By Richard Woodcock
You met the the bridge now meet the Hazard Team of the USS Asclepius before we go into Season 1 of there stories.
Star Trek: Asclepius — Hazard Team
“Into the Unknown – Together”
Helix Team – USS Asclepius (NCC-47902)
| Role | Name | Species | Notes |
| Team Leader | Lt. Cmdr. Cassandra Arleigh | Human | Strategic, calm, leadership-focused (Honor Harrington–inspired) |
| Field Medic | Lt. T’Lira Varan | Half-Vulcan / Half-Romulan | Orphan from New Romulus, torn between logic and instinct |
| Tactical Specialist | Lt. Korrath, Son of Drenn | Klingon | Proud of both heritage and Federation ideals |
| Science/Hazmat Specialist | Specialist Orel Jax (HOLO) | Barzan (hologram) | Preserved engrams; thoughtful, analytical presence |
| Engineering/Tech Ops | Ensign Dorrin Grell | Bolian | Humorous, improvisational, fast-talking tech wizard |
| Breach/Heavy Support | CWO Hressssk | Gorn | Stoic and powerful, yet poetic and controlled |
| Recon/Infiltration | Velan t’Sholaris | Romulan (NRR) | Silent, surgical, and deeply principled |
Character Bible: Lt. Commander Cassandra “Cass” Arleigh
Position: Hazard Team Commander, Helix Team
Division: Tactical/Security
Ship Assignment: USS Asclepius (NCC-47902)
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 38
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Birthplace: Annapolis, Earth (North American Union)
Height: 5’10”
Hair: Dark brown, usually in tight bun or braid
Eyes: Grey-blue
Physique: Lean, powerful, striking presence
Personality & Style:
Cassandra Arleigh is composed, highly disciplined, and intensely mission-focused. She rarely raises her voice but commands a room with presence and clarity. Though emotionally restrained, her loyalty to her team is absolute, and she never abandons a crewmate. She is a master strategist, marksman, and tactical mobility leader — equally at home coordinating evac corridors or repelling boarding parties.
Background & Reputation:
- Top graduate of Starfleet Hazard Ops and Advanced Tactical Leadership Course
- Former instructor at Starfleet Tactical School — taught “Tactical Coordination Under Fire”
- Served in the Dominion Neutral Zone patrols aboard USS Harvester
- Developed “dynamic exfiltration lanes” used in quarantine zone breaches
- Survivor of the Vega Outpost contamination lockdown; personally evacuated 39 civilians under fire
- Decorated with the Grankite Order of Tactics, rarely awarded below Captain
Crew Observations:
“Cass Arleigh doesn’t give orders — she gives possibilities. And you want to be good enough to make them happen.”
— MCPO Rosie Jones (Six of Forty)
“In the heat of battle, she’s as cold as a warp coil — and thank the stars for it.”
— Lt. Suzette Frump
Hazard Team Functionality:
- Leads Helix Team during all red zone deployments, including biocontainment threats, mass casualty triage operations, hostile quarantines, and site reclamations
- Directs breach entry, tactical formation, rescue node stabilization, and environmental hazard triage
- Personally maintains field status board, mission sequencing overlays, and communications uplink with sickbay and bridge
Starfleet Personnel File — LCARS Access
[AUTHORIZED: Command Level 4+]
Subject: ARLEIGH, CASSANDRA ELENA
Designation: Lt. Commander | Hazard Team Commander – Helix Team | USS Asclepius, NCC-47902
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Assignment: USS Asclepius – Hazard Ops Lead, Helix Team
Service Number: 287-46-993
Age: 38
Birthplace: Annapolis, Earth
Height: 5’10” | Eyes: Grey-Blue | Hair: Dark Brown
SERVICE RECORD SNAPSHOT
- Starfleet Academy – Tactical Division Honors
- Starfleet Advanced Hazard Leadership School – Instructor
- USS Harvester – Senior Tactical Response Officer
- USS Asclepius – Assigned as Helix Team Commander
- Awards:
- Grankite Order of Tactics
- Starfleet Commendation for Valor
- Red Star for Containment Rescue, Vega Incident
CERTIFICATIONS & EXPERTISE
- Strategic Environmental Containment
- Advanced Phased Combat Tactics
- Holo-Scenario Crisis Command
- Emergency Civilian Extraction
- Adaptive Combat Armor Configuration (ACA-7 Suit Class Clearance)
Helix Team – Field Medic
Character: Lieutenant T’Lira Varan
Species: Half-Vulcan / Half-Romulan
Gender: Female
Division: Medical
Rank: Lieutenant
Assignment: USS Asclepius – Helix Team Field Medic
Callsign/Nickname: “Specter”
Character Bible: Lt. T’Lira Varan
Birthplace: Unknown
Raised: New Romulus, by Romulan civic wardens and Vulcan diplomatic aides
Age: 32
Height: 5’9”
Eyes: Amber-Gold
Hair: Black, cropped close except for a traditional Romulan braid
Distinguishing Markings: Thin scar from temple to jaw, from early childhood trauma
Personality & Conflict:
T’Lira walks a narrow path between two worlds: the suppressed emotion and serenity of Vulcan logic, and the raw, passionate fire of her Romulan ancestry. She does not reject either — instead, she is constantly managing the war between them.
