Prynn Tenmei

Ensign Prynn Tenmei was a Human Starfleet officer born in the year to Commander Elias Vaughn and Ruriko Tenmei of Starfleet Intelligence. Ensign Tenmei was assigned to the USS Mjolner, the USS Sentinel, and the USS Defiant.

Prynn was named for her parents friend, the late T'Prynn of Vulcan.

Prynn's relationship with her father was always strained at best as he was never around while she was growing, as he always put Starfleet and the mission above all else.

Shortly after Prynn joined Starfleet Academy in 2369, Prynns mother, Ruriko was killed during an action against the Borg. Ruriko was under Vaughn's command at the time and Prynn blamed Vaughn for Ruriko's death. The two didn't speak for seven years.

Prynn knew her mothers transponder code, and began scanning for it on every ship she served on.

After graduation, she assigned to the USS Mjolner as Conn officer, under the command of Captain Kalena Hoku, who taught Prynn the art of surfing, and once described Prynn as being 'a bit intense'.

Prynn saw action during the Dominion War while assigned to the USS Sentinel, before being transfered to the USS Defiant, berthed at starbase Deep Space 9 in Janary of 2376.

Prynn was reunited with her father when he became the new First officer of DS9 in April. The two maintained a strained, but professional relationship.

Before Vaughn would allow Prynn to be the helm officer during a three month exploratory mission to the Gamma Quadrant, he ordered her to work on getting along with him better, as a three-month mission was no place for personality conflicts.

Prynn and Vaughn had a reconciliation during the Gamma mission, when Vaughn nearly died bringing an extra-dimensional entity called the Inamuri into this plane of existance.

The reconcilition was short-lived as the Defiant soon picked up Ruriko's transponder code coming from a downed Borg vessel, where they found a still-alive and assimilated Ruriko Tenmei.

After the assimilation imperitive proved to strong for Ruriko to resist, Vaughn was forced to kill her to prevent her from assimilating Prynn.

Prynn again refused to speak to Vaughn for the remainder of the Gamma mission. After the Defiants return, Vaughn appealed to Prynn that the last thing he wanted was to be separated from her again. The two are slowly working towards a new reconciliation.

Prynn accompanied shipmate Thirishar ch'Thane (or Shar), with whom which she was in the beginings of a romantic relationship, to his homeworld of Andor and attended the sending, or funeral, of Shar's deceased bond-mate Shathrissia zh'Cheen.

While on Andor, Prynn took part in a rescue operation of Shar's mother Charivretha zh'Thane, Andor's representative to the Federation Council, when she was kidnapped by a radical faction.

(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels Avatar books one and two, Mission Gamma Twilight and Lesser Evil, Unity, Worlds of Deep Space Nine volume one Andor: Paradigm)