Starfleet Academy, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., Terra
-Major in Engineering
-Minor in Command

Starfleet Academy, Intelligence Training School, Moscow, Russia, Terra
-Anti-Terrorism Training
-Intelligence Officer Training, Engineering Specialist
-Intelligence Officer Training, Command School

Specialized Training & Skills:

Ensign, Engineering Officer – USS Republic, NCC-1371-D, Excelsior class starship,
Federation Fifth Fleet, Task Group Baker

Ensign, Engineering Officer – USS Prokofiev, NCC-68814, Andromeda class starship,
Federation Eighth Fleet, Task Group 2

Ensign, Engineering Officer – USS Manchester, NCC-35855, Steamrunner class starship,
Federation Ninth Fleet, Task Group 12

Sogh (Field Promotion; SF eq.: Lieutenant), Assistant Chief Engineer - IKC SuDqul,
House of Komar Vor’cha class attack cruiser

Sogh (Field Promotion; SF eq.: Lieutenant), Chief Engineer - IKC SuDqul,
House of Komar Vor’cha class attack cruiser

Lieutenant Commander, Chief Strategic Operations Officer - USS Vincent, NCC-72854, Galaxy class starship, Federation Fifteenth Fleet

Kieran was born on 17 March 2350 in South Boston to Michael Liam O’Donnell, a Senior Engineer at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, and Rhiannon Bronwyn Kierans, a Professor of 21^st Century History at Harvard University.  Kieran has a older brother, Liam, (born 07/05/2348), who is now a Senior Researcher at the Memory Alpha Research Foundation on Memory Alpha, and a younger sister, Meghan (05/19/2353), a doctoral candidate at the Daystrom Institute, who is currently researching the origins of the Planet killers, and their relationship to the Borg.  Kieran and his sibs grew up in the relative security and the closeness of South Boston, surrounded by family and friends. 

Kieran was a good student in the South Boston school system, his teachers pushing him towards engineering once they realized that he had a natural knack for it.  He would also accompany his father to Utopia Planitia when ever school vacations allowed, getting tours of unfinished ships, and ships in for repairs, and even helping his father out with actual work whenever he could.

At 16, Kieran applied for and was accepted into the early admissions program at Star Fleet Academy.  He went into Engineering School and applied and went to Command School as well.  Besides studying engineering, he also took language and culture courses in Klingon, Kzinti, Vulcan, and Bajoran.  Kieran also developed some friendships, including fellow engineering cadet Molly Smithe, science cadet Pavel Vladimir Maikov, and security cadet Jamie Stieger.  The four of them were very close throughout their four years at the Academy.  They were assigned to the same team, and performed in many of the same training missions.  The four of them did their cadet cruise together during their 3^rd year of Academy, 3 months aboard the U.S.S. Tylin, an Oberth class starship that was assigned to train cadets before they were assigned to starships.  They roomed together, and worked on Alpha shift together as cadet department heads.  It was a great experience, and they returned to Star Fleet Academy in good spirits.  During a shore leave on a frontier world of the Federation, Kieran and Molly both got data ports surgically inserted into the base of their skulls, allowing them to directly interface with a computer system.

After the Academy, all four were assigned to the U.S.S. Republic.  Kieran stayed on the Republic for about a year with his friends before being offered a chance to go to Star Fleet Intelligence Training back on Earth.  Kieran jumped aboard a transport at Starbase Earhart and arrived on Earth 2 days later.

Kieran spent a year at Star Fleet Intelligence Training School in Moscow, Russia, learning infiltration techniques, and taking other courses as well, in command techniques, engineering systems, and in Anti-Terrorism training.  While there, Kieran was able to meet Tuvok, before Voyager was sent to the Delta Quadrant.  Tuvok lectured at the SFI facility for a week on infiltration techniques, and Kieran was able to meet with him afterwards for lunch, and discussed various styles and techniques.  When Voyager was initially presumed lost, Kieran was saddened, because he had hoped to work with the Vulcan someday.  Kieran persevered and graduated at the top of his class.  After, he was assigned to the USS Prokofiev, to help dismantle the Marquis threat.  Kieran was a model officer, and earned two commendations from Captain Simons for valiant service in dealing with the Marquis.  After the Dominion entered, and joined forces with the Cardassians, and wiped out the Marquis, the Prokofiev was reassigned to the front line.  Kieran stayed on the Prokofiev for another couple of months, until May 12^th, when he was transferred to the USS Manchester, NCC-35855, one of the Steamrunner class vessels.  Kieran was on the Manchester when she was destroyed by Cardassian vessels on May 18, 2373, about 20 light years from Federation space, just outside the old Federation/Cardassian DMZ.  Kieran just made it to an escape pod, the only survivor of the Manchester.

