Tate Horin

Tateumm Andreus Horin, commonly referred to as Tate, is a Starfleet officer currently assigned to Deep Space Nineteen. He recently graduated from Starfleet Academy after spending his last year attached to Starbase Bravo as part of the Mellstoxx III Campus outreach programme. A Starfleet brat by default, his parents and aunt are all senior officers in the service. Alongside this, Tate is the eldest grandson of the Betazoid Fourth House. As a majority of the Fourth House live on Mellstoxx III, the system has been known as a home for the young Betazoid. Though he has connections, Tate hates using them to advance his career; as such, he is hoping to leave the system once he has graduated from Starfleet Academy. 

As a child, Tate was always confident in others, a trait he picked up from his paternal grandmother and one that has remained with him into his late teenage years and into early adult childhood. He enjoys socialising with one another and will always take the time to get to know someone he considers would become a good friend. Unlike his grandmother, as he got older he wasn’t attracted to the lavish lifestyle she tried to encourage and instil in his father and aunt (and later Tate). Instead he did follow his parents’ lead in wanting to join Starfleet. The excitement of seeing the stars and exploring the unknown was truly appealing to him. That all said, he has retained his grandmother’s ability to become the life and soul of a party during big events. A bulk of this comes around his passion for playing music and is known for his singing. There are times when he is on duty or in the gym and has been caught to be humming a tune to himself. He has had to stop himself when he starts singing aloud and realises everyone has caught on to what he is in the middle of doing. 

Tate is a kind and caring soul, someone who can be trusted to get on with a task and do it well. Though when it comes to things he may find uncomfortable he is known to raise his opinion and this has caused him some issues with his superiors. The Academy has been a strong influence on him and this is something he has changed. As he has got older, he has been known on rare occasions to showe a more calmer and mature approach to life, but his young eagerness to experience everything has made him a bit too green and overshadows this most of the time. This has happened a few times, especially when he wants to impress his professors or instructors. 

Though he is sociable and enjoys having many friends around him, he is known to be quite the charmer and will use this to get his way sometimes. Many of his friends refer to him as a flirt and uses his humour to get around others as well. 

Being a lone child, he is known to get away with things with his father but isn’t as successful with his mother who is quick to put him in his place. He enjoys the strong relationship he has with his parents and particularly enjoys spending time with his dad. The two have become closer as he has gotten older with his father teaching him how to play Bajoran spring ball. The two are also known to enjoy going fishing together when they want to get away from things.