Bio: Kyle Mele.

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Biography: Lieutenant Commander Kyle Mele, USS Manticore

 

Race: Trill

 

Name:

Symbiont: Mele

Host (current): Kyle

 

Gender:

Symbiont: N/A

Host (current): Male

 

Age (Standard years):

Symbiont: 226

Host (current): 27

 

Physical appearance*:

Build: Lean, muscular, but without an overpowering demeanor.

Height: 6’

Hair color: Light brown, streaks of blond apparent.

Eye color: Blue.

 

Health (Dr. Gerald Fitzhugh, Starfleet):

Physical Due to a rigorous exercise program and healthy eating

habits, Kyle is in excellent physical condition. The high points of his physical abilities include bursts of strength in extreme situations, agility, and excellent eyesight. His lower areas include lack of long-term physical stamina and an inability to maintain high speed.

Mental: Kyle’s mind is sharp; he picks up on things quickly, and loves learning. His attitude is usually cheerful and his outlook on life in general is bright. Mental assets include long-term brainstorming stamina, decision-making processes, and computational skills. Low points include his tendency to make snap decisions under stress, and his painstaking attention to minute details.

 

History (Symbiont and Hosts):

 

Mele [symbiont] {2151- }

Bred in the year 2151, the Mele symbiont spent the first seven years of its life underwater. The small, sightless, sessile creature, after having completed its maturing the pools located in the underground caves of Mak’ala, was joined to its first Host, Kyp. Being its first joining, the Symbiont gained most of its information on trill society from Kyp. Since leaving the caves of Mak’ala, Mele has always had a Host waiting to be joined when its current Host died. As a result, Mele has not returned to the underwater pools since it left in 2158. Mele is relatively young for a Symbiont, at only two hundred twenty-six years.

 

Kyp [Host, male] {2137-2235}

Kyp, a very successful businessman on Trill, was the first Host to the Mele Symbiont. As he was the first Host the Symbiont had ever joined to, Kyp’s personality remained much the same as it had before the joining. Kyp married in the year 2164 at the age of twenty-seven to an unjoined Trill female, Yrem. The marriage produced two children, Risila and Manea. Though both applied for Host, only Risila received a Symbiont, Hizal. Kyp died on 2235 of natural causes at the age of ninety-eight. He had been joined to the Mele Symbiont seventy-seven years, the longest of all Mele’s Hosts to date.

 

Marem [Host, male] {2216-2238}

Born in the year 2216, Marem soon found his “calling” as a smalltime cargo pilot, adventurous and dare devilish. In 2235, Marem was joined with Mele at the age of nineteen. After only three years, Marem was involved in a fatal piloting accident in which his ship was unsalvageable. The crew of the other ship involved in the accident was able to beam Marem onboard shortly before his ship was destroyed, thereby allowing the Mele Symbiont to be joined with another Host. In light of this and several other cases involving younger Hosts and immature decisions, the Symbiosis Evaluation Board began its policy of joining Symbionts with Hosts at least in their mid-twenties. As a result, only in special cases will a Symbiont be joined with a Trill Host any younger than early twenties.

 

Caren [Host, female] {2214-2300}

Joined with the Mele Symbiont in the year 2238 at the age of twenty-four, Caren was the third Trill to host Mele, and the first female. She had married only a year before her joining, to a joined Trill, Cunz Tarzil. The Symbiosis Evaluation Board joined her with the Mele Symbiont simply because Mele was the only Symbiont who had not been previously associated in marriage via Host to the long-lived Tarzil Symbiont. Because Caren and Cunz had no offspring, she was left free to pursue her career in the medical field. Though her ideas and solutions were cutting edge and forefront in the early to mid part of her life, she found that the advancement of technology in the medical department left her ideas obsolete and old-fashioned. After Cunz’s death, she took what was left of their estate and moved to a small island in the southern hemisphere. She died there of natural causes at the age of eight-six, having been joined to the Mele Symbiont sixty-two years.

 

Hashna [Host, female] {2278-2370}

The second female Host to Mele, Hashna was born in 2278. She was joined to the Mele Symbiont in the year 2300 age of twenty-two. She married at thirty, though the marriage ended in disaster only four years later when her husband, an unjoined Trill, died. Lacking any interest in the jobs available to her, she took the small fortune left her by her belated husband and departed on Trill on a trek for adventure. For fifty-eight years she spent her time visiting planets, vacation spots, and the like. It is believed the Mele Symbiont’s vast knowledge in the realm of xenobiology likely was accumulated in this time period. Hashna’s travels eventually led her to a small, neutral station in 2370, where she died of a heart attack. Hashna spent seventy years joined to Mele.

 

Kyle (current) [Host, male] {2350- }

Kyle, the latest Host for the Mele Symbiont, entered his application to the Symbiosis Evaluation Board in 2369. After completing the initial Host studies, Kyle left Trill to “find himself” before beginning the more intense training a Trill host receives prior to being joined with a Symbiont. He ended up on the same station Hashna was visiting and witnessed her death after only a few weeks on the station. Because the station’s stasis units were inoperational, the station’s medical staff contacted the Symbiosis Evaluation Board, asking permission to join the Mele Symbiont with Kyle. The Board gave its consent due to the fact that unless it joined with another Host, the Mele Symbiont would surely not survive. As a result, in 2368, at the age of eighteen, Kyle was successfully joined with Mele.

After undergoing the routine personality change and talking with the station’s patrons, some of whom were in Starfleet, Kyle decided on a career as a Starfleet Officer. He traveled to Uridian II, where he passed the entrance exam, coming out barely ahead of another applicant. From there, he traveled to San Francisco, enrolling in Starfleet Academy with a major in the medical field, as well as a minor in the engineering area. He graduated near the head of his class, and was soon posted as Assistant Engineering Officer onboard the USS Illustrator-B (NCC-4000-B).

In 2373, after a freak accident in the Engineering department, Kyle was transferred to the Medical department. Since that accident, Mele has developed what appears to be an extreme sensitivity to fluctuations in his host/symbiont borozine levels. As such, such minute things as bug bites can be dangerous or even fatal.

After his transfer to Sickbay, he served as Assistant Medical Officer until 2373, when after the departure of the Chief Medical Officer, he was promoted to Chief Medical Officer. Kyle served on the USS Illustrator-B (NCC-4000-B) as well as the refitted USS Illustrator-C (NCC-4000-C) until 2374.

Early in the year 2374, Kyle stepped down as Chief Medical Officer onboard the USS Illustrator-C (NCC-4000-C) and took an extended leave of absence. Upon returning, he put in for and received a transfer to the USS Manticore (NCC-5852) as Assistant Medical Officer.

Kyle continued to serve onboard the USS Manticore (NCC-5852) as Assistant Medical Officer until 2376, when he was promoted to Acting Chief Medical Officer. In 2377, Kyle was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and given the official post of Chief Medical Officer.

Edited August 20, 2004 by kyle_mele