I forgot that I never actually posted my recent TrekLit commissions!
First is this one from StrangeOctopus at https://strangeoctopus.deviantart.com/ ! Definitely check out her art, this is great and she is great.
This character is Ensign Torvig Bu-Kar-Nguv, an engineer aboard the USS Titan. He first showed up in the very first novel, Taking Wing, and he’s been a regular character aboard since. (And since promoted to lieutenant, j.g., which I forgot when I commissioned this but oh well~)
He’s a Choblik, a member of a bipedal, deer-like prey species that was uplifted by an unknown people in ancient times, known today by them only as the “Great Builders”. Biologically they’re non-sapient, with no ability to manipulate their environment beyond their prehensile tail, but their cybernetics grant them intelligence and self-awareness, and they’ve continued reproducing the technology through to each new generation.