Apres Lana
Apres Lana
Rank: Lieutenant Junior Grade(O-3)
Position: Chief Operations Officer
Appearance
Species: Bajoran
Gender: Female
Born: 2 August 2362
Place of Birth: Bajor
Hair: Dark Red
Eyes: Light Brown
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 128lbs
Lana is clearly a female Bajoran, with the trademark bony ridges on her nose. Her skin tone is naturally light, but usually a modest tan due to daily ten kilometer "outdoor" runs on the holodeck. On her right ear, she wears a Bajoran earring as a symbol of her faith in the Prophets. Composed of ermanium, the earring consists of a thin silver chain connecting a clasp on the ear's upper cartilage to a larger half-dome button on the lobe, which bears the double triangle and half moon symbol of the Apres family.
During most of her life, Lana wore her hair short (in the style of Ensign Ro Laren), but has let it grown out to a shoulder length during her time on the Archimedes. While on duty, she wears it pulled back tightly in a ponytail.
Personality
For Lana, trust is earned with difficulty, but once earned becomes a fierce loyalty. She is not generally disobedient and respects the Federation, Starfleet, and senior officers, but is prone to bias in cases of oppressed or suffering races or populations, and such biases may interfere with her strict adherence to Starfleet regulations. As an officer, she is quick, sharp, and especially helpful in tight situations.
Lana comes off as simultaneously fiery and icy. She often covers her difficulty in trusting or building close personal relationships with an overcompensation of aggressiveness, using her adversarial demeanor to keep anyone from getting too close. This distancing can take the form of competitiveness, sarcastic bantering, or a smoldering glare.
Hobbies and Interests
Lana is a natural athlete, and spends most of her off-duty time sparring fellow crewmen or holodeck fighters. During her time at the Academy on Earth, she discovered the joy and meditation-like qualities of long-distance running and ran several marathons, including one that tracked the historical origins of the race from Marathon to Athens in the ancient Earth nation of Greece.
Music is a major element in the lives of Bajoran, and among Lana's fondest memories of the Academy were the times she was exposed to the broad and fantastic variety of music from throughout the Alpha Quadrant. While still mostly partial to traditional Bajoran harmonics, Lana has found Klingon battle songs and Earth "rock" music strangely appealing. She owns a deep blue 21st-Century Earth Gibson Explorer electric guitar.
History
Lana was born in the Batal labor camp on Bajor. Her father, Aneer, was tolerated by the occupying Cardassians when they believed he was but a smuggler of necessities to the refugee camps. When he ran short on contraband with which to bribe Cardassian patrols, however, he quickly found himself accused of supplying the Resistance and the Maquis with arms and was marked for arrest, trial followed by a guilty plea and execution. Somehow managing to evade arrest, Aneer vanished from the reach of the occupiers, but, unfortunately, also from his family's knowledge. As was the practice during the occupation, Aneer's pregnant wife, Mahea, and two young sons, Korla and Ludan, were arrested and imprisoned at Batal.
The early years of Lana's life were typical: days spent in constant hunger, frequent cuts and bruises from abusive Cardassian guards, and more cuts and bruises from fights with other children in the labor camp, as the young Bajorans' parents were either working the 18-hour shifts in the mines or dead. Still, Lana escaped the medical experiments or mass "reprisals" that occurred at some of the more notorious camps, though she would not learn of many of these atrocities until after her freedom, as the security at Batal was strict and news traveled into the camp only in distorted and small pieces.
In 2369, the inmates of Batal, as well as the whole Bajora, were liberated. Though still young, Lana had already learned great suffering and loss. Only a year before the end of the occupation, her second-eldest brother, Ludan, had been publicly executed in the middle of the camp when he was caught passing messages to Resistance operatives, and the three remaining members of the Apres family were forced to watch.
Great anger and survivor's guilt built up within Lana. Had she come of age a decade earlier, she may have joined the Resistance to slay her demons. But, by the time Lana was old enough to set out on her own, the militia of the Provisional Government was little but a police force. Determined to escape the painful memories, Lana fought her way through a chain of odd jobs with the Provisional Government onto Terok Nor. Finding that the space station was not yet far enough from Bajor and her troubled memories, Lana took up the hobby of charming off-duty Federation officers, turning these friendships into opportunities for informal lessons, occasional bit work directly for the Federation, and, eventually, into a candidate's seat for Starfleet Academy. It was a chance for her to sail into the stars and, perhaps, away from nightmares of Batal.
It was not until she reached the Academy that Lana discovered that she had natural talent. She had not realized, for example, the difficulty of the entrance examination until later overhearing fellow cadets complain of the trials. Yet Cadet Apres had grown up in an environment where standing out meant beatings, or worse, and enthusiasm was a forlorn dream to be shattered upon waking. So it was that Lana, although a good student, seemed to meander through her years at the Academy, disappointing more than one professor who saw through her facade of unconcern but could not encourage her to pursue her coursework more passionately.
The one exception to her general passivity at the Academy was in combat, both curricular and extra-curricular. Her entire, impressive collection of demerits was comprised from those issued for disorderly conduct, including her very first demerit, earned when she misunderstood the intentions of an awkward Bolian attempting to ask her on a date (the Bolian spent the afternoon in the infirmary and Lana spent the evening in the brig). In her final two years at the academy, she was captain of the kickboxing and Brazilian jiujitsu teams.
Despite her aggressive nature and physical prowess, Cadet Apres purposely chose not to pursue a career as a Security Officer. The Cardassians at Batal left a general distaste in her mouth for those who made a career roaming perimeters with disruptors. To this day, Lana cannot help but prejudge armed Yellow Shirts as thugs, a bias that she struggles to control.
Lana's purpose in joining Starfleet was to be able to keep moving for the rest of her life, never having time enough to stay still to think. Thus, she had taken almost exclusively coursework that she believed most applicable to the operation of starships, and her broad and general knowledge led her to request assignment as an Ops Officer.
Cadet Apres graduated 35th in her class.
Starfleet Service Record
2379 - Successfully completed Starfleet Academy Qualifying Examinations.
2384 - Successfully completed and graduated from Starfleet Academy, ranked 35th.
2384 - Received assignment as an Operations Officer aboard the USS Archimedes (reported for duty at Starbase 50).
2385 - Promoted to Assistant Operations Officer.
2385 - Appointed as Acting Chief Operations Officer
2385 - Promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade. Appointed as Chief Operations Officer
Family
Father: Aneer, b. 2335, Missing, presumed dead
Mother: Mahea, b. 2342, living on Bajor, employed with the Ministry of Trade
Brother: Korla, b. 2359, living on Bajor, Lieutenant, Bajoran Militia
Brother: Ludan, b. 2360, d. 2368
Awards
 3 Months Service 5 August - 5 November 2007 |
 Purple Heart Mission: I Predict A Riot |
 Outstanding Volunteer Awarded: 9 December 2007 |
 Gold Unit of Merit Award November 2007 |
 Silver Unit of Merit Award November 2007 |
 Crew's Choice Mission: There Goes God |
 6 Months Service 5 August 2007 - February 2008 |
 Treknology Award Mission: Flight of the Valkyries |
 3rd Place JP Fest Hat June 2008 |
 1 Year Service 5 August 2007 - 2008 |
 Captain's Choice Mission: Manic Monday |
Crew's Choice Mission: Don't You (Forget About Me) |
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Captain's Choice Mission: Don't You (Forget About Me) |
 1st Place JP Fest Hat December 2008 |
 Antagonist Award Mission: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
