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[[Image:Core-Rahman.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Tristam and Roshanara, 2391.]] | [[Image:Core-Rahman.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Tristam and Roshanara, 2391.]] | ||
Tristam met Roshanara in 2387 aboard the {{USS|Pioneer}}. Not much is really known about their relationship prior to the events of 238708.01 (the explosion in the ''Pioneer's'' Main Engineering) | Tristam met Roshanara in 2387 aboard the {{USS|Pioneer}}, where she was assigned as a Research and Development engineer. At some point, it is believed that Tristam was recruited into her project involving the slipstream drive. Despite her best efforts, she has been so far unable to persuade Tristam into taking up an interest (or even a more positive outlook) towards the propulsion field of Engineering. | ||
Not much is really known about their relationship prior to the events of 238708.01 (the explosion in the ''Pioneer's'' Main Engineering). Tristam worked closely with her on the slipstream project and the two become good friends. It is also possible, but not confirmed, that Roshanara locked Tristam in his quarters as a joke. Around five years after the accident, the two were reunited aboard the {{USS|Garuda}} after Roshanara requested he be posted there - something of which Tristam was not entirely thrilled about having just been transferred to the [[USS Vigilant-A|USS ''Vigilant''-A]] prior to the request going through, and was forced to travel again after only three weeks. He was somewhat bitter towards her because of this, though this attitude fell away in a matter of days as he returned to working for her. | |||
He became more concerned when Roshanara was involved with the sabotage of the ''Garuda'', going so far as to break into her personal and medical records looking for clues as to if she actually assisted willingly. This caused [[Bakari, Msafiri|Msafiri Bakari]] to question Tristam's feelings for Roshanara, suggesting that Tristam "likes" her, prompting the Rodulan to deny it almost immediately. Instead, he used the fact that the last thoughts he'd ever heard from someone else were Roshanara's to explain his attachment to her. | He became more concerned when Roshanara was involved with the sabotage of the ''Garuda'', going so far as to break into her personal and medical records looking for clues as to if she actually assisted willingly. This caused [[Bakari, Msafiri|Msafiri Bakari]] to question Tristam's feelings for Roshanara, suggesting that Tristam "likes" her, prompting the Rodulan to deny it almost immediately. Instead, he used the fact that the last thoughts he'd ever heard from someone else were Roshanara's to explain his attachment to her. | ||
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Tristam broke into her quarters (after speaking with Roshanara's doctor) under the belief that she may have been too upset to open the door. After she deliberately scared him, the two got into an argument, spilling out into the corridor as she attempted to escape from him. Finally, she explained to him that she assisted Ross because she was an empathic metamorph, suggesting she had no choice whatsoever but to "willingly" assist him. Despite this, Tristam told her to not once believe she assisted Ross willingly. | Tristam broke into her quarters (after speaking with Roshanara's doctor) under the belief that she may have been too upset to open the door. After she deliberately scared him, the two got into an argument, spilling out into the corridor as she attempted to escape from him. Finally, she explained to him that she assisted Ross because she was an empathic metamorph, suggesting she had no choice whatsoever but to "willingly" assist him. Despite this, Tristam told her to not once believe she assisted Ross willingly. | ||
The Rodulan met a holographic version of Roshanara whilst aboard the {{USS|Mercury}}, of whom then proceeded without warning to hold Alora DeVeau hostage. Despite attempts to talk the hologram down, it was ultimately Lieutenant Evan Delano and a holographic version of Mei'konda to temporarily deactivate the hologram and free Alora. Tristam became rattled and almost non-responsive, to the point where the real Rahman had to slap him just to get his attention and any form of coherent words out of him. He had been required to go to a lower level of Engineering and restart containment sequences, but as he was about to initiate the restart, the holographic version of Rahman attacked him. In the end, after an attempt to distract her and conversing with her, Tristam shot the holographic Rahman with a type 2 phaser that had | The Rodulan met a holographic version of Roshanara whilst aboard the {{USS|Mercury}}, of whom then proceeded without warning to hold Alora DeVeau hostage. Despite attempts to talk the hologram down, it was ultimately Lieutenant Evan Delano and a holographic version of Mei'konda to temporarily deactivate the hologram and free Alora. Tristam became rattled and almost non-responsive, to the point where the real Rahman had to slap him just to get his attention and any form of coherent words out of him. He had been required to go to a lower level of Engineering and restart containment sequences, but as he was about to initiate the restart, the holographic version of Rahman attacked him. In the end, after an attempt to distract her and conversing with her, Tristam shot the holographic Rahman with a type 2 phaser that had fallen from the deck above. He was able to initiate the restart, and because of that, was part of a small group of people that saved the ''Mercury'' from exploding. The real Roshanara found Tristam as a mental mess, and ordered (with the very little authority she had at that time) the Garuda to beam him directly to Sick Bay. | ||
