Lieutenant JG Daniella Fox
Name Daniella Fox
Position Chief Operations Officer
Rank Lieutenant JG
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Betazoid | |
| Age | 27 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5' 4" | |
| Weight | 127 | |
| Hair Color | Dirty Blonde | |
| Eye Color | Black | |
| Physical Description | Dani is short and slim, which helps a lot when she has to get into tight places. She is most comfortable wearing close-fitting clothes in bright colors. Close-fitting so they don't get caught on whatever may be poking out in an access tunnel, Jefferies' tube, or by taking something apart. Bright colors because they're cheerful and stand out from the usual drab-colored work clothes. (When she can get away with it.) |
Family
| Father | Redd Fox (deceased) | |
| Mother | Evangelina Dori (deceased) | |
| Brother(s) | Poul Fox (deceased) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | In spite of her recent past, Dani is cheerful and friendly. However, she is also a bit of an introvert. When she's working on a repair, she tends to tune out others around her—unless she has to pay attention. She often works in silence to focus and to listen to the sounds of the ship around her. She can appear to be quiet and shy, but that's mostly because her work doesn't require much conversation, so she tends to be quiet—especially around people she doesn't know. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: Intelligent, focused, cheerful—even in stressful situations. She believes in being kind. Or walking away. Believes in continually learning new things or new ways to do things. Weaknesses: She is still a bit of an introvert—especially at first. She can get too focused on her work or study. On the plus side, she can often work unnoticed, so she doesn't disturb the work of others while she's making repairs. She is not gregarious. Chocolate. Especially Betazoid chocolate. Her mother insisted they sell only the best chocolate, so she is also a bit of a chocolate snob. Her sense of humor can sometimes come out at the wrong time, but she's working on it. Mostly. She'll put the needs of someone else above her own if the situation requires it. Musical sound checks. Sometimes she'll sing over a comm system to check that it's calibrated correctly. She has a nice voice, but not always the best song choice. (But she thinks so.) |
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| Ambitions | Dani would like to find a place that feels like home. A place where she belongs. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Knitting, reading, climbing. Loves music and will occasionally listen to it while working or just relaxing. Will often sing when she's by herself. Plays the guitar and violin. Likes to cook, when she has the opportunity. Loves chocolate and ice cream. (But not chocolate ice cream.) |
| Personal History | Dani was born and raised on the Barnstormer, her family's Danube-class merchant ship. They bought and sold goods across the Federation, especially to the smaller colonies and outer worlds. Her father was the engineer, mechanic, and tinker. Her mother was an herbalist, knitter, and artist. Her older brother was the pilot. Dani learned to knit and crochet from her mother and would often sit beside her, knitting. But her first love was communications and ship repairs. She would follow her father around, asking questions about what he was doing and how things worked. Slowly, as she was able, her father taught her how to repair various systems, run the comms, fix replicators, and a hundred other things. She enjoyed meeting new people and visiting new places as part of her family's nomadic life. It gave her an appreciation for how varied the people of the Federation and alliance worlds were. She also loves to learn. She is quick to learn and quick to figure things out. This helped her finish her basic education when she was 16. At her father's encouragement, she enrolled in an online college course to get a civilian degree in Applied Starship Systems, with modules in transporter maintenance, interstellar communications, EPS systems, quantum mechanics, probability mechanics, and fabrication/welding. But to complete her degree, she was required to attend a branch of the college in person for her final two years She was reluctant to go, but her parents insisted. They assured her it would give her a better understanding of people as she would have to work with other students and instructors. It would also help her learn more about how to work with people in general, since she rarely had the opportunity to work with others. Her brother told her in private that once she graduated and returned to the ship, he was going to join Starfleet. He'd always wanted to go and finally convinced their parents to take on a partner who could take over his duties and help expand the business. They reluctantly agreed as they weren't going to keep him from following his dream. So, at 18, she packed just enough clothes and her favorite personal possessions and headed for college. Because she always loved basic ship repairs and communications, she chose to study transporter maintenance and repair, interstellar communications, EPS systems, Quantum Mechanics, Probability mechanics, and welding. She already had a good understanding of transporters and communications, which allowed her to enhance her understanding and add advanced mechanics and EPS systems. And, because she wanted to do more with welding than just repairs, she took welding so she could learn artistic welding, just for fun. The first year away was better than she anticipated. Dani made a few friends and they'd get together on weekends to work on assignments and to practice the skills they were learning—although she already knew most of the basic ones. She used that time to help her friends and show them some of the techniques she'd learned from her father. Because of that, their entire group did well with their exams. When she wasn't working with and helping her friends, she