Bridget Ingrum

Lieutenant Commander Bridget Kennedy is the chief engineer of the USS Baldwin, and the wife of Baldwin captain Richie Kennedy.

Bridget, along with her sisters, was a product of a Cardassian project to create human agents. By hand, Dr. Alan Murrow created a series of human augments that are stronger, smarter, and would be able to integrate into human society. Because he was afriad of his creations turning on him, Dr. Murrow attempted to detach himself from their upbringing ("Drift off to Dream", "Depature"). She was only known as "Number Seven" until Stardate 50964. Bridget picked out her own name from a list given to her by then-newly minted Captain Richie Kennedy. She choose to join the Baldwin crew ("Meet the Baldwin"). She was granted a field commission (and a waiver of the genetic-engineering ban) on Stardate 51081.5. She was a specialist in engineering (Wartime Productions 2). Eventually, she bacame the chief engineer.


 * Although it is unspecified in the story dialogue, she apparantly moved up to chief engineer after the previous chief engineer, Karen Merrill, assumed command of the USS Ticonderoga.

Family
Bridget has at least one sister, a twin named Roslyn. After Dr. Murrow accepted his creations as his daughters, Bridget accepted him as her father.


 * It is intended that Dr. Murrow had produced additional "daughters" besides Bridget and Roslyn. So far, they have yet to appear.

Personal Relationships
Bridget was immediately attracted to Richie when they first met. Although Richie liked the name she picked out for herself, it wasn't until Stardate 53165 that they recognized their mutual romantic feelings ("Evolution"). Encouraged by their shipmates, Richie and Bridget subsequently spent time together on Aloran IV. Richie's sister, Anna, made a bet with Richie that the two of them would have a family within a year, a prediction that came to pass when Bridget found out she was pregnant with her first child. Soon afterward, Bridget and Richie were married in Quark's on Deep Space Nine, briefly being interrupted when Baldwin XO Jaimie Petrelli promoted her in the middle of the ceremony ("Blue Clear Sky", "Boats to Build", "Drift off to Dream"). Bridget gave birth to her first child, Tiana, on May 9, 2377, Stardate 54000. ("Frontiers")