Eddie Leslie

Born in El Paso, Texas, on the planet Earth, Eddie Leslie entered Starfleet Academy in 2256 after briefly considering a career in UESPA. Upon graduation, he served in the regular fleet for several years, being transferred repeatedly and serving aboard the USS Bozeman, USS Kongo, and the USS Crossfield.

2266 Five Year Mission
Leslie was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and reassigned to the Constitution-class explorer [[USS_Enterprise|USS Enterprise at the start of her most storied five year mission. One of the ship's most junior officers, Lt. Leslie served along with Pavel Chekov, Hikaru Sulu, and Nyota Uhura, among others.

Leslie was reassigned several times between divisions, though he spent most of his time aboard the Enterprise wearing the red shirt of an Engineering officer. Part of Captain Kirk's 'first team' on the command bridge, Leslie was present on the bridge through many of the ship's adventures and misadventures. He usually manned the bridge's engineering status monitoring station, but sometimes took the helm or navigation stations, even serving as a watch-standing officer in the captain's chair on a few brief occasions. Leslie also accompanied numerous away teams, often at the head of a security detachment.

Leslie served with quiet distinction aboard the Enterprise up through 2266 and '67. He was injured a number of times, and indeed was left clinically dead after his encounter with a dikronium cloud-monster on Argus X. Fortunately, Dr. McCoy was able to revive Leslie using an improvised procedure related to the nature of his injuries.

Leslie left the Enterprise in 2268, that time due to cumulative medical problems from both the Argus X incident and the aftereffects of Spock's Vulcan nerve pinch suffered during the Enterprise's efforts to eradicate the mind-controlling Slime Devil infestation on the colony planet of Deneva.

Yard Dog
Lt. Leslie spent roughly a year recuperating in Starfleet hospitals and convalescent care facilities, although some of his progressive neurological damage proved both irreversible and puzzling to medical science. While his disability left his mind unharmed and he has remained ambulatory with minimal accommodations and ongoing care, he was medically disqualified from shipboard duty.

Transferring to Shipyard Operations Command, Leslie began what would become over a half a century of service building and maintaining Starfleet's heavy metal.

Unfortunately for Leslie, his widely rumored association with the origins of the infamous unofficial Starfleet drinking song Banned from Argo dogged his career, earning disapproval from many flag-ranking officers of the 2270s and '80s. Even compared to many other members of the Enterprise bridge crew, some of whom dodged multiple promotion boards to continue serving aboard ship and under Kirk's colorful and charismatic leadership as long as possible, Leslie's rise through the ranks came slowly. He was one of the last of his graduating class to achieve the rank of commander, not being promoted to captain until 2299 when he was promoted to chief of the Quality Assurance Division, where he had already been serving as a division chief for several years.

Personal Life
Eddie Leslie courted his wife-to-be, fellow Starfleet officer Susan Gray, during the early 2270s. They were married in 2275. They have several children, numerous grandchildren, and an increasing number of great-grandchildren.