Name: David Gold
Rank: Captain
Assignment: Commanding Officer USS daVinci
Age: 71
Hair Color: Grey
Eye Color: Blue
Starfleet History
2319: Enters Starfleet Academy
2323: Graduates Starfleet Academy
2323: Ensign USS Gettysburg
2348: Commander USS Schiaparelli
2369: relinqueshes command of USS Progress
2372: Reassigned to USS daVinci, flagship for the SCE
Personal History
Gold attended Starfleet Academy, and while a cadet, he ran on the Academy track team. While an upperclassman, he was beat in the Academy marathon by a young cadet named Jean-Luc Picard. In 2321, during a competition against Columbia University, he met a Columbia student named Rachel Gilman. After Columbia won the meet, Gold and Gilman began dating, and married a year later, in 2322. In 2324 they moved into a house in the Bronx, in New York City, which they continued to call home for over fifty years.
Gold graduated in 2323, and was assigned to the USS Gettysburg, under Captain Mark Jameson. Friend and classmate Augustus Bradford was assigned to the Gettysburg as well. Another of Gold's Gettysburg shipmates, supposedly, was a man named Abraham Silver. In 2328, Lieutenant Gold was part of an assault team from the Gettysburg against a secret Cardassian spy base on the moon of Delavi III. The mission was led by Lieutenant Commander Dilat th'Sena, and included Lt. Augustus Bradford, Lt. Mairin ni Bhroanin, Ensign Jolev, and Ensign Rha-Teramaet. The team was eventually successful in securing the base, though th'Sena was killed in action. Gold and the other four team members remained fast friends for many years to follow.
By late 2348 or early 2349, Gold held the rank of Commander, as was assigned to the USS Schiaparelli. Around that time, while visiting Earth, he was asked by Picard to check on Lieutenant Jack Crusher, on paternity leave following the birth of his son Wesley, when the junior officer failed to return to duty on schedule. Gold offered to help Crusher return to his vessel, the USS Stargazer, and to speak to Picard on his behalf. In 2355, Gold was one of many friends who sent Picard messages of condolence after the loss of the Stargazer at Maxia Zeta.
Gold was eventually given command of the Schiaparelli, and served as captain of that vessel until it was decommissioned. He then served in an administrative post on Earth for six months, after which he returned to space duty. Captain Gold was later given command of the USS Progress, a post which he held until 2369. Near the end of that assignment, he visited planet Drema IV. He was on the surface during a mining accident, and spent several hours underground, helping other trapped Dremans, before being rescued. The Progress was reassigned to supply runs within the Sol system in late 2369, at which time Gold relinquished command. In 2372, starfleet created a new division called the Starfleet Corps of Engineers and Captain Gold was placed in charge of the flagship, and for the moment the only ship assigned to the division, the USS daVinci which is assigned to Deep Space Nine to assist with the repairs of DS9.
