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Ensign Ahni Jetal was a junior officer on the USS Voyager during its time in the Delta Quadrant. She was popular and well-liked among the crew; she was even friends with the senior staff. On her birthday, many of the senior officers organized a surprise party for her in the mess hall.

She was a shuttle pilot and was involved in modifying the shuttles on Voyager to increase their maneuverability, making them more "cool".

In 2373, she was piloting a shuttle on an away mission with Harry Kim when they were attacked. The alien attack injured both her and Kim with a residual energy charge, which had implanted an energy pulse that resided in her neural membranes. The pulse moved up her spinal cord and into her brain, resulting in death by massive synaptic failure. With no time to treat both patients, The Doctor was forced to choose to treat one of them over the other, and he picked Kim simply because he knew Kim better.

Her remains were launched into space shortly after a brief speech by Captain Janeway on the bridge.

Her death later caused a contradiction in the EMH's programming due to the ethical issues involved in him 'choosing' to kill one person over another simply because of a personal connection, resulting in Captain Kathryn Janeway to order the erasing of The Doctor's memory of the event and his knowledge of Jetal. When the memories resurfaced again, Janeway decided to let The Doctor deal with the memories and try to work them out for himself.

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Ensign Ahni Jetal (portrayed by Nancy Bell) was a junior officer on the USS Voyager who appeared in flashbacks in the episode "Latent Image". She was popular and well-liked among the crew; she was even friends with the senior staff. On her birthday, many of the senior officers organized a surprise party for her in the mess hall.

She was a shuttle pilot and was involved in modifying the shuttles on Voyager to increase their maneuverability, making them more "cool".

In 2373, she was piloting a shuttle on an away mission with Harry Kim when they were attacked. The alien shot and injured both her and Kim with a residual energy charge, which had implanted an energy pulse that resided in her neural membranes. The pulse moved up her spinal cord and into her brain, resulting in death by massive synaptic failure. With no time to treat both patients, The Doctor was forced to choose to treat one of them over the other, and he picked Kim simply because he knew Kim better.

Her remains were launched into space shortly after a brief speech by Captain Janeway on the bridge.

Her death later caused a contradiction in the EMH's programming due to the ethical issues involved in him 'choosing' to kill one person over another simply because of a personal connection rather than making the decision based on which patient had the better chance of survival, resulting in Captain Kathryn Janeway ordering that the Doctor's memory of the event and his knowledge of Jetal should be erased. However, the memories resurfaced again 18 months later after the Doctor discovered evidence of the surgery he had performed on Kim, a conversation with Seven of Nine prompted Janeway to decide to let The Doctor deal with the memories and try to work them out for himself, acknowledging that they couldn't help the Doctor become a person only to treat him as a machine when it was easier.

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On Star Trek, Death Has Evolved

As Star Trek has changed, so has the franchise's attitudes towards memorializing those they've lost

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As Benjamin Sisko stood over the coffin of his lifelong friend Jadzia Dax, he did what so many people do when confronted with loss. He asked her why she was gone now, now when he needed her the most. He spoke to her as if she was sitting across from his desk in the commander’s office at Deep Space 9 . Even with a futuristic coffin draped in the flag of the Federation, Jadzia’s death reminded me of being at my grandmother’s wake. It was a Chicago Cubs blanket over her wooden casket, but I still had questions I wanted her to answer.

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Death is as much a part of Star Trek as it is our own reality, but early on, deaths were often brushed to the side. In Star Trek: The Original Series , death happened and then wasn’t discussed. The Red Shirt Trope emerged for a reason. Some unlucky ensign would join Kirk, Spock and Bones for an away mission, and would inevitably be sacrificed to the alien of the week and never mentioned again.

Even in the early days of Star Trek: The Next Generation , red shirts died and weren’t mentioned again. Ensign Haskell was at the conn when the Enterprise encountered Nagilum, who wanted to see a human die. Haskell had a GIF-worthy death. The crew moved on without another word about him.

