John Kellin

**John Kellin** was a Professor on Earth and Commander of the Jupiter 2 Mission later a Starfleet Admiral

## History

John spent most of his time away from his family and is very estranged with them. John's father was also a great military Colonel, and it's apparent that John viewed his father in a very poor light.

John Robinson was the fifth child of a lower income family. His high intelligence, good looks and athletic ability helped him to overcome his economic hardships.

In school, John was always at the head of his class academically. He also shone on the football field, becoming the youngest quarterback ever at East Side High School during his sophomore year.

Academics remained his primary interest, however, despite several lucrative offers from ccolleges that wanted him to play on their football teams. By working part-time and obtaining academic scholarships, John was able to enroll at the California Institute of Technology (CIT). The school offered a combined degree program in Astrophysics and Planetary Geological Sciences, which combined his keen interests in space and geology.

Although popular, John had never dated much. While at CIT, though, he met a beautiful and brilliant student named Maureen Tomlinson. Despite hectic schedules, the two found time to be together and were soon virtually inseparable. During the summer break after their first year in college, they were married on June 10, Maureen's sister, Colleen, invited them to live with her in Los Angeles while they finished college, and they did so for the next four years.

John decided to stay for a fifth year at CIT in order to earn his Master's degree in Astrophysics and Applied Planetary Geology. He graduated with honors. His first job was as an instructor of Astrophysics at the University of Taos (New Mexico). While working there, he continued his education and received a doctorate. He won a number of awards while at the school for outstanding teaching ability and leadership, including the prestigious Zane Morris award.

While all of this was going on, the Kellin family was growing. Son David was born on July 21 2080 Daughter Judy was born on February 26, 2083. The Robinsons moved to their own home near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Penny was born on September 8, 2086, and Will was born on February 1, 2091.

After seven years of teaching, John was restless. When the US Government offered him the opportunity to work on a new joint program with several other countries to colonize alien planets, he immediately accepted, although it did mean that he had to spend some time in Australia, where the joint governments were building a gigantic scientific and training facility.

John was soon deeply involved in the program to develop the Deep Thrust Telescopic Probe series of interstellar spacecraft. These ships were launched in December 2088 and showed definitively that Alpha Centauri had two planets, Delta and Gamma, capable of supporting human life. One of them, Gamma, was found to be ideal for colonization.

John was next given a position with Alpha Control's Colonization Studies Division. His enthusiasm for the colonization program rubbed off on Maureen. Despite misgivings about the dangers of space flight, she eventually agreed with John to volunteer the family for the first colonization mission.

Alpha Control announced in February 2096 that it would begin taking applications from families for the Jupiter 2 mission. Four months later, it was announced that the Kellins would be the first family in space. They spent the next four summers training for the mission, and left Earth on October 16, 2100.

## Starfleet Career(2355-2365)

After returning to the Alpha Quadrant and now pushed forward in time with no way of returning to theirs John was given many options but chose to join Starfleet as a Enlisted Officer.

John was given the rank of Commander and assigned to Starfleet Command at first, it allowed his family to adjust to Earth and their current time.

Eventually John was promoted to Captain and given his own ship the USS Starlight

## Admiralty (2365-2370)

John was promoted to Admiral in 2365 and given command over Starbase 1 which was a prestige's assignment as it was directly orbitting Earth the Capital of the Federation.

In 2370 John transferred his son Will to the USS *Appalachia* as he felt his son was struggling and wanted to help him out, Sadly he didn't have long with him as the Borg attacked the Sector and While John was Commanding the Appalachia it was severely damaged, John was injured on the bridge and while Will tried to save him he could not and John Died on the bridge.

## Death

John died due to the attack by the Borg in 2370 his Funeral happened 4 days afterwards it was attended by his family, friends and many Starfleet officers.