Lieutenant Commander Tallis Kiedra
Name Tallis Kiedra
Position Chief Medical Officer
Rank Lieutenant Commander
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Bajoran | |
| Age | 47 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5' 8" | |
| Weight | 135 | |
| Hair Color | Blonde | |
| Eye Color | Hazel | |
| Physical Description | Kiedra is tall with long blonde hair. Usually she wears her hair down, with it sometimes pulled back behind her right ear so that her earring is visible. In surgery she wears her hair back and removes the earring. |
Family
| Spouse | None (Divorced - Oren Jarras) | |
| Children | Tallis Renalla (daughter) | |
| Father | Tallis Gale (Deceased) | |
| Mother | Tallis Solari (Deceased) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Kiedra (pronounced Key-dra) is a Bajoran doctor who first learned her trade during the Occupation of Bajor. Dragged into the resistance at a young age by her parents, she would often serve as a medic. Her experiences left her hardened and brash, traits that come out in her bedside manner. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Her exposure to violence and bloodshed at a young age left her a bit desensitized. This does help Kiedra stay casual and calm in the face of medical emergencies, but also leaves her somewhat callous at times to the needs of her patients. | |
| Ambitions | After the horrors of the Occupation, Kiedra mostly wanted to get away from Bajor. She hopes to avoid seeing the atrocities she faced during the Occupation, and hopes that her medical career will help her save lives to make up for those she couldn't save growing up. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Besides her medical practice, Kiedra enjoys reading and music. She is also fond of unwinding with a drink in the crew lounge. | |
| Languages | Federation Standard, Bajoran |
| Personal History | Tallis Kiedra was born in 2340 in the Musilla Province of Bajor during the occupation of Bajor. Her parents, Tallis Gale and Tallis Solari, were both members of the Resistance, and had dedicated much of their lives to fighting against the Cardassians. Kiedra's early life was rough. Even when she was an infant, the Tallis family was constantly on the move and in hiding. Most of their time was spent living in caves, or camping near the Holana River. Usually one of her parents would stay at camp with their daughter while the other participated in raids against the Cardassians, but as Kiedra grew older, times grew desperate, and she would often be left with older members of the resistance. By the time she was twelve she was making herself useful at the camp, helping prepare food or tending to wounded by changing bandages or delivering medication. In her early teens she was acting as a full time medic, helping with emergency surgeries and even treating minor injuries on her own. As could be imagined, Kiedra's life during the occupation was rough, and was not without tragedy. In 2353 during a raid on a Cardassian labor camp, Tallis Gale was shot and killed. Other members of the raid were able to recover his body for a proper burial, but it left young Kiedra scarred. She had been surrounded by death her whole life, but it hurt the hardest to lose part of her family. For the next two years, Kiedra pleaded with her mother not to go out on raids, to stay at the base with her, but Solari refused. She was a warrior through and through, and she did not want Gale's death to be in vane. She envisioned a future free of Cardassian oppression for her daughter, and vowed to do everything in her power to see that future through. Unfortunately, Solari did not live to see the end of the Occupation. In 2355, she was critically injured during a Cardassian attack. Kiedra assisted the doctors in the surgery, but they were not able to save her. It became increasingly difficult to maintain the resistance in the Misilla Province. The Cardassians began cracking down on the more active groups. Heavy losses eventually caused the collapse of the resistance cell, and Kiedra found herself seeking refuge along with other orphaned children. As one of the oldest among the orphans, she often had to take a leadership role, comforting the younger children and telling them stories about the Bajor of old. But despite being an orphan, Kiedra was in a difficult position. Losing the protection of the resistance cell, she was at an age where she could be pressed into service at a labor camp, or worse, as a comfort woman to the Cardassian officers. She knew that she had to escape. In 2357, she had her chance. An old transport had been secured from the Cardassians, and members of the resistance cell that obtained the ship were looking to get as many non-combatant Bajorans, including primarily children, away from Bajor. With her parents dead and her resistance cell disbanded, Kiedra took the chance to get off world. During the escape, the ship was fired upon by Cardassian patrols. A number of passengers her severely injured, but Kiedra was able to keep them stabilized until they could find more proper medical facilities. They evaded the Cardassian corvettes and were eventually found by a Federation Starship, the USS Reed. Impressed by her performance as a medic while under fire, the captain of the Reed, Captain Aaron Beckett, asked Kiedra if she had ever considered Starfleet. She explained that until recently, she had never even considered leaving Bajor. He asked her to consider her options, and if she was interested, he would offer a recommendation to the admittance board. She took a few days to consider what she had left, and decided that she could do more as a doctor in Starfleet than she could as an orphan and a refugee. She accepted his offer, and stayed on the Reed to return to Earth. The transport was escorted to a Bajoran refugee camp. Life on Earth took some getting used to for Kiedra. Growing up in the Occupation, it was not easy for Bajorans to go off world, and before she departed for Earth, she had never even left Musilla Province. She expected to eventually serve on a starship, but she never did grow to be hugely fond of spaceflight. Since she had no family to return to, she usually spent her breaks in San Francisco, sometimes taking on additional projects for more experience, but mostly she wanted to avoid making unnecessary trips. It was not difficult for her to make friends at the Academy, and among her closest circle she was renowned for her wit and snarky demeanor. Her friends and colleagues helped her cope with being so far from home. She graduated in the top ten percent of her class in 2367. Her first assignment took her to the USS Kumari where she served as a junior medical officer. Most of the Kumari's missions took them on