Alina Zyhl

**Alina Zyhl** is a Starfleet astrometeorologist and the commanding officer of the *Reliant*-class *U.S.S. Cartigan*. Alina specializes in "storm hunting" missions, leading her ship and crew into the heart of ion and plasma storms to learn more about what makes them tick.

# Assignments

2404: Junior science officer, *USS Bowditch* (*Nova*-class)

2408: Chief Science Officer, *USS Hypatia* (*Rhode Island*-class)

2411: Science Officer, Astrometeorology Department, Starbase 39-Sierra

2413: First Officer, *USS Agassiz* (*Quazar*-class)

2415: Commanding Officer, *USS Agassiz*

2417: Commanding Officer, *USS Cartigan* (*Reliant*-class, NCC-91132)

# Dates of Rank

2404: Ensign

2406: Lieutenant, Junior Grade

2408: Lieutenant

2415: Lieutenant Commander

# Biography

## Family and Early Life

Alina was born in the Zyhl clan holdings located in a sparsely populated region of Andoria. Allegedly the Zyhl Clan has a centuries old tradition of naming one member of each generation after one of the clan's most honored ancestors. This record will neither confirm nor deny that Alina was chosen at birth for the honor of being the one in her generation to bear the Clan's Name "Thryssialinabliss" and she goes by "Alina" because human-sounding nicknames were, and still are, all the rage among the clans in her home region of Andoria.

When Alina was six years old she decided to go exploring the basement storage area of her grandparents' house and when this expedition went on far too long, not to mention far too quietly, for the size of the space involved, a rescue operation was mounted. Alina's parents found her sitting cross-legged on the floor and gazing in joyous wonder upon the pages of a musty old tome about the *Kumari* and other famous ice-cutters of the Andorian Classical Age of Exploration. Alina looked up from the book and declared that one day she would join Starfleet to become an explorer and the captain of her own ship.

## Starfleet Academy and Early Career

2400: Entered Starfleet Academy; followed the Science Officer Command track with a specialty in geophysics

2404: Commissioned as Ensign and assigned as a junior science officer aboard the *USS Bowditch* (*Nova*-class), took part in an 18 month survey of the Western Reach continent on Ruben Prime, assisted in the identification of 4 locations for future settlements and credited with the discovery of an economically promising bakrinium vein in close proximity to Settlement Location #3

2406: Promoted to Lieutenant, Junior Grade, received certification as a shuttlecraft and runabout pilot

2408: Promoted to Lieutenant and assigned as Chief Science Officer aboard the *USS Hypatia* (*Rhode Island*-class); *USS Hypatia* assigned to Outpost Quebec Alpha, Breshar System, Ponar Sector where the crew assisted the Vulcan Science Academy with planetary surveys of Breshar Prime and the study and analysis of ionic storms along the Ponar Sector segment of the Romulan Neutral Zone

2409: Received piloting certification for *Rhode Island*-class vessels, certification upgraded later that year to include qualification for piloting in turbulent interstellar environments

2411: Assigned as Science Officer, Astrometeorology Department, Starbase 39-Sierra to complete graduate work focusing on the particle physics of turbulent interstellar environments

## Service Record

2413: Assigned as First Officer, *USS Agassiz* (*Quazar*-class); *USS Agassiz* assigned to "storm hunter" patrols, navigation beacon and communication array maintenance, and search and rescue duties along the Federation-Romulan Republic border between Starbase 114 and Starbase 39-Sierra

2414: Piloting certification amended to include certification for *Quasar*-class vessels

2415: Promoted to LCDR, appointed to command of the *USS Agassiz*; *USS Agassiz* tasked with escort duty for humanitarian relief convoys operating in the 114-39 Sierra Corridor, crew decorated for developing innovative convoying tactics which allowed civilian cargo vessels to safely traverse up to Level 5 ionic storms in order to evade Herald strike forces

2416: *USS Agassiz* deployed to Alpha Quadrant to assist with ionic storm surveys in the Mizar Sector; while conducting a survey of Ionic Storm Mizar-91184-J in the Mizar Sector, *USS Agassiz* rescued and apprehended the crew of a smuggler vessel attempting to hide in the storm, LCDR Zyhl was further able to devise and implement a deployment pattern for a string of Class 8 probes which allowed the *USS Agassiz* to produce high resolution imaging of the storm's interior structure when backlit by the detonation of the smuggler vessel's warp core

2417: LCDR Zyhl appointed to command of *USS Cartigan* (*Reliant*-class, NCC-91132)