Nicholas Spencer

Nicholas "Nick" Spencer (or Spence to his close friends) is a Lieutenant Commander assigned to the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), the division of Starfleet Intelligence (SFI) that helps shape policy decisions. Nick leads a team that provides timely and objective intelligence analysis and reports on a full range of Federation security and policy issues to the President and senior policy makers of the United Federation of Planets.

Life and Career
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 17, 2230. He is 37 years old. Nick is a bright man and knows it, although he has an affable Midwestern charm. He is happy in his choice of career – he is comfortable behind a desk as opposed to a field operative. He has a vision defect (wears glasses due to allergy to Retinax V) Under normal circumstances, this defect would disqualify him from field assignments. He is single although involved in a romantic relationship.

Nick has a keen sense of history, and lives in Old Town San Francisco, an area of the city preserved as early 21st Century.

Nick is a survivor of the Minervon hijacking

The Minervon Hijacking
The U.S.S. Minervon was a passenger liner that was hijacked enroute from Vulcan. The hijackers were radicals of the Sh'ak'atar religious sect. Nick was returning from an Academy-sponsored exchange program at the Vulcan Science Academy. There were several Academy students among the passengers other than Nick. The hijackers took the passengers to an uncharted planet in an attempt to keep the Federation from rescuing them. The passengers were held captive for just over year. After a failed rescue attempt by Starfleet, Nick spearheaded the successful escape, but 23 of the hostages were killed. Nick was decorated for bravery upon his return to Earth for his actions in planning and saving the surviving hostages.

While he was a hostage, Nick’s parents died in a shuttlecraft accident. He has no siblings. Because of the Minervon Incident, Nick has mild Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and can be a bit hot-headed at times. He is a couple of years behind the curve in career development due in part to the experience of being marooned for over a year and partly because of his temper.