Captain T'Prynn

Character Information

Gender		Female
Species		Vulcan
Age		98
Birthdate		August 9th, 2295
Birthplace		Raal - Vulcan

Physical Appearance

Height		5'8
Weight		135lbs
Hair Color		Dark Brown
Eye Color		Blue
Physical Description		T'Prynn is a taller than average Vulcan woman, with long dark hair that is typically worn in a pony tail. Her eyes are a light blue, and her skin is pale for a Vulcan. She is slim, but shapely for her build. Like many Vulcans, she carries herself in a slightly cold manner that conveys indifference.

Family

Spouse		None
Children		None
Father		Sivak - Civilian, scientist
Mother		T'Lyva - Civilian, astrophysicist
Brother(s)		None
Sister(s)		None
Other Family		None

Personality & Traits

General Overview		T’Prynn has a very analytical mind. She has an innate quickness, and is able to pick up new things fairly quickly. However, she has difficulty relating both to non-Vulcans and even her own species, as she grew up primarily on Earth. She comes across as cold and dispassionate, even for a Vulcan. She also projects an air of indifference to almost anything other than her particular interests (which she takes care not to reveal) and science. She is extremely competitive, though this is something she denies. Her competitive nature arises mostly from her parents’ expectations of her and the fact she was often the only Vulcan among groups of humans. T'Prynn has a puzzling habit of tapping her nose when thinking. She is also prone to be absent minded about personal matters, which reinforces her apparent indiffernce.
Strengths & Weaknesses		T'Prynn is intelligent and quick, but displays poor social skills. She is aloof and can seem condescending, sometimes even to superior officers. She is in excellent shape for a science officer and displays the above average strength of Vulcans.
Ambitions		T'Prynn is competitive and ambitious and aspires to head a science department on a prestigious starship. She also has a general desire to increase in rank and excel. She would like to become a noted scientist, as well as an excellent command officer.
Hobbies & Interests		In her free time, T’Prynn enjoys bridge and similar card games, logic puzzles, and playing the piano. T’Prynn is also fascinated with Earth literature, especially from the 18th and early 19th centuries, something that is unusual for a Vulcan. She considers herself an expert on authors such as Jane Austen, and is quite capable of quoting from works from this period at length.

Personal History

T’Prynn’s father, Sivak, served in Starfleet for nearly fifty years, rising to the rank of commander and serving as a chief engineer on several starships for most of his career. Sivak’s first chosen mate died before the marriage could be complete. Therefore, he spent most of his life assuming that he would remain single. When he retired from Starfleet, he moved to Earth to assist starship designers as a consultant. While living in San Francisco, he met a much younger Vulcan woman named T’Lyva, who had a reputation of being a prodigy in the area of astrophysics. T’Lyva was a civilian faculty member at Starfleet Academy. Unexpectedly, the two returned to Vulcan when both endured pon’farr at roughly the same time. They were married on Vulcan, but neither wished to sacrifice their careers to remain on their homeworld. They returned to Earth to resume their posts and T’Prynn was born shortly thereafter. T’Prynn’s upbringing differed from the traditional practices present on Vulcan. Despite being on Earth, however, she did not mix that freely with humans or other species. Her social circle was limited to her parents and a small number of other Vulcans, many of whom remained on Earth for only limited periods. T’Prynn proved to be a very bright and capable child and her mother groomed her for a career as a scientist. T’Prynn dutifully applied herself to her studies, though she proved to have more of an aptitude in biological sciences than in her mother’s specialty of astrophysics. T’Prynn’s cloistered life came to an end when her mother encouraged her to attend a Human university. T’Prynn was accepted at age 16 and spent 3 years living almost exclusively among humans. Even living on the human homeworld for her whole life did not make this adjustment very easy for T’Prynn. She found the constant exposure to human traits, emotions, and conversation to be somewhat irritating, leading her to develop an icy personality. Because she was from Earth, many human classmates assumed she would be a less stand-offish Vulcan and were put off when this did not prove to the case. By this time, T’Prynn had grown into an extremely attractive woman. At first she found the attention from human males to be distasteful but she gradually learned to use her appearance to her advantage, a trait which would also define her Academy tenure After graduating with degrees in biology and astrophysics, T’Prynn was approached by Starfleet recruiters to take the entrance exam, which she passed. Her father was indifferent to whether she pursued a career in Starfleet, while her mother quietly discouraged her. T’Prynn settled on the Academy partly as a way to eventually leave Earth and partly as a way to escape her mother’s shadow. She reasoned that she would have difficulty surpassing T’Lyva’s achievements as a civilian astrophysicist.