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USS Gorkon
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Doreen Finch
Position Engineering Officer
Rank Ensign
Species Human
Gender Female
DOB 233904.08
Age 61
Birthplace East Falkland, The Falklands, Earth
Writer ID C239809SH3

Awards & Service Ribbons
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Starfleet Academy Graduate Ribbon


About the Writer

USS Gorkon

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"Just let me know if you need my help, boys. I know you both only got through the Tech Academy on a wing and a prayer!"


(USS Gorkon: A Wing and a Prayer)



Ensign Doreen Finch, endearingly known as Doz, is a lively, hands-on and occasionally facetious Human, currently posted as an Engineering Officer to the USS Gorkon, the flagship of the Tyrellian Defence and Exploration Taskforce.

A prior-enlisted crewman, Finch initially qualified as a Maintenance Engineer, out of the Technical Services Academy on Mars. Her passionate devotion to work and her unyielding ability to adapt led her to postings such as the USS Bonestell, John Muir, Marigold and many others. With the sudden death of her life-long friend, fellow recruit and confidant Murphy, Finch - not herself and deeply affected - finally accepted a long-standing offer to commission into the officer ranks.

Physical Attributes


 
  • Height: 1.6m (5'3")
  • Build: 9st, Short
  • Complexion: Fair
  • Eyes: Dark Brown (Grey when wearing her Oculer Enhancers)
  • Hair Colour: Speckled White
  • Hair Style: Short, Choppy
 
  • Voice: Scratchy, Quick
  • Off-Duty Clothing: Jackets, Trousers, Comfortable shoes
  • Distinguishing Features:Flushed Rosy Cheeks, Prominant Cheekbones

Background


Doreen's Birthplace, the Falklands, Earth

Doreen was born in the city of Stanley, East Falkland, to parents Iris and Frederick Finch.

As the last sibling of four, she was humorously thought of as the runt of the litter, a quip not helped by her small stature and scrawniness. Her mother Iris was a specialist petrologist who studied the topography of Earth's South Atlantic islands, while her father Frederick mostly worked away as an enlisted engineer for Starfleet. Both parents originated from the West Midlands region of England. They each had hard-as-nails, witty but firm personalities; traits also exhibited in Doreen and all three of her brothers.

She and her brother Wallace, the brother closest to her in age, used to watch the sunrise in the local woodlands of Birmingham, until he left for the Martian Tech Academy as seemed to be tradition. He left her behind to deal with her mother, who at the time was miserable and gave Doz earache.[1]

Before Doreen reached her teenage years, her father Frederick lost his life when his ship collided with another one. Iris, now befallen with a deep depression, left the East Falklands and her career, and relocated the family back to the city of Birmingham.

Without purpose or motivation, and desperately sad, Iris rapidly deteriorated, no longer able to leave the house, socialise or parent her children, becoming the shadow of the woman she once was. This experience traumatised Doreen, who felt as though her mother-no longer recognisable-may well have died. That memory, some forty-five years prior, has continued to fuel in her an habitual, and sometimes unhealthy need to always be working, and an inability to tolerate too much negativity for fear of becoming like her mother.



Starfleet Career


Around age 20, Finch attended an intensive programme at the Mars Technical Services Academy, and it's attached speciality school, and soon after qualified as a Maintenance Engineer, focused on checking, repairing and servicing the interior subsystems of Federation starships. The abridged programme gave her skills in damage control that ranged from maintaining ships equipment and systems, firefighting and prevention, and the servicing or repair of components affected by electrical, mechanical, chemical, radiological and nuclear damage, in either combat or day-to-day non-combat situations.

Although not her speciality, on her first Tour of Duty aboard the USS Bonestell, she was regularly ordered to perform maintenance on the ship's outer hull by a cantankerous Chief Engineering Officer. It was during these duties however that she ended up fostering an appreciation for spacewalking.[2]

Despite a non-Academic route into her field, Finch's practical, hands-on and sometimes coarse approach to engineering enabled her to quickly understand ships systems, resulting in clever, quicker repairs - though not without mistakes. Her preference to learn by hand caused her to develop a series of habits, such as unnecessarily squinting at manuals in concentration, and her proclivity for holding mechanical artefacts to her mouth or in between her teeth, thereby tasting them.

