Ayelet Kadosh

"Oh, no, I just met him a few minutes ago. He seems like a nice man, though."

–Kadosh, speaking of Tenzin Zhou, whom she enthusiastically nominated moments earlier to perform at a talent show.

Ayelet Kadosh is a nurse aboard the USS Independence-A. She was a survivor of the Vaadwaur occupation of Deep Space 17 in 2387 and briefly served as the station's acting chief medical officer following its recapture by Starfleet.

Backstory

Deep Space 17

Kadosh was part of the station's medical department when it was captured by the Vaadwaur in 2387. When the particular medical facility she'd been working in was overwhelmed by Vaadwaur, several of the doctors and nurses were slaughtered outright by the soldiers. Kadosh and a few others were kept alive to take care of the captured prisoners.

One of the Vaadwaur guards, however, developed an uncomfortable interest in Kadosh. Though she was prepared to defend herself, she was fortunately rescued by Msafiri Bakari, who delivered a rather brutal end to the guard. Bakari took her back to his holdout where he and a handful of Federation personnel hid and planned an insurgency. Week by week, they did their best to stall the Vaadwaur's progress, but they were outnumbered and outmatched. Many of the insurgents did not survive to see Starfleet retake the station through Operation Bright Star.

Following the recapture of DS17, Kadosh was promoted from ensign to lieutenant junior grade in recognition of her service to her fellow officers during the station's occupation. As acting CMO of DS17, she worked with Independence CMO Doctor Tenzin Zhou to handle medical duties on the station, which included providing medical response to a riot on the promenade in response to the remaining Vaadwaur on the station.

USS Independence

Before the Independence departed DS17 ahead of schedule to address an emergency around SD 238711, Kadosh requested a temporary transfer to the ship's medical department to get away from DS17 and the associated bad memories. Her request was subsequently approved by both Captain Riley and Doctor Zhou.

Kadosh didn't have too much time to enjoy her new setting, however, as she was soon after abducted along with two other medical staff by the Free Trade Union while the Independence was stalled by spatial distortions while en route to the Wheeler Colony to investigate drug trafficking. After being transferred from one pirate ship to another, Kadosh managed to escape, along with Captain Riley and other captured crew members, thanks to the assistance (and subsequent ultimate sacrifice) of FTU pirate Avro "Oddball" Hawker.

When the Independence returned to DS17 thereafter, Kadosh was reunited with her fellow Vaadwaur occupation survivor Bakari, but Bakari's animosity towards the Independence stemming from the latter's accusations of sabotage by someone on DS17 created new tensions between Bakari and Kadosh.

Important Relationships

• Msafiri Bakari: A human security officer and the highest ranking survivor of the DS17 occupation.

Though Bakari would consider himself strongly protective of the other survivors, Kadosh often worries about him in the way that an older sister might worry about a younger and troubled sibling. Kadosh hadn't known Bakari, a low ranking security officer, before the occupation, but she soon saw how protective he had become over the survivors who remained on the station. For a lieutenant junior grade like Bakari to become the senior officer on the station meant that he had witnessed many of his superior officers--his teachers, mentors, and friends--killed or worse. He promised those whom he saved that they would not be abandoned, but two months into the occupation, he confided to Kadosh one night that he felt Starfleet had abandoned them all to face death alone.

After Operation Bright Star and the liberation of DS17, she and Bakari remained close friends. While the other DS17 survivors had slowly become reacquainted with how things worked again in an ordered Starfleet, Kadosh noticed that Bakari seemed increasingly agitated as that sense of order was rebuilt on the station. That agitation had been building up especially after word had quickly spread throughout the station that the senior staff of the docked USS Independence-A was to take over most of the station's leadership positions.

• Radi Rais: A human marine who was captured by the Vaadwaur.

Rais and Kadosh met during the Second Battle of Eratis and the fall of Deep Space 17 to the Vaadwaur. Rais had been critically wounded during the battle and was being treated by Kadosh and a few other medical personnel who refused to abandon their posts and evacuate with the other medical personnel. The Vaadwaur soon stormed the medical wing and killed the doctors and some of the other staff, leaving only Kadosh and a medic. Rais and Kadosh began to form a bond over their mutual imprisonment. That bond didn't last, unfortunately, once the Vaadwaur subjected Rais to their brainwashing. He emerged as a loyal soldier of the Vaadwaur Occupation Force.

• Jennifer Brockton: A human marine who became part of the insurgency during the Vaadwaur occupation.

They had met once previously, but it was only in the dark times of the occupation that the two became good friends.

Tone/Voice

Kadosh is a confident woman who speaks with a Hebrew accent. Her accent, usually subdued, becomes a bit more pronounced when she is excited. Despite the hardships she endured during the Vaadwaur occupation, she remains resilient and upbeat for the most part. Although she was promoted for her actions during the occupation, she does not like to discuss what happened as the memories sadden her.

SIM

• "Uninvited Guests" - SD 238711.02 (Ayelet Kadosh prevents her friend Msafiri Bakari from hurting an innocent tube grub mascot.)
• "The Many Causes of Tears" - SD 238803.07 (What begins as a warm reunion between close friends turns sour.)

Additional Information

• Kadosh is a PNPC created by Tenzin Zhou.