Biographical Information
| Homeworld | Earth | |
| Species | Human | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Birth Year | 2370 | |
| Age | 21 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6'0" | |
| Weight | 180 | |
| Hair Colour | Brown | |
| Eye Colour | Hazel | |
| Physical Description | Jonathan is not the most intimidating figure around, at an even six feet tall, he is only slightly above average. He has bulked up a little from when he first entered the Academy, having gained about ten pounds, and he carries all of his one hundred eighty pounds well because it is all muscle, but he hardly has an imposing bulk. However he carries himself with an air of confidence, so it is hard not to notice his presence when he walks into a room. For much of the year, his hair is the color of dark, wet, sand. But, from late spring to early fall the sun lightens it and gives it highlights. It is well within regulations for a cadet but comes close to the maximum length the guidelines allow. His eyes are hazel. Normally they appear greenish brown, but under the right conditions, a certain light or something he wears, even his mood, his eyes can look blue, or gray. He is proud of his uniform and fills it well, but when relaxing with friends or away from class his clothing is stylish but casual. |
Family Data
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Father | Admiral Marcie Forrest-Samuels 50 | |
| Mother | Vice Admiral Jennifer Samuels-Forrest 51 | |
| Brother(s) | None | |
| Sister(s) | Angela Samuels 21 | |
| Other Family | Michael Hall biological father |
Personality Profile
| General Overview | Honor, duty, and integrity are not just empty words to Jonathan, they are words he has chosen to live by. It was inevitable that he would join Starfleet, after all, he is a direct descendant of Maxwell Forrest, one of Starfleet’s first and finest admirals and both his parents were high-ranking officers. His mother Marcie has just become an admiral after a decade or so as a ship’s Captain. His mom Jennifer is a Vice Admiral and an engineer. He has been a Starfleet brat all of his life and has spent time on both ships and starbases alike. His parents were more, often than not on separate billets and he was often left alone for great periods of the day. So, when he wasn’t in class, or spending time with family, he did a lot of exploring and he became thoroughly familiar with a number of different ships and stations. He was able to talk to people from every different department that Starfleet has to offer which has given him a perspective that most cadets don’t have. It also means he can relate to people in those different departments and, growing up, found it easy to make friends with just about everyone. He’s really known nothing but Starfleet and doesn’t care to, he likes the idea of having a career there. He knows it’s not perfect but, he wants to try to make it better. There are a few departments he knows he doesn’t want to go into; medicine, counseling, and science. None of those areas hold any real appeal to him for one reason or the other. His biggest desire is to command a Starship someday. His first choice would be command school. He thinks he has what it takes to succeed there. Flight Control would be his second option. and, they are elated at his choices and are keeping a close eye on him and trying to subtly pull strings for him, even though he wants to do things on his own. The fact that they are trying to help him out, is not a big secret which sometimes makes it hard for him, because fellow students who know about it as well as some faculty and staff may tend to think his achievements are not his own. And his mothers affect his personal life as well. Friend’s motives are often questioned, lovers, there have only been two, interrogated for details, and he has to check in with them far more often than he wants to. That was the reason he chose to go to the Academy Annex on Obsidian Command instead of the Academy in San Francisco. He wanted to be as far away from their influence as possible. While he generally, believes in following rules and the chain of command, he doesn’t do so blindly and is not afraid to ask questions or raise objections when he thinks something is wrong. He can sometimes be a risk taker, a gambler. He is intuitive in his thinking. He enjoys sex, with both genders, but doesn’t want just random hookups. He wants someone to sweep him off his feet, or someone he can fall for that he can sweep off of their feet. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Jonathan is an intuitive rather than an analytical thinker. The fact that his intuition is usually good is a strength and works in his favor. The fact that he relies on it, sometimes to the exclusion of the analytics works against him and is a weakness. He is a very good tactician, thinking well on his feet and able to adapt and overcome. However, he’s not that good of a planner. Navigation and piloting are areas that he is quite skilled in, if he wasn’t looking for a career in command, he would want to fly fighter craft. On the other hand, engineering and science are subjects he struggles with. He is gregarious and a social butterfly, even flirtatious. That makes him good at reading people and making them feel part of the team, but he sometimes has a problem in knowing when to be serious and when not to be. He is confident in his abilities, sometimes overconfident. |
