Lieutenant Tollan Yara
Name Tollan Yara
Position Medical Officer
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Trill | |
| Age | 35 (Host) / 168 (Yara Symbiont) |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'10" (177 cm) | |
| Weight | 160 lbs (72.5 kg) | |
| Hair Color | Brown | |
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Physical Description | Tollan Yara is a joined Trill male with an athletic, lean build maintained through regular exercise and years of active Starfleet service. His appearance balances youthful energy with a quiet confidence that often makes him seem older than his years without appearing aged. His brown hair is neatly kept without much fuss, practical and slightly relaxed rather than rigidly styled. Blue eyes often settle into expressions of mild amusement, attentiveness, or quiet understanding, paired with the faint suggestion that he probably knows more than he is letting on. The distinctive Trill spots begin at his temples and run down both sides of his body, subtle reminders of the species and history that shape him. Though quietly handsome, Tollan carries himself with an ease that makes him approachable rather than intimidating. He dresses neatly without vanity, favoring comfort and practicality when off duty while maintaining Starfleet professionalism when required. |
Family
| Spouse | Former Spouse: Rheysa Yara — Deceased | |
| Children | Previous Host's Children: Treasha Yara — Deceased Dannis Yara — Deceased |
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| Father | Daren Iraklion — Age 68 — Botanist, Unjoined Trill | |
| Mother | Selira Iraklion — Age 66 — University Lecturer, Cultural Anthropology, Unjoined Trill | |
| Brother(s) | Peren Iraklion — Age 40 — Architect, Unjoined Kalen Iraklion — Age 38 — Commercial Transport Pilot. Unjoined Jorad Iraklion — Age 31 — Restaurateur, Unjoined |
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| Sister(s) | Nella Iraklion — Age 28 — Teacher, Unjoined |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Though the current host, Tollan Iraklion, is only thirty-five, the Yara symbiont carries the memories and perspective of four previous lifetimes. Unlike some joined Trill, Tollan wears that history lightly, finding most people’s assumptions about joined species quietly amusing. Perspective, to him, matters far more than age. Warm, socially perceptive, and quietly witty, Tollan genuinely enjoys people. Years of experience—both lived and inherited—have left him patient with flaws and slow to judge mistakes. He understands better than most that fear, grief, pride, loneliness, and bad timing have a habit of making otherwise sensible people deeply irrational. As a doctor, Tollan believes medicine is about helping people get back to living. Compassionate without being indulgent, he balances bedside warmth with dry humor and blunt honesty, particularly with stubborn patients determined to make their own lives harder. In a crisis, however, the warmth gives way to calm efficiency. Emergencies reveal a quietly commanding doctor more interested in solving problems than panicking over them. Tollan’s joined perspective has shaped a simple philosophy: life should be lived while it lasts. The symbiont may continue, but Tollan himself only gets one chance to be this person. That belief leaves him deeply social and well integrated into ship life, equally at home in Sickbay, poker games, gym sessions, boxing nights, karaoke after one drink too many, or long evenings in the DMZ with friends. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: Compassionate and empathetic Cares deeply for people and rarely loses sight of the person behind the patient. Calm under pressure Focused, decisive, and quietly commanding in emergencies. Socially perceptive Quick to read people and emotional undercurrents. Dry sense of humor Uses wit to ease tension and call out nonsense without cruelty. Excellent bedside manner Balances compassion with accountability. Joined perspective Multiple lifetimes of experience give him patience and nuance. Weaknesses: Pushes when he thinks he is right Can mistake understanding someone for permission to push harder. Quietly meddlesome Has a habit of nudging people toward what he thinks is best. Avoids his own problems More comfortable helping others than examining himself. Too amused by people sometimes Can underestimate how serious something feels to others. Enjoys life a little too much Social, flirtatious, and occasionally guilty of late nights and questionable choices |
