Kate Foster (KIA)
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| Name: | Katelyn Jessica Foster | ||
| Rank: | Lieutenant Junior Grade | ||
| Position: | Chief Surgeon | ||
| Species: | Human | ||
| Age: | 27 | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Orientation: | Pansexual | ||
| Birthplace: | Anchorage | ||
| Height: | 5ft 5in / 1.65m | ||
| Weight: | 115lbs / 52kg | ||
| Hair: | Blonde | ||
| Eye color: | Tangerine | ||
| Played by: | Kristen Stewart | ||
| Writer: | Swift | ||
| Interests | |||
| Physical Training Extreme Sports Acoustic Guitar Martial Arts Sculpting Dancing | |||
| Education | |||
| 2369-2373: Irene Bedard High Schoool 2373-2375: Starfleet Medical | |||
| Service Record | |||
| 2375: Ensign, Junior Surgical Assistant, USS Aphrodite NCC-77229 2375: Ensign, Combat Medic / Field Surgeon, Siege of AR-558 | |||
| Decorations | |||
| 2375: Starfleet Purple Heart Medal 2375: Starfleet Medal of Gallantry | |||
Kate Foster was a deeply flawed young woman who chose not to hide her flaws from the world, but rather to wear them on her sleeve in acceptance of the role they’d played in making her who she was. A firery and often times impulsive individual, she was at times considered to be somewhat selfish in her considerations yet displayed an excellent level of skillful and attentive care for those patients under her stead.
She came from a broken family and was the eldest daughter of a renowned scoundrel who had married a bevy of vulnerable young women across Federation space. She struggled mightily with an addiction to the illicit narcotic, Refined Felicium, which began during her adolescent years, and later resurfaced during her adulthood, coming at great cost to her personal ambitions and career. Though however cruel fate had been to her in her youth, she still felt she’d owed it a great debt for having spared her death on many occasions, and as such had adopted a great measure of attentive care for her patients. Patients whom she had proven herself willing to go to great lengths to treat and bring comfort during the prolonged Siege of AR-558 during the Dominion War, in 2375. It was on AR-558 where she’d demonstrated courage beyond what was expected of her and earned a reputation that would later have served her well in life and her career.
In early 2381, as she approached the end of a two-year assignment aboard the USS Shelby, she was contacted in secrecy by the Uncle of a young man whom she’d saved during the Siege of AR-558, that uncle was the director of Starfleet Intelligence, Rear Admiral Joseph Nerva Anderson. Disclosed of the truth of the USS Theurgy, where her own half-brother had been stationed some years earlier, she’d immediately departed to join the mission there, adamant in her resolve to contribute to what she considered a noble effort, and to also to discover the fate of her half-brother.
2354-2373: Early Life, Earth
Katelyn Jessica Foster was born in Anchorage, Alaska on Earth on April 3, 2354. The daughter of a con-man, smuggler, and womanizer by the name of Stellan Foster I, and the erotic-dancer he’d taken as his second wife, Heather. Kate was the second of Stellan’s children, though the first and only mothered by Heather, as his previous child, Kate’s half-brother Stellan II, had been born of a Betazoid woman that the man had taken as his first wife. Stellan I had come to Anchorage after divorcing his first wife, as it had served as a port of illicit trade for him in his illegal smuggling operations to and from the Federation home world, and it was there that he’d later met his second wife at a local men’s entertainment establishment. With his favored child in tow, Kate’s father settled on Earth for a few brief years where he ran his illicit operations, before he divorced Kate’s mother in 2358, and left with his son to move to Fairius Prime.
However, during the brief four years they were together, Kate and Stellan II had planted the seeds of a healthy sibling dynamic, in which the younger looked up to the older for guidance and care in the absence of traditional parenting. It was a dynamic that would eventually flower and bloom for a short time, before wilting away under the strain of their troubled youths.
