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In early 2394 she met [[Quentin Beck]] at a mining trade conference on Earth that their fathers had business at. She pulled him away from his abusive father and they spent the conference becoming fast friends. She shared her dream of a Starfleet career and he joined up that fall, though it took her until 2396 to work up the nerve to do so herself. They were best friends at the Academy until they tried their hand at romance. Their first kiss abruptly ended with her pushing him away because she had seen how he'd built up their relationship in his mind. With little explanation she avoided him until she graduated and was stationed on the USS Constitution.

In early 2401, T'Ama was invited to the wedding of [[Is’Kah]] and [[Ghee’looth Xiron]], friends from the Academy, on the USS Ronin. [[Quentin Beck]] crashed the bachelorette party on Ferenginar, half naked and pursued by Ferengi bounty hunters. T'Ama lead the group to her El-Aurian family's safehouse and helped him make a subspace call to his father to clear the bounty. Later he came by her guest quarters on the Ronin and they made up, agreeing to be just friends, after two years of estrangement. Before leaving to return to the Constitution, T'Ama was partially responsible for the break up of [[Quentin Beck]] and [[Luxa Lorana]] after her attempt at wingmanning went horribly wrong.

While planetside during an away mission on Drever IV, T'Ama was hit in the right eye by a large piece of hail. Despite treatment it continued to be painful, sensitive to bright lights, and produced double vision and subsequently chronic headaches when uncovered. T'Ama took to covering it with an eyepatch while on duty despite the danger of atrophy to the optic nerve.

In mid 2401 T'Ama was assigned to the USS Artemis for Frontier Day, where she ran into her old friend [[Quentin Beck]] again, also on temporary assignment from the Ronin. The Artemis' long range communications relay was sabotaged just as they discovered a Borg Cube hiding out in the Badlands. Quentin was sent to the Cube, and T'Ama was ordered to remain on the bridge and monitor the away team. After logically concluding the saboteurs were Changelings, T'Ama and the Artemis' Chief Tactical Officer (and massive flirt) Lieutenant [[Vitor Silveira]] were sent to apprehend it at its last known location: a Jefferies tube on Deck 13. After initially evading detection, the Changeling attacked, dragging T'Ama back into the tube. Silveira came to her rescue and the Changeling shifted into the shape of a Gorn. After kicking the Changeling Gorn off Silveira and stunning it with a phaser, they removed it from the Jefferies tube and stuffed it into a Tupperware container before it could completely liquefy. They are called back to the bridge by Lt. Commander [[Talos Dakora]] for ship combat with the Borg Cube. Combat ensued between the Borg Cube and the heavily outgunned Artemis until the away teams disabled the shields and the Artemis was flown partially into a hole in the Cube to allow T'Ama to rescue <i>both</i> away teams as theirs had almost doubled due to a team from Amity Outpost appearing on the Cube. The Cube went to transwarp nearly destroying the Artemis in the process. The mission then became one of warning Starfleet and getting to Sector 001 as quickly as possible. T'Ama suggested they cannibalize the parts from the science probes and shuttles to build a new communications array, but for whatever reason the warning did not get out in time.