Bio: Chad Young -
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Published on: 3/4/2006
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Chad YoungExecutive Officer
Lieutenant Commander
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Chad YoungChief Science Officer
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Commander Chad 'Flame' Young
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Commander Chad 'Flame' Young
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Chad is an average height human with a rather stocky build.His red hair shines light the flames from a fire.His right leg has been replaced by a prosthetic from his knee down.
Psychological EvaluationChad is quite self-confident even to the point of arrogance.He is willing to sacrifice friendships and professional relationships to achieve goals.Since his accident, he's mellowed out.He swings from depression because of his prosthetic to joviality as he wears a patch over his left eye and puts a stuffed parrot on his left shoulder.
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LIMITATIONS: His prosthetic leg imposes both a mental and physical limitation for Chad.It serves as a continual reminder that he's not the whole man that he used to be.
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QUIRKS: Chad likes to wear an eyepatch over his left eye and have a stuffed parrot velcroed to his right shoulder for his morale boosting "Captain Redbeard" shenanigans.He also strokes his right ear when he's nervous.
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Soccer, rugby
AMBITIONS: His wife has most of the ambition for the couple.However, Chad would like one day to reach the rank of Admiral and serve as a researcher for StarFleet Command one day.
HISTORY
Childhood
Chad was born to David and Maria Young in Buenos Aires, Argentina on January 4, 2260.He spent the bulk of his life between Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro as his father worked with the South American Energy Consortium (SAEC).Chad became bored easily with the business world.His real passion was sports.Soccer and rugby were his favorites.
He was quite good at both.He received a scholarship to the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Texas at Austin.However, he chose to go the path of the explorer.Tales of wonderful deeds done through the exploration of space intrigued him.Besides, he might get the chance to play soccer and hone his skills on worlds with different gravities than Earth.
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Chad's passion for soccer continued to bloom while at the Academy.In his second year, he became Captain of the Academy's soccer team which won the Federation Cup of 2280, defeating the Andorian team 3-2 in the finals on Chad's game-winning goal in the eighty-eighth minute.
His specialization was in Stellar Cartography.Maps seemed to come naturally to him.He used playbooks from soccer to help him memorize the positions of the stars and their names.Then again, it seemed like everything revolved around soccer for Chad.
U.S.S. Excalibur
Upon graduation, Chad was assigned to the U.S.S. Excalibur.There was little time for soccer as the ship was exploring the Beta Quadrant solar systems in proximity to the Gorn Hegemony and the Metron Consortium.
Unfortunately for Chad's adventurous side, nothing like the happenings with the Enterprise's encounters with these two species happened.Chad had hoped that something strange would happen on this first set of missions, but it wasn't meant to be.It was a typically boring survey mission.
The main attraction during Chad's first year on the Excalibur was their survey of the Anametris system.Anametris VI is a Class-O planet with gravity about 1.5 times Earth standard.The Anametrians were a matriarchial hierarchy with a strong emphasis on athleticism.As customary for Anametrian first-contact protocols, the visiting delegation must prove their athletic ability in eight events.Four of those events must be Anametrian in nature.The remainder are from the visiting delegation's traditions.Chad enthusiastically volunteered to captain the Excalibur's soccer team.When the list of Anametrian events was transmitted, there was a sport much like rugby except that the field was oval in shape.Chad was excited until his department chair reminded him that he'd be running with an extra 80+ pounds.Chad shrugged it off and said he'd be able to hold his own with his weight doubled.It turned out that he was able to do it, but the rest of the Excalibur crew had their difficulties.The Excalibur crew only won one of the eight events.He was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade by Lieutenant Commander Dustin Tell (August 14, 2282), Excalibur's Chief Science Officer for his abilities in Stellar Cartography as well as taking charge in the Anametris mission.He also placed him as the chief of the Stellar Cartography division.
In November 2282, a new member of the Excalibur came aboard, Maria Conchita Gonzales.She took her posting as the bartender in the Excalibur's Avalon Lounge.The two of them started flirting with each other.After a year, Chad proposed during after an amazing candlelight dinner.They were married on April 28, 2284.The couple were quite excited for their time together.His work was the major portion of their pride and joy.Maria helped push Chad to be the best scientist he could be.Their drive and determination paid off when he was promoted to Lieutenant by Captain Carlos Miller on March 12, 2285.He was consequently transferred to the U.S.S. Trinity.
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It was a boring run for Chad.His love was stellar cartography.However, the Trinity was assigned to be the Federation's update wing.Not much in the way of mapping new places as on the Excalibur, but Chad and Maria made the best they could of it.
Deep Space Station K-4
When the boredom of known space got to be too much for Chad, he applied for a transfer which he received in January 2288.He was assigned as Chief Science Officer on Deep Space Station K-4 on January 30, 2288.Being on a fixed space station without much work for the stellar cartographer in Chad was the least of his worries.He made it a priority to get to know each of the CSOs which docked at K-4.
During this time, he became great friends with many of the CSOs in StarFleet.He worked through and found a cure for a plague that infested the station in 2290.His ingenuity and quick action earned him a promotion on March 22, 2290.After another three years of working with various crises both on the station and throughout the Federation, he received another transfer.
U.S.S. Challenger
One of his great friends, Lieutenant Commander Richard Carrington, who had been Chief Science Officer of the U.S.S. Challenger, was promoted to the ship's Executive Officer.The Challenger's commander, Captain Jonathan Thompson, valued his new Executive Officer's opinion about who should replace him as Chief Science Officer and Second Officer.Chad, who he had served with on the Excalibur for a short time and forged a friendship with on K-4, was his top choice.Chad became the Challenger's Chief Science Officer and Second Officer on September 4, 2293.
Seven months into his assignment on the Challenger (April 16, 2294), it was attacked by a Romulan warbird.The ship was destroyed.During the initial volley of the fight, Chad's leg was severed as he was working with chemicals in the Science Lab.A vial of morisemic acid (highly volatile and corrosive) broke on his right leg.The flesh twelve centimeters below his knee and further down was instantly eaten away.Within a matter of moments, the corrosive acid had eaten through the muscles and his femur crumbled.Most of the crew survived the attack and escaped via escape pods to Starbase 10.Seeing that he couldn't walk fast enough, Chad's junior officers in the Science department carried him from the Science lab to the escape pod.On Starbase 10, he was reunited with Maria after surgery.His leg was amputated at the knee to prevent further spread of the acid.He was fitted with a prosthetic leg.
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It was aboard the Monitor and at the behest of Captain Thompson and Commander Carrington that Chad found his fondness of racquetball (a sport which he could be competitive with and not be bothered by his prosthetic ... too much).However, there are other times when he would walk into the Monitor's lounge with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder and demand to be called Redbeard the Pirate.After a year patrolling the Romulan Neutral Zone, Carrington informed Chad that the U.S.S. America was looking for an Executive Officer.Chad didn't think much of it.He was fine as the Second Officer.He didn't feel the need to become an Executive Officer.Howe
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