Editing Susan Rivers (section)

==Starfleet History==

===Starfleet Academy===

Her three years at the Academy were notable for two things: her constant clashes with authority and her equally constant high marks in all her classes. She was on average in the top five students of her year each year, and graduated with honours. For three successive years she held the title for marksmanship, and has kept up her practice. She also gained high grades in hand-to-hand combat, with a distinction in unarmed combat. She has learned to control her temper on ''most'' occasions. 

Whilst at the Academy she met and fell in love with another cadet, Steve Zintel, a Trill. She was extremely happy and had requested that she be assigned to the same ship Zintel was assigned to, the USS Spectre. Then she found out that Steve was cheating on her with other women, and Susan immediately broke off the relationship and requested a change of assignment, which was granted.

She was assigned as OPS officer with the rank of Ensign(jg)to the [[USS Nimitz]], which had just been launched under the command of Captain Aragorn.

===USS Nimitz===

Promoted to Ensign(sg)

When Captain [[Admiral Aragorn|Aragorn]] married [[Louise Palmer]], the Vegan invited his good friend Captain [[Remae Ktell]] and the crew of the [[USS Spectre]], the ship on which Aragorn had first served and where he had met Louise, to the wedding. Susan met up with Zintel again, he apologised for the way he had behaved, and they made up. Zintel gifted her a [[Bajoran]] friendship bracelet just before the wedding.
Promoted to Lt(jg)

Promoted to 2O

During the Federation/Cardassian war, the Nimitz CO Captain [[Admiral Aragorn|Aragorn]] took Susan with him on a mission to get the Maquis forces to throw their weight in on the side of Starfleet. They agreed and a Maquis fleet was despatched to Starbase 968, arriving in time to swing the result of what became known to historians variously as the battle for Starbase 968 (Federation) or the battle for Bajor (Maquis). During that battle, Maquis Captain [[Thomas Rivers]], believing his daughter Susan was aboard the Nimitz, was killed when he used his ship the MSS Gernoimo to protect the crippled Nimitz from a Cardassian Galor. Unknown to Thomas, Susan had been issued with immediate transfer orders from the Nimitz to the Spectre only hours before the battle began.

===USS Spectre/USS Athene===
[[Image:susanrivers2.jpg|thumb|left|150px|''' ''Commander Rivers'' ''']]
Transferred to [[USS Spectre]] as FO, with a promotion to Lt Commander. 

Learns of the death of her father from Captain [[Admiral Aragorn|Aragorn]].

Meets up with her former fiance, Steve Zintel. Their romance is rekindled but Zintel dies of a previously unknown disease now named Zintel's Syndrome. The cure was found by Dr Anderson, the Spectre's CMO, but too late to save Zintel.

Transferred to USS Athene as FO with Captain [[Remae Ktell]] and the rest of the Spectre crew after the near-destruction of the USS Spectre.

Promoted to Commander.

===USS New Victory===


Transferred to the USS New Victory, a captured Cardassian Galor class which was to be the temporary home of the Nimitz crew whilst the ship was being repaired after the battle for Starbase 968, as FO. Took part in the investigation of a [[Gulorian]] baseship, which the Nimitz crew managed to prevent falling into the hands of the Cardassians.

===Back to USS Nimitz===

Returned to USS Nimitz as FO with Captain [[Admiral Aragorn|Aragorn]] and the Nimitz crew once the ship's repairs and refit had been completed.

===First Command - USS Boudicca===
[[Image:susanrivers.jpg|thumb|right|160px|''' ''Captain Susan Rivers'' ''']]

Promoted to Captain and given command of the newly-launched [[USS Boudicca]]. Met Captain Kendaro Itano, the CO of Starbase 968 and began a relationship with him whilst vacationing on [[Bajor]].

After an attack in which she was severely injured, so seriously that the injuries could not be treated aboard ship, she was put into stasis and on their return to the nearest Starbase, invalided off the Boudicca. 

The relationship with Kendaro did not survive their separation, leaving Susan wary of committing herself again.

===Boredom at SFHQ===

When she eventually recovered several months later, Susan was informed by SFHQ that command of the Boudicca had been given to her former FO, Sam Kaneshiro, and that she was to await a new assignment. In the meantime, once certified fit to return to duty, she was given a desk job at SFHQ, reviewing OPS procedures. Never one to accept inactivity gracefully, Susan became increasingly bored and frustrated kicking her heels at SFHQ. Knowing that Sam fully deserved the command, and being glad that the Boudicca was in safe hands, nevertheless did not make things easier for her. Eventually her frustration boiled over into a furious row with Admiral P'Zaan over his refusal yet again to consider her for a return to active service, and at the disciplinary hearing which followed she was reduced in rank from Captain to Commander. Susan was beginning to seriously consider an offer from her brother to leave Starfleet and return to the Maquis, when Admiral Kriller ordered her to join him on board the USS Firebrande. Once aboard and underway, he informed her that they were travelling to rendezvous with the [[USS Nimitz]], and that she was to be given command of her. 

===Once more back on the USS Nimitz===

Promoted back to Captain by Admiral Eileen Greely, after bringing the badly-damaged Nimitz back to [[Starbase Geneva]] following the battle with the [[Romulan]] vessel, [[Red Claw]].

