Lucas Williams

Commander **Lucas Williams** was a Federation Starfleet officer, formerly serving as the first officer of the starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-D). Over times of war, he's been heavily decorated for his command abilities.

## Early Life & Career

Williams was born in North Carolina, USA, in the year 2260. As a child and a teenager, he was well aware of the exploits of the legendary crew of the starship Enterprise, and desired to make a difference in the conflicted universe, with rising Klingon tensions, so he enlisted in Starfleet at the age of 16. After a brief two-year training period, he was assigned as a science Crewman to the USS Bozeman, a Souyz-class patrol cruiser. He began dabbling in time travel experiments, with a tetryon pulse from the main deflector triggering local spacetime instability, sending the Bozeman into the future, meeting the Enterprise-D in 2367.

Williams desired to serve on this new Enterprise, but was rejected, initially transferring to the Excelsior-class USS Aurora (NCC-13781) for the period of a year before transferring onto Captain Picard's starship. As a science crewman, he was under the direct command of Lieutenant Junior Grade (at the time) Welshman, chief science officer. For excellent duty on the bridge and in the science lab, in addition to an incident where he phasered down a Romulan who was threatening Captain Picard, he was promoted to the rank of Ensign, and served in the role of **assistant chief scientist**, and was later promoted again to Lieutenant, Junior Grade.

When Commander Geordi La-Forge, chief engineer of the Enterprise, was promoted to Captain and received the Sovereign-class USS Challenger, he took Welshman (by now a Lieutenant Commander) with him to serve as first officer. Williams transferred over to the Challenger to serve as science officer.

## Tour of Duty, USS Challenger

Williams' tour of duty on the Challenger was short and light, due to few missions, owing to an unstable command structure, with absentee senior staff save for Williams himself, and Ensign Frost, chief helmsman. However, while Frost was promoted all the way up to Lieutenant Commander to serve as replacement First Officer, Williams was promoted only once, to Lieutenant, before returning to the Enterprise as the Challenger was to be decommissioned.

However, it was on the Challenger that then-Commander Tai Buckbeak enlisted Williams and his extensive experience in temporal mechanics to build a time travel device for Starfleet Intelligence - the Quantum Shifter. It was this device that earned Williams his promotion, from Buckbeak, though work shortly stopped after Williams' return to the Enterprise.

## Second Tour of Duty on the Enterprise

When Williams returned to the Enterprise, it was a much-changed ship from the one he left - Commander Riker was gone, now the Captain of the Inquisitor, and there was a new chief science officer - a friend of Williams, Lieutenant Charles Owens. Lieutenant Williams decided to transfer to Operations and became Chief of Operations on the Enterprise, gaining experience in the fields of Tactical, Security, and doing more work in science.

Williams held this posting during the first Romulan War, including under the command of Phil Swift, when Captain Picard was kidnapped. Williams was rejected for the position of Second Officer at the time, and transferred to the USS Ironforge following the conclusion of the Romulan War.

## Tour of Duty, USS Ironforge

When Lieutenant Williams joined the Ironforge, the ship was a strong tactical vessel under the command of Connor Rilak. New first officer Frost, an old shipmate of Williams from the Challenger, had recently taken this position, and shortly after Williams joined, Commander Aetier, second officer, departed for his own command. Due to this, Williams assumed the posting of Second Officer, doing battle with the Borg and other enemies. Notably, Williams was in command of the Ironforge during the first battle of the war against the Klingon rebels.

When the ship was taken over by then-Captain Kenrick and Borg R&I, Williams was in the same position, but was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. However, the old-and-reliable Enterprise called again...

## Former Posting, USS Enterprise

The war with the Klingon rebels was continuing to rage on as threats from the Dominion and Romulan Empire mounted. However, the Enterprise senior staff had shifted considerably as officers transferred, including first officer Phil Swift. Commander Williams stepped in to fill this void, assembling a senior staff team, and commanding the ship when Captain Picard was kidnapped by the Borg.

Following his return, Williams was promoted to full Commander, and continued to help on the Enterprise for some time, until he took a three-month leave of absence. On his return, he resumed his position as first officer.

## Terran Williams

In the mirror universe, the counterpart of Lucas Williams had a rather different career - assisting Commander Welshman in a coup of the ISS Challenger against Frost, Kepler, and La-Forge, he later killed Welshman and took the Challenger for himself. However, he was captured, during a brief alliance with the Romulans, and was branded Prisoner 101-3D by the Federation, but escaped by using a device of his to hijack Tai Buckbeak's Borg implants, referring to him by his Borg name, "Morpheus". He managed to return to his ship and periodically terrorized the Federation, but nothing so drastic as his plan to invade our universe.

Leading a Terran fleet from Terok Nor, they attacked and took control of DS9 and Bajor, leading attacks on substantial portions of Federation territory and engaging in a brief alliance with the Klingon rebels, though they were eventually defeated and their remaining forces forced to retreat into their own universe. Williams' mirror counterpart is presumed KIA.