Fujita Diru

*For the mirror universe counterpart, see Fujita Diru (mirror).*

### Previous assignment(s)

Commanding officer, Starfleet Academy professor, admiralty, Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet

## Family

### Other relatives

Gregorious Diru (grandfather, deceased), Saith Mitthras (son-in-law), Matthew Diru (grandson)

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- **Fujita Diru**

**Fujita Diru** was a 23rd-24th century Starfleet officer, most noted for her service as captain of the starships USS *Frudael* and USS *Starlight*. The highlights of her career were centered around these commands, as also her services on the USS *Enterprise*-D and the USS *Voyager* and her role in the Admiralty. In these roles, Diru witnessed and played a key role in numerous major galactic events, from various first contacts to saving Earth from the Borg. Diru was also a celebrated professor at Starfleet Academy, where she taught courses in engineering, survival and science. Following her command of the *USS Starlight*, Diru continued to serve as officer-in-chief of Starfleet during the early 25th century.

## Early Life

Fujita Diru was born on January 24 2210 in Kataloran City on the planet Dael in the Delta Quadrant. She was part of a race of genetically enhanced Humans who lived in seclusion from Earth. She was the daughter of Demiyah and Jason Diru, two Daelan merchants; however, she was raised by her grandfather Gregorious Diru. She was the descendant of 20th century augmented soldiers.

When Diru was four years old, Dael was attacked by the borg. They assimilated her and killed her parents. However, the Dael Space Defence defeated the Borg before diru could be transported to their cube.

Diru was left on Dael in a type of cryosleep, until her grandfather found her and woke her up nineteen years later. Gregorious Diru continued to foster her. Diru once recalled her grandfather to have raised her without much regard for love or fun, but with great attention to science. That she hated at the time, but was a big reason why she grew up to be a great Starfleet officer.

In 2234, the Borg returned to Dael. Diru stole her grandfather’s spacecraft and managed to get onboard the Borg cube, planning to take them out in a stubborn bout of determination. Once in the cube, Diru was found by members of the Dael Space Defence, and they teamed up to defeat the Borg cube. This they managed, but not before much of Kataloran was destroyed. Gregorious was killed in this attack.

In the next year, the sixteen year old Diru became a captain in the Dael Space Defence, preparing in case the Borg would return. They did so one last time the next year. The Dael Space Defence, Diru with them, launched a counter attack, but the Borg managed to re-assimilate Diru. The Borg then used Diru to kill her colleagues and friends, so they had an open playing field to assimilate the people of Dael. Without people defending the planet, Dael was unprotected and soon fell. Everyone was killed except for the few Daelans who had found themselves in spacecrafts around the planet and were scattered about the quadrant.

Diru was among those few who had survived. Now the Borg had left, her assimilation wear off and Diru fell into another cryosleep. The spacecraft she was located in, continued orbiting Dael for the next decades.

Diru woke up in 2260, when she returned to Dael. Gregorious had told her about Earth and the wormhole that had brought their ancestors to this quadrant of the galaxy, and Diru spend the next four years finding a way to return to Earth through this wormhole.

After four years, Diru located the wormhole and flew through it to the Alpha Quadrant. There, she was picked up by the USS *Enterprise*.

## Starfleet Career

### Starfleet Academy

After Diru was found by the USS *Enterprise*, the recent captain James Kirk offered her a stay aboard the ship until she could figure out to go. Kirk soon discovered Diru’s aptitude for engineering, and allowed her to perform small engineering jobs on the ship. Shortly, Kirk also recommended Diru to apply for Starfleet Academy, which she did.

Diru was accepted into the Academy that same year. She excelled in mostly all her subjects – although she lagged in courses about Federation history and politics for obvious reasons. Because of her skills, Diru was soon allowed to skip to the next grade. As that grade seemed too easy for her as well, she skipped to the next again, but was thereafter allowed to take her final exams instead. She graduated with flying colours.

