So it just occurred to me, as I was rechecking the old Star Trek Online threads in here, that it appears I never shared any pictures of my other captain. I think I might've been hoarding her for use in a future UF story, but if so, what was that about? Like characters never appear in promotional materials first. :)

Anyway, please be upstanding for Lieutenant Commander Olivia N. Andersson of New Stockholm, Starfleet Academy Class of 2408, somewhat predictably known to her classmates (and just about everyone else) as Swede.

A few facts about Swede Andersson:

- She was a bit nonplussed to find herself in command of her first posting, the USS Ångstrom, only a short way into her Starfleet career, and even more so to find herself still in command after that utter ratfuck of a day was finally over. There are days - probably quite a few days, if we're being honest - when she keenly regrets never really having had a chance to be a science officer, which was after all what she trained for, but you can't fight City Hall.

- She presently commands the Nova-class science cruiser USS Lundmark (named for 20th-century Swedish astronomer Knut Lundmark, one of the first Earth astronomers to realize what galaxies are).

- She makes that old wraparound command tunic look better than Jim Kirk ever did.

- She carries her great-grandfather's antique phaser, because phasers that don't disintegrate Klingons are for wimps.

- Holds a Ph.D in astrophysics. Occasionally protests when someone expects her to get some medical tricorder action on that she's a doctor, not a doctor.

- You may have noticed that she's Vulcan. It's OK. She didn't realize it either until she was in high school. Having been raised from infancy by a fisherman and his wife, she knows nothing more than the average human Federation citizen about the intricacies of Vulcan culture, and is about as interested in it as your average non-Scandinavian is in lutefisk. This generally causes "normal" Vulcans to regard her as a somewhat pitiful and tragic figure, which never fails to annoy her. On the other hand, she's the first to admit that she did inherit the Vulcan science nerd gene, and it's funny to watch humans who haven't met her before react when they're introduced.

- Once drank so much Aldebaran whiskey on a dare that she developed a violent allergy to the green colorant in it.

- Sriracha on everything.

Oh, the retro uniforms? Huge Jim Kirk fan. Wishes she got half as much action as he did, in every sense of the word. The galaxy's just not as awesome as it was in his day.

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