Patricia Hawkins

Patricia Hawkins
Species	Human
Alignment	Starfleet
Appearances
Features in	TRK, BG
First Appearance	Star Traks 1
Last Appearance	Aren't You Dead?
Created by	Alan Decker
Career
Position	Navigator
Assigned to	USS Secondprize
Till	2370
Position	Security Chief
Assigned to	USS Secondprize
From	2370
Till	2377
Predecessor	George Poston
Successor	Robert Prescott
Position	First Officer
Assigned to	USS Edsel
From	2372
Till	2372
Position	Independent Security Specialist
Assigned to	USS Secondprize
From	2386
Till	Unknown

Childhood

Patricia Hawkins' parents were very dedicated cultural anthropologists who seemed far more interested in their work than their two daughters. Throughout Hawkins' childhood, she was dragged from backwater planet to backwater planet, where she and her younger sister were forced to entertain themselves as their parents made their observations of primitive cultures. Despite forgotten birthdays, missed Christmases and ignored growth milestones, Hawkins grew up to be a woman everyone described in one word: sweet. Desiring to be around more people, Hawkins applied to and was accepted at Starfleet Academy.

Starfleet Career

After her graduation, Hawkins' professors were at something of a loss as to where to post her. She was just so darn sweet that none of them wanted to put her anywhere she could be harmed. The USS Secondprize seemed like the ideal place. Due to the nature of the rest of the ship's crew, Starfleet would not be sending them on vital or risky assignments. Unfortunately, on the ship's first mission, Admiral Earl Wyndham, whom the Secondprize was transporting to a ceremony on Lodgibax, went bonkers and fled the ship in a shuttle. Captain Alexander Rydell and Hawkins, who had been posted as the ship's navigator, followed Wyndham to a secret base located in an asteroid field. The base turned out to have a device capable of amplifying the mental abilities of the user to the extent that Rydell and Hawkins found themselves trapped inside Wyndham's insanity. Wyndham took special pleasure in torturing the innocent Hawkins from inside her own mind. Rydell also entered Hawkins' mind and discovered her dark side, a condensed ball of anger and bitterness she'd been collecting through the years. Each time her parents missed an event in her life, that ball got a little more dense. Realizing it was the only way he could get Hawkins to fight Wyndham, Rydell freed the dark side into the rest of her mind. The change in Hawkins was immediate. Instead of a sweet, meek person, she became an aggressive ass-kicker. She violently expelled Wyndham from her mind, saving both her and Rydell. (The Hawkins Incident [REJ])

In her new frame of mind, Hawkins made an ideal security chief, so Rydell had her transferred to that position. Her aggressive mindset clearly showed during the "Who does Travis Dillon want to date?" crisis. Hawkins advocated just killing Dillon to solve the problem. (Reason to Panic [TRK]) Hawkins developed an almost-debilitating phobia when a saboteur locked her in a holodeck with a horde of clowns hell-bent on attacking her. Scott Baird was able to free her, but from then on the mere mention of a clown was enough to send her into a panic. (Star Traks 1 [TRK]) When Captain Rydell was abducted by Zero, Hawkins did everything she could to track him down and rescue him. She felt she owed Rydell a great debt for releasing the darkness into her mind, even though Rydell himself was uneasy about having to radically alter her personality in order to save her. Hawkins, with the help of Monica Vaughn, was successful in finding Rydell, an action that earned her the grudging respect and admiration of Jaroch. (Star Traks 2 [TRK])

After the Secondprize returned to Earth's Spacedock, Hawkins tried to get over her clown phobia using an aversion therapy holoprogram. She put herself into a jungle scenario where dozens of clowns attempted to hunt her down. Commander Dillon tracked her into this program and helped her gun down several of the pale menaces before asking her to be his first officer on the USS Edsel. Despite her general dislike of Dillon, the offer of a promotion to lieutenant commander and his prowess with an uzi caused her to accept the position. She performed admirably on the Gulax Four mission and was left in command of the Edsel while Dillon faced Donask in single competition. After the fiasco with the Klingons, Starfleet decided to basically pretend Dillon and Hawkins had never been promoted. They were returned to their previous ranks and positions on the Secondprize, something that destroyed Dillon since he had developed a romance with Dr. Elizabeth Jennings. He believed that the only reason she liked him was the mate magnet he had as a captain. By the time he found out the mate magnet hadn't been functioning anyway, it was too late, and Jennings was gone. Hawkins consoled Dillon and convinced him to get on with his life. (Star Traks 3 [TRK])

