Lt. JG Tallen Delmore

Tallen (Vulcan spelling T’alleno) grew up on a Vulcan mountain with her parents. She was restless and felt she wanted to travel, just not into space, she was perfectly happy to stay planetside. However, she, being of mixed heritage, needed a journey of self-discovery. Her krei (cousin), Sera, convinced her to try Starfleet and Tallen had her first posting on the USS Windswept where she began a friendship with Lt. Doyle Swenson, the chief engineer. He was also the captain’s nephew. She could feel something off about her new friend but purposefully stopped herself from using her Betazoid/Vulcan senses to pry, she wanted to counsel without “parlor tricks” as her captain mocked them. Eventually Doyle was revealed to have an unstable mind and he killed the ship’s doctor. The captain knew but let investigators think Tallen hid the knowledge from him. Tallen, in the captain’s opinion to the investigators, could have saved the doctor if she’d just been “useful” and read Doyle’s mind. The hypocrisy of telling her she wasn’t Vulcan enough for the ears, while also telling her she’d failed to use her skills to prevent a death, weighed heavily on her. The captain offered her a deal, get off his ship but never talk about the details.