Benjamin Grey

Authored by Hjortur Ingi

Biographic Information

• Position: Chief Medical Officer on USS Athena
• Rank: Lieutenant
• Species: Human
• Weight: 89kg
• Height: 1,89M
• Age: 40

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Character Biography

Parents: Margaret & Christian Grey

General Background
Benjamin was raised on a farm in southern Scotland where he gained an interest in Medicine. He showed a great aptitude at a very young age, as many of his family did. Some fairly important people took notice and started paying attention to his career as an amateur veterinarian
He was taken on a special scholarship, the McCoy Foundation for gifted youngsters and accepted into the prestigious Cambridge Medical University in England. There he showed great talent and graduated with honors as one of it’s most successful students. He was then Accepted into Starfleet Academy where he continued his studies.
He showed exceptional talent during complicated surgeries and has since performed several high difficulty surgeries for Starfleet Medical

His mother was a retired Quantum physicist and his father a retired doctor that took up farming on the Grey family farm.
He has no Siblings.

Physical Description

Ben is a tall, slender with long strong arms. He is very thin. He has very strong hands. He has dark hair which he combs backward and keeps it at relatively short length.
He has intense green eyes.
Timeline

Starfleet Background

Starfleet Academy:
Benjamin spent only 3 years in the academy to learn the basics of being a Starfleet officer. He showed little affinity to anything non-medical related. He mostly excelled at student drinking more than anything else. He never thought of himself as much of a fighter and preached a pacifistic ideology. He was, however, easy to anger, which went against his pacifistic ideals. He took up boxing as a hobby and was a middling fighter, but did learn how to properly throw a punch a skill he’d used.

The USS Polaris
He worked well on the ship, mostly under a Ferengi DH Grimp Omag. His superior’s antics often forced Ben to take charge of the Medical Department and having to treat his superior on two different occasions for strange reasons. He was also forced to deliver a child twice whilst his boss lay unconscious on the floor both times.
This lead to mutual distrust between the two as Benjamin gained fans amongst the medical staff, from the ones who considered him to be unqualified for his position. After a few years of service, his Ferengi Department Head retired and left a letter of recommendation for Ben to take over as CMO on the ship. The former CMO was then killed in a freak shuttlecraft accident. Captain Chaud took the recommendation and promoted Benjamin to Chief Medical Officer and gave him the rank fo Lieutenant Junior Grade.

Benjamin did his duty for just over three years until he felt he could no longer serve as the Chief of a Sickbay, he’d found comfort in a drink on too many times and had clearly been affected more by the death of his former Medical Chief than he thought, so the year that the Polaris was decommissioned he requested a transfer to another duty station as a Junior Officer.

Medical Base Zulu 1.
Benjamin was transferred to the main Starfleet Medical outpost on Betazed where he became a member surgical team that dealt with high-risk surgeries for people with dangerous ailments.. After a rather uneventful year, he yearned for the stars again, so he again requested a transfer to a starship, which was approved soon after, and he was assigned as a junior Officer on the USS Genesis.

USS Genesis
Benjamin served on the Genesis for a single year as a junior medical officer under Doctor Sage Brennan. Although he did enjoy serving on the Genesis, his personal condition became severe enough that he had to go back to Earth to recuperate.

Starfleet Medical - Earth
After Six months of care on Earth, Ben took a position as a Surgeon at the main Starfleet Medical Surgical department where he remained for two years until he received his newest duty station on the Athena, taking over from CMO Moonshadow due to Classified reasons.

During his time on Earth, he’d ended up being the head of his Surgical unit.

Medical Background

Benjamin is a very healthy man but is overly fond of strong liquor. He is fit after being raised as a farmhand and lives a mostly healthy lifestyle.
Due to a family history of Genetic manipulation, he grew up with an abnormal sense of smell, more akin to that of a bloodhound than a human. This incredible medical condition is one of the leading reasons for his becoming a Doctor. He is able to discern the identity of a person by their smell, even in a room filled with dozens of people, this includes their race and gender. He is known to keep a file on notable individuals with a simulated scent file that he creates himself. He is also able to smell out the several liquids that inhabit a humanoid body thus being able to notice for instance if someone is bleeding. This ability has been fairly useful in his role as a doctor. It, however, can also be a hindrance as a very strong smell can momentarily incapacitate him.
To counter anything like that he carries at all times a locket which contains in it a calming scent of his own design. It is in constant flux so the smell changes based on whoever that smells it.

Psychological Background

Benjamin was struck hard by the death of his Ferengi Department Head on the Polaris. This led to a dangerous period of drinking and reclusive behavior. He finally took hold of himself and requested a transfer and demotion from being a department head because he no longer trusted himself to lead people. He decided to gather experience first, knowing that being clever is only the first part.
He is generally a calm person with little volatility but he is protective of his friends and peers almost to a fault. Any and all clashes between him and others are either due to alcohol or his sense of right and wrong.

The Grey family secret:
During the Warp 5 era of spaceships the then Clan Leader of the Grey family, the strange Charles Grey managed to modify his body in a way that all of his children and their children were modified on a genetic level. How he managed this and why is unknown. No one understands how his genetic changes only start altering the brain of the child during the final month of pregnancy.
This change is not guaranteed but at times is so drastic that the child becomes different on a fundamental level. Gaining a slight trait over other humans but not so that he becomes a so-called ‘Ubermensch’. This has led to a fear of mating with other Species in Benjamin’s family because they fear what might happen if they’re unique trait might possibly kill the child.