Nilani Prax


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Lieutenant Commander Nilani Prax, born Nilani Jorran, is a joined Trill, and the seventh host of the Prax symbiont from 2385 to the present day. She is a Federation Starfleet science officer serving aboard Starbase 332 under the command of Rear Admiral Alexander Gunning.

Before being joined with the Prax symbiont, Nilani was a very reserved individual, preferring to spend her time studying and working so hard to prove herself first in Starfleet, and second to the Symbiosis Commission. Since joining with the Prax symbiont however, Nilani has become much more confident with herself, and is very out-going.

Nilani is very driven with her objectives, and often tends to think outside of the box. Drawing on the experience of her prior hosts, she has the ability to be helpful in solving most problems, regardless of the subject area.

However, as Nilani is a fairly recent host, she has not yet gone through zhian'tara, and occasionally struggles to accept that she has the memories and experiences of six other people inside her.

Early Life and Career

She was born in 2361 on the Trill homeworld to parents Martath and Juliana Jorran, and was a late bloomer as far as beauty was concerned. Flat chested and freckled until her late teens, she had never been a popular choice for the boys around her growing up. This, coupled with her overwhelming desire to become joined, led to her to quite often keeping to herself, preferring to study or find other ways of bettering herself until the day when she could apply to the Symbiosis Commission for joining.

During her school years, Nilani became intensely interested with the sciences; fascinated with the reasons behind why and how the universe worked the way it did. When she joined [Starfleet Academy]] at the age of 18 in 2378, she gained high distinction degrees in Exobiology, Exoarchaeology, Astrophysics and Molecular Biology, and became known as an excellent all-round scientist. She applied to the Symbiosis Commission immediately upon graduating from the Academy, but in the intervening time whilst she awaited word on whether her application would be progressed into the initiate stage, she was posted to serve aboard the USS Victory as a junior science officer out past the Northern territories of the Federation. 2384, two years after she had been assigned to the Victory, she was notified of her acceptance by the Symbiosis Commission, and had a leave of absence approved from Starfleet in order to travel back home to Trill and being her training as an initiate, in order to prepare her to receive a symbiont with all its memories and experiences, in addition to receiving an evaluation on whether she was fit to become joined by her field docent.

Nilani was joined with the Prax symbiont just over a year later in 2385, and immediately did away with the shy, reserved nature of her life before the joining. The experiences of the previous six hosts which were now a permanent part of her memories buoyed her up, giving her a new self confidence. She became very socially outgoing, she explained her desires immediately after joining as wanting to grab life by the horns and run with it. The Commission's medical staff remarked that she had taken to the joining remarkably well, becoming so resilient and alert almost as soon as the joining was complete.

As soon as she was deemed healthy enough to leave the medical ward in the Commission facilities, Nilani Prax decided to return to her career in Starfleet, with a new sense of belief in what the organisation had stood for thanks to the experiences of Torin and Omar.

USS Jackal and Starbase 332

In 2386, a 25 year old Nilani was assigned to duty aboard the Defiant-class starship USS Jackal, under the command of Alexander Gunning, an officer who Omar Prax had taken a professional interest to whilst serving aboard the Farragut, and who Nilani felt instantly familiar with. Before long, Gunning was reassigned, along with the entire crew of the Jackal to Starbase 332, an important Starfleet outpost in the Archanis sector, near the newly re-emergent Ritorian Confederacy. As she took up the post of station's chief science officer with a promotion to lieutenant to signify the new, more senior role, she took to settling into the station with relative ease, thankful for the large promenade full of entertainment to enjoy in her off hours.

Nilani was part of the crew on board the USS Thaden - a garrison vessel assigned to the starbase - sent out on a border patrol. Nilani had specifically requested the duty rather than take a shore leave in order to study the Tyyan Expanse, a stellar phenomenon which appeared only so many times a century. Whilst investigating the anomaly, the crew were pulled back in time to 2291, where they were unable to prevent themselves assisting the USS Excelsior in evicting the Ritorians from their occupation of Archa IV.

Upon return to the Station, Alex informed her that he was promoting her to the rank of lieutenant commander, and in addition to her science duties, he was placing her in command of the station's newest assigned vessel, the Nova-class USS Metis.

Personal Interests

Nilani's ambition since childhood was to become a host for a Trill symbiont. Now that her childhood ambition has been achieved, however, Nilani doesn't quite know where she wants to go in life - in truth, she still doesn't always know whether her wants and desires are her own, or a previous host's.

Nilani has picked up playing the saxophone from a previous host, Torin, who became a fan of the instrument whilst hiding on Earth. She also enjoys painting and Japanese martial arts, and can often be found in a holodeck simulation with either of these activities when one is available.

Languages

Federation Basic, Japanese, Klingon, Romulan, Vulcan, Italian

Family

Father: Martath Jorran
Mother: Juliana Jorran
Children: None with current host
The hosts of Prax
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