### Command of the USS *Frudael*

After Diru graduated, she returned to the *Enterprise* to serve as junior engineer. Her friendship with Kirk allowed her some level of prestige on the ship. When the *Enterprise* got in trouble with the Klingons after a few months, Diru waved the ship. Starfleet Command was impressed and allowed her temporal command of the USS *Heracles* to test her abilities. As Diru passed Starfleet Command’s test, she was allowed to remain the commanding officer of the *Heracles*, which she renamed USS *Frudael* – the word for the people of Dael in her language.

In 2265, the *Enterprise* and the *Frudael* together set out on a five-year mission. The two crews had many adventures in these years. In this time, Diru and Kirk also grew closer and soon engaged in a relationship.

Both ships returned to Earth in 2270. The successful mission resulted in Diru’s promotion to rear admiral. While her fellow captain Kirk took up a posting as Chief of Starfleet Operations, Diru requested to stay commanding officer of the *Frudael*.

In 2272, Diru and Kirk got married in San Francisco on Earth. The year thereafter, both their ships engaged in another five-year mission. In the first year, the *Frudael* and the *Enterprise* had been part of a diplomatic mission to the planet of the Alboni. Although the mission had progressed well, there had been a sudden attack of the Coras – a xenophobic faction of Alboni. The crews of both starships attempted to help the Alboni defend themselves from the attack, but Diru got badly injured. She woke up soon after being healed, but was unaware that the Alboni physician who had taken care of her had cured her infertility.

Soon after this incident, Diru discovered she was pregnant. She first resolved to have the foetus removed, but Kirk convinced her to keep it, although unwillingly. The child was born after six months – three moths too early due to an injury Diru sustained during a mission.

After the birth of her daughter Delia in 2274, Diru first removed herself from the child. She wanted nothing to do with her. After being reprimanded by her friends and seeing her husband hurt, however, she changed her attitude and soon started loving her daughter.

Diru remained commanding officer of the *Frudael* for the next two decades. By 2293, Kirk had retired however. When her husband was asked to be honoured guests on the maiden voyage of the *Excelsior­*-class starship *USS Enterprise*-B, Diru decided to accompany him. Although the voyage was little more than a ceremonial cruise, Captain Harriman decided to respond to a distress signal from two vessels transporting El-Aurian refugees, which was trapped in an energy distortion called the Nexus. The rescue mission was a partial success, but the *Enterprise*-B succumbed to the Nexus’ gravimetric field. Kirk and Diru volunteered to modify the ship’s deflector relays and successfully enabled the ship’s escape. Kirk and Diru were lost when a burst of energy from the Nexus breached the ship’s hulls, however, and were presumed dead.

### Back to ensign

Although Diru was presumed dead, she did not, in fact, die. She was sent into the Nexus, where she lived for 66 years in a dream-like state. In 2359, Diru woke up from that dream-like state and found herself on a colony that was inhabited by non-humanoid aliens. Although she could not understand the aliens and did not know if they understood her, they put her on a spacecraft and transported her to Earth. She would never find out who those aliens had been and how they had retrieved her from the Nexus. She just knew she had travelled ahead in time more than a decade and found herself in the body of a twenty year old.

Whatever the reason that brought her here, Diru accepted that she could never return to her own time. She realised she had been given a second chance, and chose to take it. Wanting to start back from the beginning, Diru created herself a fake Starfleet record and got herself a position as junior engineer onboard the USS *Merrimac*, making sure no one knew about her real identity. Diru had trouble fitting into this more structured and more impersonal Starfleet, however, and was soon sent off the *Merrimac* for disobeying regulations and orders. She was then transferred to the USS *Brattain*, where she left when she felt she was a better engineer than the chief engineer and caused a fight.

