Lieutenant Commander Sydney Reid
Name Sydney Elliot Reid
Position Chief Operation's Officer
Rank Lieutenant Commander
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 36 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 1.67m | |
| Weight | 54kg | |
| Hair Color | Brown | |
| Eye Color | Brown or Golden* | |
| Physical Description | While considered fairly attractive, especially when she puts in the effort to look so, with a particularly cute smile, Sydney is still fairly common when it comes to your average human woman. She's neither strong nor weak but rather does what is necessary to retain an acceptable level of fitness and proficiency to continue to serve as a Starfleet Officer. She's not a woman who would stand out in a crowd unless she wanted to, and tends towards a very clean, subdued, and professional appearance at most times. Simplicity is often her approach to the handling of her hair and minute use of cosmetics. *The only truly outstanding and noticeable aspect of her appearance is when she has her ocular implants activated, turning her normally dark, dull eyes to a bright, almost luminous golden color. These implants, combined with the subdermal implants in her fingertips and the small, plain wristband she always wears, function as both her Personal PADD and allow her to virtually interface with the PADD and certain systems through a custom, unique, encrypted, short-range wireless connection that projects the information presented into an overlay, similar to a HUD, in her personal field of view, and manipulate it as such using only her hands. While lacking some of the more advanced enhancements that come with complete ocular replacements, these do allow her to translate most writing instantaneously and access information without having the need for a screen or holographic display like most use. |
Family
| Spouse | N/A | |
| Children | N/A | |
| Father | Hoban Washburn (deceased) | |
| Mother | Zoe Washburn (deceased) | |
| Brother(s) | Merik Reid (Adoptive Romulan) | |
| Other Family | Adoptive Father: Prof. Johnathan D. Reid, PhD (Professor of Sociology) Adoptive Father: Dr. Christopher Turk, MD (Ret. Starfleet Lieutenant Commander) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Sydney, thanks in part to her lengthy time spent in Academia prior to joining Starfleet, tends to treat most of her peers and some of her superiors as equals. While this has helped her gain respect and camaraderie in most regards, it has also rubbed some others the wrong way: those with inflated egos that held rank above expertise. Despite this, Sydney never let it hinder her drive or focus, allowing her to impress a great number of her other superiors with her quick, inventive thinking and 'out-of-the-box' approach to problems. While such a strong sense of independence would often be seen as problematic, the respect she showed while still maintaining that independence of thought allowed her to do a great many things and solve many problems that others failed to perceive or prevent. A constant focus on furthering her personal pursuits has benefitted Starfleet as a whole and continues to allow her to aid in the development of new technologies and programming that have come to supplement or replace those systems and security that harmed Starfleet as a result of its hubris. Her most prominent trait is the constant desire to see the version of Starfleet she was taught as a child come to fruition: an organization focused on Exploration, Expansion of Knowledge, and the Protection of the Galaxy as a Whole through Collaboration. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Sydney is highly driven, focused, and intelligent. She is an innovator who has had a part in advancing numerous technologies in Starfleet usage. She treats her crew as one would family, going out of her way to help them find the best versions of themselves at every turn. While still a specialist in some regard, she's used her skills to expand her usefulness to a great number of areas within Starfleet; able to take on the responsibilities of what would normally be handled by several officers and enlisted without a loss of efficiency or quality of work. Her maturity has always been seen as a boon, despite how comparatively young her Starfleet Career is. The Computer Scientist does have issues caused by both her independence and slight arrogance in her abilities. Sydney took quite a while to let go of her isolationist style of work, growing slowly into working with others, and still yet will take the lead or put the weight of the responsibilities on herself, even when others could help lighten the load. Considered somewhat introverted, when she does allow others in, she tends to focus on learning more about them than giving them a full view of herself. Regardless of this, the friendships she does make tend to be so deep and close that those people are treated like siblings, whether that be as equals or as siblings that she feels the need to watch over. |
