David Kano

=Biography= Assigned to Alpha on 1 May 1999, for his tenth tour of duty, David is a most remarkable individual who almost never fails to amaze his fellow Alphans. His expertise and rapport with computers is uncanny. This ability is the sum total of several decades of experience dating from the years he spent watching his computer-expert father. The operation and maintenance of huge multi-operational machines became almost natural from that point on. His life-long dedication to the science took hold after he survived an experiment to link a man's brain with a computer. Two men became vegetables--their minds wiped clean. David Kano managed to leave the experience with a heightened sensitivity to these "mechanical brains." Occassionally he's seen talking to the female-voiced Moonbase master computer as if it were a living woman, but what seems to be a wildly unnatural affection between man and machine is actually a well-earned feeling of respect.

Kano is the computer expert (replacing Ouma in Breakaway). He addresses the computer as "she", and is defensive of others criticising computer errors: Black Sun, Guardian Of Piri, The Last Sunset, The Testament Of Arkadia. An Eagle pilot in The Full Circle. He takes Paul Morrow's seat in The Last Sunset and he assumes command in Mission Of The Darians.

In the early episodes, he is normally stood by the computer wall in Main Mission. In Missing Link he gained his own desk, on a rotating pedestal. It is the only desk, apart from Koenig's, with a screen (never seen in action).

Kano's other interests include chess, which he has programmed computer to play: he plays Mathias in Black Sun and Koenig in Dragon's Domain. He reveals a temper in Missing Link.

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