Abandoned by her father, Kate and her mother’s lives for many years grew increasingly difficult, as they’d lived in a particularly rough area of Anchorage, a far cry from the ideal vision of peace and prosperity that had enveloped most if not the entirety of the rest of the Federation home world. Owing a great sum of credit to a plethora of less than savory groups that ran a number of illicit establishments, all with the unofficial approval of corrupted local Federation representatives, Kate’s mother was forced to continue her work as an erotic-dancer, and even as a personal escort at other more desperate times. It meant that Kate was often surrounded by many of these unsavory types of people, exposed to behaviors and attitudes that were not exactly ideal for an impressionable girl her age. Worse still, her mother was forced to work at various and often all times of the day, which meant that Kate was alone for much of her childhood, save for the few times when her half-brother was foisted off unto the care of Kate’s mother by her father, whenever he’d needed someone to look after the young man for a few days.
Though these brief additional times shared with her half-brother grew increasingly fleeting in their occurrence as her father soon re-married and began a third family.
A few years later, Kate’s half-brother returned to Earth to attend University, and the two of them attempted to rekindle their sibling dynamic, though they both soon discovered how much they had each changed. They began to fight incessantly, which only further strained Kate’s development as she approached her adolescence. An adolescence that was saw her become increasingly frustrated with her place in life, and how life seemed so difficult for her, in comparison to that of her friends and schoolmates. Her quick to temper nature eventually leading her to be ostracized by the last of her good-natured friends, leaving her further isolated from anything that had a good impact on her as she began to grow into a young woman. Where those good-natured friends had been, more unscrupulous ones appeared, and it wasn’t long until a teenage Kate began to experiment with the illicit narcotic, Refined Felicium.
In its raw form, Felic was a grain first harvested on the planet Brekka, which was later refined into a vaccine known as Felicium, which had been created to prevent the spread of a plague on a nearby neighboring world, sometime in the latter half of the 22nd Century. This Felicium was found to have an almost sedative effect, similar to that of narcotics made from opiates on ancient Earth, and by the 2330s, Felicium was being further refined into a highly addictive narcotic that would induce the utmost intense feelings of euphoria and pleasure within its users. As such, it became highly desirable, and was sold as an explicitly illegal drug all throughout Federation space by smugglers and drug-peddlers alike. For his own part, Kate’s father had overseen a number of illegal distribution operations and sales networks for the drug and had even himself dabbled in its use during the years that he had been an influence on her.
Having witnessed her father use the narcotic, sometimes having influenced her mother partake as well, Kate was set up to fall down a similar path from the onset.
Yet as infrequent as her early experimenting with the drug had originally been, it would later devolve into abuse and an addiction to it, when Kate’s younger half-sister, Sierra came to live with her and her mother in 2369. Sierra’s own mother had fallen victim to another of her father’s fits of fancy, divorced in the same year, and unlike Kate’s mother had been unable to cope with raising a daughter on her own, and instead opted to take her own life. Having sensed an obligation to do the right thing, Kate’s mother adopted young Sierra, unaware of the negative effect it would have on Kate, who had already felt as though she were overwhelmed with the difficulties of a troubled adolescence, and feared that things would only get worse for her with having to care for a younger sibling.
By 2369, Kate’s abuse of Refined Felicium had reached the point in which she’d experienced one of the permanent side-effects associated with it, as her naturally green-eyes color-shifted to that of tangerine. A common result of abusers, when Refined Felicium micro-particles migrate throughout the bloodstream and settle in the irises, which when reaching a high-enough concentration causes a chemical reaction that alters the pigment of them. It is an outwardly visible side-effect that makes abusers readily identifiable, and in turn led to the discovery of Kate’s addiction by her family. She was then promptly admitted to a rehabilitation clinic, from which she wouldn’t return for three-months; the standard minimum period of time which is necessary for those who are addicted to adapt to the feelings of withdraw associated with being sober.
However, upon her release from rehab, Kate’s ability to remain sober waivered almost immediately as she had fallen back in with the same crowd of unsavory characters that had helped her maintain her habit in the first place. This would soon after, have tragic circumstances for Kate’s life, as it directly led to the accidental drowning death of Sierra, her younger half-sister. Kate, who was supposed to be watching after her sister as she swam in the creek out behind her home, was rendered nearly comatose by the narcotic, and failed to react when Sierra was swept away by currents. Her lifeless body would wash ashore some distance away, and in the immediate aftermath it was determined how high on Felicium that Kate had been at the time. Once again admitted into a rehabilitation center, additional negative impacts began to take hold in her life, as her mother, coping with the loss of Sierra, and with the troubles facing Kate, developed her own addiction to the narcotic.
