Star Trek

Name: Donatra Isha

Nickname/Alias: Kiki (Only by her father)

Age: 24

Species: Human-Romulan hybrid

Gender: Female

Homeship: Savena

Physical Description



Height: 5'7"

Weight: 138 lbs

Eye color: Hazel

Hair color: Dark brown

Hair style: Short, not quite cropped (as pictured)

Facial hair: N/A

Skin color: Very lightly tanned

Build: Medium build, very athletically maintained

Distinguishing features: Beyond being a half-breed, her hands and wrists are slightly discolored darker than the rest of her body and she's got a cybernetic left middle finger.

Apparel: Operations (yellow) Federation uniform; non-skirted variety.

Weaponry: Phaser pistol, Type 3 phaser rifle, Stun grenades

Equipment: Comm. badge, scanner, and any mission-specific equipment


Personal information

Faction: United Federation of Planets

Rank: Lieutenant Junior Grade

Position/profession: Chief Security Officer

Skills/training: Very early mechanical experience and aptitude for working on Romulan ships (particularly weapons and shields), general maintenance and repair knowledge, formal Federation combat training and a natural aptitude for it, standard Federation leadership training, and a particular aptitude for hand-to-hand combat.

Orientation: Heterosexual

Racial attributes: Her natural strength is greater than that of a human, though not quite to the equivalent level of a Romulan or Vulcan (though her fitness training may have put her up pretty close to the average).

Personality: Isha is, as one would expect, a very passionate and intense woman, fairly quick to speak her thoughts and about as subtle as a boot to the teeth. She's not without restraint of course and remains respectful to most people (especially superiors), but she's definitely the sort to use the term "With all due respect" in place of "Kiss my ass." On the positive side of this, she doesn't have a deceptive bone in her body and will usually acknowledge any failings on her part and expects similar honesty in return. She's very ambitious and hopes to climb the ranks towards being the CO of a ship, though her thoughts of going by this are to "Do my job and do it well" rather than the stereotypical Romulan underhanded methods. While she tends not to make long-term attachments to crews, she's very protective and loyal to them while present. For those who need an ear, she's willing to listen, though she readily admits that she's not the best at giving any sort of personal advice. She also has a very irreverent sense of humor and tends to be perhaps a little insensitive about such things, though the fact that she also makes fun of her home culture is a good tell that she very rarely means anything by it. While she thoroughly enjoys sparring and is reasonably comfortable with her job as security chief, she tends to spend an anomalous amount of time with engineers.

History: Donatra Isha had a rather peculiar upbringing, raised aboard the Romulan science vessel Savena. Her mother, Donatra S'anra was the head engineer of the vessel and her father, Michael Hartmann, was a human Federation engineer who was part of a trade between the RSE and the Federation. Even before her father was forced to leave she spent most of her time around machinery, occasionally being her parents' little helper once she was old enough to understand the distinction between a wrench and a hand torch. Her parents weren't married by any stretch of the imagination, in fact she never got the impression that they were in love, but they both cared about their daughter and didn't seem to have any discord between them (or at least while Isha was around), so the situation didn't impact her much. When she was six, her father's contract with the Romulans expired and he was sent back to the Federation, with a great deal of crying from little Isha. Thankfully, he kept in touch, regularly sending messages to her (and receiving his fair share in return), and her mother still took good care of her, or at least as much as she could and still do her job.

There weren't any other children on the Savena; while it wasn't a military ship most of the people aboard were one half of a couple (with the other half groundside), single, or old enough that any children they might have had were already adults. Furthermore, when she went planetside Romulan children were cruel to her for being a half-breed, and so she almost exclusively interacted with the adult crew of her ship, and as such had no choice but to grow up in a hurry and learn fast in order to keep up. To her, the Savena was her hometown, and while some crewmembers came and went, it was what was familiar to her. Space was all she ever really knew. The science ship itself generally had a wide mixture of projects it tended to, though generally they were much less to do with the infinite vastness of space and more involving developing new starship equipment. This varied fairly widely, but usually they were working on weapons, shields, and sensors. The Donatra's and the engineers weren't responsible for the research, but rather in putting together anything that was developed and performing repairs to any systems damaged in the tests. Mostly the damage done was to the experimental device or power systems, as their weapon targets were mostly derelict ships or craft slated for decommissioning. In this time, Isha came to a pretty solid understanding of the general workings of Romulan weaponry, nothing deep but she at least comprehended the systems' workings. While some people might have felt confined doing nothing but tests in their childhood, she found a certain mysticism in watching things come together and seeing how they worked out. Plus... she had something of a fear of people outside of her ship's population.

