Nailah
Caitian Female

Place of Origin: Cait

She has mocha-colored body fur, yellow eyes, and a blond mane she often wears in braids. She wars the “skirted” Starfleet uniform. She stands 5’4” (163 cm), but has a stocky frame from years of physically demanding hobbies. She speaks with a richly textured mezzo soprano voice.

Nailah’s laid-back demeanor hides an acute attention to detail and a sharp mathematical mind; people who are not used to her may think she does not take things seriously enough. She has a love of water sports like surfing and sailing. She is fairly superstitious, and holds a special fascination with mythology and folklore.

Nailah grew up in the tropical wetlands of Caitian, “back woodsy” or “bogan” by Caitian standards, and fears that people will not take her seriously if they know about this. She’s very self conscious of her natural accent, which slips out when she is surprised or angered.

Although Nailah specializes in Stellar Cartography, she enjoys reading about newly discovered life forms and extinct fauna that inspired a culture’s mythology. Cryptids are also a guilty pleasure of hers.

Nailah was born on the USS Harbin. When she was three, her parents took tenured teaching positions with a cultural studies school in the Caitian city of Aemo’ikazoa. She spent much of her childhood camping, surfing, and sailing, and learned traditional techniques for oceanic navigation that did not require technology. She also also enjoying tactical shooter hologames and entered multiple tournaments as a late teen. Being the daughter of an exobiologies and an archeologist, she was naturally drawn to the sciences. She joined Starfleet Academy, Cait and chose to specialize in mapping the stars that she had used for navigation on many adventures in her wind canoe.

She graduated as one of the top students in her class, earning her the affectionate nickname of “Hokulani”, or “heavenly star”, from her parents, and began her career on the USS Aotearoa. She served for 3 years, conducting extensive research on rouge singularities in the Beta Quadrans and eventually rose to the head of the Aoteaora’s Stellar Cartography department. She transferred to the USS Hood, where she began a relationship with a Zami surgeon named Krezna Yemmask. She had 2 children with Krezna: N’Gere and Druzea. Krezna was later killed during an away mission to provide emergency medical aid to victims of a landslide on planet SR-388; a second landslide buried the away team alive.

During her tour with the hood, she demonstrated an ability to lead teams and manage projects, which saw her rise to the rank of Assistant Deputy Chief Science Officer. As her tour came to a close, she saw an opening for a Chief Science Officer, and decided to go for it.

USS Aoteaora
USS Hood