In the Sickbay Ward Room, there's this bit of dialogue between Dr. Elise McKennah and Apollo: McKENNAH I'm Doctor McKennah. Are you feeling up for some company? APOLLO The company of a beautiful woman is always welcome. McKENNAH You are just as charming as she said you were. APOLLO She? McKENNAH Lieutenant Palamas. Carolyn. APOLLO Carolyn! The only mortal woman to spurn my love. McKENNAH She did so out of dedication for her crewmates. She also said it was the most difficult thing she'd ever done. APOLLO Then why does she not declare this to me herself? McKENNAH She died. APOLLO Carolyn? Gone as well? McKENNAH After her experience with you, she decided to leave the ship. She died while helping some colonists who were infected by a plague. APOLLO Such sacrifice by such beauty. She's even more than I im- mediately knew her to be. A rare treasure, McKennah. MCKENNAH Elise.
Thanks. Interestingly enough, in the original script for "Who Mourn for Adonis?", Palamas ended up with a child. And in the novel series, that child, a daughter, would have grown up to have kids of her own. Too bad STC did nothing with these tidbits. It would have been interesting to see Apollo dealing with being a father to Carolyn's child, after his own family perished.
^Didn't STC say she died on Camus II? If so, that's in keeping with the New Frontier novels. The cause might be different, though.
I can see Counselor McKenna waiting until Apollo was more stable before revealing something like that. He'd just lost Athena, after all...