However, when she was eleven her home came to a fiery end when a weapon test went horribly wrong and snapped the Savena in two. Fortunately, a bird of prey, the Vishou, was on-hand to provide a swift rescue, but even then a large portion of the crew perished in the blast. S'anra had been overseeing the weapon herself when it went critical. While utterly heart-broken, when asked if she had any other family she was coherent enough to mention her father in the Federation. For a few months she was left in an odd state of limbo, temporarily stashed in an orphanage (where her memories of groundside torment were continued) while the Romulan bureaucrats took their sweet time deciding whether or not to help the girl get back to her remaining family. Eventually they caved and she was sent on the Vishou (by sheer coincidence) to live with her father on the Ambassador-class cruiser, USS Hanno. It was a bittersweet reunion, but in time she mostly recovered from the loss of her mother, and she quickly found that life on the Federation ship with her father, while a wild departure from life in the Star Empire, rather pleasant. The people had a far deeper sense of camaraderie, the few children on the ship were FAR nicer to her than the Romulan kids, her father was a warm and loving person, she got to see far more of the galaxy and was able to go ashore a little more often (with far less disastrous results), and on top of that she found herself rather enjoying herself around the ship's CO. Captain Askade K'tarr was a hybrid like her, albeit Klingon-human in this case, and while that wasn't what forged their friendship Isha found a nice bit of poetic meaning to it. K'tarr didn't have the time to fully take the girl under her wing, but occasionally she would help teach her self-defense, training her martial arts, and in the meantime teaching her to harden up and live with a sense of honor. She took her time with the captain to heart, and while she loved her father dearly, it would be her time with Askade which helped her decide the heading of her life.

When she was sixteen, Hanno was called on an exploration mission and those with children aboard the ship were transferred elsewhere. Her father decided that it was high time that his daughter lived on the ground, or at least near it, so wound up working at the Earth shipyards. While a peaceful and generally pleasant time during her life, Isha found herself oddly irritable during this time period, finding extreme difficulty in sleeping and, even at university or when with her then-boyfriend, was just generally very restless. It wasn't until she took a long-distance flight to Germany with her father, during which she almost instantly fell asleep, that she realized that the reason she had been so agitated was because she wasn't on a ship. She needed to hear the hum of the engines, feel the ship creaking of the ship around her, know that there were always people moving in her space. She was meant to be on a ship. Between that, her parents' influence, and her idolization of Captain K'tarr, there was only one career that she could have taken: Starfleet. She worked her ass off at the academy, getting high marks throughout with a strong indication that she had a promising future in the fleet, even going into Operations like her father. The odd thing was that she was in Operations not for the sake of engineering (though she definitely scored well there) but rather because she scored remarkably high in the personal combat tests, second in her class. After a celebration of her success with her father and friends, she was off to her first posting, a little Norway-class escort ship, the Xi'an. It was a fairly hectic posting, as the ship was constantly sprinting to and fro protecting important delegates and, with the Klingon war happening, occasionally getting stuck in second-line duty. Not long into her career, the ship was boarded; it was the first time she had ever been forced to shoot someone. While she was a little shaken afterwards, when they did a boarding action themselves about a month later Isha found herself much more capable and, when her commander was shot, she successfully reorganized their forces and held long enough for a second ship to assist their action. After that things got quiet for the Xi'an, though they occasionally had minor combat jobs which she helped participate in, but otherwise she just helped run the security team like a good lower officer. Then, rather suddenly and without any clear prompting, she was promoted and transferred to another ship where she would serve as its security chief. She was a little surprised by the event, though very much excited for it, as it meant that she was finally moving up in the world, that she was making her first step towards getting a command of her own and... wait a second... that's a science vessel.

Well, on the bright side, it's familiar territory.