Marie-José Betancourt

Marie-José Betancourt was a Federation Starfleet engineer, of Haitian descent, on active duty in the 23rd century.

Betancourt was chief engineer of USS Avenger in the 2260s when that ship was commanded by Captain Melissa Sturdevant. She fine-tuned the emergency transporters to helped rescue survivors of the atttempted coup d'état of Yogyakarta Baru in 2265. (Star Trek: Avenger: Time, See What's Become of Me)

In 2266, Betancourt was on a temporary duty assignment as an engineer at Starbase 45, where she gave birth to her son Didier. (Star Trek: Avenger: "Belonging")

Betancourt is mentioned, though not seen, in Star Trek: Avenger: "Reaching Taurus", set in 2268.

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

Background

The given name of the character was after that of a colleague of the author's, when he worked at a French bank in the 1980s.