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=== | ===CDR Tanjien Dar, Combat Information Center Officer=== | ||
* played by: Andrew F. | |||
* updated: SD211228 | |||
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Name: Tanjien Dar | |||
Rank: Commander | |||
Race: Romulan | |||
Sex: Female | |||
Age: 97 | |||
Hair: Black | |||
Eyes: Brown | |||
Height: 5'11" | |||
Weight: 108 lbs | |||
POB: Hsien Vor (Romulan Colony) | |||
Father: Centurian Juren Dar | |||
Mother: Commander Hisad Kalya | |||
Education: Admitted Romulan Naval Academy 2350, branch Communications. | |||
Trained in Vulcan language and culture. Attended Voice Intercept and | |||
Surveillance advanced training in 2362. | |||
Background: Jen is the granddaughter of Ambassador Caithlin Dar, the | |||
Romulan representive sent to Nimbus III (Star Trek V), and is said to look | |||
"just like her." | |||
Jen is an only child, and with both of her parents being career naval | |||
officers, she only had one choice as far as career was concerned. Thin and | |||
weak by Romulan standards, she barely passed the academy entrance tests, | |||
however she quickly demonstrated her gift for languages, learning the | |||
languages of four of the Empire's enemies with such fluency, that she could | |||
pass for a native speaker (Vulcan, Fed Standard, Klingon and Andorian). | |||
This ability attracted the attention of the admiralty, and Jen was recruited | |||
and trained to serve both in espionage and counter-espionage capacities, as | |||
well as First Contact and Cross-Cultural Communications. Recruited is not | |||
quite an accurate term, as Jen was coerced into serving the Tal¹Shiar, | |||
though it was not accidental that the Tal¹Shiar became interested in her. | |||
With the coming of the Dominion war and the Empire's joining forces with the | |||
Federation and the Klingons, Jen once again found that she was a very useful | |||
person to have around. Now at the rank of Centurian, she served on DS9 as | |||
the Romulan fleet liaison, her knowledge of Starfleet procedure and | |||
operations allowing her effectively coordinate the activities of Romulan | |||
ships with their Federation counterparts. This was her first truly | |||
diplomatic role, as she found herself balancing the operational requirements | |||
and security protocols of the Romulan command on one side with the military | |||
objectives and necessity for joint operations and cooperation with | |||
Federation forces on the other. | |||
With the war over, Jen returned to Romulus where she served for a few more | |||
decades, however when the admiralty was approached by the Federation with | |||
the possibility of an officer exchange, Tanjien Dar, now a Sub Commander was | |||
selected for the assignment. She spent a number of months on the USS | |||
Endeavour as the ship's counselor, then was recalled back to Romulus as the | |||
Romulan senate suffered from its own internal problems. A second stint as | |||
an exchange officer, this time on the USS Macronin, came at the same time as | |||
significant Romulan activity within Federation space. As a result of the | |||
"Pisces Incident", all factions connected in any way to deceased Enriov | |||
(Admiral) Tr'Ninith have been recalled to Romulus to face a purge from the | |||
highest levels. Tanjien Dar, while not involved in the Pisces incident in | |||
any recent | |||
way, was sent to the Federation as an exchange officer by none other than | |||
Enriov Tr'Ninith, and thus Tanjien Dar was also ordered back to Romulus, to | |||
be executed. | |||
Sub Commander Dar received word of her recall while serving on board USS | |||
Macronin, in Green fleet, however at the time that she received the order, | |||
she was tracking Macronin's captain, who had been kidnapped by Orions. | |||
Delaying her order long enough to rescue Captain Thorne, a personal friend, | |||
Tanjien Dar set out with a small Federation/Romulan crew and brought Captain | |||
Thorne back from her kidnappers. Though her methods were brutal, Captain | |||
Thorne was not harmed in any way, and as a result, CINCSF himself intervened | |||
on her behalf. | |||
While Dar is too proud to seek asylum, CINCSF was not too proud to "bring | |||
up" the Sub Commander's contributions at a meeting with a Romulan senator. | |||
As the meeting involved a massive aid package of food and minerals | |||
desperately needed by the Star Empire, a pardon and emigration visa was | |||
issued for Tanjien Dar, who essentially became a stateless person. | |||
Dar was quickly brought into Starfleet intelligence for debriefing and | |||
interrogation, and though she steadfastly refused to betray her people in | |||
any way, her long-standing service and loyalty to the Federation were also | |||
taken into account. In the end, Federation citizenship was granted, as was | |||
a commission in Starfleet at her Romulan rank of O-5, or Starfleet | |||
Commander, branched science and communications. | |||
Jen's Romulan career was an active one, partly spent monitoring and | |||
interpreting Federation communications from behind Federation lines. She | |||
spent roughly half of her active career on a small bird of prey, | |||
intercepting and interpreting errant signals, as well as making contact with | |||
non-Federation member worlds within Federation border space. However early | |||
