Della Vetri/Personal history

Childhood

Born in her parents home town on one of the islands off the coast of the Trill homeworld's southern continent, Della's early life was, if not the ideal, then at least a good approximation. Raised by caring parents, she took great delight in romping about both around her father's landscaping projects and her mother's home office, though with very different levels of amusement from her parents for each.

As a child, she was very active, though also a fairly voracious reader from an early age. This often led to amusing (for onlookers) incidents where she would try to run around the house whilst reading, with fairly predictable results. She was always trying to get involved in things, even trying to take over caring for her sister when she was born, though she never got very far into the more difficult tasks before one grown-up or other would intervene to prevent further damage.

Full Timeline

1. 235706.08: Born.

Teenage Years

Della's teenage years were actually pretty unremarkable. A little higher than average in her classes, she was also a solid member of the school's swimming team, winning a few medals during her tenure there. The most remarkable aspect of this part of her life was the high-school crush which transformed into something a lot more, leading to her getting engaged during her term at the TAAL.

Full Timeline

1. 237009.21: Entered High School.
2. 237506.12: Graduated High School.

Pre-Academy Years

After graduating from high school, Della went straight into higher education, entering the Trill Academy of Higher Learning's Psychological Sciences program. She had a ready-made resource for when she got stuck, in the shape of her mother, and managed to achieve high marks in her courses, graduating with advanced qualifications in both Psychology and Psychotherapy.

Being selected for joining with the Vetri symbiote was both a surprise and a great honor for her, but no-one was prepared for the side-effects. Chief among these was the emergence of previously unsuspected empathic ability, something she is still working to fully adapt too, but the collapse of her engagement was also a bit of a cloud over the whole affair.

In fairly short order, she realized that she needed help, and arranged to enter a program specifically designed for people that have suddenly developed psychic ability. It was actually during this time that she decided to join Starfleet, an decision helped along by one of her therapists, a retired ship's counselor by the name of Geoff Harding.

Full Timeline

1. 237509.16: Enrolled at TAAL.
2. 237906.14: Graduated from TAAL.
3. 237907.27: Joined with the Vetri symbiote.
4. 237908.12: Entered therapy and education program on Betazed to help deal with her new empathic gifts.

Academy Years

Della quite enjoyed the Academy, giving her as it did access to a huge base of knowledge and training to dabble into, in addition to honing her Counseling skills. Indeed, her course through the Academy's programme was already largely mapped out by her mother's influence, and her education prior to enrolling.

She was on good term with the majority of her fellow cadets, and tutors, though, as always, there were those that she simply didn't get on with. As a rule, she was able to maintain at least a professional relationship with those, only slipping once when a fellow cadet tried to blame her for his own screw-up. The cadet in question was suitably chastened by the responses of both the faculty and Della herself, though no blame ever actually (officially) attached to her when the console in his quarters wouldn't stop playing Klingon opera at high volume in the middle of the night.

Full Timeline

1. 238009.24: Enrolled in Starfleet Academy.
2. 238411.13: Badly injured in an accident during a swimming event.
3. 238506.29: Graduated Starfleet Academy.

Post Academy/In the Fleet

Della's life in Starfleet proper has only just begun, but there are certain to be interesting events down the line...

Full Timeline

1. 238507.04: Assigned to Starbase 118 Operations.

Previous Hosts

Being a joined Trill, Della has several lifetimes of prior experience to call upon.

1. Laren - A fairly stern and humorless woman, the symbiote's first host worked as a terraforming engineer throughout Federation space.
2. Tomas - Driven, but friendly, he made a name for himself on Trill as an innovative, if slightly crazy, chef. Tales of him verbally abusing customers that criticised his creations are entirely exaggerated. Honestly.
3. Hellia - A gifted singer, she was set for a great career when she was fatally injured in a shuttle accident.
4. Rynn - More of a drifter than anything else, Rynn made his way between the stars trading his skills as a mechanic for passage on merchant vessels. Of late, however, it's starting to seem like her memories of his life don't quite add up...
5. Marik - A trauma nurse in Tycho City, Luna, Marik was also an avid painter, though never particularly good. This never really bothered him, as he did it mostly to take his mind of things anyway.