Post by Deleted on May 2, 2017 18:23:46 GMT -8
Character's Name: Hesperus
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Race: Zaldan
Date of birth: 2389
Birthplace: USS Late Spring during an expedition in The Arucanis Arm
Year of Academy Graduation: 2410 (fresh out of the academy)
Talon, DS10, or RTF? Talon
Preferred rank: Ensign
Department (If DS10, why are they there? If Cadet, what specialty?): Science - Botany
Are you new to the forum? If no, list one of your other characters: Yes, I am new to the forum.
How did you find us? I was looking for a solid, but different Star Trek RP after spending some time a long time ago on Star Trek Megiddo, another solid Star Trek.
Physical Profile
Height: 5’7’’
Weight: 130Lbs
hair Color: Brown (shoulder length)
Eye Color: Blue
Human Appearance: Appears that of Western European descent
Alien Features: Prominent webbing between fingers
Build: Trim, and athletic, rather long, tone legs.
Personality: Despite the temperance of Starfleet, the Zaldan choleric character is present in Hesperus, but buried beneath route discipline. Hesperus comes across curt, matter-of-fact, and honest. Despite being a touch prickly from time to time, she is rather social, and open to any kind of conversation. While she may choose to speak little in dialogues, she is a devoted listener willing to give feedback at the proper times.
At her best, she is steady, bold, and patient as a Saint. At her worst, she is callous, cynical and harshly blunt.
Background and History: Born during an expedition into the Arucanis Arm aboard the USS Late Spring, Hesperus was named after the Captain of the ship, Captain Owen Hesperus. Her parents both Zaldans, and Starfleet Security Officers, her fate seemed sealed.
Aptitude decided fate though. As Hesperus grew up, her first six years being on the Late Spring, and the following eleven on her homeworld with her grand parents, Hesperus showed a growing predisposition to flora. Starfleet Academy was always a given in her family, but why she entered was a first. Hesperus turned heads and perplexed plenty when she started pruning plants and growing specimens in pots.
Between the discipline of being on a Starship in her early life, and growing into an adult on her homeworld, Hesperus struggled initially at the academy on a social level, finding it difficult to connect with others through the veils of sensitivity, courtesy, shallow praise and politeness that simply weren’t part of the cultural structure of her people. An at first hostile encounter with an overly eager to please Benzite (and fellow cadet) would lead to a deep friendship with him, and an eventual understanding of social norms that she was able to integrate on a personal level with success.
While she might look strained or even bemused sometimes at pleasantries, she holds up well, dispensing them as good as the Benzite friend that illustrated them to her.
Four years at the academy saw Hesperus wearing the blue and black duty uniform of a Starfleet Science officer upon graduation, her major focus in botany. While Hesperus wanted to serve out her first duty on the Late Spring, the old Ambassador Class Starship was decommissioned a mere two days before her graduation.
She applied for duty aboard the USS Talon, and was accepted.
In a rather amusing aside, when Hesperus was being brought to DS10 aboard the USS Flagstaff, the Flagstaff encountered a strange crisis where a virus started crippling the crew. Hesperus aided the chief science officer in discovering that the “virus” was actually self replicating spores from one of the plant experiments on board. The reason why the environmental systems seemed to not be helping was that the spores had settled into the crews’ uniforms and would proliferate, then jump to other clothing.
Working with the Transporter chief, Hesperus and the chief science officer formulated a plan that involved an en-mass transportation lock on replicated fabric, and effectively beamed everyone’s clothes into space, then cycled the environmental systems and when they determined they were spore free, began replicating clothing for everyone.
If this wasn’t already amusing enough, when they reached DS10 to transfer Hesperus over, not all of the transporter sequences had been reset. Hesperus materialized on DS10's transporter pad stark naked, and immensely annoyed to say the least.
She has had no problems making friends, and some contribute her “unique” arrival on the station to that, the whole incident being referred to as one of the best introductions ever; it is said that-
“If you want to get to know Ensign Hesperus, ask her about the first time she came on board DS10; you will not be disappointed.”
Name of Celebrity: Olivia Tennet
Sample Roleplay: Ensign Hesperus hosted the “science field trip” in the Talon’s science lab, naturally. This meant she was to answer questions when questions were directed to her. Which meant she was largely working around children who looked hopelessly bored at random plants in containers that she tended to while one of the Talon’s civilian teachers lectured about the lab’s facilities, not the work that was actually conducted therein, certainly not the work that she conducted presently. Things looked droll until...
“I hate this!”
Little Kate Mulligan.
In an era of Warp Drives, Holodecks, and few mysteries left in the Alpha Quadrant, Kate Mulligan was a Godsend. Her high pitched voice colored by frustrated intonation broke the boring. Another teacher reprimanded Kate as Hesperus stopped worrying over a plant with her Tricorder and approached wordlessly.
“Katie! Ms. Hesperus grew these plants, and put them on display for us; you’ll hurt her feelings saying such things!”
Hesperus cut between the teacher and Kate with a barely there “excuse me, please”, preventing any further reprimand. Getting down on one knee, the Zaldan Botanist was at eye level with Kate. Hesperus focused all her attention on this wonderfully honest child’s face.
“And what do you hate about botany, Ms. Mulligan?”
Kate stammered.
“I-I’m sorry Ms. Hes-”
Hesperus interjected quickly.
“Don’t apologize. Tell me what you hate about botany, please.”
Kate looked down at her feet.
“Plants are dumb!”
Hesperus nodded.
“They are, in a rather literal sense, dumb, yes. But what do you hate about them?”
Looking at a tomato plant in a small, transparent container full of soil, the child huffed. She pointed a finger at it that seemed rather accusatory despite coming from a six year old Human child’s hand.
“We don’t need them anymore, Ms. Hesperus!”
“Why is that, Ms. Mulligan?”
“We have replicators now; why grow plants at all if we don’t eat them?”
This child was a gift. Looking passed Kate, Hesperus called the attention of the class away from the teacher droning on about the labs humidity controls.
“Excuse me, Mr. Channing, may I interrupt? Listen up, everyone! Ms. Mulligan made an excellent observation just now. Ms. Mulligan, repeat what you asked me, please.”
When Kate had done so, Hesperus let it hang in the air for a moment.
“Anyone care to answer her question?”
Silence persisted from the children as the teachers looked on perplexed at Hesperus’ interruption. Hesperus turned her gaze back to Kate and motioned for the rest of the class to gather close before she indicated the simple tomato plant with a point of her webbed finger.
“A plant, its various stages of development as it grows, and necessities upon which it needs to thrive, helps us understand the environment from which it came from. This is one of the simplest practices in Botany. Ms. Mulligan, even if we don’t eat plants, growing plants tells us...”
Kate interrupted Hesperus suddenly, the spark of realization in her eyes.
“Tells us about how life is on the planet it comes from!”
Hesperus smiled. With a nod, and the children now paying attention, she indicated the tomato plant again, and continued.
“Precisely. This tomato plant was grown in soil taken from Ferenginar, which is quite interesting because...”
She finally had a question directed at her. Hesperus cherished it enough not to let it go away quickly.