Ensign Tarrik Tarkin is currently serving as an Engineering Officer aboard the USS Artemis-A.
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| Tarrik Tarkin
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Engineer
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| Rank
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Ensign
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| Species
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Rodulan
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| Gender
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Male
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| DOB
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237528.11
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| Age
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26
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| Birthplace
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Tutatuband Station, Khosla System
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| Writer ID
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A240201TT3
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Tarrik is a Rodulan that grew up to be raised among Ferengi on a station in the Khosla system. A longtime fan of the UFP Tarrik has joined, if you ask him, to work on warp drives and to get to play with the Federation's many incredible toys and tech.
He doesn't realize that deep down he no longer feels at home among Ferengi as in spite of being immersed in their culture from birth he is trying to find somewhere that he does fit. He also isn't introspective enough to realize that he's trying to explore new visions of ethics and values not present in Ferengi capitalism, an attempt to flesh out his own personal beliefs and ethics.
The story of Tarrik is intended to be a coming of age tale about a young man discovering who he really is, what he really believes, and what kind of person he will become on strange, new worlds with a backdrop of ancestors who have left very impressive, and therefore difficult, legacies for him to follow.
- Full Name: Tarrik Tarkin
- Gender Identity: Male
- Height: 186 centimeters
- Hair: Blue-Black
- Eye Color: Solid Black
- Skin Tone: Pale
- Build: Athletic
- 2375 Tarrik Nol'Gylar is born to Eluana Gylar and Thorus Noldo on Tutatuband Station. A few months later his parents sacrificed their lives for him. Tarrik is adopted by Prax & Orina Tarkin to be raised as Ferengi
- 2394 Tarrik changes his name to 'Tarrik Nol'Gylar Tarkin'
- 2396 Tarrik enrolls in the Starfleet Academy Preparatory Program and achieves high marks. He applies for Starfleet Academy but is declined because his personal essay shows admiration for his fathers space piracy deemed inconsistent with Starfleet Officer values
- 2397 Tarrik reapplies for Starfleet and is accepted to Starfleet Academy 118 when his personal essay shows a deep understanding and personal incorporation of Starfleet ethics and utilizes the feedback he was given before. In doing so he forgoes a scholarship and the bad financial decision shames the Tarkin family, straining their relationship
- 2398 Tarrik makes a mistake and crashes a shuttle in Piloting 101. The following semester he breaks his arm in Unarmed Combat class
- 2399 Tarrik is disciplined for using a Starfleet Academy transporter to reflavor chewing gum
- 2400 The Tarkin family rises to a position of local prominence and wealth in Tutatuband Station. Their relationship with Tarrik remains difficult
- 2401 Tarrik's shuttle crashes from a malfunction while retaking Pilot 101, he is not at fault but it shakes his confidence. He graduates Starfleet Academy
- 2402 - Posting as Engineering Officer on the USS Artemis-A
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Family
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Mother, Deceased
Tarrik has only heard stories about his mother from his adopted father. The stories were many, his mother was a brilliant merchant, but nothing makes him think about what she must have been like more than a game of Vulcan chess.
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Father, Deceased
Tarrik has only heard stories about his father from his adopted father. From leading a band of merchants on some of the first flights out of Rodulan space to commanding a fleet of nomadic Rodulan pirates throughout the Cardassian Occupation of Rodul his father is a storied man. Despite his history of violence, Tarrik still feels like he has a lot to live up to.
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Grandmother, Deceased
Tarrik doesn't know much about his grandmother, but his adoptive father has told him that she once lead a rebel army against the Cardassians.
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Grandfather, Deceased
Tarrik's adoptive grandfather was a close friend of his mother, once helping to conceal her identity when she was under an investigation. He learned chess from Tarrik's mother, and passed it down to Prax. He passed to Dorek's Syndrome in 2334
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Father, 71
Prax has raised Tarrik from shortly after birth. Grax died when he was a small child. He's told Tarrik many stories about his lineage and taught him and his adoptive siblings chess in an effort to help him feel closer to his mother. He's disappointed in Tarrik for joining the Federation, concerned with his son joining an enterprise with so little focus on profit. Raised by Eluana and his single mother, Prax is notably feminist for a Ferengian.
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Mother, 67
Tarrik's adoptive mother is very supportive of him, but feels that she failed her son by not raising him to be profit minded enough. She blames herself for convincing Prax not to tell him the full story of his parent's death, believing that this is what started to steer her son away from the Rules of Acquisition and Ferengian values. She hopes he'll leave the Federation and return home to engage in business.
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Brother, 28
The twin of Zulg, Frax has long defended his younger brother, and once fought two other Ferengi for criticizing Tarrik's business acumen. He never cared for the family chess games but is very intelligent and played well when he did join them. Alongside Lefi he is Tarrik's biggest advocate in the Tarkin family.
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Brother, 28
The twin of Frax, Zulg and Tarrik have bonded more than anything else over their love of Vulcan chess. Alongside Lefi the two used to hustle visitors to Tutatuband Station for money, though Tarrik never mentioned their illicit and unfair gambling activities to Starfleet. He's disappointed in Tarrik for leaving for the Federation and not joining the family business. He currently works as a clerk in Prax's shop.
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Sibling, 23
Tarrik's younger sibling and he have always been extremely close. Lefi has looked up to their older brother since they can recall, supporting him through everything. Alongside Zulg they used to hustle visitors to Tutatuband Station for money in games of Vulcan chess. Having spent much of their childhood tinkering with Tarrik alongside of whatever project enthused him, they like him chose not to join the family business and to instead become a maintenance technician. Alongside Frax, they are Tarrik's most staunch and outspoken defender among the Tarkin family.
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