Tristam Core
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Lieutenant Commander Tristam Daniel Core, a Rodulan, is currently an Engineer aboard the USS Garuda.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personality
- Has a telepathic rating of T0. Due to an accident in 2387, causing severe damage to his telepathic lobe, Tristam is unable to hear or sense others thoughts - and fellow Rodulans can quite easily detect his own.
- Is quite happy to get his hands dirty and fix something.
- Over-confident in his work to the point where he won't believe that he has done something incorrectly, and will constantly shift blame over to someone or something else. This may be because he is under the impression that he has double and triple checked everything he has done, making it 'perfect'.
- Creates schedules that he tries to stick to for each day, routinely beginning with "eating breakfast while waiting for dad to call or message". He gets frustrated when he is unable to keep to his schedules - something that tends to happen frequently.
- Becomes very agitated when decisions are made for him without his consultation.
- Tends to be curt when talking to those he doesn't know, quick to get to the point of the conversation. Has difficulty making friends or getting involved with those who have telepathic abilities, normally avoiding them when possible due to feeling uncomfortable around them.
- All in all, he is quite dramatic.
Appearance
Aside from a slight height difference, Tristam is identical to his brother Taywor. To avoid people getting confused between the two, Tristam has continued to dye his hair so that it is a lighter shade of brown since he was 19. After a severe knee injury (from the same accident that caused damage to his telepathic lobe), when Tristam stands for long periods of time, he rests most of his weight onto his right leg out of habit. He will also cross his arms when listening to instructions or important information - which is also presumed to be a habit.
In terms of dress sense, Tristam is very simple - normally wearing a tee-shirt and jeans. He has a favoured pair of maroon canvas shoes for when he is off duty, wearing them with just about anything (he also claims he only owns two pairs of shoes - the canvas and his work boots). His hair is what he likes to call "stylishly messy", both on duty and off.
- Height: 5'8
- Hair Color: Light brown
- Length of Hair: Medium length
- Eye Color: Black
- Birthmarks, Scars, Tattoos: None - any previous scars caused by injuries have been removed.
- Build: Lean
- Taste in clothing (Off Duty): Simple shirt and jeans
- Taste in clothing (On Duty): Starfleet uniform. Tends not to wear any variations unless required to.
Hobbies and Pastimes
- Fixing things
- Deliberately breaking equipment such as PADDs and communicators in order to fix them whilst stressed. It should be noted that these pieces of equipment are outdated, and are personal items of Tristam's.
- Reading
- Enjoys laying on the couch and reading a good fiction novel (of any kind, apparently).
Likes
All of the above should be counted.
- His work
- Being labelled as an Operations Officer meant that the majority of it was paperwork, but Tristam still appreciates working through it and getting it done. And although he complains about the majority of his Engineering workload, he truly does enjoy it.
- Rodulan swuit sticks
- A stick with a hard lolly-like substance set around it. When he was much younger, his father made them as treats. In the summer, Gamighan would even freeze them. They were a favourite childhood treat for Tristam - and still are today.
Dislikes
- Working on warp or propulsion systems
- Despite being an engineer, Tristam avoids working on propulsion systems at all costs. He has stated several times to cadets that life-sustaining systems are far more important, and that speed was not a necessity . . . unless you were being chased by an angry pack of Klingons, Borg, and so forth.
- Working on the Bridge
- More specifically, working on the Bridge as an Engineering Officer. He claims that Engineers have no real purpose on the Bridge unless they're fixing consoles. Thus, he prefers working below decks.
- People hiding his things
- Got stuck with a roommate at the Academy that thought stealing or hiding his stuff was funny, commonly stealing his favourite maroon canvas shoes and hiding them in the most obscure of places. Since then on, he has always been protective of his stuff, rarely lending anything out to anyone in fear that he'll never get it back.
- Spiders
- Absolutely hates spiders. He is convinced that spiders of any kind have a plan to destroy the universe one way or another. It's not explained why he hates spiders as much as he does.
- An experience with a very large spider saw Tristam come up with two ways to remove a spider nest from the Garuda - blowing the deck to smithereens, or flushing everything out the airlock.
Quarters
It is rare when Tristam's quarters are completely clean. Normally, the only real time this occurs is when he moves into new quarters or he plans to have guests (in which case, everything will be temporarily thrown into his bedroom). There is a three dimensional chess board on his coffee table, but is rarely used to due his inability to find someone to play against.
Tristam's bedroom is normally cluttered with piles of PADDs, and his bed is never usually made. This is the only area of his quarters that actually features images of family and friends - his bedside table features a group photo of Tristam, Taywor and their father Gamighan from 2380 (Gamighan's birthday).
- Favourite Room: Unknown
Workplaces
If not the Garuda's Main Engineering, it's usually all over the place repairing systems.
