Zan, Serran

PRC	STAR FLEET PERSONNEL COMMAND FILE  SECURITY RATING 3, CONFIDENTIAL

Serran Zan
Career Occupation
Position:	Chief of Security
Assignment:	USS Pegasus, CL-2500
Rank:	Lieutenant
Time on Site:
Biographical Attributes
Species:	Trill
Gender:	Female
Height:	173 cm (5 ft. 8 in.)	Weight:	66.2 kg (146 lb.)
Eye Color:	Emerald
Hair Color:	Blonde
Hairstyle:	Serran has long blonde hair often worn in a fringe and ponytail when on duty.
Physique:	Lithe, Toned
Complexion:	Honey coloured skin.
Voice:	A velvety drawl.
Affiliation:	United Federation of Planets
Birthplace:	A space boomer. Born on board her family freighter Tenaran, traveling between Sol and Vulcan.
Born:	18706.01	Age:	37
Familial Relationships
Father:	Jorant Reb
Mother:	Serra
Status of Parents:	Alive and well, running the family interstellar freight business.
Siblings:	Older brother Jarran, 6 years her elder
Marital Status:	Single
Children:	None

Personal History

Jorant Reb was a veteran enlisted Starfleet engineer. He served in Starfleet briefly until invalided out and back to civilian life. With a bio-synthetic leg and nowhere to go. He found he had inherited his father’s old freighter and decided to set up in business hauling freight himself. At first business was easy to come by; so many worlds needing supplies to rebuild after the wars, a decent living could be made out of the ashes for a man who worked hard. Jorant met Serra while delivering cargo back to the Trill homeworld and they soon married. Their first child was a boy; Jarran, and by the time their daughter Serran came along six years later they were well adjusted to family and business life intermixed as they made the cargo runs between the various systems of the Alpha and Beta Quadrant borders. Growing up on an interstellar freighter was not bad, but then the children didn’t know anything different. Even when they were small they were poles apart, Jarran the serious one, dark and moody, Serran always full of laughter and play. She could find fun on board the ship in the most unlikely places. (Reduced-g baseball was one of her favourite games she would play with her best friend Tara).

As the years went by relations between the major galactic powers became fractious once again and business for a freight captain became more dangerous by the day. This in turn became reflected in family life. Jarran and Serran were teenagers and very much poles apart when it came to opinion about life on board the freighter. Jorant and Serra wanted both children to take on roles within the business. Jarran wanted this too, dreaming of expanding and buying a fleet of ships pedalling cargo about the sector. Serran however was just not interested. She saw the stars through the viewport and knew there was more than just the trade routes to be travelled; if only her father would just set course to that unknown system or planet, or linger longer past that nebula.. there was so much more that she wanted to see and do than spend her life running cargo from A to B on a smelly old freighter ship.

Her destiny was to change in a completely unexpected way however.

Jorant Reb rarely took passengers as cargo, but this time he made an exception. The passengers paid well, and were some important ambassador or some such. He didn’t really care when the pay was that good. During the otherwise quiet journey the ship was attacked by three Klingon Birds of Prey. With only minimal firepower and an old veteran’s piloting skill, Jorant managed to get them away from the Klingon ships. Unfortunately, not all of the crew and passengers survived the attack. He was relieved to see that the ambassador was unharmed when he checked on their quarters, but sorry to see the ambassador’s companion had been killed. Damage to their quarters meant Jorant offered to move the ambassador somewhere new. It was on the way there, crossing another damaged part of the ship that a gantry gave way and the ambassador fell. Landing badly with twisted metal puncturing vital organs he was doomed. Save the symbiont, he begged. Jorant knew the importance, being Trill himself of course, but how could it be done? The freighter had only minimal medical facilities and their doctor held out no hope of even finding a suitable new host. He did run tests on every Trill on board however, and found there was just one person capable of receiving the symbiont. And so it was that Serran became Serran Zan, sixth host to the symbiont.