After a week of being alone in the escape pod, Kieran was rescued by the IKC SuDqul, on a classified mission for the Klingon Empire.  Komar HoD (Captain)  reviewed what the Imperial Database had on Ensign O’Donnell, and explained to Kieran that the SuDqul was on a classified mission, and were required to maintain strict radio silence until their returned to Qo’noS, and that they could not return Kieran to the Federation, nor let anyone now that he was even alive.  Komar offered Kieran a place on the SuDqul until the mission was over.  Kieran accepted and joined the SuDqul as an engineer, and began his career in the Klingon Defense Force.

The SuDqul returned from it’s mission in late August 2373.  By this time, Kieran was wearing the uniform of a Klingon Engineer, and had discarded his Starfleet uniform.  He had acclimated himself to living with his new shipmates, eating Klingon food, speaking in Klingon, and even beginning to think in Klingon.  He worked hard to make himself accepted by the other Klingons on the ship, to the point of even following Klingon rituals. He began to assimilate Klingon culture into his life, it complimented his personality quite well.  He learned how to use a bat’leth, a d’ktahg, and a mek’leth, along with other Klingon weapons.  Even after the SuDqul returned, Kieran did not return to the Federation, it seemed that Starfleet had forgotten about him.  He wrote to his old friends when he could, but, besides them and his family, he never received any communications from Starfleet.  During this time, the war with the Dominion was in full swing, which helped to explain why there was no communication from Starfleet in regards to Kieran’s status.  Kieran figured that Star Fleet knew where he was, and would find him when they were ready.  He learned how to use a bat’leth, a d’ktahg, and a mek’leth, along with other Klingon weapons.

Kieran continued to work hard on the SuDqul, and, when the Assistant Chief Engineer was killed in a reactor accident during a battle with Jem’Hadar.  After the battle, Kieran was called into Komar’s office, and given a field promotion to the KDF rank of Sogh (Lieutenant) and made the Assistant Chief Engineer, for his superior service to the SuDqul since he arrived on the ship.  Kieran served well as the Assistant Chief Engineer, dealing with problems as needed, and keeping the crew below him in line.  He was respected and well liked by his fellow shipmates.  When the SuDqul made stops at Klingon ports of call, he left ship with his fellow Klingons, and ate and drank with them, and acted like a Klingon.  He fought other Klingons when his personal honor was insulted. 

On May 3^rd, 2374, Kieran was brought into the House of Komar as the husband of Komar HoD’s daughter, Aryn, the SuDqul’s Chief Science Officer.  Aryn and Kieran had began their relationship/courtship about 8 months before, and this was the culmination of it.

Kieran served the SuDqul with honor and conviction, and was a loyal officer for Komar HoD, and, while on board, was in command of the SuDqul numerous times, during 3^rd shift.  Kieran also commanded the SuDqul during combat against enemies of the Klingon Empire, and had no qualms with doing so, giving orders and taking responsibility with a Klingon mindset.

Kieran also tried on various occasions to contact his family and friends back in the Federation, but, he never received any replies to his messages.  Both Kieran and Komar HoD attempted to determine the cause for this, but were unsuccessful. (Starfleet Command presumed that someone was faking Kieran’s codes and ignored any attempts at contact, and rerouted his communiqués from his family and friends, to prevent any unnecessary heartbreak.  It wasn’t until March of  2376 that Starfleet confirmed that Kieran was alive and working as an Engineer in the Klingon Defense Force, and began the necessary paperwork to return Kieran home.)

Because of Kieran’s efforts, the SuDqul had one of the lowest maintenance rates in the Klingon Fleet.  This process began when he became the Assistant Chief Engineer, and he made sure that the ship was kept in top condition.  Some of Kieran’s techniques have been used on other Klingon vessels, and, after getting over the initial shock of seeing a human in a KDF uniform, most Klingon Engineers have worked with and adapted his techniques to their own ships.

About 2 weeks before Kieran found out that he was being transferred back to the Federation, he began to receive messages from his parents and friends again, who were quite relieved to see him alive and well.  After some initial confusion, Kieran and his family figured out what had happened, and why his messages had never reached their destination

In late July of 2376, The Federation requested through their Ambassador, Worf, that Kieran be returned to Starfleet and the Federation.  The Klingon Defense Force reluctantly agreed, and issued the necessary orders to Kieran.  The SuDqul, being on the far side of the Klingon Empire, about to embark on an exploratory mission, was ordered to return Kieran to Federation space, and, early on August 1^st, 2376, arrived at Kieran’s transfer point, Star Base 138, near the Federation/Gorn border.  It was discovered enroute to SB138 from Ty’Gokor that Aryn was finally pregnant with their first child, after trying for 2 years now.  The SuDqul stayed at SB138 until late August 2^nd, and then, returned to Klingon space without Kieran.  Kieran and Aryn said their good-byes, and Kieran promised that he would somehow be there for when his child was born.

