Solok

Stats

Full Name: Solok
Race: Vulcan

Professional

Current Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Current Assignment: USS Triumphant
Duty Post: Chief Medical Officer

Personal

Date of Birth: 230405.06
Place of Birth: Vulcan
Age: 79 Standard Years
Gender: Male
Telepathic status: T3 (except with spouse, to whom Solok is telepathically bonded)

Appearance

Height: 6 ft. 1 in.
Weight: 180 lb.
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Length of Hair: Short
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Skin Tone: Pale white, with green undertones
Build: Trim, fit
Carriage: Rigidly formal at all times, as is characteristic of Vulcans.
Poses: Solok regularly stands with both hands clasped behind his back.
Taste in Clothing (when off duty): Solok wears his uniform when off duty, except during meditation or when engaged in Vulcan spiritual affairs, at which times he wears either the tan robes of a Vulcan Healer, or the black robes of the Kolinahr disciple.
Voice: Solok speaks typically in a monotone baritone.
Handedness: Solok is ambidextrous, as it is the most logical option.

Manor

Quarters: Cabin A, USS Triumphant; shared with spouse, Sakorra Reed.
Philosophical Outlook: Kolinahr disciple. Pacifist. Vegetarian.
Hobbies and Pastimes: 3D chess; taxonomy; forensic pathology.
Temperament: Extremely reserved, unemotional, logical. Curious without social inhibitions, except those consistent with the Vulcan Privacy Codes.

Family

Marital Status: Married
- Spouse: Reed, Sakorra, Chief Tactical Officer, USS Triumphant.
- Place of Marriage: Vulcan, the estate of Commander T'Lara.
Children: None
Parents
- Father: Spivak, Vulcan diplomat, missing in Romulan space
- Mother: T'Rana, Vulcan Healer, deceased; Sarah Ford, Terran stepmother
Siblings: Sarin, Vulcan-Terran half-sister. Sarin's whereabouts are presently unknown to Solok, although he believes her to be engaged in a private operation on or near Romulus to uncover information about their missing father.

