Lieutenant JG Susan Barret   

Character Information
Name		Susan Arline Barret
Rank		Lieutenant JG
Position		Chief Science Officer
Gender		Female
Species		Human
Age		24
Physical Appearance
Height		5’ 7”
Weight		154 lbs.
Eye Color		Blue-Green
Hair Color		Blonde
Physical Description		Susan prefers to keep her hair loose except when participating in Aikido or gymnastics. Partly due to her martial-arts/ gymnastics training, she has a trim figure and stays in good physical shape.

Personality & Traits
General Overview
Mainly due to her difficult childhood, Susan is a reserved person preferring to keep her personal life to herself. She has few close friends outside her immediate family. She will quickly befriend a person but the relationship seldom will progress beyond simple friendship. While she would generally be described as docile, if pushed Susan will push back, especially when she is tired.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths: Linguistics, Geophysics, Anthropology, Stubborn Weaknesses: Astrophysics, Chemistry, hesitant to express her opinion unless specifically asked to do so, little field experience, stubborn
Ambitions
Find a posting where she can settle down and form lasting relationships
Hobbies & Interests
Pool, kayaking, Aikido, double-jack, gymnastics.
Languages		Federation Standard, Klingon, Vulcan, Latin, Romulan
Family
Father		Gunnery Sgt. Roscoe Barret- USS Tripoli
Mother		Staff Sgt. Ann Barret (Conner)- USS Tripoli
Brother(s)		Lt j.g Dale Barret, USS Halibut
Sister(s)		Laura Barret, 3rd year cadet SF Academy
Spouse		N/A
Children		N/A
Other Family		Keri Barret, George Barret, Jane Simmons, Ann Conner, Richard Conner, Kristi Larson

The middle of three children, Susan was born on the USS Warrego on Aug 22, 2361. In November 2361, the family moved to Starbase G-2 in orbit of Cavari V. Two months after the birth of Laura in 2363, Roscoe accepted a position on the Protector and the rest of the family followed one month later. The pattern of frequent moves continued, so that by the time Susan left for the Academy at age 18, she had lived in fourteen different places including but not limited to, USS Minerva, SB K5, USS Charger and USS Hudson. During the Dominion war the children were shuffled around to various relatives as their parents were deployed to the front lines. While a difficult decision by the parents, they took assignments on separate ships in an effort to perform their duty but increase the chance that one of them would survive the war.

All three children formed close bonds with one another, and became self-sufficient at an early age as a result of the frequent moves and long periods of absence by one or both parents. When not in school, the siblings could often be found on the holodeck playing a friendly game of pool. As they got older the games of pool grew less frequent as they found areas of studies they were interested in and began to immerse themselves in it. For Susan it was the sciences and the Vulcan language. As a result by the time she enrolled in Starfleet Academy, Susan was able to fluently speak Vulcan.

 

In 2380, Susan decided not to follow her brother into the Marine Corps, instead enrolling in Starfleet Academy with a major in Science and a minor in Communications. For language study she chose Romulan due to it's connection to Vulcan. Continuing that trend, Susan started studying Klingon her third year at the Academy. Despite average grades throughout her first three years, she rallied her last year at the Academy to place 75 out of a class of 240.
Susan was slow to warm up to her roommate, Kirsten Wagner, but by graduation the two of them were close friends. Growing up on Earth, Kirsten was an avid kayaker and the two would often spend free time running a kayaking program at one of the holosuites on campus. Upon graduation the two took a month off, travelling to the premiere kayaking spots on Earth. When the month was over, Kirsten left for the Dragon while Susan moved to the Defense Language Institute to continue her study of Klingon. Upon completion at the DLI she was assigned to DS 14.