Matthew Noonan

Matthew Noonan
As First Officer of the USS Silverado, circa 2380
Species	Human (Originally)
Alignment	Starfleet
Born	Montreal, Earth
Appearances
Features in	SIL
First Appearance	Let the Games Begin! (SIL)
Last Appearance	TGIF (SIL)
Created by	Brendan Chris
Voiced by	Corey Quintaine
Career
Position	First Officer
Assigned to	USS Silverado
From	2379
Till	2381
Successor	San Jall

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, as evidenced by his leading role in gaining revenge for the pranks performed upon Silverado crew by Foreman Garroth Lynch and the construction team working on the Silverado's refit (Let the Games Begin! [SIL]).

Silverado launched soon after, and on it's shakedown cruise made it's first contact with the Matrians when one of their dream devices trapped the crew in a dream world dominated by Queen Wowryk, the maniacal alter ego of the ship's doctor Noel Wowryk. Noonan and science officer Jane 5-B were the only crewmembers left unaffected by the dream device, and served by reconnecting waking male crew members to the dream world to fight against Wowryk and her Sisters of the Realm, following the discovery that you would wake up in reality after being killed in the dream world "Ship of Dreams? (Part I)", "Ship of Dreams? (Part II)" [SIL]).

Silverado's first official mission was to recover the USS Stallion from the Rigel IV Salvage Depot, and Noonan led the away team to recover the derelict ship, making contact with a family of rednecks stuck on board and convincing them to leave the ship ("Welcome to Hickville" [SIL]). When the Silverado arrived at Waystation Noonan was left on the station as the Silverado pursued a Klingon terrorist, where he worked with Fifebee to track the Matrian spatial interphase devices which had appeared on several other Starships. The Silverado came into contact with the Matrians a short time later after being disabled by a catastrophic plumbing failure. Noonan was initially trapped in the crew lounge following the inaugarul Cartoon Night, but was able to use his excellent night vision to get Chief Engineer Simon Jeffery to Main Engineering where he was able to restore power ("Contents Under Pressure" [SIL]). Disabled, Silverado came under attack from two more Matrian Scout ships. Despite succesfully fighting them off the crew once again came under the influence of a dream device, altering everyone's character. Noonan retreated to his quarters where he acquired Dracula's personality, and where he tried to seduce and bite Fifebee with a Transylvanian accent ("Fragmentation" [SIL]).

As with the Matrian dream devices, Noonan was unaffected by the pheromones of a race of beautiful, friendly and sexually...open...aliens, the Senousians. While most of the crew fell to the Senousians charms Noonan was trapped by them in a room. He was later transfered to the same prisoner camp as the rest of the crew, where he was eventually rescued by Jeffery and Operations Officer San Jall. After helping Stafford lead the crew in training exercises ("Red vs. Blue" [SIL]) and being trapped in a time "reset" device ("You Can Say That Again!" [SIL]), Noonan and the Silverado answered a distress call from the Senousians, under attack from the Matrians, who took Commander Jeffery hostage. Noonan, alongside Prefect Lashette of the Senousians, infiltrated Matria Prime and shut down the Matrian dreamworld, freeing Jeffery and the entire Matrian civilisation.

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.

Star Traks: Silverado
Stories	Season One - Season Two - Season Three - Season One - Season Five
Senior Crew	Christopher Stafford - Matthew Noonan - San Jall - Jane 5-B - Noel Wowryk - Simon Jeffery - Trish Yannick - T'Parief - Valtaic
Hazardous Team	David Stern - Dar'ugal - Rengs Aris - Simmons - Marsden - Kreklor
Other Crew	Quintane - Travis Pye - Craig Burke - J'Rar Day - Bith - Eva Yvonnokoff - Bartholomew Gibson - Seth Shwaluk - Keith Roscoe - Leslie Kerry - Veeneman - Steve Steiger - Mary - Becky - Samantha
Recurring Villains	Matrians - K'Eleese - Luke - Qu'eh
Ships	USS Silverado - USS Asessippi - USS Niagra - Durango - Charger - Camero - USS Stallion