She found herself in the brig a couple of months later when disobeyed the orders of Myna, who was masquerading as an ambassador. Realizing that something was seriously suspicious about Ambassador Fuil Baradda, she convinced Lt. Sean Russell to let her out of the brig so she could find Dillon. She ended up trapped with Dillon in a holodeck representation of his brother, [[Bradley Dillon]'s used spaceship lot. After several holodeck tricks and an outside assist from Lisa Beck and Craig Porter, Hawkins and Dillon escaped the holodeck and stopped Myna before he killed Lt. Emily Sullivan. The time they spent in the holodeck cemented the growing friendship between Dillon and Hawkins, a friendship no one else on the ship could understand considering Dillon's usual personality. (Star Traks 4 [TRK])

The relationship between Hawkins and Dillon grew romantic while they were stranded in Starfleet Memorial Gardens, a turn of events that greatly unsettled Jaroch. (Star Traks 5 [TRK]) She and Jaroch later worked together to rescue Rydell and Ensign Andrea Carr from Michael Rennicks. (Hostage Crisis [TRK]) Hawkins fear of clowns returned to haunt her when she accidentally activated the Security Entity on Guulamia. First, it attacked the Secondprize in the form of a giant clown, which was bad enough, but, after Hawkins defeated it once, the entity took over a group of Borg and returned for her. Rather than risk the entire ship, Hawkins and Dillon left in a shuttle, which was promptly captured by the entity's Borg clowns. The Borg clowns assimilated Hawkins into Sunshine Of Borg and made her leap off a giant facade of a burning building during the clown act at their circus. Dillon and Jaroch managed to kill the entity and save Hawkins, but the experience left her severely drained. (Fear Has A Red Nose [TRK])

After Dillon was blown up, dropped off a cliff, and swallowed by a giant fish on Alkaxis Prime, Hawkins decided that they needed a vacation. She book a cabin for them on the maiden voyage of the SS Pomposity. The trip turned out to be a lot less relaxing than they would have hoped due to a Changeling saboteur, a run-in with Donask, and, worst of all, the presence of Dillon's parents. Hawkins and Dillon resolved the various problems and grew closer than ever, or at least as close as two severely emotionally damaged people could. They both still had some serious intimacy issues to work out. (Cruising For Trouble [TRK]) Hawkins was very upset when Dillon was believed lost in a runabout accident, but they were reunited in time for Christmas. (Alone On Christmas [TRK])

Unbeknownst to Hawkins, throughout all of this, Jaroch had gradually been falling in love with her. The stress of hiding his feelings and dealing with the fact that she was seeing Dillon drove Jaroch into a Seratch which forced him to return to Yyns. Meanwhile, Rebecca Singer attacked the Secondprize in the stolen USS Defiant. Matters came to a head in a mall on 20th Century Earth where Jaroch finally blurted out his feelings for Hawkins and his intense hatred of Dillon. Hawkins was flattered that Jaroch felt that way about her, but she wanted to be with Dillon. In fact, she and Dillon moved in together immediately after this mission. Forced to accept her decision, Jaroch made no more mention of his feelings. (Star Traks 6 [TRK]) Hawkins was one of the five Secondprize officers to go down to the Forever moon about six months later. At first Forever would only listen to her, but even she wasn't able to talk Forever out of destroying the universe. They did, however, put it on hold for ten years. (Please Hold For Oblivion [TRK]) Hawkins was also on the away team that went to Cenkella during Commander David Conway's visit to the Secondprize. Her efforts kept the very angry Cenkellans out of the building the Secondprize crew had holed themselves up in long enough for Carr to bring Conway to his senses. (Of Gods and First Officers [TRK])

