Jaelyne Isa was born Jaelyne Enzol, taking the Isa name when she was joined with the Isa symbiont following the death of its previous host, Ranil Isa. Jaelyne started her career in Starfleet as a ship's counselor but quickly found herself drawn into the world of diplomacy, taking a position with the Starfleet Diplomatic Corps. Following the departure of the previous First Officer of the USS Chin'toka, Jaelyne was tapped to replace the Half-Romulan due to her extensive work in diplomacy and the previous host's skills in Strategic Operations, two skills sets that were felt would be most useful given the current political climate of the Par'tha Expanse. Following the expedition to Lanaxa to save the system from a rogue neutron star, Commander Serala returned with the USS Astraeus and Jaelyne was replaced as First Officer when the crew transferred to the Galaxy-class ship, instead moving into the role of Counselor and returning to the duty post for which she had been originally trained.
Chronological History
236602.24: Born at Gheryzan, Trill
238203.01: Begins degree studies in areas of xenology, sociology and psychology
238403.01: Expands education into political science
238602.24: Enters Trill Initiate Program
238603.01: Awarded Bachelor’s degree in Xenology
238711.15: Inform by Trill Symbiont Commission that she would not be continuing in the program.
238805.31: Enters Starfleet Academy, continues education in previous degree programs; Awarded Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology and Archeology
239006.15: Earns Doctorate in Sociology and Psychology, Master’s in Political Science
239412.04: Graduates Starfleet Academy; Assigned to USS Temperance as Ship’s Counselor
239506.11: Promoted to Lieutenant JG
239512.16: Transferred to Starfleet Diplomatic Corps
239608.08: Promoted to Lieutenant
239702.18: Promoted to Lt. Commander
239711.14: Receives Isa symbiont following fatal shuttle accident of previous host.
239805.06: Promoted to Commander
239901.15: Transferred to USS Chin’toka as First Officer
Background
Jaelyne (JAY-leen) Enzol was born the second of four children to Dashru and Renna Enzol and had always been an outgoing and energetic child. She had a natural talent for getting people to like her and to see her point of view on topics. Even as a young child, she found she could convince even her parents to see her way of things, though how much of that was genuine and how much was her parents being generous was often in question. Jaelyne rarely had enemies, and usually those did not last long as she would find ways to make amends or settle their differences that didn’t involve the use of physical force. That’s not to say that Jaelyne didn’t have her share of arguments, or even fights, but usually they didn’t last long.
Like most young Trill, Jaelyne dreamed of being joined with a Symbiont and had studied hard to get accepted into the Initiate program, earning degrees in xenology, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, and archeology. She was about complete with her training, and had submitted herself to the Symbiosis Commission for consideration to be joined, but received a crushing disappointment when her application was rejected. No reason was given to her other than she did not meet their qualifications, but what those qualifications were that she failed to meet she was never told.
Dejected, but determined not to let all her training go to waste, Jaelyne joined Starfleet at the age of 22 and graduated from the Academy four years later as a Counselor. She served for 2 years aboard the USS Temperance before being recruited by the Starfleet Diplomatic Corps in recognition of her work in several diplomatic missions her ship had conducted. For the next four years, she would be based out of Earth, but would spend more time in the field on various diplomatic assignments than she actually spent on Earth.
On Stardate 239711.14, while on assignment with the USS Karbel-C, in which she and the ship’s Strategic Operations Officer, a Joined Trill by the name of Ranil Isa (RAH-nil EE-sah), along with several other officers from the ship, were involved in a shuttle accident when the onboard systems suddenly began to fail. The cause was later determined to be the result of a collision with a subspace filament that had disrupted their systems long enough for the shuttle to lose control and plummet into the atmosphere of a nearby L-Class planet. They were able to get the shuttle down, but it suffered catastrophic damage in the impact, and three people were fatally injured, including Ranil Isa. Although Jaelyne had suffered minor injuries herself, she knew that if the Isa symbiont was to be saved, she was its only chance. She pleaded with the doctor to do an emergency transplant so she could keep Isa alive until it could be transplanted again into a new host, a request that the doctor was forced to consent to if the Isa symbiont was to be saved. However, as things would turn out, it would take eight days for the survivors to be rescued and by then, her joining with the Isa symbiont had been complete and she was unable to be separated from it without dying. As it appeared that the joining had been successful, the Symbiosis Commission was later forced to reluctantly agree to allow the joining to remain in place.
Now Jaelyne Isa, she spent several months trying to assimilate all the new personalities and to separate herself from the other previous hosts, but she never really managed to succeed. And this, she learned, was fairly normal. She wasn’t her old self anymore, but an amalgamation of all of them. The key was knowing which was from her and which was from a previous host, and which host that was. This was the purpose behind the zhian’tara and would provide her the means for dealing with the assorted memories of the previous hosts, though she has yet to actually perform this ceremony.
Starfleet Command, however, also saw a rather unique opportunity present itself for the young woman, who had managed to rise to the rank of Commander by this point. It seemed that in the Par’tha Expanse, even as the Federation worked to establish a diplomatic presence there, some of the local governments - most notably, the Valcarian Imperial Republic - seemed opposed to their presence. They had even recently conducted an extensive assault against the colonization fleet that was tantamount to war. In an effort to resolve this and stop a full-scale war from erupting, Starfleet Command realized that with the experience of Ranil Isa as a Strategic Operations Officer, combined with Jaelyne Isa’s diplomatic experience, they had the opportunity to attack the problem from both sides. With the transfer of his First Officer, Commander Serala, Captain Mei’konda Delano of the USS Chin'toka had an excellent candidate to replace her that would also help meet the Federation’s needs in the region, and so Commander Isa received a transfer order to her new duty post as First Officer of the USS Chin'toka.