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| Ambitions | His primary goal is to serve with honor and distinction in his personal life and as on officer. Professionally, he would like to command a starship and knows he has the ability to do so. Personally, he wants to find someone to settle down and start a family with (though in the process of looking for Mister or Mrs. Right he’ll settle for Mister or Mrs. Right Now) |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Parrises Squares, Soccer, Poker, Holodeck adventures and romances, reading, extreme sports, Capoeira | |
| Languages | Standard, Kriosian, Betazed |
Personal Relationships
| Family | On the one hand, his mothers have given him a lot of freedom. They didn’t push him into joining Starfleet, he signed up because he wanted to. Growing up, they didn't care who he feel in love or slept with as long as he was careful and happy, and they only ask that he get in at a reasonable hour, though they don’t define what they consider to be reasonable. On the other hand, while they don’t try to squash his love life, they are nosey about it and other matters he would prefer to keep private. And, while they haven’t pushed him towards Starfleet or command, they are elated at his choices and are keeping a close eye on him and trying to subtly pull strings for him, even though he wants to do things on his own. The fact that they are trying to help him out, in his career is not a big secret which sometimes makes it hard for him because when he first started the Academy fellow students who know about it as well as some faculty and staff may tend to think his achievements are not his own. And his mothers affect his personal life as well. Friends' motives are often questioned, lovers, there have only been two, interrogated for details, and he has to check in with them far more often than he wants to. That was the reason he chose to go to the Academy Annex on Obsidian Command instead of the Academy in San Francisco. He wanted to be as far away from their influence as possible. Now that he has graduated he wants to continue to distance himself from their trying to influence things for him. While he earned the opportunity to head a department as a newly minted Ensign all on his own efforts, his mother's did pull a few strings to get him appointed to Highlander. His relationship with his brother became complicated as well, but for a different reason. Both boys were close to each other and shared some common traits, but in many ways, they were very different from each other. When Alex turned twelve, he came out to his family that he really was a girl, trapped in a boy's body By fifteen he had begun hormone treatments and had surgery. By the time she was 18 hormones had worked their magic and Alex is now fully Angela. |
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| Relationships | He considers himself to be pansexual, but only briefly dated a girl once, when he was fifteen. He has had two long-term relationships. Anjar, a Bajoran boy was his first love. They were together for three years through High School. Then there was AJ, a half Deltan, Half Betazoid who he was in a long-term relationship for almost three years with. In both cases, it was Starfleet that "broke them up" he would love to be reunited with either of them. |
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| Friendships | He is still very close with his sister, her fiance Loren, and his former boyfriends. He would also count Captain Knight, the Dean of the Academy Annex on Obsidian Command and Lieutenant Commander Moreau the XO of Obsidian Command that he served under as a Yeoman while on the station. |
Personal History
| Personal History | Jonathan’s mothers met shortly after they both left the Academy and were serving on the Reliant together. They met, fell and love and after something of a whirlwind romance they were married. Like any marriage, they have had their ups and downs, but theirs is a happy relationship. They had been married for five years when they decided to have children. Since both women were stationed together at the time they decided to get pregnant at the same time, using artificial insemination to do so. While both women’s first priority was to have a healthy, happy child, they also wanted that child to be bright with a lot of potential. They selected Michael Hall, a recently retired Admiral in Strategic Operations who, even though he was in his late fifties at the time was in robust health, was highly intelligent with a keen mind for both science and engineering. Jonathan was born first on June 11th and his brother Alex was born three weeks later on June 25th. Michael had no desire to be part of either of the boys’ lives nor did the mothers have any real interest in having him a part of their life. There were long stretches where the family was not altogether, Jonathan was sometimes with his mother Marcie sometimes he was with his mom Jennifer. Sometimes his brother was with him, sometimes not. The two