Where Vulcans meditate for peace, T’Lira meditates for containment.
She has been known to lose control under extreme stress, channeling an almost feral protectiveness toward injured teammates. The aftermath leaves her deeply silent and withdrawn.
Field Medic Specialization:
- Emergency battlefield triage and stabilization
- Gene-shock suppression and neural trauma isolation
- Developed modified portable biopod deployment for rapid beam-out surgery
- Self-administered sedation protocols to preempt emotional overload
- Capable of disarming, disabling, and immobilizing threats using non-lethal takedowns
Character Notes:
- She still speaks some of the lost Old Romulan dialects
- Maintains a personal holo-image of a Vulcan wadi tree — the only gift left by her birth mother
- When not on duty, she composes silent meditations on duality and identity
- Respected, feared, and quietly admired by her team
Starfleet Personnel File – LCARS ACCESS
Subject: VARAN, T’LIRA
Designation: Lieutenant | Field Medic, Helix Team
Assignment: USS Asclepius, NCC-47902
Division: Medical
Species: Vulcan / Romulan (Hybrid)
Service Number: 447-58-260
Security Clearance: Beta Level-6
SERVICE RECORD SNAPSHOT
- Raised as a ward on New Romulus following mass orphan relocation initiative
- Trained in hybrid Vulcan-Romulan ethical medicine under Ambassador V’Kel
- Starfleet Medical School – Advanced Xenopathology (Valedictorian)
- Special Operations Medical Certification – Triage Under Fire, Delta Class
- USS Asclepius – Assigned to Helix Team for field rescue, containment, and triage
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE – FLAGGED
“Subject displays calculated detachment in the field but experiences internalized volatility. Her control is absolute until it’s not — then she becomes violently reactive, albeit always in defense of the injured. Recommend regular psychometric calibration and post-deployment decompression sessions.”
— Lt. Cmdr. Vasya Trenn, Starfleet Psych
Skills Summary
- Biochemical threat containment
- Triage in phaser fire zones
- Pressure point combat (Vulcan & Romulan variants)
- Neuro-injection field tools
- Emergency transporter node stabilizing injectors
Character Bible: Lt. Korrath, Son of Drenn
Background:
Born on Qo’noS, Korrath grew up in the shadow of Drenn, his father, a prominent legal prosecutor of the Klingon High Council Courts — a man who fought with words as blades and never lost a case. Though Korrath trained in the warrior arts, he came to respect his father’s interpretation of honor through justice, and carries that respect proudly into every conflict.
Instead of joining a House with a blade in his hand, he requested assignment to the KDF Exchange Program, selecting Starfleet not out of rebellion, but from a genuine belief that its ideals show a new kind of strength — one too often mocked by the Empire.
Tactical Specialization:
- Expert in breach entry tactics and area control weaponry
- Trained in non-lethal deterrents for civilian population protection (a point of personal growth)
- Strong understanding of KDF martial traditions and Starfleet tactical protocols
- Serves as morale backbone to Helix Team in tense missions
Personality:
- Eager, direct, never ashamed of where he comes from
- Embraces both discipline and battle-rage, depending on the scenario
- Unfailingly loyal to Lt. Cmdr. Arleigh, though he sometimes clashes with the team’s more cerebral members
- Respects those who fight not with fists, but with conviction
- Keeps a Bat’leth made by his father in the USS Asclepius’ training deck — never drawn unless Starfleet protocol is overridden
Team Impressions:
“He fights like he has something to prove, but never at our expense. I’d follow him through a plasma storm.”
— Lt. T’Lira Varan
“Every time someone calls him a brute, he smiles… and makes them feel foolish with perfect Federation dialect and philosophy.”
