Lieutenant Junior Grade Talin Nira
Name Talin Nira
Position Assistant Chief Engineering Officer
Rank Lieutenant Junior Grade
Character Information
| PNPC BY | (Eilfaren) | |
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Bajoran | |
| Age | 25 |
Starfleet Indentification
Physical Appearance
Family
| Father | Talin, Taren | |
| Mother | Talin, Jaysa | |
| Brother(s) | Talin, Deran (Older Brother, born 2368) | |
| Sister(s) | Talin, Lysa (Older Sister, born 2370) |
Personality & Traits
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: – Resourceful: Growing up in a society recovering from occupation taught her to be creative with limited resources. – Independent-minded: While she respects the chain of command, she doesn’t hesitate to speak up when she sees a better solution. – Proudly Bajoran: Her cultural identity is important to her, and she often wears her d’ja pagh earring as a symbol of faith and heritage. – Resilient: Having grown up with stories of the Occupation, she has a quiet but steely determination not to let anything—be it a Dominion threat or a malfunctioning plasma manifold—stand in her way. Weaknesses – Sometimes too direct with her superiors, leading to tension. – Carries lingering resentment toward Cardassians (though she’s working to move past it). – Can become obsessive when troubleshooting engineering problems, neglecting sleep and self-care. |
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| Ambitions | – To design or oversee the construction of a new class of starship. – To prove that Bajorans can be as technologically adept as any other Federation species. – To find a way to balance her Starfleet duties with her faith and cultural traditions. |
| Personal History | Nira was born in 2373 on Bajor, in the final months of the Dominion War, a time of both liberation and reconstruction. Her parents were survivors of the Occupation: her mother, Jaysa Talin, had fought in the resistance, while her father, Taren Talin, was a skilled artisan who rebuilt communities from the rubble left behind. Nira was the youngest of three children. Her older brother, Deran Talin (born 2368), inherited their mother’s fierce independence and served in the Bajoran Militia during the transitional years before the Federation fully integrated Bajor. Her older sister, Lysa Talin (born 2370), found her calling as a healer, training as a field medic and later joining a Federation humanitarian mission to Cardassian space. From an early age, Nira absorbed the quiet pain of her people: neighbours with haunted eyes, whispered stories of forced labour camps, and the collective grief of a world healing from decades of oppression. Yet in those same streets, she also witnessed extraordinary resilience, her mother comforting the bereaved, her father offering shelter to those in need, and strangers sharing meagre rations with one another. That environment moulded her into a resourceful problem-solver with a deep well of empathy. She became the friend everyone confided in, the listener who would share a smile or lend a hand. But when her own insecurities crept in, when she doubted her worth or felt the weight of her family’s history, she would slip away into the night, alone under the stars, or bury herself in tinkering with old equipment. At 18, driven by a desire to help her people rise above the scars of the past, she entered Starfleet Academy. She specialised in engineering, drawn to the challenges of starship systems and inspired by the potential to build bridges between worlds. She graduated in 2395, proud but still quietly battling the feeling that she had to prove herself worthy. Her first posting was aboard the USS Sunspot, a Saber-class starship patrolling the Federation-Cardassian border in 2396. It was there that her compassion, and her deep-seated resentment toward Cardassians, collided in a way that would define her. Responding to a distress call from a Bajoran freighter under attack near the Cardassian border, the Sunspot arrived to find chaos: the freighter adrift, Cardassian raiders stripping it of cargo, and terrified Bajoran survivors trapped inside. When the order came to secure evidence and await Starfleet Intelligence, Nira saw the pain of her people in the freighter’s wreckage, families huddled in the dark, engineers working desperately to save others, children who reminded her of her younger self. Overwhelmed by rage at the deliberate sabotage inflicted by the Cardassians, so reminiscent of the stories her mother had told, Nira defied orders and led a risky mission to stabilize the freighter’s warp core and rescue survivors. Her quick thinking and technical brilliance saved dozens of lives. But her insubordination put her team at risk, and when the dust settled, her commanding officer, while praising her heroism, filed a disciplinary note in her record for wilful insubordination and unauthorized deviation from mission orders. Though she was proud of the lives she’d saved, the experience deepened her guarded nature and sharpened her distrust of bureaucratic authority. She retreated further into her work, finding solace in the hum of warp coils and the logic of isolinear circuits. She was known among her crewmates as a brilliant engineer and a quiet confidante, always ready to help troubleshoot a problem or lend an ear. Yet she rarely shared her own pain, preferring to carry her burdens in silence. Now 25, serving aboard a new assignment, Nira Talin is both a hero and a cautionary tale, respected for her ingenuity and dedication, yet marked by her defiance. She wears her d’ja pagh earring as a symbol of her faith and heritage, determined to honour her people’s resilience while forging her own path through the stars. |
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| Service Record | Starfleet Academy USS Sunspot |