Riana Uzo

Riana grew up on Bajor. She was born on May 28, 2380. At the young age of five, she had heard about a major attack but it didn’t really affect her too much because the problems of outsiders didn’t really seem to matter at the age of five to her. It wasn’t until she became a middle schooler that she truly understood and grasped the reality of the attack on the Utopia Planetia Fleet Yards.

Her earliest childhood memories, always had her being a good role model student in the bajoran Temple and in her schools. Has a young child she was pretty guarded, while her sister was always seeking out the thrills and adventures and trying to make a name for herself, she tried to disappear into the shadows but then she couldn’t stay there because everybody kept comparing her to her they kept asking.

“what are you going to do?” They kept asking her they wanted her to outshine her sister. Something that she never cared about she never wanted to compete with her.

Riana was not a scientist, she was not an athlete, she was not an outdoorsman person, she had no desire to go into security and she had no desire pretty much to do anything with Starfleet from a young age. However at a young age a couple of her friends were being bullied and picked on, by alien children known as humans they thought it was silly that her and her friends and most of the citizens on the planet worshiped what they called a wormhole aliens.

She discovered from young age that fighting didn’t really resolve anything, and then getting the alien children to understand their culture wasn’t working either. So she spent most of that time trying to comfort her friends and the belief that it doesn’t matter if they don’t believe in their Gods. They had the faith and they had the belief. And that’s all that really mattered this opened the door to her being a counselor in the future.

From young age she continued to offer her guidance to her friends and he would help out in the temple as much as possible. It wasn’t until she became a teenager that she started to care more about politics within the federation. She was devastated to learn about the synthetic of 2385.

High School Years

Riana really didn’t like having a lot of outside alien influence trying to demoralize her moral compass and her religious compass. She found a lot of solace and love and trust believing in the prophets or as a humans would call him the wormhole aliens. They had always looked out for their people they even sent them an emissary.

And her eyes the humans that were there were only outlashing at them because they’re on creation to turn down them. And I was sad and tragic, part of her felt bad for them she wanted to help them but the same time they were attacking her faith in her belief system so it made it really hard to do so.

Also going to puberty was not an easy thing for her. Hormonal and balances and changes was just a struggle especially when she felt like she was being judged on all sides. She did the best she could to try to play peacemaker.

By her sophomore year in 2395 she decided that she wanted to extend an olive branch and then she tried to offer some support for outsiders like the humans.

She discovered most teenage kids outgrew their mean bully like ways when they were younger. She found it easier to communicate with some of them. By this point in Starfleet history, the organization have become a pacifist society. Part of Riana felt that the Federation had lost its way with Starfleet and that more civilian agencies and non-aligned agencies with Starfleet were trying to pick up the pieces.

Groups like the Frenis Rangers, we’re starting to recruit all along the Federation borders. They were trying to get people to want to step up and help protect now that Starfleet wasn’t doing their duties any longer. The pacifist society was a political nightmare for Starfleet and for the Federation. A lot of key world started to turn on each other and started asking about what is in their own best interest and protection.

Cooperation in scientific exploration seen to be non-existent during this time frame and had been that way for many years. Riana felt that maybe her services would be needed. She thought about going into the career field of a diplomatic officer but prior to that decision she had never even considered Starfleet but she also knew in order to change something you had to be part of it.

The more she started studying about international politics the more she started to dislike especially when it came to the constant bickering and the political arena that came with it. She remembered that she loved being a counselor and if she couldn’t change it on a big scale then maybe she could change it on a smaller scale and have other people help restore the Federation to what it was previously.

The same year she started dating but it wasn’t a serious relationship the guy couldn’t commit to her like she wanted him to. He had plans to become a Vedek. And her plans was to leave the Homeworld and seek out a career in Starfleet.

They were going on two different paths, and they knew that so they also knew they’re on borrowed time so they tried to make the most of their limited relationship. Which felt like a glorified friendship but with the bonus of being in a relationship.

She graduated in the summer of 2397 and then enrolled into Starfleet Academy. She was giving a blessing to become a commissioned officer and that summer she began her first year.

