Tim Thompson

Ensign Tim Thompson is the Transporter Chief on the USS Odyssey.
== Background ==
Tim Thompson was born October 16th, 2393 (?) to Dr. Bob Thompson, a human engineer, and Veyova Rex, a Betazoid physicist. The two of them met at a bar on Risa after Bob somehow managed to mix up baryons and boron in an explanation of particle buildup in ships that often went to high warp and Veyova just had to step in. After one-upping one another over a few drinks, they became fast friends, and after a coincidental reassignment to the same ship a little while after that, something more. Starfleet legend has it that Veyova and Bob were known throughout their ship for being overall pretty decent at their jobs, more or less.
So, Tim himself was born a nerd, one might say, right on Earth. To be more precise, he was born a stone’s throw from Starfleet Academy’s main campus himself, and was known in his by the time he was old enough to wander around town mostly unsupervised to occasionally sneak onto campus in his free time and try to sit in on some of the lectures. (He didn’t actually retain very much, past a certain awe at the capabilities of modern science. It turns out if you put a nine-year-old in an Advanced Subspace Geometry lecture, you don’t get a budding expert, you get a nine-year-old with a headache, and that was just in the 5 minutes on average it usually took before someone tried to politely escort him off the premises.) He did visit Betazed every other summer or so, but never stayed longer than a week at a time, and so never really developed any strong connections there past his mom’s side of the family. As for his inherent empathy, training in how to get a handle on it came in equal parts from his mom, long-range comms with his mom’s family, and occasional group classes at the Betazed Embassy.
When it came to going to normal school, classes actually appropriate for his age and skill level, Tim was a strong student. Not quite the tip-top of the class, but highly motivated and never in danger of scraping the midline, let alone the bottom. Behaviorally, he was a bit of a class clown, so that occasionally came as a surprise to his teachers. He was never intentionally disruptive so much as overenthusiastic.
It was no surprise then that when he started thinking about his path in life, Starfleet Academy was one of the first options that came to mind. Being that both of his parents had regaled him with stories about their joining up more times than he could count, he didn’t find the application process too surprising or difficult. The entrance test was as famously hard as ever, though being emotionally prepared for it he happily tackled that challenge like any other and got middle-to-high grades. Transporter theory hadn’t strictly been his first choice, or his second, or his third. Actually, he’d been absolutely convinced going in that he was going to work on a warp core someday, and if not that he’d work some magic with bioneural gel packs, so when the first day of transporter error simulations came around in basic engineering and everything started to click it was a revelation. Naturally his training skewed more Operations after that, with everything that came with it. He liked to joke after his next few courses that he could transport a nanite out of an ion storm without so much as losing an atom given the opportunity, which might have been an exaggeration. As for extracurriculars, he was a part of the Debate Team and an inconsistent member of the Robotics club.
== Appearance ==
Tim’s a tall, lanky fellow at about 6’4. He’s about as fit as the Starfleet standard demands, but isn’t much of an athlete outside of that. He has red hair cut short, pale freckled skin, a slightly cleft chin, the pitch black eyes of your average Betazoid, and a perpetual smile.
== Personality ==
Tim likes just about everyone and is as open-minded as can be - sometimes a little too much. He’s bubbly, enthusiastic, open, and definitely a hugger if he senses his friends are down (and, of course, if they like hugs - consent and all.) He isn’t easily angered, which he puts down to his empathy. It’s hard to really get angry at someone when you know exactly how they feel. He does have a little bit of a mischievous streak as well, but only in good fun. 
== Psych Evaluation ==
Tim Thompson is a bit more than open-minded, he’s easily influenced and a bit of a conspiracy theorist. It’s easy to miss unless you’re looking for it. In his psych eval he found the recording device the counselor was using to record the session, for example, then mid conversation started taking apart a decorative bird-shaped puzzle sculpture on the table in order, per his own words, to look for a second backup recording device. There was not one. Other than that, he isn’t easily stressed. Even in the face of his worst fear, apart from letting out a weird noise that it would do no good to approximate in this document, he was able to pass the psych test with flying colors. 
== Medical ==
He broke his left leg once while trying and failing to play Velocity, but it’s long healed.
Other Information
* Likes: Theater, organized debate, sports (spectating mainly), small talk, large talk, general talking
* Dislikes: Staying still for very long, isolation
Category:Former Characters