Christopher O'Laughlin

Early Life and Career
Christopher O'Laughlin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1964. He spent most of his youth skirting the law, but never crossed the line. One thing that bothered him his whole life was his inability to fit in until he joined the United States Marine Corps at the age of 18 in 1982.

In 1992, Sergeant O'Laughlin was on special assignment to the Army Base Fort Belvoir, Virginia near Washington, DC, where he 'volunteered' to participate in a cryogenics experiment testing equipment being developed for the DY-100 project. Several days after being placed in stasis in a laboratory deep below Fort Belvoir, the Eugenics Wars began and the Army base was destroyed. O'Laughlin was forgotten for almost 400 years until the laboratory was discovered by accident in 2373.

Starfleet Marine Corps Career
After leaving the hospital where he recovered after being discovered alive in stasis, O'Laughlin traveled across the North American continent in search of any remaining family. Several months later he reached San Francisco, where, dispondent, he contemplated suicide before running into several Starfleet officers who told him about Starfleet and the Starfleet Marine Corps. He joined the Corps within days.

Aboard USS Dauntless
In 2374, O'Laughlin, who had been assigned the rank of Sergeant upon graduation from Boot Camp in recognition of his past service, was assigned to Special Contingent 41, a small strike force assigned to the starship USS Dauntless (NCC-74658) as the Dominion War started turning against the Federation. O'Laughlin was instrumental in evacuating the crew from the disabled starship before the Dauntless-74658 was destroyed by a warp core breech.

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