in her first tour, while tracking a small Federation courier vessel, she | |||
witnessed an attack on said vessel by the Borg, and with the entire crew | |||
killed and the vessel ignored, was ordered to assume the identity of the | |||
Vulcan science officer on board that ship. For 9 months Jen remained | |||
"behind enemy lines", gathering not only a wide assortment of intelligence, | |||
but upon return, providing a detailed analysis of Starfleet's readiness that | |||
resulted in massive invasion plans, and almost started a war, for her report | |||
was published 6 months after Wolf 359, at which she "served" on the USS | |||
Gemini, and with | |||
Starfleet's strength at an all-time low, invasion became a winnable | |||
stratagem. Of course anyone who read the report would be clearly aware that | |||
Dar herself was vehemently against such a course of action, and she used her | |||
eloquent writing skills to minimize the attractiveness of that prospect, but | |||
the raw data she did honestly report, and more conservative elements within | |||
the empire held sway and military buildup took place. | |||
While Dar was not officially trained for intelligence work, and appeared | |||
quite | |||
terrified at the prospect of going "under cover", the Tal Shiar officer on | |||
her ship made it clear to her that if she chose to disobey the order, it | |||
would be considered as treason, and she and her family would be dealt with | |||
accordingly. It was the coming of the Dominion that halted the invasion | |||
plans, and it was the massive Romulan fleet build-up in preparation for the | |||
Invasion of the UFP that allowed the Romulans to so effectively fight the | |||
Dominion, so in a way, Dar's earlier report ultimately helped to save the | |||
Federation. Dar was truly relieved that war did not come between the empire | |||
and the Federation, though the Dominion war proved extremely costly to both | |||
the Romulans and the Federation. While she was angered that her work had | |||
resulted in plans for the invasion of the Federation, she was somewhat | |||
vindicated when that same build-up was used to fight the Dominion. | |||
Her next assignment was command of the small scout vessel Khorsk, a | |||
146-year-old Bird of Prey with a crew of 5. The Khorsk, and other ships | |||
like her, are assigned patrol duties, in Dar's case, inside Federation | |||
space. | |||
Personality: | |||
Like most of her race, while appearing as a Vulcan, she is driven not by | |||
logic but by emotion and reason much as humans are, though she has learned | |||
well to feign Vulcan disinterest. She is quiet most of the time, curious by | |||
nature, and possessed of an eidetic memory, hence her gift with languages. | |||
Due to her frail (by Romulan standards) build, she has always been rather | |||
timid when it came to physical activities, and while semi-skilled in the | |||
disruptor, she prefers to leave any fighting to others, knowing that her | |||
talents lie elsewhere. | |||
Sub Commander Dar is very loyal to both of her masters, though always her | |||
first loyalty is to her own sense of honor. Should she receive conflicting | |||
orders from Romulus and the Federation, she would do her best to find a | |||
creative solution which would violate neither, but if forced to make a | |||
choice, would side with the virtuous, unless and until it created a security | |||
violation for the empire, which is a line she would never cross. | |||
As an exchange officer, the Romulan high Command presented Sub Commander Dar | |||
as a cultural anthropologist/communications expert, which while more of a | |||
science officer in the Starfleet hierarchy, Dar was considered more of a | |||
diplomat after her work on DS9, and was assigned to the advisory role of a | |||
Ship's Counselor, with the civilian title of "Ambassador" on the USS | |||
Endeavour, where she served for one year. | |||
Lastly, with the current rift between the two factions of Romulan politics, | |||
it should be noted that Dar has no love of the Tal'Shiar, especially after | |||
the coercive means by which she placed in extreme jeapordy early in her | |||
career. During her tenure at DS9, she developed a strong working | |||
relationship with, and respect for many officers in Starfleet, and is | |||
solidly committed to the success of the Federation/Romulan alliance, seeing | |||
as the only way that both governments can move forward in the changed | |||
socio-political climate of the Alpha Quadrant. | |||
Physical Appearance: | |||
Tanjien Dar is tall and very thin, and while Romulans are generally | |||
stronger than their human counterparts, she falls toward the middle-range of | |||
average for a human female of her general build. While she is 97 years old, | |||
Romulans, like Vulcans, are long lived, and she is actually closer to 30 in | |||
human aging terms. Lastly, like her grandmother Caithlin Dar, she has Asian | |||
features and is extremely exotic-looking and sensual. | |||
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===LT Valareos fi'Fferyllt, Chief Engineering Officer=== | ===LT Valareos fi'Fferyllt, Chief Engineering Officer=== | ||
* played by: [mailto:valareos@gmail.com Bartlett, Bryan] | * played by: [mailto:valareos@gmail.com Bartlett, Bryan] | ||
* updated: SD210406 | * updated: SD210406 | ||
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