Petty Officer 1st Class Gabriel Stark
Name Gabriel Stark
Position Security Officer
Second Position N/A
Rank Petty Officer 1st Class
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Human | |
| Place of Birth | England, Earth | |
| Age | 28 | |
| Date of Birth | 2363 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'11'' | |
| Weight | 155 Ibs | |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown | |
| Eye Color | Dark Brown | |
| Physical Description | Tall and slender, Gabriel has a lithe body and is quick with it. Dark hair and dark eyes seem particularly rich in colour next to his pale skin. He has fine, aristocratic features that some people have teased cross the line from being handsome to pretty, a comment not always taken kindly. Gabriel has a tattoo of a stylised black feather on his shoulder blade, and another on his hip. He always wears a small, gold cross, with a single, small diamond in the middle around his neck.     |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Mother | Selina Stark, Socialite | |
| Father | Laurance Stark, Politician | |
| Siblings | Older brother: Michael Stark, Politician | |
| Other Family | Uncle: Owen Stark, Politician Nephew: Harry Stark, 6 |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Gabriel is a man that can swing between different emotional states quickly. On the one hand, he is a sensation seeker, enjoying and craving anything that heightens the senses. He is deeply passionate and fiery in nature, in all areas of life, with just as much warmth, protectiveness and generosity for those he is close to, and a fierce sense of loyalty to match. On the other side of it though, that depth of passion can be a struggle. He has a quick temper that can flare without much warning, and a deep well of anger to go with it. He recognises that it is not a good trait, and has struggled with it for years, particularly through the Academy. His sense of injustice is heightened, and his temper will always fly if he believes there has been unfair, unpleasant or even abusive treatment of someone. He is a highly intelligent young man, which can spell problems. Problems can become overthought, turning over and over in his mind, but it can also be useful when a detailed and thorough approach is required. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: He is highly intelligent with a high capacity for learning new things and a photographic memory to help. He is a skilled fighter, especially in hand to hand disciplines, from boxing and taekwondo to out and out brawling. He was also a champion fencer at the Academy, although he has not had need for that skill in his work. He has a high energy and stamina level. Weaknesses: He has a quick and fiery temper that has gotten him into trouble more than once. He has become better in recent years since the Academy, however he often struggles with it, despite his best efforts. Although he can have swings of high energy he can also have swings of low energy and mood. The intelligence and energy can cause him to have an overactive mind. His passion and fire can sometimes make it difficult to let things go if he believes in them. His engineering skills are low in comparison to others. |
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| Ambitions | He has few long term goals and instead focuses on trying to get each day right. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Bars and clubs, dancing, drinking, boxing, taekwondo, fencing, sailing, languages and reading, piano, violin, guitar, drums, making wooden models. |
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| Languages Spoken | English, Japanese, Russian, Cardassian, Vorta, Bajoran, Orion dialect, some Romulan dialect |
| Background | Little is known of Gabriel’s youth and personal life. He grew up as the second son to a father who is a prominent politician, and his mother a well known socialite who furthered his cause. Despite public attention to the high profile family, they went to great pains to use security, minders and lawyers to ensure that the family private life remained private. Still, some of Gabriel’s teenage behaviour managed to reach the press. His sensation seeking, joyful and high behaviour, as well as other times when he was being sent to clinics for lower moods. Incidents of his temper breaking out also reached the press, something that troubled Gabriel from his younger teenage years onwards. He was pictured, from time to time, sailing just off the coast alone, or often in bars and clubs, but mostly the protective ring around the family drew in close around him to screen him from the outside world. A lot was made of his rivalry with his older brother and that he seemed to be a flourishing linguist to keep up with his brother’s own skill in languages. He was reported to have been assessed as a highly intelligent young man, and it was suggested that it was a contributing factor to his sometimes unbalanced mental health. It was further reported that he performed well with high scores in his lessons and schooling and exams, which was indeed the case. One public flare up between father and son seemed to stem over the fact that Gabriel wanted to leave home and go to university and his father wanted him to go straight into public service, to give him a good grounding to follow in his footsteps, as he had done for his father, and he his before that. The pressure, coming from a long line of politicians, ambassadors, diplomats, dignitaries, had been immense. In the end, they compromised. Gabriel agreed to join Starfleet. He’d still have a thorough education in their 4 year officer programme, but then he would serve for at least 5 years. It was clear that Gabriel wasn’t someone who had joined out of love for Starfleet or a particular want to be an officer. That, combined with his swinging moods and fiery temper made him a difficult cadet. The rumour was that he had only been accepted because his father had made sure of it, because although his aptitude and intelligence tests came out very high, his psych tests spelled trouble. He was clearly a troubled young man, with a well of anger in him, a temper he found difficult to control, and with fits of euphoric and energetic happiness with the world, but then fits of doubt and struggle against darker thoughts. He had little trouble with the academic part of the Academy, in fact, the parts that were a problem revolved around either being bored, or his wild behaviour getting him in trouble with the staff, be it flying off the handle with an Instructor or fellow cadets, or going off site for a night out in a bar or club that ended with a very intoxicated young cadet. One of his Instructors, Anderson, wasn’t as quick to dismiss the young man. Despite calls to expel Gabriel from the Academy, Anderson, recognised the need to focus his energy. He was intelligent, and had the energy to go with it, it was a combination that could do well. He just needed help. At first, Gabriel was sceptical of Anderson’s interest in him and resisted it. But