Commander Mikela Reyes MD
Name Mikela Reyes MD
Position Executive Officer
Rank Commander
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human - Colonist | |
| Age | 37 | |
| Birthdate | December 13th, 2356 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'4 | |
| Weight | 130lbs | |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown | |
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Physical Description | Mikela is on the short side and compact, with a well-developed figure. Her skin tone is almost, but not quite brown enough to contrast with her solidly-blue eyes. She wears her hair long, in loose, layered curls, the longest layer reaching halfway down her back. She prefers baggy pants or long skirts, to hide her knee brace on the days when she is wearing it. Whether she is wearing her brace or not, Mikela nearly always has her cane in her hand or nearby, as a necessary fashion accessory. Despite her injury, Mikela still limps with a grace that speaks to the athletic capability that she still clings to as the last vestiges of her old life however she would like full mobility and range of motion back. |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Father | Michael Reyes - Deceased | |
| Mother | Jennifer Reyes - Deceased | |
| Brother(s) | Jimmy Reyes - Deceased | |
| Sister(s) | None | |
| Other Family | Captain Karl Reyes - Commanding Officer - USS Bismark - Uncle James Reyes - Starfleet - Uncle |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | A Security Officer should be kind and compassionate, a humanitarian, with a will to resolve, calm and deal with whatever situation exists. She should show her personel how she cares, trying to avoid causing more issues skillfully and gently treating their complaints with a nonjudgmental demeanor. Well, three out of the bunch ain't bad. Mikela tends to be nonjudgmental, at least on the surface. If it's broke, it's broke, and the wisdom or foolishness that broke it won't put it back together. Mikela is a no-nonsense, strong-hearted woman, loyal and straightforward, hiding her virtues as if they were weaknesses under a veil of humor that is more light-hearted than biting. She has an intuitive intelligence, and will do everything she can to help but she's not subtle and nor is she stupid. In her personal life, she is still fighting her own demons. She is often sad, and still misses her twin greatly. Right now, she has no direction except for what Starfleet has given her, and she will realize at some point that it is not enough. Mikela is a person in transition, still building her new life, and not fully convinced on what she wants from it. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Mikela is intelligent and skilled at her work. She is also fairly versatile, still a crack shot with a variety of weapons, and as willing to protect her patients as to heal them. She is loyal and tough, and liable to work past her strength in a bad situation, but at her age she has learned how to exercise moderation when feasible. She endeavors to make herself someone who does not add a burden to a team, whether it be keeping herself in good shape and seeking what she knows she needs on the ship, or pulling her weight the best she can on an Away Mission. |
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| Ambitions | Right now, Mikela has no ambition beyond simply being useful and living one day at a time. She is still struggling with each day, and does not yet feel as if she has found her feet on her new path. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Mikela still tries to keep herself fit, and most of her hobbies and interests lead her in that direction. She enjoys swimming and practices a modified kata in order to work her body without damaging her bad knee. Mikela has learned patience and when irritated, she gets impatient very quickly. |
| Personal History | James and Mikela Reyes were very young when their parents died, on a backwater Federation colony, of an epidemic that swept over the town and took down a full third of it. The twins survived with the care of a neighbor, who took in the children in addition to her own. Life was not easy for the twins. Their foster parents were kind, but they did get the hand-me-downs and leftovers from the birth children. On top of that, both of them were smaller than most of the other children until their adolescence, when Jimmy shot up in height and Mikela developed solidity. The two pushed through life undaunted, facing every foe back-to-back, winning most of their schoolyard fights through sheer coordinated stubbornness. Naturally, they stuck together even after high school, when both of them chose to join Starfleet. Jimmy sought out Security while Mikela easily chose the Marines, but they spent as much spare time together as they could and managed by a stroke of luck or so it seemed at the time to get assigned to the same ship when he finished his Academy training. Disaster struck only months later. The USS Icarus was the nearest ship when one of the Federation border colonies came under attack by a rogue Cardassian force. Mikela dropped to the surface with the rest of the Marines to do what they could while the ship itself was left to deal with multiple foes. The force, though readily mopped up by the two Starfleet vessels which arrived as backup, overwhelmed the little Icarus. The ship was destroyed, lost with all hands. Down on the planet, the Marines were pushed back steadily by superior numbers until they reached a town full of civilians trying desperately to evacuate. They held the line, with terrible losses. Mikela was the only survivor, and she was so badly injured that her rescue barely arrived with enough time to save her life. Even so, thanks to a moderate allergy to the types of polymers used in replacement joints, she was unable to have her left knee replaced. She was taken back to Earth, where Starfleet Medical did the best they could with what they had left. Waking up on Earth, having lost her family, her ship, her team, and her very job, Mikela set about the difficult process of putting her life back together. She started taking courses from her bed to occupy herself even before she started physical therapy. Her first interest was biology, in hopes of learning for herself a way to fix her leg. That didn’t happen. Instead, she wandered into chemistry and then into Security rather then medicine. She didn’t care at that point what might become of her. When Starfleet gave her an aptitude test, she trusted it blindly. She had never thought of herself as much of a security type, and she knew she certainly was not cut out to look after very important people who she considered to be nothing more then imbeciles, but the tests, she figured, did not lie... By sheer luck, Mikela was right to trust the tests. She found that she enjoyed the material, and branched out into the areas that interested her the most. Her own pain led her into security, and she chose combat training for the same traits that made her a good Marine; her adaptability and interest in the novel, even if it meant danger, blood, and lots of hard work. All of which did not bother her in the slightest. As soon as she finished her training, she requested a starship posting. She was done with being watched closely by Starfleet Psychiatric, done with being treated like a borderline cripple. It was time to start pulling her own weight again. Mikela opened her eyes as she hauled herself up to her feet as the small woman knew she needed to move on with life so she requested an assignment out in the field and across the next four assignments she would prove herself to be a dedicated security officer, however she still has her issues which she's still working on. |
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| Service Record | Starfleet Academy - Alpha Centauri IV - ALPHA CENTAURI A 2374 to 2378 - Marine Student Cadet One - Four USS Icarus - Steamrunner Class 2378 to 2380 - Marine Officer Second Lieutenant / First Lieutenant Medical Leave - Wolf 359 November 2380 to April 2381 - No Assignment First Lieutenant Starfleet Medical - Stapelton Center - WOLF 395 2381 to 2385 - Security Student Switched from Marines to Starfleet. First Lieutenant / Lieutenant / Lt Commander USS Montana's Flag - Montu Class 2385 to 2387 - Chief Security Officer Lt Commander USS Master Chief - Renown Class 2387 to 2391 - Chief Security Officer Commander USS Chicago - Century Class 2391 to 2393 - Chief Security Officer Commander USS Heart of the Tiger - Guardian Class 2393 to Present - Chief Tactical Actions Officer Commander Time of Promotions and Demotions: 2374 to 2378 - Cadet One - Four 2378 to 2379 - Second Lieutenant 2379 to 2381 - First Lieutenant Switched from Marines to Starfleet 2382 to 2383 - Lieutenant 2383 to 2387 - Lt Commander 2387 to Present - Commander |