preferred to read in the library or enjoy nature by going on hikes or walks. Or she would practice welding animals. Her goal was to see how small she could make the animals before she graduated and still make them recognizable. Shortly before she was to go home for the summer, she got news that her family died in a freak accident. At first she wanted to drop out of school, but she had nowhere to go. Her family had nothing but the ship, and the business that went with it. The school counselor—and her friends—helped her realize that she needed to finish her schooling for her family as well as herself. To complete what she'd started. And her friends reminded her that the only reason they did as well on their finals was because of her help. She spent the summer welding and reading and preparing for her final year. Dani's mourning made her become more reclusive, focusing more intently on her work. Her only real social activity was during the practice and study sessions with her friends. It also made her more diligent in her studies. More determined to do well for her family. She graduated near the top of her class. But her original plans had changed. She didn't want to go back to working on a merchant ship, or a shipyard. She wanted to do something different. By the end of summer, she decided to join Starfleet. At first it was to honor her brother's memory, but she quickly fell in love with Starfleet, its starships and bases. And with the freedom Starfleet would give her. Because she already had a degree, she went into an accelerated program just after her 20th birthday, focusing on starship operations. Specifically, Warp Field Dynamics, Warp Theory, Power Distribution, Structural Integrity, and Warp Core Engineering. She spent evenings learning how to be a Starfleet officer. She also learned the basics of what other departments did—and brushing up on the differences between her college studies and the same fields in Starfleet. It left her little time for socializing, but it kept her so busy that she didn't have time to dwell on her family. She tried to start a new study group, but most of the other students weren't interested in working with a merch. She did make two friends who were in engineering and the three of them helped each other pass their courses. After two years, she graduated with honors and once again, she had to start over. This time, however, it was a little easier to leave her friends and the familiar setting of academia and become a Starfleet officer. The first weeks aboard the Faraday were spent familiarizing herself with the ship and its systems. While she "knew" starships by now, she quickly learned that each starship was slightly different. Each had a personality that was unique. She heard it in the sounds the ship made as she walked the corridors and in the sounds of the ship's engines. She liked to think of it as each ship had its own song and it quickly became familiar. Once she felt comfortable, she began to volunteer whenever someone was needed for extra duty, or to work on a project. She was in the mess hall one afternoon when she heard the engines change timber. She got up and hurried to operations, arriving just before the ship fell out of warp. She paused long enough to officially check in and get orders, then grabbed her tools and went to work. She didn't have anyone to check on or worry about, so her entire focus was on the ship. For the next eight hours, she went from one job to another, sometimes catching a secondary problem with an EPS conduit. She didn't care what the job was. Her focus was on the ship. Only when the Faraday was back at warp did she return to her quarters for a few hours of sleep. The next day she was assigned to a team of ops and engineering personnel tasked with going over the specs to find out what led to the engine failure. It was the first time since the Academy that she had the time to talk over ideas and look at a problem from multiple points of view. After several hours, they discovered that it was a misaligned relay that had been overlooked by both departments as each thought it was the responsibility of the other. That, over time, led to other problems and, finally, engine failure. She learned from the experience. The team suggested procedural changes so that nothing fell through the cracks between the responsibilities of the two departments. That lesson taught her to be more vigilant. When she was transferred to the Gallowglas, she told her chief about the problem on the Faraday and suggested that some cross training might be helpful. Not because there was a problem, but simply because she'd learned so much working with people from other departments that it could be helpful if there was ever an emergency. The chief liked the idea and told her to assemble a team of junior officers and propose a plan. She did. Two weeks later, a team of eight junior officers began to meet every other week to talk and to work on the holodeck together. Since it was her idea and since she was the most eager to see it succeed, she was put in charge. Over the next year, she learned more about starship design and repair and she learned how to work seamlessly with other departments. After a year the team was disbanded and she began to work more in the transporter room and at the communications station on the bridge. After a year there, the chief began assigning rookies to work with her so she could teach them what she'd learned. After three years on the Gallowglas, she was transferred again. This time, her role was to be assistant chief operations officer aboard the USS Resolute. |
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| Service Record | 2390–2394: Civilian college, Applied Starship Systems and Subspace Communications 2394–2396: Starfleet Academy, Accelerated Operations Programme 2396–2397: Operations Officer, USS Faraday 2397–2400: Operations and Communications Officer, USS Gallowglas 2400–2401: Assistant Chief Operations Officer, USS Resolute 2401–Present: Chief Operations Officer, USS Resolute |