Her decision to become a doctor came when she was twelve years old. She and a friend had snuck out into the woods one day, and were loping along when they came across a ship that had crashed. M'lira immediately recognized it as a Starfleet shuttle. They approached carefully, and found the scene of carnage within. One man, a science officer, was still alive...barely. M'lira used her limited first aid knowledge to help, but could only watch in dismay as his life slipped from her hands. As she sat there, watching him for hours after his life ebbed, her friend trying to get her to leave, M'lira vowed to become a doctor. She'd tried to help the man, but it wasn't enough...but not anymore.

Even though she wasn't old enough to join Starfleet or go to medical school, M'lira started studying. She got jobs working at the hospitals on Cait, helping where she could. When she did finally apply to the Academy, she was more than ready. She had already acquired quite a bit of medical knowledge, and impressed the Academy instructors with her talent. She excelled in her classes, soaking in all the knowledge she could.

Despite the hard studying, she made sure there was time for socialization. She had enough of a psychological background to know that downtime was essential, and so were friends. She made a number of close friends at the Academy, and still keeps in touch with most of them. After graduating from the Academy, she moved on to Starfleet Medical to earn her advanced degrees.

By the time she left Starfleet Academy, M'lira had several degrees as well as her choice of posts in the fleet. She chose the USS Hood, the same ship where a friend from the Academy, Cammie Chan was posted.

The years passed in a blur for M'lira. Between the Dominion War, the Borg, and the Klingons, she was quite busy. At the end of 2376, she received a promotion to lieutenant junior grade and was assigned to Starbase 163. It was a good posting, and again she made a lot of new friends there. However, staying in one place was starting to wear on her, so M'lira put in for a transfer back to starship duty.

As luck would have it, one of her friends from her early days after the Academy had a ship and was on the way to SB163 while M'lira was looking. She put in for the transfer to the USS Sulu and was approved. She was looking forward to seeing Matt Salinger again...especially since he was no longer with Cammie. She knew it would come to nothing, but still travelling through space and catching up with an old friend would be good.

She enjoys a good joke, and has been known on several occasions as a practical joker. She pretty much likes everyone, and has few people she can't get along with. Jealousy and territoriality are rare for her, but she has been known to exhibit those traits on rare occasions. She has learned to endure the comments most humans tend to make about her species, given the similarities to the felinoid species common to earth.