Caraolyn Palamas: MIA in Star Trek Continues?
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She was referred to as having died.
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...
