Commander Marie Gage Mirtoh

Commander Marie Gage Mirtoh, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer

*Only those with access to Marie’s personnel or medical file would know that she is half-Betazoid.

Biography:

Cynthia Marie Gage was born to Cynthia Renee Gage onboard the USS Ambassador on January 5, 2350. As for Marie’s father, Ensign Cynthia Gage refused to identify him. The only indication of his origin or identity was a notation in the infant’s medical records that her father was Betazoid.

Marie spent the first fourteen years of her life as a “starfleet” brat on shipboard or starbase as her mother’s assignments required. For reasons she never explained to Marie, Cynthia sent the child to Earth in 2364 to live with her maternal grandparents (George and Mary Gage). Two months later, Lt. Commander Cynthia Gage was reassigned to the USS Roosevelt. Marie’s last letter from her mother was just prior to the battle at Wolf 359.

When the USS Roosevelt didn’t return, and the Borg threat was on everyone’s minds, Marie decided that death in the stars was preferable to life or death on Earth. She kept her grades up and entered the Academy as soon as she was eligible (2368).

In spite of her half-Betazoid heritage, Marie grew up oblivious to Betazoid attitudes and culture. She didn’t really think to tell anyone about the unexplained hunches or flashes of insight that might otherwise have tipped someone to her empathic ability. What they noticed was that she had an uncanny ability to see through people, to pick out what they were trying to say, or were feeling. Hence, her ability was pretty much untrained and therefore limited.

After graduation from the Academy in 2375, her first assignment was as Yeoman onboard the USS Valdemar. Her “insight” made her a natural for the job. Her commanding officer noticed her skills, and provided cross-training to qualify her for a position in Operations. His logic was that if she could “understand,” and “assist” him … then she should be able to “understand,” “assist,” and “coordinate” just about anyone. In 2377, with minimal actual Operations experience under her belt, she was transferred to the USS Washington.

Historical Timeline:

2349

· Curzon Dax and Benjamin Sisko meet for the first time.

· Cynthia Renee Gage graduates the Academy and is assigned to the USS Ambassador as a communications officer and linguist. During one of her first assignments, she meets the Betazed Ambassador, and has a brief liaison with his Aide, Maurice DeVoi. They part at the end of the mission not knowing she has conceived a child.

2350

· Beverly graduates from Starfleet Academy with a medical degree. Sisko enters Starfleet Academy.

· Cynthia Marie Gage born onboard the USS Ambassador. Her mother refuses to tell anyone who the father is.

2364

· Captain Jean Luc Picard travels by shuttlecraft to take command of the USS Enterprise. First Contact with the Q continuum. Jadzia enters the Trill Initiate program.

· The Borg make their first attack on the Federation, destroying several outposts near the Romulan border. The Romulans re-establish diplomatic ties with the Federation.

· With unexplained foresight, Cynthia Gage sends 14-year-old Marie to live with her grandparents on Earth. Two months later, Lt. Cmdr. Gage is reassigned to the USS Roosevelt which was destroyed in battle at Wolf 359.

2368

· After discovering that the Romulans are assisting the Duras family, Starfleet sends a fleet to the Romulan-Klingon border. The fleet is successful in preventing Romulan border crossings. Gowrons forces defeat the Duras family, although the sisters Lursa and B'Etor escape. Worf returns to Starfleet service.

· Marie Gage enters Starfleet Academy.

2375

· The Breen become Dominion allies. A Breen fleet launches an attack against Earth, destroying Starfleet Headquarters and badly damaging the San Francisco area. The Breen suffer heavy losses in the attack.

· Marie Gage, M.D. graduates Starfleet Academy. She is in San Francisco awaiting her training cruise assignment when the Breen attack. Unaware of her empathic abilities, Marie is overcome by the onslaught of pain and suffering during the aftermath. Believing this to be weakness on her part, and thinking herself unable to adequately treat her patients, Marie refuses to accept medical assignment. She spends her training cruise as Yeoman onboard the USS Valdemar.

· The Cardassian population rises up against the Dominion. The Dominion destroy a city of 2 million people in retaliation. The Cardassian fleet switches sides, helping the Allies to inflict a major defeat on the Dominion and Breen forces. The Dominion surrender, ending the war.

2376

· Reginald Barclay, working on starfleet’s Pathfinder project succeeds in contacting Voyager via an advanced communications technology. The advance means that regular contact with the Starship will now be possible.

· Janeway attempts to begin a rebellion amongst the Borg by infiltrating the virtual environment known as "unimatrix zero". The Delta Flyer is destroyed.

· Noticing the results of Yeoman Gage’s empathic ability and believing it to be natural aptitude, the CO of the Valdemar provides cross-training in Operations management.

2377

· The Borg rebellion is successful in escaping the control of the collective, with the assistance of Voyager.

· Ens. Marie Gage is transferred to the USS Washington as Chief Operations Officer. Shortly thereafter, Computer Specialist Hank Logan discovers and points out her Betazoid heritage, linking it to the likelihood of empathic abilities. Subsequent research on Marie's part brings her to finally understand what happened to her in the aftermath of the Breen attack on San Francisco. She transfers from Operations to Medical, finally accepting her status as M.D. and accepting assignment as Chief Medical Officer.

2379

· Lt. Commander Marie Gage requests transfer back to Starfleet Headquarters and subsequent postings with her soon-to-be husband, Captain James “Rook” Mirtoh.

2382

· When Admiral “Rook” Mirtoh is assigned as Commanding Officer of Far Point Fleet and Starbase 25, Commander Marie Gage Mirtoh is also transferred and assigned as Chief Medical Officer for Starbase 25, as well as personal physician to the Admiral.