Matthew Noonan

Full Name: Matthew Noonan
Species: Human (Originally)
Home Planet: Earth (Montreal)

Childhood

Noonan was born in the mid-22nd Century in Montreal, a city in Quebec, Canada. With humanity just starting to reach out to the stars, Noonan eagerly joined the newly formed Starfleet.

Starfleet Academy

So little is known about the workings of Starfleet Academy back in those days. However, it is assumed that Noonan did in fact attend and graduate.

Early Starfleet Career

After training throughout the Terran solar system, he took an assignment with Starfleet Intelligence, investigating several strange beings that had been sighted repeatedly on Earth. As it turned out, these beings had been around for far longer than Starfleet had ever suspected. Here's a hint: They're pale, they have pointy teeth, the feature prominently in most Anne Rice books and they decided Noonan would make a good addition to their ranks. Little is known about what happened to Noonan over the course of the next 200 years, but he presumably spent time in and out of Starfleet.

USS Silverado

Noonan was one of the few crew members who had actually requested a posting aboard Silverado. It was actually his fourth choice; he was unable to secure a posting aboard the USS Secondprize, the USS Explorer or Waystation. As First Officer, he was an expert at working behind the scenes to keep Silverado's paperwork and administration up to date. He was also an excellent balance to Stafford's inexperience. Over the course of his time on the ship, Noonan was instrumental in retrieving Simon Jeffery from the Matrians in late Season 1.

At the end of Season 2, when Silverado encountered a parallel universe, most crewmembers met duplicates of themselves. Noonan, however, encountered Kelsey Noonan, the great-great-great grand-daughter of his alternate self. Realizing what his life could have been like, had he not been changed, was a profound experience for him, leading him to begin withdrawing from his crewmates. This was exaggerated when, during the Scattered story arc, Noonan was forced to feed on a Delori man in order to complete his mission. Ultimately deciding that starship life was no longer for him, he returned to Earth. This left a hole in Silverado's staff that Stafford found very difficult to fill.