Diana Fornier
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LT Diana Fournier [Antje Bechtoldt]
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I. Personal Data
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Surname: Fournier
Given Name(s): Diana (Sophie)
Service Number: SF-657373-36354751-FG
Current Rank: Lieutenant
Current Billet: CIC, USS NOVA, NCC-1776-A
Species: Homo sapiens sapiens
Gender/Sex: Female
Age: 29 Terran Years
Date of Birth: 18 November 2390
Place of Birth: Cap Frébel, Brittany (France), Earth
Parents: Baptiste Fournier
Marie-Chritine Fournier
Siblings: one brother, Victor
Spouse: none
Religion: roman catholic
HT: 1.78 m; WT: 69 kg; Eyes: Brown*; Hr: Black; Comp: Fair
Blood Type: O+
* Note: LT Fournier wears a visor as her eyes were damaged in her youth
(see background)
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II. Educational Background
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A. Academic Institutional Background:
-- Cap Frébel General High School
-- Star Fleet Academy {Graduated *summa cum laude*}
B. Service Schools Attended:
-- Star Fleet Space Warfare Officer School
C. Qualifications (MOC's)
-- MOC: Tactical Officer
-- MOC: Operations Officer
-- MOC: Electronic Warfare Officer
-- CERT: Junior Officer Bridge Tests
D. Star Fleet Academy Record:
Academy Record:
Honors *summa cum laude*; Academic Major(s): Weapon Systems
Engineering, Professional Major: Tactical Operations
Qualifications: Tactical, Operations, Weapons Engineering
Activities: member of the historic research group
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III. Biographical Notes
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A. Chronology (tabular form):
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00-13: Lived with parents in Brittany (France)
13 Lost eyesight in a sailing accident, received a VISOR
13-14 Recovered in the Armstrong Hospital on Luna (Earth´s Moon)
14-18 Continued to live with parents in France
18-22: Entered Star Fleet Academy
22 Graduated from Star Fleet Academy
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IV. Official Starfleet Record
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A. Promotion History:
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120914.0000 Commissioned as Ensign (O-1).
140401.0000 Promoted to Lieutenant, junior grade (O-2).
150501.0000 Promoted to Lieutenant (O-3)
B. Service History:
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080901.0000 Entered Star Fleet Academy
120901.0000 Graduated Star Fleet Academy
120914.0000 Assigned security officer, USS CHARLES
140619.0000 Assigned OPS, USS HAMILTON
150623.0000 Assigned TAC, USS GODDARD
171215.0000 Assigned TAC, USS NOVA
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V. Skills Profile
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Tactical officer and strategic analyst, qualified Ops, junior weapons
engineer
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VI. Recent Fitness Report
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Physically speaking officer Fournier has completely adopted to the
childhood injury that destroyed her eyesight and to the use of a visor.
She experiences occasional headaches like virtually all users of a
Visual Instrument and Sight Organ Replacement. Due to the particular
damage sustained by her optical nerves the insertion of artificial eyes
is not possible at the moment. That situation might possible change
with proper regenerative stimulation of the optical nerves (see
detailed medical files). Medical officers are encouraged to monitor
officer Fournier´s condition. Aside from the peculiarities of her visor
she is fully fit for all forms of duty.
CMDR Raphael Cannon M.D. - Chief Surgeon USS
GODDARD
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VII. Psychological Profile
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After years of counselling Diana Fournier adjusted to the traumatic
injury that has destroyed her natural eyesight. There is some
indication that her determination to continue surfing and sailing are
subconscious attempts to gain control of a situation she could not
control in the past but so far even if that theory is right, it has not
caused any problems for herself or others. There were isolated
incidents of slight depression but her friends and comrades or the
demands of duty quickly pulled her out of that.
Doctor Tracy McCullan - Counsellor USS HAMILTON
Lieutenant Fournier is dedicated worker. She realizes that she like all
people will make mistakes but she makes an effort not to repeat a
mistake twice. Her approach to tactical situations is that violence
though undesirable is sometimes necessary and if you have to wield a
weapon you should wield it with skill but not with joy.
Lieutenant Alfred Sheppard - Counsellor USS
GODDARD
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VIII. Current Recreational Interests
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Naval History, Surfing, Sailing, Volleyball
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Background:
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Diana Fournier was born in Brittany on the French Atlantic Coast. Her
parents owned a small hotel that offered sailing tours along with the
rooming. Only naturally, Diana felt drawn towards the sea from her
early youth. From the age of five onward she frequently accompanied her
parents on their sailing trips.
Life was happy for Diana. She had a loving family, enjoyed the ocean,
various sports and life in general until things were turned upside down
a few weeks after her thirteen's birthday. It was just a routine cruise
along the Cotes d´Armor with her father when it happened. A sudden,
unpredictable gust of wind, the mail sail flung around violently and
rope snapped to slash across Diana´s face like a whip. Maybe the impact
would have been so bad but the rope scattered her sunglasses and the
shards of plastic buried themselves in her eyeballs.
