Jaime Taylor

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Jaime had a rough life. His parents split up when he was a kid, and his mom raised him herself. She worked in a school as a lunchroom aide, and money was ALWAYS tight. He doesn’t really know his father, Andrew. Anyway, Jamie was often in trouble, legally and physically, being a weak, small kid until later in life. He barely graduated from High School, and loafed around awhile, meeting girls and playing games before he found a pamphlet in some things his mother had given him that had been his fathers. The pamphlet was a recruitment flyer for a space program. No, not Starfleet, but instead, a private group of bounty hunters called The Academie. The Academie ended up being less “bounty hunting” and more “space privateering”. He came aboard the ship as their Chief Logistics Officer-he thought his father may have joined this group, and was more or less looking for him. His good looks and distaste for authority figures fast made him an enemy of many people-Federation, Borg, Cardassian-anyone he crossed. His sexual conquests spanned the known galaxy, but it was back on Earth that his true love lay. Before joining the Academie, he was dating and engaged to marry a woman, Jennifer Woods. She was killed in a car accident on her University campus the week before Christmas, and Jamie lost his mind over it. He fell into the bottle, where he’s been for the last, oh, twenty years, with short bouts of sobriety when he’s on a mission or somesuch. He’s good friends with the Harrisons, as he briefly dated Lucy, and she introduced the two men.

He eventually flushed out of the Acadamie due to his drinking problems, and found himself back on Earth. He went to school for a while, which is where he met Lucy Harrison (back then, she was Thomas), and had a brief relationship with her. She left to take a job in government service, and he fell back into his bottles and dropped out of school. Later, at a Christmas party, he ran into Lucy again, this time with her new boyfriend, Roger Harrison, and Roger told him about the Starfleet Academy. Seeing no better options in his future, and hoping to win Lucy back over, he decided to join, and did so the following semester. He did OK, a middling student, and graduated in the middle of his class, the year behind Roger (who, by then, had married Lucy, much to his sadness and regret). From there, he went into the Fleet in the midst of the Dominion war, and earned some minor accolades for his “bravery” (his words. The Fleet said “stupidity”) in fighting the Cardassians. From there, he moved swiftly up the ranks, being actually a good OFFICER, if not so great a man.