Johnson Frax

=Appearance=

Mr Frax stands at an even 6 ft (182.88 cm). He typically stands upright, but slumps if he is in a playful mood. Despite the hair changing color as he has gotten older, he keeps it dyed as a dirty blonde. His eyes are a hazel green, and his spot pattern is more like thin stripes.

=Personality=

He has a jumble of personality traits from his past hosts, as there have been twelve. His pre-host personality involved attempting to find moments of fun in everything, and it bleeds through from the personality strongly influenced Frax symbiont inside of him. One thing that is shared between both pre-host and post-host Frax is how deeply he cares for those around him.

Ambitions

 * Pre-Host: Full-Time Holoprogrammer
 * Post-Host: Becoming a Starship

Morals

 * Leave None Behind
 * Help When Appropriate

=History=

Symbiont History
Johnson is of course the current host. Below are his past hosts, starting with the first.

Julie Frax
Julie is the first host, and started off the technological legacy the Frax symbiont is known for. She was one of the early Trill officers to serve on board Starfleet vessels, earning a position on board the USS Enterprise NCC 1701 in their geological department. Her career stagnated after her first away mission resulting in nearly all of the members dying while attempting to survey a newly discovered planet. This event caused all future assignments to be focused on board the Enterprise.

Julie was able to invent a short-lived primitive terraforming technique for planets needing to shift out of arid climates. This allowed for some words to be turned into temporary tropical havens while colonists or refugees sought permanent housing on other worlds. Shortly after this accomplishment, a Kzinti pirate encounter caused life-threatening injuries forcing an emergency host. There was only one other trill crewmember, and they currently did not have a symbiont. The downside is they were already sixty, but he would have to do, as they shared similar body chemistry.

George Frax
Before receiving the Frax symbiont, George served as a senior biopsy lab specialist for many years on board the USS Enterprise. Upon receiving the symbiont, George started to lose his eyesight, forcing him out of lab work. The Enterprise was on an extended assignment that would last for six months, which allowed for George to serve as a biopsy lab manager.

Starfleet reassigned George to finish off his career on Starbase 11. He would serve as a teacher for those entering into the biopsy specialization since biopsy labs were becoming common within starships of the era. This arrangement lasted until he became eighty, when he became completely blind.

The Symbiosis Commission started to seek out a new host for the Frax symbiont once George became blind. George used these twilight years to create several uplifting violin pieces, going solely off of sound in the creative process. Eventually the Commission would find a musician who proved themselves as capable of accepting the Frax symbiont.

Jolinda Frax
Jolinda received the Frax symbiont at the age of 20, and would live a decent life until the age of 55. She composed many different compositions during the brief period, mostly brass-based instruments. The tone of her music was all compassionate and upbeat.

This is the first host to have children while being a Frax, five to be exact, two of them being half-human. Jolinda was diagnosed with a fast-acting disease once her eldest came of age at the age of 54. The Commission immediately searched for a new host, and found a writer who fit the Frax profile.

Harold Frax
Harold was seemingly in good health when he received the Frax symbiont. He was a columnist for the Trill Tribune, and often wrote about current events within Starfleet. During his brief time as a host, he fathered a daughter.

While on an investigative story, he uncovered a corruption ring on board a Miranda class starship. This led to being infected with a fast acting bacteriophage. Harold died, and the nearby USS Freud, an Akula class ship, had to rush a preserved Frax symbiont to the Trill homeworld.

Kirsta Frax
Kirsta was in her seventies, and the only one available and viable by the time the USS Freud arrived at the Trill homeworld. She was a novelist, and proceeded to write her last novel based on the experiences of Julie Frax. Once she completed it after three years of work, the Commission sought a new host, fearing her health would not hold for much longer.

A young woman with her sights on medical made it through the process, and just in time. Kirsta was just diagnosed with a fast acting disease that occurs one in every twenty thousand Trill in their senior years.

Teresla Frax
Teresla started her service onboard the USS Warnock, a Constellation class ship, as a medical nurse. This post would be rather routine, as her vessel started as just a standard patrol vessel. This changed when the Federation-Cardassian border war started.

In the first month of the war, the Warnock sustained moderate damage, with the majority of it focused on sickbay. Teresla was gravely injured during this time, and required a new host. The chief medical officer kept her alive until they could rendezvous with another ship for a new host.

Whitley Frax
Whitley transferred onboard the Warnock as a trauma field medic with the ship’s new marine contingent. After the ship was repaired, the ship was sent back out into the war. Whitley would see many deaths due to the brutality seen in the colonies his squad defended.

This experience would leave a lasting impression on the Frax symbiont regarding the Cardassians. In the year 2350, the Warnock would be boarded by a Cardassian warship. The female commander took Whitley for interrogation, however it was short lived. The USS Stargazer was instrumental in Whitley’s release, but it was too late for his life. The Cardassian techniques induced an underlying condition that progressed quickly, forcing a new host.

