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Early Life
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Born in San Francisco, California on Earth.
His parents were both doctors in a hospital as Paul was growing up, so
the young boy spent a lot of time in and around hospitals. In high
school his science fair projects usually revolved around the effects of
various drugs on human and alien biological systems, and he received
many awards for his efforts. His favorite past times were things like
reading medical journals or watching holo-vids of various procedures.
It was obvious, even when Jennings was a child, what his passion in
life would be.
While he definately had a mind, Paul also took
part in playing on his high school's rugby team, earning several high
notations. When he was sixteen, he led his team to the national
championship, where they lost by one point in the last round. He also
enjoyed bowling and playing golf, a sport he still takes part in today.
And having being raised in California, he knew the value of a good day
on the beach with a towel and a good book.
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Discovering
Starfleet
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discovered Starfleet. When he was twelve he won one of his various
scientific competitions and one a guided tour of Starfleet Command
there in San Francisco Bay. When he was sixteen, as a junior in high
school, he was awarded a spot in Starfleet's Summer Seminar. When he
was seventeen, now a senior in high school, he applied for a position
in Starfleet Academy, wishing to become a medical officer. He was
denied the first time. However, he tried again the next year and was
accepted. He passed the four year program to go on to study at
Starfleet Medical. Then he was assigned, amazingly, as Chief Medical
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Prisoner of War
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| His first
mission on the station, assigned just days after his arrival, involved
a trip with the station's intelligence officer and the station's
counselor, Hermione Zeta. They were traveling to a distant planet to
search out and locate the crew of the USS Gorgon, a ship that had gone
missing, and had just been discovered to be in the hands of another
race. When the intelligence officer, now known to be a secret service
agent, fled the planet in the USS Scorpion after making contact with
the frog-like race, Jennings and Zeta were thrown into a dungeon cell
together, charged as secret agents of the Federation. After only a week
or so in the dungeon, the pair escaped their cell and were led through
a sewer system by a small tribble-like creature. They stole a ship and
met up with the USS Miuzi.
Just days after returning to the station, and
finally getting to settle into his new office (not to mention actually
getting to meet his new staff), subspace bombs ripped through the
station, causing massive ammounts of damage. Paul was directly involved
in the relief and aide efforts while the ship was evactuated. The crew
of Midway was assigned a new Mir-class starbase, and life returned to
(a much higher class of) normal.
Shortly thereafter, Jennings assisted in the
negotiations (offering medical aide) for mining rights to the Kelorite
Ore on Drelik Prime, a planet located not too far from Starbase Midway.
He also oversaw the construction of a new medical complex on the
planet, and resided there for several weeks (alone with just the
Starfleet staff that had gone with him and the Drelik he was working
with) before returning to the station; the mission was successful. He
was awarded the Golden Heart award for his contributions and the
humanitarian aide he had offered to the people of Drelik.
Not long after that, USCR ships arrived at
Starbase Midway to deliver a shipment of automatons to work in one of
the bars. Secretly these robots had been programmed as attack droids,
and were eventually activated. USCR ships eventually launched an attack
on the station and boarded. Paul ordered the many, many injured in the
Infirmary to be evacuated and made his way to ops and requested to
stay. Gotten the permission he needed, he began working on helping
those injured, both Starfleet and USCR. Soon the conflict was ended
after the USS Warrior arrived with Ensign David King, their own Chief
Medical Officer. Together they finished up the task and things returend
to a relative normal state.
Deciding that things had been a bit too rough
up to this point, he took a 'leave of absence' from Starfleet, but on
returning, he discovered a medical mess. Several crewmen dead and/or
injured. He returned to duty to help them.
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| Assignment
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About a month after his return from leave, he
was reassigned to the USS Enterprise as an Assistant Medical Officer.
