Originally Posted by Fed Tac

Sole brother of the U.S.S. Arizona's cheif engineer, Commander Russell H. 'Russ" Kirk, Walter is nothing like him other than in name. Walter has always been the one to shoot first on any given occasion where as Russ would watch, wait, and then act. As a result, Walter usually got himself and Russ in trouble in the process.

At a young age, Walter discovered his first Starfleet issued genande at the family ranch and home in the mountains of Grayson county Virginia. A few days a week, while his mother and father were working the fields, he and Russ cracked open the supposedly "dead" grenaded and studied its interior. Russ tackled the actuall disassembly of the grenade while Walter catagorized, identified, and memorized the componets and where they were placed. Several hours passed by, and after reassembling the grenade, careful to not set it off, the grenade activated after a sensor was tripped on it. Acting on instinct, Walter took the grenade from Russ, ran outsied and hurled it away from their home. The grenade landed in a small stream, adjacent to the chicken coop, exploded, and sent feathers flying.

Since that day, he and Russ have proceeded through Starfleet Academey. Russ took up engineering whilee Walter took up security and tactical measures. Due to Starfleet regulation against siblings serving on the same ship, the two were separated. Walter was posted an outpost that monitored Borg Transwarp condiuits while Russell ended up on a starship, stationed on the Cardissian front, as a junior engineering officer.

About a year later, all contact with the outpost was lost after an attack by the Borg. Everything on the station was presumed killed or assimilated. Upon hearing this, the now-Lieutenant, J.G. Russell Kirk, requested permission to join the investigation of what happened to the outpost. His request, however, was denied because HQ deemed it would be unwise for him to go.

Originally Posted by Fed Medic

A very distant relative af Ambassador Jean-Luc Picard, Jonathan Lucas Picard has alwas been one to uphold peace and its true meaning. He. never engages in a fight unless absolutly pushed to extremes. When it does come to blows, usually someones ends up seriously injured as a result.

Picard, or JLP as his childhood friends called him, bears an unusual resemblence to Ambassador Picard. Because of this resemblence, he's been questioned many times about the Enterprise-D's and Enterprise-E's missions. Each time JLP has answered, "Oh. You must mean Ambassador Jean-Luc Picard. I'm Jonathan Picard. I'm afraid you have the wrong person."

Deciding to peruse his peaceful ways, JLP approached the Federation and applied to work as a diplomat after he wnet through Starfleet Academy for medical training so he could help others no matter where he went. That path was slightly derailed when (insert reason here). During that incident, Picard had served as a junior medical officer on a Starfleet frigate and was assigned to the away team the aided the (insert ship here). Upon returning to his ship, he discovered that the senior staff had been captured and killed. At that time, he was the most senior officer on the ship and assumed, what he though was, tempoary command of the frigate.

After returing to space several years later, after earning a ship command, he was posted to the U.S.S. Sea Tiger, a pink Excelsior class starship.