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|''' Caption:'''
| style="background:#F5F5F5;text-align:center; "| Commodore Jessica Galagher in 2404, 
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| '''Gender:'''
| style="background:#F5F5F5;text-align:center; "|Female
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| '''Species:'''
| style="background:#F5F5F5;text-align:center; "|[[Humanity|Human]] (''Haida''), [[Vulcans|Vulcan]], [[Betazoid]]
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| ''' Father:'''
| style="background:#F5F5F5;text-align:center; "|Devon Galagher 
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| ''' Mother:'''
| style="background:#F5F5F5;text-align:center; "|Shar'ra
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'''Jessica Raven Galagher''' is currently the deputy director of [[Starfleet Re-Development Operations]] and holds the rank of commodore. She is reknowned in the [[Federation]] in her role as captain of the starship ''[[USS Vendetta]]'' for re-establishing contact with many lost worlds and races of the Federation since the end of the [[Borg War]].

==Personal Background==
===Early Years===

She was born in Skidegate, on [[Earth]] in 2366 and born of Devon Galagher and [[Vulcan]] minister Shar'ra, Jessica was expected to be a lot of things, one of them being an engineer like her family. So she like most of her family did spend several hours in the engineering department of their family ship yards on Haida Gwaii.

Jessica's mother being named ironically the same name as her Aunt Sharra Jameson was half Vulcan and half Haida so it was not surprising that the union between Galagher and Shar'ra would occur. Jessica was much like her father in her strong firm hold on command situation or silent discipline. There was more Vulcan in her manner then her other siblings which total seven.

Jessica has taken every aspect in training including the engineering and flight/navigations. She has also taken the robes of the Vulcan monk hood in her early years, but changed her mind after awhile as she could not stand being closed off to the universe and its mysteries.

===Before 2400===

At the age of 22 she joined [[Starfleet]] to continue her training as an engineer or a flight ops officer. It was suggested to her to try to do the challenge tests as well like the rest of the Galagher clan. It was expected that she would pass with flying colours. She passed all right but not with flying colours. This was a mild shock to her family, especially her father.

She then was transferred to command academy were she took on the vigorous training of command and emergency situations.

Her skills as a commander came into play one day when her class was out on an outing and their ship ran into some enemy attacks. She took command of the situation immediately as her instructor and CO was killed in the attack and the other students were left clueless as to what to do or where to injured to be of any help.

Jessica managed to get the ship active enough to have some sort of defence as they limped back to earth.

Starfleet was impressed with her skills they graduated her early from the commanding officerâ€™s academy and sent her on her first command. The ''USS Shark'', a [[Saber Class]] vessel tasked with the duties of training members of Red Squad from [[Starfleet Academy]]. The Shark was dry docked do to some sever mechanical and structural faults as yet to be found. Jessica was later assigned as the chief flight control officer on board the ''USS Thundercloud'', a [[Prometheus Class]]. The vessel was part of some of the heaviest fighting in the [[Borg War]] and suffered mass casualties because of its involvement. In one of its mission the ship was heavily damaged and the captain was killed. Jessica had to assume command of the ''Thundercloud'' and lead her crew to victory over the destruction of a Borg Sphere. Starfleet was impressed at her abilities to command and lead others and gave her the ''Thundercloud'' even at a young age. Starfleet didnâ€™t have many other officers to spare due to the shortage of man power. However the ''Thundercloud'' meet its fate when it was part of a task force sent to engage a Borg Cube near to the [[Terra Nova]] colony. Terra Nova will become a constant place for Jessica as later on in her career she would make many links with the populationâ€™s government. The ''Thundercloudâ€™s'' crew were forced to abandon ship after it received heavy damage to its warp engines from repeated fire from the Cube. Jessica ordered the ship to ram the vessel, was about to go down with the ship when the ''[[USS Skedans]]'' arrived, and beamed her off as the ''Thundercloud'' finally took out the Cube. The ''Skedans'' was her fatherâ€™s vessel, where she and those survivors of the ''Thundercloud'' were assigned to. The ''Skedans'' was an interesting assignment for Jessica as she tangled with the prospect of having to follow her fatherâ€™s every command. It was also on the ''Skedans'' where she met one [[Max Duncan]] who was temporarily on the vessel as a counsellor. The two become quite close and during a rescue away mission Jessica defied her fatherâ€™s orders to save Max from dying on a damaged Borg sphere. She believed the two had made a connection not just physically but mentally through her Vulcan and Betazoid telepathic heritages. Their romance was short as Max was quickly re-assigned to another assignment. After her fatherâ€™s re-assignment to [[Starfleet Command Headquarters]] in 2395 Jessica was finally giving her fourth officerâ€™s pip and made captain of the ''Skedans''. She commanded the [[Galaxy Refit Class]] vessel well in to the [[Battle of Sol]]. The ''Skedans'' crew survived the fight only after the ship was forced to separate from the stardrive section in the saucer section. Because of her actions in saving her crew and taking out so many enemy vessels Starfleet assigned Jessica her next command, the Nebula Class starship ''[[USS Vendetta]]'' in 2400. 