Next, went to Starbase 157, an unimportant posing where she was sent to figure out her unruly behaviour. After having served on this base for a few months, the *Mary Kinglsey* docked to resupply. That was when Diru met Kathryn Janeway, who had been the ship’s second officer. Together, Diru and Janeway discovered a bout of radiation poisoning threatening the lives of the crew of the *Mary Kingsley*. The duo saved the crew by means of a prototype device, gaining the ship’s captain’s – at the time Admiral Owen Paris – admiration. Paris then requested Diru to join his crew. Diru and Janeway became vast friends. Diru once remarked that Paris’ faith in her and Janeway’s friendship were the sole reasons of her getting through those first hard years back in Starfleet, when she had to rediscover herself and her place in society.

Diru’s stay on the *Mary Kingsley* did not last long. In 2360, she stole one of the ship’s shuttles to save a fellow crewmember, against Paris’ orders. Although Paris understood her reasonings, he found himself obligated to send her away.

Diru served on five more ships – the *Jemison*, where she picked a fight with the captain; the USS *Odyssee* the USS *Livingston*, where she caused a warp core explosion by accident, which was in fact nothing more than a bug in the system that was not her fault, as she would later find out; the USS *Akagi*, which she chose to leave as the command crew did not fit her vision of Starfleet; and finally the USS *Atlantis* – in a span of to years before ending up on the USS *Hood*. At this time, the *Hood* was commanded by Robert DeSoto with William Riker as executive officer. Having had her temper tamed somewhat after so many setbacks, Diru tried her hardest to fit in with this crew. Yet she frequently got to deal with Riker after complaints or incidents with fellow crew. Riker saw her try, however, and developed a soft spot for the woman. The two became friend.

The *Hood* was Diru’s longest posting in this century so far, where she stayed for over a year Early 2363, however, Diru discovered a spatial anomaly near the *Hood*, and tried to warn the captain of the anomalies imminent danger. DeSoto did not believe her, however, as the records Diru had made of this anomaly the first time she had encountered it a century ago, had been deleted. Diru knew that the last time she had seen this anomaly, it had destroyed two starships. As DeSoto would not hear her, Diru decided to take matters into her own hands and saved the ship, but at cost of the lives of one of the crew. Afterward, DeSoto still did not believe her story, and she received a reprimand for killing a crewmember with her insubordinate actions. DeSoto saw no other option but to sent her away once again. Riker did believe Diru, however, and made sure she got a position on the USS *Billings*.

Onboard the *Billings*, Kathryn Janeway was the first officer. The two women were happy to serve together again, and the coming months would be some of the happiest in Diru’s long life. This, too, came to an end when Diru killed a Romulan diplomat she discovered to be a traitor. The *Billings*’ captain, however, followed the tradition on not believing Diru’s word, and sent her off.

Next, Diru served on the *Gage* where she met Chakotay, and on the *Mercenary.* In early 2364, Riker requested Diru as part of the *Enterprise*-D’s engineering department, and Diru eagerly accepted this position.

### Service on the USS *Enterprise*-D

Diru would spend the next six years serving on the USS *Enterprise*-D. At first, she was a junior engineer. As time went by, Diru’s friendship with Riker grew. After some months, Riker developed suspicion about the woman’s real identity. He confronted her with this, after which she admitted to be *the* Admiral Fujita Diru. She made Riker promise to keep this information – which only he and Janeway knew about at this point – a secret, which he did. However, within that same year, Jean-Luc Picard made the same decision. He requested Starfleet Command to reinstate her rank of admiral, which was granted. Although it was customary for admirals to serve at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco, Earth, Diru requested to stay onboard the *Enterprise*, where she felt she had finally found a home. The admiralty – who were aware Diru had never been one to sit behind a desk, not follow the rules – were dubious about this request, yet also relieved not to have to serve alongside a legend like Diru, and accepted this request. Diru continued to serve as engineer, scientist and advisor on the *Enterprise* until 2370, every now and then teaching classes at Starfleet Academy at the side.

When Diru had first arrived in this century, she had assumed all her friends were either dead or old. She knew Kirk had been lost in the same Nexus as she had been. McCoy and Spock were both still alive, but were old. She discovered that her old friend and first officer and taken command of the *Frudael* after her death, but he had soon died in an accident. Shortly thereafter, the *Frudael* – with Diru’s daughter Delia onboard – had gone missing and the crew had been presumed dead.

