Mara, a civilian, was aboard the Starfleet ship, USS Chogatta (Constellation-class), when it mysteriously disappeared seventeen years ago. She was part of a UFSO tour visiting the ship at the time. Neither the Chogatta, nor its crew (including Mara Kendricks), has ever been found, yet, here she is, walking the decks of the Enterprise-D, as if no time has passed. Mara still loves me, just as if the year was 2352.
As I also noted yesterday, Mara, isn’t the only person, or thing, to appear aboard the Enterprise-D. Various crew have reported the appearance of old friends, loved ones (some who have been deceased for years), pets, objects, even famous individuals known to history. In some cases, these appearances have even included a personal fantasy connection. This has led our acting first officer, Lieutenant Commander Data, to theorize that, somehow, people and things from our minds and memories are becoming real. These manifestations now inhabit our decks, and we have no idea how they got here, or how to remove them.
I appear to have manifested an old girlfriend who has, in reality, likely been dead for 17 years. Her disappearance had a profound impact on who I am today. Lieutenant (JG) Tessa Kensington has manifested a childhood friend (a young girl) whom she knew back in Colorado, on Earth. Ensign Cassie Queen has, curiously, manifested an abundance of plants in her crew quarters. And, somewhat awkwardly, security officer, Lieutenant David Brown (a friend of our PAO staff), has manifested a duplicate of Tessa Kensington, who believes she and Lieutenant Brown are in a romantic relationship. And that’s just the chaos on deck two.
Disturbingly, though, our own challenges here, aboard the Enterprise-D, are not the only news of note. We have gotten word, earlier today, that station Deep Space 9, in orbit of Bajor, has been placed under emergency quarantine due to an unexplained epidemic of spontaneous aphasia. This means that both DS9, and the USS Enterprise-D, are presently under quarantine, both of which are located inside the Bajor System. We do not yet know whether these events are related.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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July 15, 2369 – (Devron Timeline 3.0)