Pierce St. Michael

Sarcastic, prickly, and not necessarily nice are a few choice words for Pierce St. Michael, but surprisingly he proves to be an excellent ship's counselor.

Early Life
Pierce was a priveleged child. He was born in New Orleans to Vivian St. Michael, a famous holo-vid star whose illustrious career was still at it's peak. He never knew his father, but he mostly pretended it didn't bother him. Since his mother was often gone, he spent a lot of his childhood under the care of nannies, following her around to remote countries and planets. He became good at reading people, because as a rich and famous family they were often surrounded by less-than-honest people.

Still, he grew up spoiled and neglected by his mother, and spent a lot of time slacking off his tutoring. When he was fifteen his mother sent him to private school, and he resented her for it. Then his world was turned upside-down when he received the news that she'd been murdered. The scandal was enormous, and since he was too young, almost all her money was taken by others. Pierce received her life insurance, which was enough for him to travel to San Francisco on. There he lived in a shabby apartment and took a fast-track community college course for psychiatry and sociology. With those he went into private practive for a few years, met and married Kimberley, and they were divorced almost as fast.

Realizing that he didn't want to be on Earth anymore, he decided to enroll in Starfleet. They were beginning a new program for counselors to go on ships with crews for long voyages, and despite his skeptical and analytical personality, was accepted on the basis of his abilities as a psychiatrist. He went for four years, graduated, and served aboard another vessel before being picked for the Venture.

Pierce seems as though he could care less, has an almost better-than-you attitude, and knows that he is attractive. It is almost impossible to imagine that he could ever console people about their problems. Still, deep down, Pierce cares about others, he just has a hard time showing it unless he is in counselor mode. When he sits in his office chair, it's like he transforms himself. He can pick up the slightest emotions and problems from people-- it's just a shame he has yet to settle his own demons.

Previous Assignments
Later

Relationships
Most often pals around with Cattell, sometimes Kent, and occasionally DeVos. He has a tendency to pick on Grayson, but in a brotherly sort of fashion. They surf together sometimes on the holodeck.