Alfie McCallister-Reyas

Political Information

• Affiliation: Starfleet, United Federation of Planets

Family

• Father: James McCallister, Starfleet Rear Admiral, Flotilla Commander of the Odyssey Flotilla
• Mother: Karyn Reyas, Starfleet Captain of the USS Odyssey
• Brother: Theo McCallister-Reyas
• Brother: Henri McCallister-Reyas
• Fiancé: Jordan Luke Duncan-Court, Starfleet Cadet, USS Astra

Biography

Early Life

Born on the 16th of October, 2387, Alfie was the middle child of James and Karyn’s triplets. The McCallister-Reyas boys were the first children born on the brand-new USS Odyssey (NX-80000). Out of the three sons, Alfie was the quietest and easiest to get off to sleep as a baby. He reached his milestones quickly and would often respond better to stimuli. Growing up, he was a happy little boy who got on well with others his age at daycare. He rarely had any tantrums and was not a fussy eater. While still a toddler, Alfie’s father was reassigned to another vessel for one year. Though he missed his father, his periodic messages did not make him forget him. Like his brothers, Alfie became close with their mother and godfather, the ship’s chief of the boat and their father’s yeoman, Tobias Court.

As he got older, Alfie enjoyed participating in the various holo-novels his godfather played with him and his brothers. The three boys became big fans of The Adventures of Captain Proton and would often play this. For Alfie’s eighth birthday, his godfather even got him a replica of Proton’s rocketship and Satan’s Robot.

In childhood, Alfie showed a preference for quieter pursuits than his brothers, gravitating toward holo-novels, in particular The Adventures of Captain Proton, over the sports and music that interested Henri and Theo. He was more reserved socially and inclined toward independent activity, including accompanying Court on shipboard rounds.

Owing to his El-Aurian heritage, Alfie’s physical and cognitive development outpaced human norms considerably; by the age of twelve, in 2399, he presented with the maturity of a seventeen-year-old and consistently exceeded academic expectations for his age. That same year, the Odyssey sustained heavy damage during a Klingon attack in the Archanis Campaign. Alfie, his brothers, and their classmates were trapped by structural collapse and boarding parties before being rescued by a security team under Court’s command. Their teacher, S’Tefe, was killed during the incident. This was the first time Alfie and his brothers had witnessed someone dying. An image that they all found challenging to get over.

Starfleet Career

USS Odyssey (NCC-80000)

With his parents’ support, Alfie submitted an application to Starfleet and, while the Odyssey was operating in the Delta Quadrant, was granted a field commission as Acting Ensign by his father. On the day of his commission, the ship encountered the Quirennal, an alien ark governed by an isomorphic intelligence, which abducted nearly all adult personnel aboard, including his parents, to serve as caretakers for children held in stasis. As the sole ranking humanoid officer able to reach the bridge, Alfie, assisted by the ship’s cetacean operations personnel, authorised the emergency activation of Penelope, the Odyssey’s Emergency Command Hologram, and remained at her side to help stabilise the vessel. Following the return of then-Lieutenant Craigen Flemen and a small number of adult crew, secured through his father’s negotiations, Alfie assisted Flemen in the aftermath of the Quirennal’s escape and was subsequently appointed his yeoman upon Flemen’s promotion to lieutenant commander. Over the two months that followed, Alfie was instrumental in maintaining morale among the ship’s remaining youngsters and assisted in decoding a message from his father that led to a joint rescue plan with his uncle, Captain Horatio McCallister, and the USS Ithaca.

The incident, while formative, left lasting strain on his parents’ marriage, which became apparent to Alfie and his brothers following their return.

Some time later, while the Odyssey was operating in the Beta Quadrant, Karyn Reyas departed with a small crew to rescue Alfie’s grandmother from the Century Storm in the Paulson Nebula. During the operation, the Odyssey was struck by a chronokinetic surge that fractured the vessel across multiple timeframes. A future incarnation of Alfie, then serving as first officer under a future Captain Tomaz, assisted his father in restoring the correct timeline. In the course of the incident, the woman believed to be Karyn Reyas appeared to sacrifice herself to prevent a warp core breach, and was subsequently listed as Missing in Action when she failed to reappear following the timeline’s restoration. It was later established that this individual had in fact been a Changeling infiltrator who had assumed Karyn Reyas’s identity prior to the incident, a fact unknown to Alfie or his family at the time.

In recognition of his role in resolving the temporal incident, and with the vessel subsequently placed under review by the Department of Temporal Investigations, Alfie’s application to Starfleet Academy was fast-tracked, and he entered as a first-year cadet ahead of the standard timeline, bound thereafter by the Temporal Prime Directive.