Some time later, Susan was told by Aragorn (now an Admiral, and assigned to a small base in a remote part of the Gamma Quadrant) of the machinations of Admiral Doenitz. Warned by her former CO to stay out of it, Susan refused and eventually confronted Doenitz.  Afterwards she spoke to Admiral LoDona and Commander (later Captain) Grailik and discovered that they, too, were suspicious of Doenitz's activities.

''"Sir, I am a Starfleet officer, NOT a lady! I will stand with Lt Nakamura at  Tactical, as his assistant is one of those who have not reported back to the  ship."

''"Really, Captain? I am sorry but I know you. And you know me. And you know  Commander Sevant. And Commander Sevant knows you. Now I think I know Commander  Sevant a little bit, and probably Commander Sevant knows me a little bit. But  on the whole, I'd rather have someone close by that I would know better.  Besides, if I remember correctly, Commander Sevant has earned his spurs in  Tactical, and if anyone would be best suited to occupy the Tactical station,  it would be Commander Sevant. As for you not being a lady... well, let's  pretend, shall we?"''
''

-Captain Susan Rivers and Admiral Aragorn, ''Burial Ground'', Stardate: 2406.03.05

Captain, [[USS Nimitz]] until injured in the line of duty.

===On Ohlsson's staff===

Although her injuries were not that serious, she did not return to the Nimitz but transferred to Admiral Ohlsson's staff at his personal request. Further information of her time with Ohlsson remains classifed until further notice, but is rumoured to have included some blackops assignments. 

Ohlsson then gave her a special assignnment (see [[Sub Rosa]] ), investigating a possible traitor on the Boudicca. To provide her with a cover-story, Susan used her previous record of insulting Admirals to provoke a court-martial for gross insubordination to Admiral Weston, resulting in a reduction of her rank from Captain to Lt(jg).

===USS Boudicca again===
[[Image:SusanR_r1.jpg|thumb|left|90px|''' ''Captain Rivers'' ''']]

Assigned as TAC/ASC to the [[USS Boudicca]] under her own former FO, then Commander but now Captain [[Caladryll Sevant]]. However, when the [[Boudicca]]'s FO, Commander West, was badly injured in battle, Captain [[Caladryll Sevant|Sevant]] made Susan his FO, promoting her to Commander.

Susan served as the Boudicca's FO for only two missions before events forced another change. Damage to the ship meant that the crew temporarily transferred to the [[Miranda Class]] [[USS Kitty Hawk]]. Whilst Susan led an away team to recover Colonel [[Eva Straton]] from the planet [[Iradon]] where Straton's shuttle had crashed, the Kitty Hawk was engaged by a [[Cardassian]] vessel, intent on fulfilling their own mission with Dr Jorsad Ari, the Boudicca's acting Chief Medical Officer. In the ensuing fight, several crewmembers were killed. Captain Sevant was injured but returned to the Bridge.

After the mission was completed, news reached the Boudicca of the death of Captain Wolfe, the commanding officer of the USS Champlain. In view of the fact that Dr Caskie had just confirmed that Susan was pregnant, she was ordered to transfer from the Boudicca and take command of the [[USS Champlain]] with immediate effect.

===USS Champlain - the undiscovered country===

Taking with her several crewmembers to replace those killed in the same attack in which Captain Wolfe died, Susan travelled back to Starbase Geneva to meet up with the [[USS Champlain|Champlain]] and her crew.

Those travelling with her include Dr 'Josh' Caskie, and Lt Colonel [[Leonal Drizzt]].

Charged with bringing the crew to battle readiness as soon as possible, Susan spent the first few weeks of her new command running simulation after simulation. Finally, the Champlain was ordered to take her place in Task Force 19, which was to be at the forefront of the assault on the MDP, under the overall command of Admiral Sevant.

It was during this battle that the Champlain met her end, immortalised in a Rodenberry Award-winning documentary by Hal Stanza, [[The Final Flight of the Champlain]].

===USS Rosenante - First CO===

Susan and most of her former officers and crew were assigned to the [[USS Rosenante]] - first of her class, and a dedicated explorer.

Susan was honoured to be the the first CO of the Rosenante. Few Captains get to be the first Captain of a new ship, and fewer still get to do it twice in their career.  She still has fond memories of the ship and her command of her.

===USS Boudicca - returning once more===

After the arrest of Captain [[Caladryll Sevant|Sevant]], Susan was ordered back to the [[USS Boudicca|Boudicca]] to take command of her old ship. Travelling back with her family and with her yeoman from the Rosenante as well as the Rose's Chief Nurse, Susan prepares to take the [[USS Boudicca|Boudicca]] on a new voyage of discovery and exploration.

Having been redesignated as an explorer and given a refit at the end of the Civil War, the Boudicca has latterly been sent to patrol the area around [[Laatstekans]] Station out on the fringes of the frontier.

Already the crew have encountered a new race, the [[Mithgiln]], whose living ships the Shonora form a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with their Mithgiln partners in exploring the galaxy.  The first contact did not go as smoothly as might have been hoped due to the Mithgiln's opposite beliefs to the Federation with regards to contact with pre-warp races. Goodwill was preserved on both sides though, and it is hoped that there will be further contact with the Mithgiln in the not-too-distant future. A full report will of course be sent to Starfleet, but for the moment the crew of the Boudicca look forward to some R&R before their next mission.




===Current assignment:=== 

On secondment to Admiral Ohlsson, Special Ops.