Vanessa Baron


Vanessa Baron
Biographical information
Homeworld	Betazed
Species	1/2 Human 1/2 Betazoid
Gender	Female
Physical description
Height	5' 5"
Weight	130 lbs
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Political Information
Affiliation	United Federation of Planets
Posting	USS Pacifica
Position	Chief Counselor
Rank
Played By	Evan Ottaway

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Member of the USS Pacifica's Hall of Fame

Physical Appearance

Height: 5' 5"

Weight: 126 lbs

Hair Colour: Dark Brown

Eye Colour: Brown

Description:

Vanessa is an attractive and fresh faced woman whose exotic looks will often catch the eye of many members of the opposite sex. Her shoulder length dark brown hair is often worn loose and perfectly frames her face which draws attention to her brown almost black eyes and her beautiful smile. She has a petite, slender figure standing at just over five foot five inches tall and weighs in at almost 130 pounds. She maintains her slim figure through an active lifestyle involving aerobics and yoga.

Personality & Traits

General Overview:

Vanessa is fully dedicated to her work as Chief Counselor on the Pacifica, and will always lend an ear to those who need it at anytime of the day. She is viewed as being a quiet person even though she is fairly outgoing and she is also very inquisitive by nature. Vanessa has both empathic and telepathic abilities with her empathic skills being the stronger of the two. Her telepathic abilities are surprisingly well developed for a half Betazoid though they are nowhere near the level of full blooded Betazoids. Although Vanessa is half human she is very dependent on her Betazoid abilities and she can often be uncomfortable and somewhat distrusting around people who she cannot sense. Vanessa has never really embraced her human side or heritage. This has started to change recently since she started spending more time around humans.

Strengths & Weaknesses:

Vanessa’s greatest strength is her natural interpersonal skills and her ability to befriend almost anybody. Her empathic skills have become an important tool in her counselling sessions as it provides her with a unique insight and the ability to relate to what her patients and those around her and feeling at any given time. Like most Betazoids Vanessa is overly dependent on both her telepathic and empathic abilities and this causes her to struggle in certain situations when she can’t use them.

Hobbies and Interests:

Vanessa is a romantic at heart and enjoys reading a variety of different texts from Betazed. She has recently started to develop an interest into her human heritage and has started to explore and learn more about human culture. She also likes to occasionally cook her own food in the quietness of her quarters.

Languages:

Federation Standard & Betazoid

Family

Father: George Baron

Mother: Rachel Baron

Sibling: Collin Baron

Other Family: Marguerite Baron - Sister in Law, Andrew Baron - Nephew

History

Pre-Starfleet Academy History

Vanessa is the youngest of two children born to parents George Baron a human Star Fleet Officer and his wife Rachel a Betazoid. Vanessa grew up with her brother Collin in the coastal town of Bree on the edge of the Opal Sea. With her father off serving in Starfleet, Vanessa developed a very close relationship with her Mother who became her guiding influence during her formative years. Despite his absence from her during childhood, Vanessa maintained a strong link to her father who often use to tell her bedtime stories over a subspace comm channel, these stories are some of Vanessa’s fondest memories of growing up and are still with her to this day. In all Vanessa’s childhood was prototypical of a child growing up in the heart of Betazed. It wasn’t until her 15th birthday that Vanessa much to her Mother’s chagrin first set her eyes on joining Starfleet and following in her father’s footsteps. Vanessa’s decision to reach for the stars caused some friction in her relationship with her Mother for some time, but her Mother eventually changed her tune after realising how much that Vanessa really wanted it.

With her mother’s support Vanessa started to weigh up her options and learned of a bridging 1 year psychology program that was being conducted through the University of Betazed for students who were interested in pursuing a career in Starfleet. The program was designed to prepare students for the rigours of the Academy and kick start their studies. Psychology had always been a interest and a natural fit of Vanessa thanks in part to her empathic skills and natural people skills. Vanessa applied for a position in the program and after passing a gruelling entrance exam was offered a position in the program that would start in the new year.

Starfleet Academy History

Vanessas main goal was to be in a position in Starfleet where she would be able to help people, she always knew that she could never be a Doctor as she personally knew that she was not cut for it so her decided to put her abilities as a Betazoid to good use and become a counselor. Despite a few set backs, she passed her courses at the academy with flying colours before applying the join the counseling academy to finish her training. She took her final year in training at the counseling academy passing again with flying colures which earned her a promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade. Shortly after finishing the course she requested her first assignment.

Starfleet History

Vanessas first assignment was on the USS Liberty where she worked at first as the chief counselors aide, during this first year she sat in on numerous appointments with the ship's chief counselor which gained her some really good experience. Her opportunity to begin climbing the ladder came early in her second year on the Liberty, when she offically named as the ships second counselor and was promoted to the full rank of Lieutenant. Through the next few years she continued to work well making many friends and earned the respect of the ships chief counselor who recommended her to Starfleet Command for a promotion and for a post all for herself. Word from command came back quickly and Vanessa was surprised to hear that she had been named the Chief Counselor on the USS Pacifica. She transferred to the ship during the year 2378 and settled into her position on the ship quite well. She has made numerous close relationships including a friendship with the Pacifica's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Connie Butterworth. Vanessa's Betazoid abilities first served the Pacifica when she detected the mental presence of an alien race that was onboard the ship, she managed with the assistance of Ensign James to establish a truce with the alien race which helped both the Pacifica and the aliens.