Natasha Yar

**Natasha Yar**, better known as **Tasha**, is a Human Starfleet officer born on Turkana IV, and former security chief on the USS *Enterprise*-D. Tasha Yar was thought to have been killed not even a year into the *Enterprise*'s mission in 2364.

## Early history Edit

### Origins Edit

Tasha was born in 2337 on the failed Federation colony world of Turkana IV. Her sister, Ishara, was born five years later.

Sadly, Tasha was born a drug addict due to her mother's joy dust addiction. Her mother continued to feed her own baby the drug to keep her quiet, until she couldn't afford enough for the both of them. Tasha's earliest memories were of withdrawal pains.

In 2341, Tasha's mother cut off her knee-length braid of hair in an attempt to disguise her femininity from the rape gangs plaguing Turkana IV Tasha later kept it short so it could not be easily grabbed by an attacker.

Her sister, Ishara, was born in 2342.

They were abandoned soon after by their mother when Tasha was aged five.

An old woman named Yar took Tasha under her wing for company and taught her the skills of a petty thief and how to read signs around the city and make her way around its dangerous ruins, and kept her away from joy dust. Seven years later, around 2349, Tasha found Yar dead one morning, and dutifully took her knife to defend herself as she set out on her own. But only two days later, at only twelve years old, she was caught and gang-raped by one of the gangs plaguing the city. The terrible experience drove Tasha to train to fight and defend herself, learning to throw her knife and kill rats. She survived by stealing food, and twice killed rapists before they could get her again.

Two years later, Tasha rescued a ginger cat from feral children trying to set fire to its tail. Though she never named it, it became her closest companion. It once attacked a man attempting to kill her and steal her food; Tasha killed him

Finally, in 2352, Tasha decided to join the Hellcats, one of the all-woman gangs, for protection. She planned to offer her combat skills and her cat as a rat-hunter and mascot. But before she could contact them, she was again chased by a rape gang. They killed her cat after it attacked one of them, then captured her, intending to sell her to one of the powerful drug lords now that she was grown.

Fortunately, she was rescued by an away team from the USS *Cochrane*, led by Darryl Adin. She gave her name as Tasha Yar, adopting the old woman's name as her own, and was taken to the *Cochrane* and treated for her injuries and deprivation by Doctor Munson.

Meanwhile, Turkana IV's Colony Government had expelled the last of the Federation delegation

Although Ishara decided to remain on the planet and eventually joined the Coalition, Tasha managed to find a way off Turkana IV in 2352 by the age of fifteen. Ishara and Tasha never saw one another again.

## Starfleet career

### Academy and early assignments

Yar entered the Academy *circa* 2354 on a probationary appointment. She struggled in the first year with her uncivilized ways and failed the Ethics and Moral Principles course, being unable to accept that life wasn't cheap. Around 2358, Yar passed the Priam IV test with an excellent grade, thus gaining admission to the graduating class. At this time, Yar graduated with honors.

In 2359, Yar was assigned to the *Nebula*-class starship USS *Bellerophon*, as a junior security officer.

By 2363, Yar was serving aboard the USS *Victory* as assistant chief of security. She was awarded a citation for bravery following a mission to Kirishia, where she entered a Carnellian minefield in order to rescue several colonists. During the mission, Captain Jean-Luc Picard observed her bravery and vowed to have Yar aboard his next command, the USS *Enterprise*-D.

#### USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701-D)

Newly promoted, Lieutenant Yar was assigned to the USS *Enterprise*-D in early 2364, and one of her first assignments was to pilot the shuttlecraft *Galileo* and transfer Captain Picard to the *Enterprise*, which was docked at McKinley Station. Shortly after, the *Enterprise* set out for Farpoint Station to collect further crewmembers and to investigate the station.

On stardate 41187.5, Yar was part of the away team when the *Enterprise* made first contact with the Theluvians of Syntagus Theluv. She was able to stop the children from hurting the away team with the Tripolian hellblazer.

On stardate 41590.8, Tasha was part of an away team to the planet Tigan. After uncovering a global conspiracy, the team were attacked by Tigan security forces and Yar and Commander Riker were taken into captivity. By reprogramming her combadge to emit a high-pitched whine, the two were able to escape using the noise to confuse and induce pain in the guards, giving the pair sufficient advantage to fight their way out.

On stardate 42120.3, during the *Enterprise*-D's Christmas celebration, Yar helped Captain Picard and the Creeg chase down an energy being. Five days later, she started to train Wesley Crusher in hiding much to Picard's annoyance. She then went with Commander Riker and a security team to investigate a deserted ship. However, onboard the ship, Yar, Riker and the team were put into shock by tormenting images and brought back to the *Enterprise* in a traumatized state.

In late 2364, the *Enterprise* traveled to Vagra II in order to rescue two crewmembers who had crashed there. They encountered an entity known as Armus, which slew Yar (caused head trauma) when she attempted to assist her crewmates Or so everyone thought.

Secretly once her body made it back to the Enterprise lieutenant Folkert Schmidt the Assistant Chief Medical officer placed her body into a suspended animation chamber and secretly placed it among Cargo,

Doctor Schmidt was a member of Section 31 and was tasked with recovering recently dead officers bodies for experiments in reviving these dead officers.

He faked the remains and performed all the necessary arrangements to fool Crusher and the rest of the crew that Yar was truely gone, He eventually removed her body from the ship 3 days later in a secret transaction at starbase 44.