Roptojmey

Birth and Childhood

Roptjomey was born in 2334, on Qo’noS as a member of a lower house. Due to having many birth defects and the unlikelihood of him becoming a worthy heir, his father ordered him to be abandoned in the wilds. Unwilling to subscribe her child to death, his mother in turn deposited the child on a local trading planet close to the Klingon-Federation border. Luckily, a newlywed Tellarite couple discovered him and tried to reach out to the Klingon Government to find his family.

When the parents were told the boy was ‘ghubDaQ Roptojmey’ [ghubDaQ meaning ‘First Born’, Roptoj meaning ‘Scars from illness’, and -mey meaning ‘many’] and not worth saving. This infuriated the Tellarties, who took the boy in immediately as their own and named him Roptojmey in defiance of the Klingon’s abandonment, determined to raise him to be a dedicated member of society and prove them wrong.

Roptojmey’s mother was a renowned pediatrician in her own right and spent countless hours devoted to treating most of the boy’s illnesses to the point that by the time he started school, aside from an odd limp due to his bone structure, he was a normal, healthy boy. His father would often tell children that the only reason he looked different from them was because he had butterfingers and dropped Roptojmey on his face as a child. Other than that, Roptojmey was just another Tellarite and grew up a well-adjusted child.

By the time he grew older, he had taken an interest in medicine. In 2352, he enrolled in the Federation Medical Academy on Tellar Prime and served his pre-med and residency period, earning his doctorate in 2359. In 2362, he joined a Federation Relief Task Force and was sent to help the survivors of the Setlik III Massacre, giving him his first taste of the horrors of war.  Never before had he seen such atrocity, but it only prompted him to become better at his craft so he could continue to save as many lives as he could.

 Starfleet Service

For the next six years, he studied and trained to become a prolific trauma surgeon, culminating in him being recruited into a Starfleet Task Force that was staging along the Federation-Klingon border, in case the Klingon Civil War broke through and erupted into further conflict. As civilians were not authorized in potential ‘war zones’, he was given a field commission as Lieutenant. Roptojmey felt this was the perfect opportunity to face his abandonment issues towards the Klingons; however, the war ended peacefully, and he was instead dispatched to aid the Klingons.

Initially, he felt so out of place back on Qo’noS and worried he would be gutted on the spot. But to his surprise, the Klingons he worked with respected him and his craft, acknowledging his Klingon family were wrong for what they did, but reveled in his accomplishments despite the fact. This changed something in Roptojmey, bringing closure to nearly 30 years of repressed aggression towards his biological homeland.

In 2370, Roptojmey was convinced his efforts could be put to better use in Starfleet, and he was enrolled and graduated from the Officer Candidate School, solidifying his rank as a Lieutenant. Roptojmey married in 2371 to a beautiful Tellarite bride and served in joint operations with the Fifth Fleet, based out of Starbase 375 during the entirety of the Dominion War. In 2382, his wife gave birth to a daughter, prompting Roptojmey to re-evaluate his position in Starfleet. After much offboarding, he resigned at the rank of Commander in 2384 to become a full-time father on Tellar Prime in his family estate, which he inherited after his parents’ passing.

Retirement

In 2396, despite much effort on his part, Roptojmey’s wife passes away, leaving him to raise their 15-year-old daughter alone. He pours even more of his heart and soul into his daughter, spoiling her but also helping guide her on the path to her future. He gets her sponsorship into Starfleet Academy in 2399, but is devastated once again when she is killed in her Junior Year, following the events of Frontier Day. Heartbroken and alone, he turns to a dark place before old colleagues reach out and suggest he return to Starfleet, which he only does out of memory of his daughter.