Ambassador Kirran Zan had been a respected representative of the Trill government for several years, and being the fifth host to Zan he carried with him the memories and experiences of their previous lives together. Now he passed those along with his own memories and experiences into young Serran. At 22 years old Serran suddenly found her life so very different from how she, or her family, expected it to go along. Now she had more thoughts, more ideas, more options. She wanted to travel, to leave and join Starfleet.

Jorant and Serra forebade their daughter leaving, but ultimately could not stop her. She applied to Starfleet Academy and was accepted. Her friend Tara, although a few years younger than Serran, had already left and was on Earth undergoing her training. Serran was delighted to be reunited with her friend as she arrived on Earth, moving into a house with Tara, and spending the longest time in her life on solid ground. For several months she found she missed space, and the adjustment to becoming Joined caught up with her too, but she was determined to do well in her studies. With Tara’s help she got through her first year at the Academy then hit the ground on year two running.

Serran always kept in touch with her family, still out there on the freighter, and hoped that one day her parents would understand that she had her own life to lead, that one day they would forgive her and accept her for what she wanted to be; out there exploring the stars.

Upon Graduation from Star Fleet Academy, Serran was assigned to the USS Ticonderoga, where she served as Helm Officer. She enjoyed piloting such a large starship, but quietly felt that the fun in piloting came from the small ships, the fast and maneuverable ones. Still, she found herself quite adept at not only piloting but in space combat tactics.

Ironically Serran was on Shore Leave during the fateful last flight of the Ticonderoga. Having disembarked at starbase for Leave, she took a shuttle out to meet with the flagship of her family's freighter fleet. She was catching up on family news when she got word that the Tico needed her crew immediately for an urgent mission. She was just too far away to get back in time.

With the USS Ticonderoga destroyed, Zan found herself without a starship to pilot... with so much competition in the Tactical department she decided to cast her net wider. It was that or give in to the pressure to rejoin the family business and pilot freighter ships for the rest of her life. The prospect of that was just too much to bear. As she'd taken a Minor in Starship Security while at Star Fleet Academy she added that to the options in her applications for a post. Star Fleet were certainly recruiting more Security officers in the wake of the recent conflict, and with her being 'halfway there' they would be able to fast track her through the training rather than starting someone off fresh. So Serran returned to the Academy to complete training to full Security Officer level. Putting in applications for starships she found that a position was possible on the USS Pegasus, which featured other members of the Tico crew also, but unfortunately she would have to take a demotion from Lieutenant Junior Grade back to Midshipman. As there were no fancy starships begging for her piloting skills Serran decided to make the move and take demotion. She would still be able to fly for fun as a past time, on the holodeck perhaps...

Gaining an assignment to the USS Pegasus, Serran found her feet in her new career as a Security Officer. Their mission seemed pretty routine; to escort a diplomat to a negotiation. A common enough task. This mission led the Pegasus close to the Neutral Zone, and when a strange signal was picked up, the ship was drawn into the Zone to investigate. They found an old Star Fleet vessel trapped in the grip of a subspace anomaly. Going to the rescue of a fellow Star Fleet ship was infinitely more exciting than the escort duties bodyguarding a Vulcan diplomat might be. The subspace rift began to make its presence felt among the crew, affecting the telepathic crew members with headaches first. As the ship drew closer to the rift and to the USS Gryphon the effect widened. An Away Team was put together to beam onto the Gryphon, and Zan was thrilled to be part of that team. The Gryphon was an Ambassador Class starship, some 50 years out of date and unheard of in those 50 years. The Away Team didn't know what to expect when they arrived on the relic. Zan revelled in the nostalgia of setting foot on a class of starship remembered from when Rikka was the host of Zan, and piloted shuttles on and off those ships. Familiarity was a big help, Serran found, as she led the way around the empty decks.