Kieran transported over to the Starbase after the departure of the SuDqul, and was immediately sent to the Star Base’s medical facility for a full medical and psychological work-up.  It was also at Star Base 138 that Kieran was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and given his new assignment, Chief Strategic Operations Officer on the USS Vincent.  Kieran was somewhat surprised by his new duties and rank, still expecting to be returned to the rank of Ensign, and began to brush up on his new duties, and to review the files he would need to know for when the Vincent arrived.

Kieran wore his Klingon Defense Force uniform for the first couple of days at SB138, and didn’t change into a Starfleet uniform until he was actually given his promotion and new assignment.  The other Starfleet officers and civilians gave odd looks at Kieran and most gave him a wide berth.  Kieran did have an incident with a security lieutenant from the Star Base staff who wanted him to turn in his Klingon weapons.  Kieran told the security officer that no respectable Klingon warrior would be required to turn over their weapons, even on a Federation station, so, why should he.  The incident came to blows, and the security officer found himself in the Star Base’s infirmary with 5 broken ribs, a fractured left fore arm, and a broken right knee cap, while Kieran was treated for a cut lip.  After a brief investigation by the Star Base’s Internal Affairs office, Kieran was allowed to keep his weapons on him, and was also requested to keep his distance from the officer in question.  No formal charges were brought up against either person.  Kieran was also told that he was back in the Federation now, and would have to modify his behavior accordingly, this was not a Klingon station, and that he wouldn’t get too many chances like he got this time.  Kieran took this advice and pretty much isolated himself while waiting for the Vincent to arrive, only coming out to eat and meet with the Star Base Administration to receive his new position and rank.

When the Vincent arrived, Kieran transported over to his new ship, and settled in the best he could, still missing his wife, and his old companions on the SuDqul.

Kieran is a hard working individual who will do what it takes to get a job done.

Kieran has also lived with Klingons for the past 2 years, and as such, has assimilated much of their culture and customs, including honor and loyalty to house and family.  He is fiercely protective of his wife and wishes that she was with him and not on the SuDqul.  He is also extremely loyal to the House of Komar, and will do what it takes to protect his new family, as well as his old family back on Earth.  He is also loyal to his shipmates on the SuDqul, and to his non-Klingon friends as well.

Kieran has enjoyed being a father so far, but does worry that his son will grow up to a hard life onboard a Klingon vessel. With Goibhnie and Aryn kidnapped by the C'hakilians, Kieran is relentless in searching for them, to the point where KI have included Kieran in their planning. Recent intelligence has shown that Aryn and Goibhnie and the other seven are being held, but not by the C'hakilians. A rival branch of the House of Komar: the House of Lovtal, whom are consindered renegades, but have friends on the High Council and whose sons were in command of the two Vor'cha's, held Aryn and Goibhnie, the last 2 members of the House of Komar.

With Kieran on Q'onoS working for Klingon Intelligence, word has finally reached him that his wife and son are very much alive.

Kieran has a data port installed in the base of his skull. He has had this since the age of 18. This allows Kieran to connect to computers and perform computer operations without physically inputting data.

Kieran feels weird being the Head of a Klingon House, even a minor one such as the House of Komar. Being a human adopted into Klingon culture and social structures, he sometimes tends to act "overly" klingon, to play down his human half, esp. around other klingons.

Counselor’s Report

Lt., Jg. Monique Dutourd

Counselor, Star Base 138

August 4^th, 2376

Lieutenant Commander Kieran O’Donnell was ordered to undergo Psychological evaluation to determine his psychological condition after serving a prolonged tour of duty in the Klingon Defense Force.  After meeting with Kieran for the duration of his stay at Star Base 138, it is this Counselor’s recommendation that Kieran continue to work with the Counseling Department on the USS Vincent to help him re-assimilate to Terran Culture and Terran norms.

Kieran was able to successfully assimilate into the Klingon culture on board the IKC SuDqul, and live a successful and normal life style in Klingon fashion.  This success can be partially attributed to Kieran’s early life growing up.  Kieran was brought up with strong ideas of loyalty and personal and family honor, and these ideas and customs transferred easily to Klingon culture, which made it easy for Kieran to adjust.

It is this Counselor’s diagnosis that Kieran, even though he has adjusted normally to Klingon culture, has been and is still currently suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (309.81), along with Acute Stress Disorder (308.3), which was caused by Kieran being the only survivor of the USS Manchester disaster.  There is also a possibility of Kieran having developed an Adjustment Disorder with Disturbance of Conduct (309.3).  Follow up treatment should include working on these issues, and assisting Kieran with returning to Human culture and social norms.