Lieutenant Matrina Sedik was a Human female who served as an engineer on the USS Incursion in the 24th century. Sedik was born into a large family in the African Confederation on the planet Earth, her father was an exobiologist and her mother a psychologist who worked on a starship as ships counselor. As a child Sedik showed a high level of skill in engineering and computing and later entered Starfleet Academy to pursue her engineering skills, she graduated with honors.