Editing Boldly Going:Dr. Azolla sh'Aialik (section)

=Lifepath=
==Home & Upbringing==
Azolla grew up on Vulcan, surrounded by what a century earlier would have been bitter enemies. Her shreya and charan (shen and chan parents) were in the Andorian diplomatic corps and stationed there, her thavan (thaan parent) was in Starfleet, and her zhavey (zhen parent) was a long-suffering (espcially with Azolla as a kid) homemaker. Though she was an intelligent child, taking an early interest in biology, her parents' attempt to put her in the Vulcan school system did not go terribly well. She wore her hot Andorian blood on her sleeve and took far too much delight in getting under her classmates' masks of logic. By her early teenage years she was in the Federation embassy school instead, still rebelling against the sedate pace of her life but channeling it into practice with the ushaan-tor alongside her studies... and later channeling it into 'comparative anatomy studies' with a variety of her classmates, to her parents' great consternation. 

==Starfleet Academy==
Despite all her 'extracurricular activities', she still fought her way to the top of her graduating class and applied to Starfleet Academy on the six-year Medical track. She was much 'calmer' at the Academy, with its much more cosmopolitan mix of sapients, less po-faced posturing than the diplomatic community, and 99% fewer Vulcans pretending not to have emotions*. By the time she did her midshipman residency at Starbase 24, she had a reputation for excellent bedside manner, usually able to diagnose a non-emergency patient just by listening carefully to them describing their symptoms and then confirming with the scanners rather than going on a full diagnostic hunt.

==Career Events==
Azolla graduated Starfleet Academy in 2255 and was posted as a junior medical officer to ''USS Farragut''. For about a year, everything was relatively pleasant in the prestigious posting. And then there was the war. Among the few Starfleet vessels with enough firepower and endurance to stand up to Klingon hunting parties directly, ''Farragut'' and her Constitution-class sisters saw extensive action on and behind the front lines of the conflict. The worst of the war came on the ground, however, as Klingon raiding parties would routinely wait for relief teams to show up before springing their traps. Azolla started taking her Ushaan-tor with her on relief missions, and surprised many a Klingon warrior who thought they were about to strike down a defenseless medic. The elation of the war finally ending - as mysterious as its end was - was cut short by the death of Captain Garrick at the hands of a previously unknown entity just weeks after. That was as good as any as an excuse to recall the ''Farragut'' for post-war refit and crew rotation, and Azolla left the ship to be assistant CMO aboard ''USS Eagle'', where she served on two five-year missions and two more years of internal patrol, settling into normalcy punctuated only with a few major incidents.

Chief among those incidents was an outbreak of what would later be known as the Chamberlin Virus swept through several colonies near the Romulan neutral zone.  It eventually turned out to have been spread by rats on a freighter, ''SS Chamberlin'', that picked up the illness on Galorndon Core while it made an illicit stop for Romulan Ale. Starfleet medicine was at first unable to provide more than palliative care, and several of her fellow doctors fell to the illness as well. Once the source was traced, Azolla accompanied an away team in a tense secret mission aboard that freighter to recover a cure from the Romulans. It culminated with a covert meeting with the chair of infectious diseases at the Romulan naval hospital on the planet, who offered the cure on humanitarian grounds on the condition that his government never find out. To confirm the cure could be adapted to other species, Azolla tested it on herself.

Azolla had actually applied and been selected for the recently-vacated CMO position on ''USS Enterprise'', having heard through the grapevine that Dr. McCoy was retiring to private practice and she'd need a new doctor for her next five years; Azolla still remembered dedicated phaser controller Jim Kirk from his way too many trips to sickbay during the war. But that didn't pan out, as Starfleet selected ''Enterprise'' to be the lead spaceframe for the next Constitution-class refit. She was able to snatch the ''Endeavor'''s CMO slot instead in the hasty reshuffle.