Admiral Owen Paris

Character Information

Gender		Male
Species		Human
Age		82

Physical Appearance

Height		6"
Weight		250 lbs
Hair Color		Gray
Eye Color		Brown

Family

Spouse		Julia Paris
Children		Thomas Eugene Paris Moira Paris Kathleen Paris
Father		Michael Thomas Paris
Mother		Victoria Santos Paris
Brother(s)		Cole Paris
Other Family		Daughter-in-law, B'Elanna Torres Granddaughter, Miral Paris

Personality & Traits

General Overview

Starfleet Command Senior Staff Officer.

Personal History		Owen was one of many members of the Paris family to serve in Starfleet. He was the son of Commander Michael "Iron Mike" Paris, the brother of Cole Paris, and the father of Lieutenant Commander Tom Paris. He and his wife Julia also had two daughters, Moira and Kathleen. In his office at Starfleet Academy, Paris kept pictures of his extended family members at various locations, including Mars, Vulcan, Bole, and Risa. On his desk he had pictures of his wife and children. When he was a young boy, his father was killed during a Starfleet Special Operations mission to Devron II in 2310, having given his life to save his former Starfleet Academy classmate Demora Sulu. However, the official records stated that he died during the Tomed Incident in 2311. Owen Paris was a senior Starfleet official, the former captain of the starship USS Al-Batani, and the father of Tom Paris. His most significant contribution was in command of the Pathfinder Project and its follow-up, Operation Watson, which developed major advances in long-range communication to successfully reestablish contact with the lost Starfleet vessel USS Voyager. Owen was an instructor at Starfleet Academy, having taught his son's course on Survival Strategies in the 2360s. Owen did not play favorites with his son as his student, giving Tom an overall "B-minus," in the course. Owen often pressured Tom to excel in everything he did, frequently making his son feel inadequate. He continually talked about the Prime Directive to Paris and other Starfleet officers. To him, the Prime Directive was one of the leading principles in space exploration. As captain of the USS Al-Batani, Kathryn Janeway served under him on the Arias Expedition. Later, when Janeway was assigned as the captain of the starship Voyager, she read a file on Paris' son, Thomas, and wanted him to come on Voyager's first mission as observer to help navigate the Badlands. She later brought up her past service with Owen Paris, when she went to meet Tom at the penal colony he was serving time at in New Zealand. Before venturing to meet with Tom Paris, she ran the idea past Admiral Patterson, who recognized the name as "Admiral Paris' son." In 2376, Owen Paris was overseeing the Pathfinder Project at Starfleet's Communications Research Center, which was aimed at establishing communications with the starship Voyager stranded in the Delta Quadrant. He had an office where he did his work, with his secretary Nicole. As the admiral overseeing the Pathfinder Project, Commander Peter Harkins reported directly to him, and he visited for inspections on progress routinely. During such one inspection in 2376, Admiral Paris was being briefed on new plans underway, using the MIDAS array, by Commander Harkins when Lieutenant Reginald Barclay interrupted the presentation. He made a spectacle about a micro-wormhole they may be able to create, to achieve real-time communication with Voyager. Harkins shot down the idea, but Barclay later went around him directly to the admiral at his office, "scaring his secretary." The admiral agreed to look over Barclay's findings, and sent him away. When Paris tried to contact Barclay to say his findings may have merit, the admiral was disappointed to find that Barclay had tried to go along with them without authorization. Before he could punish him, however, the communications signal went through and Voyager began to respond. Admiral Paris was able to reassure Captain Janeway that they were still working to bring the Voyager crew back home, and had Barclay send tactical and communication updates before the link ended. Several months later, in 2377, after two months of datastreams to Voyager failing to send a complex hologram, Admiral Paris was called in regards to a breach of Pathfinder security. Along with Counselor Deanna Troi and Commander Harkins, they questioned a woman named Leosa about the loss of the Barclay hologram. Leosa claimed to be a teacher while dating Barclay but was, in fact, working for the Ferengi. Though Leosa claimed that she knew nothing about this, Admiral Paris theorized that the Ferengi had somehow found a way to profit from the hologram and that she secretly knew this. His theory later proved correct, when she revealed the ship, though