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Lieutenant Commander
Lieutenant Commander Duncan Cameron
Player:
Duncan74
Current Assignment:
Chief Engineering Officer , USS Cerberus
Species:
Human
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth:
2250-03-04
Birthplace:
Memphis, TN, USA, Earth
Height:
5'11
Weight:
200 lbs.
Eye Color:
brown
Hair Color:
brown
Physical Description:
Average-looking human male, somewhat stocky build; Starfleet crest tattoo on upper left arm, large dragon tattoo on upper right arm; brown mustache; no other distinguishing physical characteristics
   
Family and Background:
Born and raised in Southeast region of North America on Earth. Mother, Debra, died 2301. Father, Jerry, died 2310. No brothers or sisters. Parents divorced when he was age 3; raised primarily by grandparents, Paul and Annie. Grandfather was a warp-engine technician, gave Duncan his love of engineering, and of space travel. Perhaps due to issues with his parents' divorce, Duncan faced self-esteem and confidence problems that plagued his career and his effectiveness until Captain Hikaru Sulu became his mentor aboard the USS Excelsior. During his youth he enjoyed playing music and restoring antique automobiles.
   
Education:
2255-2264: Attended elementary and middle schools in Alabama
2264-2268: Attended high school in Mississippi, graduated salutatorian
2268-2272: Attended Starfleet Academy, focus in Engineering, graduated 3rd in Class of 2272
2272: Supplemental technical training with Starfleet Corps of Engineers
2371: Supplemental re-training and updating of Engineering ratings, Starfleet Corps of Engineers and Starfleet Academy
 
Service Record:
2272-2278: Junior Engineer's Mate, USS Excelsior (NCC-2000)
2278-2371: Engineer's Mate, USS Bozeman (NCC-1941)
(2278-2368 inapplicable, circumstances Classified)
2371-2372: Engineer's Mate, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
2372-2373: Engineer's Mate, USS Bozeman (NCC-1941-A)
2373-2374: Assistant Chief Engineering Officer, USS Excalibur (NCC-26517)
2374.09.03 - Present: Chief Engineering Officer, USS Cerberus (NCC-83964)
 
Medical History:
No major medical problems
 
Commendations and Reprimands:
2 Starfleet Medals of Valor
 
Special Skills or Ratings:
Expert Qualification – Close Quarters/ Hand-to-Hand Combat (Aikido Specialty)

Expert Qualification – Starfleet Small Arms (Type 1 and Type 2 Phasers, Phaser Rifles)

Marksman Qualification – Starfleet Heavy Arms (Phaser Cannon)

Certification – Zero G Combat Operations, Zero G Repair and Fabrication Operations

Pilot Rating – Class B; also rated on Valkyrie-class fighter craft

Full Certifications on all Starfleet Emergency Repair and Field Fabrication Courses

Grand Master's Rating in Fencing

Master's rating in 3-D Chess
 
Personal Bio:
Duncan began his career as a fresh-faced recruit at the Academy, brimming over with the youthful excitement of knowing he was going to travel among the stars, and his own hands would maintain the ships that took him there. He excelled in his courses and his ratings, but when he graduated the Academy and the "training wheels" came off, he became plagued by self-doubt and low self-esteem, perhaps due to the tumultuous nature of his childhood and his parents, who seemed to mutually conspire to instill a feeling of failure in him in anything he did.

His first assignment was as a Junior Engineer's Mate aboard the Excelsior, and he had constantly doubted himself and felt as if he had two left hands, always fumbling over even the simplest tasks, even earning himself the nickname of "Sticky", after a particularly embarrassing incident with a tube of hyper-epoxy. It was then that Captain Hikaru Sulu himself had taken the clumsy ensign under his wing, and through intense fencing lessons and patient, caring tutelage, helped Duncan find strength and grace in his movements, and confidence and self-esteem in his mind. It was largely due to Captain Sulu that he was able to become an effective, sure-fingered and quick-witted engineer and a better man. He fondly remembered Captain Sulu's proud smile when he affixed the Starfleet Medal of Valor to Duncan's chest after the Khitomer Incident, while Captain James T. Kirk himself had looked on. As Kirk had shaken Duncan's hand and congratulated him afterward he told Duncan "You couldn't have asked for a better mentor". Truer words were never spoken.

His next assignment was aboard the USS Bozeman, under the command of Captain Morgan Bateson. His time as an Engineer's Mate on that fated ship brought him more excitement, horror, wonder and adventure than one being should be entitled to endure in a lifetime. Only three weeks out of spacedock, the Bozeman had entered the Typhon Expanse on a routine mapping survey, only to emerge 90 years later in a temporal causality loop, destroying the Enterprise-D. Duncan only knew of the Enterprise's destruction secondhand, since the Enterprise crew apparently stopped the loop and saved their ship. But in the wake of the averted tragedy, the Bozeman was still there, 90 years out of her time, with a crew full of people whose friends and loved ones were, for the most part, long dead and gone. While Duncan himself had no real family left, he had been engaged to a beautiful girl named LeAnna, and his anguish was unbearable when he confirmed that she had been dead for many years. When the now-antique Soyuz-class Bozeman was retired in 2371, he joined those of the original crew that joined Bateson on the shakedown of the Enterprise-E, and later launched aboard the newly-christened destroyer Bozeman in 2372. He performed his duties well on the new ship, knowing nothing else to do to avoid complete insanity at the loss of his love. He even received another Starfleet Medal of Valor in 2373, after he saved a fellow crewman from Borg assimilation during the Battle of Sector 001. But whether it was the faces of his shipmates, the knowledge that Captain Bateson refused to take the ship back to its own time regardless of the fact that the timeline had been polluted and travel back wasn't allowed, or the the irrational belief that the damned ship had stolen LeAnna from him, he could take no more of life on the Bozeman. Perhaps not surprisingly, Captain Bateson had understood completely. He had warmly shaken Duncan's hand, and with a smile of genuine warmth and a hint of sadness in his eyes, had told Duncan "Sometimes the past chases us faster than we can run. I know that well. You're a good man, Cameron, and I wish you well. You'll always have a place on my ship if you want it".

In a show of genuine kindness and respect for Duncan's engineering abilities, Bateson had fast-tracked Duncan's transfer to the USS Excalibur under the command of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, where an opening for an Assistant Chief Engineering Officer had come available. At first Duncan had scoffed at his new crewmates' tales of how Captain Calhoun had started out as basically a barbarian warrior, leading a slave revolt on his home planet of Xenex and becoming the planet's Warlord, but when the Excalibur was on station in Sector 221-G in 2374 during the opening salvos of the Dominion War, Duncan had seen Calhoun's barbarian ferocity and warrior cunning send many Jem'Hadar ships and their crews to whatever Hell existed for them. Duncan came to respect Calhoun's directness, his courage and his command style, and began to enjoy his work again under CEO Burgoyne 172, a dual-gendered Hermat who was one of the most amazing engineers Duncan had ever had the privilege of working with. But just as the specter of loss and death was beginning to fade, the Excalibur had disappeared without a trace in mid-2374 while he was on shore leave. Again Duncan was faced with the loss of those he had come to care for and respect. For the next 2 months he worked at Starbase 7 helping maintain the ships of the Seventh Fleet, but he again found himself losing enjoyment of the work and battling depression almost on a daily basis.

But fate just might have given him some light at the end of a dark tunnel. With his new assignment to the Cerberus, Duncan sees a chance to start fresh, and be a part of a grand legacy of adventure and exploration. For him, the Cerberus serves as a symbol of rebirth and renewal.
 
   

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