Selke

The Romulan woman that became known as the Starfleet cadet known as T'Priell was born deep within the Romulan Star Empire with the name Selke.

Early Life
Selke cared little for the politics of the Empire and the galaxy at large, and aspired to be the star pupil of her mentor, archaeology professor N'Vat..

In 2371, Selke joined professor N'Vat, and another student named Terek to an unclaimed world on the edge of Romulan space while on a quest to discover the common origin of the various Vulcanoid species in the galaxy. While there, they encountered a young Vulcan woman named T'Priell, who had deferred her entrance into Starfleet Academy for a year to engage in a similar quest.

Professor N'Vat suggested that they all combine their efforts, and in a short amount of time, Selke and T'Priell became good friends. After the discovery of advanced technology and an almost extinct Saurion race, Terek revealed himself to be a member of the Romulan Tal Shiar, who hoped to deliver the technolgy to his masters on Romulus. Using excavation explosives in her backpack, T'Priell managed to destroy the advanced technology, but the explosion mortally wounded her. T'Priell made the request of Selke to return her katra to Vulcan (planet), to which Selke readily agreed.

However, a Tal Shiar Sub-Commander named Thokol realized that Selke could make the perfect spy for the Romulan Empire. Thokol had the ordinarily peaceful Selke brainwashed into a ruthless Tal Shiar agent, surgically altered to look like T'Priell. Thokol then submerged Selke's true identity deep within her own sub-conscience, allowing the T'Priell's katra to control the body and serve as a deep-cover spy for the Tal Shiar unaware of her own identity. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #15, Origins)

Starfleet Academy
Upon arrival at the Academy in 2372, "T'Priell" was placed in Omega Squad under the command of trill Commander Kyethn Zund. Other Omegans included Nog (who was the first Ferengi in Starfleet), Matt Decker, the andorian Pava Ek'Noor sh'Aqabaa, and squadron leader, Kamilah Goldstein. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #1, Prime Directives)

The transfer of T'Priell's katra to Selke was never meant to be a long-term commitment, and "T'Priell" often felt out of place and had emotional breakdowns. During the squad's first liberty to Sydney, Austrailia, "T'Priell encountered a drunk Ogurar woman who claimed to have the ability to identify any race on sight, despite cosmetic alteration. The Oguran identified "T'Priell" as a Romulan, but as she was so drunk, nobody took the claim seriously. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #2, Liberty) When Omega Squad took a runabout to the Thasus system, they encountered human named Charles Evans, who had been given god-like power by the Thasians back in the 23rd century. When the Thasians left this plane of existance they were unable to take Charlie with them, leaving him alone on Thasus.

Charlie created a slightly out of phase alter-ego of himself to keep himself company, but the alter-ego quickly grew unstable. Charlie's alter-ego attacked the crew of a freighter known as the El Dorado and Omega Squad on their runabout, trapping them a pocket universe.

T'Priell, sensing a duality in Charlie that was so similar to her own, talked Charlie down from his anger. In an act that mahy have cost him his own existance, Charlie defeated his other self, and restored his captives to where he found them. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #8, X²)

In 2373, when Omega Squad was fleeing a death sentence brought on by the cadets journey to Talos IV, they were unwittingly assisted in escaping the USS Sagan by Thokol aboard a Romulan Bird-of-Prey, who did not with his greatest experiment to be killed. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #12, Renegades)

"T'Priell" Revealed
When the real T'Priell's parents visted the academy for the traditional sophomore parent's day,, they realized that something was terribly wrong with their daughter. After returning to Vulcan, they came to the conclusion the the woman calling herself "T'Priell" was was not, in fact, their daughter. They immediately contacted Admiral Andrea Brand with the information. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #13, Parent's Day)

Selke subconsciously programmed the comm system at the Academy to alert her if such amessage was detected, and so she was aware of her ouster as soon as it happened. Using cruel and painful tactics taught to her by the Tal Shiar, Selke attacked Omega Squad and delivered them to Thokol. Thokol was very interested in SElke's squad-mate Edam Astrun, a betazoid who had the highest psi-Q ever recorded in his species. The rest of the squad was left to die at the hands of ravonous Raptor Rats

With sub-consious help of the "real" Selke, as well as the Romulan Re-Unification Movement and Professor N'Vat, Omega Squad escaped their confinement and sought to escape. They were cut-off by Thokol, who then killed N'Vat, which caused the real Selke to shake off her Tal Shiar programming. Selke assisted Omega Squad with their escape, but at first refused to accompay them, believing herself to be unworthy of such friends. Her squadmates convinced her otherwise, and they all made their escape on the USS Sagan. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #14,15,16 T'Priell Revealed; Betrayals, Origins, The Fall)

The Sagan then took Selke to Vulcan (along with Zund and cadet Astrun, who had developed romantic feelings for "T'Priell) to have T'Priell's katra;; finally removed. The process wasn't as easy as hoped, as T'Priell's katra had been in residence in Selke's mind for so long, that it could no longer be removed. With the asisistance of Zund (who, as a joined Trill, had plenty of experience in shared minds) and Astrun, the two psyches were able to join together, forming a new personality. The new combined being chose to go by the name "T'Priell", as that is what her squad-mates knew her best by. Starfleet allowed T'Priell to continue her education at the Academy, as it was deemed the best way to enable the healing process. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #17, Culture Clash'')

When in combat with the cadets of the Klingon squad called First Cadre, T'Priell combined the disciple of a Vulcan with the ruthlessness of a Romulan. (Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic #18, mangHom qaD)

Starfleet Career

 * No details are known from T'Priell's Starfleet carrer, if any. Given the precedent established by the half-Romulan known as Soleta, it is unlikely that T'Priell would ever recieve a posting on a Starship.