Whilst serving as a Chief Petty Officer on the USS John Muir, a 'regular haunt' of hers was Starbase 24, and during what should have been a normal shore leave, all hell broke loose when the starbase' shields failed during an oncoming meteor shower, resulting in a station-wide evacuation except for herself and the other engineers present that day, such as a cloddish Bolian named Bofer.[3]


Trivia


  • She drinks english tea while on duty, and won't hear nothing more about it.
  • She eats in tiny amounts, and seldom finishes her food; red meat, fish, toast or biscuits, but nothing mealy.
  • She's an insomniac—opting for intermittent 40 minute naps.
  • She loathes Sickbays; mainly the smell of them.[4]

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Relationships


USS Marigold (NPC)

Captain Koth - Officer Candidate School Sponsor
Captain Koth

Crotchety, irritable, and yet a brilliant and fair leader, Captain Koth is the Commanding Officer of the USS Marigold who tends to take a backseat approach to managing his crew, preferring to leave Gepe Grasa to it. Sometimes thought of as aloof and distant, Finch knows different; originally a science officer, Koth admits his lack of engineering knowledge, and often asked Finch for her professional opinion on matters - even after first getting Zeeza's. In the end, it was Koth who sponsored her to attend the Officer Candidate School, urging her to commission to the higher ranks.

Lieutenant Zeeza - Chief Engineer of the USS Marigold
Zeeza

Airy, analytical, smart, and yet charming, Zeeza is the Denobulan Chief Engineer of the USS Marigold, who shared a close professional relationship with Finch who at the time was the ship's only Master Chief Petty Officer. A skilled shields specialist, she along with Finch's damage control skills, managed to mitigate the impact of a massive solar flare on the ship's shields and systems, cutting repairs down from a month to only a week.

Commander Gepe Grasa - First Officer of the USS Marigold
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Gepe Grasa

Ruthless, egotistical, and a staunch disciplinarian, Commander Gepe Grasa is the First Officer of the USS Marigold who despite her sociopathic tendency to bully her own crew, held a certain degree of interest in Finch's skill. Only a certain degree, mind you. As an ex Security and Tactical officer, Grasa personally and deliberately selected a weak successor, so that she could assert her influence in missions. Her go to style of leadership is aggression, something that Koth has always ignored. A collector of trophies, and highly competitive, it's believed on the lower decks that she's gunning for Koth's position, and that if he were to ever mysteriously disappear, she's likely got something to do with it.


USS Gorkon


Lieutenant Gnaxac - Engineer on the USS Gorkon
Gnaxac

One of the first engineers Finch met onboard the USS Gorkon. She is fond of his stuttering disposition, and determined spirit. She considers him a standout Ferengi, and trusts his professional opinion, as someone who knows the ship more intimately than she does.




Service History Prior to Starbase 118


Click Expand to View Doreen's Service Record Prior to Starbase 118
Starfleet Service Record
Insignia Rank Dates Posting Assignment
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Recruit 2359-2359 Starfleet Technical Services Academy Recruit
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Crewman Third Class 2359-2365 USS Bonestell Maintenance Engineer
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Crewman Second Class
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Crewman First Class
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Petty Officer Third Class 2365-2375 USS Korolev Maintenance Engineer
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Petty Officer Second Class
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Petty Officer First Class 2375-2376 USS Newton Maintenance Engineer
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Chief Petty Officer 2376-2380 USS John Muir Maintenance Engineer
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2380-2380 Federation Secondment

IKS Taggagh

Damage Control Technician
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Senior Chief Petty Officer 2380-2386 USS Barrington Maintenance Engineer
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Master Chief Petty Officer 2386-2398 USS Marigold Maintenance Engineer


Service History Starbase 118


Starfleet Service Record
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Cadet 239910.31 - 239911.06 Officer Candidate School

Starfleet Academy
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Cadet
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Ensign 239911.08 USS Gorkon
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Engineer

Awards & Service Ribbons


For award descriptions, see: Awards and Service Ribbons
Awards and Service Ribbons
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Starfleet Academy Graduate Ribbon 239911.06
Starfleet Academy
Awarded to those who have graduated from Starfleet Academy.



NPC Listing   ·   USS Gorkon Crew Manifest   ·   Crew History
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CO
Quinn Reynolds
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2O & Ops. Chief
Jo Marshall
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HCO Officer
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Sec/Tac Officer
Isabelle Basilia
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Chief Engineer
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Asst. Chief Engineer
Doz Finch
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Chief of Science
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First Officer
Samira Neathler
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Mission Specialist
Ayiana Sevo
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Sec/Tac Officer
Lina Dahlquist
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Sec/Tac Officer
James Bowers
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Engineer
Gnaxac
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Medical Officer
Alessandro Ferrucci
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Counsellor
Max Whitlock
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