1st Lieutenant Kio Yuki is a member of the U.S.S. Sisko's NEO Special Operations team and currently serves as team leader of 'Bravo Team'.
Lt. Yuki's career with Starfleet started off in the Land Defense Corps, Starfleet's version of a land-based army. She worked her way up from the lowest rank of Specialist to Chief Warrant Officer where she was moved to the 3rd Ranger Infantry Unit. In the 3RIU she was assigned to Tilar 3, a prospective Federation planet that requested peacekeeping assistance after a long and bloody civil war.
It was there she met and married Nick Yuki, a fellow Warrant Officer. Her marriage ended in tragedy, however as a year into her deployment she and a small detachment she was leading, including her husband, was acting on intelligence that a small rebel group might be forming to assault the still fledgling unified government.
The intel turned …