Jameson, Mark
Admiral
 
Current status
 
Status Deceased
Citizenship United Federation of Planets
Domicile Persephone V
Profession Starfleet officer (ret.)
    Rank Admiral
    Division Command
  
Personal information
 
Species Human
Year of birth 2279
Place of birth

Earth
Year of death 2364
Place of death

Mordan V
Marital status 2314-64 Married to Anne Jameson
Children None
   
Career summary
 
2297-2301 Education at Starfleet Academy
2314 Commander; First Officer of USS Gettysburg
2319 Captain; Commanding officer of USS Gettysburg
 
Curriculum vitae
 
2279 Mark Jameson is born on Earth.
2297 Jameson enters Starfleet Academy.
2301 Graduation from Starfleet Academy.
2314 Cmd. Mark Jameson, who is First Officer of the USS Gettysburg at that time, marries the later Anne Jameson.
2319 After 65 Federation citizens have been taken hostage by Karnas' father, one of the tribal chiefs on Mordan IV, in order to get weapons from the Federation, and two Federation arbitrators have already been killed, Mark Jameson takes over the negotations. He suceeds in freeing all hostages. However, while the official reports attribute this to his diplomatic skills for a long time, the real reason for his success was that he delivered the requested weapons to Karnas' father, and subsequently hushed the incident. At once, he also delivered weapons to the enemy to maintain the balance of power, leading to a cruel civil war lasting for 40 years and killing millions of people. The guilt will burden Jameson his entire life.
2360 Admiral Jameson, who now lives with his wife on Persephone V, has to learn that he has Iverson's disease, an illness which leads to a relatively fast physical decay.
2362 Mark Jameson cannot accept his sickness, which restricts him more and more and puts him in a wheelchair in the end, and travels to Cerberus II. He asks for a rejuvenating drug, which is kept very strictly by the Cerberans. However, since Jameson has made important negotations for the Cerberus years ago, they accept his request and give him two dosages for his wife and himself, which will show full effect in two years at the earliest, after a continuous series of painful attacks. Yet, Jameson doesn't tell his wife anything and only takes his own dosage.
2364
Despite his retirement, Admiral Janeway is comissioned to lead negotiations on Mordan IV. Hostages have been taken again, after Karnas, the governor of Mordan IV, has informed the Federation that rebels have abducted the Federation ambassador Hawkins and his staff, and only Jameson would be an appropriate arbitrator. Knowing that he woudln't be fit enough for his last big assignment since the drug hasn't rejuvenated him yet, he takes the second dosage, resulting in a gradual improvement of his condition.
SD 41309.5 The USS Enterprise arrives at Persephone V to take Admiral Jameson and his wife Anne to Mordan IV. Along the journey, the rejuvenating drug shows full effect; not only his illness is mysteriously cured, but he also becomes younger and younger. During his talks with Karnas, Jameson discovers that Karnas himself has abducted the Federation personnel as a part of his revenge on Jameson. However, the Admiral hasn't the power anymore to fight against Karnas - his rejuvenation proceeds faster and faster and gets out of control; his condition becomes more and more unstable.
Mark Jameson dies in the arms of his wife Anne in the governor's office on Mordan IV. Karnas refrains from further acts of revenge and releases the hostages, so that Jameson could redeem at least a small part of his guilt.