===After 2400===

During her time as commanding officer of the ''Vendetta'', Jessica became quite popular among those on [[Earth]] because of the shipâ€™s dealings with the new [[Starfleet Re-Exploration Initiative]]. The Vendetta was the third ship to leave [[Sol]] and re-established contact with the [[Bynars]], the [[Rigelian]], the [[Coridans]], the [[Mazarites]], the [[Axanar]], the [[Vissians]]  The ship also aided in re-populating [[Terra Nova]], stopping an epidemic from breaking out on [[Denobula]], and rescued a convoy of [[Tandarans]] from [[Orion]] pirates. For her actions Jessica was awarded on a number of occasions. She served the Re-Exploration Initiativefor sometime and served as the group's executive officer. In 2403 she was promoted to the rank of commodore by Admiral [[Judith Marshall-Bennet]] and assigned as deputy director of [[Starfleet Re-Development Operations]]. She was given command of a new ship after the ''Vendetta'' suffered heavy computer system failures due to unusual virus. Her new ship was a [[Sovereign Class]] vessel and given the name ''USS Skedans''. One of the shipâ€™s first mission was to [[Bajor]] to escort a delegation to [[Deep Space One]] in preparation for the planetâ€™s re-admission in to the [[Federation]] ([[DS1]]: â€œ[[A Good Day To Arise]]ï¿½?). The USS ''Skedans'' was partially assigned as a defence ship to Bajor for several months while it worked on helping Bajor bring its new orbital and planetary defence grid operational. On its way home in 2404 the Skedans suffered from an attack by Orion pirates. The ship was able to track the Orion ships back to their base of operations, destroy their forces and their bases. The commodore took this decision after [[Starfleet Intelligence]] informed her they were working on behalf of the [[Orion Syndicate]]. However unknown to the crew of the ''Skedans'' the ship was infected by the same computer problems that the Vendetta encountered two years before. Because the Skedans was an Sovereign class ship which had been salvaged from a graveyard near to [[Alpha Centauri]] itâ€™s computer systems werenâ€™t fully protected from the virus. The virus spread itself in to engine control and the vessel lost containment of its antimatter/matter reaction chamber. Galagher gave the order to abandon ship and watched from an escape pod as the ship exploded. A later investigation found the Orions had been the ones to infect both the ''Vendetta'' and ''Skedans'' with the computer virus. Her own escape pod was rescued by [[Outpost 2]], while the rest of her crew landed on Terra Nova. Jessica contacted Admiral Bennet who was able to convince Admiral [[Tom Paris|Paris]] to give Galagher her old command of the ''Vendetta'' back when she returned to Earth ([[FEA]]: "A Call To Duty").

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