In 2365, however, the *Frudael* had suddenly reappeared, the crew just as old as they had been when they went missing. It turned out the *Frudael* had gotten caught in a temporal anomaly, after which they had travelled though various times before finally arriving in the 24th century. Delia was not 20, while Diru herself was only 25. The two were happy to see each other again, although Diru felt their relationship had changed now Delia had had to through the pain of having lost her parents.

### Service on *Deep Space 9*

In 2370, Diru was sent to inspect *Deep Space 9*. After the inspection, she chose to stay at the base, excited at the prospect of a new adventure. She also looked forward to serving with Kira Nerys, whom she had met years before when she had crashed on Bajor and had helped out the Shakaar resistance cell.

### Service on the USS *Voyager*

*Voyager* arrived at *Deep Space 9* in 2371, where they made ready to depart on their mission to find the missing Maquis ship *Val Jean*. Diru decided to come along on the two week mission, wanting to spend some time with her good friend Janeway. She was unaware, of course, that the two week mission would turn into a seven year detour through the Delta Quadrant.

While in the Delt Quadrant, Diru again served as engineer, science officer and advisor. In these years, Diru developed a great sense of guilt of having left Delia without mother once again. The relationship between the two had already been tedious before *Voyager* had gone missing – Delia had ever forgiven her mother for having left her back in 2393, nor for prioritising her ship over her when she had been a child – and Diru could only imagine how far they would have drifted apart by the time *Voyager* would get back.

Diru also grew wearier about returning home as time went by. On *Voyager* Diru felt a sense of purpose. They were all always working to reach a goal – to get home. However, Diru had felt useless, in a certain way, in the years before going to the Delta Quadrant. Although she had always been on a ship and had a job, she had never been indispensable. She had not been the commander of any ship or even department. Now she had found that purpose on *Voyager*, and was scared to lose it if she were to return home.

In 2375, *Voyager* passed through Faigan space. The ship was regularly investigated by the ship of the General Emion Bettoc, who threatened *Voyager*’s passage through Faigan Space. In reality, Bettoc was not at all the dictatorial and cold officer he made out to be, but was a covert operative of a resistance movement wanting to free Faigan from their oppressive government. Bettoc trusted Diru with this secret, and the two started to work together for both their benefits. Bettoc informed Diru of the Faigan patrol schedules, and Diru in turn gave Bettoc information his resistance could use.

Having to keep this liaison a secret from Janeway, Diru often felt conflicted. She and Bettoc fell in love, however, and saw each other often – though in secret. After three years of this, Janeway discovered the couple’s relationship and became angry with Diru, convinced Bettoc was evil. This issue was not yest resolved when *Voyager* returned to Federation space.

When *Voyager* regained contact with the Federation in 2376, Diru contacted Delia. Her daughter did not respond to her letters, but her son-in-law Saith Mitthras did. He informed her he and Delia had gotten a son three years before. This caused Diru’s feeling of guilt to grow, as she realised she had already missed out on much of her first and only grandson’s youth, and was likely to miss even more.

*Voyager* returned to the Federation in 2378.

### Years as professor at Starfleet Academy

After Voyager’s return to the Alpha Quadrant, Diru took up a position as professor at Starfleet Academy. She taught courses in engineering, survival and science. It was during these few years that Diru would meet many of the young cadets she would later request to serve on her ship the USS *Starlight*.

Soon after returning, Diru was visited by her friends Riker and Deanna Troi. They sensed her restlessness because of having returned home. Riker and Troi decided, knowing Diru’s liking to animals, to give Diru a puppy. Diru named the puppy Seyvah, the word for voyager or traveller in her own language. She would soon take the dog wherever she went.