Thanks to the trappings of 24th century technology Diana was quickly
beamed off the sailing boat into a local hospital and later transferred
to the Armstrong Memorial on Luna.
Soon it was evident that her natural eyesight was destroyed and Diana
Fournier received a Visual Instrument and Sight Organ Replacement or
VISOR for short.
Needless to say, the next year was very difficult for the young girl.
Diana suffered through depressions and the physical pain and headaches
that were part of getting used to her new seeing aid. During these days
Lieutenant Trevor Cannon became her best friend. The Star Fleet officer
had suffered a similar injury in a deep space accident and knew exactly
what the teenager was going through. His tales of the wonders of space
not only distracted Diana from her misery but they also instilled a
desire to `see´ (one way or another) the stars.
When she returned to Earth Dina had made up her mind tat she would
become a Star Fleet officer herself despite her handicap.
In strictly technical terms her new sense of sight wasn´t inferior to
her old one, it was just different and much less natural. In defiance
of her electronic `crutch´ and quite possible to prove something to
herself, Diana continued to sail and surf while boosting her grades in
school back to old levels and beyond to qualify for Star Fleet. For the
next four years with the support of her family Diana worked toward that
goal and she was accepted into the Academy in San Francisco at the age
of eighteen.
There for the first time since her accident the young Breton didn´t
feel like some kind of freak. Among all those alien races a human
wearing a visor didn´t stand out that much. Some cadets even believed
it was natural for her species to wear such a device until told
otherwise.
Again, Diana Fournier was happy and eternally grateful toward Star
Fleet for exposing her to such an open-minded community. She learned
one of her most important lessons during that time, that being
different is a statement and a natural thing but not a judgement.
Diana had studied naval history as a hobby and her readings led her to
the conclusion that aggression and armed conflict had always been part
of human history and that there was no realistic way it would cease to
be part the exploration of space in the foreseeable future. Even with
all the good intentions the Federation had violent conflicts would
occur. So she decided that if violence was unavoidable it would better
be applied with skill to minimize the loss of live in any given
conflict.
Consequently, she enrolled in the tactical / security curriculum after
her basic studies were complete.
Since she did not share the passion for and the enjoyment of conflict
that for example the Klingons celebrated, Diana´s approach to tactical
remained clinical and detached. For her battle was an intellectual
problem like a mathematical equation. The point was to solve the
equation while keeping the variable that represented loss of life as
close to zero as possible.
After graduation Fournier´s first assignment was in the security
department of the USS CHARLES. The CHARLES was a small scout ship where
everyone was expected to pull more than just his own weight. As a
result she rotated through the departments as the situation required.
Soon she found herself more in operations than in security. Effectively
qualified as a junior Operations Officer, Diana was transferred as OPS
to the USS HAMILTON a ship of the aging Centaur class on border patrol
duty. Aboard the HAMILTON Fournier could take advanced classes in space
warfare and electronic warfare, especially the new SCIMITAR pinpoint
defence system. While she served as adequate OPS and took every
opportunity to learn outside her field of expertise, Diana still wanted
back into her old profession eventually.
She got the chance when the HAMILTON ran into a Miradorn raider.
Quarrelsome like all Miradorn the commander of the raider refused to
have his cargo inspected, opened open fire instead and tried to make a
run for it while the HAMILTON dealt with the damage from the surprise
attack. Diana recommended a variation of the Picard Maneuver that
brought the HAMILTON directly in front of the raider, slightly above
its flight path. Before the Miradorns could reroute their energy from
the aft to the forward shields they got hit by a combined salvo of
photon torpedoes and phaser fire that brought down their warp core and
main power and left them a sitting duck. Then Diana beamed the
Miradorns off their ship and sans personal weapons directly into the
brig. As it turned out the cargo hold of the raider was full of
weaponry and other illegal military hardware.
Not long afterwards the USS GODDARD requested a new tactical officer
and the name Diana Fournier came up. A Wolfe class frigate the
GODDARD´s recent missions had been scientific in nature but as she
operated close to the Gorn Hegemony most of the time the protection of
the ship from hostile forces was always a concern.
While there was little opportunity for Diana to test her skills in a
real engagement she made it a point to drill the tactical department
until she could drill them no more. Some of her subordinates wee
actually relieved when Fournier finally took her first vacation in two
years.
That vacation left her stranded in a distant corner of the galaxy on an
enormous Alderson Disk of unknown origin, a construct roughly the size
of a solar system where the ran into the crew of the USS NOVA.
They also found the wreckage of the USS GODDARD that shortly after
Fournier's leave had gone though a space-time vortex only to crash onto
the very same Alderson Disk - roughly two-hundred years in the past.
In the present time only Diana and the Vulcan First Officer of the
GODDARD - now a man of advanced age by the standards of his race - were
still alive. After several encounters with different malicious-minded
aliens the NOVA got off the disk and Fournier joined the crew as the
new TAC.
