Tal Tel-ar
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Commander Tal Tel-ar is the Commanding Officer of the USS Challenger-A.
Stats
- Full Name: Tal Tel-ar
- Rank: Commander
- Position: Commanding Officer
- Assignment: USS Challenger-A
- Species: Andorian
- Gender: Male
- Height: 6'4" Counting the antenna he is 6'6"
- Weight: 220 lbs
- Eye color: steel gray
- Hair color: Very short snow white hair
- Build: Athletic, well muscled
- Date of Birth: Unknown
- Place of Birth: Unknown
Appearance
Tal has a very athletic and well defined body. With wide shoulders, a deep chest and washboard stomach he tends to stand out. When added to his height, narrow face with a strong jaw, piercing grey eyes and light blue skin he can be an imposing figure. He is supriseingly graceful and trains constantly to stay in shape.
Relationships
Family
Unknown - Tal has no idea who his parents were. Upon his rescue and transfer back to Andor, Tal was given extensive genetic and DNA testing. The results of these tests were puzzleing. While his DNA and genetic material was definately 100% Andorian, no clan or family matchs could be found. As a result he has no clan ties or family background. This has made him an outcast on Andor.
Friends
Due to his early years spent growing up in an extremely harsh primative warrior culture Tal has almost no social skills. He tends to avoid people and can be as emotionless as a Vulcan. This has resulted in his being a loner by nature and background.
At the Academy Tal's room mate was a human called Jason Stone. He was probally Tal's first and only friend. A cheerful young man with blonde wavy hair, a surfers tan and a friendly easy going manner. Everyone liked him, especially the girls. He was a little wild, loved to surf, swim and sail.
Tal never made any friends while serveing aboard the USS Corona, USS Triumphant, USS Trafalgar or the USS Constitution-B.
The same can be said of his time aboard the USS Eagle. However due to his involvement in putting a dent into the Orion Syndicate's smuggleing operation on Starbase 118 he was put into the position of having to become room mates with a genetically created female slave now called Koriander. She lived with him in his quarters until she become a Cadet and is now attendening classes at Starfleet Academy on Earth.
Romance
Tal has had a fairly lackluster romantic life. His first female contact was with a fellow student at the Academy. She was a Bolian and it was his roommate that made the arrangements. This turned out to be more of a physical relationship as neither Tal or Nira had the time or interest in anything faintly romantic.
His next contact was a terran female named Beth Trindel. This occured while he was still attending the Academy. Tal was volunteered to double date with Jason and the girl he was currently interested in. While they did have a number of interests in common (competative martial arts) the relationship never went much farther than physical.
It was many years before Tal had any further contact with any female. When he finally did it was with Koriander a genetically created female that due to circumstances beyond his control was forced to become his room mate. While they became friends and did enjoy a physical connection it never even closely resembled anything romantic.
It was not till Ensign Elina Rose Kincade came aboard the USS Eagle that anything even closely resembleing romance entered his life. His first meeting with her had them butting heads over getting his back brace repaired. The second meeting was totally different and ended with her asking him to join her for drinks. For some reason he agreed. This was the start of a rather intense, if pecular courtship that resulted in Elina moveing into his quarters after about a month and a half.
A few short months later Tal was transfered off the USS Eagle to the USS Challenger-A. As a result their relation ship was strained. They continued to stay in contact long distance but it was not the same. As a result Elina put in a transfer request and joine the crew of the USS CHallenger-A. It took them a while to smooth out the period of seperation but when they did they again moved in together. It was soon after this that Tal proposed to her during shore leave on Earth at her families home in Scotland. They were married very soon after before the end of their shore leave.
At this time they are expecting triplets.
Medical History
Pre-Starfleet Medical Records
Their are no medical records pertaining to his childhood but an intensive medical exam performed upon his entering Starfleet Academy revealed a incredible number of scars over much of his body. Most of them appear to have been made by various edged weapons. His back was also cover with marks that seem to have been inflicted by a rough material sticking him repeatedly. His bone structure also showed signs of having been subjected to numerous forms of blunt trama. The scars have been removed and any damage to his bones has been repaired.
His medical records from Andor show that Tal has above average strength, endurance, IQ, reflex's and increased sense's. He also has no DNA or genetic material in common with any known Andorian clan or family. Even stranger is the fact that his reproductive system is totally different from that of any other male Andorian. The rest of his Andorian medical records have been sealed and are unavailable by order of the Andorian ruling council.
