Reginald Bain

Reginald Horatio Bain is the captain of the USS Anomaly. He and his wife Rosalyn Bain have a home in County of Sussex, England. Bain enjoys gardening and is partial to petunias. Bain has two daughters: Sophie Bain and Audrey Bain as well as being the adopted father of Tovar. He also had a Yorkshire Terrier named Fru-Fru. Bain's father was a bail bondsman on Infernia Prime. Bain has been declared legally dead six times and once broke his hip fireboarding on Bersallis Three.

Early Starfleet Career and the USS Maladventure

Bain met Admiral Kristen Larkin while he was at Starfleet Academy. The two had a brief sexual relationship before Bain met Rosalyn and remained friends thereafter.

At some point in their relationship, Bain and Rosalyn escaped bloodworms on Deneb IV.

Bain served on the USS Sun Tzu.

As a Lieutenant Commander at the age of 34, he was the Tactical Officer of the USS Abu Simbel. During this time he encountered Gridloo and Pridloo on their Paklet freighter. He beamed several barrels of drugs into space and replaced it with potting soil after they told him that the dust-like drug was to be used to grow plants. This prompted the Pakleds to join FOBBER. (The Bain Of Our Existence [BG])

He was captured by and escaped from the Pygmy Deathsloths of Obuduscon Major (A story he told Tovar 32 times).

Once he restarted the engines on a shuttle with just a metal rod and a phaser power cell.

Bain was sent to remedial diplomacy class after an incident with the Gernabi.

He prevented Damm from killing an entire room of people and sent her to a mental institution. (The Bain Of Our Existence [BG])

Bain survived a raceabout crash that complete destroyed the work of Dr. Lenik. He saved her from the wreckage and kept her alive for two weeks until they were rescued. The destruction and having to listen to Bain prattle on for two weeks was enough for Lenik to join FOBBER and put a revenge plan in motion. (The Bain Of Our Existence [BG])

Without Starfleet's knowledge or approval, Bain attacked the Gorn near Cestus Five because they stole his silverware at a state dinner, wiped out a Jarada landing party because they were two hours late, and destroyed the uninhabited planet Vergon Three because the residents of Vergon Two were lying on their application to join the Federation.

During a brief outbreak of hostilities with the Romulans, Bain almost destroyed a Romulan ship commanded by Commander Carfax.

The residents of Lendax Three wanted to kill Bain and Tovar.

He faced Lorgander Delk of the Dyonian Legion on three separate occasions during his command of the USS Maladventure and left Delk's ship heavily damaged each time. More infuriating to Delk was the fact that Bain never remembered that they'd met before. This was enough for him to join FOBBER.

During the Breen War twenty years prior to his taking command of the Anomaly, Bain earned the nickname "The Butcher of Breen" through his actions, which included obliterating an entire convoy of Breen transports by detonating a wormhole in front of them, attacking the Breen capital city, and destroying the Overseer General's palace. Bain also was responsible for destroying five of the six Official Residences of Grot Thud, the Breen leader at the time. Bain would have gotten the sixth one as well, but the Breen signed a peace treaty three minutes before Bain was in weapons’ range.

Around this time, he was also tortured by a Dukat cult.

The Circassian mind torture he’d received from a band of rebels on Circassia Six ten years prior to taking command of the Anomaly had left his memory somewhat spotty at times. He also damaged his Achilles tendon on Shelvis Seven but refused to have it replaced with a cloned tendon.

Once on Arbutus II, Bain and Tovar ran the entire bridge of a starship by themselves while we working to rescue their crew from the Cult of Festering Fruit, which was a nasty offshoot of Maaloxitarianism.

Bain has led extraction teams into Breen, Romulan, and Bast space.

USS Anomaly

After Cabral commandeered the Hermes-7 prototype, Admiral Kristen Larkin ordered Bain to intercept it. Once that situation was resolved, Bain was given command of the ship, now named the USS Anomaly. (If I Only Had a Brain [BG])

A holographic assassin hired by Thot Phul attempted to kill Bain during peace talks with the Breen. Bain was protected by Tovar and, unbeknownst to him, Rosalyn, but after the attempts on his life, Bain decided to end his involvement in the peace talks and ordered the Anomaly out of Breen space. (Mrs. Bain, You're Needed [BG])

