Stephanie Hodges

Stephanie Hodges has been a friend of Lisa Beck for years and years. Beck and Hodges met at the age of seven while they both lived in North Carolina. Hodges was a fearful child, afraid to enter her own basement until she was twelve or to ask Barry Jensen to homecoming her sophomore year of high school. Her older brother, Joel Hodges was identified as the Z'arkbelst, the living god of an Andorian cult, when Hodges was eleven-years-old. Believing that the Andorians had kidnapped Joel, Hodges and Beck snuck on the Andorians ship and narrowly avoided being taken to Andor themselves. They were rescued by Starfleet, not that Joel wanted to be rescued. As soon as he was of age, Joel left for Andor to take his place as the Z'arkbelst and did not keep in touch with his family. (Trials Of Youth [REJ])

When she grew up, Hodges joined the Federation Marines. After her assignment to Waystation, Hodges was the pilot of the USS Mongoose, the Marines' transport ship. She, along with Colonel Martin Lazlo, was one of the only two marines to not fall victim to the vicious squirrels on Ridalis Four. (Send The Marines [WAY]) Hodges did not join the bulk of the marines who decided to resign and follow Leximas. (This Is Only A Test [WAY]) Hodges flew the Runabout Yadkin in the battle to retake Waystation from the Starshine Kids. (Lip Lock [WAY])

After returning to Waystation from a three-week training mission with the Federation Marines, Stephanie Hodges found that the station's command crew were all exhausted despite the fact that they all claimed to have been in bed by 2300 hours. Hodges investigated and discovered that the command crew had been hypnotized and were being used at night as employees at a secret casino and entertainment complex at the bottom of the station. Hodges and the Federation Marines mounted a rescue and shut down the operation. (Moonlight Sonata [WAY])

Hodges was reunited with her brother, Joel, in the following year when he and his Andorian followers had a stopover at Waystation on their way to their new home on the Andorian colony that had been founded in a nearby sector. Joel took an interest in the grown-up Lisa Beck and kidnapped her to be his consort. Hodges and Commander Walter Morales pursued them and got Beck back, with Hodges and Morales sparking a relationship en route to the rescue. (That Certain Someone [WAY])