Elle Shield

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 * image = Ks.jpg
 * name = Elle Jamie Shield
 * homeworld = born on Lunar Colony 7 on Titan
 * species = human
 * gender = female
 * birth = June 6, 2317
 * death =
 * affiliation = Federation, (former}, New Insurrection
 * posting =
 * position =
 * rank = [[File:2285_Command_Captain.JPG]]
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 * For the Prime Universe counterpart, see Edward Shield


 * For the Mirror Universe counterpart, see Edward Shield (mirror)

In an alternate reality, Elle Jamie Shield was an ensign on that universe's version of the Enterprise-C. After the incident at Narendra III, when most of the crew was either dead or missing, she assumed captaincy of the vessel. Many of the events of her life are similar to those of her prime universe counterpart.

Birth
Born on Lunar Colony 7 on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, in 2317, Shield's father was Leopold Pedrag Shield, former Secretary of Defense of the Federation Council and her mother, Marja, was of unknown origins from somewhere on Earth. Shield was the youngest of nine children (two boys and seven girls).

Childhood
Leo was no good father, even in this universe, and wanted nothing to do with these children he had made. He spent his whole time trying to leave them behind and regain his position in the Federation, and often vented his violent frustration on his wife and children.

Leaving Home
The last straw came in 2324. Leo finally got what he wanted: a position of importance in the Federation. Rather than happy, he came home drunk and went about his usual antics, blaming his wife and children for his past problems, threatening to kill them if they "messed this one up again." In his rage, he raped his eldest daughter and killed one of his sons who tried to interfere.

In the days following up, the children began conspiring on how they would leave him behind, since they knew it was now just as bad to remain with him. The opportunity didn't present itself until Leo ordered them to accompany him to his new post on Megara II. While en route, the ship was attacked by Romulans. During the commotion, the girls, led by their last remaining brother, found their mother and separated from their father and planned to make their escape. During the escape, one of the Romulans killed Marja. While they stopped to grieve, Leo caught up with them. But he was taken captive by the Romulans. His last words to them were:


 * Watch your backs, children, you'll never be rid of me!

The event left what was left of the family in tatters. The eldest was now pregnant with a child of incestuous rape, the youngest boy was dead and they were without any means of survival. Rather than seek out some orphanage, the girls decided to try to survive on their own and stay together. However, they slowly disappeared, finding new lives, succumbing to grief or getting caught up in the affairs on Titan, leaving Ella alone and scarred.

Starfleet Career
As law and order crumbled more or less in Titan under the rule of the Federation, it soon became a nightmare for the impoverished. As such, Elle saw that she could likely become a victim. Though she had long since resorted to a life of crime, it did not suit her to remain as such and she stowed onboard a ship bound for Earth by sneaking into a container that was beamed onto the ship and sneaked out once the container was stored.

Eventually she was found out and brought before the captain: Robert Garrett. She had stowed onboard the newly christened Enterprise-C. Elle, now fifteen, pleaded not to be sent back to Titan and told the captain everything that had happened and begged to remain here. Though Garrett sympathized with her plight, he could not have a stowaway onboard his ship, but was intensely surprised as to how she was capable of accomplishing such a feat. He decided that her place was Starfleet Academy, and sent her to live there, vouching for her personally and paying for her tuition, books and board.

Starfleet Academy
Life at Starfleet Academy was hard, especially for young girls. Her brilliance made her top in her class, but also made her many enemies among the jealous females of her class. The males who didn't ignore her were mostly the upper classmen who were members of a secret Neo-Nazi society. Though they considered her inferior due to her features, they nevertheless made several attempts at her, which she was able to outsmart since she wasn't as strong as they were.

She graduated a year earlier than everyone in her class, but chose to stay on one more year in order to take extensive athletic training, determined to make herself strong enough to never be the victim.

Enterprise Years: Ensign
In 2336, the Enterprise-C returned to Earth for shore-leave, during which Captain Garrett offered her a commission as ensign on the ship, which she gladly accepted.

Trivia

 * I began writing the rough draft of Star Trek Conflict in the time before Twilight. In that era, I had a strange obsession with the letter "E", because it seemed that it was rarely used as a name (if the Deathshead tale gets fully published, you'll see what I mean), and I named my protagonist of both that and this story "Edward", not out of any fascination towards Twilight or the character thereof. Only when it was published, after Twilight came out, did I realize that people would make that association. This is why I used the assigned photo for this character, as sort of a tongue-in-cheek reference to that fact. (smiles and laughs). Bookworm1138 13:16, October 10, 2010 (UTC)