Editing Emily North (Utopia Planitia) (section)

=='''Family and Background'''==
[[Image:gregory.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Captain Gregory North]][[Image:Miranda.jpg|thumb|100px|right|USS Cher'ok]]Emily North was the daughter of Reese and Luan Cingly of Betazed. They both died in a shuttle collision before Emily was born. She was delivered and saved by a starfleet doctor, Lt. Commander Gregory North who was on vacation at Betazed during the accident.  When it became clear that she was not welcome within the remainder of her family due to her parent's elopement, Gregory adopted her and took her back aboard the USS Cher'ok where he was stationed.  She spent the first fourteen years of her life with her adopted father, who as far as Emily was concerned was her father.
[[Image:Uss_firebrande.jpg|thumb|100px|right|USS Brannock]]
Her father was promoted to Commander when she was eight and transferred to the USS Brannock as first officer.  Emily began exploring the ship, and eventually made friends with the ships Deltan securtiy chief, Lt. Commander Narram Prex, who took her under his wing.  Emily began learning how to be a security officer, even being allowed to go on patrols with the security team.
[[Image:Prax.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Commander Narram Prex]][[Image:Hogger.jpg|thumb|100px|right|USS Hogger]]
By the time Emily was twelve her father had been promoted to Captain and given a ship straight out of the shipyards, the USS Hogger. Captain North took the Brannock's security chief and several other security officers with him to the Prentiss, and Emily continued to learn from Prex. Two years later the Dominion War started and she was sent to Delta to attend the Deltan Tactical School, where she learned tactics and combat techniques.  After graduating she lived with her adopted grandparents, James and Barbara North, on Earth.  Both her father and her mentor, Prex, died in the Second Battle of Chin'toka, evacuating their crew.  Emily was devastated, and quickly decided that she would become a Starfleet Officer like her father and get back at the Dominion.  The war was over shortly after, but Emily joined Starfleet anyway.  She was accepted into red squad for her tactical abilities.