[bio]
Character Name: Robert Leslie
Rank, Department: Lieutenant, Engineering (technically; he’s sometimes all over the place)
Age: 22
Personality: Leslie’s the typical hard-working Starfleet type, always eager to help, and loyal to both the Chief and the Captain, almost to a fault. He enjoys the challenges being part of the best young crew in the fleet brings, and won’t hesitate to jump headfirst into any problem he even has the slightest chance of being able to fix.
Though he’s generally likable even while he’s working, off-duty, it’s even more obvious. He’s a laid back sort of guy, contented to hang around and watch goings-on, regardless of whether he’s participating or not. A very easy man to like, he’s got a nice balance between cocky adolescence and genuine compassion . He’s willing to talk with anybody, and it’s obvious in his outgoing friendliness.
History: Born to a former Starfleet engineer father - retired young after a crippling accident and choosing to leave the service rather than be stuck at a desk for the rest of his life - and a doctor mother, Robert was raised in Winnipeg, in the former country of Canada. (But don’t tell the Canadians they’re a former country. Theyve retained their nationalism nearly as well as the Scottish.) As a boy, he was heavily into contact sports, martial arts, tinkering around his father’s shop, and extra-curricular science fairs. He never could pick one thing he liked more than the others, a trait that followed him into Starfleet. On top of all this, he still managed to be a typical boy, making lots of friends and getting into trouble. He’s got the medical record of broken bones to prove it.
At eighteen, fresh out of high school, he enlisted in Starfleet’s Security track and moved to San Francisco. That lasted until he realized that the Engineering department had considerably more fun, by the looks of it. He’d switched by Christmas of his first year. He excelled at Engineering, even while participating in science clubs and routinely working out with his friends still in the Security track. While taking the required first aid and medical safety courses, he caught the attention of the exasperated nurse teaching the course by actually caring. That is probably why, during the Narada crisis, Nurse Chapel stuck him on triage duty on the Engineering decks, in between his attempts with the rest of the department to get the ship in working order again. Useful? Heck, yes. He’s also been used as a relief navigator, though if he’s on the bridge, he’s more apt to be at the Engineering station.
Officially graduating in the top 95th percentile from the Engineering course, Robert’s more than happy to assigned to the Enterprise, having the standard Engineer’s appreciation for her.
Example entry or tag: Being on the Enterprise was new enough to him that every day seemed exciting, but, being under the impression that that was just him being an excitable little boy at heart, he tended not to think about it. It wasn’t until he started corresponding with his parents, telling them about everything they’d done so far, and then getting a general “oh, wow” response, that he accepted that, yeah, this ship was pretty damn exciting.
And that just made going to work all that better. Robert was on the bridge today, scheduled to pretend to know what he was doing navigating. It wasn’t a particularly difficult task on days they weren’t going anywhere in particular, or being in any sort of mortal peril, but he certainly couldn’t compare to the Alpha navigator. Well, talent-wise, at least. Enthusiasm, though, he could do.
He walked onto the bridge smiling and just barely not bouncing.
Anything else?: Considering all the Canadian actors in this franchise, WHY are there none on the ships? Hmmm?
Played By?: Joseph Gordon-Levitt