Charlie Morgan

Charles Francis Morgan V was a male Human who lived during the 24th and 25th centuries. He served in Starfleet as transporter chief of the and held the rank of petty officer second class as of 2410.
Prior to the Vengeance, Charlie served as operations officer and later as transporter chief of the .
== Appearance ==
== Personality ==
Charlie had a rather vulgar vocabulary. He would often use terms such as "bloody", "bloody hell", or "bastard".
=== Traits ===
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Charles Morgan V was born on 24 August 2386 in , , Earth to Francis Morgan.
=== Starfleet ===
Charlie did not attend Starfleet Academy and instead joined Starfleet as a non-commissioned officer.
Charlie was assigned to the  in 2407 as a non-commissioned junior officer. He spent most of the next two years "performing one random task after another" until he finally found a position that he enjoyed.
==== Federation-Klingon War ====
===== Klingon assault on the Leviathan =====
On , after most of the senior staff were killed by a Klingon boarding party, Charlie was brought by Julia Cromwell to the where he volunteered to fill in as operations officer temporarily. Jason Fredricks instead told him to take the .
:In an alternate timeline, Charlie accompanied an to the , which had been attacked and boarded by the Borg. He helped Jason transport several s into space and destroyed some of the tech the Borg were installing in the ship on the way to .
===== Borg invasion =====
Less than a day later (), Charlie introduced the Leviathans new permanent tactical officer to Jason. After that, he assumed his role at ops.
Charlie helped coordinate evacuation efforts of the Federation colony on Vega IX, which was under invasion by the Borg. He had briefly objected to an away team beaming down to Vega to begin the evacuation as it would be in violation of their orders from Captain Vo'Lok of the . Nevertheless, he went along with Jason Fredricks' decision. He and Lucas Wells brainstormed on what might be inhibiting signals upon learning that they could not transport any civilians off the planet. Although Charlie named several possible causes for failing transporters, Lucas believed that the Borg were directly responsible. Charlie, along with the rest of the crew, was quite relieved when the main Borg forces were pushed out of the Vega system by Starfleet.
===== Orion pirates =====
For the following week, Charlie tried to get accustomed to the beds on the Leviathan, but he found them to be rather uncomfortable. This even caused him to be late for at least one duty shift.
On , Charlie was forced to oversee repairs on the s after a power surge on Deck 4 ruptured numerous conduits and knocked main power offline. Tala Jones, who had been left in command, pressured him to meet a very short deadline, because the ship's away team was in danger and transporters were required to retrieve them. A young engineer named Leo Anderson offered to help, to Charlie's relief. The duo worked as quickly as they could, and after a slight mishap, power was restored. With the situation becoming more dire by the second, Charlie and Leo had to divert emergency power to the transporters so that the entire away team could be retrieved.
===== Undine infiltration and Klingon listening posts =====
Charlie was present during the mission to escort Sokketh to P'Jem on . He suggested weapons targeting attacking Klingon vessels in the P'Jem system as soon as they began to in the hopes that their s would still be inactive. This proved to be an effective strategy.
On , Charlie accompanied an away team to a Klingon listening post in the Paulson Nebula. Along the way, he saved Jason from a Klingon's grasp during a close quarters fight in one of the corridors. When the team entered the main control room, they were ambushed by the remaining Klingons, and Charlie sustained a blast to the leg. Though he was constrained to take cover near some crates, Charlie continued to provide cover fire for the rest of the team. He returned to the Leviathan with the rest of the away team once the mission was successfully completed.
On , while running a computer diagnostic to improve sensor efficiency, Charlie, Ernie Hauser, and Elisa Flores discovered an unauthorized message had been relayed from inside the Leviathan to an unknown external source. He later helped locate a Klingon listening post in the Bomari system. This time, he remained on board the Leviathan. Tala briefly left Charlie in command while she attended to a disturbance caused by Lucas in the . Just before he took a seat in the , he was informed that Jason had returned to the ship.
