Lieutenant Liala Ziyal
Name Liala Ziyal
Position Chief Science Officer
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | El Aurian | |
| Age | 198 |
Personality & Traits
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5' 6" | |
| Weight | 135 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Brown, dyed Blonde | |
| Eye Color | Blue |
Family
| Father | Vaccin Ziyal | |
| Mother | Nois Ziyal (DECEASED) | |
| Brother(s) | Berde Ziyal Disea Ziyal Logis Ziyal |
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| Sister(s) | Reso Ziyal Marsala Ziyal Boul Ziyal Harley Ziyal (Identical Twin) |
Background Information
| Personal History | Liala Ziyal was born on El Auria, a beautiful world with unspeakable sights. More specifically she was born in Sale Hospital in Lua, a coastal city on one of the main continents. Her father was a police detective on the home world as even in those that appear to be enlightened there are always some that fall into the darker side of their nature. Her mother was a well known engineer of significant repute. For many years of her life Liala was a free spirit, an artist and musician. She lived with her brothers and sisters in Lua and got up to all sorts of mischief. Truly her creative mind was a great asset in making up games to play even if her siblings were significantly older. She always believed you should never lose that child inside of you, it’ll keep you young. Sadly The Exodus would change their lives forever as The Borg, a technologically monstrous foe, attacked El Auria forcing them to flee their life, their home, their world. Luckily all her family made it to the Alpha Quadrant and began a new life in a new place. Liala entered education once more studying science and specialising in astrophysics studying the minds of many species, the techniques used and the deep desire to understand the physical matter and processes in many solar systems and other galaxies. Also specialising in temporal mechanics, the study of time, its processes, and consequences of its change. In 2321 she opened her own lab on Earth, more specifically Pasadena, California. Over the years many people from different walks of life came to Liala with problems, puzzles to solve. There was one defining puzzle that she discovered and named it as Temporal Tinnitus. This condition was discovered when a man came into her office claiming to be from a different time. This at the time was not a plausible explanation of what was happening. Upon further examination and several visits, and personalities, it was discovered that his brain emitted and attracted chroniton particles. This was unheard of and to this day hasn’t been seen again. The patient in question would have shifts in temporal bands that each time a new set of memories would be implanted, thus making him a new individual. The proverbial ringing of memories that were not his own. With assistance from some other scientists, some psychologists, and the trust of her ‘patient’ they were able to devise an implant that blocked the attraction of chroniton particles. This stopped that entry of new unknown memories from different times, he became his own man once again. In 2363 she looked up to the stars and decided that Starfleet would be her path. Due to her degree already learnt her path was not as long as the other students in her year so she graduated in a shorter time. Her first posting was on the USS Invictus as a science officer, one fish amongst a few. It took a bit of adjustment being at the bottom of the pile as it were. She wasn’t in charge of her own lab, she had a boss who didn’t like her, and she found it all very frustrating. It wasn’t long before the Chief Science Officer was indicted for taking latinum bribes from someone. They were falsifying scientific reports and using that for monetary gain. This only came out when the individual in question crashed a shuttlecraft into the side of the shuttle bay after coming back from a mission that was deemed to be safe when it wasn’t. It was a time of upheaval in the science department and her new boss was a nice gentleman she got on with for many years, Lieutenant Commander Rajesh Singh. In 2370 she was promoted to Senior Scientist on board the USS Orlando. Still not a Chief position but due to her experience it was seen as a wise move for her career. She would remain on the Orlando for 10 years until it was decommissioned. The year 2380 came and she was finally given the role of Assistant Chief Science Officer on board the USS Jerry Springer, an odd name to be sure she had thought. During her time on board she also began to take classes in diplomacy, trying to increase her knowledge and possibly investigate helping the command staff a bit more when it came to mediations and such. A side passion. In 2389 she became Chief Science Officer/Diplomatic Officer on board the USS Yellowstone. It was here she helped mediate a truce between the two-warring factions on Sulata V, a planet that was in the middle of a civil war. Unfortunately, at the time they had captured some Starfleet personnel and it was her job to get them out. She did and received a commendation for it. In 2397 she left for pastures new on the USS Phoenix, again in the Chief Scientific Officer/Diplomatic Officer role. It was during her time here that a temporal infarction occurred. The Phoenix and her crew were sent to an alternate time into the middle of an area of space where women ruled the roost. The Captain of the Phoenix, a man, insulted the matriarch of one of the powerful planets in the system they arrived in and they were then targeted for ‘punishment’. Liala approached the Captain with the idea that she take the reins whilst they were in that time. She had done research by contacting local business and tradespeople, learning the ways of the time and how the best approach would be to stop the upcoming siege on their ship, at least until it was repaired enough to get back home. It took great strength and acting ability to convince Matriarch Nota that she was the true Captain of the Phoenix and that her man would be punished by their own accord. She apologised profusely but with strength behind her words and sent a gift of food befitting the likes of that species. Fortunately for them the ruse worked, the bravado and acting skills paid off. She had stalled long enough for their engineer to come up with a way to get them home. They left and were back home with a month’s loss in their own time. She left soon after, her head still stinging from the event and everywhere she looked on the ship she was reminded of how fickle and dangerous time could be. In 2404 she transferred to the USS Cygnus as its Chief Science Officer, a nebula class vessel, a science super baby. |
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| Service Record | USS Invictus - Science Officer USS Orlando - Senior Science Officer USS Jerry Springer - Assistant Chief Science Officer USS Yellowstone - Chief Science Officer/Diplomatic Officer USS Phoenix - Chief Science Officer/Diplomatic Officer USS Cygnus - Chief Science Officer |