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Lieutenant Commander Jalay Prinnet
Name Prinett Jalay
Position Chief Engineering Officer
Rank Lieutenant Commander
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Bajoran | |
| Age | 49 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5' 4" | |
| Weight | 154 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Brown | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Jalay Prinnet is a stocky Bajoran woman with remarkably unremarkable features. She tends to walk and sit with hunched shoulders that diminishes her natural presence. Her gaze is always in motion, keeping track of things out of the corner of her eyes, and she has a nervous habit of tapping her fingers constantly. She wears the Bajoran cultural earring, which has a base element resembling the Celestial Temple and lacks any other adornment. Visible beneath the earring and behind her ear is a large curving scar from a neurosurgery that she intentionally keeps. Her dark brown hair is shoulder length, which she gathers into a simple low ponytail when on duty. |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | Jalay Sirte (adopted), approx. 19 years old, half-Bajoran, half-Cardassian woman | |
| Father | Unknown to Prinnet, believed deceased | |
| Mother | Jalay Halyn, 70, retired shopkeeper on Bajor |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Jalay Prinnet is a Bajoran trans woman who grew up under Cardassian Occupation and became an engineer out of necessity. In her hometown, the Tamulna Ghetto on Bajor, she helped to keep the infrastructure functional. Eventually she was moved to Dreon VII where she worked at the Cardassians’ spaceport until breaking free and joining the Kaval Resistance Cell. They managed to overthrow the Cardassians briefly, but the planet was re-conquered and Prinnet was captured, spending the rest of the Occupation in prison. After the liberation of Bajor, she was a staunch opponent of Federation involvement. She spent the two decades of her career trying to rebuild Bajor and help her community, adopting a half-Cardassian/half-Bajoran child and serving at various colonies and listening posts. After a disastrous encounter with the Prophets/Wormhole Aliens in 2387, her faith was badly shaken and she decided to finally transfer to Starfleet to get as far away from Bajor as possible. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: As a former Resistance engineer, Prinnet’s ability to “turn rocks into replicators” rivals that of most traditionally trained Starfleet engineers. She has just enough varied skills from her terrorist days to be dangerous in most departments, but she tries to stick to engineering–machines often make more sense to her than people. Weaknesses: Jalay remains skeptical of Bajor’s membership in the Federation, and has only joined Starfleet relatively recently, making her slow to trust her new team. She’s never been great at people. Her recent crisis of faith is ongoing, throwing her even more out of sync with others. |
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| Ambitions | Jalay has always believed that Bajor should stand alone. Now that she has been so firmly overridden by the Bajoran government, she is determined to prove that they can pull above their weight as a member. Specifically on the Guinevere, she is eager to get as far away from Bajor as she can and see if there is a better way to live her life than her traditional suspicious, insular views. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Jalay has historically been profoundly religious, though that faith has been heavily shaken since an encounter with the Prophets/Wormhole Aliens in 2387. She still reads the ancient texts and is involved with her faith, but the tone of that faith is increasingly conflicted. Exercise is not Jalay’s favorite. She tends to spend her recreational time studying folklore (Bajoran or otherwise). She loves maps, both star charts and planetary varieties. More than once, she has remarked that if not for the Occupation, she would have been an anthropologist or a cartographer. |
| Personal History | Jalay Prinett’s life has always been dictated by her circumstances–she has rarely been able to make a choice purely for her own sake. Born in the Talumna Ghetto in Musilla Province on Bajor to a single mother, she was forced to get a job early to help her community survive. Showing a natural aptitude for engineering, she worked as an engineering technician, even though her true passion was drawing maps of her neighborhood and the stars above. When the Cardassians recognized her proficiency, she was forcibly relocated to the Bajoran/Cardassian colony on Dreon VII and put to work in the main planetary starport. There, she worked on shuttles and atmospheric craft when she was lucky, and hauled boxes when she wasn’t. After three years of hard work, she was approached by a man who turned out to be recruiting for the Kaval Resistance Cell, and jumped at the chance to make a difference in the future of her people. As a member of the Kaval, she was known for her proficiency in bomb-making and, gruesomely, bomb-planting. Her unremarkable looks and history of quiet servitude made her excellent at sneaking