Jacqueline Appel

Jacqueline Appel, AKA "Jackie", AKA "Applejack" is a Human member of Starfleet. She's something of a "Jackie-of-all-trades", able to handle many starship jobs passably well and having filled roles in many departments during her career. Jacqueline grew up doing hard and dirty work on a colonial ranch and never lost skills she developed out of necessity. She can repair broken equipment from a box of scraps, or even repurpose it to a new mission, and after a childhood wrangling the giant cattle known as Treblador Beasts very little can intimidate her. She is also the only person ever to graduate Starfleet Academy with a master level combat certification in the lasso, and can handle a piece of rope as though it was a third arm. On a bet she once juggled three tricorders for a full minute using only a lasso. In person, Jaqueline is straight-forward and honest. On the rare occasions she's tried to lie, she's proven to be terrible at it.

Jacqueline is a native of the small human colony of Tobias's Rest where she grew up as a rancher's daughter. After assisting Captain Michel Thuir in arresting some Yrillian pirates preying on her colony, she accepted Captain Thuir's offer to come aboard the USS Miracht as a provisional cadet before testing into Starfleet Academy. At Starfleet Academy she joined a circle of six cadets who became fast friends and have remained in contact throughout their Starfleet careers. They are:


 * Dash sh'Rinboq
 * T'Wilit
 * Rartay Aronn
 * Mitchie Peh
 * Shayla Fluttrax

"Applejack" is a nickname Jacqueline picked up in childhood as a portmanteau of her first and last name that somehow followed her into Starfleet. As an adult, she generally tolerates being called 'Applejack' only by friends.

As a newly minted ensign Jacquline was assigned to the USS Odyssey, where she received extra mentored from Captain Langa Mbeki at the request of his old commander Admiral Thuir. It was while on the Odyssey that Jackie had a confrontation with the being known as Q, who was attempting to protect the Odyssey from getting caught up in the [Licori War]]] out of guilt for allowing the Miracht-A to be destroyed. She sometimes refers to the incident as "the time I lassoed a god". She was also on the Odyssey during its recovery of the ancient artificial intelligence from the Delta Quadrant known as Mipek and was one of Mipek's first human friends.

After two years on the Odyssey, Jacqueline was transferred to another Explorer Corps ship, the Courageous, for two years under Captain Sabek. During this time the Courageous visited the Interstellar Commonwealth and saw combat aiding an ISC squadron in suppressing pirates. Jacqueline's first experience with naval conflict was sobering, as the Courageous caught an unlucky blast that penetrated its shields and killed nearly fifty crew, including two she personally knew. In late 2316, she was on the Courageous when Captain Sabek made the Federation's first frosty contact with the Harmony of Horizon. In 2317, she was one of the Courageous crew members infected by a parasite that caused invented memories to manifest (something that has left Jacqueline still confused about certain portions of her life, remembering growing up on orchard rather than a ranch).

Jacqueline was then assigned to the USS Spirit, being part of its maiden crew when it launched in 2318.Q2. Nearly immediately afterwards, however, the Spirit traveled to the Gabriel Border Zone to participate in the bloody battles that finally ended the Gabriel Campaign for good. During the Battle of 45 Gabriel the Spirit survived undamaged, but Jacqueline saw many of her fellow Starfleet officers die on other ships. The Spirit then headed to anchor the new Horizon Border Zone, but soon after suffered an attack from Tauni terrorists in 2318.Q4. Jacqueline spent most of the action locked in a supply closet when the terrorists triggered a security lockdown and wasn't even aware of the ship's near-fatal plunge into a gas giant that was averted only by the determination of her friend Dash sh'Rinboq.

After the Spirit's repairs completed in 2319, Jacqueline returned to duty for a brief period under the captaincy of Jennifer Zhang before transferring to yet another Explorer Corp ship, the USS Atuin in 2320. There she immediately helped exposure that the personnel of Civvit Outpost had been taken over by a mind-controlling microbe that could phase through matter and was rewarded with a promotion to Operations Officer. She was on the Atuin when it made first contact with the Trill and during its travels in Ittick-ka space.

Having served on no less than four separate Explorer Corps vessels, Personnel decided Applejack needed time on a ground assignment in Starfleet Headquarters.

Game History

 * Rancher's Daughter, (-2310.Q1)
 * Provisional Cadet, (Explorer Corps) (Cadet), USS Miracht, (2310.Q1-2310.Q4)
 * Starfleet Academy Cadet, (2310.Q4-2313.Q4)
 * Junior Officer (Explorer Corps) (Ensign), Odyssey, (2313.Q4-2315.Q4)
 * Junior Officer (Explorer Corps) (Lieutenant Junior Grade), USS Courageous, (2315.Q4-2317.Q4)
 * Junior Officer (Lieutenant), USS Spirit, (2317.Q4-2320.Q3)
 * Operations Officer (Explorer Corps) (Lieutenant Commander), USS Atuin, (2320.Q3-2322.Q4)
 * Deputy Chief, Communications, Starfleet Headquarters (Lieutenant Commander), (2322.Q4-?)