Tanjien Dar

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Commander Tanjien Dar, COMM Starbase Serenity

• played by Andrew F.

Name:  Tanjien  Dar
Rank: Commander
Race: Romulan
Sex: Female
Age: 126
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 107 lbs
DOB: March 7, 2309
POB: Jelek Riin, Hsien Vor 2 (Romulan colony world)
Father: Centurian Juren Dar
Mother: Commander Hisad Kalya
Grandmother: Ambassador Caithlin Dar (of Nimbus III / Star Trek 5 fame)

Education: Admitted Romulan Naval Academy 2322, branch Communications. Trained in Vulcan language and culture.  Attended Voice Intercept and Surveillance advanced training in 2332.

Background:  Jen is the granddaughter of Ambassador Caithlin Dar, the Romulan representive sent to Nimbus III (Startrek 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, and had to cheat to pass most each of the capstone exercises.  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) and many sub-languages. 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.

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 allowed her to 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, Tanjien returned to Romulus where she served for the next year, however when the admiralty was approached by the Federation with the possibility of an officer exchange, Tanjien Dar, now a Sub Commander (Commander in Starfleet) 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 individuals and 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, 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 as 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 was 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 small birds 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 19 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", 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 was actually 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 last assignment as a Romulan officer was the 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, Federation space.

Jen’s last official Starfleet assignment as as the Chief Science Officer of the USS Circe, where she served for two years before officially retiring from Starfleet.  Retirement was, hoever, more of a cover, as Jen continued to work for Starfleet, this time the Intelligence Branch, from a villa on Risa where she kept tabs on various factions through her many contacts and resources, as well as occasionally performed “missions” using an ancient Romulan Bird of Prey, the Sevret’Lor, that she had managed to steal while assigned to Circe.

Jen came out of her quasi-retirement two-years-ago at the request of her old captain from Circe, now Admiral Cayle Veld, to serve as Chief Communications Officer at Starbase 451.  She played an active role in investigating the Ashani, the barrier that protects Ashani space and on the Sevret’Lor was part of the battle to defend the station against Distant Horizon Mining’s attempt to take control.

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 a committed hedonist, curious by nature, and possessed of an eidetic memory, hence her gift with languages. Due to her frail (by Romulan standards) build she was frequently injured in her younger days, though later in her Romulan career she had her right arm and shoulder reinforced and augmented as part of treatment for combat injuries, resulting in at least that arm having somewhat greater than normal strength for a Romulan female.

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.

Since her exile and grant of Federation citizenship and a Starfleet commission, she has been extremely loyal to her new masters, though also never acting directly against the interests of the Romulan Empire, to which she remains loyal despite her purge.

Physical Appearance:
Tanjien Dar is somewhat tall and very thin, and while Romulans are generally stronger than their human counterparts, she falls toward the low-range of average for a human female of her general build (right arm excepted).  While she is now 126 years old, Romulans, like Vulcans, are long lived, and she is actually closer to 45 in human aging terms.  Lastly, like her grandmother Caithlin Dar in StarTrek V, she has Asian features and is extremely exotic-looking and sensual.

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