ENS. Kerrell Rissen

Kerrell Rissen was born on Bajor at the end of the 24th Century, he grew up listening to the horror stories of his grandparents of the Cartesian occupation. Leaving Bajor, Kerrell joined Star-fleet to train as an Operations officer. 

During his first year, he felt the usual homesickness of being away from home for the first time, throwing himself into his studies kept him from descending into the darkness of depression. 

Majoring in Transport operations and Probe subsystems Kerrell spent much of his later time at the academy buried in the guts of machinery. 

Leaving the Academy Kerrell was posted to the USS New Jersey where he fell headlong into an antagonistic relationship with his assistant department head, a Cardassian exchange officer who took an instant dislike to Kerrell and all things Bajoran. 

Making sure that Kerrell knew his dislike and taking every opportunity to remind Kerrell that the Cardassians were the superior race and that the Bajorians were lucky that his government had allowed them to be occupied and given work in the mines.

 After several months of this abuse, Kerrell snapped and landed a punch on the nose of the officer, leading to his being discharged, awaiting an inquiry.  Leaving Starfleet, Kerrell spent time on Bajor before traveling to the Delta quadrant. 

Joining his new ship, the Cromwell was an entirely different life, jumping straight into the problem besetting the ship, Kerrell knew he'd found a place to call home.

 During his last mission, Kerrell was injured by an insectoid species that were in the process of 'eating' a living ship. something in the saliva attacked the nervous system of Bajorians, the two other Bajorians recovered relatively quickly, for reasons still unclear to Kerrell, he'd lingered in a coma for two weeks. 

After spending three weeks on OH1 recovering Kerrell was summoned to the Admiral's office and transferred to the USS Discovery.