Eliaan Deron

• Full Name: Eliaan Deron
• Race: Betazoid
• Date of Birth: 235810.30
• Place of Birth: Cataria, Betazed
• Age: 28
• Gender: Male
• Telepathy: T4

Appearance

• Height: 1.8 meters
• Hair: Dark brown
• Eye color: Black
• Skin Tone: Pale
• Build: Slim

Personality

Growing up in a family of over-achievers, Eliaan harbors the deeply held belief that he does not match up. He has spent much of his life attempting to please his Father and older brother and desperately wanting them to respect him and treat him as a peer. He even followed in their footsteps and planned to become a surgeon before changing his specialty to trauma medicine in his second year at Starfleet Medical.

It wasn’t until medical school that he was able identify his own strengths and has slowly grown in confidence. He is very hard-working; eager to please and easily hurt when he feels embarrassed. In social situations, he tends to hold back and doesn’t like to be the center of attention, preferring interactions with smaller groups.

Family

Parents: Eliaan is the youngest of the four children of Professor Kalana Deron, a professor of xenobiology, and her husband Dr Farren Deron, a cardiac surgeon. He has a very close relationship with his mother but struggles to live up to what he sees as his father’s expectations of him.

Siblings: The eldest of the Deron children is Dr Ewar Deron. Like his father, Ewar is a cardiac surgeon and is widely expected to surpass his ability and standing in the medical community. However, like Eliaan, he feels great pressure to maintain the high standards expected of him.

The elder of Eliaan’s sisters, Dr Qwara Deron, is a research chemist, currently based on a Federation civilian science station

His final sibling is his sister Deone Deron, who is four years older than him. The black sheep of the family, Deone bucked family tradition and didn’t become a doctor. She spent several years travelling before returning to Betazed to become a sculptor. The two regularly correspond and are particularly close.

Spouse: N/A

Children: None

Personal History

Early years: The baby of the Deron family, Eliaan had a happy childhood on Betazed. He was surrounded by loving family and older siblings who doted on him. As a child he was particularly close to his brother, whom he hero worshipped. His mother wrote a book on the development of children, which included many anecdotes about Eliaan and would embarrass him greatly as he got older.

Education: Great things were expected from the youngest Deron. Despite being clever in his own right, he never quite matched the intellectual ability of his siblings. He worked incredibly hard to achieve top grades; although in later life he would recognise that in order to do this he missed out in a lot of normal experiences.

Starfleet Academy: Eliaan was accepted to Starfleet Academy on his first attempt and began study with a major in exobiology and a minor in astrophysics. He greatly enjoyed his time as an undergraduate, making a close group of friends and finally feeling free of the expectations of his family. A good, rather than exceptional student, he graduated in the top ten percent of his class and was accepted to the Starfleet Medical post-graduate program.

Starfleet Medical: The transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study was not an easy one for Eliaan and in the first year he struggled to maintain his grades. As all of his friends had accepted commissions and were on their first postings, the support network he had built up over the previous four years was gone.

Although not on his official record, for a time he was using stimulants in order to stay focused and study. He became depressed and was close to washing out of the program. His dramatic change in attitude was spotted by one of his professors who, in an attempt to help him decide whether he wanted to be a doctor or not, arranged for him to volunteer in the field during a planet wide outbreak on the Napean colony Vilar 2.

He spent three months working with Starfleet Medical colleagues and Napean doctors during the outbreak. This was a truly life changing experience for the young Betazoid. He discovered that he truly loved medicine but was more suited to trauma medicine than surgery and switched specialties. With a new sense of purpose, he completed medical school.