Giovanni D'Antonio

Early Life

Giovanni D’Antonio was born in Florence on the 15th of February in 2333 and grew up speaking English, Italian, Spanish, and Arabic in a multiethnic home. The son of a Starfleet Admiral, and Fleet Captain, who had long since transferred from deep space exploration after almost thirty years on starships. His mother a Vice-Admiral, and his father a Fleet Captain, would serve on board a variety of stations, and outposts including McKinley Station, Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Jupiter Station, and Starbase 47, commuting from the planet’s surface daily. Frequently D’Antonio’s parents would allow him to accompany them into orbit. By age ten, he had resolved to follow in his parents footsteps and join Starfleet.

Starfleet Academy

He with the help of his parents would join Starfleet on the first try, and would study small-group tactics but later that same year the Academy would be attacked by the Breen killing some of De Luca’s friends including his girlfriend a vulcan named, V’Las. This attack would drive De Luca into switching career paths, and joining Starfleet Medical Academy to learn how to become a nurse.

Medical School

De Luca joined Starfleet Medical Academy in 2379 to further his medical knowledge. He would stay there for three years, driven by the sadness, and anger he felt for not helping his friends during the breen attack on the Academy. After talking with his mother he realized that medical was not what he wanted to do with his career and would transfer to the command division and with a recommendation from Dr. Katelyn Simmonds who was head of Starfleet Medical, would be placed aboard a Sutherland-class starship the Jacksonville as its Flight Control Officer.

Starfleet Career

Early Career

His first posting out of the Academy was to be the Flight Control Office aboard the Sutherland-class starship Jacksonville. The following year, De Luca was part of an away team during a second contact mission in the region when rogue Cardassian elements attacked the team. Goodman saved the first officer by pushing him out of the way of a phaser blast and was commended and promoted to lieutenant commander in the process, and would be transferred to the Tallahassee as its new executive officer.

USS Tallahassee | (2383 – 2390)

In 2383, De Luca was promoted to lieutenant commander, and made the executive officer of the Tallahassee he would serve in this position until the commanding officer of the Tallahassee was killed aboard a shuttle heading for a planet’s surface due to computer malfunction. After this accident he was promoted to commander, due to him remaining calm and getting his crew under control. He was made the commanding officer of the Tallahassee and would serve in this position for four years, before he would be promoted to captain in 2389, remaining in command of the Tallahassee. In 2390, he and most of his crew would be placed on a leave of absence from Starfleet.