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| Ambitions | To live this life fully, help people leave the world better than he found them, and make sure the people around him remember to actually live while they still can. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Tollan enjoys poker, Parrises Squares, gym training, boxing nights, karaoke, travel, cultural festivals, and long evenings in the DMZ with friends. Tollan enjoys poker, Parrises Squares, gym training, boxing nights, karaoke, travel, cultural festivals, and long evenings in the DMZ with friends. A regular at crew boxing matches, he often serves as an informal corner man and medic, helping patch people up between rounds while quietly enjoying the camaraderie and spectacle. Outside of work, Tollan enjoys music, good food, strong drinks, and social gatherings, rarely turning down the opportunity for a memorable evening or a story worth retelling. He also has an appreciation for flirtation, companionship, and the unpredictability that tends to come with both. |
| Personal History | Tollan Iraklion was born on Trill in 2352 into a close-knit, entirely unjoined family. The middle child among five siblings, he grew up in a household defined by warmth, lively disagreement, humor, and occasional chaos. His parents encouraged curiosity over perfection, and family dinners often turned into debates, storytelling, or spirited arguments that somehow always resolved themselves by dessert. Unlike many joined Trill, Tollan did not grow up expecting or planning for symbiosis. No one in his family had been joined, and the idea initially seemed distant—important perhaps, but not personal. What fascinated him instead were people. Why they behaved the way they did. Why they loved poorly, grieved deeply, fought stubbornly, forgave unexpectedly, and somehow continued moving forward after loss. Medicine appealed to him for similar reasons. Tollan pursued medical studies as an unjoined Trill, expecting a fairly ordinary life in medicine and Starfleet service. Joining only became a serious consideration during his late adolescence, motivated less by prestige than curiosity. The idea of carrying multiple perspectives—of understanding life beyond the limitations of a single experience—felt meaningful in ways he struggled to articulate. To his own surprise, he was accepted into the Symbiosis program. Joining with the Yara symbiont changed him profoundly. The adjustment was difficult at first. Yara brought with it generations of memories, emotional echoes, habits, instincts, griefs, and perspectives that could not simply be sorted into neat compartments. Previous lives lingered in strange ways—a preference for certain foods, old songs remembered without context, grief for people he had never personally met yet somehow missed. The Yara symbiont had lived many lives: among them a physician, a diplomat, a parent, and an explorer. Tollan inherited perspectives rather than expertise, emotional memory rather than replacement identity. He learned quickly that joining was not becoming someone else. It was becoming more fully yourself. Being the only joined sibling in his family grounded him in unexpected ways. His parents and siblings remained proud but stubbornly unwilling to treat him differently. He was still expected at family gatherings, still teased relentlessly, and still corrected by his mother whenever she felt he was being dramatic. Joining expanded Tollan’s life, but his family ensured he never disappeared beneath it. Following Starfleet Medical training, Tollan entered service shortly before the Dominion War. Though his wartime service came toward the conflict’s end, it profoundly shaped him as a physician. Emergencies taught him efficiency. Loss taught perspective. Watching people cling desperately to moments they feared losing only reinforced what joining had already taught him: life mattered precisely because it ended. Over the next decade, Tollan served aboard several starships, developing a reputation as an intelligent physician with strong bedside manner and an unusual knack for difficult personalities. By the time he arrived aboard the Moore in 2384, Tollan had settled comfortably into the rhythms of starship life. He quickly became part of the social fabric of the crew, equally at home in Sickbay, the gym, poker nights, or the DMZ. Over time, he developed a particularly close friendship with Counselor Koaruh Avestro. Their friendship is built on easy trust, mutual teasing, gym sessions, poker, karaoke after too many drinks, occasional attempts at playing wingman for one another, and the sort of honesty only close friends tend to survive. Among the crew, Tollan has earned a reputation as the doctor people actually like seeing—provided they are prepared to hear uncomfortable truths wrapped in dry humor. Reliable in a crisis and approachable when things are quiet, he remains one of the Moore’s steadier presences. For Tollan, life aboard a starship is exactly what life ought to be: meaningful work, good people, imperfect decisions, and enough stories to make the difficult days worth remembering. |
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| Service Record | 2374–2376 — Medical Officer, USS Tigris 2376–2380 — Assistant Chief Medical Officer, USS Venture 2380–2384 — Assistant Medical Officer, USS Hathaway 2384–Present — Medical Officer, USS Moore |