As the Star Trek franchise matured, the characters’ reaction to death matured, as well. Death was dealt with, even for so-called red shirts. Enrique Muniz appeared in three Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes. We got to know him mostly as someone who helped out Dax or Miles O’Brien. But when he was killed in “ The Ship ,” the crew treated him with the kind of respect that showed how important he was to them, as Worf and Miles stayed with Muniz’s body for the journey home. The crew’s reaction to his death said more about Muniz than we ever learned from his appearances on the show.

Star Trek even started to show what happened when a character didn’t mourn the loss of a colleague. Star Trek: Voyager 's “ Latent Image ” showed how the Doctor, a hologram, was even capable of feeling the pain of death. Ahni Jetal showed up in flashbacks, and only in this one episode. Her death was the result of a choice no doctor should have to make. Instead of chalking it up to another “red shirt” death, the loss of Jetal left an indelible mark on the Doctor’s programming. With this episode, Star Trek put its entire legacy of red shirts behind it.

The growth of the franchise is likely one of the reasons Star Trek changed its attitude towards death. Each subsequent show takes on more sophisticated issues, and allows for new strides in character development. As its characters grew to become more fully fleshed out, their emotions towards death were bound to become more sophisticated as well.

Two friendships in particular stand out to show this. Kirk’s eulogy of Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , is not just one of the most touching moments in Star Trek history, but in all of American cinema. Kirk’s tears carry weight with viewers not just because of the selfless way Spock died, but because of how their friendship had grown over the years.

Spock’s death had to hurt — both to the members of the Enterprise crew and to the audience. He had earned that pain with every eyebrow raise, every logical barb, every adventure. Kirk and Spock’s relationship stood at the center of the series, so the memorial service had to be strong to show that. To understand what it means for Kirk to call Spock “human,” you have to know their relationship, just as anyone at my grandmother’s wake had to know she was an 80-year Cubs fan to see why that blanket was on her casket. But when you did know, it meant so much more than some words on a screen or a logo on a blanket.

From the first time they met to the very end of Data’s life, Picard was challenged by Data in a way he had not been by any of his other crew members. Even Data’s understanding of his own death, first talked about during “ Time’s Arrow ,” was different than anything else encountered by Data’s colleagues.

His death in Nemesis gave rise to the entire purpose of Star Trek: Picard . We learned what exactly happened to Data’s digital consciousness, and how he directed one final query to his longtime captain and friend, Jean-Luc Picard. In a 24th Century version of a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order, Data asks, in a poetic way, to be allowed to die.

“I want to live, however briefly, knowing that my life is finite. Mortality gives meaning to human life, Captain. Peace, love, friendship, these are precious because we know they cannot endure. A butterfly that lives forever is really not a butterfly at all.”

Picard’s quest to find Data’s daughters, and save them, was the best way he could memorialize his friend.

Picard’s determination to honor his friend is a beautiful reminder that in the 24th Century and beyond, Starfleet deaths aren’t mourned solely by burials or sitting at a mausoleum. Just as we need rituals to get through loss today, those rituals are needed by the Star Trek family.

This article was originally published on May 22, 2020.

Maggie Hendricks is based in Chicago and has covered sports and culture for more than 10 years for USA Today and Yahoo Sports. She co-hosts a weekly radio show on 670 the Score, and sneaks in Star Trek references into the sports world as much as possible. Follow her on Twitter @maggiehendricks.

Star Trek: Picard streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and is distributed concurrently by Paramount Global Content Distribution on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories, and in Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave.