Upon returning from her second stint in rehab, Kate had found that her mother’s eyes had also color-shifted, revealing said addiction and abuse of Refined Felicium. However, whereas Kate’s mother had helped Kate to try and fight the addiction before, she was now hopeless resigned to it after the tragic death of Sierra. Kate in turn, offered little support of her mother as she struggled with the addiction, fearful that it might cause her own relapse, and so she withdrew from her. The once warm relationship between them had coldened, to the point where they barely spoke to one another. Seeking out isolation from what she saw as a bad influence on her ability to remain sober, Kate heavily engaged in her schooling, rising to the very top of her class academically, until she graduated from High School as Valedictorian in 2373.
After High School, with such high grades, Kate expressed an interest in joining Starfleet Medical, and applied.
Unbeknownst to her, she had originally been rejected due to her past, but Kate’s mother in turn brokered an unpleasant arrangement with a corrupt admissions Officer, and Kate was accepted.
2373-2375: Starfleet Medical
Once admitted to Starfleet Medical, Kate had trouble from the onset, though not from an academic front, where she’d excelled, but rather from an emotional and personal standpoint. She routinely clashed with other students as impatience fueled her already somewhat considerable temper, and she exhibited a propensity to offer unwanted or unwarranted criticisms of a most unfair and unkind variety. Were it not for her natural talents as a skilled and steady hand, and the emergence of the Dominion War, she likely would have been washed out due to her sometimes overly abrasive personality. But, as skilled and as knowledgeable as she was, and having demonstrated an aptitude for battlefield triage and surgery, she quickly found herself granted an early commissioning, as the necessity of medical personnel surged to absolutely paramount levels during the latter course of the war.
2375: First Assignment, USS Aphrodite
Commissioned as an Ensign, Kate was briefly assigned to the Nova-class USS Aphrodite as Junior Surgical Assistant, where she could gain some actual practical experience while the Aphrodite transitioned from a Science vessel, to that of a small and fast makeshift hospital ship. This assignment though was always intended to be temporary, and in fact didn’t last much longer than a few weeks, as the war effort began to make a turn for the worse, and the call came out for medical volunteers to assist in the holding of a captured Dominion communications outpost on the barren world of AR-558, and as inexperienced and impulsive as she was, Kate had stepped forward.
2375: The Siege, AR-558
Five months of utter Hell. That’s what the prolonged battle that would come to be known as the Siege of AR-558 was, and for Kate Foster this was all too apt. As after she had volunteered to go planet side during the battle, in order to supplement Starfleet ground personnel stationed there, she immediately saw her mettle as a battlefield triage medic and surgeon put to the test. A test that would rarely relent, as there would be next to no relief for the Starfleet forces. Kate was faced with unending and vicious fighting interspersed by prolonged periods of tending to wounded men and women, many of whom had little to no chances of survival. Indeed, many would perish under her dutiful and surprisingly tender care, as the Starfleet forces were cut off from the outside, and there was simply no chance of evacuating the severely wounded. It was a most trying ordeal for her, but she persevered in the face of the incredible adversity, and earned a reputation among her weathered friends and colleagues as someone who would run into the direct line of fire to try and save as many lives as she could. A reputation that would almost claim her life however, as during one such brazen attempt to treat a fallen comrade, she was ambushed by a shrouded Jem’Hadar, and bayonetted through her abdomen.
Left to bleed out, she’d given into unconsciousness only to awaken sometime later under the care of those whom she’d cared for previously. Miraculously she’d survived and would in fact see the end of the Siege, when a relief force landed, and evacuated Kate and the other injured.
Kate would later be awarded the Starfleet Purple Heart Medal for her injuries sustained, and the Starfleet Medal of Gallantry for her courageous behavior exhibited in saving the lives of her comrades.