Over the next couple of years, Hawkins grew bored and restless in her relationship with Dillon and in her job in general. Neither she or Dillon would bring up marriage, and the Secondprize missions had become relatively routine as Rydell tried to maintain the status quo until he retired. Despite her bravery in combat and her willingness to inflict pain on an enemy, she just couldn't bring herself to tell Dillon that she'd fallen out of love with him. An opportunity for a life change presented itself with a Klingon named Mookow visited the Secondprize. Mookow ran a private security firm, something Hawkins found very alluring. She and Mookow quickly fell for each other, and, without telling Dillon she was leaving, Hawkins submitted her resignation to Rydell and left with Mookow. (Quit While You're Ahead [TRK])

Later Life

For many years, Hawkins and Mookow lived happily as husband and wife, but his devotion to his security business over their relationship was a serious strain on the marriage. By the time of the Forever incident, Hawkins was close to leaving Mookow. She tried to apologize to Dillon for running out on him, but he was too insanely consumed with revenge to accept it. He eventually cornered her and Jaroch with the intention of either torturing her, killing her, or winning her back. His goals shifted from moment to moment with his insanity. Jaroch attempted to fight Dillon, but years in a holodeck fantasy world had given Dillon lots of time to improve his hand-to-hand combat skills. He handily pummeled Jaroch, but Hawkins leapt in to give Jaroch time to summon J'Ter. Dillon also gave Hawkins a hell of a beating, but J'Ter emerged in time to save Hawkins and kick the hell out of Dillon. Dillon was sent to Tantalus V, and Hawkins returned to Mookow despite Jaroch revealing that he still loved her. Eighteen months later, Hawkins met Jaroch as the Secondprize docked at Starbase 84. She had divorced Mookow and wanted to try a relationship with Jaroch. Jaroch willingly agreed. (Please Hold For Oblivion [TRK])

Hawkins remained with Jaroch on the Secondprize, serving as the ship's "Independent Security Specialist." As Jaroch's career wore on, though, the couple had to face a troubling fact. While they would both grow old and die, Jaroch's lifeforce would continue, reincarnated in another Yynsian. When Jaroch was promoted to the admiralty in the Starfleet Sciences Division, he came across a possible solution: the Ba'ku homeworld inside the Briar Patch, the unique qualities of which would keep them both young and veritably immortal. Jaroch retired from Starfleet, and the couple moved to the Ba'ku world to begin new lives together. Hawkins took the name Prijan and became a skilled metal artisan.

Many years later Jaroch left the safety of the Ba'ku world to obtain a special present for Hawkins, a trip that resulted in his death. Finding himself in the Yynsian afterlife, the Past Life Clearinghouse, Jaroch forced his way into the body of a Yynsian that was about to be born, a Yynsian that had already received a lifeforce. This Yynsian, Tovar, grew up with two lifeforces warring inside his mind. Eventually, he snapped, and his adopted father, Captain Reginald Bain took him to Yyns to get help. There Bain learned about the interloping lifeforce and that the Yynsians planned to forcibly remove it, effectively destroying it. At Tovar's request, Bain took Tovar from Yyns, with the Yynsians in pursuit, and got him safely to where Tovar insisted that he needed to go: the Ba'ku world. There they found Hawkins, who told Bain about Jaroch. With the help of his wife, Rosalyn Bain, Bain was able to obtain a transporter buffer containing a copy of Jaroch's body, which was rejoined with his lifeforce by a Yynsian priest. The reunited Jaroch and Hawkins were left on the Ba'ku world to continue their eternity together. (Mind If I Play Through?, Aren't You Dead? [BG])

Star Traks: The Original Series
Stories	List of Stories
Senior Crew	Alexander Rydell - Travis Dillon - Jaroch - Scott Baird - Patricia Hawkins - Emily Sullivan - Monica Vaughn - Rebecca Singer - Lisa Beck - Claire Webber - Andrea Carr - Elizabeth Aldridge - Trinian
Recurring Crew	Craig Porter - Sean Russell - Kristen Larkin - Tina Jones
Recurring Villains	Joegonots - Zero - Next Federation
Ships	USS Secondprize - Doorprize - Consolationprize - USS Hudson