Lieutenant JG Rebecca Bluegarden
Name Rebecca Bluegarden
Position Helmsman
Rank Lieutenant JG
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 29 | |
| Birthdate | June 22, 2239 | |
| Aliases / Nicknames | Becca, Becky, BB | |
| Theme Song | "Remember Me" - Leslie Parrish |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'4" | |
| Weight | 118 lbs | |
| Hair Color | blonde | |
| Eye Color | blue | |
| Physical Description | Despite her relatively short stature, Rebecca is said to have an hourglass figure. It's something she has worked hard to achieve, as she still regularly works out, a carryover from her days as a stock car driver. Rebecca has waist length wavy blonde hair which she keeps fashioned with a red clip on the left side of her head. |
Family
| Father | Bradford Bluegarden | |
| Mother | Lucy Bluegarden (deceased) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Rebecca is friendly and bubbly, a result of her southern upbringing. As a result, she can be a bit too trusting at times. She also has an impulsive streak, best seen in her notorious "lead foot" | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | +Kind and Cheerful -Can be too trusting -Has a lead foot |
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| Ambitions | Rebecca's ambitions are to become a Chief Helmsman one day. She has enjoyed being a Helmsman, but she would like to career develop to a more managerial role. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | -Antique stock car racing -Her mother's Hudson Hornet -Her family's racing museum -Singing and dancing -Chatting with others, especially when off duty -Swimming |
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| Religion/Guiding Philosophy | Lutheran |
| Personal History | Rebecca Bluegarden was born and raised in Ocala, Florida. Only 75 miles away from her "spiritual home" of Daytona Beach. Her father was a Starfleet Science Officer who was often away on assignment. As such, Rebecca grew close to her mother, who was a racecar driver, fielding a 1951 Hudson Hornet in a historical society which sought to preserve and recreate mid-20th century stock car racing. One of Rebecca's earliest memories was helping clean her mother's trophies, being told that she too was destined for great things when she followed in her mother's footsteps. However, Lucy Bluegarden would not live to see her daughter do so, for when Rebecca was just 7 years old, Lucy was involved in a last lap crash at her home track of Daytona. Despite being beamed directly to Halifax Medical Center, Lucy was declared dead on arrival. All the more heartbreaking was that young Rebecca was at the track that day, and witnessed the crash that claimed her mother's life. A friend of Lucy's had the difficult task of accompanying a devastated Rebecca home that night. After the accident, Rebecca's father wanted to scrap what was left of his late wife's car. However, Rebecca wouldn't let him, vowing to restore the car to its former glory, however long it took. Ultimately, it took Rebecca 9 years to fully restore her late mother's car, with the help of some of her late mother's friends from the historical society, who said they had never seen a kid so committed to preserving their parent's memory. When the Hudson was roadworthy again, Rebecca was 16, old enough to compete in races hosted by the historical society, so she did just that: In the four years she competed, Rebecca won several races, adding her own trophies to her mother's. She knew with each new trophy she added that her mother would be proud. However, when Rebecca was 20, she was involved in a crash at Talladega which scarily resembled her mother's fatal crash all those years ago. Even though Rebecca survived, for her father, nearly losing his daughter was the last straw: He came home as soon as word of the crash reached him and told his daughter to forget stock car racing, because like it or not, she was signing up for Starfleet. Rebecca's early tenure at Starfleet was... Rough, to say the least: She was highly rebellious, a side effect of having been forced into Starfleet against her will, and her poor grades reflected her sentiments. However, she had a come to Jesus moment in her sophomore year when her father took a leave of absence to visit Starfleet Academy to check up on her. Instead of berating her for having bad grades, he listened to Rebecca vent her deep-seeded frustrations, and instead of calling her ungrateful, he told stories of all the good he had done in his Starfleet service. Bradford and Rebecca connected on a level they never had before, and when Bradford's leave was up, Rebecca was willing to give Starfleet another chance, selecting helm as a major within the Operations division. The rest of Rebecca's Academy tenure passed without further incident, and she graduated from the Academy in 2263 at the rank of Ensign, and was assigned to the USS Hornet. Rebecca spent two years aboard the Hornet (where she developed a bad habit of overspeeding the ship) before she was reassigned to the USS Yorktown. When she arrived, a familiar face was waiting for her, as the Yorktown had recently been given to a newly-promoted Captain Bradford Bluegarden. While honored to serve on her father's ship, Rebecca's bad habit of overspeeding followed her from the Hornet, and it was something her father would often reprimand her. Still, she spent three years on the Yorktown, earning herself a promotion to Lieutenant JG in that time. However, in early 2268, Bradford sat Rebecca down, and together they had a lengthy conversation: The Yorktown only had a few more years left before she was to be withdrawn from active service. For what, the captain was not at liberty to say, not even to his own daughter. However, Rebecca was told that if she wanted to further her career on her terms and not Starfleet's, then it would be in her best interests to begin searching for other helm openings in the fleet. And so, later in 2268, Rebecca found a promising opening aboard the USS Midway, a newer Constitution class starship. With her father's blessing, Rebecca put in her transfer request. |
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| Service Record | 2259-2263: Starfleet Academy (Operations - Major in Helm) 2263-2265: USS Hornet (Ensign - Helmsman) 2265-2267: USS Yorktown (Ensign - Helmsman) 2267-2268: USS Yorktown (Lieutenant JG - Helmsman) 2268-present: USS Midway (Lieutenant JG - Helmsman) |