Jorge Alejandro Villaréal y Santiago

Jorge Alejandro Villaréal y Santiago was a Starfleet engineer active in at least the 23rd century.

He was born in 2264 in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, the Philippines, to Alejandro Villaréal and Rosario Santiago, and entered Starfleet Academy in 2282. One of Jorge's friends at the Academy was an Andorian cadet named Shoni.

The Villaréal family had a superstition for many generations that it was bad luck to serve aboard a ship that one -- or one's kinsmen -- had helped build. Jorge's grandfather Bolivar had helped construct USS Avenger in the early 2250s. The superstition had been affirmed by the disappearance of Jorge's uncle Rafael on the Bozeman in 2278. As a junior officer, Jorge had a choice of several ships and declined Avenger for that reason. (: "Pomp and Circumstantial Evidence")

As a lieutenant commander in the early 2290s, Villaréal was chief engineer on the USS Mandela. By 2296, he was chief engineer on the flight test team assigned to Shadowstar Station.