Simon Tarses

Doctor Simon Tarses is a human with 1/8 Romulan blood courtesy of his paternal grandfather.

He served as a medical technician aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) between the years 2366 and 2371.

In 2371, Lieutenant Tarses became romantically involved with the Thanetian Shivantek, Kio sar-Bensu, after helping to save her world from destruction by a colloision with an artificial comet.(Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Do Comets Dream?)

In 2376, Simon- now a full MD- was assigned to the infirmary of starbase Deep Space 9 under the command of Chief medical officer, Julian Bashir, and ran the infirmary while Bashir was on a three-month exploratory mission of the Gamma Quadrant onboard the USS Defiant. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels Avatar: books one and two, the Mission Gamma series)