After regaining consciousness, Tristam was unusually high on a medical drug. He was allowed to leave Sick Bay, so long as he had a carer for the short two days he was taking the medication. Roshanara became the unwilling "nurse" when he called her to Sick Bay for a "visit". After pleading with her, she agreed to looking after him. He caused little trouble - the majority of it being his unusual willingness to assist her in packing (as she was staying with him in his quarters due to her own being too small house two people). The two speak about his telepathy (or lack of) the next morning whilst he is still in his medicated state, though he doesn't remember this conversation. | |||
Their friendship took a turn when [[Naughton, Sean|Lieutenant Sean Naughton]] proceeded to exploit Roshanara's metamorphic state in an effort to prove her innocence of the Garuda's sabotage. When Tristam reveals that he asked Naughton to do so, she becomes angry, and Tristam confesses that he has always wanted more than just her friendship. After kissing her (proving his point), she leaves the Garuda. | |||
During the time Roshanara was not aboard the Garuda, Tristam was reunited with his ex, [[Sanchez, Juanita|Juanita Sanchez]], when the Maquis attacked (and sabotaged) DSX. Whilst working to create an EMP, Juanita managed to coax Tristam into talking about Roshanara (though he didn't mention her by name). Juanita encouraged him to go after her, or else he'd regret it. After the situation on DSX had been contained (and after theirs setting off an EMP), Tristam ended up in [[Bakari, Msafiri|Bakari's]] quarters, who then gave Tristam an itinerary for Roshanara's travel, further encouraging him to go after her. Waiting for a chance to leave the Garuda, Tristam found himself unable to repair his own toolkit - they had been severely damaged from the release of the EMP, and the tools Tristam had then been using to repair them were faulty for unknown reasons. After returning that toolkit to the Engineering locker, Tristam found Roshanara's personal kit, with a note to him. Using her kit, he was subsequently able to repair the rest of his tools (except, for some unknown reason, his PADD). | |||
Tristam ended up listening in on a university lector Roshanara was presenting (much to his own distaste). During question time, he asked her why propulsionists believed slipstream to be a higher priority than life support systems publicly, peaking audience interest and Roshanara's annoyance. The two began to banter about the topic, until Roshanara wasn't able to provide a further argument. When the room had cleared of others, she began to voice her anger at his embarrassing her in front of an entire lecture hall, when he interrupted and returned her toolkit. They reconciled after he convinced her to return to the Garuda as a Project Manager for the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, and the two begun a romantic relationship. | |||
Despite Tristam's original wishes, the two were unable to have a "first date" when he developes a Rodulan stomach flu. Coupled with a case of homesickness (which he claims to be a real illness in Rodulan culture), he refuses to join Roshanara in her quarters for dinner in fear of getting her sick. However, instead of cancelling their date, he tells Roshanara to set up a vid-com link on her PADD, and to send him what she'd prepared for dinner via the replicator files, and they have their date. | |||
After | After a mission to Peppalexa (and a subsequent "two-week holiday" to the past), Tristam and Roshanara set up another date, though he falls asleep on the holodeck and keeps Roshanara waiting. He apologizes to her multiple times, though she brushes it off and they go to the Mess Hall for dinner. It is shown that their relationship has progressed somewhat, and Roshanara is practicing keeping metamorphic state under as much control as possible when in a room filled with people, Tristam acting as something she can fall back on should she require it. She confesses that she is still unsure of herself, afraid that she will lose herself to her ability, and Tristam does his best to console her. Towards the end of the date, it is seen that she is making progress in controlling her ability. | ||
====[[DeVeau, Alora|Alora DeVeau]]==== | ====[[DeVeau, Alora|Alora DeVeau]]==== | ||