Ensign T'Ket
Name T'Ket
Position Operations Officer
Rank Ensign
Character Information
| PNPC By | (Cipriani) | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | 1/2 Vulcan 1/2 Human | |
| Age | 22 |
Starfleet Indentification
| Starfleet Serial Number | TK-0607-236751 | |
| Data Access Level | Level 2 | |
| Security Access | Level 4 | |
| Duty Shift | Gamma |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6' 2" | |
| Weight | 188 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Tall, spare frame and the composed, economy-of-motion posture common to Vulcan discipline. On duty he favours immaculate grooming and a neutral expression; the most frequent “tell” is a single arched eyebrow when confronted with imprecision. |
Family
| Father | Savel of Shi’Kahr (Vulcan) Lecturer in Applied Logic, Vulcan Science Academy. A traditional Surakist who expected a purely Vulcan academic path for his children. Relationship with T’Ket is respectful but strained since T’Ket chose Starfleet. |
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| Mother | Dr. Lena Kettering (Human) Starfleet Science exo-archaeologist (civilian track). Warm, diplomatic, and the source of T’Ket’s social graces. She quietly championed his Starfleet application. |
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| Brother(s) | Keiran (19) — First-year at Starfleet Academy (Operations prep). More expressive and curious, he looks to T’Ket as a model for balancing logic with service. | |
| Sister(s) | T’Penna (27) — Data analyst, Vulcan Science Directorate. Fully embraces Vulcan discipline; she and T’Ket share a precise, formal rapport. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | T’Ket operates with methodical calm and a high tolerance—even preference—for silence. He prizes precision in language, concise reporting, and clean console workflow. The Human half shows not as emotive outbursts but as choice: he resists paths chosen for him and seeks assignments where he can apply logic to practical problems. Home & Dynamics: Primary family residence is in Shi’Kahr on Vulcan, with extended periods on Earth during Lena’s assignments (typically San Francisco and the Tycho research annex). Family gatherings skew quiet and orderly; Lena provides the emotional bridge when Savel’s expectations clash with his children’s choices. T’Ket is the middle child—often the mediator between T’Penna’s rigor and Keiran’s openness. Name note: T’Ket’s given name was chosen by Savel to acknowledge Lena’s family name (“Ket-”), an uncommon but not unheard-of concession on Vulcan. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | +Focused, unflappable console management under pressure (transporter locks, shield readiness, multi-pane sensor oversight). +Fast pattern recognition across sensor anomalies (chroniton/tachyon/omega signatures, multi-source data correlation). +Systems-minded; comfortable diagnosing degradation across the ship’s computer stack and pushing proactive maintenance. Weaknesses - Blunt delivery can read as curt, especially when “explaining the obvious.” -Limited patience for small talk; prefers actionable dialogue and clear tasking. -Tends to underestimate the emotional dimension of mixed crews, which can create friction with more expressive colleagues. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | T’Ket’s idea of leisure skews toward quiet, methodical pursuits. Off duty, he’s often found in Jeffries tubes or a diagnostics bay “for relaxation,” refactoring ops macros, profiling sensor pipelines, and hunting latency spikes that didn’t quite merit a work order. He practices kal-toh and tri-dimensional chess for pattern discipline, and runs Suus Mahna forms daily to keep balance and breath under stress; for conditioning he prefers long runs and holodeck bouldering routes that reward planning over strength. When stillness suits, he tunes a Vulcan lyre with exacting care—simple modal pieces played softly—or reads starship design papers and sensor journals. His Human influence appears in small rituals: precise tea preparation, an occasional attempt at minimalist cooking (plomeek variants, nothing elaborate), and an appreciation for well-crafted conversation that trades filler for clarity. Socially, he is present but economical—game for a chess set in the lounge, a quiet hike on shore leave, or a late-shift star chart session—so long as the activity has purpose. |
| Personal History | T’Ket was born in Shi’Kahr on Vulcan to Savel of Shi’Kahr, a lecturer in Applied Logic, and Dr Lena Kettering, a Human exo-archaeologist attached to Starfleet Science on the civilian track. His childhood alternated between the spare order of Vulcan and stretches on Earth during his mother’s postings in San Francisco and the Tycho research annex. From an early age he excelled in pattern work—kal-toh, tri-dimensional chess, and the careful tuning of a Vulcan lyre—while absorbing Surakian disciplines at school. Lena’s gentler social rituals—proper greetings, the courtesy of context—tempered Savel’s more austere expectations, giving T’Ket the habit of being precise without being needlessly abrasive. Adolescence brought a quiet divergence. Savel advocated the Science Academy and a strictly Vulcan scholarly path; T’Ket recognised that his interest lay less in pure theory and more in applying logic to messy, real-time systems. After observing several Starfleet field teams during Lena’s site seasons—and appreciating the way Operations turned complexity into coherence—he chose Starfleet. The decision strained, but did not sever, the bond with his father; his mother, while neutral in family councils, made sure the application essays were ruthlessly clear. Entering Starfleet Academy on the Operations track at eighteen, T’Ket focused on sensors, transporters and shipboard computer performance. He consistently placed near the top of his cohort in systems integration and transporter targeting under shield-ready postures, and served as a peer tutor in transporter theory. His capstone project modelled multi-spectral anomaly discrimination—teasing apart chroniton and tachyon interference with trace omega contamination—and proposed diagnostics that reduced false positives without sacrificing safety. Outside lectures he kept to a disciplined routine: Suus Mahna forms at dawn, long runs, and late-night console labs refactoring diagnostics others treated as “good enough”. His cadet cruise confirmed the fit. A minor hull impact incident forced rapid power reallocation and transporter lock maintenance while shields were cycled; T’Ket’s calm triage of the sensor pipeline and transporter buffers earned an Academy citation for practical judgement. The report’s language—spare, exact, and light on ornament—also earned him a gentle note to “explain the why for non-specialists”, advice that would become a recurring theme in later evaluations. Upon graduation he was posted to the USS Pioneer as an Operations Officer on Gamma shift. Early aboard, he flagged incipient computer-core performance degradation and partnered with Ensign Connor Turner to schedule proactive remediation, stepping in as acting assistant within the department when manning required it. During operations over the Silence homeworld he configured deep-scan suites that correctly identified concurrent chroniton and tachyon activity with a trace omega signature and inferred the presence of a subterranean portal, coordinating timing windows with conn. In a subsequent casualty-risk phase he maintained transporter locks while shields were raised on short cycles; his concise, slightly blunt guidance under pressure—effective if not always diplomatic—prompted him to adopt the habit of adding a brief rationale to critical calls. As of his current tour, T’Ket’s professional arc is clear: a systems-minded Ops officer who prefers preventative work over heroics, and who is learning to translate precision into shared understanding. Family ties remain intact if formal—regular updates to Savel, warmer exchanges with Lena—and he keeps close contact with his siblings, T’Penna and Keiran, serving as mediator between rigorous tradition and exploratory service. Off duty he still chooses quiet order: a lyre, a chessboard, a clean console—small, structured spaces in which logic and purpose meet. |