Commander Shampoo is the Executive Officer of the USS Benjamin Sisko and second in command. Some Federation documents have the Federation standard spelling of her name as Xian Pu, however, there has not been any clarification on this discrepancy.
Shampoo has had a fairly uneventful, but fruitful career, up until joining the Sisko.
Starting out as an Ensign in security, she quickly worked her way up to chief of Security on the USS Neko (NCC-73621), a Galaxy-class ship. Only in the position for three months, she was removed from it and transferred to the Sisko by special order of Vice Admiral Happosai.
Shampoo spent a short amount of time as the Sisko's third in command while Captain Karyn Walker was on board, as then Commander Ranma Saotome was assigned the Executive Officer role. Shampoo was originally slated to assume command of the ship, however, her aforementioned …