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. From ages 11 to 15, Bain Attended Dorothy Perringale's Academy for Young Roguish Boys. 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.

After Bain destroyed a robotic weapons platform that he didn't know was actually being developed by Starfleet Intelligence for planetary defense, he was sent to Waystation Prime to be a counselor at a Starfleet Scouts camp. It was there that he met Tovar, who was twelve there at the time and had been dumped at the camp by his parents while they went on vacation in the Multek Enclave. Bain and Tovar bonded, and, after the Enclave vanished taking Tovar's parents with it, Bain and Rosalyn decided to adopt Tovar.

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, destroying Voracia Base in the Battle of Orodnot, attacking the Breen capital city, and destroying the Overseer General's palace. He broke through the Breen's lines surrounding Earth and destroyed a power dampening platform the Breen were using to disable Starfleet ships by crashing the first USS Maladventure into it. 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.

Bain cut a despot named Muridel in half, freeing her subjects. The celebration they threw in his honor lasted for three weeks.

The USS Maladventure saved the USS Encino from being destroyed by the Breen during a Breen incursion. Prosak was aboard the Encino at that time, but she never revealed to Bain that he had saved her.

Bain single-handedly took on the Kalawadi, and it took three years for the Diplomatic Corps to convince them to speak to the Federation again.

One of Bain’s enemies is Baron Krall, the Foot Fetishist of Ovanar Twelve, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.

While battling the Tzenkethi aboard the USS Maladventure-B, Bain slammed the ship into an asteroid to seal a hull breach and still managed to wipe out a Tzenkethi armada. They were beaten so badly that the Tzenkethi are still scared to go near the site of the battle.

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 James T. Kirk Hologram, 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])

The members of FOBBER put a plan in motion to get revenge on Bain for what he had done to them. The group set off an explosive on Dulcolax Three in the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone containing transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation. The Anomaly and a Romulan warhawk were both sent to investigate the source of the illegal weapon. Cole Anfibon, who was actually a clone of Bain created by Dr. Lenik, knocked Bain out and attempted to murder Lieutenant Shelly Marsden before transporting himself and Bain to Gridloo and Pridloo's freighter. Lenik killed Damm for trying to attack Bain as soon as he was aboard the freighter. Once confronted by the remaining members of FOBBER, Bain recognized Gridloo and Pridloo and explained that he was only trying to help them by giving them good dirt. Losing the drugs was really their fault for lying to him. Realizing they had no reason to be mad at Bain, the Pakleds returned to the bridge of their ship. After hearing Phul's reason for wanting Bain dead, Bain informed the Breen that it was actually Prosak who had destroyed both of his ships. Phul was ready to leave FOBBER at that point, but Lenik and Anfibon threatened to kill him if he tried. Bain once again did not recognize Delk. The Anomaly crew realized what was happening and de-escalated the situation with the Romulans. Prosak and Tovar then chased down the Pakleds' freighter in the USS Navigator. They rescued Bain as the members of FOBBER tried to flee. Phul was able to get the drop on Prosak, but Bain stopped him from killing her, saying that he'd been lying the whole time and that he'd been the one to destroy Phul's ships. Phul didn't know what to believe, but it soon didn't matter, since Prosak recovered and stunned him. Delk found himself face to face with Bain again, and Bain got his name wrong yet again. As Delk was screaming to the heavens in frustration, Bain tackled him and began beating him severely. Before Delk lost consciousness, he was overjoyed to hear Bain finally get his name correct. Phul, Delk, and the Pakleds were taken into custody. Lenik and Anfibon were killed when the freighter exploded. Bain was upset that a clone of him had done such awful things to Marsden, and he tried to apologize to her. Marsden assured him that it wasn't his fault. Anfibon was his own being because there was only one Reginald Bain. This made Bain feel much better about the whole thing. (Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two [BG])

Bain led a team consisting of himself, Tovar, Prosak, and Centurion Nortal to Vulcan in the USS Navigator in an attempt to get to High Chancellor Sh’rak. Sh'rak knew they were coming, and the team only avoided being killed because of a timely intervention by Rosalyn Bain. Rosalyn wiped Bain, Prosak, and Nortal's minds of the incident and had Tovar get them out of Sh'rak's office. Outside, they were stopped by several armed Vulcans. Before they could call for beam out, they saw the Navigator crash into a mountain in the distance. They were rescued from capture by Sh'rak's guards by LOL, which beamed the away team, minus Prosak, up to their ship. Bain contacted the Anomaly and had the LOL ship take him to rendezvous with a Starfleet ship that took him back to the Neutral Zone, where he requested and received command of the Federation fleet from Admiral Larkin. (In One Door, Out The Other, Behind The Curtain [BG])

