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Reg’s Timeline (Updated)

This is a far too detailed outline of Reg’s timeline and history, including more with his childhood, parents, and grandfather.

Please do not reblog. This is highly headcanon based and meant for my version of Reg only.

2324 - Reginald Barclay Sr. is Captain of the U.S.S. Budapest. His son Reg Jr. is visiting and meets his second officer, Alicia Stafford. They’re rather taken with each other.

2325 - Reg Jr. marries Alicia after getting her pregnant. Reg Sr. disapproves of this marriage, thinking they’re moving too quickly. Reg Jr. and Alicia’s daughter Jacqueline (Jax) is born a few months later.

2326 - Reg Sr. violates the Prime Directive to save a pre-warp civilization from an asteroid. Alicia helps, promising to keep his secret, then reports him to StarFleet Command behind his back, getting him discharged from service. She hopes to advanced her position, but winds up transferred to Starbase 26 instead. Reg Sr. urges his son to take Jax and leave, now seeing firsthand that the woman cannot be trusted, but Reg Jr. is too frightened to stand up for his father and goes with her. Father and son do not speak for several years.

2330 - Alicia is transferred to Earth, and the family moves to Cleveland, Ohio.

2332 - Jax, age 7, attempts to run away from home and gets herself seriously hurt before her parents find her. This finally prompts Reg Jr. to step up and say something about his and Alicia’s marriage, as it’s harming their daughter’s mental health. The two begin marriage counseling and there is a noticeable improvement in their relationship.

2333 - Reg is born.

2340 - Reg’s anxiety and shyness have been growing worse for years, and his parents cannot agree on the best way to deal with it. It causes a rift in their relationship again, and Alicia finally kicks Reg Jr. out of the house, beginning divorce proceedings. Reg Jr. is too frightened to go back for his children. As soon as she is able, Alicia requests a transfer and moves her and her children to the U.S.S. Merrimac.

2343 - Jax turns 18 and immediately moves out on her own, returning to Earth. She wants nothing more to do with her mother, but she keeps in touch for her baby brother’s sake.

2347 - Alicia is transferred back to Earth, and moves with Reg to San Francisco.

2349 - Alicia signs Reg up for the StarFleet Academy entrance exam on his 16th birthday, giving him no choice in the matter. He takes it and passes.

2351 - Reg begins at StarFleet Academy, choosing the Operations track and eventually settling on Systems Diagnostics, since it’s a fairly vague career path.

2356 - Reg graduates from StarFleet Academy with the rank of Ensign and is assigned to the U.S.S. Cochrane.

2359 - Reg is transferred to the U.S.S. Grissom.

2363 - Reg is transferred to the U.S.S. Zhukov.

2364 - As holotechnology grows more and more advanced, Reg retreats into the holodeck more often, and his performance slips from satisfactory to poor.

2366 - Captain Gleason of the Zhukov has a bet with his first officer, to see whether he can get Barclay off their hands and transferred to the Federation’s flagship. He’s successful, giving Reg a promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade before having him transferred to the U.S.S. Enterprise D. His holo-addiction becomes worse than ever, but his performance improves when he befriends Commander La Forge and begins regularly seeing Counselor Deanna Troi. He helps resolve the ship’s invidium contamination (TNG: “Hollow Pursuits”). Later that year, he is present for the Battle of Wolf 359 (TNG: “The Best of Both Worlds”).

2367 - Reg’s mind is altered by a Cytherian probe that vastly increases his intelligence and confidence. He takes over the Enterprise and brings it to meet the Cytherians, who return him to normal (TNG: “The Nth Degree”). The same year, Reg is captured by his mirror universe counterpart, who traps him in his quarters while taking over his life. This lasts for several weeks. (TNG comics: Terra Incognita).

2368 - Reg leads his first away mission, which goes very badly when his shuttle crashes in a jungle where a creature tries to hunt them down. He manages to get everyone home safely and earns himself a commendation (TNG short story: “The Naked Truth”).

2369 - Reg finally faces his transporter phobia and helps rescue the surviving crew of the U.S.S. Yosemite, earning himself another commendation (TNG: “Realm of Fear”).

2370 - Reg is given a synthetic T-cell by Dr. Crusher that mutates and spreads through the ship, causing the crew to de-evolve. The mutation is corrected and later named Barclay’s Protomorphosis Syndrome (TNG: “Genesis”).

2371 - The Enterprise D is destroyed (TNG film: Generations). While repairs are underway, Reg is temporarily transferred to Jupiter Station to work on the Emergency Medical Hologram with Dr. Zimmerman.

2373 - Reg is transferred back to the newly completed Enterprise E, and is aboard when it goes back in time to prevent to Borg from interfering with Earth’s first contact with the Vulcans. He is part of the team that helps rebuild Zefram Cochrane’s vessel (TNG film First Contact). The Dominion War begins that year (DS9: “Call To Arms”).

2374 - Reg decides that being aboard the Enterprise is too much stress and that for his mental health he needs to take a quieter job. He takes a promotion to lieutenant and a transfer to Earth to begin work on the Pathfinder Project.

2375 - The Breen attack StarFleet headquarters in San Francisco, where Reg lives (DS9: “The Changing Face of Evil”). The Dominion War ends later that year (DS9: “What You Leave Behind”).

2376 -  Reg has become obsessed with contacting Voyager, lost in the Delta Quadrant, and desperately misses his Enterprise family. Because of all this, he has a holo-addiction relapse. When no one will listen to his plan, he breaks into the Pathfinder facilities to implement it himself. It is successful and Reg is the first person from the Alpha Quadrant to speak with the Voyager crew in over five years. Reg also briefly begins to date his supervisor Pete Harkin’s sister-in-law, Hope (VOY: “Pathfinder”). Later that year, he decides to seek out his father, who still lives on Earth, and two begin a tentative relationship.

2377 - Pathfinder has established regular monthly communication with Voyager. When Dr. Zimmerman falls very ill, Reg writes to Voyager’s Doctor, who has his program transferred to the Alpha Quadrant to treat him (VOY: “Life Line”). Later that year, Reg begins a relationship with a teacher named Leosa, who suddenly ghosts him. Reg attempts to transfer a hologram of himself to Voyager, but it is hijacked by the Ferengi, with Leosa’s assistance, who attempt to use it to steal Seven of Nine’s nanoprobes and destroy Voyager. Reg and the Pathfinder personnel manage to stop them. Reg briefly dates a friend of Will Riker’s named Maril (VOY “Inside Man”).

2378 - Reg testifies in an inquiry to determine the Voyager EMH’s sentience (VOY “Author, Author”). Later that year, Voyager returns home (VOY “Endgame”). Reg is promoted to lieutenant commander shortly thereafter, and continues to work at StarFleet Headquarters on Earth, categorizing Voyager’s information from the Delta Quadrant.

2380 - Reg begins instructing at StarFleet Academy, and uses his time to research and experiment. His focus is on holography, as more issues of synthetic sentience are coming to light. He’s seen as the successor to Lewis Zimmerman in this regard.

2385 - Reg is promoted to commander. The synth attack on Mars occurs later that year, prompting the synthetic ban that Reg strongly protests (PIC “Maps and Legends”).