William Hume

Early Years (2376 – 2394)

William Hume was adopted into the Hume family, a family with a long tradition of serving in Starfleet. With both of his adopted parents serving on different vessels there was little chance to birth a child and so after having their eldest Victoria, they had begun to explore various other options to grow their family. William’s biological parents had been killed in an emergency shuttle accident while enroute to give birth to him.

His formative years were spent at his adoptive mother’s side at Starbase 11, which was felt to be a stable environment for the youngest child. His sister Victoria lived with their father aboard his vessel a Galaxy class ship. On the starbase he attended school, but returned to Earth at the start of grade eight to live with his aunt and attend an Earth based high school in the Hume’s earth home of Vancouver. The Hume children’s father died during the Dominion War. William was not as close, having not lived with his father extensively at any point.

He found that he fit in well on Earth and played on the second line of the high school ice hockey team, and ran track and field. He also found that his sister, something of an over achiever, at times cast a long shadow which was difficult to fight out from under.

Though it went unsaid the pressure of expectation was that he would enroll in Starfleet Academy after graduation. Though she had her own doubts about her future, his sister was already there and William felt that this additional burden to live up to his family legacy because he was adopted. He thus gave up a small hockey scholarship to attend a college in America and applied for Starfleet.

Academy Years (2395 – 2399)

William attended Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. There his easy going laid back nature helped him make friends and he had an expansive social circle. His grades tended to be middle of the road, he never stood out for being either extremely clever or extremely problematic. Though not dumb by any means he tended to be better at physical duties and courses and won a few medals as a member of the Academy’s track and field team.

Instructors steered him toward security and operations as particular fields of study and by his final year he had set a security officer’s career goal for himself.

Service Years (2400 – )

Assigned out of the Academy to the USS John Lennon as a security Ensign was William’s first posting. He served there capably before being transferred to the USS Anaheim where he eventually became Assistant Chief Security Officer. On his second mission with the Anaheim to colony world Hahana III Hume took charge of a defensive phaser battery managing to protect the colony from a suspected pirate atrack while under fire from a ship in orbit. His bravery and quick acations helped to save hundreds of civilian lives while risking his own and he was subsequently promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade.