James Byrne

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Doctor James Robert Byrne is a noted archaeologist living and working in the latter half of the 24th century. He is the father of noted Starfleet Captain Benjamin Byrne. He currently works with the Galactic Anthropology Committee, studying the species, locales and histories of the Galactic South.

The relationships between James and his children - Benjamin, Thomas, Elizabeth and Natasha - were all very close, and purposely so. James' own father, Robert Byrne was a career Starfleet officer, and spent many months, sometimes years at a time away from home, and away from his family. James saw first-hand the effects of this distanced life-style, and grew to resent his father for the choices he had made and their affects upon his family, and so decided to ensure that whilst they were growing up, he would always be nearby his own children.

James and his wife Annika are both archaeologists, and often travelled around to sites and digs with their children, though they rarely strayed far from Sol. James has published a number of well-known papers upon the level of historical artefacts that are still being and still to be discovered on Earth, and the growing understanding of humanity's cradle.

In 2387, Dr. Byrne was approached by the chairman of the Galactic Anthropology Committee, and offered a senior position within the organisation, studying and chronicling the locales, species and histories of the races in the region to the Galactic 'South' of the Federation, in the region of space patrolled by Starfleet's 11th Fleet.