Personal History

Solok's father, Spivak, was a Vulcan diplomat and occasional ambassador to Earth. As is the Vulcan custom, Spivak was betrothed and joined telepathically to the girl who was to be his wife, T'Rana, when they were both seven years old. Spivak and T'Rana married, and their only child was a son, Solok. T'Rana contracted an alien virus and died on Vulcan when Solok was still a child. Spivak moved shortly thereafter to Earth with his young son. There, Spivak met and married a Terran woman, Sarah Ford. Solok remains unable to accept his human stepmother as a relation of any sort, and only interacts with her at all out of obedience to his father. Spivak and Sarah Ford conceived a child shortly after their marriage, and the product of their union is Solok's half-sister, Sarin. Solok has a strained relation with his half-sister, resenting the emotional effect her humanity has on him. As Solok's seventh birthday occured while Solok was in residence on Earth, he was never betrothed. He studied science and mathematics, as well as Vulcan history and culture, in a small community of Vulcans living in San Francisco, California, and working in and with Starfleet. Solok learned the traditional Vulcan mental disciplines in this community, as well. Just before his fourteenth birthday, Solok's family returned to Vulcan, where Solok continued his education in the Vulcan manner.
While serving as Chief Medical Officer aboard the USS Kodiak, Solok was kidnapped by a hostile, amphibious alien species called the Herpitites. Solok suffered an intense battery of physical and mental tortures while aboard the Herpitite vessel, an experience which has done much to unsettle the Vulcan's typical inner calm.
Private: As of stardate 238101.01, Vulcan High Master Torat acknowledges Solok's ascension to the role of Vulcan Teacher. Solok will heretofore be recognized on Vulcan and by Vulcans as a practitioner of the Vulcan mental disciplines, and teacher of the same. He will retain his status as Healer of Vulcan simultaneously with his ascent. Note: This information is not to be shared with or reported to or by Starfleet institutions or personnel, except in personal communications authorized and delivered by Solok himself.
Between stardates 238105.31 to 238106.14, Solok struggled with an unknown illness undiagnosed by the attending physician. Upon recovery, Solok resumed his duties as Chief Science Officer. No recurrence of the condition has been observed. Private: Solok's condition during this time was believed by some to have been the result of the ordinary septannual passage of the Vulcan male through the pon farr. In light of the Vulcan codes of privacy, no confirmation of this suspicion is to be requested.
On stardate 238107.02, Solok was bonded on Vulcan to Lieutenant Junior-Grade Sakorra Jefferson Reed (see Reed, Sakorra), Chief Tactical Officer, USS Kodiak. A Starfleet wedding ceremony has yet to take place.
Private: As of stardate 238111.27, Vulcan High Master Torat acknowledges Solok's ascension to the rank of Vulcan Adept. Solok will heretofore be recognized on Vulcan and by Vulcans as an advanced practitioner of the Vulcan telepathic disciplines. He will retain his status as Healer of Vulcan simultaneously with his ascent. Note: This information is not to be shared with or reported to or by Starfleet institutions or personnel, except in personal communications authorized and delivered by Solok himself.
On two separate occasions, Solok was captured and tortured by hostile aliens (on the first occasion, Solok was tortured while imprisoned aboard a Herpitite vessel; on the second occasion, while imprisoned with Rhys Bejain on a Tzenkethi base) intent both on gathering information about the USS Kodiak and its mission, as well as ultimately destroying Solok mentally, physically, or both. Eventually, such torture must take its toll, even if the subject is a Vulcan, and Solok -- with the assistance and intervention of his wife, Sakorra Reed, and his Commanding Officer, Hollis Calley -- voluntarily removed himself from active duty to pursue treatment at the Bajoran Center for Victims of Torture. The Bajoran techniques were not as helpful for Solok as was required, however, and Solok chose to depart Bajor for Vulcan. Before leaving, Solok sent to Hollis the gift of a rare Bajoran orchid.
Solok spent the next eighteen months completing his training for the Kolinahr ritual. Having successfully undergone that ritual, Solok is Kolinahr-u, a Kolinahr disciple, and has found the extreme repression of all emotions associated with Kolinahr to be of particular use to him in coming to terms with the ravages torture caused to his mental and emotional calm.
Upon returning to active duty, Solok found that his marriage to Sakorra Reed had suffered the consequences of his inattention to his wife. At present, Solok and Sakorra are working to salvage their marriage -- with some success.

Professional History

Date Graduated from Academy: 237908.20
Current Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Current Assignment: USS Triumphant
Duty Post: Chief Medical Officer

Awards & Commendations

The Purple Star: Awarded stardate 238012.31, to acknowledge injuries suffered during torture aboard a Herpitite vessel.

Timeline

Solok began his education with a rigorous program of study under the supervision of the Vulcan Science Academy, where he developed interests in xenozoology, xenobotany, and comparative anatomy. He left the VSA, however, to pursue a career in medicine, receiving his medical degree on Vulcan with a specialization in xenovirology and immunology.