During her time at Starfleet Academy, Diru started designing a type of starship. She spend two years working on her design, after which she pitched it to Starfleet Command in early 2380. The design was accepted, and construction started soon thereafter. Diru claimed command of the ships herself, which was accepted by the admiralty – although reluctantly. The admiralty had long since resorted to giving the admiral whatever she wanted, because they knew she would take it anyway.

After the construction of the new ship had started, Diru had not yet come up with a name. It is rumoured that instead of coming up with something on her own, she asked her grandson – who had been around eight years old at the time – to make one up for her. The name of the ships became “Starlight”.

### Command of the USS *Starlight*

Early 2382, the *Starlight* was finished and Diru assumed command. She welcomed her new crew and they sat out on their first voyages.

In the early days of her command, Diru had great struggles working with her executive officer Richard Dickson. Their strife rose to the point where Diru seriously considered transferring him away. Before she could do so, however, Dickson was killed in action and Diru accepted Christopher Anderson as her new first officer. This time the command pair did work out and the two became fast friends.

Around the same time, Delia died while on a mission with the *Starlight*. Diru blamed herself for her daughter’s death, who offered herself to save the *Starlight*. Diru had wanted to take Delia’s place, but her daughter would not let her. After Delia’s death, Diru was the one to tell her husband Saith Mitthras and son Matthew. Matthew would hate her for years to come, blaming her for his mother’s death.

After Delia’s death, Diru fell into an episode of depression, but would not accept help. It took her months to return to her own self.

In early 2383, the *Starlight* led an archaeological investigation of a colony in Cardassian space. The colony was discovered to have been shared between Cardassians and Bajorans and came to an end centuries ago, when the Aglaecii transported the colony’s entire population to the past. During this mission, Diru and her crew uncovered a plot of Cardassian anti-Federation extremists to assassinate Federation President Nanietta Bacco. Before the *Starlight* could return to the Federation to relay this information, however, the Aglaecii returned and transported the ship hundreds of years into the past, where the Cardassian-Bajoran colony still lived. The *Starlight* soon returned to their own time and prevented the assassination of Bacco.

In the same year, Bettoc found a way to travel to the Alpha Quadrant, and would regularly com to visit Diru.

### Commander-in-chief of Starfleet

In 2391, Diru was asked to take the position of Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet. She refused at first, not wanting to spend the rest of her career behind a desk. She had always sais she was a captain first and an admiral second; she belonged on the front line, taking action – not behind a desk, writing the rules. When she was asked again two years later, she did accept however. Diru was aware that whether she liked the work or not, she was the best person for the position and would betray her Starfleet identity if she did not take the offer.

Diru left command of the *Starlight* to Anderson, who promoted his wife Aridiya Neriouix to first officer – with blessing of Diru. Diru moved to San Francisco.

During her time in office, Diru took up baking as a hobby. She had been showed this hobby by her assistant Edanna Whetherbee.

Seeking more adventure, Diru also rediscovered her love for animals by starting a stable where she and friends stalled their horses.

In the year 2401, Bettoc took up the position of president of his own people, and had to return to his space for good.

In 2411, Diru died in action when trying to save the crew of her temporary command.

## Personal Interests

### Coffee

Throughout her long life, Diru had been well kown to try out a wide variety of beverages and coffee-like substances. Although she liked black coffee, she prefered her coffee mixed with cranberry juice, coconut or chocolat. During her time on *Deep Space 9*, she discovered her taste for the Klingon coffe variety *raktajino*. On the USS *Voyager*, Diru was one of the few officers who dared to try Neelix's wild coffee experiments, and found she enjoyed many of them. She was once poisoned by one of thse brews, but the Doctor managed to reverse the substance's effects.

### Animals

Throughout her life, Diru had a lot of pets. These pets included dogs and horses. Her most noted pet was her dog Seyvah, which she held during her command of the USS *Starlight*. Diru named Seyvah after the Hirundarian word for voyager or traveller. Diru often expressed a great understanding of animal behaviour.

