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Doctor Maya

Name Maya

Position Chief Medical Officer

Rank Doctor


Core Statistics

Gender Female
Species Vulcan
Date of Birth 2105
Marital Status Single
Affiliation Civilian or Earth's Starfleet

Height 5’2” (1.57 m)
Weight 107 lbs. (48.5 kg)
Hair Color Black
Eye Color Hazel

Pre-Starfleet Maya was born five decades ago in a repressive, conservative region on Vulcan. She entered the medical field as a sexual therapist while working her way through medical school. During pon farr, the time of mating adult Vulcans undergo a neurochemical imbalance that takes on a form of madness (culminating in the plak tow, or blood fever. If left untreated, a Vulcan will die in an average of eight standard days. Not all Vulcans are married, so a specialized medical service exists to provide the needed treatment that all Vulcans need.

Maya specialized in nervous disorders at the Vulcan Medical Academy and is considered one of the foremost neurosurgeons in the sector. While training for psychology courses, Maya studied telepathic techniques in order to help the mentally disabled. It was discovered that she was a natural telepath. Maya’s family wasn’t wealthy or well-connected but she did manage to get her medical education subsidized by the Vulcan High Command in exchange for serving aboard one of their starships. While serving aboard the D’kyr she learned about the Interspecies Medical Exchange.

The Interspecies Medical Exchange was an interstellar program initiated by the Vulcan High Command in the late 2130s. The program involved several Alpha and Beta Quadrant governments, including: Earth, Vulcan, Denobula and Mazar. It was a medical exchange program that allowed doctors from each planet to volunteer their services on alien worlds with the intent to better their understanding of xenobiology. Although her own people showed little interest in the program Maya was fascinated by all the different cultures and peoples. She mustered out and entered the program as soon as she could. This was what she had been waiting for: A chance to see the galaxy, meet new people, and make friends. In other words: Start over and find a place she truly belongs.
Starfleet Career While serving with the Medical Exchange she learned the same thing the Vulcans taught humanity back in 2063: That there were other cultures out there and the way of life one grew up with wasn’t the only one available. When the Xindi attacked Earth, she volunteered her services to Earth and Starfleet.

She has spent most of that year working as a base physician at various military bases teaches classes on interstellar medicine before teaching at Johns Hopkins in Maryland, United Earth. A last minute rescheduling has assigned her as the ship's doctor for the USS Discovery, the fourth of Earth’s NX class starships. This is her first posing aboard a Terran vessel. So far the majority of her interactions with humanity has been as a civilian.
Service Record 2105: Born in Eithnir Province on Vulcan.
2123: Trained as Medical Facilitator.
2124-2128: College Level Training.
2129-2132: Attends Medical School on Vulcan.
2133: Residency as Medical Intern on Vulcan.
2134-2138: Specialist School subsidized by Vulcan High Command
2139-2142: Training at Vulcan Military Academy.
2143: Assigned to Vulcan ship D’kyr. Learns about Interspecies Medical Exchange.
2148: Musters out of service, joins Interspecies Medical Exchange.
2149-2153: Visits Denobula, Earth, and Mazar.
2153: Xindi attack Earth and Vulcan withdraws military support. Maya offers her services to Earth and teaches interstellar medicine at various military bases.
2154: Teaches interstellar medicine at Johns Hopkins University on Earth.
2155: Assigned as Medical Officer to NX-04 USS Discovery.

Family Maya seems to avoid contact with her family.
Romance So far, Maya has not been known to enter any romantic relationships.
Friendships Maya is corresponds with her acquaintances from the Interspecies Medical Exchange, including Doctor Phlox, the Denobulan physician serving aboard Enterprise. Although she seems friendly for a Vulcan she has yet to form any known friendships.

Physical Description Doctor Maya is a slim petite Vulcan female of indeterminate age. She has allowed the rather severe haircut favored by most of her people to grow out a bit and now her pageboy haircut had grown enough to hide the pointed tips of her ears. She has large hands and long dexterous fingers that are often more expressive than her long face. Her skin is so pale that it sometime acquires a greenish tint when she’s flushed. When someone speaks to her, she will often open her dark eyes wide, believing that it will give the impression that she’s giving the speaker her complete attention, but in reality makes it look like she’s always surprised. Her face has the high cheekbones and arched eyebrows that Vulcans are known for, but she has allowed her bangs to grow to conceal the tops of her slanted eyebrows. She speaks with a soft mezzo-soprano voice that is always calm. When in a conversation with others, her default facial expression is a polite smile, but it comes off as somewhat artificial. Although she does not display excitement, she attempts to display compassion and sympathy but is not always successful.
General Personality Maya sees herself as a rebel, but to her Terran counterparts there’s no one more tame and conservative. Unlike most Vulcans Maya exudes a warmth and empathy that humans find appealing, if a bit forced. She is a good listener and she makes an effort to fit in with the humans around her. She is shy and retiring, but willing to participate in human social interactions given encouragement. Although she does not display excitement, she attempts to display nonverbal communication with varying degrees of success. She considers herself a hedonist, but is so sedate and unimaginative that most people think she was raised in a nunnery.

Strangely enough she appears to go out of her way to avoid contact with Vulcans. She seems to harbor a dissatisfaction with her own people.
Strengths & Weaknesses Maya is a master of Shennung a form of touch acupuncture employed by touch telepaths that has truly remarkable applications. No needles necessary: By touching specific nerve clusters and concentrating Maya can diagnose and even treat many ailments. For example, she doesn’t need a defibrillator to restart a heart or breathe into someone’s mouth to give CPR. By using the patient’s own nervous system to control bodily functions, she can speed up natural healing or muster a body’s defenses drug free. Although all of her abilities can be duplicated in a modern hospital, this can be incredibly useful treating a patient in the field.

Although she is a pacifist, she has studied Shunanju, an unarmed martial art focusing on pressure points that includes the nerve pinch technique in order to subdue delirious patients. She seldom uses this effectively since she lacks initiative unless someone is going to injure themselves. If someone tells her to incapacitate an opponent, she will do so with a minimum of force or movement.

In addition being a touch telepath, Maya has limited empathic abilities that are confined to sensing subjects in close proximity, but interpreting what she senses can be quite a challenge for her.

Maya can be trusting to the point of gullibility. Despite her empathic abilities, she tends to give everyone she meets the benefit of the doubt. This can be an asset when making first contact or trying to gain someone’s trust but a liability if she meets someone nefarious. The exception comes when someone exhibits behavior that identifies them as a patient. Then she becomes just as critical and discerning as any other Vulcan. Despite her skill as a physician and her powerful mental abilities, Maya has a poor self-image and is susceptible to suggestion.

Although Maya generally avoids conflict, she can display a stubborn streak when diagnosing someone. This can be especially inconvenient when the subjects emotional outbursts simulate what on her planet are serious illnesses.

Doctor Maya is socially awkward, and doesn't understand common idioms and phrases. Her attempts to emulate emotional responses has been described as 'creepy'.
Ambitions Maya's true ambition is to find a place where she belongs. She is lonely and is looking for a soul mate. Whether the soul mate is a friend, lover, child or mentor is of no consequence.
Hobbies & Interests Alternative Medicine, Anthropology, Cooking, Dancing, Foreign Cultures, Literature (fiction), Music, Terran Cinema, Unarmed Martial Arts, Yoga.

Family

Father Steck
Mother L’ring
Brother(s) Aldok
Sister(s) Tenya