John Branson (The New Generation)

John Martin is a Human male who lives in the 24th century and services in the Federation, Starfleet as first the First officer then in 2380 he was later promoted to the rank of Captain and given the commanding officer position of the flagship of the Federation fleet the , after the promotion of Jean-Luc Picard to the rank of Commodore. (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
==Personnel file==
==Biography==
===Early life===
John Martin was born in 2333 in San Diego, California on Earth. His mother was Admiral Maria Martin. John moved to Starbase 39-Sierra along the Romulan Neutral Zone during peace time with the Romulan Star Empire while Maria was stationed on the Klingon outpost Narendra III. While on a mission to keep the treaty enforced, the outpost suddenly came under attack by four Romulan warbirds, while on the outpost, his mother was wounded.
==Starfleet career==
===Starfleet Academy===
In 2350, at age 17, he entered Starfleet Academy. Then he met his best friend Typhuss James Halliwell in his command class one day and the two became best friends, brothers even, John worked together with Typhuss to get their work done and then Martin and Typhuss graduated in 2354.
===Earth's Moon/Mars Run===
Martin's first posting was on the old Moon-Mars run under Captain Jack Maynard. Martin and Maynard became close friends, nicknaming each other "Swamp Rat" and "Stinky" and getting into (and out of) several sticky situations together.
===USS Lexington===
Lieutenant was offered a post as tactical officer and security officer of the USS Cairo. He turned down the offer out of loyalty to his then-current Captain Roger Stearns, and because he was uncomfortable with the commanding officer of the Cairo.
While fighting in the Federation-Cardassian War Martin was chief helm officer on board the under the command of Captain Roger Stearns on the ship he made some really good friends like William Parmenter he even met chief petty officer Miles O'Brien.
When the Lexington and her battlegroup were ambushed by a battlegroup of Cardassian warships that took out the entire fleet and left the Lexington heavily damaged, Captain Stearns was killed in the ambush when a support beam struck him and pinned him to the bulkhead killing him forcing Ensign Martin to take command of the ship coming up with a plan to get the large Cardassian cruiser. By mining the asteroid field and they destroyed the cruiser but the Lexington had suffered too much damage to her engine core forcing Ensign Martin to order all hands to abandon ship.
After the destruction of the Lexington Martin and half of the surviving crew were taken on different ships, as he was posted to the commanded by Captain Jane Mitchell, and kept fighting in the war.
===USS Kansas===
===USS California===
===USS Enterprise-D===
In 2370 he was posted onboard the Enterprise-D as a assistant tactical officer with the rank of Lieutenant, under the teaching of Lieutenant Worf he learned a lot from Worf and the two became good friends and brothers, Lieutenant Martin fell in love with Sito Jaxa but when he heard Picard announcing Sito's death it tore him up and he requested a transfer to Deep Space 9 and Picard granted the transfer in 2371.
===Deep Space 9===
In 2371, Lieutenant Martin transferred to the Federation/Bajoran Space Station Deep Space Nine serving under the command of Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko. He had a great assignment there got to meet interesting and new lifeforms that came through the Bajoran Wormhole, and made new friends and was still annoyed that the Cardassians can come and go as they pleased with anything happening to them.
Then in 2373 John saw his first taste of war since the Federation-Cardassian War in 2356-2359, and he fought along side his comrades in every battle they faced the Dominion in.
Then in 2375 he transferred to the USS Wraith, a vessel.
===USS Wraith===
In 2377, Lieutenant Commander John Marti was posted onboard the USS Wraith under the command of Captain Jonathan Yunker and he had a very interesting assignment onboard the vessel, it wasn't till he was reported by the Chief Science officer Lieutenant Commander Audrey Hunter of "harassment" and he was reprimanded for it and came close to be demoted to Lieutenant but Captain Yunker couldn't ignore John's impressive service record and his duty to the Federation so he requested that he puts in for reassignment or dishonorable discharge from Starfleet.
Commander Martin chose reassignment and it was placed to the one ship he knew would take him the .
===USS Enterprise-E===
In 2378 Commander Martin was posted to the as first officer after the departure of newly promoted Captain William T. Riker and Commander Deanna Troi to the USS Titan a vessel, Commander Branson served as first officer onboard the Flagship of the Federation battlegroups from 2378-2380.
In 2380 the Enterprise was ordered to return to Earth and report to Starfleet Command after the ship gets back both Commander Martin and Captain Picard beam to Starfleet Command and they entered it and John finds out that he's being promoted to Captain and been given command of the Federation Starship .
==Personal history==
===Friends===
===Kira Nerys===
===Jadzia Dax===
===Julian Bashir===
===William T. Riker===
===Deanna Troi===
===John Tyson===
===Relationships===
===Elizabeth Shelby===
While attending Zefrane Cochrane High School John helps a new student Elizabeth Shelby with her classes and studies after school at his parents house, and they fell in love and had sex and years later Elizabeth informs him that she's pregnant with Sarah Martin and she and John decide to keep the baby after Shelby's parents find out about it they backed them and helped them when they needed it and after high school they lost contact with each other cause her parents moved to Mars colony.
===Sito Jaxa===
Lieutenant Martin fell in love with Sito Jaxa but when he heard Picard announcing Sito's death it tore him up and he requested a transfer to Deep Space 9 and Picard granted the transfer in 2371.
===Kira Nerys===
After the Dominion War ended and Odo returned to the great link to cure his people John and Kira got closer and they went on a few dates, and attempted to have kids of their own but nothing came of it and in 2377 after the return of the Kira and John broke up as an agreement and she when with his best friend.
===Jessica Smith===
==Starfleet service record==
==Trivia==
==Notes==
===Background information===
*Branson is played by the series creator who replaced Captain Picard as commanding officer of the Enterprise-E, unlike the Enterprise's third commanding officer Captain Edward Jellico Branson is a fatherly figure for the crew and will listen to suggestions from the crew if something isn't going the way he expected it to.
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