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| Starfleet
Personnel Record for Jeff Jalando |
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Name: |
Jeff Jalando |
| Age: |
30 |
| Race: |
1/2 Betazoid, 1/2 Bajoran |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Rank: |
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| Position: |
Commanding Officer,
Yeager Colony |
| Eye
Color: |
Blue |
| Hair
Color: |
Brown |
| Skin
Color: |
Caucasian |
| Height: |
1m89 |
| Weight: |
69 kg |
| Played
by: |
Rob Versteegt |
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| Physical
Appearance |
| Jeff is a tall young man. You can easily see he is part Bajoran, because of his nose. Jeff wears an earring, but only when he is not on duty. Jef looks friendly, and is usually relaxed around people. His full name is Jeff Robert Jalando. |
| History |
Jeff was born March 28th 2365, on the Federation starship USS Pompei. In 2367, the Pompei was sent on a deep space exploration mission, so, fortunately for Jeff and his family, it couldn't be present at the battle of Wolf 359.
His father, Jalando Iyal, is a Bajoran, who was born during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. He was able to flee from Bajor. He went to live with his mother on a Bajoran colony. He joined Starfleet because he thought Starfleet would help the Bajorans in their struggle with the Cardassians. But after this conflict was solved, he stayed in Starfleet. He wanted to explore the galaxy. As a lieutenant, he met a young ensign from Betazed. Jalando Iyal and Leandra Stears, the Betazoid ensign, fell in love, and, in 2353, they got married. Iyal and Leandra decided that they would give their children the familyname of their father, Jalando, which was a Bajoran custom, but that that name would come last, so that their first names could indeed come first, which was a Betazoid custom.
They had 4 children: Adriana, Illyana, Sibyll, and Jeff. Jeff was the youngest. He was raised in a Starfleet family. He lived at starships and federation colonies. At the time Jeff was 9, Starfleet was engaged in the Dominion War, which has left its marks on Jeff. In 2375, when Jeff was 10 years old, he saw Adriana die, while protecting him from a Dominion boarding party. Adriana came to the colony of her family (Sigma Altair IV) to show them that she had finished the academy. But while she was at the colony, it was attacked by Dominion forces. A Dominion soldier aimed his rifle at Jeff, who was sitting in a corner, together with Sybill and Illyana. Adriana saw this, and fired a phaser at the Dominion soldier, killing him. Unfortunately, another Dominion soldier was nearby. He fired his rifle at Adriana, vaporizing her in front of Jeff's eyes. After a terrible fight, the colony was saved, but a lot of good people, including Adriana, had died.
Jeff's 2 remaining sisters joined Starfleet as soon as they went 18, but Jeff didn't. He was reluctant to join, because Starfleet reminded him of the Dominion War. He didn't want to be a soldier. He knew he wouldn't be able to kill, even if his own life depended on it. So instead of joining Starfleet, he studied on Betazed for a while. When he was 16, he joined the Betazed Counseling Academy. He learned a lot while he was there. At the age of 19 he went to live with his parents on the USS Nexus, where his father was the FO, and his mother was the Counselor.
On the USS Nexus, he met Science Officer Alexandria Rordy. She taught Jeff that Starfleet wasn't just the military. Science was part of it as well. Jeff developed an interest in science, and started working on the USS Nexus as an assistant science officer. Some of his projects were the geological survey of a demon class planet, the research of a Xenon-based lifeform, and the development of a new life-support-system on one of the shuttles of the Nexus. At the age of 21, Jeff finally decided to join Starfleet. He thought he would have the chance to come to terms with the death of his sister Adriana, and still follow his interests.
In his time at Pandora Station, many things happened. He was part in many adventures, but one of those missions will always be remembered by Jeff. While taking a member of an alien race known as the 'Dholari' home, Jeff was kidnapped by a rebel movement of the Dholari homeworld. They altered Jeff's mind, letting him work for them. Together with other Starfleet Officers whose minds had been reprogrammed, he returned to Pandora Station to pretend to be the same old Jeff Jalando. . . but in fact he was plotting to destroy the station. Were it not for the crew's efforts in resisting him, he would have succeeded. Thankfully, Jeff and the other Starfleet Officers were 'brought back', the drugs which controlled their minds were taken away from them, and they became themselves again. However. . . while under the influence of the Dholari, Jeff had hurt, injured, and yes even killed people. This is something he, nor the crew who serve under him, will ever forget. It is also something he has to live with. Every day of his life.
