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|Retired=Yes

|Image=Schwicker3.JPG

|Position=Medical Officer

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|Gender=Male

|Build=At first glance, Johan’s uniformed figure makes him look like an average Human male. Beneath his attire, however, he is quite physically fit and flexibly muscular. Furthermore, while he is genetically predisposed to appear outwardly Human, beneath his skin he is quite noticeably Klingon. While he is unlikely to declare his true nature, or dispel misunderstandings regarding it, a tricorder scan, detailed medical examination, or access to official records, will readily reveal the truth

|Complexion=Johan is somewhat dark-skinned with no distinguishing fleshly marks, other than a receding hairline which tends to make him look a little older than he is. As with most Humans, he prefers not to wear scars as a badge of honour the way many Klingons do

|Facial=Johan used to wear a short trimmed goatee. Now, however, his naturally thick and wild facial hair receive grooming in typical Human fashion thus taming an otherwise aggressive expression

|Voice=Sharp and masculine, also rather audible when need be. When Johan is impassioned, his voice gradually gains pace, pitch, and power, rather than faint away when one would normally be winded, and it seems to draw increased strength from some hidden reserve and just continues becoming even more aggressive. In such an impassioned state, gestures are as much a part of his voice as are his audible expressions. Educated in Berlin, Germany, he tends to enunciate his words carefully but speaks English with a bit of a German accent: “Is sat not right? I sink so.” However, his expressions in archaic Klingonaase, his mother tongue, remain unaffected

|Dateyr=185

|Datemth=06

|Dateday=01

|Mother=Krest sulich-Noon'can

|Parents=Due to the circumstances that Johan’s race presently finds itself in, it is impossible for him to know the precise whereabouts of any member of his race, including his family. While he cannot easily initiate correspondence with his family members, they are aware of his career ambitions with Star Fleet and can contact him through various Star Fleet Personnel Command services. Like despised gypsies and nomads, the House of Noon'can must continually rove about in order to escape genocide at the hand of powerful but prejudiced Imperial Klingon houses. Despite the lack of current information concerning the welfare of his family, he presumes that the majority of them, indeed the majority of his minority race, dwell as aliens within the relative security of the United Federation of Planets and other safe territories where they live rather unlike Klingons until, perhaps, one glorious day when they can freely return home

Genetic engineering by Klingon scientists in 2154 attempted to produce a race of Klingon super-soldiers, their version of the Human Augment. The resultant genetic augmentation successfully produced a few Klingon super-soldiers but unforeseen effects included neural reordering (increasingly Human-like personality and uncontrolled narcissistic psychosis,) cranial ridge dissolution (smooth foreheads,) and short life ending in a sudden and painful death. Scientists aborted the genetic manipulation but not before Levodian Flu mutated and caused the rapid spread of Klingon Augment Virus (KAV,) infecting most of the Klingon population of the Empire. Fortunately, authorities managed to contain the infection and scientists stabilized its progression, halting it in its initial stages. However, nearly the entire Klingon race found itself partially augmented and suffering the consequences of slight neural reordering (personality changes favouring Human-like passions and emotions) and cranial ridge dissolution. Thoroughly embarrassed, Klingon scientists turned their attention from further developing genetic augmentation to finding a treatment and cure that would reverse the consequences of KAV infection. By 2270, Klingon scientists finally discovered appropriate treatment and cure, and a massive campaign to restore Klingon Augments and their offspring to a more Klingon-like form began to eliminate the embarrassing century-long, and Empire-wide, Human-like condition. However, not all Klingon Augments agreed to accept treatment and cure. For a minority of Klingon Augments, their state of narcissistic psychosis, a result of the augmentation, advanced too far thus causing them to believe in their superiority. As more and more Klingon Augments, however, benefited from treatment and cure, the Empire gradually became Imperial again and it became increasingly evident who it was that categorically refused treatment and cure. Imperial Klingons, allied with former Augments that returned to a more Klingon-like form, divided the Empire versus those Augment houses that believed in the superiority of their augmentation. Thus, a new race was born in the sense that some Klingon Augments categorically refused any treatment and cure for their Human-like condition, believing themselves to be superior and preferring to remain as they were. They were, of course, still Klingons and demonstrated as much by fiercely competing for dominance in the Empire. Imperial Klingons regarded them as a pestilent minority in need of treatment and cure, and in the interests of the security of the government of the Klingon Empire, an aggressive campaign to eliminate the “plague” succeeded in virtually stamping out the Klingon Augment race. Noon'can, D'sidis, and Grokogh houses appear to be all that remain of Klingon Augments with the exception of some former nobles of the House of Riskadh. There may also be a few others, individuals, but Johan does not know of them.

