"I don't care if you like me or not, now leave me in peace before one of two things happens: First you end up in Sickbay with radiation burns from this console I'm trying to repair or second you end up in Sickbay with multiple fractures to your face." - Simia K'laa

Name: Simia K'laa

Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Age: 27

Race: Human/Klingon (Klingon Father and Human Mother)

Gender: Male

Role: Chief Engineering Officer

Physical Description:
Height: 196cm (6'4")
Weight: 102kg (224lbs)
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Skin tone: Dark skinned though paler than some Klingons due to his split heritage.
Physique: Muscular and heavily built both from his heritage and from years of heavy lifting where equipment failed on his last ship. He is a formidable prescence even to those who know him well.

Personality: Easily irritated and abrasive in most cases, Simia is not an easy person to get to know and he has little time for anybody, preferring to play or tinker with some idea or concept. Should you break through this exterior though, he is a kind and considerate friend and in a fight he will always back his crew with his full force and, though he is loathe to admit his Klingon side, satisfaction. Since he focusses most of his time in engineering he doesn't appear anywhere else unless he's got a bone to pick with someone or needs to fix something. However many Klingons mock him for being so different to them. He wasn't brought up with many of their customs and feels out of place in both worlds not a bridge across the two.

Before Starfleet: Born of a union between a Klingon and a Human, Simia was always destined to be an outcast. Due to the uneasy peace between the two peoples he was largely distrusted and bullied in his youth by both sides due to this split heritage. He once fought back and received such a bad beating from those tormenting him that he spent a few days in intensive care. Once fully recovered he sought out and challenged each to combat however. Simia did not win every one of those fights but he did gain some respect from the Klingons for it even though his own respect for them was reduced. After this he was taken with his mother and raised on Earth, only returning once to Qo'noS to fulfill the Rites of Ascension. When he reached 16 years of age he applied to Starfleet and was rejected initially, it was on his second attempt when he reached 18 that he was accepted finally.

Starfleet Career:
In the Academy, Simia was an odd figure, he drew people towards him even though he tried to separate himself from them all, not all of these people wished him well though, much like in his youth he was often cursed at and occasionally attacked. He gave as good and often better than he got though. A Klingon was an odd sight in Star Fleet after all, but his test scores were brilliant, better than even those against him could argue against. His grasp of the mechanics and theory behind starships garnered him particular success and helped him coast his way past the subjects he was lacking in. Once a subject grabbed his attention he was known to focus on only that until it was complete or "defeated" as he often put it.

Eventually he graduated as 500 of 1486 people. Not a place of note but this was due to his lacking in other areas. He tried for a long time to find a decent ship posting until eventually an older captain with an older ship, Miranda Class, offered him a spot on his boat. "Keep my baby running and you'll reap the rewards, young man." This was the captain of the Indefatigable, and for the next 5 years, his father figure. He worked his ass off during this time, always being pushed by his captain until he worked his way up through the ranks, earning them and many distinctions in starship theory and application even on such an outdated piece of equipment. Unfortunately, just when he had set his eyes on becoming the first officer, thinking he might be ready, the ship was set for decommission.

Simia had kept that old bucket of bolts running way past it's decomissioning date however it wasn't built to last as long as it did, a testament to Simia and his team's skill, it was finally sent to be decommissioned. Her captain, Cpt. D. Adams put in the good word for his Chief Engineer to be transferred to a top of the line ship and he was granted a place on the U.S.S Grandeur as Chief Engineer.