— Cassandra Arleigh
Starfleet Personnel File – LCARS ACCESS
Subject: KORRATH, Son of Drenn
Designation: Lieutenant | Tactical Specialist – Helix Team
Species: Klingon
Affiliation: KDF Exchange Program
Assignment: USS Asclepius – NCC-47902
Division: Tactical
Service Number: KDF-498-33-001 / Starfleet Tag: 778-94-204
Security Clearance: Gamma Tactical Status – Granted
Service History Snapshot
- Trained at KDF Warrior Academy, supplemental studies at Federation Cultural Liaison Institute
- Volunteered for KDF–Starfleet Hazard Exchange Program
- Posted aboard IKS Krelok, Tactical Officer – Breach Specialist
- Assigned to USS Asclepius Hazard Unit “Helix Team”
- Commended for unarmed defense of a Federation medical outpost during Romulan Remnant assault
- Ongoing cultural integration review: Excellent marks in discipline and command structure adherence
Combat Specializations
- Phase-dispersal grenades
- Forced-entry systems
- Tactical analysis under duress
- Klingon martial weaponry and hand-to-hand
- Non-lethal force protocols (recent distinction achieved)
Helix Team – Science/Hazmat Specialist
Character: Specialist Orel Jax (HOLO–ENGRAM SERIES 47902–JX)
Species (formerly): Barzan
Gender Identity: Non-binary (they/them)
Division: Science (Hazmat/Xenoenvironmental Research)
Rank: Civilian Specialist (Former Lieutenant)
Status: Fully Sentient Holographic Entity
Assignment: USS Asclepius, Helix Team
Callsign: “Echo”
Character Bible: Specialist Orel Jax
Background:
Orel Jax was a Barzan xenotoxicologist and biosafety lead aboard USS Krakatoa, known for their reserved brilliance and environmental sensitivity. During a classified first-contact incident with a drifting bioship, Jax was exposed to a quantum-degradable pathogen that attacked oxygenated atmospheres and higher neurological functions.
Knowing they were dying, Jax submitted to experimental engram mapping, a classified Starfleet Medical initiative tied to the Emergency Containment Protocols. Their body died, but their consciousness endured, reconstructed in a custom holographic matrix housed aboard USS Asclepius.
They now serve as the ship’s science/hazmat specialist on Helix Team — quiet, incorporeal, and deeply analytical, with a ghost’s patience and a scientist’s precision.
Personality & Behavior:
- Reserved, elegant, deliberate
- Speaks calmly but with emotional undercurrents
- Sometimes refers to their own death with unnerving clinical detachment
- Avoids eye contact, not out of disrespect — but disassociation
- Will risk “disruption” of their matrix to protect the living — considers it ethical protocol
Scientific Expertise:
- Quantum microbiology
- Hazardous material containment
- Bio-environmental adaptation systems
- Xenopathogen field analysis
- Radiation and corrosive atmosphere exposure modeling
- Incompatible biosystem interface protocols
Starfleet Personnel File – LCARS ACCESS
Name: Orel Jax (HOLO–ENGRAM SERIES 47902–JX)
Species Origin: Barzan
Rank (formerly): Lieutenant
Current Role: Civilian Specialist – Science/Hazmat Ops
Assignment: USS Asclepius, Helix Team
Security Status: Red-Level Clearance | Protected Entity
Matrix Core: Asclepius Secondary Holo-Grid, Mobile Emitter Enabled
Service Record Snapshot
- Born: Barzan II, 2359
- Starfleet Academy: Planetary Ecology & Xenotoxicology
- USS Krakatoa – Lead Hazmat Specialist
- Died in the line of duty, stardate 87491.5
- Reconstituted: Experimental Engram Recovery Initiative – Approved by Starfleet Medical Ethics Board
- Assigned: USS Asclepius, under Directive Theta-VI (“Field Persistence Deployment”)
Advisories & Notes
- Holo-matrix requires stabilization field in high-radiation zones
- Exhibits phantom recall episodes — memories that cannot be confirmed as real
- Chooses to wear a Barzan breathing device despite not needing it — symbolic
- Nicknamed “Echo” by the team — half out of respect, half as superstition
Character Bible: Ensign Dorrin Grell
Role: Engineering / Technical Operations Specialist
Species: Bolian
Gender: Male
Division: Operations (Hazard Team: Helix)
Assignment: USS Asclepius
Rank: Ensign
Callsign: “Socket”
Background:
Born aboard the SS Baruv Vento, Dorrin Grell grew up in an extended Bolian cargo fleet that traded spare parts and circuit mods across the Federation border zones. A childhood of “fix it before it explodes” taught him fast hands, fast thinking, and fast talking.
Recruited into Starfleet for his improvisational skills, he somehow coasted through the Academy on charisma and creative solutions — including a rigged espresso machine that granted him legendary status in the engineering wing.
