Tu’ Christina, Lieutenant Commander, First Officer, and Science Officer had cut orders assigning her to the Starship Enterprise. She felt the full weight of her heritage.  She was well aware of the distance members of the crew kept between her and them.  

Unlike her father who was half Vulcan and half Human, she spanned three worlds.  Vulcan, Earth and Romulus. 

While her father presented himself to the world as Vulcan and kept his human side restrained except on rare occasions her mother full-blooded Romulan was a study of passion and power.

Mom was the first female commander of a Romulan Bird of Prey.  Rumor abounded about the unlikely pairing of her parents.  The truth was simple.  At a time when the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Empire were fighting for dominance in interstellar space they were drawn together though a mission ending with her mother’s capture and months detainment on the first Starship Enterprise.

While her father Spock would never speak of such things her mother boldly told her when she was of age of how she had broken her father’s control resulting in her conception.   Even to this day there was a heat that seemed to shimmer in the air whenever the two were in proximity of the other. 

Vulcans and Romulans shared similar genetic attributes however while Vulcans controlled their warrior passions with logic except when it came to mating the Romulans embraced their passions and reveled in them. 

Christina was raised by agreement with her paternal grandparents the Vulcan Ambassador Sarek and her Terran grandmother Amanda.  Her grandfather’s work as an Ambassador meant that she was an interstellar traveler long before any child of any world. 

It was this fact as well as her star traveling parents that made her decision to enter Star Fleet one that her grandfather accepted much more readily than he had when his son had made a similar decision.

Christina rose through the ranks rapidly.  She was on the fast track to captain but was not sure that she wanted that chair.  Her scientific interests far outweighed her desire for command.  She hesitated when the posting for the Enterprise came up.