Mark Jameson

Species:	Human
Affiliation:	United Federation of Planets
Rank:	Rear admiral (lower half)
Status:	Deceased
Born:	2279
Died:	2364
Spouse(s):	Anne Jameson
Played by:	Clayton Rohner

Mark Jameson was a career Starfleet officer in the 24th century. He joined Starfleet around the turn of the century, and he married his wife Anne in 2314.

By 2319, he had reached the rank of commander, and was sent to negotiate the release of hostages from Mordan IV. Officially, he successfully negotiated their release. However, in truth he supplied weapons to Karnas, the hostage-taker, in return for their release, and falsified the official records. This was a violation of the Prime Directive, so Jameson made an attempt to even things up by also supplying weapons to Karnas' rivals, thus causing forty years of civil war, although he claimed that he had assumed that the resulting conflict would last for only a few years before it ended.

Jameson progressed through the Starfleet ranks, eventually reaching the grade of rear admiral. His final command was the USS Gettysburg. He then contracted the incurable Iverson's Disease, and by 2360 was confined to a wheelchair. Unknown to anyone else, however, he had obtained two doses of an age-reversing agent called Cerebusian rejuvenator from Cerberus II in exchange for a successful treaty negotiation. He began to slowly administer the medicine to himself. However, when Karnas reported a hostage situation on Mordan IV in 2364, he took both doses and embarked on the USS Enterprise-D to negotiate for their release, at Karnas' request, in an attempt to vindicate himself.

The medicine caused him to rapidly get younger, but was also highly unstable. After learning that the hostages had actually been taken by Karnas in an attempt to lure him to Mordan IV, he mounted an armed rescue attempt. This failed, and by the time he met Karnas face to face, he was dying from the effects of the drug. Karnas, on seeing Jameson die in front of him and on hearing of his attempts to atone for his earlier deeds, was satisfied and released the hostages. Jameson was buried on Mordan IV, at the request of his wife, and with Karnas' permission. (TNG: "Too Short a Season")

Background

Mark Jameson was played by Clayton Rohner.

Mark Jameson was the second admiral to appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation (the first was Admiral Leonard McCoy), not counting Q, who impersonated one in "Hide and Q". Jameson was also the first to wear the admiral's uniform seen throughout the first season of TNG. He is also one of three people to refer to Commander William T. Riker as "Number One" (the other two being Dr. Beverly Crusher and, of course, Captain Jean-Luc Picard).