During this period, Alfie formed a close friendship with Jorgeh, a Ryslanti child rescued from the Quirennal and later adopted by Tobias Court and his partner, then-Commander Max Duncan. The two shared a history of maternal loss under unusual circumstances, Jorgeh’s mother having had her consciousness uploaded into the Quirennal’s controlling isomorph, and grew close over their Academy training after Jorgeh, sponsored by James McCallister, also asked to join Starfleet.

When Jorgeh’s identity had to be changed so he would appear more ‘human’ to avoid being killed by the Hazari, Alfie helped him ensure that everything he said or did seemed more human. When Jorgeh became Jordan, Alfie started referring to him as ‘Jord ’-a nickname that Alfie had to explain to him what that was.

In 2401, during the Frontier Day attack, Alfie was among the younger Starfleet personnel who were forcibly transformed into drones after the last, apparent remaining Borg Queen, acting in concert with rogue Changeling infiltrators, used transporter coding to alter their genetic structure across most of Starfleet and the Federation. His final memory prior to being assimilated was of his father raising a phaser to stun him. He returned to active training following a period of counselling. In the aftermath, it was revealed that the individual who was his mother lost during the Century Storm incident had not been Karyn Reyas, and that the real Karyn Reyas had been held prisoner by the rogue Changelings throughout the intervening period before being recovered. Her return, compounded by grief Alfie had already processed for an individual who had never existed, left him emotionally unsettled for a period afterwards.

During this period of instability, Alfie had a brief affair with Cadet Beatrice Grant, who was then in a relationship with his closest friend, Jordan Duncan-Court. Following the end of the affair, an attempt to disclose the matter to Jordan was mishandled and instead led Jordan to believe Alfie held romantic feelings for him. A subsequent unplanned intimate encounter between the two prompted a candid conversation, after which they elected to preserve their friendship rather than pursue a relationship. Several months later, both acknowledged unresolved feelings for one another and began a romantic relationship, which they kept private for some time.

USS Astra

On the 1st of February, 2402, Alfie was among the cadets transferred from the Odyssey to the newly commissioned USS Astra (NCC-96894), a Protostar-class corvette assigned to the Odyssey Squadron as a dedicated cadet training ship. The move proved difficult for him personally; having spent his entire life aboard the Odyssey, Alfie struggled visibly with the separation from his parents and childhood home, a fact noted by both Jordan and the Astra’s commanding officer, Captain Niro. During the ship’s first mission, a survey of a gormagander herd and gas giant in the Swallow Nebula, Alfie contributed useful sensor analysis identifying the herd’s unusual behaviour and unnatural point of origin, before the mission was interrupted when the herd vanished, and the Astra itself was struck by an unexplained subspace displacement wave. This was later learned to have been created by Captain Zack Marshall-Bennet of the USS Destiny, who, after being transformed by a Nacene to become their partner and he rebelled, moved the entire Odyssey Squadron to the Nacene Reach of the Delta Quadrant, near planets like Talax, Rakosa and Kazon territory.

Several months later, during the Vaadwaur conflict, Alfie and his fellow cadets underwent intensive combat and crisis training, including a live boarding-defence scenario and a harrowing holodeck simulation depicting the destruction of the Odyssey and the deaths of much of its senior staff. Placed in command of the simulated evacuation, Alfie made the call to detonate the simulated Odyssey against a Vaadwaur flagship rather than attempt a rescue of his captured parents, a decision for which his training officers formally reprimanded him. The exercise provoked a serious rift between Alfie and Jordan, during which each accused the other of recklessness, and its emotional fallout coincided with the pair’s decision to formally disclose their relationship to their parents over dinner aboard the USS Ithaca, a reveal the family had, in fact, long since worked out on their own. During this crisis, the two decided to take a break from each other because the intensity had become too much for them.
Sometime after the Vaadwaur crisis, Alfie received a tattoo on his upper thigh depicting the outline of the USS Astra framed by the Starfleet delta, a mark shared by several of his fellow cadets to commemorate surviving their first major galactic conflict together.

Shortly thereafter, while the Astra assisted the Rakosans in surveying a reputedly haunted moon in the Nacene Reach, Alfie, Jordan, Scott Florrick, and Beatrice were caught in the effects of a dormant Nacene telepathic facility known as the Garden of Minds, which misidentified them as Ocampa (due to their young age) and drew their minds into a shared, linked hallucinatory state. The construct preyed on unresolved tensions within the group, chiefly a past physical involvement between Jordan and Scott during the prior break in Alfie and Jordan’s relationship, amplifying them into cruel, taunting visions that led to a physical altercation between Alfie and Scott. The four were freed only after cooperating to disable the facility from within, an experience that prompted Alfie to admit, for the first time, that his difficulty adjusting to life away from the Odyssey had made him withdrawn and difficult to be with. He and Jordan reconciled fully following the incident. Scott Florrick subsequently requested and was granted a transfer to the USS Orion.

