Lieutenant Rio Kholin
Name Rio Kholin MD
Position U.S.S. Enterprise Chief Medical Officer
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Age | 36 | |
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Half human - Half Trill (unjoined Obvs) |
Family
| Father | Caden ALDREX (family name before joined : Kholin) | |
| Mother | Sienna Heath-Kholin | |
| Sibling(s) | One older half sister on Trillius Prime - whom she has neither met nor knows of her existence. | |
| Spouse | None | |
| Child(ren) | None |
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| Other | Maternal Grandfather: Captain George Andrew Heath - Retired Starfleet Starship Captain Maternal Grandmother: Jhivilie-Marie Gordon-Heath – Deceased. Paternal Grandparents: Not known to Rio - she was told that they hadn’t accepted her mother because she wasn’t Trill and by extension, neither was Rio for her human half. |
Appearance
| Height | 5'8" | |
| Weight | 128lbs | |
| Physical Description | Rio has long copper-coloured hair and hazel eyes. She has soft Trill spots that are in the usual places that a full ‘Southern’ Trill would have them, but they are so pale that they look like henna body art. This ‘toned down’ look is a great disappointment to Rio as she was enthralled as a child by her beloved father’s “real” markings but her human genes from her mother gave her other aspects that she does love too, making up for it, in her own eyes. |
Personality
| Personality Overview | With a bright, sunny disposition, Rio smiles readily and to her, life is a cup half full. She cares deeply and can be emotional but she retains her childlike sense of fun and has a rather mischievous sense of humour. Obviously her Starfleet training is usually enough of an inner-parent to keep her out of most trouble that comes her way. (Famous last words?) Strengths and weaknesses: Rio’s strengths include her cool head in a crisis; her deep emotional compassion and her dedication to helping anyone in need. She is slow to rise to anger but can be fiery if pushed too far, in particular in defence of someone she cares about or someone vulnerable, like her patients. She has perfected the doctors' impenetrable mask expression and can keep her feelings to herself well when necessary. She is an accomplished surgeon, known and awarded for her early research work. Her weaknesses include the way her ability to overview and see lots of points of view, which in itself can also be a strength, but which can result in a temptation towards initially seeing too many options (and possible consequences) to choose between. However, as stated above, she can call upon a cool, reliable and almost ‘detached’ go-to mode, in a critical situation, ideal in a doctor/surgeon; naturally reinforced and refined by her training. On the personal side, Rio also has a history of having been somewhat gullible in her being attracted to, and too ready to fall for, the type of men who weren’t what she had hoped they would be nor compatible with her, leading to several heartbreaks. She eventually became more and more isolated and has now become reluctant to allow anyone to get too close again. Ambitions: Rio came into ‘life in Starfleet’ with the hope intention that it would offer her an opportunity to progress professionally by expanding her medical experience working with a wider range of races and species and in more advanced and diverse medicine. Hobbies and Interests: Rio is good at hover-hockey and 3D chess and she loves music of all genres. She has a passable singing voice and learned to play piano and Bass Saxophone from an early age. She also learned to ride Terran horses when young and it has remained a great joy to her ever since. |
History
| Personal History | Rio was born to a Terran mother by a Trill father who died when she was 6. Her mother returned to Earth to her family who helped to raise Rio and consequently her Trill roots had largely faded into her past. As a teenager Rio attempted to do some research into her father's past but her maternal Grandfather was a Starfleet Starship Captain (now retired) and was bent on her going to the Starfleet Academy. She had no objection on condition that she could specialise in Medicine for which she had shown an aptitude at college, and as such she was too absorbed in her career and studies to take a long intended trip to Trill until she was in her late 20s. She has not yet discovered that she has an older half-sister who lived on Trillius Prime too with her own respective mother until the latter lady had died and then her daughter, Rio’s sister, Rai, also moved away consequently Rio still currently believes she is an only child. |
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| Service Record | Rio did most of her medical training at Starfleet's Cochran University Hospital in New San Francisco on Earth, and went on to spend her Registrar years in situ. She then served on the USS Renaissance, a Galaxy Class ship with a large medical section where she was encouraged to undertake a research project as part of her specialty. She chose genetics and was awarded the Pallanski Prize for Most Promising Newcomer. Once fully qualified as a Ship's Surgeon at the age of 28, Rio took a year's secondment to finally visit Trillius Prime, where she practiced in the Mak’ala City Medical Complex. Whilst there, she found herself very busy with long work hours and didn’t actually manage to find any of her father’s relatives during her few and far between explorations out of the complex in search of clues. She felt she hadn’t really tried hard enough, being so distracted by her work to which she was passionately devoted, so she resolved to return in the future. Knowing that, with the agreed time had now elapsed, Rio was under obligation to return to active Starfleet duty, so she chose to rejoin at Starbase DS9 and once again, Rio became deeply engrossed in her work and in time she was promoted. She also became engaged to a fellow officer which kept her in an exciting and apparently ‘perfect’ situation until about a year into the relationship when she came off duty unexpectedly early and found her betrothed in their joint quarters, in bed with her supposed best friend. Since that shock Rio has found it difficult to trust and remains lonely and cautious with a large degree less of her former characteristic sunny outgoing nature in social situations. Rio is applying for the position of Chief Medical Officer on USS Enterprize because she sees it as an exciting new challenge to return to Starship life again and hopes this will offer her an opportunity to progress professionally (just as the first Starship in her career had done) but also a chance to leave the whole Starbase/betrayal experience far behind in both physical and emotional senses. |