### Science and technology

Diru developted a great passion for science and technology as a child. She maintained this passion throughout her long service in Starfleet. She was known to oush her ships and crew to great lengths for scientific discoveries, not shying away from danger. Diru was also known as one of the best - possibly *the* best - engineers in Starfleet, and she passed down her knowledge when teaching at Starfleet Academy. Even as captain, Diru would often jump at the change of divulging herself in enfgineering problems with her chief engineer Ya'Mogh Q'Ara.

### Martial arts

Besides a love for science and technology, Diru developed her interest in martial arts in her childhood as well. Although her grandfather was not interested in this, she managed to teach herself in the usage of weapons like swords, daggers and bows and arrows, as well as various other types of martial arts. She was known as a great fighter.

### Music

Diru had a great aptitude for music. As a child she learned to play the piano and her skills progressed throughout her life. Diru would often play for the crews of the USS *Frudael* and the USS *Enterprise*. She sometimes played duets with Spock or Nyota Uhura. On the USS *Starlight*, bartender Kenna McIntyre pushed Diru to perform in the many open stage evenings she organised. Diru went on to become a frequent performer in these evenings, eventually taking up singing besides playing the piano. She would sometimes perform with the Starlight Band. It was a well-known fact Diru liked to baffle her crew with her musical skills.

## Personality

As a captain, Diru was known for her aversion toward rules and her tendency to go out of her way to bend them - though she did not usually break them. As admiral, she often felt she had the freedom to do so. Diru did value regulations as the Prime Directive, but often felt certain rules were unnecessary. She saw her crew and her ships as the most important things in her life, and did not shy away from going out of her way to help or save them, up to the point where that would endanger her own life.

Her aversion for rules and command structure also extended to handling her responsibilities with ehr subordinates. Altough Diru always maintained the necessary distance from her crew on a personal level, she had a tendency to keep command structure on the back burner. She often avoided the usage of rank titles and expected the exact same performance of her senior and her junior crew.

Diru was known for her great courage, which she carried with her in all of her commands. She was always ready to give her life for her crew, and valued those who served under her to the extreme. Diru was also a greay tactician and sicentist, but was also noted hor her cold and harsh demeanor. Although she could express great patience, Diru had little tolerance for nonsense and ignorance. Though she sometimes showed skills close to those of a counsellor, she occasionally lacked social skills. This could put her in awkward positions. She also had a great temper, and could lash out in a split second. She learned to control this temper as she got older.

On a personal level, Diru was known as a great friend. She was prepared to go to great lengths to protect them, and would often carry great guilt with her when she could not.

## Personal Relationships

### Friends

#### Zantor

Diru's first friend was Zantor, a male of unknown species who would later serve as her first officer on the USS *Frudael*. Diru met Zantor when they were five years old, when she found him after being left behind on Dael by an alien ship. Gregorious Diru arranged for Zantor to be taken in by an orphanage, where he would spent many years before being adopted. Throughout this time and after, Diru and Zantor had much contact. Their friendship lost in intensity when Diru joined the Dael Space Defence and she gained more friends for the first time in her life. Diru thought Zantor had died in the last Borg attack on Dael, but would later find out he had survived and appointed him as her first officer on the *Frudael*.

#### Spock and Leonard McCoy

Diru became friends with Spock and Leonard McCoy during her services on the USS *Enterprise* and the USS *Frudael*. She would spend a lot of time with them during their ships joined five-year missions. Spock was the first Vulcan Diru met, and she often enjoyed his logic and wittiness, and always upheld the believe he had a great sense of humour. Diru enjoyed the frequent banter between Spock and MCCoy, thinking it one of the best means of entertainment that could be found on the *Enterprise*.

