Post by abdelh on Nov 9, 2009 22:52:51 GMT -8
Character's Name: Abdel Hussain
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Race: Human/Former Borg drone
Physical Profile (height, build, weight, hair colour, eye colour, skin tone, etc.):
Abdel Hussain is of half-Pakistani, half-Egyptian descent, with brown skin and jet-black hair. He stands at a towering 6’7”, and is very muscular. As is typical of Borg drones, he is much stronger than the average member of his species due to his programming. Abdel has had all outward signs of his former identity removed, though he's chosen to keep some of his inner Borg machinery because he's found it beneficial over the years.
Birthplace: USS Oberon
Preferred rank: Lieutenant Commander
Department: Science (Head of Science)
Personality:
Because he was de-assimilated at a rather young age (eleven, being assimilated at age five) Abdel fits in very well in human culture when compared to other former drones, e.g. Seven of Nine. He is a definite extrovert (an ENFP on the Myers-Briggs scale), and is very good at making and keeping friends. He is fun-loving and as a young man, had a tendency for debauchery; both in high school and at Starfleet Academy, he got written up more than once for his carelessness. Over the years, he has learned to keep that tendency in check, and use his natural rebelliousness and independence only for productive purposes.
Abdel is also very intelligent and a fairly disciplined worker, though he can get distracted sometimes when working on subjects or tasks he does not enjoy. Though he is seen as fun and easy-going, he can get rather impatient with people who disappoint him, and can have a tendency toward bossiness. That being said, Abdel has a very strong sense of justice and fair play, and will more likely be too soft-hearted than too hard-headed.
He is still very bitter toward the Borg Collective, feeling that they robbed him of a good chunk of his childhood and the experience of “being a kid,” and his anger and resentment toward the Borg were part of his decision to enlist in Starfleet. He had a strong attachment to his parents and siblings, even though his mother, who while alive was a Starfleet Captain and later Admiral, was often absent. Abdel often felt homesick, both at DIS and Starfleet Academy, though he eventually got over it when he realized his desired career path meant he'd be spending a lot of time away from home. When he married at age 38, he was able to transfer those strong family bonds and nostalgia for childhood into being a caring father to his three kids and loving husband. He is extremely loyal in general, to family, friends, and Starfleet alike.
As for special talents, Abdel is very athletic, finding his special physical strength from being an ex-drone to be very helpful when it comes to sports (though he tries not to use it to his unfair advantage). He was captain of the soccer and basketball teams as a student at Starfleet Academy. He's lost some of his physical fitness as he's gotten older, but is still up for a game now and then, and tries to regularly exercise.
Background and History:
Abdel’s parents were then-Commander Reema Khan (of no relation to that other Khan), a native of Karachi, Pakistan and First Officer aboard the U.S.S. Oberon, and then-Ensign Ahmed Hussain, a native of Cairo, Egypt and working in the ship’s Security department. When they met, Reema was a 31-year-old science professor at Starfleet Academy, and Ahmed was a 22-year-old in his last year at the Academy. As two of the only devout Muslims in Starfleet (due to the fact that Earth had largely abandoned organized religion by the mid-24th century), Reema took to the young student and the two quickly formed a special bond, and thus when Reema was afforded the chance to be First Officer on the Oberon, she negotiated with its captain, Sorik, to get her protégé a position as an ensign in his department.
At this point, the two simply had a teacher-student relationship, but as they got to know each other better while living on the ship, they became closer and fell in love. With the approval of Captain Sorik, the two were married in the fifth year of the ship’s voyage, and soon after, Reema became pregnant. And thus, Abdel was born on the ship and became the only child aboard the Oberon. Eventually, Reema and Ahmed both felt that raising a young child was getting in the way of their ship duties, and decided to take a few years off to raise their son.
When Abdel was four, Sorik took command of a new ship, the U.S.S. Titania, headed for the Delta Quadrant. He urged Reema to re-join him as First Officer, feeling she was too talented to spend too much time to take any more time off. After he offered Ahmed, now a Lieutenant – who had continued more of his training at various Starfleet bases on Earth – a position as Security Officer, Reema agreed, and the family went back off into space.
The Titania ran into problems within its first year, needing a way to safely travel through Borg space. Though Captain Sorik had tried various ways of negotiating with the Borg, even as a logical Vulcan he repeatedly failed, and the crew had barely escaped assimilation many times. Finally, the Borg offered safe passage if the ship sacrificed one of its passengers to become a drone. Since Abdel was, once again, the only child on board, and the only non-crew member, Sorik reluctantly decided he would be the only person whom the small crew could afford to give to the Borg. However, Reema and Ahmed both refused, instead offering themselves as drones, but Sorik refused to lose his First Officer and Head of Security to the Borg Collective. Finally, he used the nerve-pinch on the parents and gave Abdel up to the drones, who assimilated the boy.
