T'Ryssa "Trys" Chen was a female born in 2354 to Human mother Antigone Chen, and Vulcan father Sylix. When she was about two years old, her parents divorced, and her mother retained custody. She never knew her father, and self-identified more as a human. T'Ryssa Chen entered Starfleet Academy at age seventeen, and took five years to graduate in 2376, after the end of the Dominion War. Chen began a long-term romantic relationship with Ensign Rennan Konya after both joined the Enterprise crew in mid 2380. (TNG novel: Greater Than the Sum)