Race	Human	portrayed by Stephanie Zimbalist
Sex	Female
Birthplace	New York City, Earth
Age	140 years (born 2245)
Height	5 ft. 2 in.
Weight	99 lb.
Hair	Silvery-grey, long
Eyes	Hazel
Position	Civilian

Physical Characteristics

Joanna is a fragile old lady. With a person of her age even the advanced medical technology of the 24th century is reaching it's limits. Small antigravity units, suspending her weight, help Joanna when moving. Her face has all the wrinkles of a life of more than a hundred years but her eyes are still bright. She shows dimples when she smiles. Joanna is left-handed and suffers from hay fever.

Family

• Mother: Abigail - Deceased (2209-2287)
• Father: Jeff - Deceased (2204-2294)
• Siblings: Frances - Deceased (2241-2327)
• Spouse: Kenneth Garrett - Deceased (2248-2350)
• Children:
  • Benjamin Garrett - Deceased (2285-2381)
  • Paul Garret - Deceased (2286-2369)
  • Anna Garret - Deceased (2291-2302)
  • Curtis Redwine - born 2363, adopted 2370

Service Record

Major Awards

• Medal of Valor 2273
• Anastas Medal of Achievement 2281
• Karagite Order of Heroism 2281
• Federation Peace Medal 2342

History

Joanna was raised together with her elder sister Frances in New York City on Earth. Her father left the family when she was 16, which was quite a shock to young Joanna. When she joined Starfleet Academy in 2263 her mother, Abigail Redwine, didn't really understand what her daughter was trying to achieve. Joanna's relationship with her mother was complicated till Abigail died in 2287.

In 2266 Joanna joined the crew of the USS Eagle for her cadet cruise. During her time aboard this ship she took part in missions to the planets Keronia, Tanzaria and Jensen.

The USS Yorktown was Joanna's home for the next 8 years. For two four-year missions Joanna was in charge of the navigation console. In 2273 She was promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

Next Joanna accepted a position as first officer on the USS Reliant. The most remarkable episodes of this time are two missions in which the Reliant ventured into the territory of the Tholian Assembly. The first mission was to establish diplomatic relationships with the Tholians. It turned out to be a failure. The second mission was to recover the logs of a Starfleet ship lost in Tholian space and to destroy all evidence. This one was successful.

After the completion of her tour on the Reliant, Redwine was awarded with the command of the USS Copernicus, a tiny research vessel. The Copernicus' mission was to chart a sector in detail that had been previously explored by a Constitution class starship. The mission turned out to be uneventful until during the third year the Copernicus encountered a rag tag fleet of human refugees fleeing from three huge alien ships manned by cybernetic organisms. It turned out that the aliens had destroyed the refugees' home world and that the chase had already been going on for over a decade. Even though the Copernicus was hopelessly outgunned by the aggressors Joanna managed to lead the refugees safely to Federation territory. The details of this mission are classified and much has been speculated about this mission in recent years. Some historians assume that the ships of the cybernetic beings might have been Borg cubes, other claim that this is highly unlikely.

Redwine's next command was the USS Endeavour, a much larger ship. During the following two years Joanna was building up a reputation of being one of Starfleet's most talented captains. In 2284 Joanna's Endeavour picked up scientist Ken Garret at Science Station Tango Sierra for a warp field experiment. Garret spent 3 months on board and the captain and the scientist fell in love with each other. The couple married in 2285. Joanna resigned her command of the Endeavour two years early and accepted a position as commanding officer of station Tango Sierra so they could be together. In the same year she gave birth to her first child. A second child, Paul, followed in 2286.

Joanna spent almost twenty years commanding space stations and starbases. The accommodations of these large structures were suited much better to raising children than a starship and they were relatively safe.

In 2302 Joanna's daughter Anna died in a transporter accident on Starbase 11. The loss of their daughter caused the greatest crisis of Joanna's and Ken's marriage. In fact the couple chose to separate for a time in 2304, as their other two children had already left home. At the same time Joanna was offered the command of the brand new USS Eagle, one of the most powerful ships of her time. Under the given circumstances couldn't resist this opportunity and accepted the offer. Eagle's five year mission was to explore previously uncharted regions of the beta quadrant.

In 2309 Joanna and her husband moved together again and Joanna, now promoted to rear admiral, took the position of vice head of Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Not much is know about this episode of Redwine's life. Joanna herself found the opportunity to pass some of her experience on to the next generation of Starfleet officers very rewarding. In 2316 Joanna retired from Starfleet and moved to New York with Kenneth.

After six years Joanna decided that retirement wasn't for her. She spent almost a year searching for a task that suited her. Finally she became the Federation ambassador to the Orion colonies in 2323. Kenneth Garret accompanied her when she took residence in the Rigel System. The Orions were in for a hard time. Joanna relentlessly addressed slavery and piracy issues. By 2329 she had convinced the Federation council to impose strict trade sanctions against the Orion colonies. However by clever political maneuvers and talks behind the scenes the Orions managed to persuade the council to revoke the embargo and dump the unpleasant ambassador. In 2332 a bitter Joanna returned to earth.

Joanna once more had the opportunity be politically active, when she was appointed as Federation High Commissioner of Refugees in 2335. There had always been a constant influx of refugees to the save havens of the Federation. But with several systems annexed by the Cardassian Empire in this decade the steadily increasing number of refugees began to pose a serious problem to the core worlds of the Federation. Redwine invested all her energy into steering the flow of refugees to new colonies, terra-formed planets and to Federation worlds with low birth rates and an over-aged population. Joanna's achievements won her the Federation peace medal in 2342.

In 2343 Joanna retired for good. First she and Kenneth lived in New York once more, then they moved to the planet Sentinel, one of the terra-formed planets inhabited mostly by refugees. In 2369 Kenneth died on Sentinel.

Not much has been heard about Joanna Redwine-Garrett since. The last paragraph of her official files states that she adopted an eight year old boy named Curtis in 2370.

Personality

During her very long life Joanna's strong will has turned into an annoying stubbornness but it was her mostly willpower that kept her alive all those years. Since a few years she is beginning to feel very tired. She has seen most of her loved ones die and even outlived three of her children. The world around her has changed and Joanna has given up to keep up with it's pace. Having lived on the remote planet Sentinel for the last 20 years, Joanna knows very little about the Borg incursion and the Dominion war. She's got the feeling that she's been around long enough.

Special

Even though she's been retired for decades, Joanna still has the security clearance of a Starfleet Admiral and Federation Ambassador.

Hobbies

For most for most of her life Joanna has been a bundle of energy. She's always been eager to experience new past times and activities. Over the past twenty years her life has slowed down a lot. Joanna spends most of her time with a little gardening, listening to classical music and thinking of the past.

Player Name

Bernd Grosskurth