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====== Bruce Burke ======

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|  **Rank:**| Lieutenant Commander |
|  **Position:**| Chief Engineering Officer |
|  **Age:**| 35 |
|  **Species:**| Human |
|  **Gender:**| Male |
|  **Place of Birth:**| Albany, West Australia, Sol III |
|  **Height:**| 1.75 meters |
|  **Weight:**| 72 kg |
|  **Hair:**| Red |
|  **Eyes:**| Blue |
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<tabbox Personnel Profile>
As a close friend of Senior Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brien, Dr. Bruce Burke was a veteran instructor at Starfleet academy before being assigned to the Republic as Chief Engineering Officer during the Tholian encounter at Sigma Omicron V. He is credited to have uncovered and dealt with an infestation of interphased parasites he identified as "Subspace Termites" that infected the engineering subsystems of the ship. Burke is also credited for diagnosing the faulty reactor towers of the terraforming operation at Sigma Omicron, reinforcing the station's shields when the planet's crust turned to an ocean of lava, and rescuing the away team from the surface. After contracting a rather severe form of //Streptococcus astris// while at Sigma Omicron, Burke required lengthy recovery and convalescence after the mission, necessitating his reassignment back to Earth.
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