2375: Second Assignment, USS Galaxy
After AR-558, and a relatively short period of time in which she recovered from her injuries, Kate was assigned as a Senior Surgical Assistant aboard the Galaxy-class USS Galaxy, where she would finish out the rest of the Dominion War, furthering her knowledge of Medicine, and improving her skills as a surgeon. It was during this posting aboard the USS Galaxy, when in the aftermath of the brief battle waged above Cardassia Prime, that she’d performed life-saving surgery on a young wounded Ensign that had been recovered from lifeboats of the destroyed USS Poseidon. That Ensign, an engineer by the name of Lee Anderson, was the nephew of one Rear Admiral Joseph Nerva Anderson, and it is that one life saved that would have a dramatic effect on her life much later on.
2375-2376: Cardassian Relief Efforts, Cardassia Prime
As the war came to a close, Kate was transferred to the surface of Cardassia Prime, where relief efforts were already under way for the devastated home world, which had seen such immense carnage wrought by the Dominion as punishment for their betrayal. She would spend six-months on Cardassia, treating hundreds of wounded Cardassian civilians, before being recalled back to Federation space.
For the role she played in relief efforts of the Cardassian people, Kate was awarded the Starfleet Medal of Mercy.
2376-2377: Third Assignment, USS Zürich
Promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade, Kate was assigned to the Norway-class USS Zürich as Chief Surgeon. Set to begin an extended tour of science and exploration, she settled into a more routine pattern of life that she’d not experienced before. However, this assignment wouldn’t last as upon learning of the death of her mother from an accidental overdose, Kate was consumed by an inconsolable sorrow and herself relapsed into habitual abuse of Refined Felicium. When this habitual use was discovered by other Medical Personnel, Kate was suspended from duty, and removed her posting.
2377: General Court Martial, Earth
Returning home, Kate was charged with dereliction of duty, and endangering the lives of her fellow crewmen by performing surgery while under narcotics. During her trial, Kate’s defense attorney called on the testimonials of a number of people who’s lived she had saved during the Siege of AR-558, and other subsequent conflicts. They painted the picture of a woman who was haunted by the harrows of playing such a vital role in whether or not someone lived, often times literally feeling someone’s life slip away from them as she desperately tried to save them. The tragic death of her mother playing the final lynchpin her relapse to abuse, and though she was found guilty of the first charge of dereliction of duty, which carried a far less severe penalty, she was found innocent of the second charge of endangering the lives of her fellow crewmen, a charge which would have called for her dismissal from Starfleet. As penalty, she was demoted in rank, and mandated to a Starfleet Medical Health and Wellness center on Vulcan, where she would go through a strenuous ten-month rehabilitation program.
Her reputation shot, her rank reduced, and her career stalled, perhaps the greatest loss sustained as a result of her relapse, was that of whatever shred of civility that had remained between her, and her half-brother; as he had testified against her during her court-martial, declaring in his personal and professional opinion, that she was unfit to continue to wear the uniform.
2378-2380: Fourth Assignment, USS Ontario
Demoted to Ensign, Kate was assigned to the Excelsior-class USS Ontario as a Junior Surgeon. She knew she needed to fly straight, and under the radar aboard the Ontario, as it was considered a relatively prestigious posting. The Ontario had served as the flagship of Rear Admiral Peter Miles during the Dominion War, who had come to be recognized as something of a War Hero. Under the radar she flew, keeping her nose clean, but she carried with her a stigma that made it difficult to make friends and companions. Her general sometimes offputting behavior compounding issues for her. Still, she would repair her professional reputation somewhat, as though at peace, conflict still found the Federation in the form of skirmishes unfolding throughout the region of space known as ‘The Malestrom’. As Federation, Cardassian, and Klingon forces struggled over the revelation of a previously unknown pocket of populated worlds, where an enigmatic species known as the Kessok resided.
As the conflict waged onward, the Ontario arrived within ‘The Maelstrom’ and coordinated the efforts of Federation, Klingon, and eventually Kessok forces against rogue Cardassian elements that were attempting to steal a piece of dangerous Kessok technology.
2380-2381: Fifth Assignment, USS Shelby
Having proven herself once more, Kate was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade once more, and assigned as Chief Surgeon aboard the Saber-class USS Shelby, where she could further restore her reputation as a reliable and skilled surgeon. Not nearly as prestigious a position, the relative peace of the Shelby’s role as an advanced scout ship something that Kate desperately yearned for, and she would come to later have appreciated the time spent aboard the small ship, as it helped her come to terms with who she was, and the things of her past that had shaped who she was. As her assignment aboard Shelby came to an end, she was granted a chance at attending a Medical Conference on Starbase-211, where new surgical techniques were to be demonstrated, and so she went.
