Caroline Walton

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Caroline Walton
Caroline Walton prepares to scan an anomaly.
Species:	Human
Homeworld:	Earth
Ethnicity:	Caucasian
Gender:	Female
Born:	2386
Eyes:	Blue
Hair:	Blonde
Affiliation:	Starfleet
Assignment:	USS Chimera
Position:	Assistant Chief Science Officer
Rank:	Ensign
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Caroline Walton was born on Earth during the Borg War, and grew up there, watching the world change and not really understanding how fundamental those changes were.

The war ended while she was in high school, and she decided to join Starfleet to find her way off the overcrowded planet her homeworld had become. After graduation, she applied for and was accepted by Starfleet Academy, where she majored in physics. In her senior year, she was assigned to an apprenticeship program aboard the USS Foresight, an experience that put her through a great deal of trauma in her encounters with the Mirror Universe. She graduated in late 2408, and requested to be stationed aboard the USS Chimera.

Once aboard the Chimera, Walton's talents were recognized by Captain Carson Reese, and she was appointed one of his two yeomen, alongside Esha Syed, and Reese began work on preparing her for a potential command of her own. Her superior on the ship, Lieutenant Kmallec, was an excellent scientist but suffered from his race's aversion to interaction with groups, leading the duty of representing the department on the bridge and in staff meetings to be delegated to Walton. Prior to graduation, Walton had taken the Bridge Officer Test, qualifying her for bridge command, and Reese made early use of this, passing command of the ship to her when both he and Commander Sevlar were to be off-vessel during the Chimera's encounter with the Aritethi and the Verachians. During her short tenure in command, Caroline managed to spark a diplomatic crisis, resolve that crisis, and discover and make First Contact with perhaps the oldest species Starfleet had yet to meet - the software entities now known colloquially as Walton's Species.