Both his parents were heartbroken, Reema going so far as to retire from the service as soon as the ship returned to the Alpha Quadrant, while Ahmed decided to take a position training new ensigns at a Starfleet station near Dubai. They eventually decided to have another child, and gave birth to twins Fatima and Yusuf in 2368. After a while, Starfleet began putting pressure on Reema to return to the service, offering her her own ship, and she eventually decided she needed to accept the loss of Abdel and became Captain Reema Khan of the U.S.S. Louisiana in 2370.
Meanwhile, Abdel was placed in a maturation chamber upon assimilation, in order to speed up his physical growth so he could become an adult drone as soon as possible. At age 11, he was removed, and assigned a job within the Borg Cube with the designation "Nine of Twelve."
A year later, a non-Federation planet in the Delta Quadrant sent out a distress signal to Starfleet. They were under attack from the Borg Collective, and needed help from the Federation to avoid assimilation. However, the species was reluctant to join the Federation, whom they saw as warmongerers; they wanted to keep to themselves and avoid contact with other species. So the Federation offered them assistance only if they were willing to use their technology to de-assimilate all captured drones of Federation species. The new species agreed. One of the drones designed to assist in the assimilation of the new species was Nine of Twelve. When Nine tried to assimilate one of their ships, he was outnumbered and de-assimilated. Nine was transferred to a Federation vessel when he turned out to be human, and the Medical officer discovered that he was Abdel Hussain, son of Reema Khan. Thus, Abdel was quickly transferred to the Louisiana, where he was reunited with his ecstatic mother. Though she was thrilled to be reunited with her son, she had him taken back to Earth to live with his father and his siblings, who were now three years old and did not even know they had an older brother. She did not want him to experience any more the dangers of deep space.
Abdel re-learned quickly how to be a human, and within a year was able to begin middle school at an international school in Dubai. He progressed quickly through the years, skipping the ninth grade, so that he was able to graduate at the normal age of 18. Though he made friends easily and thoroughly enjoyed his time at school, he secretly envied the rich childhoods his friends had enjoyed (and that Fatima and Yusuf were then enjoying) while he had been in the Delta Quadrant as a mindless drone. Abdel grew to be embarrassed of his Borg machinery, especially on the athletic field, where coaches of opposing teams frequently tried to get Abdel thrown off the field because simply having an ex-Borg (even one who tried his best not to use his special abilities when it came to sports) somehow gave his team an unfair advantage. As such, Abdel felt angry enough at his former captors that he decided that he needed to do something to make sure more people did not go through what he had. By the time Abdel reached his second-to-last year of high school, he was dead-set on applying to Starfleet. He wanted to play a role in defeating the Borg Collective, which had cast such a shadow over his young life, once and for all.
As a student at Starfleet Academy, he majored in exobiology and robotics, intending to become a Medical Officer specializing in de-assimilation of Borg drones. After graduating from the Academy, he moved on to Starfleet Medical Academy and got his M.D. in the normal two years. Abdel was then appointed to the USS Prospero, a ship that explored some of the remote regions of the Beta Quadrant, as an Ensign in the medical department. He enjoyed very much doing medical research, but hated his work as a medic, and was happy when the 2-year voyage of the Prospero was over and, by then a Lieutenant Junior Grade, he had the chance to serve aboard the USS Darwin, a ship headed for the Delta Quadrant, in particular to investigate the Borg. Eager to learn more about de-assimilation, Abdel applied for Assistant Chief Medical Officer and was accepted.
While on the Darwin, while narrowly escaping re-assimilation many times, Abdel got the chance to help perfect de-assimilation techniques, greatly improving the technology so that ex-drones could be de-assimilated and re-adjusted to Federation culture much faster than before. However, Abdel was again annoyed with having to be an ordinary doctor alongside his research duties, and decided that after the return of the Darwin, he would return to Starfleet Academy to re-train as a Science Officer specializing in biological sciences. By this point, Abdel was 30 years old and the year was 2090. Because he had taken the core curriculum before in his first time at the Academy, Abdel was able to graduate in only 2 years, rather than usual 3 or 4.