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• We didn't know who Spock's parents were until they'd literally come onboard, we didn't know he had a half-brother until Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , or a sister until Star Trek: Discovery , and Sulu was never mentioned to have a daughter until we see her serving as the helmswoman on the Enterprise-B in Star Trek: Generations .
• Khan meets Chekov and says he knows him because "I never forget a face." Which means that Chekov was on ship during "Space Seed," a first-season episode, despite the character not appearing on screen until the second season. Numerous explanations have been thrown about (he was on the ship, just not as bridge crew; Chekov was the officer in charge of delivering the supplies and food to Ceti Alpha V; an obvious joke about Chekov occupying a latrine Khan wanted to use), but ultimately it comes down to this trope.
• Another example from Wrath of Khan is Doctor Carol Marcus, Kirk's old flame. They even had a son together. McCoy 's aware of her too (presumably from back in the day). And yet we're only hearing about her now, after all these years. Justified, however, because assuming David is the same age as his actor, Merritt Butrick, he would have been born, and Kirk and Carol's relationship would have been, several years before the original series, and Kirk explicitly states he "stayed away," as Carol wanted, after David was born.
• Some have speculated that Carol Marcus was the "blonde lab technician" that Gary Mitchell set Kirk up with, mentioned in the second TOS pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
• Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , as a replacement for Saavik. The first drafts of the script did have Saavik in that part, but the writers ultimately decided that having Saavik betray the crew of the Enterprise and frame them for the assassination of Gorkon just didn't make sense for her character. (This is something that's been disputed by Nicholas Meyer. He wanted it to be Saavik, but Roddenberry leaned on him a bit because he didn't believe it'd fit the character. Meyer may still disagree, seeing as how he came up with Saavik to begin with.)
• Star Trek: Generations : Kirk's ultimate fantasy world in the Nexus involves the one true love of his life... who we've naturally never heard of before despite Yeoman Rand, Carol Marcus, or even Edith Keeler now being quite viable options for that role. In fairness, the original series made it plain that Kirk had plenty of old girlfriends, and he made quite a few new ones along the way (this is Kirk , after all). The real surprise is that David Marcus was his ONLY child. (Explained in the novelization of the movie; what Kirk actually did was experience similar fantasies with all of the women he'd truly been in love with.). They try to Hand Wave this, saying that Kirk retired from Starfleet at some point between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , and returned to Starfleet once they broke up.
• The Cardassians are introduced in the The Next Generation season four episode "The Wounded," where it is explained that it has been only a year since the end of the long, costly war between the Federation and the Cardassian Union. However, this information means that the first two years of the show occurred during a war that was never seen, heard or experienced. Just where, exactly, was the flagship of Starfleet while the rest of the fleet was engaged in active operations? And how is it that Chief O'Brien is a veteran of the Cardassian War when he's been on the Enterprise -D since TNG's first episode? Was the Enterprise fighting in the war between episodes and nobody bothered to mention it, or are we supposed to assume that the first four seasons all took place in a single year despite all indications to the contrary? Admittedly there are a few hints that while to the Cardassians it was a major war, to the Federation it was a basically just a regional conflict , albeit an unusually long and bloody one for the period. If O'Brien served, presumably the conflict went back to before the Enterprise-D was commissioned and he was posted there. It's also possible that the first four seasons took place during a prolonged ceasefire leading up to the official peace treaty during which time the Federation was in a technical state of war with Cardassia. (There are actually countries in real life that are technically at war with each other despite not having fired a shot in decades).
• Even Ben Sisko has a bit of this, as he's introduced in the DS9 pilot as an officer on the Saratoga during the Battle of Wolf 359. This one's at least justified, since we never actually see the battle in "Best of Both Worlds", only its aftermath.
• Amusingly played with by the minor character Joseph Carey, who was a regular in the first season before disappearing from the show, except for flashbacks and time hops to the period of the first season. He then showed up again in the last season without comment, just in time to be killed off. A common fan theory is that the writers forgot they hadn't actually killed him off yet.
• Captain Picard remembers the Borg Queen when she's first introduced in Star Trek: First Contact . Apparently, she was there during the events of Best of Both Worlds , but Picard doesn't mention this vital piece of information about a dangerous enemy onscreen, and Data seemingly knows nothing about her despite the fact that he presumably would have read any report Picard made after the incident. They attempt to handwave this by implying that Picard had forgotten about her until they're reintroduced in the film.
• Star Trek Online : The mission "Storm Clouds Gather" had a generic Klingon NPC named Adet'pa whom the Player Character (all factions) interacted with for all of one dialogue chain. Two real-life years later, the character was given a new model and voice actor ( Rekha Sharma ) and upgraded to a recurrer for the Klingon Civil War story arc, and reintroduced as a hardcore loyalist of current Arc Villain J'ula. She addresses the Player Character as if they should automatically remember who she is, without explanation.
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Today, everyone knows what a multiverse is. But back in 1967, parallel universe stories weren’t nearly as common as they are now, even within the sci-fi genre. A classic Star Trek episode, Jerome Bixby’s “Mirror, Mirror,” helped popularize the alternate universe trope, complete with meaner versions of yourself who may rock an evil little goatee like Mirror Spock.