Jeffery Frax
Jeffery was a metallurgic scientist assigned to the USS Warnock. The ship’s role was shifted to ground weapon development, and this would proceed for five years. Jeffery’s contributions never saw the light of day on the front lines.

In 2355, a major skirmish occurred near the Warnock’s position, and forced the Warnock to respond. The Cardassians were attempting to destroy civilian transports fleeing a nearby conflict, and the only ships that responded were an Akula, and another Constellation class. During the course of the conflict, the metallurgical lab had an explosive reaction causing massive burns on Jeffery.

Olivia Frax
This is the last host to serve during the Federation-Cardassian border wars, and she served on board the USS Gosling, an Excelsior class, as a marine. She was sent into the war almost immediately. It only took a year for a life-threatening injury to occur on Olivia, as she saved several children from Cardassians. Medical onboard the Gosling was able to keep her alive long enough to be transferred into stasis on Trill.

The brutality witnessed during her marine years stuck in tandem with Whitley’s traumatic history. The Symbiosis Commission decided to find a civilian host for the next Frax host, as the symbiont would become too traumatized if forced into another host destined for the border wars. They eventually found a young woman going into holo-acting full time.

Xavia Frax
Xavia focused on acting in holo-dramas for the war effort. Starfleet eventually requested Xavia to participate in more warm experiences and more comedy-based experiences, as trauma became rampant within the marines. She would find a love for comedy from this commissioned work.

Two years after the end of the war, Xavia had an unfortunate accident which paralyzed her lower body. She became too unstable to maintain the Frax symbiont, and the Commission looked for a new host. They found an applicant from the Demilitarized Zone who was a painter.

Langley Frax
Langley just turned thirty when he accepted the Frax symbiont. He fathered a half-Orion son with the sole Orion colonist. They would make an alright living with his oil-based landscapes.

When the Maquis started recruiting colonists, they targeted his family for creating propaganda. Langley refused which resulted in his son becoming abducted. Upon rescuing his son, he sustained a back injury, which affected his body’s ability to communicate properly with the symbiont, forcing his family to move to Trill in order to find a new host.

Yolinda Frax
Shirley was a doctor at the Symbiosis Commission, and was in the reserve applicant list for some time. She had grown children, and was in her sixties. This would mark the second host to be given the Frax symbiont at an older age.

Shirley continued to perform her duties at the Commission for thirteen years. It was a calm period full of joy with various grandchildren in her large extended family. A rare disease, similar to some of the other past Frax hosts, popped up a year after her retirement. Johnson of course would be the next host.

Pre-Host
Johnson Groll, pre-host, was born on the Trill homeworld, about an hour away from the Tenaran Ice Cliffs. This area was pretty isolated, and he didn’t make friends within the small vacation town early on. This led him to stick with machinery and computers during his childhood.

In the Trill Primary Educational system, Johnson became fascinated with the holodeck excursions the school would go on instead of utilizing field trips facilitated by starships. He would pursue creating mini-adventures for his classmates, and became very popular in his small town. So many relied on his scripting skills at his young age, and in his early teens the local teachers approached him for creating educational simulations during the summer.

There was a global competition for students to design a holodeck program, and those with an exceptional project would be given an opportunity to apply for Starfleet. Hundreds of students from various schools on Trill would be competing, and Johnson’s school system nominated Johnson Groll as their sole representative.

Several groups decided to use the holodecks for small-scale simulations. Numerous others used the holodeck as a story presentation, without much direct involvement from the person involved. Some from the more expensive schools decided to create large-scale simulations of planetary systems. Johnson was another story, as he placed all working hours into a large scale world with an interactive story.

Johnson decided to focus on old Trill mythology, and drew upon Earth fantasy, Klingon traditions, and what he read on the Andorian military for creation of a fantasy realm with interplanetary travel. He created three distinct worlds, one with a variety of climates, one with a tundra and arctic climate, and one with an arid climate. The plot was to retrace your ancestors’ steps through symbiont visions personified as apparitions who appear throughout the world.

The evaluators came down to Johnson’s project, and an evolution simulation for humpback whales becoming space-faring explorers. The nuance in interactions, and fluid adventures included in Groll’s project brought him over the top. This led to Johnson going up to the nearby Starbase for a proctored Academy entrance exam. Suffice to say, Johnson passed with flying colors.

Groll had a dream to become a symbiont host someday, yet also knew he had to find his own purpose before pursuing a symbiont at the Symbiosis Commission. He would do this through Starfleet Academy in the pursuit of an engineering career. Johnson wanted to become a full-time holo-engineer or programmer through the engineering program.

Johnson became a social creature in the Academy, as he found many who were like him. This led to many parties or pranks whenever time permitted. He eventually had to duck out of them in his third year, as the parties started to interfere with his ability to study effectively, and some of his class resorted to functions unbecoming of those pursuing a career.

After Johnson graduated, the Frax symbiont required a new host, causing the Symbiosis Commission to reach out to those who have expressed interest, and passed initial criteria for their position and age in life. Groll was reached out to, and Starfleet allowed Johnson to pursue the Commission’s offer.