trapped packages into the offices of Cardassians. Her faith in the Prophets became extreme during this time as a way to cope with the horrors of her double life. If Bajor’s gods weren’t freeing their faithful, then surely it must be up to the faithful to do it, as proof of their faith in those gods… right? In 2368, as Cardassia’s hold on Bajor itself was weakening, the Kaval saw their opportunity to inspire their fellow Bajorans by fully liberating Dreon VII. Jalay and her compatriots managed to kick the Cardassians off-planet at great cost of blood on both sides. What they hadn’t accounted for was that Central Command wouldn’t take the liberation lying down, and instead would choose to make an example of Dreon and its people. One planetary bombardment and manhunt later, an injured Jalay Prinett would spend the rest of the Cardassian occupation in a maximum security cell. Blessedly, Prinett was released as a POW as part of the withdrawal, and returned to Tamulna (now a city and not a ghetto) to recover. When not receiving medical care, she worked to rebuild her hometown. The Bajoran Militia pinned a rank insignia of Lieutenant on her, but she didn’t take it seriously–there was work to do. Almost a year into her municipal work, she encountered a half-Bajoran, half-Cardassian toddler wandering the still-dangerous streets and realized that the wounds on her homeland were farther-reaching than she’d previously thought. She adopted the child as her own. Bajor’s flirtation with the Federation irritated Jalay to no end. She viewed them as more outwardly benevolent than the Cardassians, to be sure, but didn’t think it was right for Bajor to welcome outsiders, and certainly not to try to join them and lose the cultural uniqueness that they hadn’t even had a chance to reclaim. She transferred to Prophet’s Landing to get away from the Feddies, maintaining a Bajoran listening and sensor array pointed at Cardassian space, and stayed there for five years even when her homeland opted to join the Federation. When many Bajoran Militia members decided to join Starfleet, leaving their ranks depleted, Jalay reluctantly accepted a promotion to Captain and became the chief engineer on another sensor array, this one in the Gamma Quadrant. She was nervous about her first spacebound assignment, but she and her child Sirte made the best of it. Five years of serving on a station helped acclimate her to space, though she hated being so far from Bajor. Eventually, she applied for a transfer to a small Bajoran patrol frigate that never left the Bajoran system itself. Even though it was arguably a downgrade in her career to serve as an assistant chief engineer on a smaller vessel, it allowed her more chances to visit Bajor and let Sirte connect with Jalay Halyn, Prinett’s mother. In 2387, during a routine trip through the wormhole/Celestial Temple, Jalay had an interaction with the wormhole aliens/Prophets that left her profoundly shaken–an interaction that she has never detailed to anyone. In crisis, she left Sirte with Halyn and finally transferred to Starfleet to get as far away from Bajor and the Celestial Temple as possible. After a retraining course at Starfleet Academy on Earth, she was given orders to report to the U.S.S. Guinevere as the Chief Engineer, arriving in February of 2388. While she privately judged the ship as small and slow by Starfleet standards, she was grateful for the chance to get familiar with Human-centric engineering in what would surely prove to be a simple, safe, unremarkable posting. |
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| Service Record | 2340: Born in the Tamulna Ghetto in Musilla Province on Bajor. 2354-2361: Unofficial duty as an energy technician in Tamulna Ghetto. 2362: Occupational Government forces Jalay to move to Dreon VII as a multi-role engineer, primarily servicing transports, shuttles, and atmospheric craft. 2365: Jalay goes AWOL from the Dreon Spaceport and joins the fledgling Kaval Resistance Cell as an engineer and pilot. 2368: The Kaval Resistance Cell briefly achieves de facto control over Dreon, leading to a brutal crackdown/re-occupation. Jalay is captured and imprisoned for the remainder of the Occupation. 2369: Bajor throws out the Cardassians. Jalay moves to newly liberated Tamulna and helps to rebuild the city as a member of the engineering wing of Bajoran Militia with the rank of Lieutenant [Starfleet Equivalent: Lieutenant JG]. 2370: Jalay takes a leave of absence to take care of her adopted daughter 2372: Jalay transfers to Prophet’s Landing to maintain the sensor arrays keeping an eye on Cardassia. 2376: Bajor joins the Federation; Jalay chooses to remain in the Bajoran Militia. 2377: Jalay is promoted to Captain [Starfleet Equivalent: Lieutenant] and becomes the chief engineer of a monitoring outpost in the Gamma Quadrant 2382: Jalay transfers to be the assistant chief engineer on a small Bajoran patrol frigate 2387: Jalay has a crisis of faith after a trip through the wormhole/Celestial Temple and transfers to Starfleet where she undergoes a retraining course at Starfleet Academy and is given the Starfleet rank of Lieutenant Commander 2388 (February): Jalay joins the U.S.S. Guinevere as Chief Engineer 2389: Current Date |