The team split into two, and Serran accompanied the group up onto the Bridge. Everyone experienced visions, for want of a better word, or perhaps... ghosts... of the old crew. Were they dead? Alive? One encounter on the Bridge had Zan feeling that they were very much alive but trapped in time by some effect of the rift. Attempts to free the Gryphon from the rift proved fruitless unfortunately, as the rift ramped up the psychological trauma experienced by the Away Team and crew on the Pegasus. Zan managed to get herself and an engineer down to the auxillary shuttle bay and start up one of the old shuttles. Rikka Zan's memories were what got her and that shuttle out of the bay and the Away Team back to the Pegasus. Headaches and visions plagued her and the rest of the team, visions of people she knew, her parents, slipping away from her... Back on the ship, the First Officer, Commander Gregg, felt the only solution was to send the Gryphon all the way into the rift and seal the whole thing up. This done, the Pegasus could finally continue her mission. Everything went smoothly with that thankfully, but Serran kept on feeling that she was seeing images from her past, echoes of the nightmare on the USS Gryphon.

After just one mission on the USS Pegasus, Serran was transferred once again. She found herself assigned, along with many other of her Pegasus crewmates, to the USS Dauntless. She felt thrilled to be heading to such an illustrious ship and hoped to learn more about her chosen career in a larger Security department. As the ship set out for a routine patrol, Serran was promoted back up to the rank of Ensign, and began a new set of duties among a new crew once again. Maybe this time she would stick around long enough to get to know some of her crewmates better? Some had been on the same ships as her going back to the Tico, but she didn't know anyone outside of duty shifts. It just proved to her that one could be among a crowd, but still be alone. Serran needed to learn to open up a little, make new friends.

Symbiont History

Kirran Zan Federation Ambassador. He spent his entire life in the Diplomatic Corps. Married with one son. Age at Joining 22, age at death 46.

Rikka Zan Shuttle pilot serving in Starfleet. She was unmarried, age 21 at Joining, 32 upon death. She died when the cargo shuttle she was piloting was targeted by Orion Syndicate. They left her for dead and stole the cargo.

Tallen Zan A survivor of the Dominion War, Tallen never actually left the Trill homeworld in his entire life. He was a farmer and content with remaining on his homeworld growing good real food to feed those without fancy food replicators etcetera. He had a loving wife and five children, two girls and three boys, who were around his bed when he died, age 86. (Joined age 22)

Girran Zan A trader, Girran gave Zan it’s first experience of interstellar travel. He built up a successful business trading with neighbouring systems, until a spaceborne virus took hold and forced him to return to Trill. His eldest son took over the business when Girran’s health began to fail, and the family name still runs the business to this day. Girran was 24 when he was Joined, and 52 when he died.

Seletha Zan First Host to Zan, Seletha. Joined age 22, died age 68. Seletha was involved with Trill politics. Groomed for Joining from an early age she was ambitious and charismatic. She could have held First Office if her career had not been cut short by scandal. She became a writer and died alone in her house beside the sea.

Personality Profile

Academy Major(s): Tactical Studies; including the topics tactics, astronavigation, piloting, etc.
Academy Minor(s): Starship Security, Medical Studies
Hobbies and Pastimes: Fascination with retro Terran culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Active sports in holodeck and gymnasium, retro computer game playing.
Short-Term Goals: To pilot a starship, big or small, the faster the better.
Long-Term Goals: Starship captain.
Personality: Independent, outgoing, and fun-loving, thrill seeking, mercurial in thought always on the move.
Sense of Humor: Quirky, enjoys laughter
Phobias: Soteriophobia - fear of dependence on others.
Likes: Punctuality, honesty, reliability. For a space boomer she enjoys as much time planetside as possible, outdoors in the sunshine.
Dislikes: Dishonesty, intolerance, hatred.
Pet Peeves or Gripes: Boastful people, people who whine.
Bad Habits or Vices: Untidy Quarters
Achievements: Learned to pilot the freighter she grew up on at the age of seven.
Disappointments: Not graduating top of class at the Academy. Not living up to parent’s expectations.
Illnesses: Various sport related broken bones.
Strengths: Sports, Martial Arts, good pilot, driving at unsafe velocities
Weaknesses: Mechanics, Engineering
Fears: Never being able to live up to parental expectations
Prejudices: Finds it difficult to get along with Vulcans, cannot understand their lack of fun!
Off Duty Clothing Tastes: Strong colours, comfortable sports wear
Distinguishing Features: Trill spots, light brown in colour against her suntanned skin.
Pets: Had a pet targ while growing up on the freighter
Friends: Tara Roberts, a human whose family lived and worked aboard the freighter, grew up together with Serran and both left to join Starfleet. Tara is assigned to a starship and keeps in touch via subspace.
Referrer: Artemis Quinn