After the Anomaly was stranded in the Andromeda Galaxy, Bain and Ensign Hector Arroyo visited Gyjik's Galaxy Gateway looking for information on that region of space. After spending time forced to watch an alien family's vacation photos and obtaining a guidebook to Andromeda, Bain interceded when he believed a shopkeeper was mistreating his employees. He ended up becoming the new master of the employees, members of a race called the Lackinis who literally existed to serve. Not willing to take that on, Bain ditched the Lackinis and escaped back the the Anomaly. The Lackinis swore they would find their new master. (Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare! [BG]) They located the Anomaly just as the ship was leaving Gyjik's, and Bain ordered Arroyo to get the ship out of there, ripping the Gyjik's airlock free in the process, in order to avoid the Lackinis. After that, he pretended to be Lieutenant Shelly Marsden's husband as the pair went to look at renting a condominium while really trying to determine the locations of Kasyov and Lieutenant Commander Tovar, who had been taken by the Associates. Bain also learned from Moklok that she had impregnated Tovar during their encounter, news he passed along to his adopted son after rescuing him and Kasyov from the Associates. (Domestic Tranquility [BG])

A few days before Bain's 70th birthday, the Anomaly and its crew were taken into protective care by the Nabusari, an older race that considered Bain too young to be running a starship and quite irresponsible to have taken a bunch of children out into space. Bain would be allowed to get the Anomaly back once he turned 70 and passed his pilot's exam. He was taken in by Clophil for those few days, but the Nabusari began believing Bain was actually his son and tried to kidnap him so he wouldn't leave. Bain was rescued by Tovar and Kasyov while Marsden pretended to be him and passed the pilot's exam. (Respect Your Elders [BG])

The Lackinis caught up with Bain just as the just as the Anomaly was facing an Associates fleet. He had them take on the fleet, while the Anomaly continued on to a massive Associates space station where Cabral was being held. Since the Lackinis designed the Associates' ships in the first place, they knew all of the weaknesses and were able to make short work of them. They caught up to the Anomaly again at the space station and beamed aboard in time to save Bain and an away team from the Anomaly from being killed. They told Bain to flee, which he did...all the way back to the Milky Way galaxy. (Disassociation [BG])

Once back in the Milky Way, Tovar's past lives took control and threatened the Anomaly unless Bain took them where they wanted to go. Bain and Commander Prosak were able to subdue Tovar, and they took him to Yyns to see the Polems at the Temple Of Mi Clane, who determined that Tovar had an Interloper, which they would remove and destroy with the Holnym ritual. Tovar convinced Bain to help the Interloper instead, and, leaving Yyns and avoiding capture by a Yynsian fleet, the Interloper led them to the Ba'Ku homeworld, where Patricia Hawkins now lived. Once he learned that the Interloper was the Jaroch lifeforce, he got Rosalyn's help to obtain a transporter pattern of Jaroch and brought Polem J'Atric to the Ba'ku world to perform the Holnym, which reunited Jaroch and Hawkins and took Tovar down to the one lifeforce he should have. (Mind If I Play Through?, Aren't You Dead? [BG])

While pursuing the , who was trying to start a holographic uprising. Bain ended up trapped in the Mega-Sim along with his daughter, Audrey, who worked at the Mega-Sim and was helping Holo-Kirk. Bain, Tovar, and Arroyo found themselves on a recreation of the Anomaly commanded by the Kirk hologram. He had convinced Audrey to help him. When Bain asked what Audrey was doing there, she replied that she was helping Kirk make a difference once more time. She accused Bain of being an absent father and loving Tovar more than his actual daughters. While working to free as many holograms as he could, the Kirk hologram revealed to Audrey that he could alter their ethical subroutines, so they'd kill organics. Audrey ended up helping her father escape the simulated Anomaly and took him to the Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram, who taught Bain how to fight like a hologram. Bain used these skills to attack the Kirk hologram at the same time a team from the Anomaly arrived to rescue Bain and the others. Audrey later told Bain that, no matter what she might say or do, she loved him. (Illusions Of Grandeur - Part One, Illusions Of Grandeur - Part Two [BG])

For their 44th wedding anniversary, Rosalyn took Bain to a beach house on Gulfbreeza, which was actually a safe house for Section 31 agents. They were followed to the planet by General Warder, a member of the Orion Environ Movement who threatened Bain's life in an effort to force Rosalyn to give him a Botanical Retrovirus that she'd taken from another Orion who planned to use it to ravage the worlds of the Federation. Bain was taken aboard the Orions' ship and was convinced that the Orions planned to use him to get to Admiral Kristen Larkin. Rosalyn was able to turn the tables on Warder and take him and his assistant Imelda into custody without Bain discovering her affiliation with Section 31. (Vacation 31 [BG])