In the next eight years, Abdel served on three different vessels, all studying the Borg and various other species in the Delta Quadrant. Because he was a science officer rather than a medical officer, Abdel was able to focus solely on his Borg research. By 2498, Abdel had been promoted to Lieutenant, and became known as one of the expert scientists when it came to Borg biology, and was honored by Starfleet for having rescued so many people from the Collective with his research on de-assimilation, and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
From 2498 to 2508, Abdel decided to take time off to raise a family, moving back to Dubai. He married Milessa Dollix, a Betazoid woman who had served as a Security officer with Abdel on his last ship, and they had two sons and a daughter together. Eventually, though, Abdel began feeling the desire to return to space exploration and science research. Feeling he had exhausted his study of the Borg, he decided to explore a different frontier - the Gamma Quadrant - and applied to be Chief Science Officer of the USS Peregrin.
(Sorry it was so long!)
Name of Celebrity: Irrfan Khan
Avatar: i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt78/erda1990/irrfan-khan-in-apna-aasman.jpg
Sample Roleplay:
Abdel Hussain had only spent a decade with his family after spending nearly all his life traveling the galaxy, making a name for himself with his research on the Borg, and yet already he was feeling the itch to return to the stars. Dubai, the city that had seemed so infinite, so full of possibility, when he had lived there in his youth, just seemed so sleepy and dull now compared to the constant thrill or hurtling through the great unknown of space. Who wanted to live in a big established city, in the heart of civilization, when there was so much out there waiting to be explored?
His wife Milessa, who as a Betazoid had telepathic abilities, had even told Abdel that he was missing something out there in space. She suggested that he get on another research ship; even though she had a demanding job as a Security Officer training new recruits at a local Starfleet base, she insisted that she still had enough time to look after their young children. Abdel decided to take her advice and look for a new Starfleet posting.
But where would he go? That was the question. He felt he had exhausted the Delta Quadrant and Borg research. Abdel was pretty much the preeminent authority on Borg de-assimilation by now, wasn't he? So he knew that he would have to find a new place to explore, that was equally unknown. The obvious choice appeared to be the Gamma Quadrant.
So as soon as Abdel heard that the USS Peregrin, a ship headed for the Gamma Quadrant, was looking for a Chief Science Officer, he signed up. He couldn't wait to discover new species and worlds, and he loved being able to direct a team of other passionate, hard-working scientists just as eager to break new ground as he was. As much as Abdel loved his family, he knew what he really loved was research. He needed to get back to that.
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Race: Human/Former Borg drone
Physical Profile (height, build, weight, hair colour, eye colour, skin tone, etc.):
Abdel Hussain is of half-Pakistani, half-Egyptian descent, with brown skin and jet-black hair. He stands at a towering 6’7”, and is very muscular. As is typical of Borg drones, he is much stronger than the average member of his species due to his programming. Abdel has had all outward signs of his former identity removed, though he's chosen to keep some of his inner Borg machinery because he's found it beneficial over the years.
Birthplace: USS Oberon
Preferred rank: Lieutenant Commander
Department: Science (Head of Science)
Personality:
Because he was de-assimilated at a rather young age (eleven, being assimilated at age five) Abdel fits in very well in human culture when compared to other former drones, e.g. Seven of Nine. He is a definite extrovert (an ENFP on the Myers-Briggs scale), and is very good at making and keeping friends. He is fun-loving and as a young man, had a tendency for debauchery; both in high school and at Starfleet Academy, he got written up more than once for his carelessness. Over the years, he has learned to keep that tendency in check, and use his natural rebelliousness and independence only for productive purposes.
Abdel is also very intelligent and a fairly disciplined worker, though he can get distracted sometimes when working on subjects or tasks he does not enjoy. Though he is seen as fun and easy-going, he can get rather impatient with people who disappoint him, and can have a tendency toward bossiness. That being said, Abdel has a very strong sense of justice and fair play, and will more likely be too soft-hearted than too hard-headed.
He is still very bitter toward the Borg Collective, feeling that they robbed him of a good chunk of his childhood and the experience of “being a kid,” and his anger and resentment toward the Borg were part of his decision to enlist in Starfleet. He had a strong attachment to his parents and siblings, even though his mother, who while alive was a Starfleet Captain and later Admiral, was often absent. Abdel often felt homesick, both at DIS and Starfleet Academy, though he eventually got over it when he realized his desired career path meant he'd be spending a lot of time away from home. When he married at age 38, he was able to transfer those strong family bonds and nostalgia for childhood into being a caring father to his three kids and loving husband. He is extremely loyal in general, to family, friends, and Starfleet alike.
