Bryce Shumar

Bryce Shumar was a male Human in the 22nd century, and one of the first starship captains in the Federation Starfleet.

Prior to the Earth-Romulan War, Shumar served aboard a science vessel. During one of these missions, he had to navigate the Galendus Cluster in Sector 275. With the start of the war, his ship was commandeered for military duty, and Commander Shumar was assigned as commanding officer of Earth Base 14. He served in that position until the end of the war, at which time he resigned his commission.

Before he could formally leave the service, however, he was approached by an old friend, Clarisse Dumont, an adviser to President of United Earth Lydia Littlejohn. She convinced Shumar to instead accept a promotion to Captain, and to help guide the nascent Federation Starfleet into a combined military and scientific service.

Shortly after the creation of Starfleet, Shumar was given command of the Christopher-class vessel Peregrine. During this command, he was instrumental in the investigation of the attacks on Oreias V and Oreias VII, determining the human colonists there had inadvertently disturbed the sacred burial grounds of the alien Nisaaren. (ST novel: Starfleet: Year One)

By 2156, Shumar was commanding officer of the Daedalus-class USS Essex and took part in a war game with one of Enterprise's shuttlepods. This test allowed Starfleet to determine what was wrong with the warp detection grids installed in many star systems. After the war game, Shumar had dinner with the other participants in the game, Captains Archer, Hernandez, Narsu, and Ramirez. (ENT novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)

In 2167, he and his crew were killed after being caught in a massive electromagnetic storm while in orbit of a moon of planet Mab-Bu VI.

Centuries later, an alien intelligence imprisoned on that moon claimed to be Bryce Shumar, in an attempt to escape aboard the USS Enterprise-D. (TNG episode: "Power Play")