===== Gorn hostage crisis =====
Charlie was reassigned to oversee operations in the s and s on . New officer Dylyp Azeli inherited his former position of chief of operations.
===== Peace talks with the Klingons =====
On , Charlie transported Jason, Tala, Lucas, Dylyp, and a small security detail to a diplomatic conference on Regulus IV.
===== Devidian resurgence =====
During a mission to the Donatu system on , Charlie was instructed to be ready to transport an away team back from the True Way vessel Axon at a moment's notice due to a Devidian presence on the vessel.
===== B'vat's planet killer =====
On , Charlie was tasked with keeping a transporter lock on K'Valk while K'Valk piloted a into the "mouth" of a . Charlie was unfortunately unable to transport K'Valk off the shuttle due to interference from the planet killer's armor, as well as B'vat's fleet.
===== Nimbus III =====
On , Charlie transported Jason's away team down to Nimbus III, just outside Paradise City. He later beamed emergency supplies, rations, and security teams to Paradise City on Jason's orders as a gesture of good will. After the Leviathans battle with Hassan the Undying's dreadnought over Nimbus III, Tala told Charlie he could transport the away team back up.
==== Romulan front ====
Following the mission to Nimbus III, Charlie received a promotion to petty officer second class.
Shortly after 1 January 2410, Charlie reported to the , his next assignment. He met Lieutenant Phan Quang Chí, who told him some of the history of the Vengeance. Chí then showed Charlie to his quarters.
== Relationships ==
=== Crewmates ===
Charlie did not seem to have many close relationships with his fellow crewmates on the , but he got along with several of them.
==== Lucas Wells ====
On one occassion, Charlie was put off by Lucas and another crewman speaking in Spanish on the . He did not seem to hold any resentment despite his assumed prejudice, however, as he later enthusiastically agreed with Lucas on a comparison he made between the behavior of the Klingons and the Gorn.
The two had a working professional relationship; they both brainstormed on what could be preventing the Leviathans s from working at Vega IX when the Borg attacked the Federation colony.
==== Ernie Hauser ====
Charlie and Ernie had a good relationship. On one occasion, they worked together to improve sensor efficiency on the Leviathan. This led to them discovering an unauthorized transmission that was sent from within the ship to an unknown location.
Charlie told Dylyp Azeli – when the latter had first come aboard the Leviathan – that Ernie was the "best navigator" in all of Starfleet.
==== Dylyp Azeli ====
Charlie and Dylyp met when Dylyp came to relieve Charlie from his position as operations officer. Charlie immediately commented on how "proper" Dylyp spoke, comparing him with a Vulcan. Charlie began acting very casually around Dylyp shortly after, seemingly showing he had already warmed up to him. He also believed that Dylyp had a "good head on his shoulders".
==== Leo Anderson ====
During a crisis, Charlie bonded a bit with Leo. Because the chief engineer was off the ship, Charlie was tasked with repairing s that had been damaged by a power surge. Leo offered help to Charlie since he was more familiar with the systems on the ship. Charlie happily obliged, and was very impressed by how efficiently Leo worked, stating that he had a "bright career" in front of him. He later complimented Leo again after it seemed the damage to the Leviathan had been repaired, and once more when power was fully restored.
== Appendices ==
=== Background and trivia ===
*Charlie did not have a first name in the original draft of . He was added to the chapter as simply an extra member of Jason Fredricks' to the . CaptFredricks liked him enough to keep him as a recurring character and again included him in .
*Chronologically, Charlie's first appearance is in (chapter 1), but by publish order, he first appeared in "Stranded in Space" (chapter 3). This discrepancy was caused by the 2014 rewrite of chapters 1 and 2.
*Charlie was originally meant to be from , but CaptFredricks decided to make him British instead.
*Charlie originally introduced himself as an ensign in "The Price of Liberty". This was changed in a 2020 revision of the chapter. He now holds the rank of crewman first class. He is still referred to as an ensign in "Khitomer Crisis".
*Charlie didn't appear in until a 2021 revision of the chapter.
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