not its plan. Admiral Paris then ordered Captain Peterson, of the USS Carolina, to a red giant star in sector 39542 grid 8, proceeding at maximum warp to apprehend the Ferengi. Later that year, Admiral Paris was at Pathfinder labs for the testing of Operation Watson, which allowed for eleven minutes of daily contact with Voyager. Days later, Lieutenant Barclay confronted him about a holoprogram he'd become aware of that depicted the Voyager crew in an unflattering light. The admiral immediately contacted Captain Janeway about it, and a legal battle soon ensued. He sat in at a subsequent Federation judicial arbitration between Voyager's EMH, "The Doctor," and Ardon Broht of Broht & Forrester Publishers, over The Doctor's rights to own property. While Paris and several other admirals were at the Project Pathfinder labs, Barclay reported that their sensors detected a Borg transwarp conduit opening less than a light year from Earth. Fearing another Borg invasion attempt, he ordered all available ships to converge on the coordinates of the conduit. Fleet Admiral Bremer led the fleet of eighteen ships, with nine more on the way, they were ordered to use all necessary force to stop any Borg ships. A Borg sphere eventually emerged, but began to explode on its own and Paris sent word to the fleet to hold their fire as the sphere exploded, with Voyager emerging triumphantly from the wreckage. Admiral Paris hailed Voyager immediately, to welcome them home.
Service Record		Owen Paris had a long and varied career, holding a variety of posts throughout. Owen was an instructor at Starfleet Academy in the 2350s. In 2355, he interviewed Cadet Kathryn Janeway to be her junior honors thesis advisor on massive compact halo objects. His aide at that time was Lieutenant Commander Klenman. Owen taught a course on Survival Strategies while his son Tom attended the Academy in the 2360s. Owen did not play favorites, giving Tom a "B-minus" in the course. Owen would regularly pressure Tom to excel in everything he did, making his son feel inadequate. At some point, Paris was assigned to a position which precluded his continued teaching. Lieutenant Saed Squire was part of the last course Paris taught. In 2357, Admiral Paris embarked on the Arias expedition aboard the USS Al-Batani. While the Arias expedition was officially a study of massive halo objects, the mission was actually a spy mission along the Cardassian border, beyond Deep Space 7. Six months into the voyage, Paris and Ensign Kathryn Janeway were captured by Gul Camet, and later rescued by Lieutenant Justin Tighe. Paris continuously talked about the Prime Directive, considering it one of the leading principles in space exploration. Admiral Paris was on the mission review board when Captain Kathryn Janeway returned from a six-month mission to the Beta Quadrant in 2365. In 2376, Paris began overseeing the Pathfinder Project of Starfleet's Communications Research Center, aimed at establishing communications with the starship USS Voyager stranded in the Delta Quadrant. In early 2378, Paris was the first person to board the USS Voyager after its return from the Delta Quadrant. After meeting with Captain Janeway, he then met his son, his daughter-in-law B'Elanna Torres, and his new granddaughter, Miral Paris. Paris was also one of several Starfleet officers, along with Fleet Admiral Bremer, Admiral Ross, and Fleet Admiral Nechayev, present at the first official debriefing of Captain Janeway. When Starfleet Security took Tom in custody for questioning, while B'Elanna was embarking on a spiritual quest, Owen and Julia took care of Miral. In 2379, Admiral Paris was one of five Starfleet admirals who decided, after the disastrous Tezwan affair, that Federation President Min Zife and advisors Koll Azernal and Nelino Quafina should be forced to step down. By 2381, Admiral Paris was in command of Starbase 234. Early that year, the Borg Collective made a sudden and brutal invasion. The starbase was one of five targets in a simultaneous attack, and was unable to put up a sufficient defense. A severally wounded Paris had a prerecorded subspace message transmitted to his son Tom, explaining to him how sorry he was for his harsh words regarding Torres and Miral, and for causing a strain in their relationship. Believed killed during the Borg attack on Starbase 234 in 2381, Owen Paris was later found alive aboard a Shuttle having be rescued by his Aide, Commander Cole Palmer. After a year of leave, he returned to Starfleet in mid-2382. In 2382 Admiral Paris was working for Starfleet Research and Development, and ordered that The Doctor's mobile emitter be taken for study. The emitter was later returned to The Doctor. Promoted to the Starfleet Command Staff in 2384.