Johnson was required to shadow two different current hosts before entering the Symbiosis Commission’s final interview. He was originally scheduled to shadow Ezri Dax, but last minute scheduling conflicts forced him to follow the Krull symbiont. He did a decent enough job with the first symbiont to shadow the Yelx symbiont who was serving as the USS El-Alamein’s Chief Science Officer.

Jeral Yelx proved to be a tough assignment from the Symbiosis Commission. This host decided to break tradition, and go out of his way to be hard on applicants, and Johnson was the first to encounter this approach. Groll was able to impress through helping the ship’s Assistant Chief Medical Officer, Shrozi Sh’rhavit, with creating a holographic simulation for a disease that stumped the medical department while he was under pressure to drop out. Johnson would keep a smile on his face, despite what Yelx threw at him.

The Frax host, Yolinda Frax, was able to stay cognizant long enough to interview Johnson Groll. The interview was pretty straight forward, with little surprises due to the required process Johnson had to go through. Yolinda’s health started to deteriorate for the day, and Johnson elected to stay with her. The Frax symbiont was looking for someone with some compassion, and recommended Johnson to the Commission.

A week after his interview, Johnson was selected as the twelfth host of the Frax symbiont. The surgery was performed earlier than scheduled, as Yolinda’s disease progressed to the point of no return. Johnson successfully became Johnson Frax with few negative side-effects to his body chemistry.

With Frax Symbiont
Johnson was kept near trill for his first six months. Starfleet assigned him as a maintenance engineer at the orbiting research station, despite wishing to use his abilities towards rebuilding some of the outlying colonies affected during the war. This period was uneventful, and Johnson had a satisfactory maintenance record.

When released from the Commission’s requirements, he requested a starship assignment. Captain Yagi of the USS Archangel was looking for Engineers to fill out the engineering crew, and the chief engineer at the time recommended Frax based on his maintenance record, the Academy record, and the holo-engineering sections of his record.

Johnson joined Chris Krollt and Grax as new engineers on board the USS Archangel. It didn’t take long before Chief Engineer Cayde took over engineering, and kept Frax on the Gamma Shift engineering schedule. His schedule would change after the famed incompetence of Chris Krollt for diagnosis of Deck 2’s power fluctuations that resulted in warp core realignment.

During the evacuation of the USS Archangel, Johnson ensured those who survived in engineering got out, and paired with Crewman Grax to search for survivors on Deck 2 before rushing to an escape pod. He was part of the group led by Commander Dija with Ensign Todoroki, Crewman Thaan, the recently acquired Small Biter lizards, and the Captain’s sugar glider. On board the USS Everest, he tapped into two of his recent host’s medical experience in order to assist in triage efforts.

Johnson Frax currently serves on board the USS Arcadia, and is roommates with Crewman Alborz. The death of the ship’s first officer recently has been difficult, as he lost his friend Crewman Grax in the process due to a transfer. He still held onto hopes for some better times on board the Arcadia, and to spend time working on new holoprograms for the crew.

=Starfleet Courses=

Core Courses

 * ADMIN101: Star Fleet Operations
 * ADMIN110: Chain of Command and General Protocol
 * DIPL101: General
 * ENG221: LCARS Programming 1
 * ENG231: Computer Memory and Personnel Interfaces
 * ENG232: Replicators, Transporters, and Holodecks
 * ENG233: Sensors, Communications, and Helm Systems
 * HIST101: Birth of the Federation
 * LANG101: Federation Standard
 * LANG110: Major Species (Elementary) - Cadet's Choice
 * LAW101: Federation, General
 * MATH101: Concepts
 * MED101: First Aid and Field Medicine
 * PHYS101: Concepts
 * PILOT101: Runabouts and Shuttles
 * SURV101: Starship Emergencies
 * SURV110: Environmental Suits and Zero-G Training
 * TAC101: Combat, Unarmed
 * TAC110: Combat, Small Weapons
 * BIO101: Concepts
 * XEN101: General

Majors

 * ENG101: General Electronics
 * ENG311: Starship Engineering
 * ENG330: Bio-Neural Components
 * PHYS350: Thermodynamics
 * MATH250: Differential

Minors

 * ENG222: LCARS Programming
 * ENG421: Automata, Computability, and Complexity
 * PHYS275: Electrodynamics
 * MATH330: Probability and Statistics
 * ENG323: Application of Creative Design in Holodecks
 * ENG425: Artificial Intelligence

=Trivia=


 * He is currently engaged with Ensign Nunju Yalah, and is in the bliss of that moment.
 * Frax programs holo-adventures in his spare time. Who knows if we will have one of them come up at some point.
 * He usually tumbles down corridors in haste if the ship is in a serious situation.

Likes

 * Tame Fun
 * Holo-Programming
 * Exploration

Dislikes

 * Ice-Cream
 * Not Helping
 * Messing Up