Simon Smith

Simon Smith, also called Mercury, was a Human male serving in Starfleet in the early 25th century. He is a unique character due to being from the 21st century. He is also the very few officer in Starfleet to gain field promotion from Ensign to captain and granted to command of a starship. Simon was also was an explorer at heart and Starfleet made his wish come true

Early Life
Simon was Born in 1993 in small growing town of Star City, Nevada, United States. In the year 2021, Simon volunteer to join the first ever mission to Mars when NASA and SpaceX joined together in partnership. After few years of grueling train the time had come for the launch. The space craft was called the New Generations. THe mission began in the year 2025. Using an experimental propulsion system and cryostasis, the New Generation reached Mars in 5 months. When the craft arrived, Simon volunteered to stay behind to monitor communication while the landing team set up base. During that time, Ionic Storm came out of nowhere and hits the craft, destroying communication and the engines. Life support was damage and the craft was drifting away from Mars. Simon survived the storm, but had no way of communicating with the Mars team or Earth. With life support running low, Simon jerry-rigged life support into one cryostasis pod and ran at super low power. He sets a SOS beacon and put himself into cryostasis in hopes that a rescue team would find him.

25th Century
376 years have past, the year is 2401 (Stardate 78142.8). The Federation Starship U.S.S. Columbia (NCC-170147) found his craft adrift in the Gamma Orionis sector. Simon reawake in a very strange place. To his shock, the ship's counselor tells him that he is in the 25th century. Simon was returned to Earth were he meets one of his descendants, who is half human and half El-Aurian Starfleet second year cadet named Naomi Smith. It takes Simon 3 years to readjust to the time and to new alien species, but he was able reintegrate with life. It was at that time that he wanted to join Starfleet, here the words, "To explore strange new worlds and Seek out new life and new civilizations" drew him to join. In 2405, he was accepted into the academy.

Starfleet Academy
Simon joined the engineering division at the academy, and it was not easy. Not only what he was learning was difficult, but being from the 21st century, he was the subject to talk about. While most would ask him what was life like, some would make fun of him. He was a target for pranks. Simon however did make friends in the academy. One was a male Human-Vulcan hybrid name Tu'Cul, who was in the Science division. He embraced his emotion but had logic on par with Spock. Other there were humans males. One who was in the Tactical Division called himself Solar, the other two, who were in the Science division was Jac Chapman and Tony Nicholson. Simon was particularly close to a third year cadet in the Engineering, she was a Vulcan named T'Lu. She was interested in Simon, most notable only human who seemed to control his emotions and that he was unusually quiet for a Human. They had the same lunch time and they would study together. She would tutor Simon until she graduated in 2406 and was assigned to the U.S.S. Venture (NCC-71854). Simon soon rose to the top of his class in his 4th year, He was #3, #2 was Solar and #1 was Tu'Cul. In 2409 (Stardate 86044.8), Simon graduate Starfleet and was assigned to U.S.S. Gotengo (NCC-2025-F) a Sovereign-class Variant under Captain Renald Cameron.

Trial by Fire
In the next few weeks of service, the Gotengo [NCC-2025-F] was called in to assist with Federation fleet that was defending a Borg incursion in the Vega System. Simon was called to report to the bridge as they arrived in a massive battle over the Vega colony. Capt. Cameron orders Simon to beam aboard the USS Khitomer (NCC-66613) to assist in repairs. Simon beam to the damage starship where he met an EMH. Simon fought through the Borg to main engineering, where he helped repaired the warp core and repelled an Borg attack. When he beamed back the Gotengo (NCC-2025-F), we was told that all the senior officers have been killed. Remembering his training, Simon assume command as acting captain. He will able together other officer to assume roles as acting chiefs. He met and female Andorian named Lee'sa who took the role as acting XO and tactical. An male Andorian name J'hak who took role as acting Chief engineer, and female Trill named Elsita as acting Chief Science officer. Simon has the ship rejoin the battle and provided support. They were able to control the Borg incursion along enough to provide assistants on the ground. Simon and Lee'sa beamed down to the planet. Simon was surprised to see that Ens. Tu'Cul, Solar, and Jac Chapman were as well and that they too had a similar problem with taking command of their ships. They formed an team and helped set up a evacuation site and defense line. As the Borg moved in, were able to hold off the Borg long enough until reinforcements arrived. Simon and Lee'sa beamed back up to the Gotengo [NCC-2025-F] but the ship suffered catastrophic damage. Simon orders all crew to escape pods. He along with 381 survivors escaped and was picked up by the USS Constellation (NCC-73606-A) and brought to Earth.

New Command
At Earth Spacedock, Ens. Simon was debrief by Fleet Admiral Jorel Quinn. The admiral was so impressed by what Simon did, he decided to take a chance on the Ensign. He promoted Simon to Captain, he allows him to hand pick officer for his senior staff. Capt. Simon choses Lee'sa to be is XO, J'hak his Chief engineer, Elsita his Chief Science officer. He does more research to find a good Medical officer and security officer. He later meets an female Cardassian and first one to join Starfleet in the medical field name Virginia and makes her the Chief Medical officer, He also has his descendant Lt. Naomi Smith transferred from the USS Yamato [NCC-75808].

After a few weeks have passed, Captain Simon was given his ship. An newly built Odyssey-class star cruiser: USS Gotengo (NCC-2025-G).