Starfleet Academy

Riana’s time at the Academy was very confusing for her. Unlike on her own homeworld, she was a minority instead of the majority. They were more humans here, and they had a lot more of their bad habits and traits. Which she found to be appealing in some ways, and a definite distraction in other ways.

Her freshman year she focused really hard, she had heard rumors about the Romulans being upset with the Federation yet again. Even though it was almost 15 years ago, they were still complaining about the fact that the Federation did not help him when their sun went supernova.

The refugees from Romulus that lived on earth, seem to care more about complaining than actually doing anything to resolve the situation. She found out to be very alarming and and she tried to offer her help but he got firsthand experience dealing with the Romulan in house stubborn headed they could be even more so than a Tellerite.

By her junior year she learned that the Romulan Star Government was responsible for the pacifistic beliefs in views of the federation. It came out that they had an orchestrated a plot with the help of the Tal Shair to have the Federation turn their back on synthetic life forms and reprogram the synthetic life forms to attack the Federation.

It was retired Admiral Picard that exposed the treachery. She remembered, she was in the courtyard when she heard the news. Almost every Cadet was furious, the Federation News Network was broadcasting it all over and Starfleet had vowed to do a full investigation and to look at reopening is exploration program. It was a political campaign to revive Starfleet to its previous glory.

From Riana’s perspective it was a little late to be making those kind of dramatic changes. And she felt like it was more of a political campaign to try to settle the people and then to try to actually change the ideology of the Federation overnight. They saw what happened the first time they did that and now they wanted to do it again.

Even though she was still a counseling student she would offer her services to try to help people cope with the reality that they were duped by the Romulan people but not all the people just the government of the Romulan people the fractured government that should have been abolished but somehow continue to thrive in the Deep spaces of Romulan territory.

Right before graduation from the academy she was assigned to a residency ship the USS Republic to complete her final requirements to become a commissioned officer. In April during first contact also known as Frontiers day Earth was attacked by the Borg.

Assimilated Riana

She was done at the academy, and remembered being assimilated through technology, she could remember listening to the devices inside her brain telling her what to do and having no control over it and feeling scared. Luckily starkly had defeated the last remnants of the board and she was able to get the Borg DNA out of her system. They had found some clever way to try to change them at the molecular level.

Riana hated herself, for being a force participant during the battle. She knew she had no control, and being forced into a hive mind. The events of that traumatized her. Her sister wasn’t a part of the battle, her shift was on deep space assignment at the time. She had no idea what it was like to be assimilated, but she did.

She hated the fact that she had no control over her own actions and that every decision was made for her by a collective consciousness. But then again all that was changed when Admiral crusher was able to remove the affected DNA strands with just a simple transporter filtering program. Then it really made her upset because she had no control but yet other showed her that her experience was a fluke a mistake something that should never happened and now it wouldn’t happen again. So I felt like it undermined her ability to process her feelings, because she wasn’t Borg.

The closest experience she could classify it on in a scientific form would be a momentary loss of sanity. The Borg, collective consciousness that was transmitted by the queen through Vox, had ordered her to participate in trying to take down Earth’s based on and assimilate all of Earth.

She knew she had to work through her own problems but she also still felt like this was still the best course of action for her to become a counselor. Helping others could help her find the closure she needed and the closure they needed.

I just went her life felt like he was finally back in order, and she was assigned to the USS Coventry. The Vaadwaur appeared.

USS Coventry

And 2401 in the summer she had graduated from Starfleet Academy and was assigned a counselor aboard the USS Coventry. He never felt like she fit in here, and it was mainly due to the fact that she was struggling in her own right to come to terms with what the Borg had done to her and done to so many others.

He didn’t spend a full year on the Coventry when the fourth Fleet operations had reassigned her even though she did not personally partake in the Vaadwaur Invasion Defense Fleet, Starfleet decided that she needed to join for Fleet operations and offer them services for the survivors.

Riana in a lot of ways was relieved because she really feel like she didn’t really fit in on the coventry, plus when she got her assignment she realized she would be close to Mika again and she was looking forward to a reunion with her sister. It had been several years since they had seen each other.

Service File

2402 – present

USS Oakland

Assistant Chief

Counselor

2401-2402

USS Coventry

Counselor

2397 – 2401

Starfleet Academy

Counseling Department