Nabihah El Sayid/Personal history
Prior to Starfleet
Nabihah was raised in the city of Ramallah in Palestine. Her mother was a scientist who mostly worked from home, writing articles for science periodicals, and her father was the Imam of a local mosque. People often would tell Nabihah that she inherited the strongest parts of both her parents. The scientific side of her mother and the faithful side of her father.
When she was ten years old she had a life-changing experience. She responded poorly to a series of vaccinations and was stuck at home for a week, very ill and running a high temperature. On the second day, her mother brought home a telescope, so that she could at least study the stars, there were only so many holovids you can watch in a row.
On the final night, as Nabihah studied the heavens again, she experienced a strange celestial event that she had never even heard of before. It looked like two stars dancing over the course of several hours. She studied these stars as the sun came up and the beauty of the event left her awe struck. There in that magical night she saw the splendour of Allah, and His divine grace inside all of the creations of the universe. She decided, as the sky turned blue obscuring her view of the two stars, that she will go out there and explore everything that He has created, discover everything that could be discovered. And maybe even seeing the true nature of Allah.
When Nabihah graduated high school, she immediately wanted to apply to Starfleet Academy, it was all she wanted to do ever since that night with the dancing stars. But after long careful conversations with her parents, she agreed to attend her mother’s alma mater, Tel Aviv University. She completed her masters at the age of twenty-four, after graduation she straight away applied to the academy, and was quickly accepted.
Career Timeline
- 239604.16 - 239604.29
Ensigns Nabihah El Sayid, Charlena Vanlith, and Andy Monroe were aboard a shuttle in the Shoals heading to their first assignment after graduation. They had all known each other in the academy and had been good friends. When the shuttle shut down in the Gamma Camelopardalis system due to the tetryon radiation, the USS Veritas came to their rescue. The three officers were immediately brought on board and were introduced to the ships Captain Roshanara Rahman (whom Nabihah already idolised due to her work in Engineering and her reputation as a Captain), and her first officer Evan Delano.
The three were quickly co-opted by Captain Rahman due emergency situation with the rogue A.I sentinel. Nabihah had been quickly briefed on the situation and sent along with an away team to the surface of a Class M planet that was found to be home of the A.I, along with her friend Andy Monroe. While exploring what appeared to be ancient ruins, they were set upon by a group of Klingons wielding deadly disruptors. Nabihah froze, but she was saved by Geoffrey Teller diving into her, pulling her behind cover. At first she panicked but after regaining some composure, during the fire fight she realised that the Klingon warriors were nothing but a projection, she disrupted the signal and revealed small silver orbs that the crew had no trouble dispatching. However, an earthquake shook the chamber and a part of the floor dropped away. Leaving Nabihah along with Geoffrey Teller and Kelrod seperated from the rest of the group.
They continued through the ruins and eventually found the machine that housed the A.I. With time running out for The Veritas, Geoffrey Teller instructed that the machine be destroyed. Nabihah argued vehemently that this artifact was too important to be merely destroyed, even going so far as to scream at a superior officer, but in the end she could do nothing to dissuade him, the order was made to fling a destroyed vessel from orbit into the ruins, giving the away team a short window of time to make their escape from the ruins and be beamed back aboard.
Fortunately, Kelrod located a network of hidden passages that saw the team safely back outside, and Nabihah could only watch from the ship as an enormous gash was left in the continent at the force of the destruction. Though her and Geoffrey Teller started off on the wrong foot, they made amends and soon became fast friends.
- 239605.09 - 239605.28
Nabihah was acclimatising to the USS Veritas, and her roommate Charlena Vanlith, with whom she was becoming rather close.
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Launching of the Astreaus
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