#### William Riker

Diru met William Riker in 2362 when they both served on the USS *Hood*. They would not yet become friends, but Riker developed a trust in her skills as engineer and was one of the few who believed her when she was sent away from the *Hood*. Riker would later be a big reason Diru received a posting on the USS *Enterprise*-D. There, Riker pushed a friendship between the two and Diru was grateful to learn of Riker's trust in her. This friendship caused Riker to find out Diru's real identity but she made him promise to keep it a secret from Captain Picard. Diru's and Riker's friendship grew strong in the six years they spent together on the *Enterprise*-D, and continued throughout Diru's time on *Deep Space 9*, *Voyager* and the *Starlight*. In 2378, Riker - together with his wife deanna Troi - gave Diru her dog Seyvah.

#### Kathryn Janeway

Diru and Kathryn Janeway met in 2359, when Janeway's first and best friend. Janeway was the first person to express trust in the seemingly young ensign. Janeway greatly appreciated Diru as an advisor on *Voyager*.

#### Christopher Anderson

According to Diru, Christopher Anderson was like a brother to her. They served together on the USS *Starlight* for eleven years, and stayed close friends for the rest of her life. As her executive officer and friend, Diru trusted Anderson fully - except for the time when she found out his secret identity as SIGMA Intelligence agent and that he and Admiral Owen Paris had been spying on her. She forgave him for this.

#### Kalan Hayatta

Diru met Kalan Hayatta when the former crashed her shuttle on Bajor in 2366. Diru spent some time with Kalan's resistance movement. Diru would later meet Kalan again in 2370 during her time on *Deep Space 9*. She would then convince the girl to join Starfleet Academy, which she did in 2372. When she hear about this in 2376, Diru was very pleased. When she started forming her crew complement for the USS *Starlight* in 2378, Kalan was the first officer she requested to be on her crew. Kalan served on the *Starlight* for two years, and had Diru's full support when she wanted to transfer to the newest *Wayfarer*-class starship the USS *Wayfarer* in 2384. The two remained friends through the years, and often worked together on mission once Kalan became commanding officer of the *Wayfarer*.

#### Elim Garak

Diru and Elim Garak met during Diru's service on *Deep Space 9*. She was among those who distrusted the Cardassian at first, but soon saw through his façade. Diru and Garak often enjoyed to spar verbally.

### Romance

#### James Kirk

James Kirk was the first Federation citizen Diru met when she arrived in the Alpha Quadrant. Kirk helped Diru into Starfleet Academy and sponsered her thoughout her short time there. Afterward, he was a big reason for her getting a command so soon in her career. Throughout their first five-year mission together, Diru and Kirk grew very close and soon entered a relationship. They both felt they were the only ones who understood what it was like to be a commanding officer. In 2272, Kirk proposed to Diru. She wanted to refuse, but found she said yes. They got married that same year. During thier second five-year mission together, Diru accidentally got pregnant and wanted to remove the child. Kirk convinced her to keep the child. In 2374, daughter Delia Diru-Kirk was born. The couple stayed together until the Nexus accident in 2293. In 2371, shortly before Diru got lost in the Delta Quadrant, Diru had to watch Kirk die.

#### Emion Bettoc

Diru met Emion Bettoc in 2375 in the Delta Quadrant, when Bettoc's ship attacked the USS *Voyager*. Bettoc boarded *Voyager* and was found by Diru, but convinced her of his secret identity as Faigan resistance agent. Throighout the next year, Diru and Bettoc would work together to assure *Voyager* of a safe passage through Faigan space, and to aid the Faigan resistance movement. Diru's association with Bettoc nearly cost her her friendship with Kathryn Janeway, when the latter found out about their involvement. Diru and Bettoc kept up their partnership, however, and even entered into a relationship. Diru had to leave Bettoc behind in the Delta Quadrant in 2378, when *Voyager* returned to the Federation. In 2383, Bettoc found a way to travel to and from the Alpha Quadrant, and Diru and Bettoc would often meet up for whort periods of time. In 2386, Bettoc proposed to Diru. Diru refused, as she found she could go through the fear of losing another loved one. In 2401, Bettoc was granted leadership of his people and had to return to them for good.