Family
Father
Gamighan Core, Tristam's father, is a full Rodulan and a retired man, residing on Rodul. After the death of the boys mother during their birth, Gamighan was tasked with raising Tristam and Taywor (with the help of their community) by himself.
He was initially distasteful of the fact that Taywor, the youngest of the twins by only a minute, had a son by the time he was 20, calling him "completely reckless" - this attitude changed by the time Gamighan met his grandson Samuel, born in 2381. He was also upset when Tristam announced that he was joining Starfleet, and became increasingly concerned about his health and safety when Tristam was finally posted aboard the USS Pioneer. This concern only increased when Tristam had his accident, and Gamighan left their home planet to make his way to the medical facility to stay with his son, of whom had been telepathically impaired and will remain as such for the rest of his life.
After being rehabilitated, Gamighan very clearly voiced his displeasure to Tristam about his remaining in Starfleet - yet at the same time, was proud to know that his son was picking himself up again. But it is because of his concern for Tristam that Gamighan contacts him frequently, to the point where Tristam has sometimes found it annoying, but appreciates it all the same.
Twin brother
Taywor Taniel Core is Tristam's identical twin, younger by a mere minute. As children, the two often pretended to be one another to confuse others. As they got older and Tristam was busying himself with learning how to work with the latest of technologies, Taywor was working himself into a steady relationship. By the time he was nineteen, Taywor and Yanata Venxi were expecting their first son, which caused a rift of sorts between Taywor and his father who claimed that he was far too young - a situation of which Tristam did his best to stay out of. It was thankfully rectified shortly after Samuel was born.
After the accident that impaired Tristam's telepathy and following the time spent in the medical facility, Taywor spent a brief month on Deep Space 17 making sure his brother was settled in and well, before finally returning to Rodul. During this time, the brothers attempted to cope with the difficulties coming from Tristam's lack of telepathy, and the ease of reading his thoughts - something previously difficult for Taywor to do. Although it was a struggle at first, the brothers were able to work the problem.
Personal History
Tristam Daniel Core was the first of twins, born on stardate 236111.22, one minute before his brother Taywor. His mother, Meredyn Core, died through complications during the boys birth. Over the next eighteen years, Tristam and Taywor would be brought up by their father, Gamighan Core, with the assistance of their community.
Friends and Colleagues
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
Education
Tristam received general schooling until the age of twelve, where he began to focus his subjects more on technology and engineering. He graduated his secondary college with high achievement in his electronics class, and moved on to study Everyday Technologies - it should be noted that he also passed Healthcare and Biotechnology of the 24th century, though it was not necessarily one of his strong points.
Including a majority of his core classes at Starfleet Academy, Tristam excelled in most of his classes in the Components Engineering course, the exception being Weapons Systems. He also received low grades in Impulse Systems, one of only two propulsion classes he took.
STARFLEET RECORDS
See also: Academy Transcript
After graduating Starfleet Academy, Tristam was placed aboard the USS Pioneer as an Engineering Officer. He was promoted a year later to Lieutenant JG, and he began attempting to broaden his Engineering knowledge by learning more about the Pioneer's propulsion systems.
During 2387, Lieutenant Roshanara Rahman was assigned to the Pioneer as a Research and Development Engineer, and the two supposedly became friends. Seven months after Rahman was posted, an R&D experiment involving her and Tristam supposedly caused multiple explosions in the Pioneer's Engineering department. Tristam was severely injured, losing his natural telepathic abilities and almost his left leg at the same time. He was placed on a medical leave of absence for 11 months to recover.
In mid-2388, Tristam was taken off leave, and requested a transfer into an Operations department. Despite this, he was stationed aboard Deep Space 17 as an Operations Officer, but claims that the work is almost exactly the same as it would have been if he was assigned as an Engineer. Within his first week aboard the station, Tristam was involved in a 'scuffle' regarding misaligned circuits with a superior officer. The matter was resolved quickly and maturely under the watchful eye of the station's Chief of Security, Lieutenant Msafiri Bakari. Three weeks later, Tristam almost blew out an entire deck of the station whilst working with plasma conduits.
Tristam was promoted to full Lieutenant in 2389. During this period, he was asked to look after and mentor two cadets as he worked around the station; Cadets Vian Nova and Ukaramesh Blanufic (it should be noted, however, that Nova left the Academy during her time with Tristam). Blanufic remains in contact with Tristam, and is currently the Assistant Chief Engineer aboard the USS Evantair.
His time aboard DS17 began to draw to a close when Tristam was promoted to Lieutenant Commander in late 2390. After three years of working aboard a station, Tristam was transferred to the USS Vigilant-A as Chief of Operations in 239104, where he was required to take a crash course on the Vigilant's slipstream drive. He was reassigned again after barely three weeks to the USS Garuda as an Engineer at the request of the Garuda's Chief Engineer.
Professional History
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