Matthew Decker (24th century)

Cadet Matthew Dennis Decker was the youngest son of Admiral Dennis Decker and the latest in a very long line of Deckers serving in Starfleet. Decker's first name comes from his great-grandfather, the legenday Commodore Matt Decker of the ''USS Constellation.

Early Life
Growing up, Matt worshipped his older brother Robert, who joined Starfleet and was listed as lost in a deep-space mission from which his ship never returned. Decker's mother also died when he was young.

Matt's best friend growing up was Yoshi Mishama and in 2372, the pair joined Starfleet Academy together hoping to be assigned to the same squadron. To this end, the pair investigated a Jex dealer named Carson. When their investigations got Yoshi captured by the Jex dealers, Decker went into rescue him, while alerting Starfleet Security with a subcutaneous transponder. Starfleet Security arrested Carson and his associates, but things didn't turn out as Decker had hoped. The cadet's investigations ruined a Starfleet sting operation that had a much larger scope than Carson and his Jex market. Starfleet Academy Commandant Admiral Brand decided that the pair had to be separated. Matt was assigned to Omega Squad under Commander Kyethyn Zund of Trill.

Omega Squad
Omega Squad consisted of Decker, squadron leader Kamillah Goldstein, T'Priell of Vulcan, Pava Ek'Noor sh'Aqabaa of Andor, and the first Ferengi to attend the Academy, Nog. Decker took an immediate dislike to Nog, believing that the Ferengi had no place in Starfleet. However, after Nog's instincts saved the squad in a holodeck training session gone awry and bonding over Matt's comic book collection, the two became good friends. (Although they would make a show of it not being so). (SA comic #1-2 Prime Dirctives; Liberty)

Red Squad
More Later.