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| Ambitions | Since her first year at Daystrom, Sydney has been quite vocal about Starfleet's lack of focus on systems security. The Frontier Day Incident, in which she was able to prevent a great deal of loss of life on her assigned ship, only proved her long-held concerns to be true, furthering her convictions and desire to develop and deploy countermeasures and preventative protocols to not allow such loss of control ever again. Sydney is almost singularly focused on seeing a day in her lifetime when Starfleet no longer has a need to use weapons of war but is seen as only an organization focused on the advancement of knowledge and prosperity for all peoples within the galaxy. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Almost disappointingly, Sydney doesn't have a lot of interests or hobbies that fall outside of her work. While she makes time to spend with and entertain her friends and peers, most of her free time is spent furthering the development of her personally developed technologies or expanding the capabilities of various types of programming, including Systems Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Holographic Technology. Since the ending of the ban on Positronic Research, she has added that to her portfolio of skills but hasn't gone through the measures to be academically recognized for such, despite her growing expertise in the area of technology. Two of her specific personal innovations is a real-time script translating program akin to the Universal Translator, and the creation of some of the most advanced holographic 'pets', for which she is often seen with whatever version she is working on at the time following behind her in the corridors. |
| Personal History | Not even a year old, the infant was picked up from an escape pod with two unrelated children by a Federation ship. It was discovered to have originated from a small commercial vessel that had been ferrying supplies having suffered an attack by the Borg. A thorough search had been done, but no family had been found for the girl. Having dispelled many of his husband's concerns, John Reid was quite pleased to be able to accept the offer from the agency to welcome the orphan into their new family. It took several days for the couple to decide on a name, but it was an easy agreement when they settled on one close to their hearts; Sydney. Had it not been for delayed transfer orders and John preferring to spend First Contact Day on Earth, the family would have been three of the thousands lost on Mars. The event shook the family, and the events that followed only expedited their decisions. As Sydney was off in her first semesters at the University of Tomobiki, her father took leave from Starfleet, with the decision to withdraw aid to Romulus making it a retirement. Sydney was twenty when she learned she would have a brother, Marik, another orphan of tragedy. Being his elder by fifteen years, she quickly picked up the nuances of her brother's native dialect, much faster than her parents for that matter, and had become fluent by the time she returned home after the semester. Upon graduation with a Master's in Cybernetics, Sydney was accepted into a doctorial fellowship program at the Daystrom Institute. Initially set to continue in her field, she instead found herself studying self-aware megalomaniacal computers, specifically in the architecture of their programming and what mistakes were made that created them. For five years, Sydney slowly grew more and more attached to her research at the cost of her familial bond. Each visit home was followed by her remarking on the progress that Merik was making, and feeling guilty for being away for so much of it as she could already see his intellect surpassing hers. Upon completion of her doctorate in Computer Science, Sydney wanted a new challenge. While she fielded many offers that could have led to great renown and influence, after so many years of studying to prove all she could learn and do, she knew she needed to move on beyond the safety of the theoretical and apply all she'd learned towards something bigger than her personal victories. Joining Starfleet was a decision her family had clear reservations about, but also knew it wasn't one that Sydney made without careful consideration. Starfleet Academy turned out to be vastly different than what she'd experienced before. While Sydney had encountered plenty of Starfleet personnel in the past, she was not prepared for the stress of extending beyond her comfortable specialties. Despite this, she managed to graduate in only three years with degrees in Cryptography and Exolinguistics; excelling where she could continue to build on her previous expertise. As a standout cadet with a salvo of degrees and qualifications, the dread of the unknown, of having no real say in her initial posting, crept in, leaving her anxious as she awaited word on her first assignment. It would be the furthest she'd ever been from home, and if the Academy was any indication, she had no clue what to prepare herself for. Despite her initial anxieties, Sydney not only survived but thrived in Starfleet. It took her only eighteen months to achieve full Lieutenant. This promotion not only saw her transferred to a Ship-of-the-Line with tons of support for her individual projects but also led to her career taking off, all because of yet another tragedy of hubris in Starfleet that she managed to save her ship and the majority of her crew from. After only three years as a Lieutenant, Sydney found herself being handed yet another, albeit hollow, pip and given a Senior Officer position on one of the newest, freshest ships in Starfleet's growing arsenal. |
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| Service Record | 2385-2390: University of Tomobiki: Awarded Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Master's in Cybernetics 2390-2395: Doctorial Program at Daystrom Institute - Okinawa, Japan: Awarded Doctorate in Computer Science 2395-2398: Starfleet Academy: Graduated Operations Career Track, Awarded Advanced Degrees in Cryptology and Xenolinguistics 2398-2400: Ensign to Lieutenant - Operations Officer/Cryptology Officer - USS Cerberus 2400-2403: Lieutenant to Lieutenant Commander - Assistant Chief Operations Officer/Computer Systems Officer - USS Starfinder 2403-Current: Lieutenant Commander - Chief Operations Officer - USS Intrepid |