Name: Simon Tarses
Rank: Lieutenant
Position: Chief Medical Officer USS Aventine
Starfleet History
2366: Assigned to USS Enterprise(NCC-1701-D) as Med Tech
2376: Reassigned to Deep Space Nine as Medical Officer
pre 2380: Reassigned to USS Aventine as Chief Medical Officer
Personal History
Born on Mars Colony, Tarses had long been interested in serving in Starfleet, but had decided to enlist as a normal crewman rather than applying for the Academy, as he doubted his ability to cope with the pressure of Starfleet Academy. He eventually enlisted, serving as a medical technician at several outposts before stardate 43587 when he was assigned to the USS Enterprise-D under Doctor Kate Pulaski. In 2367, an explosion in the Enterprise-D's warp core led investigators to discover that J'Dan, a Klingon exchange officer on board the ship, had been involved in smuggling secrets to the Romulans. J'Dan admitted to his espionage, and hinted that there were co-conspirators on board the Enterprise-D as well. Tarses, who occasionally administered a medicinal hyposyringe to the Klingon traitor, was extensively questioned by a Starfleet board of inquiry. After initial questioning, the scope of the inquiry was widened. This was due to Admiral Norah Satie's Betazoid aide sensing that he was hiding a secret. When questioning continued, Commander Data was assigned as his legal counsel for his "own protection". During questioning, Simon was confronted with evidence that proved that he was a quarter Romulan and not a quarter Vulcan, as he had falsely claimed on his Starfleet entrance application. Commander Data quickly advised him via a whisper in his ear to invoke his right against self incrimination which he did. His falsehood threatened to end his Starfleet career, although Captain Jean-Luc Picard, after having gotten to know Simon personally, spoke in Tarses' defense when he was later put on trial himself, arguing that Tarses' only crime was concealing his Romulan heritage and he had done no other harm.
n 2376, Tarses—now a full MD—was assigned to the infirmary of starbase Deep Space 9 under the command of chief medical officer, Julian Bashir. Doctor Tarses ran DS9's infirmary while Bashir was away on a three-month exploratory mission of the Gamma Quadrant onboard the USS Defiant. In early 2377, Tarses came up with an innovative treatment involving nano-technology, genitronic replication and cybernetic regeneration that repaired the injured spine of Lieutenant Ro Laren after she was brutally assaulted by the rogue Jem'Hadar observer, Taran'atar. By 2380 he was the Chief Medical Officer of the USS Aventine. He oversaw the search to find a new host for the Dax symbiont after Ezri's death.