Despite his success as a clever scientist and a capable engineer, however, Johan’s uncontrolled thirst for knowledge of the most complex systems remained unsatisfied. It was not until he attempted to apply his scientific knowledge to the task of engineering a living ********* capable of quickly generating a ******** among ******* populations, at the controversial request of *** ********* ******* ******* ****** that he began to realize that the most complex and, therefore, the most challenging systems are, in fact, living ones. Again, Johan researched a change in his career path, temporarily leaving his assignment to the Gettysburg, and feverishly studied health care, medicine, and surgery at the University of Rigel-5, host to a set of subsidiary medical courses sponsored by Star Fleet Medical School. While his knowledge in the theoretical fields of science and the practical fields of engineering proved invaluable there, especially in learning the mechanics behind living things both Human and alien, the “crash-courses” only barely qualified him as a medical doctor. Nevertheless, with his newly earned title, Johan, somewhat with the enthusiasm of a man with his own private agenda, gleefully pursues the bettering of his medical abilities with live patients in a real sickbay. Apparently, based on a carefully calculated risk assessment of Johan’s ability to treat casualties in a crisis, Star Fleet felt it best, in the interests of their respective crews, to reassign Doctor Schwicker from the Gettysburg, a battle cruiser, to the Pegasus, a light cruiser.

|Majors=Computer Technology, and General Theoretics

|Minors=Romulan Linguistics, and Telepathist Psychology

|Fears=Though only a newborn when his sister was lost, thoughts of the tragedy permanently haunt Johan’s memory. That is mostly because of the Noon'can family’s annual memorial of the event at which Arag and Krest, his parents, recount every aspect of the battle in graphic detail and summarize the history with a valuable Klingon moral lesson. The effect of such fear, the loss of a potentially valuable member of the female of the species, has created in him the instinct to prioritize the safety of females over males of any species. Additionally, he is unusually, for a Klingon, sympathetic toward any that have suffered the loss of a loved one in death, especially if a female or an infant was lost

|Prejudices=Though not grudgingly prejudiced against all Imperial Klingons, Johan views any of their kind with suspicion until he knows their intentions. Oddly, unlike most Klingons, he has never viewed Vulcans or Romulans with prejudicial bias, although, he is unlikely to ever truly befriend a Romulan. When young, he viewed most alien races as inferior; now, due to multicultural exposure within the United Federation of Planets, he views most alien races as potential equals

|Painful=It was the family decision to leave the expansive realm of the Klingon Empire and seek refuge in the uncertainly United Federation of Planets with no immediate prospect of ever returning home. The family had always deemed survival of their race to be paramount even if it meant resorting to escape or retreat, however, leaving the Empire, with everything that that exit implied, pained the entire house to its genetic roots. “Coward” may forever shadow the family’s every move until, perhaps, one glorious day when they can freely return home. In the meantime, the undeserved reputation of cowardice pains Johan deeply and deliberate assertions of such, directed at him or his race, will likely cause emotional pain such as unwarranted guilt and other negative, uncontrolled, reactions

|Crucial=Johan’s final decision to join Star Fleet instead of his brothers’ quest to join Kriktok zanlich-Riskadh, a Klingon Augment with intention to lead a new rebellion into the Klingon Empire in an effort to establish freedom and independence for Augments. Actually, Johan’s experiences in the United Federation of Planets up to that important decision were all crucial but they came to a climax with the making of a final decision. His Klingon prerogative inevitably forced him to stop running from his heritage and, instead, to turn and fight it. The question was only: Which choice would he make? Fight with his brothers, or stand with Star Fleet. The decision was his to make, but the full consequences are unknown to him since he has not heard from any of his family since uttering his final say. Because of this decision, his personality continues to widen out, breaking free from narcissistic points of view. His attitude is ever on the verge of shifting from belief in the righteousness of preserving his superior genetic ancestry to embracing multiculturalism and diversity. Johan is disappointed to be apart from his brothers and their quest, but feels that he has made the right decision for the long run

|Role Model=Krom epilich-Noon'can, Johan’s ancient forefather and racial originator of his artificially engineered fusion of Klingon and Human Augment genetics. While most Klingons infected with Klingon Augment Virus lamented their deplorable condition, Krom was one Klingon Augment whose narcissistic psychosis, a result of the infection, advanced too far before scientists were able to stabilize all Klingon Augment DNA. His state of narcissistic psychosis, indiscernible at first, eventually led to the creation of a minority race of Klingon Augments that passionately loved their augmented selves and categorically refused any treatment or cure for their Human-like condition. Though an Augment, Krom was an amazingly successful Klingon that came very near to grasping control of the Klingon Empire but, alas, it was not to be. Nevertheless, he successfully wrested no less than 10 resource-rich systems from the hands of the United Federation of Planets and others through his foxy machinations in the name of the Empire. Those systems remain in the Klingon Empire to date, although, three of them no longer support carbon-based life. Krom’s fame reached epic proportions, the likes of Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, and Napoleon Bonaparte, until shortly after his death when an aggressive anti-Augment campaign, including the forced administration of treatment and cure, virtually erased all favourable mention of Augments from the Klingon Empire. To Johan, the memory of Krom, handed down in oral tradition from generation to generation, is almost like religion to him. He sincerely wishes to live up to his family’s heroic heritage in service of the Empire, whichever “empire” that happens to be.

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|Stardate=20803.12

|Location=[[Star Fleet Academy]]

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