Dawn Mathias

Starfleet Career


 * Medical Officer (Intern), U.S.S. New Jersey, NCC-1995 (2284-2285)
 * Staff Doctor, Starfleet Medical, Perth (2285-2286)
 * Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Lexington, NCC-1709 (2286-present)

Dawn Mathias has always been interested in helping people in need. It stems from her childhood when an accident killed her pet kangaroo. Dawn feels that if she had the right training, she might have saved her pet. When she attended the Medical Academy, all of her instructors saw that she was going to be one of the best medical doctors and surgeons ever graduated from that institution. She was always at the top of her classes and did not settle for anything less.

For her medical intern training, she studied directly under Enterprise chief medical officer Leonard McCoy and she's picked up some of his mannerisms. Dawn has a very strong sense of ethics, which she will never abandon for anyone. She also takes her medical oaths very seriously... she goes out of her way to make sure she "does no harm".

She has a good bedside manner but at this time, she's a new doctor and it shows at times. She's always confident and when she is at work, she is a true professional. However, when it comes to her job, she's deadly serious, logical and somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to her handiwork. When she is at play, she'll play very hard too.

She regards the entire medical section as her property and sickbay as her personal domain. The crew by now knows that you simply do not interfere with that area of the ship- even Alex is loathe to interfere. Dawn can be easy to fluster at times- especially when the conversation is about a subject that is simply out of her field. And when she is tired or very upset, her Australian accent comes out very thickly and fast... and you can almost forget about understanding her. She also uses a lot of Aussie slang at that point too, which no one on the ship understands.

She is very easy to get along with and makes friends rather easily. She's very emotional and she is not afraid to express what she feeling at the moment and she has a very expressive face.

Despite being a very good doctor, she has a very big case of stage fright and public speaking, which has already shown up and we will see it again when she has to address more than 7 people at a time. She's not able to address her entire staff... someone else has to do it for her. When she's gone to seminars and any other public event, she feels out of place and refuses to say anything. She's recently taken up singing to attempt to overcome her stage fright and is working with Angelica to help her overcome her public speaking fears.

Dawn was the first in her family to become a doctor and to join Starfleet. She comes from a big family of four older siblings... two sisters and two brothers, so she is not used to being alone for long periods of time.

She is married to Alex's oldest son Montgomery and calls Alex "Dad" and Angelica "Mom" when she is in private with those two people. She will not trade on her relationship with Alex to advance her career but is not above some good old-fashioned arm twisting with Alex when she needs to get something done to benefit the crew or others. As a consequence of serving on the Lexington, Dawn rarely gets to see her husband but is always seen writing letters to him or listening to the messages she gets from him. She loves her life and would not trade it for anything in the world.