As for special talents, Abdel is very athletic, finding his special physical strength from being an ex-drone to be very helpful when it comes to sports (though he tries not to use it to his unfair advantage). He was captain of the soccer and basketball teams as a student at Starfleet Academy. He's lost some of his physical fitness as he's gotten older, but is still up for a game now and then, and tries to regularly exercise.
Background and History:
Abdel’s parents were then-Commander Reema Khan (of no relation to that other Khan), a native of Karachi, Pakistan and First Officer aboard the U.S.S. Oberon, and then-Ensign Ahmed Hussain, a native of Cairo, Egypt and working in the ship’s Security department. When they met, Reema was a 31-year-old science professor at Starfleet Academy, and Ahmed was a 22-year-old in his last year at the Academy. As two of the only devout Muslims in Starfleet (due to the fact that Earth had largely abandoned organized religion by the mid-24th century), Reema took to the young student and the two quickly formed a special bond, and thus when Reema was afforded the chance to be First Officer on the Oberon, she negotiated with its captain, Sorik, to get her protégé a position as an ensign in his department.
At this point, the two simply had a teacher-student relationship, but as they got to know each other better while living on the ship, they became closer and fell in love. With the approval of Captain Sorik, the two were married in the fifth year of the ship’s voyage, and soon after, Reema became pregnant. And thus, Abdel was born on the ship and became the only child aboard the Oberon. Eventually, Reema and Ahmed both felt that raising a young child was getting in the way of their ship duties, and decided to take a few years off to raise their son.
When Abdel was four, Sorik took command of a new ship, the U.S.S. Titania, headed for the Delta Quadrant. He urged Reema to re-join him as First Officer, feeling she was too talented to spend too much time to take any more time off. After he offered Ahmed, now a Lieutenant – who had continued more of his training at various Starfleet bases on Earth – a position as Security Officer, Reema agreed, and the family went back off into space.
The Titania ran into problems within its first year, needing a way to safely travel through Borg space. Though Captain Sorik had tried various ways of negotiating with the Borg, even as a logical Vulcan he repeatedly failed, and the crew had barely escaped assimilation many times. Finally, the Borg offered safe passage if the ship sacrificed one of its passengers to become a drone. Since Abdel was, once again, the only child on board, and the only non-crew member, Sorik reluctantly decided he would be the only person whom the small crew could afford to give to the Borg. However, Reema and Ahmed both refused, instead offering themselves as drones, but Sorik refused to lose his First Officer and Head of Security to the Borg Collective. Finally, he used the nerve-pinch on the parents and gave Abdel up to the drones, who assimilated the boy.
Both his parents were heartbroken, Reema going so far as to retire from the service as soon as the ship returned to the Alpha Quadrant, while Ahmed decided to take a position training new ensigns at a Starfleet station near Dubai. They eventually decided to have another child, and gave birth to twins Fatima and Yusuf in 2368. After a while, Starfleet began putting pressure on Reema to return to the service, offering her her own ship, and she eventually decided she needed to accept the loss of Abdel and became Captain Reema Khan of the U.S.S. Louisiana in 2370.
Meanwhile, Abdel was placed in a maturation chamber upon assimilation, in order to speed up his physical growth so he could become an adult drone as soon as possible. At age 11, he was removed, and assigned a job within the Borg Cube with the designation "Nine of Twelve."
A year later, a non-Federation planet in the Delta Quadrant sent out a distress signal to Starfleet. They were under attack from the Borg Collective, and needed help from the Federation to avoid assimilation. However, the species was reluctant to join the Federation, whom they saw as warmongerers; they wanted to keep to themselves and avoid contact with other species. So the Federation offered them assistance only if they were willing to use their technology to de-assimilate all captured drones of Federation species. The new species agreed. One of the drones designed to assist in the assimilation of the new species was Nine of Twelve. When Nine tried to assimilate one of their ships, he was outnumbered and de-assimilated. Nine was transferred to a Federation vessel when he turned out to be human, and the Medical officer discovered that he was Abdel Hussain, son of Reema Khan. Thus, Abdel was quickly transferred to the Louisiana, where he was reunited with his ecstatic mother. Though she was thrilled to be reunited with her son, she had him taken back to Earth to live with his father and his siblings, who were now three years old and did not even know they had an older brother. She did not want him to experience any more the dangers of deep space.