slowly, he started to listen. When Anderson suggested he get involved in the extra-curricular activities, he laughed it off, but Anderson pointed out that if he was going to kick off at people anyway, he may as well learn to focus that aggression positively. Gabriel took up boxing and loved it. Anderson then put him into the taekwondo class, not accepting no for an answer. Again, although unsure at first, Gabriel grew to love it. By the end of the first year, he was in the Academy team for both fencing and taekwondo and had competed in the friendly boxing tournament. Gabriel finally opted to be trained up as a Security and Tactical officer, much to the surprise of the instructors who had been keen to push him into intelligence or science with his aptitude for learning. But he was determined he wanted something physical rather than desk bound, knowing it was the physical exertions that kept him at least partly level headed in burning off his excess energy and aggression. Anderson sponsored him for it, seeing that it had done the young cadet a world of good. Slowly, his successes at the Academy had a positive effect on Gabriel. He became a much more controlled young man. Still sometimes wild, unsteady and prone to losing his temper...but on the whole, it had helped smooth down some of his edges into someone who could work as an officer, who could take orders without him having to treat it as a struggle for control, and do it well. Just when things seemed to be getting better for Gabriel, he went out to a local bar and messed it up for himself. He’d been having a bad day, his mood on a down swing. He used both drugs and alcohol to try and alleviate it. When other cadets, also on the drink, started the taunts at him, he struggled to keep his temper. It almost turned into a fight, but a friend of Gabriel’s managed to pull him back. Later that evening, when the group started harassing a friend of his, Gabriel’s temper well and truly flared. He started a fight with one of them, which grew into a full on bar brawl. The night ended with a lot of reprimands given out to a whole load of cadets. However, for Gabriel it was much worse. He’d started it. He already had warnings and reprimands on file for similar things, along with a warning from the local authorities after a complaint of assault from a similar bar fight...and a bloodtest result that showed illegal substances in his system. Gabriel was thrown out of the Academy and given a prison sentence of 1 year. He served it all, and found it just as difficult after, with nothing to do or focus on. He drifted for a year, with no idea what to do with himself. He was shocked when he received a visit from an Admiral. He was offered a place back in the Academy, but in the enlisted course rather than the officer course. He took it, seeing it as the second chance it was. Rumours flew that it was his father’s influence, but in truth, it was Anderson...and the fact that security and tactical personnel were needed with growing hostilities ahead. Anderson read him the riot act. He told him in no uncertain terms how stupid he had been, how he’d wasted everything he’d worked for. Gabriel simply agreed. Anderson wasn’t saying anything that he hadn’t already thought for himself while imprisoned. They worked hard together, getting him back on track in his 1 year enlisted training. Anderson took the final step during the year of training and approached a delicate subject. He could see the young man was troubled. He wasn’t just kicking off for the sake of it, he wasn’t just wild to be insolent. There was something deeper, in him, that was causing the struggle, he could see it. He told Gabriel to enrol himself in counselling and medical sessions, to try and help him get along in Starfleet. Gabriel, inevitably, flew off the handle at the suggestion. When Anderson snapped him back down out of his anger, he tried to explain that he thought it could do him good, and that if he thought he was hard, he should wait until a Captain had a go at him. He also pointed out that it would look better on his record if he volunteered rather than being ordered to it after some silly brawl in a bar. And if he did lose his temper, he could show he was at least trying to remedy it. Which was true. Gabriel was sick of not being able to control his own emotions. He struggled a lot with it, constantly trying to keep his temper in check. His slips weren’t for lack of trying. He finally agreed to do the sessions. The evaluations agreed with what Anderson had thought, that there were deeper rooted problems that were causing the behaviour in the young man, and that extra help would be beneficial. As he graduated and went out into the Fleet, he was also instructed to have continuous counselling and medical sessions, to try and help him keep on a more even keel. Gabriel hated it. He didn’t often find a counsellor he could get on with, and he hated Sickbays and being poked at by doctors. It was almost a fear. He did well in his work though, proving to be a great Security crewmember who worked hard and got the job done, as well as a talented tactician with a sharp and intelligent mind to wrap around the problems presented. Much to the shock of many people, he was promoted twice in a relatively short amount of time due to his exemplary work ethic and ability. And while he still struggles with his demons, and still slips up from time to time, he’s proving that he can also contribute well to the Fleet. As a result, Gabriel decided to apply for advanced weapon/combat and advanced hazard team/rapid response training. He was pretty shocked when he was accepted into the programme. He left ship service for several months in order to undergo the training. It was harsh and difficult, a real slog both physically and mentally. He considered quitting a number of times, battered down by the relentless style of the instructors that grated against his temper. However, his stubbornness saw him through and after successfully completing the extra training, he was sent back out to serve on a ship, the USS Fenrir. |
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| Service Record | 2382-2383 – Starfleet Academy, Officer Training, Security/Tactical 2383 – Imprisoned for 1 year 2385 – Starfleet Academy, Enlisted Training, Security/Tactical 2385-2387 – USS Highlander, Security/Tactical, Crewman 2387-2388 – USS Ironside, Security/Tactical, Petty Officer Third Class 2388-2389 – USS York, Security/Tactical, Petty Officer Third Class 2389-2390 – USS Galileo, Security/Tactical, Petty Officer Second Class-Petty Officer First Class 2390-2391 - Advanced weapon/combat and advanced hazard team/rapid response training 2391-Present - USS Fenrir, Security/Tactical, Petty Officer First Class |
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| Medical History | He is to have mandatory regular counselling and medical sessions to give continued support to his problems. His file is littered with evidence of countless injuries that he’s had healed or allowed to heal naturally over time. |