By the end of 2402, Alfie and Jordan were on a routine training cruise when their shuttle suffered an unscheduled incident that forced them to crash-land on Talveya, a hidden Talaxian-Ocampan colony of over fifty thousand people concealed for more than a decade within the Nacene Reach. Their five days there, resolved without loss of life, led directly to the Federation’s first contact with the colony and a wave of diplomatic goodwill that followed them back to the Odyssey. The two cadets became genuinely well-liked figures among the colonists during their stay, including forming a bond with Elder Keritis, an Ocampa matriarch and mother to Ambassador Elaren. Their presence proved instrumental in Talveya’s ruling body agreeing to open formal diplomatic and trade relations with both the Federation and the Rakosan Republic.

During Prixin festivities held aboard the USS Odyssey, Alfie found himself drawn into a chaotic diplomatic incident when Elder Keritis made use of a talisman (later to be discovered to be of Nacene origin) that briefly caused Jordan and his father, Captain Max Duncan-Court, to swap bodies. Waking beside who he believed to be Jordan, Alfie unknowingly greeted Max in his son’s body with characteristic morning affection before the mistake became apparent to both of them, an awkward moment Alfie later worked through privately with Commander Flemen during one of their regular swims, a habit Alfie had kept up since his early Academy days as a way of steadying himself when things became overwhelming. Once the situation was understood, Alfie played an active role in helping track down Elder Keritis, correctly identifying her connection to the talisman from their prior time together and volunteering, alongside Tobias Court, to assist Commander Horin in locating her, all while keeping the true cause of the incident from the rest of the Astra’s cadets to avoid further complicating an already delicate set of trilateral talks between the Talaxian, Rakosan, and Ocampa delegations. The swap was resolved without lasting incident, and the festivities concluded with Alfie proposing to Jordan, who accepted.

In early 2403, during a squadron-wide crisis in the Tenarus Cluster, the USS Orion recovered a survivor from a shuttle exhibiting anomalous chroniton and quantum signatures, later identified as Preston McCallister-Reyas-Hart, the son of an alternate-universe counterpart of Alfie from a war-scarred parallel reality. That counterpart, an older Alfie McCallister-Reyas-Hart commanding a parallel USS Odyssey, had lost his husband, Parker, and was driving a mission to prevent a catastrophic future at any cost, including opening fire on Federation vessels. Alfie and Jordan were present on the bridge throughout the resulting standoff, which was ultimately resolved through diplomacy led by his parents, with the alternate Alfie standing down and his ship escorted safely back to its own reality.

Two months later, the Astra, alongside the rest of the Odyssey Squadron, assisted in the Tenarus Cluster after a Kazon sub-sect’s attempt to open an underspace aperture went wrong, flooding and poisoning the surrounding area with dangerously high levels of tetryon radiation and other subspace radiations. While the rest of the squadron worked to help planets and other bases, the Astra was assigned the role of rescuing any stranded small craft and shuttles caught in the fallout. Before the incident ended, Alfie and a team of fellow cadets, led by their instructors, spent several days climbing through an extensive cave system in search of a group of missing Talaxian traders who had taken shelter underground. The team eventually located the missing Talaxians and beamed them safely back to the Astra.

Due to the high amount of damage every ship in the squadron took, they all returned to the Alpha Quadrant several days later to receive much-needed repairs and refits. While the ships were docked at the Avalon Fleet Yards, all crew were given shore leave. Alfie and his fellow cadets went on holiday to the Halcyon Bay resort on Colludia II, where he and Jordan spent time relaxing alongside their friends amid the wider festivities surrounding Warp 5 Forward’s concert at the nearby Colludea Grand Stadium, fronted by Alfie’s brother Theo. The trip offered a rare stretch of normalcy and unguarded happiness for Alfie as he got to spend some time with his brothers, who had left the Odyssey eighteen months prior to study their chosen careers on Cestus III.

Before Jordan and Alfie entered their fourth year as cadets, they took a private vacation to Risa, spending their time there exploring the planet’s culture and traditions together as an engaged, soon-to-be-married couple. It was a rare stretch of uninterrupted peace for them both, away from Starfleet duties and the wider chaos of Academy life.