Lieutenant Nyota Uhura
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Name: Nyota Uhura
Rank: Lieutenant
Position: Chief Operations Officer USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
Age: 143 (appears 30)

Starfleet History
2259: Assigned to USS Enterprise(NCC-1701) as Cadet
2259: Graduates Starfleet Academy
2259: Assigned to USS Enterprise(NCC-1701) as Chief Communications Officer
pre 2266: Promoted to Lieutenant

Personal History
Nyota Uhura was born in 2237 in Kenya on the continent of Africa on Earth, where she grew up in a village near Lake Simbi Nyaima. She had an aptitude for mathematics and languages. By 2259, Uhura was fluent in 37 languages, including Andorian, Vulcan, and Swahili as well as 21 other languages spoken in Kenya. During her youth, she was able to run the hundred meter dash in record time. Uhura originally intended to attend the University of Nairobi, where both her parents were teachers. However, shortly before the beginning of her studies, her parents and brother were killed in a shuttle accident. She abandoned her original plans as attending the campus was too painful for her. Uhura went to live with her grandmother – who had herself served in Starfleet during her youth – and later followed in her grandmother's footsteps by attending Starfleet Academy. While at the Academy, Uhura wrote three papers about famed linguist Hoshi Sato of the Enterprise NX-01.

Uhura would serve aboard the USS Gallant prior to her assignment to the USS Enterprise as a cadet. For Starfleet Remembrance Day in 2259, she wore a pin memorializing the crewmates she had lost from this ship. Cadet Uhura's first Starfleet assignment on space duty began in 2259 when she was assigned to the USS Enterprise on communications rotation duty under Captain Christopher Pike, who described her as a "prodigy." In spite of this, she was concerned about whether Starfleet was the right choice for her and if she could handle the duties required of her. Her first away mission occurred shortly thereafter, when she landed on the comet C/2260-Quentin along with La'an Noonien-Singh, and George Samuel Kirk, in an effort to prevent the comet's collision with the planet Persephone III. She was assigned to the away team due to the discovery of an artificial structure within the comet; it was hoped that her knowledge of linguistics, like Kirk's expertise in xenoanthropology, would assist in understanding its nature and averting the threat. After Kirk was severely injured and the away team was trapped, Uhura was called upon to decipher the markings on the surface of an egg-like object within the structure. Despite her misgivings and insecurity in the dangerous situation, she was inspired by a pep talk to rise to the occasion. When she hummed the Kenyan traditional song Vamuvamba as she worked, the away team realized that the structure was responding to her music. She then used her musical talent to attempt to communicate with it. After the mission, she analyzed the structure's musical response and discovered that it had precognitive ability. The Enterprise's chief engineer, Hemmer, would take Uhura under his wing and question her about her path in life – a question she didn't have an answer for. He reminded her of his late father, who had also pushed her to see things differently. While assigned to Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh she impressed the strict chief of security with her diligence and ingenuity.

When an alien consciousness from the Jonisian Nebula brought the fairy tale The Kingdom of Elysian to life on the Enterprise, Uhura was used for the character of Queen Neve. Uhura didn't remember the events after the ship was returned to normal. When Uhura's assignment on the Enterprise was nearing its end, she was still unsure if she should remain in Starfleet or not. She was then part of a mission to the USS Peregrine, which had made a crash landing on Valeo Beta V and was confronted by young Gorn who hunted the landing party. When Hemmer was infected by Gorn eggs and sacrificed himself for his comrades, he encouraged Uhura to open herself up to others and remain in Starfleet. At his funeral, she acknowledged how much Hemmer meant to her and by guiding her, he had succeeded in his life goal of "fixing what was broken." In the months that followed, Uhura graduated from the Academy and was commissioned as an ensign and continued to serve aboard the Enterprise. Sometime early in her career she once performed the delicate work of rigging a subspace bypass circuit, a fact she noted years later when she attempted to perform such a task aboard the Enterprise. During the Enterprise mission to the Brannon's Nebula, Uhura was contacted by a newly discovered species of extragalactic lifeform that lived there.

In 2266, Lieutenant Uhura was a command division officer aboard the USS Enterprise. She was the head of the Communications Department. Later that year, Uhura was transferred to the operations division. In the following years of that vessel's historic five-year mission, she proved to be a proficient technician and was considered by Captain Kirk to be a capable and reliable bridge officer, manning the helm, navigation, and main science station when the need arose. On stardate 1672.1, before taking a brief on-board ship sabbatical, Uhura's voice was heard ship wide reminding her fellow crew members to file their accurate "time sheets via the communications department." On stardate 1704.2, Enterprise navigator Lieutenant Kevin Riley, while under the influence of the Psi 2000 polywater intoxication, left his post at navigation and Commander Spock assigned her to the station until Lieutenant Brent relieved her from that duty later the same day. On stardate 1704.3, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, also under the influence of the polywater intoxication, fantasizing himself a musketeer, took Uhura under his "protection" before first officer Spock subdued him with a Vulcan nerve pinch. On stardate 1709.1, Uhura also took over the navigation post when Lieutenant Stiles was needed elsewhere on the ship during the confrontation with the Romulans near the neutral zone. In 2267 from stardate 2821.5 to 2823.1, while the Enterprise shuttlecraft Galileo was studying the Murasaki 312 quasar, it was lost and then crashed on an uncharted planet. Uhura took lead in the search for the missing Galileo and took over at the bridge's science station, as well as still helping at communications relieving Lieutenant Brent at sciences. Uhura discovered the planet Taurus II that the Galileo had crashed on. After the surviving crew members were found and rescued, Uhura was happy to return to her station. In 2267, Uhura was part of the landing party that beamed down to the Guardian of Forever planet to find Dr. Leonard McCoy, who was in a wild state of mind due to an accidental overdose of cordrazine. Uhura was the first one of the landing party to notice that they had lost contact with the Enterprise. This was due to the fact that Dr. McCoy had run into the Guardian of Forever altering the timeline and erasing the Enterprise and everything the landing party knew becoming nonexistent. This was the only time where Uhura actually admitted to someone, specifically Captain Kirk, that she was truly frightened (without being under an influence of an alien force taking control of her mind). Fortunately after Kirk went through the Guardian of Forever and then came back from the past with Dr. McCoy they restored the time line and the existence of the Enterprise. Following a communications blackout caused by Apollo, jamming all communication frequencies between the Enterprise and her landing party on stardate 3468.1, Uhura attempted the delicate task of rewiring the entire communications system in an attempt to break through the interference. In conjunction with Sulu's rigging of all transmission circuits for maximum power generation, Uhura successfully connected the bypass circuit, a task she had not done in several years.

The Enterprise was transported to another quantum reality and the year 2380 and she along with the Enterprise crew transferred to the replacement Enterprise.

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