Cerine Duval

Lt (Jg) Cerine Duval serves as the Chief Science Officer aboard the USS Sacramento.

A published Cultural Anthropologist, Cerine has served as part of a First Contact Away Teams aboard the Intrepid – Class Vessel USS Fitzgerald, but due to her father’s ill health, she has opted for duty aboard a California – class vessel as its frequent stops at Starbase 72 means that Cerine can be closer to her father as he receives treatment.

Cerine is a reasoned, open – minded scientist and is endlessly fascinated in how different races who share a common cultural system organize and shape the physical and social world around them, and are in turn shaped by those ideas, behaviors, and physical environments. The second contact missions that the USS Sacramento engages in provide Cerine ample opportunity to indulge in this passion and running the small, but busy, sciences team keeps her more than busy.

Lt Duval is an observer of culture and behavior, making her an asset for any command.

If she has a failing it is that she sometimes can get too involved in the goal of her research to the detriment of all other considerations. As with most persons of high intellect, the state of her quarters sometimes looks like the Grav – plating has momentarily failed and is a testament to disorganization. In her work, however Cerine is meticulous.

Cerine has an easy – going personality and is acceptant of most cultures and behaviors – but cannot abide cruelty for its own sake.