Then the United Confederation Fleet was created, a conglomeration of
races working together to create a galactic government. This changed
everything for the young man, as the now-CSS Enterprise was assigned to
the new creation. Although his rank (Lieutenant) stayed the same, his
uniform (now a black jumpsuite-like piece) was completely different,
and was the ranking scale.
When he was promoted to Chief Medical Officer,
he found that he had missed working as a doctor, and was happy to
continue on the ship in such a capacity. But even that position didn't
last very long. With the resignation of Sub-Commander Turbo, he was
promoted to Acting-Executive Officer. His first Command Experience, he
did alright as the First Officer of the UCF's flagship, under the
command of Lieutenant Jason Roberts. It was also during this time
peroid that he was promoted to Sub-Commander, the United Confederation
Fleet's equivalent of Lieutenant Commander.
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The
Intrepid
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Several months later he was once again
reassigned, but this time back into Starfleet. He would be the new
First Officer on the USS Intrepid-C. Paul was very happy to be back in
the Starfleet uniform, but was rather sad to leave his friends behind
in the Confederation Fleet. He had grown quite used to representing the
galaxy as an officer, rather than just Starfleet or the Federation. He
also enjoyed the fact that he was no longer a Sub-Commander, but a
Lieutenant Commander. And he immidiately took to his new ship's crew.
His first mission with the Intrepid's crew was
to Starbucks Station, a Federation starbase that had been taken by the
Krivaldi. He led an away team to emancipate the Starbase as another
freed the crew of the USS Crazy Horse. The mission was a success, and
only one casualty was counted. Cadet Rei Kasha had been shot; she made
a full recovery.
Shortly after that, the Intrepid was assigned
to investigate a missing survey team, sent to observe the pre-warp
Noirean civilization. During the mission, the Prime Directive was
violated. A war nearly follwed when Jennings was forced to send down
two teams, leading one, to resecue the survey team and a captured away
team from Intrepid. The shuttle he was piloting was shot down, and his
team prepared to assault a Noirean stronghold. Thankfully Captain
Malone found a way to resolve the situation. Immidiately after this
mission, Paul was promoted to full Commander.
Saddly, that was the last mission that
Jennings would ever complete on the Intrepid-C. Soon after that
mission, Starbase 400: Versailles was taken by Vanguard forces, a group
who believed the Federation and Starfleet were becoming soft and
complacent. The Intrepid, along with the USS Resoultion, USS Cerberus,
USS Desire, USS Maximus, and USS Sutherland, set out to free the
station. The Vanguard forces had a strong fleet stationed at the
captured installation, and Task Force Phoenix was repelled, with
massive losses. Two of the three vectors of the Prometheus X-class
starship were destroyed (Paul's was the only to survive). He led the
recovery of the espcape pods from the two other vectors before limping
back to Starbase Twenty-Two, the Second 'Beta' Fleet headquarters.
The Soveriegn-class Intrepid-D was launched
within days of the destruction of her predecessor and immediately took
the fight back to the Vanguard forces. During the first missions, Paul
sustained various injuries, climaxing after the kidnapping of the
former Vice President of the Federation. During an attempt to rescue
her, Jennings sustained very serious injuries, and was relieved of duty
on the Intrepid.
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After
Rehabilitation
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Geven the
seriousness of his injuries, immediately after he was released from
critical care, the Commander was sent to a Starfleet Medical
installation where he spent nearly two months in rehabilitation. After
that he as assigned to the Starfleet Diplomatic Corps training camp on
Valcone VII.
After completing his diplomatic training Paul had several successful
encounters as a representaive of the Federation, participating
primarily in First Contact situations. After two years of service as a
diplomat he was offered a position at Starfleet Academy Medical, which
he gladdly accepted. There he taught Bioethics, Cardiovascular Surgery,
and Trama and Critical Care. He spent three school years teaching these
courses before hearing a rumor that Starfleet was looking for
volunteers for the Starship Counselling program. After looking into the
hearsay, he discovered it was true, and the Commander put in his
application, after which he was assigned to the USS Charon. |
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