Barbara Devereaux

Barbara Devereaux was a science officer on active duty in the 23rd century.

Devereaux was born in the New Paris colony in the Omega Aurigae system. While the colony's members were known for their achievements in art, literature and music, Barbara herself gravitated towards the sciences, in particular astrophysics.

She was inspired to join Starfleet at a young age and realized that many of her personal heroes were people who strove for a balance of body, mind and spirit. Her high-school varsity letters were in gymnastics and martial arts.

At Starfleet Academy, Devereaux went on one date with Gary Mitchell and concluded he was just a charming bad boy, of which she'd had enough in her secondary school days. Mitchell discovered that Devereaux seemed to be immune to his nascent esper abilities, which intrigued him all the more. His interest waned when, in a martial-arts class, she "accidentally" broke his hand.

One of Devereaux's classmates at the Academy was Spock. They were both students of Charles Gray in a seminar in astrophysics.

Inspired by some conversations with Spock, after graduation from the Academy, she deferred a ship assignment to study trans-temporal physics with Dr. Georges Mordreaux.

By the mid-2260s, Devereaux was a lieutenant commander and chief science officer on the USS Avenger, during Melissa Sturdevant's time as commanding officer. When the ship assisted and evacuated survivors of the attempted coup d'état of Yogyakarta Baru, she considered adopting one or two of the children who had been orphaned, but decided that it would not be fair to any child unless she had a station or planetside assignment. (/: Time, See What's Become of Me)

In 2270, Devereaux requested and received a transfer to a starbase as a science officer. After some time, she adopted two of the Yogyakarta Baru orphans, a brother and a sister.

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Barbara Devereaux was proud of her heritage and claimed descent from both members of the Maquis, the French Resistance movement during World War II, and French Huguenots in the United States of America.