On 2392.08.26, Jeff recieved some unexpected orders. He was being transferred, to be First Officer of the USS Odyssey. At 2392.09.19, Jalando beamed on board his new dutystation. It would take some getting used to: no more Pandora Station.
However, just as Jeff had gotten used to his First Officer role on board the Odyssey, Captain Bennek was promoted to Commodore, and Starfleet pulled the big chair out for Jeff. The relatively young Commander accepted, and got promoted to Captain of the USS Odyssey.
He slowly grew in his role, becoming more and more comfortable as CO of this intrepid class Starship. One of the missions on the Odyssey which he will always remember, was the one where the Odyssey got pulled fifty years into the future. He met his old, mentally unstable, self there. But most importantly: he met his daughter there. She told him that he would fall in love with a woman named 'Emily'...
When a certain Emily Watson came on board the ship to serve in the science department, Jeff wondered if this was the one. As it turned out, both of them felt attraction towards each other. They recently declared their love for one another...
On stardate 2396.01.10, Jeff found out that the Odyssey was, as of that date, assigned as a support ship to Yeager Colony. Suffice it to say, Jeff wasn't all that happy about that...
2386.09.14: Jeff entered the academy.
2391.03.05: Graduated, and transferred to Pandora Station, as an ensign and the ACSO.
2391.04.12: Promoted to full Lt, and 2O/CSO of Pandora.
2391.04.18: Promoted to Lt.Cmdr.
2391.04.29: Promoted to Commander, and Pandora Station's First Officer.
2392.09.19: Transferred to the USS Odyssey, as First Officer.
2393.01.13: Promoted to Captain and CO of the USS Odyssey.
2396.01.10: The Odyssey is assigned to Yeager Colony as support ship. |
| Psychological
Profile |
While Jeff does have empathic abilities, he has only recently begun to train them. In his early years, he never liked the idea of probing other people for information. He still doesn't like the idea, but he knows that sometimes, it's necessary. Whenever possible, he tries to control his empathic abilities, though.
In the Dominion Wars, Jeff older sister, Adriana, had been vaporized before Jeff's eyes. As a result, Jeff had a lot of nightmares about his sister vaporizing. When he attended the Betazoid Councelling Academy, Jeff underwent a telepathic treatment, to let Jeff come into contact with his buried feelings. It worked, but Jeff felt like he witnessed everything once again. He locked himself up in his room for 3 days, without food or water. It was his way of punishing himself, for not being able to safe his sister. After that, Jeff had accepted the death of his sister.
Even though he accepted it, he still thinks about his sister from time to time. He used to be afraid of picking up a phaser, since every time he would do that, the image of his sister flashed before his eyes. At the academy, when he had to go through phaser training, he couldn't fire his phaser, not even at holographic enemies. He just froze, and the academy instructors had to carry him out of the holosuite. It took him a day to recover. Because of this, Jeff almost didn't graduate from the academy. Fortunatly, Jeff found a way to relax himself, using a Betazoid technique called 'plexing'. It helped him to become calm, so that he could concentrate at the phaser training. Eventually, he made it.
Being in Command has caused Jeff to harden a bit, though. He has ordered to fire weapons, defending the Odyssey against an assault. The Odyssey was victorious, causing the enemy ship -and all the lifeforms on it- to be destroyed. While Jeff still detestes the loss of life, he understands that while in Command, it may be necessary to kill again. And for his crew, he would. |
| Specialties
and Skills |
| Because Jeff is an empath, he can look at a person, and instantly see what mood that person is in. He can then react to that emotion, with the proper reaction. As a scientist, he is curious, and wonders about the way things work. If Jeff sets his mind to something, he usually doesn't stop until it is finished. |
| Hobbies and
Interests |
Jeff's idea of relaxing is sitting at the beach, watching the sun fade away into the sea. But he can be very active, if he wants to. When he gets the chance, he goes jogging, wherever he can. When he was on the USS Nexus, he began his days by getting up at 0600 hours, just to go jogging, until 0700 hours. In his days on Betazed, he had joined a local theatre group. He was quite good at acting, and he still likes to do it.
Of course, now that he's met Emily, and their relationship is going on strong, he spends as much time with her as possible. |
| Notes |
Jeff is only half Bajoran, but his father wanted him to have the same faith as all the other Bajorans. After the death of his elder sister, Jeff started to wonder if the prophets did exist. He is now very skeptical about it all. He does wear an earring, but only when he is off-duty. He does go to services, but he doesn't assume that everything that is being told there is the truth. He has a feeling he will find out for himself, one day.
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