Yoshi Mishima was a 24th century Human man, a Starfleet cadet assigned to Starfleet Academy's Nebula Squadron in the 2370s decade.
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At the Academy, Mishima was roommate to Matt Decker of Omega Squad. (SA - T'Priell Revealed comic: "Origins")
Cadet Yoshi Mishima and Cadet Matt Decker have been best friends for years, long before either of them entered the Academy. They hope to be assigned to the same training squad, but when they accidentally disrupted a Starfleet sting operation by trying to play heroes, Admiral Brand decided to split them up. Mishima became field leader of Nebula Squadron. Meanwhile, Matt was paired with the Ferengi cadet, Nog, in Omega Squadron. Yoshi became extremely jealous of Nog’s friendship with Matt, and was rather hostile to him on occasion.
When Omega Squadron was sentenced to death for violating a Federation quarantine, Yoshi organized public protests, gathering support from staff and students, demanding that Omega Squad be released. Superindenent Pradesh ignored the protests, and actually filed a reprimand in his permanent record. When it became clear that Pradesh was not going to listen to reason, Yoshi risked his career and his freedom by organizing a jail break and helping Omega Squad to escape. To prevent Yoshi from being implicated in their escape, Omega member Pava, knocked Yoshi out and left him behind.
Weeks later, after Omega Squad cleared their names and the charges were dropped, one of the squad was revealed to be a Romulan spy. She captured the entire squad and faked their deaths in order to escape. Yoshi and Nog were the only ones who did not give up on the Omega Squad, and they launched their own unauthorized rescue mission. Along the way, the two of them managed to resolve their differences and become friends. Yoshi and Nog were successful in rescuing Omega Squad, and picked up an alien woman, Halakith, who returned with them to enter Starfleet Academy.
Things were fine until Halakith learned that Yoshi has a boyfriend. Homosexuality was offensive to her culture, since they were a dying species and non-reproductive romance would not help their gene pool. She refused to even share a room with Yoshi. Yoshi was outraged by her behavior and tried to have her application to Starfleet denied on the basis that her prejudice had no place in an organization based on peaceful co-existence. Yoshi’s request was denied, and Halakith was not only admitted to the Academy, but was assigned to Yoshi’s squad. Matt tried to help the two of them find some common ground, and in the end, they agreed to look beyond their differences and work together.
The identity of Yoshi's boyfriend was not revealed due to the comic's cancellation two issues later.
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- SA - T'Priell Revealed comic: "Origins"
Created by writer Christian Cooper, Mishima was notable for being the first gay man in the Star Trek universe.