Roshanara Rahman/Relationships

Roshanara Rahman
Chief Engineer USS Mercury
Relationships:
» Beta Ursae Minor II
» Tempest and Pioneer
» Mercury
» Other Colleagues
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Friends, Significant Others, and Notable Colleagues Beta Ursae Minor II Javed Dogar Javed Dogar: A human civilian. Dogar: "This isn't real life! Don't you get it?" Rahman: "What are you talking about?" Dogar: "I mean this! You and me, talking through a screen. It's like having a relationship through a window." Rahman: "We knew it was going to be hard-" Dogar: "No, *you* knew it was going to be this way. And I... I was foolish for going along with it instead of having us move on with our lives as we should have." -2382 Roshanara met Javed in 2380 as she was finishing her master's degree at the Starfleet Academy annex on Beta Ursae Minor II. The two began dating and decided to continue the relationship after Roshanara was assigned to the Shanghai. The long-distance relationship lasted for another two years, with the couple reuniting three to four times a year when the Shanghai returned to the sector. At their final reunion, they spent an intimate holiday on Casperia Prime, where they grew closer to one another. A few months later when they were to meet again, Roshanara was excited to tell Javed of her recent promotion to lieutenant junior grade and an offer to sign aboard the Tempest, a more advanced ship that offered further career opportunities for her. Truthfully, though, she was seriously considering remaining on the Shanghai as she was now eligible to bring family aboard with her promotion, and she hoped that Javed would consider moving their relationship towards those steps. Yet while Javed indeed had grown closer to Roshanara, he reacted very differently to this newfound intimacy. He had always missed her, but now, he felt that the physical separation was finally too great for him. He was frustrated with dates over subspace and socializing with other couples without his own companion. The future he saw of being separated from her for an unknown number of years further down the line frightened him, and he broke off their relationship in a letter. Shortly thereafter, Roshanara accepted the offer from the Tempest. USS Tempest and USS Pioneer Faryul Nishal Reez Montanez Lidia Ivanova Charles Sampi Faryul Nishal: A Bajoran nurse. Faryul treated Roshanara after there was a major accident aboard the Tempest in 2383. Reez: A Denobulan engineering petty officer. Reez was severely injured during the same accident aboard the Tempest. Blinded by plasma coolant, his life was saved by Roshanara after they had both been left to die by their department chief, Lieutenant Commander Montanez. Montanez: The chief engineer of the Tempest. During the accident, Montanez was forced to eject the warp core, effectively subjecting Reez and Roshanara, who were trapped within the isolated core compartment, to painful, horrific deaths once the actively feeding plasma coolant system ruptured. Fortunately, Roshanara's quick thinking protected the two engineers from the subsequent flood of plasma coolant. After the accident, Montanez received a commendation for his decisive action that saved the lives of over 300 people aboard the Tempest, with no casualties incurred among his engineering crew. He last spoke to Roshanara one month after the accident during her long-term recovery at Medical Starbase 253. Lidia Ivanova: A human security officer who later served as chief of security of the Pioneer. Roshanara met Lidia after the security officer came aboard the Pioneer. Despite their differences in personality, with Lidia being more extroverted (and somewhat crass), the two discovered that their behaviors and attitudes complemented each other, and they became close friends. Charles Sampi: A human medical officer. Roshanara knew of Dr. Sampi and was seen by him a few times, but beyond what Lidia would tell her about him (and his crush on Lidia at the time), the engineer and physician maintained only an amicable, professional relationship. USS Mercury Niccolò del Vedova Danielle Vistain Dre'lith Chaun Rick Rawden Isaac Bale Aron Kells Niccolò del Vedova: A human medical officer. Rahman: "You have to be one of the most stubborn people I've met. What's that they say about doctors making the worst patients?" Del Vedova: "Only thing worse is engineers." -SD 238910.29 Some people admire doctors while others abhor them. Roshanara doesn't fall into either group, but after her time spent with many doctors during her long recovery, she has grown wary of their intentions, especially those who seem overtly "caring." In contrast, Dr. Del Vedova, or "Del" as she calls him, surprised her by both his morbid sense of humor and his blunt bedside manner. Still, he seemed genuinely interested in knowing more about her beyond what was in her medical file, and with those first seeds of trust planted, Roshanara felt comfortable opening up to him, and the two developed a natural dynamic. Danielle Vistain: A human engineering officer. Having both been assigned to the Mercury at the same time, Roshanara and Danielle met while waiting for the ship's arrival to StarBase 118. Seldom seen without her trademark smile, Danielle shares Roshanara's propensity to tinker with anything that has a circuit, and for Danielle particularly, anything that can fly. The junior engineering officer is assigned to shuttlebay ops, in charge of maintaining the Mercury's complement of auxiliary craft. Though