Starfleet Medical Records
His medical record since entering Starfleet Academy shows that he never took a single sick day. He had a few minor injures as is the norm but took no time off.
Same for his time aboard the USS Trafalgar and the USS Constitution-B.
While aboard the USS Triumphant Tal was injured while fighting off boarders dureing a battle with the FTU. His injuries included a dislocated shoulder, second degree burns, knife wounds and mild disruptor burns.
On 238503.05 while on an away mission in the Trinity Sector, on a planet called Cart'hen III Tal was arrested and sentenced to death. The cities police beat him almost to death. When he was rescued and returned to the USS Eagle he underwent 4 hours of emergency surgery. Upon arrival at Starbase 118, Tal was transfered to the station's medical facility. They were able to repair most of the damage but Tal was told he would have to remain in a medical hover chair until the damage to his back, spine and legs had healed.
On 238506.11, the Chief Medical Officer of the USS Eagle, Lt. Commander MacGowan performed a medical examination of Tal. The results showed that his recovery was ahead of schedual. He was told he could now use mechanical leg and lower back braces to walk.
On 238506.17 when the entire crew took shore leave on Risa, Tal took the time to attend the Kineri Recovery Hospital. He spent his entire leave taking physio therapy sessions, nerve regeneration treatments and muscle reconditioning therapy.
Physiological Profile
Due to his early years spent growing up in an extremely harsh primative warrior culture Tal has almost no social skills. He tends to avoid people and can be as emotionless as a Vulcan. This has resulted in his being a loner by nature and upbringing as he never learned to mix or socialize with others.
Every moment of every day of his childhood he was alone, guarding his own back. Because of this his mind set is definitely not that of a typical Andorian. On duty or when faced with danger he thrives but, off duty he makes no effort to mix, make friends or blend in.
This is also reflected in his off duty activities which are usually combat oriented or invole him being alone. His imagination is exceptionally well developed and he has become interested in tales of mythic heroes, creatures and adventure.
Professional History
Academy Record
- Date of Entry into Starfleet Academy: 237208.01
- Date of Graduation: 237707.31
- Major: Security
- Major: Tactical
Ensign Tal Tel-ar returned to the Academy for further studies
- Date of Return to Starfleet Academy: 237808.01
- Date of Graduation: 238107.31
- Major: Communications/Operations
Lieutenant J.G. Tal Tel-ar returned to the Academy for further studies
- Date of Return to Starfleet Academy: 238208.01
- Date of Graduation: 238307.31
- Major: Intelligence
Qualifications and Specialties
Tal is considered an expert on many forms of primitive combat. This is mostly due to his childhood on Ten-nok VII. Here he spent all his time training with a wide variety of hand held weapons and various types of missle weapons as well.
Tal is also an exceptionally well trained hand to hand combat expert. While he had learned a little about this form of combat while still living on Ten-nok VII it was only after he enrolled at the Academy that he trully started to excel at it. He spent a large amount of his free time learning a number of different styles.
Tal also took a lot of extreme survival training. Hostile environments and adverse planetary conditions being one of his interests at the Academy.
Due to his early up bringing Tal had to learn to speak his own language of Andorian. They also instructed him in the common language of the Federation. At the Academy he learned more languages and found he had a knack for picking them up fairly fast. Tal can speak and read, Federation common, Andorian, Klingon, Cardassian, Tellerite, Romulan, Ferengi and all 6 dialects of Ten-nok VII the planet he was raised on.
Previous Assignments
- 236702.23 - age 14 - Rescued from Ten-nok VII
- 236808.12 - age 15 - Arrived on Andor - recieved intensive education
- 237111.17 - age 18 - Arrived on Earth - recieved pre-academy training
- 237208.01 - age 19 - Entered Starfleet Academy
- 237608.01 - age 23 - Cadet cruise aboard the USS Corona
- 237707.31 - age 24 - Graduated and posted to the USS Triumphant, Security Department.
- 237908.01 - age 26 - USS Triumphant decommissioned - Returned to the Academy
- 238008.01 - age 27 - Promoted to Lt. jg. and transfered to the USS Trafalgar, Tactical Department.
- 238208.01 - age 29 - Returned to the Academy to further training
- 238308.01 - age 30 - Promoted to Lt. and transfered to the USS Constitution-B, Tactical Department.
