Talia Kaji
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| Talia Kaji | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Counselor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Lt. Commander | |||||||||||||||||||
| Species | Rodulan | |||||||||||||||||||
| Gender | Female | |||||||||||||||||||
| DOB | 229811.24 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Age | 102 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Lieutenant Talia Kaji is a Rodulan officer posted to the USS Columbia. She is currently serving as Counselor.
Personal Statistics
Stats
- Full Name: Talia Christine Kaji
- Current Rank: Lieutenant
- Current Position: Counseling
- Current Station: USS Victory
- Date of birth: 229811.24
- Place of Birth: Dovet City, Idanni Continent, Rodul
- Age: 93 Terran Years
- Species: Rodulan (Idanii sub-racial class)
- Telepathic Status: T4, E4, NR
- Gender: Female
Appearance
- Height: 5' 6" (1.65m)
- Weight: 145 lbs (72.6kg)
- Hair Color: Black, with brown highlights. Naturally very curly, but sometimes she straightens it.
- Length of Hair: Long, about 8 inches past her shoulders.
- Eyes: Black on black, quite frightening to some people.
- Skin: Light coffee brown.
- Build: Slim, but with curves.
- Face: Round, with small eyes and a wide smile.
- Mouth: Usually smiling.
- Arms: Slim and graceful.
- Legs: Slightly thicker than the rest of her.
- Notable marks: Scar on the lower right of her abdomen.
- Carriage: Loose and bouncy.
- Poses: Easy and comfortable. Kaji hates sitting upright, so she usually curls her legs under her or props them up on something. When standing she usually finds something to lean against. She likes to sit on the floor at home.
- Voice: Kaji has a very low, rich voice. Her tone is often sarcastic or teasing.
- Appearance: While her size and build are quite average, Kaji sticks out in a crowd. Her intense personality comes across in her manner and tone. She is rarely formal; her uniform is often askew, or the sleeves are rolled up. As counselor she wears civilian clothes rather than a standard uniform.
- Off Duty Appearance: Comfortable, simple clothes. She prefers bright colors that set off her dark skin.
- Shoes: Simple slip on shoes or soft boots.
- Handedness: Right.
Family
- Children: Ben Kaji, Benjamin Kaji (Adult version of Benjiro Kaji, brought from an alternate future)
- Mother: Adriana Kaji (biological, born 2132), and Bo Kaji (step-mother, born 2165)
- Adriana and Bo Kaji are "Bonded" partners. When they decided to have children, they used anonymous sperm donors to have children and alternated carrying the child. Biologically, Jessa is Talia's half sister, and Tass is her step-brother.
- Father: Anonymous Sperm Donor
- Siblings:
- Jessa Kaji (born 2285), sister
- Tass Kaji (born 2291), brother
- Cousin: Akeelah D'Sena
Manner and Home Life
Kaji is a very lighthearted woman. She enjoys games, children and pranks. Casual and friendly with everyone, she occasionally gets in trouble by being too informal, especially with higher-ranking officers. She has a terrible tendency to poke her nose into other people's business.
On the USS Victory, she lives in the Family Quarters on Deck 5, with her son Ben and their nanny Iria. Their living space is very cluttered and vividly decorated. Kaji loves bold colors and prints, so the spaces are crowded with artwork, throw pillows, and children's toys. Ben is quite messy, and the apartment is often a tornado of sticky fingerprints and crumbs. Kaji has brought a lot of art from her home on Rodul where it is an important part of the culture.
Kaji likes to be comfortable. When she is in uniform, her sleeves are often rolled up to her elbows to make work easier. She often gets a uniform slightly bigger than her size to make movement easier. Her off-duty wardrobe is mostly loose, brightly colored sweaters and tunic shirts over thin trousers. She likes to leave her hair loose, though she will pull it back for serious medical work.
Her on-duty shoes are always sensible, orthopedic slip-on shoes. Years of working in a trauma unit have trained her to wear shoes that help her stay on her feet for days. She rarely wears shoes in her quarters, but will wear her everyday shoes when she goes out.
