Arlo Thornton: Difference between revisions

===<font color=Black>Family</font>===

File:Rowena Thornton.jpg|Rowena Thornton, Arlo's Mother

File:Liam Thornton.jpg|Liam Thornton, Arlo's Father.

File: Rebecca Thornton.jpg|Rebecca Thornton, Arlo's older sister.

Arlo's parents are café owners and still reside in Brisbane while her older sister- Rebecca- is an investigative journalist for the Cestus III Herald. Additionally, Arlo is named for her paternal grandfather with whom the family were particularly close to before his passing when Arlo was 3 years old. She only has hazy memories of him as a result, but cherishes them greatly. She is close with her both of her parents as well as her sister.

Arlo took the entrance exam for Starfleet Academy shortly after graduating from secondary school and passed on her first attempt. Enrolling as a Science Major she chose to specialise in Astronomy as well as Xenology with a minor in Subspace Mechanics. Many of her professors noted that Arlo was an eager and engaged student but one who struggled with balancing deadlines. In her second year she was cajoled by her roommate in to auditioning for a role in a performance of the Gilbert & Sullivan opera Iolanthe that was put on by the Academy’s Drama Society. She enjoyed the experience so much that she joined the society and it became something of a hobby for her. She graduated 21st in her class- although she barely scraped a pass on her Subspace Mechanics minor. [[File: Helaspont Station.jpg|left|thumb|200px|''Helaspont Station'']]

===Assignment to the USS ''Gorkon''===  

[[File:Sovereign Asteroid Field.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''USS Gorkon'']]Though largely happy during her time assigned to Helaspont Station, Arlo felt herself becoming complacent with her role and therefore she chose to challenge herself. Applying for a transfer to starship duty, she was assigned to the USS Gorkon as Assistant Chief Science Officer for which she was promoted to Lieutenant before her arrival.

 

 

Arlo's first assignment as a member of the Gorkon's crew was to assist in aiding a team of terraforming scientists at the Giáng Sinh colony deal with an unexpected winter, the after effects of an unexplained solar flare.

 

 

 

* Arlo was present in an alternate reality created by Q where members of the crew of the {{USS|Gorkon}} were members of a Maquis cell in 2371. In this reality she was a hard-drinking sensor analyst whose aboard a Maquis interceptor called the Skarbek who had never attended Starfleet Academy. After the vessel was boarded by Cardassians, Quinn “Spooks” Reynolds secured Arlo in the ship’s engineering compartment and tasked with her finding a medkit. When Reynolds returned for her, she found Arlo asleep- having found the medkit and a bottle of tequila that had been stashed with it. The two made plans to board the Cardassian vessel to rescue captured members of the Skarbek’s crew. She helped Reynolds to engineer a warp core break aboard the Cardassian vessel and subsequently rescued the captured insurgents. Before the warp core breach could occur, Q appeared and returned Thornton and Reynolds to their correct time and place. ([[Together in Electric Dreams (Gorkon)|GORKON: Together In Electric Dreams]])