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The problem Zephyr's sister Elysium was of a medical inclination and had been bringing Zephyr to work with her for some time when school wasnot in session. Zephyr wasn't always eager, while she knew preferred her plants and such she knew nothing of healingbut Ely showed Zeph that there were things in medicine that even a plant could fix. So it wasnOne didn't long before always have to use chemicals and other artificial products, she had to only think outside the arm was aching box and hot. When remember the pain got to be too much tools that she was forced had to go work with. Zephyr went to her mother for helpgarden and pulled out some leaves of a plant that had antiseptic properties and treated her own arm hoping to save herself from punishment. The entire story was told It did not work though, and of she later learned that the plant while helpful could not combat the bacteria she had gotten into it washing it in open water. Of course Zephyr was healed but grounded from , when she finally came clean, the burning and itch told her explorations for a full monththat she had an infection, she found herself in trouble. Left with a nasty scar on her arm because she refused She was banned from going to tell the truth ahead of time to get her arm healed immediatelyforest for a while.
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{{Biography
|Affiliation=United Federation of Planets
|Character Type=PCPRC|Retired=Yes
|Name=Zephyr Coral Praise
|Image=Praise1PraiseZ01.jpg|Image2=Praise2PraiseZ02.jpg|Rank=LieutenantCommander|Position=Science Medical Officer
|Position2=
|Assignment=USS AvengerPegasus, CACL-15002500|Species=BetazoidHuman|Species2=HumanBetazoid
|Sperc1=1/2
|Sperc2=1/2
|Gender=Female
|Age=2630
|Height={{feet|5|10}}
|Weight={{lbs|135}}
|Build=Lean Built and muscular, heavily toned with smooth skin and lithe. A little bit of muscle definition in her arms and legs. Flat stomach, slender shoulders.
|Complexion=Pale regardless of sunlight. Burns easily when exposed to sunlight too long. Rosy cheeks that flare up easily into blushes at times.
|Hair Color=Soft Darker brown with slight natural highlights.|Hair Style=Long Short hair that falls all , brushing the way down to tops of her midwaist. She styles it in various ways. Down shoulders, sometimes but when she's at work it's often in a messy bun or a pony tail so that it's out of her waywavy, most times straight.
|Facial=None
|Eye Color=A lovely hazel green color. Brown inner ring around the pupil fading into green as it goes towards the outside.
|Voice=Light and lilting, often described as melodic. Laughter is much the same. She is usually warm and inviting unless she is completely engrossed in workbut confident and can be considered hard at times.
|Taste=Most of the time she prefers to be comfortable. Pants, denim usually. Sweaters, tshirts, and a few accessories when she is able to dress down. Comfortable shoes and often fun colors in varying ranges of the spectrum.
|Features=A small set of tattoos on the back left nape of her neck. One for each area of expertise she finished in school. One long pink scar running up her left arm from a freak accident when she was a child. Large purple floral tattoo on her left shoulder that her best friend Jenny drew for her and she had it put on her body after a large life style change.
|Mother=Apreeza Praise (Full Betazoid)
|Father=Griffin Praise (Human)
|Parents=Married. Having retired from the USS Houston, Apreeza now lives with and her husband aboard a StarShip have retired to Betazed, where he works as a Engineer. They they live together on the SS Houston where he is the Chief Engineer with the rank of Lieutenanttheir two eldest daughters.|Pets=Orion: Artemis, a beautiful black owl. She nursed it back to health when she was younger three tailed Betazed fox, and they have been side by side since then. She also has Imzadi a bonsai tree named Mikikogift from her ex, an owl.|Friends=Orion is really her best friend, Jennifer Braggins and the answer to the question when asked. For those that find animals not worthy of the best friend status, she would go with her childhood best friend Salla a full betazoid neighbor on her home planet.Acenvar Crystillin
|History=
Zephyr Praise was born as the youngest daughter to her father Griffin and her mother Apreeza Praise. Her parents had met while her father was on a mission on Betazed and soon became enamored with one another. Her mother had been going through her Phase and believed that Griffin was the man for her. Thus, they had gotten together. Apreeza visited him frequently when she could on his ship and when he had leaves he would spend them on the planet. It wasn't long before a more permanent relationship was made, they got married.
