Rehn

Teigran Arvo Pirs-Itrad Rehn
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Full Name:	Teigran Arvo Pirs-Itrad Rehn
Nickname:	""
Species:	Betazoid/Trill (joined) hybrid
Gender:	male
Birthplace:	An outpost colony
Birthdate:	Apr 7 , 2421
Empire:	United Federation of Planets
Organization:	Starfleet
Assignment:	USS Phoenix NCC-170100-A
Billet:	Anthropologist
Rank:	Lieutenant (jg)

Teigran Arvo Pirs-Itrad Rehn is a Lieutenant (jg) in Starfleet, serving aboard the USS Phoenix NCC-170100-A as the Anthropologist.

Description

The humanoid creature before you stands approximately five feet, eleven inches tall and is built with a hearty-appearing frame. Well maintained brown hair with faint ginger highlights sits atop his head. Tan spots characteristic of Trill frame each side of the man's forehead and trace along his temples and down his neck, though the spots appear to be a shade lighter than most Trill usually display. His eyes have solid black irises nearly indistinguishable from his pupils-- a characteristic usually found in Betazoids. He wears a well styled, neatly trimmed beard that is the same color as his hair. His features and frame are mostly symmetrical, and he seems to carry himself with an affable austerity.

Biography

Teigran Rehn was born Teigran Arvo Pirs-Itrad to a Betazoid father (Ates Itrad) and a Trill mother (Kayana Pirs) in 2421. They lived on an outpost world at the edge of Federation space, where Teigran's father taught liberal arts subjects to older students attending the secondary school there, while his mother served as a leading politician in the local planetary government.

Teigran's youth was mostly unremarkable; he achieved middling marks in his secondary studies and graduated somewhere near the middle of his class, which numbered roughly three-hundred. He found solace in music and might have become an accomplished musician had he not grown up on a far flung outpost, being a better than average vocalist and being able to play multiple instruments.

As a Betazoid and Trill hybrid, Teigran retained most of the telempathic capabilities expected of most Betazoids, thanks to the quirks of biology and the Trill species' limited telepathic abilities. When his Betazoid abilities began to develop, Teigran had to learn how to prevent his Trill abilities from amplifying subconscious thoughts in people surround him from manifesting in those people -- effectively tamping down the technique used in the Trill ceremonial rite of zhian'tara.

After completing his collegiate education in political science at a Vulcan institution, Teigran joined the Federation Diplomatic Corps. He was assigned as a civilian diplomatic officer to a Starfleet ship, the USS Tam Elbrun, charged with reconnecting with outpost worlds that had generally been considered forgotten after the wars with the Dominion and the Son'a.

During what was considered a routine mission to repair an atmospheric control system on one of those outpost worlds, the Elbrun's Chief Engineer, a Trill named Cadril joined to the Rehn symbiont, was mortally wounded by a plasma fire. The Elbrun's Chief Medical Officer had limited knowledge of joined Trill physiology, but she knew the six day trip to Trill at the Elbrun's top speed likely would not allow for the Rehn symbiont to survive, even in stasis.

As the only other person aboard the Elbrun whose physiology was even remotely Trill, and whose physiology included a symbiont pouch despite his hybrid biology, Teigran was approached by the Elbrun's Chief Medical Officer with a radical proposition-- join with the Rehn symbiont to preserve its life.

Because he was a hybrid, Teigran never considered he might be able to join with a symbiont, though his mother -- a joined Trill -- spoke of its unique advantages and privileges often. Indeed, the Symbiosis Commission sought to preserve the integrity of its symbionts by ensuring only the most qualified Trill were joined, and hybrids, even if their biology could accommodate joining, were considered impure.

At the last viable moment, Teigran finally agreed to undergo the joining procedure as he sensed Rehn's intense despair at having lost another host to violent circumstances and the symbiont's earnest desire to live. At the time, he believed the Elbrun would reach Trill before the blending between host and symbiont was irreversible, but an ion storm thwarted the vessel's travels, and it was unable to reach warp for four days. The blending was complete before they could return to their course toward Trill, and Teigran became Teigran Rehn.

