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Raised in an Alaskan tribal family of advocates, lawyers, rangers, and lawmen, Yaga was drawn to be a peacemaker, and both his arctic and sports conditioning had set him up physically to excel in those classes that favored security. He also had strong personal skills and a natural way with people that put folks at ease. By the end of his second year of the Academy , he had decided on Security as his major, favoring the Legal Advocate track to a Law Degree due to his pre-law junior college, and Planetary Xenobiology as his minor. The Elders and Melanie were supportive of the choices. He was a familiar fixture in a dozen Academy student study groups over the years, both as learner and tutor.

Yaga’s field study semester was in the Starfleet J.A.G. offices, initially at Falls Church, then on Earth’s Spacedock. It consisted mostly of cataloging wills and probate estates of crew lost to the Borg Megasphere, working with the Administrative Services support team under Rear Admiral Benjamin Barnett. Yaga’s team fed communiques and updated info to the main teams traveling out in the Federation, bringing the formal honors or bad news, and returning assets, to next of kin on various distant planets. Here he first encountered Lieutenant Peter Jensen, a security officer on the Starbase recovering from the Megasphere battle. Their discussions over the realities of Security in Starfleet were instrumental in Yaga’s plans and understanding.

An Astronomy The Engineering 233 class in his junior sophomore year seemed to resonate with him strongly enough . After his discussions with Lt. Jensen and the other survivors of the Megasphere battle, he chose to pursue it further, with . Melanie and the Tribal Elders agreeing agreed with his decision. With hard work that cut deeply into his extra-curricular sports, Yaga managed to add a second minor in Astronomy in Communications by his senior year. The Elders felt Yaga studied Inuit to learn who he was, Law to understand where he had been, Xenobiology for where he was, heavily influenced by his Administrative Protocol and Astronomy to understand where he was goingProcedure classes.

|Majors=Security (LawDegree)|Minors=Astronomy, Planetary Xenobiology Starfleet Communications |Hobbies=As a Native American ‘naturalist’ Yaga is on an Inuksuk pilgrimage spiritual study & exercises (oral lessons, making things in traditional ways, philosophizing on Inuit narratives), . Yaga plays the Piano (at a talented with an , entertaining skill level). A fan of sports, Hoverball Yaga plays hover ball in quarters/off-duty, and velocity, racquetball, skiing, kayaking, and skeet, working through nature holoprograms.