Specializations:
- Field repairs under fire
- Portable shielding and exo-toolkits
- Advanced sensor/dampener countermeasures
- Tactical drone deployment
- Explosive ordinance (reluctantly… with flair)
Personality:
- Humorous, wise-cracking, and self-deprecating
- Excellent under pressure, terrible at silence
- Always carries a multitool (and gum)
- Considers his uniform a “mild suggestion”
- Talks to machines like they’re alive
- Often gets into debates with Tellarites for fun
“If it’s smoking, that means it’s working… or thinking about working.”
Starfleet LCARS File – ACCESS GRANTED
Name: Dorrin Grell
Species: Bolian
Rank: Ensign
Serial: 942-BL-772
Current Assignment: USS Asclepius – Helix Team
Position: Engineering & Technical Operations
Security Clearance: Level 4 – Hazard Deployment Certified
Psychological Assessment:
“Displays erratic behavior under casual conditions, but excels under crisis. Treats life like a zero-g comedy and Starfleet as the punchline. Loyalty is absolute. Suggest pairing with more emotionally neutral teammates for balance.”
– Counselor Praksha L. Wei
Character Bible: Chief Warrant Officer Hressssk
Species: Gorn
Gender: Male
Division: Operations (Hazard Team: Helix)
Assignment: USS Asclepius
Rank: Chief Warrant Officer
Role: Heavy Support / Breach Trooper
Callsign: “Crag”
Background:
Hressssk was born within a warrior-clan of the Gorn Hegemony, but unlike many of his kind, he sought structure and philosophy beyond the ancient traditions. An early diplomatic program with the Federation exposed him to Starfleet ideals, and he volunteered for an exchange commission after a peaceful colonial aid mission.
Despite his bulk and growling demeanor, Hressssk follows strict personal codes of restraint and service — unless doors need smashing or someone’s shielding is in the way.
Specializations:
- Powered exosuit operations
- Manual and explosive breach protocols
- Kinetic weaponry and heavy phasers
- Field power systems and armored shields
- Defensive anchoring during evacuation ops
Personality:
- Quiet and watchful, rarely speaks unless needed
- Treats combat like an art form
- Fascinated by Terran geology — carries a rock sample in his gear
- Occasionally reads Federation poetry. Will deny this if asked.
- Very protective of the smaller members of the team, particularly Grell and “Echo”
“Some barriers must fall. Others must yield. I merely decide which.”
Starfleet LCARS File – ACCESS GRANTED
Name: Hressssk
Species: Gorn
Rank: Chief Warrant Officer
Security Clearance: Level 5 – Tactical Deployment Specialist
Assignment: USS Asclepius – Helix Team
Role: Heavy Support / Breach Trooper
Callsign: “Crag”
Character Bible: Subcommander Velan t’Sholaris
Species: Romulan
Gender: Female
Division: Intelligence Liaison / Recon
Assignment: USS Asclepius – Helix Team
Rank Equivalent: Lieutenant (Starfleet Rank Integration)
Affiliation: New Romulan Republic Navy, on exchange with Starfleet
Callsign: “Wraith”
Background:
Velan t’Sholaris was born on Virinat, the colony world attacked during the Hobus aftermath. She grew up under occupation, then fought with the early resistance against Tal Shiar infiltration. Recruited into the Republic’s Special Operations wing, Velan developed expertise in stealth infiltration, information warfare, and sensor-evading technology.
Her deployment to Starfleet’s USS Asclepius is part of a political exchange initiative, but her loyalty to the Republic — and her pragmatic respect for the Federation — are ironclad. She is no spy, though some wonder.
Specializations:
- Active camouflage / cloaking gear adaptation
- Neural suppressor tactics
- Sabotage and sabotage countermeasures
- Multispectral field surveillance
- Disabling internal systems without alerting bridge control
- Fluent in Vulcan, Romulan, and Cardassian dialects
Personality:
- Quiet, calculated, and intense
- Highly observant — speaks only when it matters
- Believes in redemption through action, not ideology
- Protective of T’Lira Varan as a fellow outlier
- Keeps a small Romulan puzzle-box from her childhood
“Every shadow hides an opportunity. I am the one who decides if it lives or dies.”
Starfleet LCARS File – ACCESS GRANTED
Name: Velan t’Sholaris
Species: Romulan
Rank: Starfleet Liaison (Lt. equiv.)
Security Clearance: Level 5 – Covert Recon Certified
Assignment: USS Asclepius – Helix Team
Role: Recon & Infiltration Specialist
Callsign: “Wraith”
Affiliation: New Romulan Republic Navy (Exchange Officer)