Biography (optional): Dolores was discovered as a toddler by Captain Luis Holiday among the few survivors of an attacked Klingon vessel. The identity of the child and the cause of the attack were never discovered, and so the baby was adopted by Captain Holiday, along with the unclaimed Klingon child D’EleyaH that had been caring for her in the wake of destruction. But the Trill child was very ill with Altarian encephalitis, and it was uncertain if she would survive. Unwilling to allow a child to die nameless but feeling unsuited to bestowing a Trill name upon her, Captain Holiday named her rather superstitiously after his best friend and late wife’s twin sister, an emergency physician in a long line of steadfast healers. Her treatment was, unfortunately, only a marginal success. Due to her Trill physiology, it was difficult to remove the retrovirus from her cells, and Dolores would struggle to create memories and would require constant treatment to keep it under control for the rest of her life. Fortunately, the disease has been rendered non-transmissible, despite still being active in her body.

And so, the girls grew up together— though one did so a lot faster than the other— with D’EleyaH claiming the mothering role in their little family. So strong was their bond in this way, and so busy was the Captain, that their adoptive father became less a parental figure than a superior officer, though Dolores tended to idolize him regardless. He died in the line of duty while she was only 12, and she was determined to follow in his footsteps. Although she would never be cut out for Command, she did excel at starship and station design at the Academy.

During her first assignment at Utopia Planitia, however, without D’EleyaH to monitor her health, Dolores found herself in a relapse of her disease. Hit hard and struggling to come back to her usual duties, she was recently reassigned to Frontier and the USS Mac for part-time duty on maintenance and improvements in a more stable environment while she returns to full health.