Dr. Lenik tried to get revenge on Bain from beyond the grave with a heavily-genetically modified creature designed to rip through metal and remain invisible to sensors. Centurion Nortal unwittingly brought it aboard the Anomaly inside a fake gem. Once it hatched, it grew to over three meters tall and attacked her. Kasyov discovered that the creature contained Earth crocodile DNA. She created a hologram of Steve Irwin to help Bain capture it, at which point it was relocated to an uninhabited world covered in swamps and rivers. (What A Ripper! [BG])

Bain also survived another attempt on his life by Thot-Phul, who this time was posing as a waiter along with two other Breen at the Barnum Dax Day celebration. Bain defeated all three easily, and Phul was again taken into custody. All three were turned over to Grad-Norm. (Just Desserts [BG])

Phul teamed up with the Kirk hologram for a subsequent attempt at revenge. This time they managed to get Holo-Kirk uploaded into the Anomaly's computer systems, at which point he took over the ship. While Bain fought Holo-Kirk inside a holodeck running a rewrite of the Kobayashi Maru that Bain had been working on, Holo-Kirk sent the Anomaly into Breen space and used it to destroy a Breen outpost, leaving no survivors. Inside the holodeck, Holo-Kirk challenged Bain to combat with lirpas, which Bain won. Kirk beamed himself to one of the other ships in the simulation, all of which Bain destroyed except for the Kobayashi Maru freighter itself, which is of course where Holo-Kirk was. Holo-Kirk rewrote the simulation code to arm the freighter and attacked the Anomaly. Bain set the Anomaly on a collision course, which Holo-Kirk tried to avoid by again rewriting the code. This time, though, he had been locked out by Kasyov, who had joined with the ship's computer, and Cabral. They also reactivated the holodeck safeties, saving Bain when the collision obliterated both vessels. Bain returned to the actual Anomaly's bridge and ordered the ship out of Breen space. They were intercepted by several Breen ships commanded by Grad-Norm, who demanded that Bain beam himself over and face trial for his crimes against the Breen. To save his crew, Bain agreed and beamed himself to Norm's ship, while the Anomaly returned to Federation space. (Hollow Threats [BG])

Bain was put on trial by the Breen, but it was really just for show and even his "defense attorney" had it in for him. The trial was about to move into the torture phase when Bain was rescued by Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden, who beamed him aboard the Allegra. Before they could return to the Anomaly, though, they were all incapacitated by Holo-Kirk. Bain regained consciousness and found he was trapped in a maintenance closet on the Allegra while Holo-Kirk had put Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden in a cargo container that he ejected into space. Bain escaped from the closet, disabled the Allegra, and systematically destroyed every place Holo-Kirk could hide until he forced the hologram to take refuge in a log recorder. By that time, Prosak, Tovar, and Marsden had been picked up by Gridloo and Pridloo, who hoped the stray cargo container held something valuable. They commandeered the Pakleds' ship, and, with Rosalyn's help, caught up to the Allegra before Bain ran out of oxygen. Back on the Anomaly, Bain had Marsden activate Holo-Kirk in a self-contained holopod, so Bain could give him a serious beating before he handed Holo-Kirk's program over to Admiral Larkin (Trial And Error, The Bain Supremacy [BG])

Two Organians of Bain's acquaintance, Hornsby and Grimes informed Bain that due to meddling from the higher planes of existence, Romulus was wiped out by the Hobus supernova in 2387. With the help of the Q, Bain took the Anomaly back in time and was able to save Hobus in their universe by sending Spock's ship and Nero's mining ship to a slightly different universe. While this was happening, Bain rescued Rosalyn from Captain Bridget Lornstrum, who had brought Rosalyn aboard the Anomaly at phaser point. Bain punched Lornstrum out and then, after Lornstrum escaped and began attacking the ship using her 29th Century shuttle, tricked her into passing through a dimensional gateway into a universe where the Hobus ultranova was still in progress. Rosalyn decided to retire and remain aboard the Anomaly, much to Bain's delight. (We'll Always Have Romulus [BG])

After the Anomaly accidentally ended up in a pocket universe created by the Multeks to hide their worlds, Bain set a plan in motion to shut down the pocket universe generators and return the Multek Enclave to normal space. It was successful, but then he learned that the Multeks had hidden the Enclave in the first place to prevent their worlds from being taken over by the Dillon Consortium. Bain did everything he could to set things right, and took on an entire Consortium acquisition fleet while Marsden repaired the pocket universe generator. Once the Multek Enclave was safe again, the Dillon Consortium demanded that Bain be punished for his actions and for all of the damage he inflicted on their ships. Starfleet, not liking the Consortium very much, gave Bain a literal slap on the wrist (Right Where We Left It, Welcome To The Hotel California, Contractual Obligations [BG])

