Samantha Beckett was born in 2351 on a starship belonging to a community known simply as the Star Colony. People of many different races and cultures lived on board and her mother, a woman known only as Gilya, was one of them. A year before Samantha's birth the Star Colony rescued a badly wounded Starfleet officer - Commander William Muldaur. He and Gilya fell in love, had a daughter, and were separated when their child was only a few months old. Gilya, though she had planned to accompany him, refused at the last moment to join her husband when he returned to Starfleet and kept their child.

When Samantha was four her mother disappeared and she lived on the ship as an orphan until Cmdr. Muldaur was located just over a year later. At five and a half she met the father she had never known and together they became a very small, but close family.

Samantha is now 27, 5'' 7", 1.70 meters and 130 pounds. She has light brown, shoulder-length hair and silver-blue eyes. She enjoys dancing (usually forms of ballet) and running. Mysteries and puzzles fascinate her and she loves the flavor of cinnamon and will add it to almost anything. She has one pet: a hairless Sphynx cat that is her closest companion.

Something of a perfectionist, Samantha has very high standards for herself and others... but she is easily flustered and often insecure. Close friendships are important to her and she diligently keeps in touch with former colleagues and also makes efforts to find new friends. Despite this, she is secretly mistrustful of almost everyone she knows, with her father being perhaps the only exception.

Samantha enjoys her work and helping others and suffers only one professional flaw... she is easily distracted and has a difficult time setting aside outside problems. If especially overwhelmed by personal dilemmas she tends to daydream and be devastatingly forgetful. These lapses are rare, though, and generally she is considered a valued staff member by her colleagues.

Having lived her whole life in space, Samantha got to experience planet life at the age of 14 when her father returned to his home on Earth. A life filled with sunrises, soil, weather, and the sky proved both thrilling and terrifying for her.

At 18 she was accepted to Starfleet Academy. Graduation proved a bittersweet time for her. She was glad to be returning to life in space, for while she loved the Earth she felt most at home being on board a starship. But it also meant leaving her father, the only family she had. Despite this, she found herself enjoying the structured, orderly life in Starfleet and has always felt comfortable with her choices.

Growing up in the Star Colony, Samantha had never seen animals and knew little of them. The first non-human creature she ever encountered was a domestic cat... which she loved immediately. While she enjoys the company of most animals, felines are by far her favorite.

At her first posting on DS5 she received a severe reprimand for returning to her quarters for her cat during an evacuation drill. Shortly thereafter she was posted on the Excalibur where she met Al Beckett. A year later they were married and within a few months they were both transferred to the Endeavour. Unfortunately this change created a lot of stress in their marriage and Samantha's instinctive distrustfulness became more and more of an issue.

Samantha and Al are both now assigned to DS13, along with Bathu, Sam's cat.