated a second set just for the wings alone. A small scale matter/anti-matter power chamber was found inside the craft Quinn a bunch of his buddies from secondary school broke in the "Dartmouth" on their graduation day and skipped around inside the Sol System before they were pulled over by a patrolling starship, the [[USS Hornet]]. It was also during this time when Quinn started to suffer from a seizure-like eye flutter when working on engineering/modeling projects. | |||
Despite the recent affliction and additional "flight without license", Quinn managed to get into Starfleet Academy San Francisco and began his "official" training with the Engineering Program. He proved to have an extraordinary aptitude with ship/engine design and construction but not so well with theoretical application. Quinn nearly failed his first year studies and forced himself to get help, which came in the guise of his mentor and one of the most profound influences in his life, a joined Trill, Ambassador [[Hardel, Trev|Trev Hardel]]. | |||
It was Hardel who opened Quinn's eyes and taught the young man how to apply his mechanical skills to overcome his flaws with theory. Hardel theorized a part of Quinn's involuntary eye flutter may be linked to comprehension and memory retrieval. "You simply process data differently from others," was Hardel's conclusion. The two of them spent a great deal of time together while Quinn was attending Starfleet Academy, and Hardel even moved himself over to Utopia Planetia when Quinn went to complete his residency. Quinn was "required", according to Starfleet Admiral [[Messex,Irwin|Irwin Messex]], to complete Flight School (it was Admiral Messex who had caught Quinn in the Dartmouth while commanding the Hornet) to satisfy the requirements of his probation. | |||
After graduation, Quinn spent a three year residency on Mars working with Utopia Planetia Shipyards. He credited with the implimentation of two shuttle class retrofits and is known for building small scale warp engines to fit smaller craft types. During his tenure, Quinn also finished his architectural degree and implimented a revised design blueprint for a terraforming colony city. He spent a good chunk of time reviewing Utopia colony's original and current infrastructure. By the time his residency was complete, Quinn had a considerable record of starship, starbase, shipyard and planetary engineering accomplishments. | |||
====Timeline==== | |||
* '''2361''': Birth year | |||
* '''2366''': Fell in love with all types of craft, one of his earliest memories is watching shuttlecraft take off at sunset over the Bay. | |||
* '''2377''': Build his first atmospheric plane and crash-landed just over Japan. | |||
* '''2379''': Quinn's first spaceship, an interplanetary hopper called the '''''Dartmouth''''' was launched and captured by the USS Hornet. | |||
* '''2379''': Quinn's eye flutter started. | |||
* '''2379''': Quinn enters Starfleet Academy San Francisco | |||
* '''2384''': Starfleet Academy graduation | |||
* '''2384''': Residency at [[ma:Utopia Planetia|Utopia Planetia Fleet Yards]] begins | |||
* '''2386''': Masters Degree in Architecture, PhD in Engineering | |||
* '''2387''': Quinn finishes his residency | |||
* '''2387''': Reassignment to the SB118 Fleet, to the [[USS Independence-A]] | |||
==Personality== | |||
Quinn has an erratic affliction of slight seizures which causes his eyes to involuntary flutter, usually when he's utilizing memory retention. While he hasn't yet suffered from a stroke, it's one of his frequent worries although it doesn't stop him from what he loves doing (and likes to think he does well), which is working in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. In his spare time he has an old 20th Century Harley motorcycle (in pieces) he works on (although he secretly thinks it would make a bad-ass schematic for a sleeker fighter class, which is the primary purpose behind the restoration... which design components could be utilized). Unfortunately, he also suspects his passion for hardware is what skews his social skills and keeps him single and unattached. | Quinn has an erratic affliction of slight seizures which causes his eyes to involuntary flutter, usually when he's utilizing memory retention. While he hasn't yet suffered from a stroke, it's one of his frequent worries although it doesn't stop him from what he loves doing (and likes to think he does well), which is working in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. In his spare time he has an old 20th Century Harley motorcycle (in pieces) he works on (although he secretly thinks it would make a bad-ass schematic for a sleeker fighter class, which is the primary purpose behind the restoration... which design components could be utilized). Unfortunately, he also suspects his passion for hardware is what skews his social skills and keeps him single and unattached. | ||