Joseph Tarental

[WarAndPeace]

Joseph (Joe) Tarental is a darkskinned, dark eyed, 30something human male. He graduated seminary and then decided to try and do somehing useful with his life and failed, so he went back to Starfleet and retrained as a security officer. That said, as he prefers talking over shooting, he was soon given the cold shoulder, and sent to The Thing. He wasn't too happy with this. There might have been a demotion involved.

Name: Joseph Tarental
Age: 32
Eyes: brown
skin: brown
hair: black
height: 2.01 meters
weight: 105 kg
race: human

rank: Ensign
Department: Security
Languages: English

Mother: Edna Tarental, aged 57
Father: Joseph Tarental Sr, Aged 54
Sister: Landra Tarental, aged 35

Joe grew up on various freighters and outposts, travelling with the family as his mother spent her time pastoring to anyone who needed it. They lived day by day, the daily structure of living supported by whatever labours his father tried his hand at. His sister left the family unit the day she turned 18 and rarely sent home messages since

Joe himself had an unruly and violent streak as a child, a streak that got beaten out of him (he says) with a wooden spoon when his mother found out. That was not the way his family was supposed to act and after several such incidents, that is the way he no longer acted. Even if it did mean a quick move when he was 12 after being expelled for beating up a bully.

It took several more years for Joe to settle in, initially following a calling to go to seminary, while earning a scholarship for his boxing talents. He graduated and found himself soon following in his mothers footsteps, and unable to settle down anywhere. After a while he realised nobody was listening and though he could see the beauty and the wonder of the universe, he couldn't open everyone elses eyes to it.

Wanting to do more with his life but having no idea what to do he radically changed his life and applied to Starfleet, graduating with excellent marksmanship and hand to hand skills, and a poor idea of protocol.

Apparently negotiating with the enemy was not considered a good idea when the Enemy was firing on you. Even less so when they were intent on taking over and the rest of security thougth you were not pulling your weight. And when it happened several times? Well that got to be a problem.

One demotion later following the last incident, Joe was shipped off to his new home...