I’m not entirely planning on winning here, but this is probably the greatest opportunity to share the bio I've had on my character since inception. So here it goes:
Born on Earth from a Trill mother and Human father Justin Matthew Jovanisen lived quite a normal life. His dreams and aspirations early in childhood included joining Starfleet and captaining his own vessel. He played make-believe with a few of his friends to this end and, of course, he was the captain. Although it was a game to most, he took it as training for his future endeavors
The basement of his parent cottage served as the bridge of the USS CandyCane (a name created spontaneously by his sister.) According to the schematics of the ship, it only had three decks. The basement served as decks one and two with a hung sheet to separate them. The bathroom (head) had its own deck, upstairs and to the left. It was given that one must make the ‘whoosh’ noise as you pass under the sheet.
Con was an old style school desk, a wicker chair as the captain’s chair, and a board covering two sawhorses served as tactical and science. The ancient 386 computer was the most recent upgrade from crayon drawn consoles. Sickbay was stuffed onto the second deck right next to the brig (which was occupied frequently), and 2-forward. The second deck also had what can only be described as a generic space which was used as a science lab, holodeck, armory, crew quarters, transporter room, shuttle bay, engineering (most of the time), phaser room (not kidding here, there was a room dedicated to phasers), cargo bay, nacelle operations, and hide and seek spot. All of which were staffed by whatever friend was over at the time. Field commissions were handed out liberally.
Away missions were always a given. The equipment for them was not so much up to Starfleet regulations. Tricorders were made out of creatively colored pieces of wood, a broken TI-96, and an old speak-and-spell. Water guns served as phasers. It was a known fact that the medical officers aboard the ship performed miracles for he and his friends died a lot. Mostly from lego-laden borg equipped with wrapping paper tubes and tongs. Additionally, the USS CandyCane exploded more than 26 times. After that he ran out of letters and didn’t care anymore.
In a dramatic twist, an emergency procedure saw him joined to the Zov symbiont when he was only 19. After a traumatic two years he felt ready to start his Starfleet career. Starfleet agreed. Through the difficult task of sorting his memories from those of the previous hosts he changed his name to Rand.