Abdel re-learned quickly how to be a human, and within a year was able to begin middle school at an international school in Dubai. He progressed quickly through the years, skipping the ninth grade, so that he was able to graduate at the normal age of 18. Though he made friends easily and thoroughly enjoyed his time at school, he secretly envied the rich childhoods his friends had enjoyed (and that Fatima and Yusuf were then enjoying) while he had been in the Delta Quadrant as a mindless drone. Abdel grew to be embarrassed of his Borg machinery, especially on the athletic field, where coaches of opposing teams frequently tried to get Abdel thrown off the field because simply having an ex-Borg (even one who tried his best not to use his special abilities when it came to sports) somehow gave his team an unfair advantage. As such, Abdel felt angry enough at his former captors that he decided that he needed to do something to make sure more people did not go through what he had. By the time Abdel reached his second-to-last year of high school, he was dead-set on applying to Starfleet. He wanted to play a role in defeating the Borg Collective, which had cast such a shadow over his young life, once and for all.
As a student at Starfleet Academy, he majored in exobiology and robotics, intending to become a Medical Officer specializing in de-assimilation of Borg drones. After graduating from the Academy, he moved on to Starfleet Medical Academy and got his M.D. in the normal two years. Abdel was then appointed to the USS Prospero, a ship that explored some of the remote regions of the Beta Quadrant, as an Ensign in the medical department. He enjoyed very much doing medical research, but hated his work as a medic, and was happy when the 2-year voyage of the Prospero was over and, by then a Lieutenant Junior Grade, he had the chance to serve aboard the USS Darwin, a ship headed for the Delta Quadrant, in particular to investigate the Borg. Eager to learn more about de-assimilation, Abdel applied for Assistant Chief Medical Officer and was accepted.
While on the Darwin, while narrowly escaping re-assimilation many times, Abdel got the chance to help perfect de-assimilation techniques, greatly improving the technology so that ex-drones could be de-assimilated and re-adjusted to Federation culture much faster than before. However, Abdel was again annoyed with having to be an ordinary doctor alongside his research duties, and decided that after the return of the Darwin, he would return to Starfleet Academy to re-train as a Science Officer specializing in biological sciences. By this point, Abdel was 30 years old and the year was 2090. Because he had taken the core curriculum before in his first time at the Academy, Abdel was able to graduate in only 2 years, rather than usual 3 or 4.
In the next eight years, Abdel served on three different vessels, all studying the Borg and various other species in the Delta Quadrant. Because he was a science officer rather than a medical officer, Abdel was able to focus solely on his Borg research. By 2498, Abdel had been promoted to Lieutenant, and became known as one of the expert scientists when it came to Borg biology, and was honored by Starfleet for having rescued so many people from the Collective with his research on de-assimilation, and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
From 2498 to 2508, Abdel decided to take time off to raise a family, moving back to Dubai. He married Milessa Dollix, a Betazoid woman who had served as a Security officer with Abdel on his last ship, and they had two sons and a daughter together. Eventually, though, Abdel began feeling the desire to return to space exploration and science research. Feeling he had exhausted his study of the Borg, he decided to explore a different frontier - the Gamma Quadrant - and applied to be Chief Science Officer of the USS Peregrin.
(Sorry it was so long!)
Name of Celebrity: Irrfan Khan
Avatar: i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt78/erda1990/irrfan-khan-in-apna-aasman.jpg
Sample Roleplay:
Abdel Hussain had only spent a decade with his family after spending nearly all his life traveling the galaxy, making a name for himself with his research on the Borg, and yet already he was feeling the itch to return to the stars. Dubai, the city that had seemed so infinite, so full of possibility, when he had lived there in his youth, just seemed so sleepy and dull now compared to the constant thrill or hurtling through the great unknown of space. Who wanted to live in a big established city, in the heart of civilization, when there was so much out there waiting to be explored?
His wife Milessa, who as a Betazoid had telepathic abilities, had even told Abdel that he was missing something out there in space. She suggested that he get on another research ship; even though she had a demanding job as a Security Officer training new recruits at a local Starfleet base, she insisted that she still had enough time to look after their young children. Abdel decided to take her advice and look for a new Starfleet posting.
But where would he go? That was the question. He felt he had exhausted the Delta Quadrant and Borg research. Abdel was pretty much the preeminent authority on Borg de-assimilation by now, wasn't he? So he knew that he would have to find a new place to explore, that was equally unknown. The obvious choice appeared to be the Gamma Quadrant.
So as soon as Abdel heard that the USS Peregrin, a ship headed for the Gamma Quadrant, was looking for a Chief Science Officer, he signed up. He couldn't wait to discover new species and worlds, and he loved being able to direct a team of other passionate, hard-working scientists just as eager to break new ground as he was. As much as Abdel loved his family, he knew what he really loved was research. He needed to get back to that.