Andreas Kitabatu al-'Qalb

Andreas Kitabatu al-'Qalb (2250-?) is a Starfleet officer active in the 23rd and 24th centuries (Star Trek: Shadowstar Station).

Kitabatu al-’Qalb was born in Sadat City, Pan-Semite Union, Terra (Sol III) to David Kitabatu al-’Qalb, a Terran, and Alia Suder, a Betazed-Deltan hybrid, on 22 April 2250.

After living in several different Terran cities from 2250-57, the family of Kitabatu al-’Qalb settles in San Francisco. This is his residence of record until 2264, although summer vacations are spent alternately on Delta IV and Betazed.

Kitabatu al-’Qalb enters the University of California, Berkeley, in 2264.

In 2271, David and Alia Kitabatu al-'Qalb. Around this time, Andreas meets a scientist (name unrevealed) and his teenaged grandson, James Rennie; his interest in trans-temporal physics begins at this time. (Years later, Rennie becomes CO of the USS Hera.)

September, 2274: Kitabatu al-’Qalb enters Starfleet Academy. Hessus becomes the first of the reclusive Pierson’s Puppeteer species to enter Starfleet (and is Kitabatu al- ‘Qalb's suitemate). In 2277, Andreas Kitabatu al-’Qalb graduates from Starfleet Academy (an accelerated course due to previous education), and is assigned to the scout USS Aries, commanded by Capt. Thral, an Andorian.

2285: Lieutenant Kitabatu al-'Qalb is part of a USS Tereshkova boarding party that discovers ancient documents on an abandoned Romulan science station close to the Federation side of the Neutral Zone. The documents purport that the Romulans' cloaking device (known to the Federation for about 20 years) had originally been discovered in a "stasis box" created by the billion-years-gone Slaver Empire (Star Trek: Shadowstar Station: "Hegemony").