Early Life
Childhood
Raised by two mothers on a small farm on Rodul, Talia Kaji had few ambitions other than moving to the city. At the age of 20, she enrolled in medical school to become a doctor. She graduated with slightly above-average marks and some honors.
Rodulan Career
From ages 25-60 Talia worked as a doctor in a local practice. She was trained as a general practitioner, treating all manner of basic conditions. She focused on obstetrics in particular. In general, she very much enjoyed being a simple country doctor, but she began to dream of adventure. The Idanii region of Rodul hosted a very severe and reserved culture. Kaji's enthusiasm and thirst for excitement began to affect her relationships. Talia finally decided to move and search for a more meaningful life in the city.
Talia found a job at a large hospital in Rodul's capital city of Tikan, where she started working in the emergency room. The pace of her new life was overwhelming at first, but she adjusted and began to enjoy the thrill of trauma work. Her experience in general medicine helped her with the various illnesses and injuries present in emergency care, but she found the trauma work more interesting. She loved the work, and kept the position for the next thirty years. She also began studying, working towards a surgery position.
Personal Relationships
Kaji had very few relationships while she was living in Idanii. She lived near her moms and siblings, and her friends were all fellow doctors and nurses. After moving to Tikan, she fell into similar patterns at first. Her moms began pushing her towards fining a companion and making more friends. So Talia began to socialize. She spent a lot of time in her fifties dating, but found the men (and one or two women) boring and ordinary. Deciding to focus on non-romantic relationships, Kaji focused on helping her friends and becoming overly involved in their various issues. She developed a bad habit of being too curious and tying to fix things.
At age 86, she met Ensign Kyo Maeda, assigned to the UFoP Embassy. He had taken down an intruder in the Rodul Embassy and been badly wounded, ending up on her operating table. He smiled at her, and she was hooked. Kyo was a very quiet man, with a subtle-but-wicked sense of humor. They talked a lot while he was in recovery, and after he was discharged, he asked her out on a date. He made a point to visit her every time he came to the hospital for physical therapy.
Their relationship was strong from the beginning. Talia's enthusiasm and Kyo's stoic strength complemented each other well. He was a very simple and honest man, so her telepathy didn't bother him very much, and he adjusted rather quickly. Talia's greatest struggle was the difference in their species, particularly their different life-spans.As Kyo and Talia's relationship grew more serious, they began to discuss a more permanent commitment. Kyo was interested in the Rodulan bond-pairing. Though he couldn't sense Talia's thoughts, they believed the commitment of sharing and creating a thought, a dream, was the most intense vow they could imagine.
Before their move, Talia found out she was pregnant. It wasn't planned, but she and Kyo were thrilled. Rodulans very much discourage unplanned pregnancies, and the Kaji Family tried to force Talia to return home so her older family could raise the child. Kaji and Maeda decided to leave Rodul to make a new life on their own. Talia joined Starfleet to give her the freedom she desired, and Kyo requested a transfer to a new ship. The process took about a year, and meanwhile, they welcomed a newborn Benjiro Maeda Kaji into their family.
Benjiro Maeda Kaji was born on Stardate 238706.11.
As Maeda was in Starfleet already, they were able to get him stationed at the Starfleet Academy affiliated campus on Aldebaran, where Kaji took her courses. Ensign Maeda was promoted to LtJg and transferred to the Duranis II Embassy about a six months before she graduated. Kaji kept Ben with her, and Maeda went ahead to the Embassy.
Nearing graduation, Kaji requested assignment to the Embassy. Once it was approved, she sent Ben to live with Maeda while she finished exams. Talia was sent to Starbase 118 for finals and graduation.
Starfleet Career
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Starfleet Records & Assessments
- Full Article: StarFleet Records
- Official Documentation: Medical Record
Academy
Taila Kaji attended the Starfleet Academy affiliated campus on Aldebaran. Already having so much experience in the medical field, she was able to test out of many classes and finished the academy in two and a half years, focusing on Starfleet regulations and alien physiology. Nearing graduation, Kaji requested assignment to the Duronis II Embassy. She was sent to Starbase 118 for finals and graduation, and her first posting was as a Medical officer on the USS Thunder-A, attached to the Duranis II Embassy.