Following these events, the Dillon Consortium swore revenge on Bain. CEO Jackson Loomis set several revenge plans into motion. First, he tried to blow Bain up with an explosive that was sent to the USS Anomaly. He also kidnapped several of Bain's officers with the intent of brainwashing them into speaking out against Bain and joining the Consortium. Despite being told by Commodore Theodore Ritter to let Waystation Prime security handle it, Bain found the hidden Consortium level on the station and confronted Loomis. After dealing with Loomis' android, Gregory, Bain chased Loomis down, and Loomis got the unpleasant experience of being on the receiving end of several punches from the angry captain. Loomis attempted to hit Bain with an unfinished piece of equipment that ended up electrocuting Loomis. Bain was pleased that the Consortium was evicted from Waystation Prime for their actions, but Ritter warned him to be careful, since the Consortium would likely continue their revenge efforts. (Legend of the Bain [BG])

Bain met his in-laws, Harold and Ann Marsden after the Marsdens discovered the Pliggeri homeworld and the Anomaly was sent to assess the situation. They were thrilled to meet him, since, unbeknownst to him, he'd saved them and Shelly from a Whurikan raider 30 years earlier. The Marsdens showed the Anomaly team their discovery, but Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and also set in motion a series of events that ended in the destruction of the planet. Commander Prosak had requested to bring Snotch along on the mission, which raised Bain's suspicions. He asked Tovar to give Snotch the VIP treatment, which was code for heavy surveillance. Bain's suspicions were confirmed, since Snotch was working for the Dillon Consortium. Bain purposely said the name Pliggeri to Snotch, knowing that it would get back to Consortium CEO Tori Burke. Bain told Tovar they just had to wait and see if she would take the bait. (Primary Sources [BG])

Bain took a team to the Days of Fryer Past restaurant on Nelephron consisting of Vioxx, Marsden, and Nortal for what was supposed to be an official meeting but was actually a Dillon Consortium trap. Tori Burke and several of her guards arrived, and she revealed her intention to brainwash Marsden into helping the Consortium reverse engineer the anti-singularity drive while the rest of the crew were killed (after a long period of torture in Nortal's case). The revelation that she'd sent a fleet to the Pliggeri homeworld drew laughter from Bain and the others, rattling Burke when she found out the planet no longer existed. She argued with the minds in the CEO suit, which confused Vioxx and prompted him to get Marsden to scan her. Things went downhill for Burke from there when Nortal attacked her, and the room was quickly engulfed in a firefight, with Bain and Nortal exchanging phaser shots with the Consortium goons. Vioxx tried to talk to Burke, but the suit forced her to attempt to kill him. Not wanting the only person who had been remotely nice to her dead, Burke broke free of the suit's control long enough to tell Vioxx to strip her even while she was choking the life out of him. He managed to get the suitcoat and pants off of her, freeing her from the suit's control. Bain and Nortal, having dealt with the guards, destroyed the suit, and Burke was taken into custody. The Anomaly also escaped the trap set for it, and Burke found herself in its brig. Bain later revealed to his command officers that he and Tovar suspected that they were heading into a Consortium trap, but they did not tell anyone, even Marsden, because they did not want to tip the Consortium off that they knew. His officers understood, and Bain then went to Prosak to apologize for not warning her that Snotch was likely a Consortium agent. (Welcome to the Party [BG])

After Section 31 meddled with the Hobus events again, Rosalyn woke up in an alternate universe where she had never married Bain and things were just generally grim. She went back in time again, this time stopping Audrey from interfering on Section 31's orders, and also had to deal with Lornstrum again. Once everything was resolved, she revealed to Bain that she was a Section 31 agent. He said that he already knew but that he trusted that she was doing the right thing in her work as an agent and respected her desire to tell him in her own time. (Consequences You Otherwise Avoid [BG])

Bain faced Thot-Phul again, who this time had a fleet of Breen ships with anti-singularity drives at his command. Bain was able to use his combat experience and the weaknesses of the Breen vessels to defeat Phul. The Anomaly returned to Earth for an extended refit, but on the way, Cabral and Kasyov asked for Marsden and Bain's help to get to the new Pliggeri homeworld, so that Cabral could take Chindela and Gathering Point there. They hatched plan in which Marsden automated a lot of the ship's systems under the guise of a refit, and then, when things were ready, Cabral and Kasyov stole the Anomaly and took it to find the Pliggeri. Admiral Larkin and others in Starfleet suspected Bain's involvement, but Tovar never asked him directly about it, since he didn't want to know the answer either way. This event prevented Bain from making Admiral, not that he ever wanted to be one anyway. Years later, Bain welcomed his grandson, newly-minted Ensign Jarrett Bain, aboard Bain's latest command, the USS Holloway. (Going, Going, Gone... [BG])