Lieutenant (J.G.) Dr. Russell D. Floyd

Russell isn't your average doctor. Due to many years in medical care, he gained great knowledge of the present day medical techniques but also some handy tricks from the old days. He is a cheerful guy, always ready to cheer the patients up, because they're often in enough misery already. He always tries to be the happy chap on the ship for his mates, even when the situation looks grim. Although his serving with Starfleet Medical during the Dominion Wars does have it's effect on his mood from time to time.

Even from childhood Russell always knew he wanted to make his career in Medics. His parents were both practitioners on Earth, so it didn't come to their surprise that Russell went to Medical School. What did come as a surprise for them is that he joined the Starfleet Academy.

He completed his studies in 2364 and went on to work at Starfleet Medical. In that period he met Laura, with whom he married shortly after that. They got two children. A boy, Peter who is 15 and a girl, Hanna, 13 years old.

After the birth of their two kids they decided to go back to San Diego, he took a job in the docter's practice owned by his parents. For 10 years he helped regular people with regular illness, when the Borg Cube attacked sector 001 and left a lot of wounded and dead people in its wake Russell felt that he needed to do more then give people hyper sprays for common colds.

So when the message reached earth that the Dominion War had started he took an assignment on board the USS Sarek as Assistant CMO, to aid the people that really needed him. After the War he went back to Earth to his wife and children. He had been away for two years and it took him a while to re-adjust to normal life again. But his witty character and his family helped a great deal.

One way or the other, the sense of adventure of being on a starship stuck in his mind. So when the opportunity came around to become CMO on the USS Pegasus, he applied immediately, after some discussion with his family ofcourse.

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Crew's Choice Award Feb. 2006