Dr Santra Arron

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Name Santra Arron (Surname, Given Name)
Gender Male
Species Bajoran
Age 62

Physical Appearance

Height: 5'4"
Weight: 102lbs
Hair Color: Brown, though streaked silver at the temples
Eye Color: Brown
Physical Description: Looks the very image of the elderly country doctor, ready to mend a broken limb as quickly as preform a minor surgery. His left ear is missing, leaving behind a scar that has gone unhealed since it was attained at the end of the Cardassin Occupation of Bajor.

Family

Spouse Santra Lida (Deceased)
Children Santra Hilma (Deceased/Stillborn)
Father Unknown
Mother Unknown
Brother(s) None
Sister(s) None
Other Family None


General Overview

Santra Arron is something of a dirty secret within Starfleet. After all he is, according to the census data of the planet Bajor a dead man executed for crimes against the Bajorian people at the end of the Occupation. The exact knowledge of those crimes is not listed, though a large number of Bajorans were sentenced to similar punishments at the cessation of hostilities under the umbrella term of 'collaboration with the enemy'. So how a dead man came to be working for Starfleet Medical, with a specialisation in viral pathology, is something of a mystery.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Arron's biggest strength, and by far his greatest weakness, is his ambitious nature. He is always right, even when wrong, either ignoring or bending facts to meet his own predefined notions. The troubling fact that, 9 times out of 10 he's right, has not stopped him from making colossal mistakes that have cost him dearly. His successes have on the other hand saved countless lives, both civilian and Starfleet, and so his karmic balance is in neutral in the eyes of Starfleet Command.

Ambition

To make right all pasts deeds before he is called to account for past discretions: it is a life long journey he assures has no end.

Hobbies & Interests

Botany and the violin. The first he enjoys because it was the pass time of his departed wife, an avid botanist in her own right before the Cardassian occupation. It is, in his mind, a way of being closer to her than the current state of the universe allows. As for the violin, an instrument he has spent many years practising, he enjoys playing it because it makes the wailing of a dying cat sound pleasant. "After all they took my ear, they might as well know something of my pain as payment."

Languages

Ancient Bajoran (Both written and spoken) Modern Bajoran, Federation Standard, and Cardassin (Both formal and informal dialects)


Personal History

Born to a time before Cardassin rule, Santra Arron is perhaps one of a few serving Starfleet Officers who can recall a time when the Bajoran identity was not mired in the blood of lost innocence. Trained as a doctor, with a particular interest in germ medicine, he served as a regional healer for the Dakraar province. It was whilst treating an outbreak of Bajoran influenza that he meet Folmik Lida, a young woman who would shape most of his life and one day become his wife. For many years the young doctor and botanist were happy, if only in a bitter-sweet fashion: for whilst one could heal and the sick, and the other could make the flowers bloom in all their glory, neither could conceive a child. An all to common genetic deformity in the reproductive cells of the body led to a trio of miscarriages, and a single still birth: it was after the birth of their daughter Hima, who had never breathed a day in her life, that the pair decided to promote life through their work and not themselves. Arron strove to prove that genetic engineering would not only remove the faulty genetic sequence that caused a 1 in 3 infante mortality rate, but also lead to new branches of medicine for all of Bajor. The Vedek Council, the religious leaders of Bajor, brutally came down upon any such tampering with 'The blood of the Prophets'.

He was fined, threatened, beaten and imprisoned on his quest to cure the genetic defect that would not allow his family to flower. On the night of his triumph the Vedek council came for him and his wife, burning his notes and home in a final pious act. It was the night Arron swore a blood retribution on them all. It was also, as coincidence had it, the same night strange lights appeared in the sky and rained fire down on them all.

The Prophets, if they existed, had sent the Cardassin Occupation to answer Arron's enraged demand.

As a doctor Arron was quickly ear marked as a 'skilled labourer', which had both the profound good fortune of eliminating him for selection for the work camps so he might tend the sick, but also in the heart rending act of separating him from his wife. The Cardassin's had little use for botanists in their brave new world, and Lida vanished into the work camps never to be seen again until it was all to late. To keep the good doctor in line the Cardassin's head of medical and scientific investigation on Bajor, a Dr Mosset, took the somewhat gifted man under his wing. He did not preach the political babble of the Gul's, or even support the occupation as a whole: instead Dr Mosset professed only the want to aid the Bajorans.

"How many children die each year because of limited vaccinations, or infection by easily treatable or curable aliments? Even simple prenatal genetic screening is more science fiction than science fact on your world Dr Santra. On Cardassia it is a standard and mundane tool in a doctor arsenal. Should we compare infant mortality rates for our two worlds huum? Or should we instead, as two men of medical means, provide for the future of our two species? I want your help Dr Santra, but your people need yours more than I."

With that Santra Arron became the assistant to Dr Mosset, a monster who would later be remembered by history as a sadist who experimented on prisoners and entire work camps with biological weapons and genetically tailored virus. It is ensure if Arron knew of these experiments, or after years of working with Mosset he had come to see the loss of life as a needed expenditure of resources towards his own goal of curing his people of all ills.

In the end it didn't matter. The Occupation ended, Bajor was freed and old scores were settled. His left ear was carved away by the courts, kangaroo style affairs hastily put into place before Federation observes could stop their rightful revenge. With that one single swipe of a blade Santra was marked for all his life as a traitor to the Bajoran people, as it was the left ear from which the traditional religious fetish wear of an ear ring chain was hung. He spent four days awaiting his execution on Bajor trying to finish the work he had started so long ago, trying to cure the genetic deformity that had caused his still born daughters death...

On the final day before he was to be hung he had a visitor, a strange smoothed nosed fellow from the stars, who changed everything. Starfleet was as quick to grab up the brain trust of Bajor as any of the other interstellar powers in the Quadrant: after all the enemy of my enemy knows the biological finger prints of the next bio weapon the Breen come up with. He was given lab assistants, equipment, the nearly bottomless coffers of Starfleet's blackest budget and told to go mad.

He did so quietly, to make sure the funds kept rolling in. From his work arose chemical formula's that could have turned Ketracel White's PH levels into a blood based acid concoction. Cures of viruses were created in lock step with deadlier versions of mundane illnesses teased into rabid frenzies by his genius. By the tailing end of the Dominion War it was quite apparent that Santra, if anyone ever found out exactly what he had done for Starfleet, would become a political super nova. But he was also the golden goose, and a virus that turns muscle cells into bone might be just the very thing you need when the Borg invade.

And so he was prompted out of the lab, and into the command of a small out of the way out post: a break in case of emergency style arrangement.


Service Record

Prior Education-Redacted
Academy Training-Redacted
Starfleet Medical, Earth
Starbase Point Of No Return, Triton, Neptune- Position (No Record Found)
Starbase Hell Froze Over, Andoria- Position (No Record Found)
USS Aladdin - Position (No Record Found)
USS Sunfire D - Position (No Record Found)
Starbase 42 - Position of Captain, Station Administrator.

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