Donna O'Neill

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Lieutenant Donna O'Neill, or "D.O.", was a Starfleet officer who served during the historic first mission of the Enterprise (NX-01) under Captain Jonathan Archer. With red hair and a short stature, D.O. served as third watch commander on the Enterprise from late 2152, until at least early 2155. (ENT novels: What Price Honor?, Rosetta, The Good That Men Do)

D.O., like Enterprise shipmate Travis Mayweather, was a space boomer, born on a freighter on a long-haul run. She eventually became aware that she wanted more than a freight-haulers life, and found her calling with Starfleet.

Before serving on the Enterprise, D.O. served on the Daedalus-class starships Essex and Archon.

She went on her first away mission with Captain Archer to the planet Kaletoo during the Xindi mission in the Delphic Expanse in 2153, after several members of the crew fell into comas after an encounter with one of the Expanse's Orassin distortion fields.

She later provided the captain and several other crewmembers an escape from a Xindi trap while piloting Shuttlepod 2. (ENT novel: Last Full Measure)

Donna O'Neill has the distinction of being the first re-occuring book-only character to appear in the Enterprise novels, having appeared in all of Dave Stern's novels, as well as Last Full Measure and The Good That Men Do by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels.

She was created as a homage to a real-life Pocket Books staffer named Donna O'Neill. Series editor Margaret Clark has stated that the character as described in the books is the description of the real-life Donna O'Neill.