Saru (Star Trek)
Saru is an extraterrestrial television character who features in Star Trek.
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Biography
Saru was a male Kelpian who was from the planet Kaminar. (DIS: The Vulcan Hello) He was the son of Aradar and the brother of Siranna. In his youth, Saru lived an agrarian life on his home planet Kaminar, with his sister and father. Saru and his family were scared of the Ba'ul's watchful eye, as it took Kelpiens as they experienced the vahar'ai. (DIS: The Brightest Star) Saru remembered listening to children's stories told by village elders around a fire, including one about a kelp monster. (DIS: Su'Kal) Though discouraged by his father, Saru contemplated his people's place in the universe and questioned the ritual sacrifice of his people to the Ba'ul. On one occasion, Aradar instructed Saru to dispose of debris fallen from the Ba'ul ship. Saru instead built an interstellar communications device, identified by Lieutenant Philippa Georgiou as the first of his species to show the technical capability of doing so. (DIS: The Brightest Star) After corresponding with Saru, Georgiou was given special permission by Starfleet to retrieve Saru. As his people were a pre-warp civilization, Saru accepted the caveat that he could never return and potentially contaminate his culture where he departed with Georgiou for the USS Archimedes. (DIS: The Brightest Star) The only things he took with him were a handful of seeds and a knife that belonged to his sister. (DIS: An Obol for Charon) He was eventually given refugee status by the Federation and went through processing at Starbase 7. Whilst there, he for the first time saw a wide diversity of life forms and listened to stories as well as aspirations. This led to him deciding to join Starfleet to help those in need similar to how they had helped him. (DIS: An Obol for Charon)
This led to him being the first Kelpian to had joined Starfleet. (DIS: The Vulcan Hello)
In 2249, Saru had obtained the rank of Lieutenant where he was assigned to the sciences division on the U.S.S. Shenzhou under Captain Phillippa Georgio and served as a bridge officer where among his crewmates was Michael Burnham. (DIS: Battle at the Binary Stars) By 2256, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and worked as the ship's chief science officer. (DIS: The Vulcan Hello)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He said that he saw hope in the stars with this being greater than his fears and thus he went towards it. (DIS: The Brightest Star)
His father was Aradar and he had a sister by the name of Siranna.
Powers and abilities
Besides having more developed senses, Kelpiens had exceptional physical strength and stamina relative to Humans: Kelpiens pursued by apex predators had exceeded speeds of eighty kilometers per hour. (DIS: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
After undergoing vahar'ai, the Kelpien's excessive fear responses appeared to be suppressed; Saru in particular showed a more confrontational nature. This was followed by the development of new keratin-based structures in the cartilage previously housing the threat ganglia, new organs from which a Kelpien could forcibly expel (or "shoot") spines (see dart) which grew from them; these structures extended outward in the same manner as the old threat ganglia in moments of great stress. Long ago in their planet's history, post-vahar'ai 'evolved' Kelpiens nearly drove the Ba'ul to extinction before the Ba'ul subjugated them. (DIS: The Sound of Thunder)
During his Starfleet training, he was noted to had gained a first contact specialist qualification. (DIS: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
Notes
- Saru was portrayed by actor Doug Jones in the setting of Star Trek: Discovery.
Alternate Versions
Appearances
- Star Trek: Discovery:
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