It was this that ended up with her getting the large scar that goes up her left forearm. She was out exploring the cliffy outcropping that wasn't too far from the school where she was supposed to be. A flower that she had never seen before caught her eye. Climbing up to a height that she had not reached before she reached up for the flower. Right hand holding her body up. Feet planted in the side of the cliff. Her foot slipped as she hoisted herself up the last few inches to grab the flower that against all odds bloomed by itself on the cliff top. Just as her fingers snapped closed on one of the petals she fell the cliff biting harshly into her arm as she fell. Zephyr knew that getting caught would mean the end of her explorations. Cleaning the wound as best as she could with her under shirt she wrapped it up and stole herself home to bandage it up.
After that, to avoid such further agonizing punishments Zephyr reapplied herself to school. Finding if she did it just right she could put a natural spin on just about any subject. Making school far more interesting for her. During the afternoons, since she was not allowed in the forest any longer she would follow Ely to work and she began to learn the medical world around her. Learning not only how to apply plants to medicine but how to fix a lot of the minor wounds and injuries and how if she could not fix them how to triage them temporarily until someone with more knowledge could step in. Zephyr missed plants but she found that she loved medicine as well, she found that she loved helping and being with the people and found that passions came in many shapes and forms. She knew that one day she would love to take her love for Botany and her joy for helping people and put them together into one profession.
Once, she was allowed back in the forest, she began to split her time with her walks in the forest and working at the hospital with her sister. Both of them had become special to her. On one of her many trecks outdoors she had found a tiny baby owl with a broken wing and a bleeding leg laying and crying in the shadow of a large tall tree. Even though she had never truly been interested in animals like some of her other family members, she had found that she could not let him cry and lay in pain. Carrying him home she asked Zephyr quickly created a splint out of some wood and used the fabric of her sister Elysium shirt to help hertie it around the little owl. She had never let another soul touch set a bone she would need Ely's help and so she ran home with the bird after owl tucked against her chest and rushed to her sister . Ely and she Zephyr worked together to make sure that he was on keep the way little owl calm and get him back to mendinghealth. Feeding They got the little owl by hand while it bone set and wrapped him in gauze. Zephyr fed him from her hands until his wing was recovering the two bonded and when it came time better. When she went to go let the little black owl him go, back out into the wilderness.. it wild he refused to go. budge and Zephyr ended up naming it Orion and the two have been insperable sincewith a pet.
It was when she was thirteen that she started working on entering the Betazoid Science Convention. All children and teens could enter. Those that were still in school and so eagerly she threw herself into work and came up with something she thought was amazing. A hybrid plant. The hybridiation of an apple tree and a bonsai tree. Turning out to be a fruit bearing tree that needed little water and was built to sustain itself in harsher temperatures. Turning it in and excited.. expecting a win she was devestated with third place. Three years she tried and failed to win. After that she was no longer in school and unable to compete. She doesn't like to talk about her second and third place awards. They are not something she is all that proud of.
After her failures she knew what she wanted to do. StarFleet. It was the only answer. She would be known. She would find a way to be the best Botanist out there. Throwing her passion into the Starfleet was her next life goal. Make a name for herself. Be someone's mentor.
===USS Intrepid, CA-1708===
After graduation, Zephyr was assigned to the USS Intrepid. She dove into her work quickly. It was lonely being so far away from everyone she cared about especially Ethan. The boyfriend she had met in the Academy. She spent her time on the Intrepid at the end of the Krynar war. Her own ship was boarded and in her efforts to seek out the enemy she ended up succumbing to a mental attack by the Krynar. Afterwards, Zephyr knew that if the opportunity came she would leave Intrepid to be closer to Ethan.