- 238501.07 - age 32 - Transfered to the USS Eagle, Security Department.
- 238504.30 - age 32 - Promoted to Lt. Commander and made Chief of Security.
- 238510.15 - age 32 - Given added responsability of 2nd officer
- 238604.01 - age 33 - Transfered to the USS Challenger as a mission specialist.
- 238605.22 - age 33 - Reassigned as a helmsman on the USS Challenger-A.
- 238607.11 - age 33 - Reassigned as the Chief Operations Officer.
- 238612.22 - age 33 - Reassigned as the First Officer
- 238709.12 - age 34 - Reassigned as Second Officer and promoted to Commander
- 238803.24 - age 35 - Reassigned as the Acting Captain
- 238808.11 - age 35 - Reassigned to Duronus II as Chief Tactical Officer
Professional History
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Awards and Commendations
- TOSMA I Award - 238501.15 (2007)
- Natasha Yar Pin Award - 238501.15 (2007)
- TOSMA II Award - 238601.13 (2008)
- Neelix Award - 238601.13 (2008)
- Kalendra Award - 238601.13 (2008)
- B Plot Award - 238703.18 (2009)
- Sarpeidon Award - 238703.18 (2009)
- Barkley Bead Award - 238703.18 (2009)
- Sept/Oct Writting Challenge Runner-up - (2009)
Interests
Hobbies
Tal has a great fondness for primitive weapons. He has a large number of them that he has collected and has mastered many as well. These include the Andorian Ushann-tor, Andorian Chaka, Andorian Flabbjellah, Klingon Bat'leth, Ten-nokian Battlestave, Ten-nokian Hornbow as well as many other types of knives, swords, spears, bows, throwing sticks, bolo's, etc.
Tal also has a deep respect for and love of hand to hand combat. He spent most of his free time back at the Academy learning as many different styles as he could from a number of races and cultures. He has mastered a couple and is familiar was a large number of others.
Sports
As a child on Ten-nok, Tal was never exposed to sports but his every day struggle to survive in a primative warrior culture gave him an incredible competetive spirit. While he does not enjoy watching others compete, he does enjoy the challenge of competeing himself.
While at the Academy, Tal took the time to compete in various athletic events. These ranged from various types of track and field events to running marathons, martal arts tournaments to believe it or not beach vollyball.
Over the 4 years he spent at the Academy Tal was able to win an impressive number of awards. Most of these are for track and field and martial arts competitions. However Tal and his room mate Jason Stone also have the distinct pleasure of being undefeated at beach vollyball.
Books
It was while Tal was at the Academy that he first became exposed to and developed such a driveing interest in legends, myths and heroes. His room mate Jason Stone finally talked him into trying them out in exchange for his help with those class's with which Tal was experienceing some difficulty. Since then he has collected many of these stories and will sometimes spend his holodeck time reliveing these adventures.
Food
Tal will eat just about anything. He has no real preference. His survival training at the academy plus his warrior training as a child means he could eat and survive on any thing edible that he might encounter.
Tal's Early Life
This section has to do with Tal's early years, starting with his rescue from Ten-nok VII through his years at the Academy and his first few assignments with Starfleet.
Tal climbs the ranks
This section has to do with Tal's slow climb up the ranks to 2nd Officer and Chief of Security for the USS Eagle following his transfer to the USS Constitution-B from his 3rd visit to the Academy.
Tal's Life
This section has to do with his career after being transfered to the brand new Sovereign Class vessel the USS Challenger-A. Left behind is the USS Eagle and Lt. Elina Kincaide.
Tal's Life
| NPC Listing • Challenger-A Senior Staff • Crew History |
| CO: Cmdr. Tal Tel-ar FO: Lt. Cmdr. Jesse Lawn • Second Officer: (currently unassigned) |
| CEO: (currently unassigned) • EO: Ens. Tobias Walker • EO: Ens. Deven Zell COO: (currently unassigned) • HO: Ens. Dero Goi HCO: Ens. Thomas Huttle |
| ACOS: Lt. Hannibal Parker • SO: Ens. Skyleena Blake ACTO: Lt. Hannibal Parker • TO: Ens. Virinth Dram |
| Counsellor: Lt. (jg) Diego Herrera |
| LOA
CMO: Lt. Cmdr Jerry Reid • MO: Ens. Moran Jatam • ACSO: Lt. (jg) Maya Gemini |
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