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[[Image:Mars.jpg|thumb|Mars]]Quinn was born in Columbia Hills, Mars.  From a very young age, it was obvious that she was an exceptionally bright child and intelligence testing showed that she had a phenomenally high IQ.  The Reynolds family already had some experience with gifted children - her cousin Hayden was also remarkably intelligent - and so it was decided that she would be home schooled with private tutors in order to provide her with a tailored program of education that was best suited to her abilities.  While there was a strong emphasis on mathematics and the sciences, her father, Stephen Reynolds, also ensured that she had access to the arts and Quinn quickly fell in love with music.  Playing the piano quickly became one of her favourite hobbies and one she would take with her into adulthood.

[[Image:UtopiaPlanitiaFleetYards.jpg|thumb|Utopia Planitia Shipyard]]Life as a teenager was considerably more settled for Quinn, barring the incident involving the Betazoid Ashan that resulted in a three month stay in the same hospital as her mother.  In her early teenage years she continued to study, now applying her prodigious intellect to the study of a physics doctorate and later, post-doctoral studies.  Though still isolated from many of her peers due to the significant age difference, she had by then learned to cope with her loneliness; she threw herself into her studies with almost alarming intensity, rarely taking holidays unless coerced into it, and if she wasn't working, she was playing the piano or tending to the multitude of plants she kept around her.

[[Image:Academy.jpg|thumb|Starfleet Academy]] Quinn had never expected Starfleet Academy to be easy, but she had not anticipated just how hard it actually was.  She had little trouble with the classes that require pure academic work and theory; always in the top percentile, if not at the very top itself.  But when it came to more practical endeavours, she struggled, especially when it came to classes oriented around combat and tactics.  Her marksmanship was poor and she still feels today that there was a significant element of luck involved when she scraped a pass mark the various self-defence classes.

[[Image:Nav-triumphant.jpg|thumb|USS Triumphant]]Quinn's first major mission, the survey of Musca III, had several revelations for the fresh-faced Ensign Reynolds.  It was the first time she had to deal with a less-than-pleasant superior officer and a significant threat to her life when a Gorn computer virus seriously damaged and disabled the Triumphant.  Despite the rocky start, Lieutenant Commander Walter Brunsig and Quinn grew on one other and they managed to work together to save the Triumphant from being destroyed in a nearby plasma storm.

[[Image:Independence-ANav2.jpg|thumb|USS Independence]]The Euphrates mission held several revelations for the newly-minted Chief Engineer.  For the first instance in her career, Quinn experienced the loss of personnel under her direct command; rather than deal with how it affected her, she chose to ignore it, distancing herself from the situation.  Toward the end of the mission, she experienced fresh emotional turmoil in the form of a burgeoning relationship with David Cody.

[[Image:Nav-spacedock.jpg|thumb|Starbase 118]]Arriving at the Starbase held several trials for Quinn; not least of which was adjusting to her new assignment in Intelligence.  Fortunately for her, the first series of events she was involved with didn't require the expertise of an Intel Officer and she was able to operate closer to her comfort zone.  The biggest challenge she faced was dealing with her own turbulent emotions following her abrupt departure from the Independence and the sudden reappearance of Walter Brunsig, with whom she had lost contact with since the Triumphant; primarily because he had not returned any of her messages.  After an initially frosty reception, the pair began to slowly rebuild their friendship.  Quinn was also delighted to find that the person she considers her best friend, Lily Ventu, had also been reassigned to the station - though the fact that Lily was pregnant did come as something of a shock.