Howard Mason

Lieutenant Junior Grade Howard Mason is a male Human who is a Starfleet officer in the late 24th century and the Chief operations officer aboard the USS Odyssey (NCC-81302) his previous assignment was aboard the USS Voyager (NCC-74656), while that ship was lost in the Delta Quadrant. (Star Trek: Odyssey)

Early Life
Howard Mason was born on March 3rd, 2333 on Earth in Orlando, Florida to a wonderful family and he wanted to always be a Starfleet officer but his father wanted him to be an ambassador to the Federation, but he didn't want to he wanted to be on board a starship traveling across the stars and meeting new races.

Starfleet Academy
In 2366, Mason enters Starfleet Academy and made a lot of new friends and learned a lot from his classes and met then cadet Tom Paris before he faked a report that caused him to get kicked out of the Academy, during his third year in 2368 he met Wesley Crusher and was offered a spot on Nova Squadron by Nicholas Locarno but he turned it down but after the incident still talked to Wesley because he was raised to believe that everyone has a second chance he graduated in 2370 and said goodbye to his best bud Wesley but promised to call him and help him on his studies.

USS Voyager
In 2371, Ensign Mason was posted aboard the USS Voyager (NCC-74656) under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway, and was set as relief ops officer to then Ensign Harry Kim and he saw Lieutenant Junior Grade Tom Paris again and he and Harry hung out a lot while off duty in the holodeck. And helped around the ship when he was off duty with other officer assignments and he was longing to return home to Earth, in 2377 he finally got to see his home again after seven years he saw his parents again and they were happy about Howard returning home.