Courtesy: Tessa Thompson Damaris Glenn
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 29
AFFILIATION: Terran Republic
POSITION: Helmsman/Navigations
SKILLSET: Damaris is a skilled helmsman and navigator. She has worked her way up through the ranks in Operations with only minor skills in Engineering. She has no talent Medical. Damaris’ personality dictates her to become a negotiator one day. She has the foundations; patience, reading people’s behavior and knowing when to say the right thing. Damaris is always able to understand both sides of an argument, but needs an accomplished negotiator to guide her in the proper direction.
As a young woman, Damaris trained in various martial arts including Kempo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Krav Maga. She holds an equivalent to a third-degree black belt in a mixed martial art set. Her abilities in unarmed combat have provided the career Terran officer with a heightened confidence and level of discipline. She can read body language and whether or not someone is about to attack. She has had experience in a few weapons including kamas, bo staff, nunchukus and the sword as well as a hand-held energy weapon.
PERSONALITY PROFILE: Damaris is a thrill seeker and a risk taker.
“You can’t win if you don’t play.” She is curious about the universe, but considers herself a big picture realist. She has been cursed or blessed with a double vision. This insight allows her to see multiple sides to every story. Most of the time this is an advantage when attempting problem-solving because her ideas are also grounded in reality. She is not given to flights of fantasy overwhelmed by unrealistic idealism. She can be a rock to those who take to the stars figuratively, bringing them back to the real world.
Damaris is objective, refusing to take opinions on subjects. Some would say she is wishy-washy, she prefers the term
flexible. Her flexibility helps her to adapt to changing conditions and understands what moves to make next in any given situation due to changing parameters. The challenges of operating in deep space excite her thrill-seeking tendencies. Any risks she takes with the ship are calculated. She would never take an action that contained unnecessary risks where she had not already considered the consequences. Above all, Damaris Glenn is intelligent.
HISTORY: Damaris Glenn was born and raised in Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States of America to an African American father and a Spanish-speaking Latin mother. She excelled in academics and athletics, training in martial arts as young as seven years of age. She excelled in Karate demonstrations as a teen feeling very natural with the moves. In her late teens, after receiving a black belt in Kempo, she began training in BJJ.
She studied Earth history at the University of Massachusetts and was accepted into the Terran Republic Starfleet Academy after receiving a baccalaureate degree. While at UMASS she continued training in BJJ and kept her body in excellent shape. She always looked for ways to challenge herself physically through running marathons or various obstacle courses hosted in the New England area.
While at Starfleet, she received her black belt in BJJ and began training in Krav Maga. She learned that the Israeli martial art system was a common sense system of self-defense that integrated many other fighting styles including Kempo and BJJ. Her background did give her an advantage, especially in sparring with classmates.
While at the academy, she trained in operations focusing on helm operations and navigations. Her first assignment aboard the
Renaissance, a Science/Exploratory ship as the ship’s helmsman. Ensign Glenn had some difficulties early on but eventually blended well with the crew and was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade after eighteen months’ time in service. Lieutenant JG Damaris Glenn contracted a rare form of influenza while with an away team on a distant world. She was quarantined in sick bay aboard the Renaissance for eight weeks before her fever broke and she was able to return to duty. The medical personal aboard ship took several biopsies, studying her symptoms and biological changes to determine the causes of her flu and how to treat it. Eventually, they named her form of influenza the Glenn Flu.
After four years in Terran Republic Star Fleet, Damaris was promoted to Lieutenant and is awaiting assignment to her next ship. It is rumored she will be posted to the
Hawking. Damaris has a mild intrepidation but ultimately believes she will do fine.
FLAW: Commander Glenn is a gambler who is willing to take a risk herself. She is not willing to risk others. She can be overly confident, but is also reticent. As long as she does not speak, one will not see her arrogance displayed. If she witnesses weaknesses in others, she often times mentally writes them off. This translates as a lack of confidence in her peers.