she's been through her share of precarious situations while previously aboard the USS Independence-A and USS Tiger-A, Danielle still can be a little unsure of herself at times. Roshanara hopes to build the young woman's confidence, even if that means pushing her to the plate a little more forcefully than just a nudge. Dre'lith Chaun: An Andorian pilot. Confident, persistent, and shameless, Chaun finished his previous assignment aboard a ship with a nearly all-Vulcan crew and was looking forward to serving aboard the Mercury and particularly with the female members of the crew. He eavesdropped on Roshanara and Danielle Vistain's conversation at StarBase 118 and introduced himself to his new shipmates but was unsuccessful at getting them to spend some time with him in a holosuite adventure. Still, he's not one to give up that easily, much to Roshanara's annoyance. Rick Rawden: A human engineering/tactical officer. Rawden's made a good impression on Roshanara, although she hopes he can remember to stop calling her "sir" eventually. With his "can do" spirit and eagerness to be helpful, the young man reminds her of what she was like a decade or so ago, which only makes her more determined to ensure he doesn't have to learn about the dangers of being a Starfleet engineer and officer the hard way as she did. Isaac Bale: An intense Betazoid intelligence officer. Bale first made himself known to Roshanara when he programed the ship's computer to perform a series of legally—if not morally—questionable actions to help him deal with a couple of assassins that were traveling aboard the Mercury. However, he was also the first person to respond to her call for help immediately after the bombing in main engineering on SD 238910.22, and although she isn't quite sure what to make of him, he seems like a man with a sense of duty, albeit a duty he defines for himself. Aron Kells: The human commanding officer of the Mercury. Rahman: "I decided to do what an engineer would do if she had a faulty component in a system: take it out." Kells: "And replace it with what? You aren't a power converter to be produced by a replicator en masse when you burn out, all right? You -- you're a person. With a-- a problem, maybe. But not *faulty*, not *broken*. All right?" -In the year 2404 that Kells remembers While not close, Roshanara had developed a polite relationship with Kells since arriving aboard the Mercury on SD 238909. However, Kells—already a victim of a temporal transformation that aged him into his 35-year-old self—experienced another transformation on SD 239005.03, aging him to his 60-year-old self, complete with the accompanying memories of the years he had seen in an alternate future. While duty-bound by the Temporal Prime Directive, what Kells remembered in regards to Roshanara's fate, as well as that of their mutual friend Del Vedova, over the next 25 years pushed him to intervene now that he was given a second chance. The intervention, though, tests Roshanara's friendship with Del Vedova, and whether or not she can escape the fate Kells witnessed—or if she is destined for a worser fate—remains to be seen. Other Colleagues Kael Thomas Kevin Breeman Kael Thomas: Chief engineer of the USS Vigilant. Thomas: "Commander, I'd like to make sure things are in order down here before we hand over..." Rahman: "You don't trust the station personnel to take care of the Mercury with the same dedication that we do?" Thomas: "Well...no..I mean. Just to make sure they are on track-" She laughed, interrupting him. Rahman: "Well, I certainly don't. But I need to stay here and wrap up the final report. I'm still waiting for Petty Officer Garry to return with the final inventory. I imagine the captain will be calling shore leave soon, but if you'd like to put in some overtime, go aboard the starbase and meet with their engineering head. I suspect if we ingratiate ourselves with them a bit, the repairs might happen a little more quickly... and with a little more care." Thomas: "Understood Sir." Rahman: "And when you do get a hold of them, lieutenant, it'd probably be best not to imply you doubt their conviction... to their faces at least." -SD 238911.23 Thomas served as part of Roshanara's staff when she first arrived on the Mercury on SD 238909. After the deaths of assistant chief engineer Graham MacNeil and other senior engineers in a horrific bombing on her first day as chief, she relied on then-Ensign Thomas to help rebuild the department in the aftermath of the devastation. A workaholic with a tendency to worry about the little things, Thomas soon discovered that his new chief appreciated his attention to detail and wouldn't turn down his offer to put in extra hours, even during shore leave. Before the Mercury was to depart on her next mission in December 2389, Roshanara was informed by Thomas that he had been reassigned suddenly to the newly-commissioned USS Vigilant. While she was sad to see him go so soon, she had no doubt he'd soon make a name for himself as an excellent chief engineer. Kevin Breeman: Chief engineer of StarBase 118 Ops. A veteran of the fleet, Breeman worked with Roshanara and Thomas in late 2389 while the Mercury was docked for repairs at StarBase 118 to find a solution to the Efili "problem" that had been the source of a cascade of computer glitches aboard the ship. Efili was actually a sentient AI, and with Breeman's experience with such rogue programs, the engineers successfully transferred the AI to a contained environment for further joint study.