===USS Avenger, CA-1500=== She didn't have to wait long before she heard wind of a position open on the USS Avenger. The very same ship where Ethan was stationed as an Engineer. She sent in her transfer paperwork and was quickly accepted into their Science Department underneath the Head Science Officer, Tucker. She and Tucker became somewhat friends as Zephyr settled into her new surroundings. Of course, her first day on the Bridge a comment that she made ended up with a gun pointed in her face. One Jennifer Braggins was apparently pissed off and was dealing with a recent loss of a ship she had served on. However, somehow Zephyr and Jenny ended up turning what could have been a life long feud turned into a friendship. The two began to spend more time together and found that despite being polar opposites they fit well together. A best friendship was born. Jenny and Zephyr are nearly inseparable always looking out for each other and teaching each other the things they are well versed in. It wasn't long before Zephyr was put on an away team on the Avenger and sent planet side. Jenny was her commanding officer and the crew consisted of other friends that she had met on the ship. The whole thing was a bust. Zephyr worked so hard to collect her samples and try desperately to find answers that just weren't there. Dejected the crew returned to the ship and found a new being. Zephyr became the communications liaison between this so called 'Wanderer' and the rest of the crew. In the end, a understanding couldn't be reached and the Avenger attacked the Wanderer in efforts to save the crew. Before he left, once more Zephyr underwent a painful mental attack. All ready emotionally and mentally spent Zephyr's mind shut down slightly and she is working with the doctor to open herself back up again. The Wanderer left behind a gift for Zephyr allowing her to actually speak into a mind that was open to her. Allowing her use the telepathic parts of her mind usually closed off to her because of the neural pathways opened by the Wanderer. Ethan took Zephyr on a cruise to Tabila Minor and ended up proposing to her. Of course she said yes and they spent the rest of the cruise with her and his families. The Gettysburg next mission, after the Avenger was destroyed, she was sent down on a training mission. She was in the midst of it when she fell and was knocked out. Zephyr was given the opportunity to transfer to the USS Dauntless and took it. She left messages behind for Tyra and Jenny knowing they wouldn't understand and that they would think she was betraying them but it was just a move. She wished to find herself, to stand alone it was a move to rocket her into herself. She hoped it would be a good one. ===USS Dauntless CA-1553=== She got onto the Dauntless and was given the Chief Science officer position. She found Crystillin, an old friend, had transferred as well at some point and they were off on a mission. The mission was a crazy time warp adventure and when they finished, Zephyr was shaken. Deaths always took their toll on her but this one had been shocking and unexpected. She and Crystillin bonded over some heavy drinking and mind melding allowing them to bond mentally and be able to communicate without speaking to one another. Which was before the Botanical Garden incident which was a massive accident. Her co-worker Nator 159 a Hermat, had gone psychotic and lost his mind. Attacking a Vulcan worker and killing him out right. She dealt with an angry plant beast, a crazed Hermat, a angry Romulan, and still managed to get them all out to safety. Afterwards, she felt alone and really felt that she needed Ethan to be there for her. But, he was not able. Having been transferred to an unknown location. She felt alone, and abandoned. Asking for time to heal her wounds, Ethan left without any correspondence. She called her old Captain and friend Tyra who helped her find the will to reinvent herself. She added a tattoo and a three tailed fox named Ember. The Dauntless crew was shifted to the Pegasus and the next mission began. |Majors=Biology, Botany, and BiochemistryBiology|Minors=Ecology, Enthobotany, Exobiology, TerraformingEmergency Medicine
|Hobbies=Studying. Often times you will find the girl that hungers for knowledge reading and devouring everything she can on any subject that is not yet well versed in. Most often however, something that has to do with plants and the lives of them.
When she's having a problem that she cannot work out you will often find her running. On a track, on the holodeck, anywhere that she can clear her mind and let her brain work out things while she keeps her body busy.
|Event=Role Player of the Month
|Department=Science
}}
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|Location={{USS|Avenger|CA|1500}}
|Assignment=Science Officer
|Stardate=21501.01
|StardateEnd=
|Event=Krynar War Campaign Medal
|Department=Science
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|Location=[[USS Avenger, CA-1500]]
|Assignment=Science Officer
|Stardate=21503.01
|Event=Role Player of the Month
|Department=Science
}}
{{CHLine
|Location=[[USS Avenger, CA-1500]]
|Assignment=Science Officer
|Stardate=21511.01
|Event=Star Fleet Commendation Medal
|Department=Science
}}
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|Location=[[USS Pegasus, CL-2500]]
|Assignment=Chief Science Officer
|Stardate=21603.29
|Event=Transferred to [[USS Pegasus, CL-2500|USS ''Pegasus'', CL-2500]], [[2nd Fleet]]
|Department=Science
}}
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|Location=[[USS Pegasus, CL-2500]]
|Assignment=Chief Science Officer
|Stardate=21612.01
|Event=Diamond Star
|Department=Science
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|Location=[[USS Pegasus, CL-2500]]
|Assignment=Chief Science Officer
|Stardate=21612.01
|Event=Role Player of the Month
|Department=Science
}}
{{CHLine
|Location=[[USS Pegasus, CL-2500]]
|Assignment=Chief Science Officer
|Stardate=21612.01
|StardateEnd=
|Event=Lieutenant Commander
|Department=Science
}}
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|Location=[[USS Pegasus, CL-2500]]
|Assignment=Chief Science Officer
|Stardate=21612.01
|StardateEnd=
|Event=Command School Graduate Ribbon
|Department=Science
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|Location=[[USS Pegasus, CL-2500]]
|Assignment=Medical Officer
|Stardate=21702.01
|StardateEnd=
|Event=Transferred
|Department=Medical
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