[Star Trek: Discovery] A Larger Picture (Un Disegno Più Grande-English Version-)

Characters

Grace Howell is thirty, she was born on Earth, in a city in northern Italy where her family lived for generations. She is a small woman, with a thin and toned physique, she has hazel eyes and brown hair framing a delicate face, a bit like a child. Grace is the daughter of two fleet admirals, her mother is a criminologist, while her father is an astrophysic. When Grace was young, they both worked aboard the Al Batani, where their child spent most of her childhood. Her youth is a very happy period for her, full of love given by her parents. She was able to satisfy her innate curiosity and her great passion for science and exploration, thanks to the life on board a vessel. At fourteen she started at Starfleet Academy, where a transition period begins, that changes her deeply and allows her to become a young adult. At eighteen, after graduating with full marks, she enrolled in medical school, as she always dreamed of when she was a child. Grace immediately showed a particular aptitude for the subject and graduated at twenty-two, a year in advance, one of the very few cases in the entire history of the Fleet medical school. After graduating, she decided to work as a doctor on a vessel and during her specialist medical training in neuroscience, served on the USS Yorktown, where she had remained for a year and a half, to then devote herself to researching and treating patients on Earth for five years. After the outbreak of the war with the Klingons and due to unbridgeable grief for the loss of people dear to her, she decided to return to serve on a starship to help the federation during the conflict. Grace was appointed  as chief medical officer on Discovery, where she began to make new friends and managed to put aside his painful past. She is incredibly intelligent and beautiful, with a witty sense of humor and she's also very faithful to the Federation and its ideals, she is always the first to sacrifice herself for her loved ones and colleagues. Grace is a free spirit, extremely stubborn; for this reason she finds difficult to accept rules and situations that she does not share, risking to put in danger her life and the ones of her companions. She is so proud and she always wants to emerge, overcome her own limits, sometimes taking more responsibility than she should.
When her old love and captain Christopher Pike takes command of the Discovery, her  life will change forever, and she begins to remember their hot relationship and the happiest moments together on board the Yorktown, when life seemed less cruel and easier.

Christopher Pike is thirty-six. He was born on Earth, in the city of Mojave, North America, where he will live with his family up to the age of fourteen. His father, Admiral Josh Pike, was at that time a professor of Starfleet, where he taught science and comparative religions. For that tipe of profession, he traveled a lot for diplomatic missions neglecting his wife and his two children. The mother was an elementary school teacher, spent her life between looking after children and her work. She died of a serious disease without cure at the age of fifty, when Christopher had only twenty.
Chris has a conflicted relationship with his father, who has never been able to create a relationship with his children. Christopher's younger brother, Thomas, ten years younger, has been raised by his brother after his mother's death. For him, Chris was his only point person. Together they will succeed in creating a family and starting again on their own without their father, who failed to stay close to their children after their mother's death.
At the age of fourteen he was admitted to the academy, proving to be always one of the best. After completing the academy with top results, he enrolled in the school for pilots and after three years he took on the role of shuttle inspector, but soon emerged incredible leadership qualities and, after only one year from the end of the pilot school, he was selected for the command school. At the end of the school, at the age of twenty-six, he obtained a position as a pilot with the rank of lieutenant on Yorktown, where he had remained for three years. At twenty-nine, he became first officer on the Neptune, but after successfully conducting a delicate diplomatic mission,  Starfleet recognized his value and appointed him as captain. In these years, his honors have been a lot, the success of his work indesputable. He is  a champion in his work, he is an officer with very strong ideals and values, he sacrifices everything for the safety of his ship and his crew. He obtained command of the USS Kentucky, where he had remained for two years and then he moved to the command of the Enterprise, the flagship of Starfleet. He has been away with his vessel from Earth during the war with the Klingons and, as soon as he could, he redeemed himself from the guilt he felt to have inside by accepting the command of Discovery.
Chris is tall, has big blue eyes and black hair, now a little whiter. He is intelligent, likeable and strongly empathetic, as well as a man with very solid principles. He tends to retreat into himself, he can never really ask for help and this leads him to hold everything inside and to implode after some time. His great sensitivity sometimes  betrays him, on the wave of emotions he makes decisions which he sometimes regrets.
His meeting with Grace, seven years after they had seen each other, will make him question everything he thought he believed: he will finally understand himself, his soul and his work.

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Notes:

Hi! These are the descriptions of the two main characters. I love Pike's character, he  is a great captain and person.
With the next part the story will start really.
I'm italian and I'm pretty good at English, but I've never wrote a story in this language, it's the first time. I really want to learn to write in English and writing a story could help me, I just have to try!
So, I apologize for the errors,
I accept (and I appreciate) every kind of comments, corrections and suggestions, in particular about language and grammar... you learn making mistakes!
Enjoy!
LLAP  🖖