Keli

Family

• Mother: Karev
• Father:  Malco
• Sister: Kylieev

Biography

Early Life

Born and raised on Coridan Prime, Keli was the eldest daughter of Karev and Malco who ran the family business of a multi-generational dilithium mining operation. Though her family was rich due to their business, Keli was brought up to be humble for her privileged life. This was an element that her mother instilled in her and her sister when they were teenagers. As part of the outreach work that their business operated, after the end of the Dominion War, Karev would take her daughters to accompany her in leading relief efforts to the worlds devastated by the former conflict. A majority of them were Cardassian worlds which were left to ruins in the closing days of the war. Supporting refugees by setting up camps, and providing food and medical aid made the right impact that Karev wanted for her daughters. Between school and her charity work, Keli would spend time helping out and getting to know the ins and outs of the family-owned business at the ground level. Mining was nothing exciting, but Keli found the entire process of digging fascinating.

Interested in the field of geology, Keli planned to pursue this further after finishing school, however, she decided to undertake a job within her family’s charity organisation working with those worlds along the Federation-Cardassian border. What was meant to be a three-month trip, turned into two years. While on Minos Korva with friends, she was starting to reconsider her life choices at the age of 20, and when she walked past a Starfleet recruitment booth along the town square she was intrigued by the prospect of joining. It took her a fortnight to finally decide that joining Starfleet was something she wanted to do. After passing the entrance exams and other tests, she left Minos Korva and was sent to the campus on Mellstoxx III.

Starfleet Career

Early Career

Her first year at Starfleet Academy was pretty standard, just like every other cadet past and present. She excelled in small unit tactics, was a natural with her sidearm training and took an interest in forensics. She had planned to take on geology as her field of expertise, but with a bit of convincing from her professors and instructors, she put her full focus on forensics. Keli performed well in all areas of her study and was able to find a good balance between work and play. Something she would maintain for the rest of her career.

USS Themis (NCC-76554)

After graduation, Keli joined the recently launched Ross-class starship, USS Themis as an ensign within the security department. Her main line of work was as an investigation officer, but when not required for such assignments, she was often assigned to a range of other duties. This varied work for the next three years worked to her advantage as she was able to gain a wider range of experience. While in this role she undertook some further post-graduate courses in starship operations and would often volunteer to take extra shifts in other departments as a helping hand or cover for other security officers. Her generosity would become well-known among the crew, but others would lean on it too much. Eventually, she realised this and when the opportunity to move on came up, she decided to be a bit selfish and apply for a new ship.

USS Odyssey (NCC-80000)

In 2393, she joined the USS Odyssey after a promotion to lieutenant junior grade. Due to her completion of training and experience, she became the relief officer at the security and tactical position during the gamma shift. Though she had to restart her career again on the Odyssey in the sense of getting to know a whole new (larger) crew, it was the right type of challenge she had longed for. The Odyssey was one of Starfleet’s premier vessels and was doing a lot of work along the former Romulan Neutral Zone, which Keli was more than happy to be involved with and fall back on her own experience with when called upon for away team missions.

She learnt a lot under her new department head, Cline Lenjir, who ran daily meetings with his shift leaders. The two developed a sort of brother-sister relationship and when the opportunity rose for them to develop their own Hazard Team on board the ship, Cline selected Keli to lead the alpha team. A few months later and he was in need of a new deputy, and he chose Keli. She remained in this position for the next five years and during this time she attended the advanced tactical training course. Come 2400, she was surprised when Lenjir made the decision to leave the ship to join her old ship, the Themis. After serving seven years on the Odyssey, she was honoured when Captain McCallister called her into his ready room and offered her the department head job. She accepted on the dot the promotion to full lieutenant.