Ensign Barnes was an unjoined female Trill Starfleet operations division junior officer who lived during the 2380s. She served aboard the USS Cerritos under Captain Carol Freeman as one of the ship's operations officers. (LD: "Second Contact", "Strange Energies", "Trusted Sources")
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Starfleet career[]
2380[]
In 2380, during a second contact mission to the Galardon, Barnes went on a date with Ensign Sam Rutherford. They met in the officers' lounge and got to know each other over a drink, when a rage virus broke out on the ship. Barnes and Rutherford fought against the infected crew while still continuing to get to know each other. They became cut off from the crew, and embarked on a space walk to get to the rally point. They reached Deck 8 and took down more of the infected crew, but almost got trapped when a sealed door did not recognize their combadge signatures. With a quick adjustment, Rutherford got the door open, and both he and Barnes made it through before the door shut. Barnes immediately leaped into Rutherford's arms and kissed him passionately, but he seemed more concerned about the fact the doors did not open for them. He started ignoring her advance, and she walked away annoyed; they stopped dating each other afterwards. The two, nevertheless, made it to Transporter Room 8, where after she assisted in clearing a path through the "zombie" crew, as they made their way to sickbay. After the virus had been neutralized, she was at the ops station as the ship continued on to its next destination. (LD: "Second Contact")
She was at the operations station when Captain Freeman was talking with a Klingon captain and the ship became inundated with Beckett Mariner's disruptive musical performance. (LD: "Temporal Edict")
She was again at ops during the mission to tow the alien ancient generation ship. During the same mission, she attended the management training session held in the officers' lounge. Back on the bridge, ordered Brad Boimler to report to bridge duty at 15:30. Boimler commented to himself, "Oh, I'll report to bridge duty, and they'll get exactly what they deserve!", however, she overheard the comment and asked "What?", to which he gave the quick cover story response of, "Uh– Oh, nothing! That was a holodeck. Uh, Moriarty." Shortly thereafter, she later reported that the USS Merced was moving close to the Cerritos' tow sector. (LD: "Moist Vessel")
She was on the bridge during the Cerritos' confrontation with the Drookmani ship over the salvage of the freighter NCC-502. She informed Freeman that the Drookmani had engaged their tractor beam and were attempting to load the cargo. She later attended the party to celebrate Fletcher's promotion to lieutenant. (LD: "Terminal Provocations")
She was once again at ops when the Cerritos' temporary captain, Amina Ramsey came aboard. (LD: "Much Ado About Boimler")
Barnes was on the bridge when the Cerritos dropped out of warp in the Kalla system. Later, she was present at Shaxs' funeral service following the battle with the Pakleds. (LD: "No Small Parts")
2381[]
In 2381, following Rutherford's minor personality change resulting from having his cybernetic implant ripped out, Barnes and Rutherford got back together. Barnes invited him to go swimming with her and some other officers in Cetacean Ops, but this date was interrupted by D'Vana Tendi's attempt to rewrite Rutherford's neural pathways. (LD: "Strange Energies")
Later, while serving at ops during the Cerritos' cataloguing mission for the Collector's Guild, she reported to the captain that two escape pods had just launched from Kerner Hauze's ship. (LD: "Kayshon, His Eyes Open")
Later still, she was on the bridge when she notified Captain Freeman of an unknown ship approaching from the surface of Frylon IV, before she watched the events unfold during the scam that made it seem as if the Cerritos had accidentally destroyed the ship with it's tractor beam. (LD: "Mugato, Gumato")
She was later standing in one of the ship's corridors with the Antaran ops ensign when the Redshirts strolled by, and Boimler demonstrated his confidence by pointing at Barnes and acknowledging her. (LD: "The Spy Humongous")
Some point later, she was on the bridge when the Cerritos received a transmission. After informing the Captain, she was ordered to put it onscreen which turned out to be Queen Paolana. (LD: "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie")
Later yet, she was stationed on the bridge when the ship received a message from the Bakersfield. After relaying the message to the captain, the ship then went to warp to assist the ship. Later that day, she participated in the training drills presented by Shari yn Yem, where she participated in the simulation, Whale Rescue, achieving a 73% score while the simulation was active. (LD: "I, Excretus")
Barnes in cold weather gear
She was summoned to the bridge while wearing cold weather gear and carrying ice skates, following the interruption of her down time, during the Cerritos conflict with the Pakleds and Klingons. (LD: "wej Duj")
Later yet, Barnes was approached by Rutherford, who had his original personality reasserted due to Tendi making an adjustment to his implant. Not realizing that the Rutherford she was talking to wasn't the usual Rutherford, she found his attempts to flirt with her as he attempted to discover security shift changes to first anger, then upset her, causing her to run off in anguish. (LD: "Reflections")
Barnes' interview
Soon after, Barnes was one of a number of crewmen allowed to be interviewed by Federation News Network reporter Victoria Nuzé. She initially opened up by explaining how just "last week, [she] got to scan an ancient probe from an unknown civilization" and how she had "just signed up for aerial silks," however, as she continued to talk, she unwittingly disparaged the Engineering crew for their breakdown and need for rest, claiming Ops was better because of it. This was one of numerous incidents the crew blamed Mariner for revealing until the exposé Starfleet's Shame revealed the truth. (LD: "Trusted Sources")
Later, she sat in the bar with Casey celebrating the California-class' combined defeat of the rogue Texas-class USS Aledo. (LD: "The Stars At Night")
2382[]
In 2382, Barnes fell victim to a virus that caused her DNA to evolve/devolve into a futuristic cavewoman who could read minds but was also afraid of open flame. However, Dr. T'Ana was able to change her back to normal. (LD: "Upper Decks")
Captain Carol Freeman later attended one of Barnes' sousaphone recitals. By this point, Barnes had mostly recovered, but she still had some cavewoman features. When the Clickets infiltrated the ship, Barnes helped Freeman and Steve Stevens to repel them, briefly using her sousaphone as a weapon. (LD: "Upper Decks")
Personal life[]
Rutherford described Barnes as being smart, pretty, and very effective in a ship-wide crisis, but did not share Rutherford's interest of running diagnostics on ship systems. She liked to play squash and was into music played by a classic rock band called The Monkees. (LD: "Second Contact")
Barnes' father was a cyborg. She had an older sister who was joined to a symbiont . According to Barnes, the joining completely changed her sister's personality as afterward she would not stop talking about having a symbiont. (LD: "Second Contact", "Strange Energies")
Holograms[]
A holographic version of her appeared in the simulation Naked Time, where she was seen naked while kissing a holographic Jennifer Sh'reyan. (LD: "I, Excretus")
Appendices[]
Appearances[]
- LD:
- "Second Contact"
- "Temporal Edict"
- "Moist Vessel"
- "Terminal Provocations"
- "Much Ado About Boimler" (background only)
- "No Small Parts" (background only)
- "Strange Energies"
- "Kayshon, His Eyes Open"
- "Mugato, Gumato"
- "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" (background only)
- "The Spy Humongous" (background only)
- "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie"
- "I, Excretus"
- "wej Duj"
- "First First Contact" (background only)
- "Reflections"
- "Trusted Sources"
- "The Stars At Night"
- "Empathological Fallacies"
- "A Few Badgeys More"
- "Old Friends, New Planets"
- "Dos Cerritos"
- "Starbase 80?!" (background only)
- "Upper Decks"
- VST: "Walk, Don't Run" (background hologram; archive footage)
Background information[]
Barnes was voiced by Jessica McKenna.