233502.23: Assigned as Medical Officer to the Vulcan Diplomatic Vessel Soval. Served aboard the Soval for 32 years. Promoted to Sub-commander by the end of his career.
236704.12: Sub-commander Solok resigned his commission in the Vulcan Diplomatic Corps and aboard the VDV Soval to become a Starfleet officer, contrary to the advice of his superior officers. Transfers to the Starfleet Medical Academy in San Francisco, Terra.
236705.06: Enrolled in Starfleet Academy with simultaneous appointment to the Institute for Advanced Immunology, where he served as Chief of Research. He continued the study of medicine on Earth, gaining an increased knowledge of alien neurologies.
237908.20: Graduated Starfleet Academy.
237908.26: Promoted to Ensign and assigned as Medical Officer to USS Ranger-A, Captain Cheyenne Skye, commanding (see Skye, Cheyenne).
237910.25: Promoted to Lieutenant Junior-Grade and Assistant Chief Medical Officer, by Captain Skye.
237912.17: USS Ranger-A decommissioned. Served very briefly aboard the USS Hammond, where Solok was transferred out of Medical and reassigned as the ship's Chief Science Officer. Was instrumental in discovering incursions into this reality from a mirror universe.
237912.17: Transferred to USS Kodiak as Chief Medical Officer, Rear Admiral Hollis Calley, commanding.
238003.12: Promoted to Lieutenant by Rear Admiral Hollis.
238004.01: Began first Leave of Absence, pending a malpractice investigation following his role in leaving undisclosed the export of contaminated medicines from the medical replicators on the Midway Station.
238009.01: Reinstated as Chief Medical Officer aboard the USS Kodiak. Cleared of all charges.
238012.31: Awarded the Purple Star.
238101.13: Disobeyed a direct order from his Commanding Officer, Rear Admiral Hollis, to engage in mind melds with senior staff of the USS Kodiak, in the attempt to identify an unkown saboteur. Disciplinary action taken: temporary confinement to quarters, and notation of disobedience on service record.
238103.05: Promoted to Lieutenant Commander by Rear Admiral Hollis.
238103.05: Transferred from Chief Medical Officer to Chief Science Officer, USS Kodiak.
238110.03: Began second Leave of Absence, no reason officially cited.
238112.07: Returned to active duty aboard USS Kodiak. Reinstated as the vessel's Chief Medical Officer.
238210.26: Began third Leave of Absence, to seek psychological treatment on Bajor. Ultimately left Bajor for Vulcan; details are unclear.
238303.21: Recalled from Vulcan to active duty. Transferred with most of the crew of the decommissioned USS Kodiak to the USS Triumphant. Assigned as Chief Medical Officer, under the command of Captain Rhys Bejain.

Subordinates

Assistant Chief Medical Officer Ensign Adriana Tavin (see Tavin, Adriana), Betazoid (PC). Solok returned from leave to find that he had been assigned an assistant in sickbay, something of a rarity for the Vulcan doctor, who was accustomed to working alone. That Tavin is a Betazoid ought to prove interesting for Solok, for whom the emotions and emtional expressions of others (including his patients) are irrelevant (at best) or detrimental (at worst) to medical practice.
Head Nurse Ensign Theel Ar'i (see Ar'i, Theel), Andorian (NPC). Solok has known Nurse Ar'i since his first Starfleet assignment, as an Ensign aboard the USS Ranger-A. Since that time, Solok and Ar'i have developed a relationship that is not only professional, but approximates friendship (for Ar'i, at least). She has worked with Solok both in Medical and in Science, serving as the Chief Administrator of that department when Solok was its head. Solok has shown some concern for Ar'i in the past, but Ar'i knows enough not to attempt to address those rare events directly with the doctor. In Field Training now for service as a physician, Ar'i may very well have to leave Solok's side for the first time in Solok's career -- an event that may or may not prove difficult for the Triumphant's Vulcan Chief Medical Officer.

Trivia

Solok's best -- if not only -- friend in the galaxy is Rhys Bejain, with whom Solok spent the bulk of his Starfleet career on the USS Kodiak, and whom Solok asked to attend his bonding to Sakorra Reed on Vulcan (Rhys was Solok's sole attendant, and something of an oddity, as a non-Vulcan; Reed's attendant was T'Lara, at whose estate the ceremony was held). Now under Rhys's command aboard the USS Triumphant, Solok must find a way to allow himself to continue the equality of their friendship off-duty. One method they have already found is the continuation of their regular chess matches, which are to Solok's continuing surprise often won by Rhys.
Captain Solok of the USS T'Kumbra (famed for his relationship with Captain Benjamin Sisko, formerly of Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant) is the son of a distant cousin of Solok's. Solok has long suspected that he is the Vulcan Captain's namesake.
Solok had the privilege of being the only member of the Triumphant crew after whom a slug -- Limax solokia -- has been named.