When the Elbrun reached Trill, the Symbiosis Commission was less than pleased that Rehn had been joined to a hybrid. They noted, however, that Teigran's biology accepted the symbiont handily, and, because his mother was joined, felt Teigran understood the responsibility associated with the gift he'd been given. Most importantly, physicians at the Commission noted Rehn was stable -- the most stable they had ever seen it in a host. Even so, they offered little support for Teigran, because they had limited precedent for joinings to hosts who had not been through the candidacy program and even less experience dealing with Trill hybrids joined to a symbiont.

Teigran's mother, however, was shocked, and -- in some ways -- appalled. She had never considered her son might be joined, and she felt she had failed him in some way -- both by not imparting the significance of being joined and the difficulties that come from the blending of the symbiont's personalities with the host's. Because of that, Kayana insisted Teigran live at home so she could help him adjust to his new -- unexpected -- blended existence.

Prior to Teigran, the Rehn symbiont had three hosts. That said, Rehn spent an unprecedented fifty-four years in the Caves of Mak'ala after its birth-- it was particularly stubborn and refused to join with a host, frustrating the Guardians and the elders at the Symbiosis Commission. This stubbornness and independence became traits of all Rehn's hosts.

When Rehn finally consented to joining, it was to Darjaam, a Trill musician who was accepted into the Symbiosis program because he was considered to be a promising, rising star. As it turned out, Darjaam plagiarized most of his early work, and he was consequently dismissed from his post at one of Trill's leading music institutes. Later in life, however, he developed a unique style that blended the best elements of the Trill musicians he most admired, but his previous transgressions prevented any meaningful recognition for this accomplishment during his lifetime. Darjaam lived to be 86.

Rehn's second host, Sedrel, was a pilot. She was especially skilled at piloting small craft, and she derived and proved multiple theories for more efficient sublight and warp propulsion that ultimately became foundational for certain aspects of modern warp theory. Sedrel was invited to join Starfleet, but she refused, focusing instead on her research into propulsion theory at her home on Trill. She died at 52 when an experimental craft she piloted crashed in light of a power system failure unrelated to the experimental nature of the vehicle. The crash severely injured Rehn, and the symbiont was returned to the symbiont ponds in the Caves of Mak'ala to recuperate. Although Rehn recovered from injuries sustained during the crash in just a few weeks, the symbiont remained in the ponds for some time, refusing to be joined to a new host for almost a decade.

Cadril was Rehn's third host. He was joined to the symbiont at a young age -- 20 -- and he was already a brilliant engineer. Cadril was already in Starfleet Academy at the time he was joined, and his personality prior to joining was both strong and highly disciplined, which ultimately tempered some of Rehn's more impulsive and stubborn tendencies. He had limited difficulty joining, and he completed his Academy training on time despite being offered an academic year respite. He died when he was just 38.

Remarkably, Teigran had little difficulty adapting to being joined. He became more assertive, more focused, and considerably more disciplined, traits likely inherited from Cadril. Much of Teigran's time at home was spent focusing on music, exploring much of what Rehn remembers from Darjaam's time as host. Teigran could only tolerate being home for six months, however, driven largely by Rehn's stubborn, independent streak.

Teigran's tenure as Rehn's fourth host is mostly a blank slate. As he lost patience with his parents' doting, he seriously considered returning to the Diplomatic Corps to seek another assignment performing frontier diplomacy. Ultimately, however, he decided to pursue a career in Starfleet, perhaps as a legacy of Cadril's enduring loyalty to the uniform and Starfleet's mission.

Teigran was accepted into an accelerated two-year track at the Academy, thanks to his previous collegiate degree and his orientation to Starfleet protocol as a result of his earlier posting to a Starfleet ship. Unlike his earlier studies, he seemed to excel at the Academy. He pursued studies in the sciences with a focus in social sciences, hoping to blend his previous diplomatic experience with Rehn's previous hosts' technical experience. Teigran was encouraged by his academic advisor to pursue line officer training because of his experience as a diplomatic officer and his time spent on the frontier of Federation space, which he ultimately agreed to do after some hesitation.