Duronis II Embassy
Kaji's time on the Embassy and it's support ship was professionally successful, but personally tumultuous. She arrived near the end of the Bluegil invasion and aided the medical staff. During the recovery time, she quickly proved her worth by organizing the remaining medical staff. Talia made friends quickly on the Embassy, primarily with the Gorn First Officer, Commander Nugra. The two had some disputes over medical treatment, but grew to accept each other.
In the middle of her first full mission, Kaji was forced to take leave after suffering an ectopic pregnancy. The rupture and surgery left her unable to have any more children. Kaji recovered slowly from the injury, returning to work as soon as she could manage. Her hard work saw her promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade and assigned the position of Chief Medical Officer, lacking any higher-ranking medical officers. The new responsibilities helped her bounce back emotionally from the trauma, though her partner, Maeda, did not recover so quickly.
Kaji's telepathic powers gradually became harder and harder to control. Debilitating headaches soon began to interfere with her job performance. Added to the trouble was the stress of a swiftly collapsing personal relationship with Maeda Kyo. When her telepathic abilities made her unable to work, Kaji approached Commander Nugra to help her get into a meditation and psionic training course on Vulcan. He arranged for her leave and she soon left, though not before having a serious fight with Kyo.
USS Victory
Kaji was on Vulcan for training when the USS Victory launched, but Commander Nugra pushed her transfer through. She soon left the monastery and joined the ship to act as the Chief Medical officer.
Mission: As The Future Burns
Just after the Victory launched, the ship encountered an alternate future version of the ship. Among the crew was an adult Ben Kaji. The alternate Ben had lost Talia at a young age and it had shaped his life. It was difficult emotionally for both Ben and Talia, but they were able to work together to complete the mission. After the ship reached Duronis II, he was whisked off by Starfleet Intelligence for debriefing.
After the first mission on the Victory, Commander Nugra decided her skills would be better suited to counseling, and assigned her to be Ship's Counselor and promoted her to Lieutenant. Kaji was excited for the opportunity to work with the crew in new ways.
Notable Relationships
| Name | Relationship | Rank | Description |
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| Friend | Commander | Nugra and Kaji met while assigned to the Duronis II Embassy. They had several personality clashes, but Kaji became fascinated by the severe Gorn. They forged a tenuous friendship. He requested for her to be assigned to his ship, the USS Victory as Chief Medical Officer, but later decided her natural skills would be more suitable to Ship's Counselor. | |
| Friend, Roomate and Nanny | Civilian | Kaji met Captain Nugra's daughter Iria when she came aboard the Victory. Iria was assigned as the ship's schoolteacher, so she and Kaji met frequently as the Rodulan picked up and dropped off Ben. Iria protected Ben during a couple of boarding raids on the Victory, and Kaji asked her to come be Ben's personal nanny/teacher/bodyguard. Kaji also proposed that Iria come live with them so they could all take care of each other. They all moved into a three-bedroom officer's quarters apartment on Deck 5. | |
| Cousin | Lt. Commander | Akeelah and Kaji met on Rodul during a family funeral for their mutual grandfather. They had never met growing up as their ages were quite different, and they were surprised to find that both were in Starfleet. |
Ribbons & Awards
- For award descriptions, see: Awards and Service Ribbons
AWARDS
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Chronological History
- 229811.24 Talia Christine Kaji born
- 232605.10 Graduated Medical School
- 238404.19 Met Kyo Maeda
- 238706.11 Benjiro Kaji born
- 238612.01 Enrolled in Starfleet
- 239008.18 Joined the Crew of the Thunder-A
- 239101.03 Promoted to Chief Medical Officer
- 239105.01 Attended Psionic Training Course on Vulcan
- 239106.01 Transferred to the USS Victory
- 239110.01 Became Ship's Counselor
Career Overview
Career Overview
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