women were able to coordinate leaves and were always together for those times. On a handful of times over the years, they were all together until the last two and a half years, when both women were assigned to Starfleet Headquarters. Most people could have cared less that Jonathan had two mothers, but he would occasionally get comments from nonhuman children that came from a heteronormative culture. He would sometimes get into fights over this when he was younger thinking he’d been slighted or that they were insulting his moms. As he grew older the questions lessened and rather than get in a fight over it when it did he shrugged it off or used words rather than his fists. He would rather use his words to get out of other situations and avoid unnecessary brawls, but is not afraid to throw a punch, or jump into a fight when he thought he should and he’s had to do that a handful of times, usually coming out on top. As he grew older his relationship with his mothers became more complicated. He still loved them, but he began to resent what he considered to be their interference. They would question the motivation of his friends, and while they allowed him to explore his sexuality he’s been with one boy and one girl, they also kept tabs on him and wanted too many details. They weren’t above sharing about his accomplishments; his acing a test or scoring the winning goal in Parrises Squares, or soccer with those who not only wanted to hear but those who didn’t have a lot of interest in hearing. This has put a strain on their relationship and he is glad to be away from them and truly on his own (Though he does have to contact them by subspace radio at least once a week.) His relationship with his brother became complicated as well, but for a different reason. Both boys were close to each other and shared some common traits, but in many ways, they were very different from each other. When Alex turned twelve, he came out to his family that he really was a girl, trapped in a boy's body By fifteen he had begun hormone treatments and had surgery. Now, at 18 hormones have worked their magic and Alex is now fully Angela. While he loved Alex/Angela unconditionally, there was a period of questioning and adjustment. It is one thing for to accept someone who is transsexual, but another when that person was someone you knew for so long as a boy, who has become a girl. Especially when that person is going through the transition. From early on, he was a very social person, a natural leader, and even something of a diplomat. For most of his life, he wasn’t in a regular school. Depending on the size of the ship he was either in a classroom with only a few kids, or he was with a tutor, so he was much more accomplished in dealing with adults. The last three years with his family living in San Francisco, he and his parents decided he should attend a regular, public, High School. The school that they chose was Mission High School, the oldest school in the city that was still in the same location, on Eighteenth street between Mission Dolores and Mission Church. He served on student council all three years and was the Senior Class president. He did well in his classes with a strong, high B average. He also played on the Soccer and Parrises Square teams. At the Academy, he served as a yeoman for the Executive Officer of the station and was able to hone both his piloting and navigation skills as well completing the Command track In his first year at the Academy, he was kidnapped and kidnapped by a group trying to sabotage the station. His life was threatened in an effort to get Angela to comply with their demands. As a result, before he was rescued, he lost both his right hand and an eye and those were replaced by prosthetics. Aside from the hand being nearly indestructible now, they don't enhance his body, they are merely substituties. |
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| Education | Mission High, San Francisco California Earth Earned his shuttlecraft pilot's license, played striker on boy's Varsity soccer squad, reserve on Varsity Parrises Square Team while a sophomore Played in old Terran play West Side Story, continued as a striker for Varsity soccer, earned position as starter on Parrises Square Varsity team as a Junior Helped team win regional championships in both sports. As a junior, he also participated on the Debate Team and the Mock Federation Council Team where they earned Third Place regional Mock Federation Council Team. As a Senior elected class President and helped theMock Federation Council Team win the regional championship. They came in ninth place in North American championship Obsidian Command Academy Annex Command School Flight School Obsidian Command Academy Annex Graduated in the top twenty-five percent of his graduating class, but just barely. Out of the thirty-eight that were in Command School, he was sixth. Out of the fifty-seven in Flight Control, he was number ten. |
Career History
| Starfleet Academy | Obsidian Command Academy Annex Graduated in the top twenty-five percent of his graduating class, but just barely. Out of the thirty-eight that were in Command School, he was sixth. Out of the fifty-seven in Flight Control, he was number ten. |