Personal Paradigm Shifts

Most Painful Experience: Growing up knowing that she could not live the life that her parents wanted her to was difficult, painful at times. She knew that she could not stay on board the freighter all of her life, had to get off ship and go her own way, any way. Everything she did seemed to be wrong, her parents criticised her every move it seemed, and she could never please them. She was just not the daughter that they wanted her to be, loyal to the family tradition and business. However much she knew she had to go however, leaving the ship to join Starfleet was the most painful experience, more than any physical injury, heart breaking.
Best Time: Being accepted into Starfleet Academy. Living on Earth, on solid ground for the first time in her life. Getting a ‘sun tan’. Having a chance to drive a replica Terran automobile known as a ‘trans am’ while on vacation from the Academy, such a thrill.
Most Crucial Experience: Becoming Joined to the Zan symbiont. It was unexpected, an accident injured a rare passenger on a freight voyage, the host to Zan died and Serran was the only suitable recipient among the whole crew. The two beings proved a perfect match, both physiologically and psychologically. Serran’s love of an active life combined with Zan’s experience of the stars to create a new whole, a new person with a new passion and desire to travel the galaxy and pilot starships. That accident changed her destiny.
Role Model: Famous Trill in Starfleet, particularly starship captains.

Career History

Position	Assignment	Date(s)	Event
Cadet	Star Fleet Academy	20902.01 – 21302.28	Star Fleet Academy Graduate Ribbon
Tactical Officer	USS Ticonderoga, CA-1471	21302.28	Midshipman
Tactical Officer	USS Ticonderoga, CA-1471	21306.01	Role Player of the Month
Tactical Officer	USS Ticonderoga, CA-1471	21306.01 – 21311.01	Ensign
Tactical Officer	USS Ticonderoga, CA-1471	21311.01	Lieutenant Junior Grade
Security Officer	USS Pegasus, CL-2500	21509.15	Midshipman
Security Officer	USS Dauntless, CA-1553	21602.01	Transferred to USS Dauntless, CA-1553, 2nd Fleet
Security Officer	USS Dauntless, CA-1553	21602.01	Role Player of the Month
Security Officer	USS Dauntless, CA-1553	21602.03	Ensign
Security Officer	USS Dauntless, CA-1553	21603.01	Role Player of the Month
Security Officer	USS Dauntless, CA-1553	21608.22	Lieutenant Junior Grade
Chief of Security	USS Dauntless, CA-1553	21608.22	Promoted
Security Officer	USS Dauntless, CA-1553	21609.01	Role Player of the Month
Security Officer	USS Dauntless, CA-1553	21610.01	Role Player of the Month
Chief of Security	USS Pegasus, CL-2500	21612.01	Transferred to USS Pegasus, CL-2500, 2nd Fleet
Chief of Security	USS Pegasus, CL-2500	21612.01	Lieutenant
Chief of Security	USS Pegasus, CL-2500	21612.01	Star Fleet Distinguished Service Globe

Medals Tally:

Service Medals Awarded
Image	Description	Qty.
	Star Fleet Academy Graduate Ribbon	1
	Star Fleet Distinguished Service Globe	1
Achievement Medals Awarded
Image	Description	Qty.
	Role Player of the Month	5

Contact Information

E-Mail: wildtrek001@hotmail.co.uk

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