Editing Hoshi Sato (section)

==Biography==
Relatively little of Sato's background was explored in the series. She briefly suffered from space sickness and [[claustrophobia]]. The fourth season episode "[[Observer Effect (Star Trek: Enterprise)|Observer Effect]]" revealed that she was once dishonourably discharged from [[Starfleet]] for running a floating [[poker]] game and breaking the arm of a Starfleet instructor who tried to break it up (she has a [[Black belt (martial arts)|black belt]] in [[Aikido]]). She was subsequently allowed to reenlist because of her exceptional linguistic skills.

Before posting to the ''[[Enterprise (NX-01)|Enterprise]]'', she taught linguistics in [[Brazil]]; it is not known whether she was an active Starfleet officer at the time, or was reactivated to serve under [[Jonathan Archer]]. She later (also in "Observer Effect") expressed regret at leaving without saying goodbye to her students.