Sai'tan

[Nevian]

Character name: Sai'tan.
Player: Kendall
Gender: Male
Race: Vulcan
Age: 200
Appearance: 1.8 m tall with a slim build and faintly lined face around calm brown eyes. His hair is greying at the
temples.

Brief profile.
Highly intelligent ( I'd like to say bordering on genius in many areas but that's just presumptuous) .
Engineering and software mastery.
Highly skilled in hand to hand and staff-stick defensive combat, trained to neutralize and submit rather than kill (at his level of training, killing is a conscious decision ).
One wife, deceased. No children

Character description summary:

A 200 year old engineering and computer senior science professor having been an instructor at Star Fleet Academy for the past 80 years who has taken, under orders, a field sabbatical of indeterminate duration as Chief Engineer of Star Base 42, accepting rank as lieutenant out of concession to Starfleet Command and respecting the need for rank as required for the position.

He had no made no objection to these orders, understanding the reasoning and having long ago accepted that his preference for academic duties would take second place to requests from command for his participation on researching the applications of new technologies discovered by the exploration service. Altho this assignment at Midway Station as support for the scientific studies of a sector wide subspace disruption has aroused a higher degree of interest than usual.

His qualifications are impeccable, with a list of doctorates that would intimidate less focused individuals and a range of practical engineering and programing experiences that would give merit to the rumors of Starfleet engineers who could build a warp core from a copper spoon and a few rocks.

His personal interests in expert systems and artificial intelligence projects have been no secret, several of his doctorates have been built around the foundations of sentient systems.
He had found Cmdr. Data to be a superb example of software engineering, having copied the architecture of the android's brain for personal study.

Service Record.
100 years ago he had 20 years of assignments on Vulcan and Starfleet vessels in several engineering departments ( exemplary reviews ) before requesting assignment to Starfleet Academy as an instructor.
Over the last 80 years he's had combined 14 years away from his classes where either the Vulcan Science Academy or Starfleet Command has requested his participation in research projects ( security clearance required to read those files ).

[Nevian]

I think I'll have him called Dr. Sai'tan, since there's quite a few doctorates already around.

IC:
Aboard the USS Allen, an Oberth class on loan from the Engineer Corps, in a moderately comfortable senior officer quarters.
Smaller quarters would have been satisfactory but protocol stated his rank rated larger accommodations, he had politely declined a rating as personal assistant and had gotten to work reviewing Starbase 42's schematics and station logs.

An old style standard station of obsolete design, built in place with from local materials cycled through large industrial sized replicators.. tritainium keel and duranium lattice foam composites for bulkheads, all arranged about a central command and utility core giving the whole an appearance of a squat upside down waste receptacle on a spindle with outlaying flattened pods serving as cargo warehouse.

The shutdown hadn't been a clean or anything approaching a mothballing effort, the last crew had simply pulled the plug on the reactor core and evacuated at a painful 1.2 warp to the rear support group during the Dominion's attack on Sector zero zero.
Since that time, scavengers had been at the facility like large vermin, taking hull plates from outer bulkhead leave the whole station open to vacuum, the computer core rudely cut out.. the list of requirements to make the station minimally habitable had went on for pages.

His initial review had been marginally above building a new station. The main super structure was still in place and as there was no power, any of the supports could be tractored and probably fused in place, or simply recycled and rebuilt.

[Sjet]

"We can't all be called doctor! This is a sickbay, here that word means something!"

Who knows Friends would end up on the final frontier?