Kimberly Bautista

Sophea Bennington-Fox ("Sophie" to her friends) was the chief engineer of the starship USS Lexington. (The Lexington Adventures).

Early life & career
Sophea Bennington-Fox has been compared to some of the best engineers in Starfleet: Montgomery Scott, Brieanna Smith, and Charles Tucker, to name a few. However, it is her complete disregard for politics and her lack of tact that had kept her from being promoted or assigned to high-profile assignments. This has not bothered her in the slightest, as she is happy in being an engineer; she doesn’t care if she were to ever get a starship command. It’s been said that she’d be happy to retire as a full Commander, as she knows she’d never get a captain’s billet.

Bennington-Fox didn’t have much of a childhood. During a routine EVA as part of a cruise liner vacation, her parents were killed in an EVA when their suit systems failed and left the little 9-year-old Sophea an orphan. She spent her pre-teen and teenage years in the Hawaii foster home system, graduating from Pearl City High School and immediately entered Starfleet Academy in 2268. She graduated in the top 10 percent of the Class of 2272.

Early Career
Her first assignment was the U.S.S. Leyte (the same ship that Petty Officer Kimberly Bautista had recently served on) and found engineering to be to her taste. She enjoyed the ship and made very many friends quickly. So it was a surprise when she found herself with orders to the Leyte’s sister ship, the Hornet (another Constitution-class refit). Between 2275 to 2281, she had found herself on three refit Constitution-class starships (Hornet, Bunker Hill, and Bennington). Each time, she would find herself at odds with someone on the command staff, which would make for some uncomfortable meetings.

In 2283, Sophea was assigned as the Deputy Chief Engineer of the Constitution-class Valley Forge. It was here that Captain Alexander McKnight, himself returning to the center seat after nearly a decade being at Starfleet Command, found an unhappy Sophea Bennington-Fox. Sophea was thinking of getting out of Starfleet; she was almost 36 and still only a Lieutenant Commander, with chances of her becoming a chief engineer pretty much non-existent. McKnight offered her the slot of her dreams, though Sophea could not figure out why a captain like McKnight would want someone like her but she wasn’t about to turn down the only chance to make a difference.

Family and personal life
Bennington-Fox is very outspoken and does not suffer fools easily. She is a very hard worker and demands much. However, she will go out of her way to protect her subordinates… so long as they’ve done right and the very best they could. Otherwise, she has been known to throw the said subordinate under the bus just to prove her point.

Sophea has always been attracted to women and she’s never gone for wanting. When she was on a shore leave when stationed on the Bunker Hill, she found her future husband, Christina Fox and after only knowing her for 90 days, they were married in a simple civil ceremony. She loves her husband very much and it doesn’t bother her at all that her husband is a woman.

Chronology

 * Junior Engineering Officer, U.S.S. Leyte, NCC-1944 (2272-75)
 * Junior Engineering Officer, U.S.S. Hornet, NCC-1751 (2275-76)
 * Engineering Officer, U.S.S. Bunker Hill, NCC-1842 (2276-80)
 * Senior Engineering Officer, U.S.S. Bennington, NCC-1791 (2280-81)
 * Dockyard Officer-in-Charge, Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards (2281-83)
 * Deputy Chief Engineering Officer, U.S.S. Valley Forge, NCC-1911 (2283-85)
 * Chief Engineering Officer, U.S.S. Lexington, NCC-1709-A (2286-present)

Trivia

 * Sophea Bennington-Fox is the last regular command crew member to be created. Her bio was written in a single day.
 * There’s not been an openly lesbian Starfleet officer; this was something Mr. Bonice wanted to rectify by making one but he does not want this to be the focus of the character. He feels that in the 23rd Century, that type of marriage is as common as a hetrosexual marriage is today. It’s only to keep the character interesting.


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