## Legacy

Throughout her life, and after her presumed deaths in 2293 and 2371, as well as her real death in 2411, Diru became something of a legend in Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. She already gained great fame in her first few years of service, as she was known as the officer who became a captain the fastest after graduation from Starfleet Academy. Diru was honoured for her important scientific discoveries and first contacts, but especially for her key roles in saving the Federation and the crew of her ship many times. Many looked up to her devotion to her crew.

Diru's fame caused her to be requested for the position of commander-in-chief of Starfleet, which she refused at first but accepted a year later. Diru was known as one of the best c-in-c's Starfleet had ever known. A year before her death, Diru was also asked to run as candidate for the Federation presidency, but she did not take this seriously as she knew she could never be fit for president due to her tendency to bend Federation rules and her aversion toward hierarchy.

After her death, Diru's fame continued to grow. Her grandson Matthew Diru followed in her footsteps as captain and often remarked she was the reason of his become a Starfleet officer and excelling the wy he did. Matthew also named one of his children after his grandmother, and later designed a starship class with the name "Diru".

## Chronology

2210     Fujita Diru is born

2214     First Borg attack on Dael, Diru’s parents die and Diru falls into cryosleep

2223      Diru wakes up from cryosleep and is raised by Gregorious Diru

2224      Diru meets Zantor

2234      Second Borg attack, Gregorious Diru is killed, Diru become part of the Dael Space Defence

2235      Third Borg attack, Dael is destroyed, Diru falls into cryosleep

2260      Diru wakes up from cryosleep

2264      Diru travels tot he Alpha Quadrant and is found by the USS *Enterprise*. She meets James Kirk, Spock and Leonard McCoy. Diru enters Starfleet Academy later that year and graudates in three months

2265      Diru gets command of the USS *Frudael*. The *Frudael* and the *Enterprise* start their first 5-year mission. Shortly, Diru finds Zantor and appoints him as her first officer.

2270      5-year mission ends

2272      Diru and Kirk get married

2274      Delia Diru-Kirk is born

2293      Diru is presumed dead in the Nexus accident. She actually enters a dream-like state

2359      Diru is revived out of Nexus. She creates a fake service record and serves on the USS *Merrimac*, the USS *Brattain*, Starbase 157, and the USS *Mary Kingsley* where she meets Owen Paris and Kathryn Janeway

2360      Diru serves on the USS *Jemison*, and the USS *Odyssey*

2361      Diru serves on the USS *Livingston* the USS *Akagi*

2362      Diru serves on the USS *Atlantis* and the USS *Hood* where she meets William Riker and Geordi La Forge

2363      Diru serves on the USS *Hood* and the USS *Billings*

2364      Diru serves on the USS *Gage*, the USS *Rosa Parks*, the USS *Mercenary* and finally ends up on the USS *Enterprise*-D, where Riker discovers her true identity

2365      Jean-Luc Picard discovers Diru’s true identity and Diru’s rank as admiral is reinstated. Delia Diru-Kirk travels tot his century with the USS *Frudael*

2370      Diru serves on *Deep Space 9* for a year

2371      Diru visits Janeway on he USS *Voyager* and gets lost in the Delta Quadrant

2375      Diru meets Emin Bettoc. Voyager regains contact with the Federation and Saith Mitthras contacts Diru to inform her of the birth of her grandson Matthew Diru

2378      *Voyager* returns from the Delta Quadrant. Diru teaches at Starfleet Academy and starts the design of the USS *Starlight*

2380      Diru spends a short time on the USS *Titan.* The construction of the *Starlight* starts

2382      Diru takes command of the *Starlight*. Delia Diru-Kirk is killed in action

2383      Diru prevents the assasination of Federation president Nanietta Bacco. Bettoc finds his way to the Alpha Quadrant

2386      Emion Bettoc proposes to Diru, and she turns him down

2391      Diru is asked to become commander-in-chief of Starfleet, and she refuses

2393      Diru is promoted to fleet admiral and commander-in-chief of Starfleet and moves to San Francisco

2401      Bettoc returns to his people and Diru will never see him again

2411      Diru is killed in action