2381: Sixth Assignment, USS Theurgy
Kate was contacted while attending that Medical Conference on Starbase-211, by Rear Admiral Joseph Nerva Anderson. Anderson would reveal to the young Medical Officer the apparent truth of the USS Theurgy and ordered her to seek it out so as to supplement their efforts to undermine the Parasitic Threat that was facing Starfleet. Recognizing the nobility of the cause, and the chance to uncover the fate of her half-brother that had been serving aboard Theurgy prior to its rogue status, Kate boarded a freighter which took her to Deep Space K-7, and from there a journey aboard the IKS ChunDab and IKS Vor’Nak brought her to the Epsilon Mynos system. Only upon her arrival, had she discovered that the ship needed a new Chief Surgeon, as Theurgy’s Dr. Maya, with her extensive knowledge of the infested sought to aid Klingon High Chancellor Martok, and had volunteered for secondment within the Klingon Defense Forces.
Personality Profile
Kate was a brash, often contemptuous individual who was prone to acts of sheer impulsiveness. She had trouble affording patience for others, was quick to temper, and held grudges with the very best of them. Outwardly, she wore her flaws openly as a means of expressing her belief that though she was flawed, she was not without worth or merit. It was something of an implicit challenge to others for them to see beyond her exterior. When in the right mood, she was also found to be a downright blast to be around, which resulted from her youth when she was prone to the proclivities of a partying lifestyle, proclivities that still persisted into her adulthood. Professionally, she’d extended the utmost respect and attention to her patients, and demonstrated the skill and mannerisms of someone with as vital and serious a profession as hers; all a part of owning up to the immense burden of guilt and regret she internally harbored over the events of her troubled past.
Physical Profile
Kate was relatively short at only 1.65m in height and maintained a slender and lithe build. Often prone to engage in aggressive forms of physical activity, she maintained a decent physicality for her modest size. Her most prominent features were that of her color-shifted eyes, which almost seemed aglow with an artificial tangerine hue; a permanent side-effect of past abuse of the narcotic, Refined Felicium. And, whereas other addicts have cosmetically altered their eyes back to their natural color post addiction, Kate had instead opted against this, having decided to not hide her past struggles from the world. She had worn them as an outwardly visible sign of the flawed young woman she was, unafraid of them, as those flaws had helped make her into the unique person that she was. For her personal style, she also preferred to wear her dyed blonde hair in an asymmetrical fashion, with it often cascaded unevenly down across the right periphery of her face. Additionally, Kate has a number of tattoos across her body, each with a unique significance to a part of her and her past.
Tattoos: #1: The logo of a particular brand of illicit Refined Felicium, it can be found on the underside of her right forearm. #2: “VALOR GROWS BY DARING, FEAR BY HOLDING BACK”, a quotation of Publilius Syrus. It can be found in script down the length of the underside of her left forearm. #3: “SIERRA”, the name of her deceased younger sister. It can be found in script at the base of her left wrist. #4: “MMCCCLV”, the year of her birth in roman numerals. It can be found just beneath her left hip bone. #5: The emblem of Starfleet Medical. It can be found at the base of her right wrist. #6: A serpent design. It can be found beginning on the outside of her right ankle, leading down over the side of her right foot. #7: Angel Wings. They can be found nestled between her shoulder blades on her back, just below the base of her neck. #8: Pansexual Symbol. Can be found just behind her left earlobe.
Special Notes
Resultant from her teenage years, when she abused the illicit narcotic known as Refined Felicium, Kate was rendered permanently addicted to the drug. She will struggle with the addiction for the rest of her life, as there is no known cure for the manner in which the narcotic effects and alters the DNA sequencing of an abuser. As such, she is required to take a daily supplement that tempers the effects of withdraw to a manageable level. Without the use of this supplement, withdraw symptoms would gradually increase over the course of 72-hours, rendering her in an almost crippling state of physical and emotional anguish.
Appearances
Aldean Prime Anthology
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Season 02, Episode 01: Advent of War
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