LIEUTENANT ANGELA MARTINE (Barbara Baldavin) served for many years aboard USS Enterprise. In that time she had more than her share of tragedy to strike her.She first signed on aboard Enterprise as a weapons specialist. In that capacity, she married a fellow weps spec, only to see him become a casualty of war in Star Fleet's first brush with the Romulan Star Empire.Happily, she found romance again, with another fellow officer named Esteban Rodriguez. She was wounded in, of all things, a strafing run by an aircraft, of extraterrestrial manufacture, modeled after one of several fighter/attack aircraft fielded by the mass armies of the Second World War on Earth. But because this took place on the famous Shore Leave world, that world's automatic systems managed to treat her effectively, even though the wound she received should have been fatal.But that encounter made her re-evaluate her career choices. So she asked Captain Kirk to help her transfer out of weapons and into communications. Kirk had her talk to Lieutenant Uhura, who agreed to recommend her for basic comms school and then to sign on as one of her relief communicators.So that, during the Lester Affair, she served as relief bridge-watch communicator and recorder for the court of inquiry called by Captain James T. Kirk--or rather, as Star Fleet established later, by Dr. Janice Lester, who had stolen Captain Kirk's body at the time. Lester, appearing to be Kirk, called her Lieutenant Lisa by mistake. This likely is a reference to Lieutenant Elizabeth Palmer, Angela's immediate predecessor as relief communicator. Lieutenant Palmer had by then transferred off Enterprise, gone to advanced comm school, and then won an assignment as senior communicator on another starship. Dr. Lester, in her preparation to impersonate the Captain, failed to keep up with that personnel change. (And even if she had, there is no warrant, in any ship's log or in the records of Starfleet, that Elizabeth Palmer ever used Lisa as a short form of her name.)Lt. Martine would later give evidence in a court of inquiry into the Lester Affair, held on Star Base Two. Her evidence, in addition to her own recollection of the shipboard court of inquiry, was brief: that the ostensible Captain Kirk seemed uninformed about Star Fleet's communications procedures (especially about who is responsible for all communications concerning a ship-to-ship meeting and transfer), and about the episode in which Captain Kirk, ranting and raving and accusing all his officers of mutiny, suddenly fell hard into the command seat and looked like a fish out of water. And also about Lieutenant Sulu announcing to the bridge watch that he would never allow an execution to take place without a fight.Shortly after that episode, Angela Martine signed on with the crew of USS Constellation II as senior communicator. Show less «