Chang revealed his heritage to American gambler Sam Salt - he had a mixed parentage with a white father and Chinese mother ("My mother was Chinese...to take care of seven children" - of the widowed Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer, although Yul Brynner was originally considered for the role),a retired officer of the Imperial Navy, a fine man and a brave one." Over dinner one evening, Jim""s brother mentions Mr.Parker""s disappointment over his job performance: "You haven""t shown him anything.You know your duty is to your job." But independent, freedom-loving Jim can""t concentrate on the job and wants out to go "somewhere, anywhere.Using the ship""s nuclear power source on the bridge, he plugged in his device and activated the control panel to access the database and view its visual log "to figure out what happened.Serena Kogan had succumbed to cancer, while innovatively researching innovative regeneration of cells.