Norman Craig

Norman Craig was the operations officer of the USS Pioneer since 2378. (🇸🇹)

Early years
Norman Craig was born and grew up on Deep Space Six. Both of his parents were scientist aboard the station, working in the science laboratories. Both his parents were Starfleet officers. His mother was a commander - she was in command of the lab - and his father was a lieutenant. They told him that they got married on the station. With this background there was little guess work in what Craig wanted to do when he grew up.

Academy years (2368-2372)
Craig left for Starfleet Academy at the age of seventeen, and graduated excelling in ship operations. While in the Academy, Craig became friends with his roommate, Chase Braga.

Jupiter Station assignment
As an ensign he was assigned to the Jupiter Station, to be the assistant operations officer. While at the station he was one of the fortunate people to met Dr. . He was called one night, by a very anger, who was complaining that he was not getting the specific amount of power that he had requested. Craig would later comment that the experience deeply effected him in ways he couldn’t possible explain. After his incident with, his superior officer promoted him for “handling the situation as I would.” Craig stayed on the Jupiter Station for six years, he was even there when the or  from the  came to visit with Dr..

USS Pioneer assignment
Craig never met Captain Benjamin Kelsoe until he was reassigned by Starfleet Operations to be the operations officer aboard the USS Pioneer. He was a little apprehensive about his reassignment from Jupiter Station, where he had served for all of his career up to that point, and he was comfortable there. However after he met Captain Kelsoe during the ship shake down before launch he decided that he liked him very much and that he was glade for his reassignment.

Miscellenous family information
He married Ensign Tracy Carson on stardate 59531.62.

Honors
Dominion War Service Medal, 2 Commendations.