exploration missions, but political tensions along the Cardassian border kept Kiedra watching the news. She'd never forget where she was when news of the Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor reached the Kumari in 2369. She was in the medical lab investigating a new strain Saurian flu. Once the officer had walked away, she fell to her knees and said a silent prayer of gratitude to the Prophets. The Kumari eventually came to the Bajoran system in 2372. It was her first time back on-world since her escape thirteen years before. But it was an odd homecoming. Relations were still muddled between the Provisional Governement and the Federation administrators of the former Cardassian station. The threat of conflict between the Federation and the Klingons and the Klingons and Cardassians weighed heavily over the planet. Bajor had not yet become the paradise she was expecting from her mother's stories. The Kumari resumed its mission and was away from the fighting during the Federation-Klingon War. Kiedra's excellent service led to her promotion to Assistant Chief Medical Officer in mid-2373. But by the end of the year, her ship was recalled to Federation space as the war with the Dominion escalated. Once again, Kiedra found herself aiding others in a fight against the Cardassian Empire. She was amazed to find another kindred spirit join the Kumari's crew during the early months of the war, an engineering officer and fellow Bajoran Oren Jarras. During the fighting, the two of them formed a bond. While Jarras was not born on Bajor, and did not live on the homeworld during the Occupation, he still believed in their people's struggle, and was impressed with her strength in surviving, and escaping. The two found comfort in each other's company, and to Kiedra, their relationship was a shining light in the midst of the bloodshed. Following the end of the war, Kiedra saw first hand the horrors the Dominion inflicted on the Cardassian people. Since the Kumari was present for the Battle of Cardassia, she was among the thousands of medical teams providing relief in the immediate aftermath of the fighting. It was an odd feeling for Kiedra. She had grown up being raised to hate the Cardassians, and now it was her job to save them. During the few months she spent on Cardassia, she gained a new appreciation for the Cardassian people. They were not all the villains that she grew up to believe, and after what the civilian populations went through during the course of the Dominion War and the Cardassian-Klingon war, they had a better understanding of she went through during the Occupation. When it was time for the Kumari to leave, she requested a transfer to a medical ship to continue the relief efforts. Jarras was against it at first, but she pleaded with him to join her, telling them that this was something she had to do to help the healing process. Eventually he relented, and put in a transfer request of his own. The couple was transferred to the USS Salk in early 2376. Oren Jarras and Tallis Kiedra were married shortly after coming aboard the Salk. The two were very happy together for a while, and even decided that they were ready to have children, despite some of the uncertainties facing the galaxy. Their daughter, Oren Renalla, was born in March of 2377. With the birth of their daughter, Kiedra's role in the relief efforts kept her mostly on the ship and away from the camps on the ground. By then end of the next year, it was becoming more and more clear that Kiedra and Jarras wanted to get their daughter away from the former war zone, hoping that she would never have to go through the same struggles young Kiedra faced. The family relocated out of Cardassian space to the USS Providence in 2379 and returned to deep space assignments. Here Kiedra was named chief medical officer. Over the course of the next several years, Kiedra and Jarras's marriage was rocky. Without her relief work to keep her focused, and with Renalla needing less attention as she grew older, the couple realized that they didn't have as much in common as they once thought. Their love had been a trial by fire, and they needed to seek solace in each other to get through the horrors of the war. With the war a memory, they found themselves more often at odds. Jarras especially seemed to be less active in Kiedra and Renalla's life, spending long nights away from their quarters and working extra shifts. Kiedra eventually went to the chief engineer to find out why he had to work so often. Their marriage was rocky enough, and the long nights apart made it more difficult to talk about their problems. The chief engineer revealed that Jarras had not been working extra shifts. After a little investigation, Kiedra found out that Jarras had been having an affair with another member of the Providence's crew. Kiedra tried to reason with him for the sake of their daughter, and even threatened to leave the ship along with her. Jarras argued that he didn't care; she could leave if she wanted. Renalla had been the only thing keeping them together, and it was clear that Jarras was concerned about her. Devestated, Kiedra filed for a divorce and a transfer. For the next year, Kiedra, along with Renalla, served on Starbase 423 awaiting a new deep space assignment. It had taken some time for the divorce proceedings to be finalized, mostly because of concerns over Renalla being away from her father. He made no resistance to her demands of custody, and she argued that being around him was an environment unsuitable for her daughter. After the bitter separation, Kiedra only wanted to take Renalla far away so that they can have some peace, peace from her unloving father and peace from the political chaos of the Alpha Quadrant. She finally had a chance when an opening appeared on the USS Iapetus. She figured that the Delta Quadrant would be far enough away to give her some peace. Her transfer request was officially approved in late 2387, and Tallis Kiedra and Tallis Renalla set out for their new home. |
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| Service Record | 2359 - Starfleet Academy (First Year) 2361 - Starfleet Academy (Second Year) 2362 - Starfleet Academy (Third Year) 2363 - Starfleet Academy (Fourth Year) 2364 - Starfleet Academy Medical (First Year) 2365 - Starfleet Academy Medical (Second Year) 2366 - Starfleet Academy Medical (Third Year) 2367 - Starfleet Academy Medical (Fourth Year, Residency) 2367-2373 - USS Kumari Medical Officer (Lt. JG) 2373-2375 - USS Kumari - Assistant Chief Medical Officer 2376-2378 - USS Salk - Medical Officer, Relief Aid 2379-2386 - USS Providence - Chief Medical Officer 2386-2387 - Starbase 423 - Surgeon, Awaiting Deep Space Assignment 2388 - USS Iapetus - Chief Medical Officer |