Commander Aisling Bangerjee

Name Aisling Bangerjee

Position Executive Officer

Rank Commander

Basic Info
Personality
History

Character Information

Gender		Female
Species		Human
Age		34

Physical Appearance

Height		153cm
Weight		44kg
Hair Color		Dark Brown
Eye Color		Pale Green
Physical Description		Aisling is an attractive woman whose skin ranges from gold to a light brown depending upon how much sun she receives. she possesses thick dark brown hair often worn in a bun and stunning green eyes, She possesses and athletic, almost wiry frame and almost vibrates with barely suppressed energy.

Family

Father		Ronan Canavan
Mother		Chandani
Sister(s)		Anjali
Other Family		Indira (niece), Leya (niece), Nayanthara (niece), Qiyara (niece), Nolan Canavan (uncle)

Personality & Traits

Strengths & Weaknesses		Aisling’s biggest strength is her organizational and leadership skills which she exhibited during her Academy days. She is a talented strategist (although she feels she falls far short of the legends) and although she will admit it to no one she would love to create the “Banerjee Maneuver”. Her open and friendly manner are considered strengths when it comes to negotiation and first contact situations Aisling has always been mediocre at best in most sciences. And her open and friendly manner means it is difficult for her to bluff her way through situations as she is quite easy to read.
Ambitions		Aisling aspires to someday become and Admiral but she is in no particular hurry to get there. There’s a huge universe out there to see and she can experience it sitting behind an Admiral’s desk.
Hobbies & Interests		Aisling is a voracious reader and as a result possesses an eclectic knowledge on a wide range of subjects, from the history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to the mating habits of the Mugato. Much of this is due to her performing extensive research for her principle hobby: writing. Aisling has written numerous works of fiction, mostly in the mystery/adventure genres and often taking place in earlier eras. Most of her works involve humans but one of her earlier novels, The Caves of Blood, takes place on Andor. Aisling acquired extensive fencing skills when she researched her romance/adventure novel Love’s Eternal Champion, about a French Musketeer who is treacherously slain and whose life force returns in modern times to protect the woman he loved who had also been reincarnated. It was one of her first works and she is tremendously embarrassed by it, but nevertheless she learned a great deal about the schools of Earth fencing and handles a blade rather well and spends a few hours every week practicing. Otherwise her combat skills and marksmanship with the phaser are mediocre at best: if pressed she will instantly got for vitals and eyes, screaming all the way. Aisling is a middling poker player due in large part both to her horrible poker face, but she excels at Bridge, Rummy,Gin Rummy, Euchre, Hearts, and Cribbage. She learned Whist for a book she never quite finished, but never actually had an opportunity to play it with anyone. She is a skilled Backgammon player and is utterly ruthless at Parcheesi; when sending someone home she will viciously whip their piece across the room, a habit she picked up from playing with her family. Aisling sees the holodeck not as a source of recreation, at least not for herself. She recognizes the therapeutic value of simulating a planetary environment for psychological reasons or as a training tool for combat simulations or harsh environment training, but she would much rather read a book or play a friendly game of cards or graciously lose a chess game.

Personal History

Ever since she had been a little girl Aisling was raised on stories of derring-do from her uncle who had served as a crewman on Starfleet vessels. A young girl with a fertile imagination, she joined Starfleet and despite barely squeaking with poor scores she proved to be someone who got by through sheer determination. Her instructors were impressed by her drive as well as her early organizational and leadership skills and when confronted with tactical problems often came up with creative results. She truly caught the notice of her instructors when she created the “tutoring pool” where she skillfully paired up cadets struggling in some subjects with people willing to help in exchange for help in other subjects. She had worked out extensive spread sheets and schedules and even talked four cadets into toughing it out rather than quitting (All four graduated, one became an executive officer). Her solution for the Kobayshi Maru was to ram the lead ship and in the chaos use tractor beams from her shuttles to drag the escape pods free. It did not work but her attempt to “Hadenbeer” her way to victory was novel and caused her tactical instructors to truly take notice. Her slight build made her a poor choice for security and she was gently nudged into more technical fields where if she did not exactly excel she proved to be competent in. Her first true adventure was when she was a fourth year cadet when on a training cruise she managed to save the life of one of her classmates when he was accused of murdering a merchant on a space station and the authorities were quite happy to pin it on him. Through deductive reasoning and with the help of several officers in different departments whom she persuaded to aid her in her investigation she figured out the murder was in fact an elaborate suicide designed to incriminate the station's chief of security and when the woman figured out the plot but could not prove it was a suicide she was more than eager to find a patsy. The rescue of Aisling’s friend earned her a commendation. This was the first of many adventures Aisling enjoyed. It was not that she was looking for trouble: it just seemed it found her.

Aisling was not looking for command, instead it found her. While serving as Chief of Operations on the Luna class vessel Cygni the ship suffered a catastrophic disaster when a “quantum string” sliced through the top two decks of the vessel, killing the entire senior staff save for her and the Chief Engineering officer. Aisling managed to get the vessel and surviving crew home even after a contingent of Cardassian separatists attempted to take the crippled vessel. Aisling had managed to use the sole remaining shuttle as makeshift weapon, employing the tractor beam to throw the ship at the Cardassian vessel and then detonating the three photon torpedoes stored on it. Cygni made it home and was decommissioned and Aisling received a promotion, but in a way part of her never left that vessel and to this day she wears a black bindi upon her forehead to honor her old Captain and friends.