Lourdes Courtesan

Captain Lourdes Rachel-Ann Courtesan was an engineer and line officer in Federation Starfleet service during the late 23rd and early 24th centuries. (Star Trek: Avenger: Avenger News 158 [November 2020])

Courtesan's initial posting to a Federation starship was as recreation officer, with the rank of lieutenant, aboard the USS Avenger in 2302.

Lieutenant Commander Courtesan requested to return to Starfleet Academy in 2313 for additional training, which was granted by Captain Maldonado. At the Academy, she pursued studies in starship engineering and design and graduated at age 48.

In early 2318, Courtesan was promoted to full commander and assigned to Starbase 42 as a project manager overseeing two build-outs of variant Excelsior-class heavy cruisers.

The newly-promoted Captain Courtesan returned to the USS Avenger in 2320 where she was appointed chief engineer (Anagénnisi). After Commander Karza Tyrune transferred off Avenger, Courtesan succeeded her as second officer.

Early life

From 2291 to her joining the Avenger, Courtesan had worked as a porn star and professional dominatrix. At Starbase 1, she underwent an "equivalency program" created by the starbase staff to qualify for starship duty. (Star Trek: Avenger: "A Shining Planet")

Senior officers of the starships Avenger
	CO	XO	SO	OPS	SCI	ENG	COMM	SEC	MED
NCC-1860:	Wesley Sturdevant Jellicho Thalazar Rosenzweig Maldonado Waidlich D. Lynch Elbrun	Michener Sturdevant Reichardt Jellicho Thalazar M. Cohen Vosseller Lane Johnson Maldonado Se'ele Uhma Waidlich T'HoD Setak	Shepherd Buonocore Dimick R. Fillmore Warren Jennings Pearson Gor | Kagan Waidlich Tyrune Courtesan	Newman Bell A. Wilson Graevyn Becker Meadows Underwood Milan S'H'l Van Houten Wyndham Sobek	Devereaux Lane Wiener R. Fillmore DiMaio Dimick Ciufo Mackay Antrim | Setak Vyerdei Parker-MacKenzie Elbrun LoreSeeker Masters	M.-J. Betancourt Thalazar Cook Newcome Shappe Padovan Zulkowski M. Rielly Courtesan	Shepherd Vosseller Gorgas A. Ellkins Wiener Anbinder Klufas Rhea Pearson T'HoD Kagan Fortier J. Lynch	D. Paris Roussell McHenry Johnson Romano Colgan Csuti rRham Jennings Gor Bergeron Sexton Horton Imahara	T'Raav M. Cohen Graulau Lindemann Levy DeMono W. Fillmore Urbanavage A.-M. Reilly Vyerdei Arudis Parker-MacKenzie Draxum Solan Sugimoto Chec Aldredge
NX-09 (mirror) | NCC-1860 | NCC-12060 | NCC-69925 | NCC-75461 | NCC-82540