Thirishar ch'Thane

Starfleet Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane, or "Shar", was an Andordian chen who severed as Science officer on the USS Tamberlaine and on Starbase Deep Space Nine in the years 2375 and 2376.

Shar's zhavey (or mother) was the Andorian representitive to the Federation Council, Councillor Charvretha zh'Thane.

Shar was assigned to Deep Space Nine in February of 2376 where he swiftly befriended station security chief Lieutenant Ro Laren and chief engineer Lieutenant Nog.

Shortly after arriving on DS9, Shar began getting pressure from his zhavey to return home to Andor and participate in the sheltreth, the Andorian mating ritual, with his three bondmates. (DS9 novel: Avatar books one and two)

The Andorian species, which requires a union between all four genders (chen, thaan, zhen and shen) in order to re-produce and had an ever shrinking window of fertility, was under going a reproductive crisis and was slowly dying out. Charvretha believed that Shar was ignoring his duty to his people by not returning home and adding to the population. Shar felt that the Andorian people were just delaying the inevitable and sought a more permanent, scientific, solution.

In June of 2376, Charvreetha brough Shar's bondmates, Shathrissia zh'Cheen (or "Thriss"), Thavanichent th'Dani (or "Anichent") and Vindizhei sh'Rraazh (or "Dizhei") to the station in a final attempt to convince him to return home before Shar began a three month exploration tour of the Gamma Quadrant aboard the USS Defiant.

Shar compromised, promising to return home as soon as he returned from the Gamma Quadrant. Tragically, Thriss was so despondant over Shar's refusal to return home, that she commited suicide shortly after Shar's departure.

While in the Gamma Quadrant, Shar obtained a suppy of non-viable Yrythny eggs, whose genetic turn-key eventually provided a solution to the Andorian re-productive crisis. (DS9 novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight, This Gray Spirit)

In Novemer of 2376, Shar returned to Andor with Ensign Prynn Tenmei, his shipmate with whom which he was in the beginings of a romantic relationship, to help save his zhaveys political position and while he was there he attended Thriss's sending, or funeral.

When Charvretha was kidnapped by political extremists who feared that the Yrythny eggs would be used to radical alter the Andorian species into only two genders, Shar, Prynn and Commander Phillipa Mathias set oput on a rescue mission. They were accompanied by a zhen named Arenthisleh zh'Vazdi (or "Thia" who was bondmate with the kidnappers, and didn't want to see them hurt.

After the rescue, Thia's bondmates decided to disolve their bonding with her. Shar, Anichent and Dizhei invited Thia to join there bond-group. Together the four of them preformed the sheltreth.

At last report, Thirishar ch'Thane was on an extended leave of absence from Starfleet. (DS9 novel: WoDS9 book one: Andor: Paradigm)