Name:   Isaac Stern
 Rank:   Captain
 Current Assignment:  USS YAMATO
 Current Position:  Commanding Officer
 Race:   Human
 Sex:    Male
 Hair:   Black, curly
 Eyes:   Brown
 Height: 1.80 m
 Weight: 70 kg
 Age:    30
 Place of Birth:  New Canaan
 Religion: Jewish
 Hobbies:  Chess (the real 2D kind), Acting

 Personnal History:
  SD     Event
  80116  Completed training-Holodeck 17
  80120  Posted, CEO, USS Bismark
  80407  Promoted to rank of Lt(JG)
  80705  Promoted to rank of Lt.
  81223  Promoted to rank of Lt. Cmdr. & transfered to
         USS PROMETHEUS as OPS/2nd Officer
  90128  Assigned as Acting XO, USS PROMETHEUS
  90808  Promoted to Commander - XO, USS PROMETHEUS
         Awarded Bronze Star
  91008  Outstanding Command Player Award
         Outstanding Unit Citation - USS PROMETHEUS
  100107 Promoted to Captain and assumed command of the USS YAMATO
  101005 Awarded Battle of Terrebellum Service Ribbon
  110506 Recieved Outstanding Command Player Award, and
         Outstanding Unit Citation - USS YAMATO

 Family:
  Father:  William
  Mother:  Ruth
  Brother: David
  Sister:  Hellen
  Uncle:  Jacob Miller (in Starfleet, ENGLO, COMBATA)

Personal History:
Isaac came aboard the USS YAMATO as the new commanding officer of an
established crew.  He has led them into dangerous situations on several
occations, including when the YAMATO suffered fairly extensive damage
during the BATTLE of Starbase OMEGA.

During the battle an unexpected visitor appeared aboard the YAMATO, pulled
from a mirror universe by the interaction of the YAMATO's phase cloaking
device and the artificial wormhole generators used by the Dalriada.  This
unexpected visitor was Dr. Janna Swansen, who was killed in the line of
duty aboard the USS BISMARCK while Isaac was an Ensign.  In her universe,
however, it was CMDR Jeremy Gorne, her finace and XO of the BISMARCK who
had been killed.  There, a younger Isaac Stern had been able to comfort
her after her loss and profess his love for her.  They had married and
moved on with their lives.

At first Isaac is cold and abrupt toward Janna, but she finally gets him
to reveal that he felt the same way about her as his counterpart did.  He
also takes it upon himself to return her to her own universe, no matter
what the cost.  The cost, it turns out, might be his career.  The only way
to return Janna to where she belongs involves developing a wormhole
generator like the one the Dalriada use.  That requires Burrasite from the
planet Burrakis within Dalriadan space.  The YAMATO abandons her normal
patrol route to go to Burrakis to get the Burrasite.

During the attempt to return Janna to her universe, the YAMATO is forced to
flee through the wormhole to evade several Dalriadan warships.  On the other
side it is revealed that Isaac's counterpart had abandoned all hope of ever
seeing Janna alive, and had moved on.  Janna persuades Isaac to take her back
with him to his universe.  He reluctantly agrees knowing that he is certain
to face a Court Martial for entering Dalriadan territory.

Isaac's first command experience came as the Operations Officer of the
USS PROMETHEUS.  He soon assumed the position of Executive Officer after
the original XO was recalled by Starfleet Intelligence.  He served as
the PROMETHEUS' XO for almost a year before getting his own command.

Isaac's tour aboard the USS BISMARCK was very sucessful.  He learned a
lot about himself and life in Starfleet.  He bacame a good engineer and
a good officer.  He sometimes misses the BISMARCK and her crew, and has
good memories of both.

On stardate 80620, while on a mission to investigate the origin of free
soliton waves, he was in mental contact with a member of an unknown, but
apparently friendly alien species for approximately 30 minutes.  During
this period a large quantity of mental images were placed directly in
Isaac's brain.  These images surface on occation, but to date they have
not formed any coherent pattern.  Isaac's interpertation of the images
is that they are the technology behind the free soliton wave generator.
He's not sure where this insight comes from.


Family History:  Isaac can trace his lineage to the small group of
scientists that left Earth for Alpha Centauri with Zephram Cochrane. In
the mid 23rd century, a group of Jewish leaders sought to establish a
colony on New Cannan.  They looked to the flourishing community on Alpha
Centauri for help.  Several of Isaac's ancestors with the skills
necessary for establishing a sucessful colony ventured to New Canaan
with the group from Earth.

Isaac's parents are doctors at the New Canaan Medical Center.  His
father is from a long line of physicans.  His older brother, David is in
his last year of medical school.  His father was very dissapointed when
Isaac decided to attend SF Academy, but his mother convinced him not to
"do something stupid."  Isaac and his father have since resolved their
differences.

Recommendations:

"Some students I have in my engineering classes have an excellent grasp
of theory, but I wouldn't want to let them near a warp core.  Others
have great mechanical aptitude, they could field strip a fusion reactor
in an hour, but they have no idea why things work.  Cadet Stern will be
the kind of engineer Starfleet needs more of, he has a good grasp of
the theoretical, and he can take things apart and put them back together
working better than when he found them."  -- Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Williams,
Engineering Instructor SFA

"This project was ambitious in that sucess or failure would be
measurable.  Cadet Stern suceeded beyond either of our expectations." --
Cmdr. Kalon Darcet, Engineering Instructor SFA, in comments on Cadet
Stern's engineering project, "The Use of Warp Field Harmonics to Improve
Shuttle Craft Propulsive Efficiency"

"I have no trouble beating him." -- T'lar, SFA chess club president

The Brief Alton Reich Bio
Last updated 7/23/2000