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{{Biography

|Retired=Yes

|Name=Thike Ch'ezhyrraq

|Image=Thike_Chezhyrraq.jpg

|Species=Andorian

|Gender=Fertile Male

|Height=188 cm

|Assignment=USS Gettysburg, CA-1863

|Rank=Lieutenant

|Department=Tactical

|Build=Lean / Broad

|History=Mere weeks after Thike was born, his father, who was an Engineer, was transferred to an old outpost on the edge of Federation space near the Cardassian border where he and his mother followed. The old station was handed over to the Federation after the end of the Dominion war as it was in Federation space at the time, and Thike spent the first 6 years of his life there, exploring the ins and outs of life on a space station.

On Thike’s first day of school at age 6, his mother walked him to class. Sad to see her only son growing up so fast, she cried the whole way to the school room. He was so embarrassed by her that when they got close he ran off ahead, excited for the new adventure, not knowing this was going to be the last time he would ever see her. Moments before morning recess the station lit up in red alert. It was so loud he ran out of class, tripping over his slower classmates and ducking through a nearby access hatch into, unknown to him, an escape pod. An Orion boy about his age, and a Klingon girl a few years younger, had beat him here so they all hid in silence, everybody too scared to make the first sound.

For what seemed like an eternity to the three kids, the Dominion destruction of the station was swift and efficient, later to be classified as a non essential location, leaving no other known survivors. Before they knew what was going on they were ejected into space drifting amongst the debris where they floated for six days, surviving on dry bland Starfleet emergency rations, before being picked up by a [[Ferengi]] salvage ship. Upon getting beamed onto the ship, the captain's wife, Danera, fell in love with the three young children. After checking with the nearest Federation outpost, and finding the kids had no living relatives able to take them, Danera was eager to adopt the kids.

Thike quickly took an interest in personal combat, where he found a worthy adversary in his sister’s best friend Karith McKallon, as well as ship weaponry, both modern and ancient for various races, most notably the Ferengi, Klingon, Terrans, and the Andorians.

With his biological father being an Engineer, and his foster father’s ongoing struggle of trying to keep his ship running, at age 18, Thike decided to enter the Academy to become an engineer. Over the next couple years, he struggled to keep his grades afloat. It's not that he couldn't do it, or that he wasn't smart enough to, he was just bored and couldn’t be bothered to give it his all. To avoid failing out of the Academy, he took a leave of absence to find his motivation again. He took on some work on an Bajoran cargo vessel. Nothing in particular, just whatever they would pay him for.

After getting into some near misses, and close calls, he found his love for Security and Tactical, which shouldn’t have been all that surprising to him considering his hobbies growing up! He re-entered the Academy to get a double major in Security and Tactical. He hopes one day to lead his own ship, and team of trained personnel on special op’s mission to help the Federation deal with the less pleasant side of “diplomacy”, or better yet, head up Starfleet Intelligence.

|Majors=Modern Personal weaponry (projectile, energy, and fixed) specialization, Ship mounted weapons