David Theroux

### Affiliation

Chief Superintendent of the International Space Police Force, Former-Engineer for the US space program

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

**David Theroux** was an engineer for the US space program before quitting and becoming Chief Superintendent for the International Space Police Force.

## Biography

### Early life

Theroux watched his father die from a radiation leak from a nuclear booster. (TV: *This Case to be Opened in a Million Years*)

Before his time at the *Charles de Gaulle*, Theroux worked as an engineer for the US space program but resigned. (TV: *An Instinct for Murder*)

### Working for the ISPF

By 2027, Theroux was working as Chief Superintendent for the International Space Police Force on the *Charles de Gaulle* space station. Theroux noted that being an African American was not common in the demographics of those who had made it to outer space. He regretted chosing his line of work, but decided there was no point turning back now. (PROSE: *An Instinct for Murder*)

After a speight of and fatal suit malfunctions started to affect two percent of spacewalkers aboard the *Charles de Gaulle*, Theroux refused to accept the computers' conclusion of the malfunctions and set out to prove the deaths were murder.

When Chief Inspector Nathan Spring of the British police force was forced to take on the case, the two of them set out to lure the murderers out in the open. This resulted in the arrest of Stephenson, the Controller, and the promotion of Spring to Commander of the International Space Police Force, and Theroux's new boss. (TV: *An Instinct for Murder*)

As Nathan Spring dealt with personal matters on Earth, Inspector Theroux settled into the newly appointed ISPF station on Moonbase. He became involved in a runaway cargo ship, the Daedalus, which had supplies meant for the Martian settlement. Together, with the staff of Moonbase, they successfully managed to talk the crew into blowing an airlock, thus changing the ship's trajectory to re-enter the solar system in about eight years' time, and risk a sleep in suspended animation capsules.

When Spring returned to Moonbase, they both became aware of an important detail in the Daedalus case. Moonbase Coordinator Paton seemed to have the perfect motive for sabotaging the computers aboard the Daedalus and getting the crew to trial his experimental suspended animation pods in their hour of need. Shortly afterwards, Theroux accompanied Spring to the Charles de Gaulle, where they met Corman. Corman stated that Lee Jones' murderer, John Smith, had stolen a shuttle and was heading for a top secret American space station. Theroux made his doubts about her very clear to Spring.

Upon their own shuttle, in pursuit of Smith, Spring told Corman that he knew of her plan. She was a British spy who planned Lee's death to lure Spring to follow Smith to the American space station. Upon arrest, Smith would tell the British all he knew about the contents, and the Russians would get blamed. Unbeknownst to both Theroux and Corman, Spring had tipped off the Americans, and they watched as Smith's shuttle was blown to smithereens. (TV: *Conversations with the Dead*)

*To be continued.*

## Personality

    Theroux was an officer that used gut instinct to solved cases and mistrusted computers, which made him the perfect partner for Spring. Before coming to trust Spring, he distrusted his methods, sometimes being quite defensive. Theroux was troubled by his past, having watched his father die of radiation poisoning. This gave him a unique insight into Spring's own life, after Spring had to invesigate and arrest his own father for a crime.

Theroux wore a wedding ring on his left hand, yet flirted regularly with Pal Kenzy. He was just as much a ladies man as he was an enigma. He private life was kept very separate from his professional one. He wore his "Michigan Wolverines" t-shirt with pride, usually under his Star Cops uniform.

## Skills and abilities

Much like his Commander, Theroux had a dislike for computers, often finding them easily manipulatable. He rather use solid evidence and gut instinct to solve a case.

## Other information

* During the production of *Little Green Men and other Martians*, Erick Ray Evans contracted shingles and was unable to continue. His remaining lines had to be split between the cast. Evans passed away in 1999.
* Theroux owning a Michigan Wolverines t-shirt might indicate that he attended the University of Michigan in his youth. The Michigan Wolverines is the official college football team of the University of Michigan.