Star Trek’s Mirror Universe also gave us an alternate version of the USS Enterprise in the ISS Enterprise , a ship that served the Imperial Terran Empire, not the United Federation of Planets. Now, in the Discovery Season 5 episode “Mirrors,” the evil ISS Enterprise is back... as a force for good. Here’s what it all means. Spoilers ahead.

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While pursuing the thieves Moll and L’ak, Book and Burnham take a shuttlecraft into an unstable wormhole and discover the floating, pseudo-derelict ISS Enterprise . One of the clues to the Progenitor’s tech has been hidden on it, but for Burnham, it’s kind of like a bizzaro universe homecoming. Burnham spent a decent amount of time in the Mirror Universe in Discovery Season 1 , and in Season 2 she found herself on the Enterprise with her brother Spock just before jumping from the 23rd century to the 32nd century.

In “Mirrors,” Burnham notes that “crossing between universes has been impossible for centuries,” which means the ISS Enterprise must have crossed over into the Prime Universe well before the 32nd century. Burnham is referencing the events of Discovery Season 3, when we learned that Philippa Georgiou, a resident of the Mirror Universe, couldn’t go back to her home universe because those dimensions had drifted apart. But the ISS Enterprise , which was previously captained by an evil Kirk, crossed over into the Prime Universe well before that moment, and Discovery has now added details connecting The Original Series, Deep Space Nine , and Discovery Season 3.

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In the Deep Space Nine episode “Crossover” we learn that after Kirk talked to Mirror Spock and encouraged him to try making the Terran Empire a peaceful power, Mirror Spock did just that. But as Mirror Kira explained, Mirror Spock’s idealism didn’t work out the way he’d hoped:

“Spock rose to Commander in Chief of the Empire by preaching reforms, disarmament, peace. It was quite a remarkable turnabout for his people. Unfortunately for them, when Spock had completed all these reforms, his empire was no longer in any position to defend itself against us [the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance].”

Discovery appears to be referencing this exact event, even if Spock isn’t named outright. When Book learns the ISS Enterprise became a refugee ship for people who’d turned against the Empire, he says, “The Terran High Chancellor was killed for trying to make reforms.”

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Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from ‘Star Trek’ boldly goes home after twisting voyage

The first model of the USS Enterprise is displayed at Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles, April 13, 2024. The model — used in the original “Star Trek” television series — has been returned to Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, decades after it went missing in the 1970s. (Josh David Jordan/Heritage Auctions via AP)

Joe Maddalena, executive vice president of Heritage Auctions, left, and Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, shake hands over the recently recovered first model of the USS Enterprise at the Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles, April 13, 2024. The model — used in the original “Star Trek” television series — has been returned to Eugene, decades after it went missing in the 1970s. (Josh David Jordan/Heritage Auctions via AP)

Joe Maddalena, executive vice president of Heritage Auctions, left, and Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, view the recently recovered first model of the USS Enterprise at Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles, April 13, 2024. The model — used in the original “Star Trek” television series — has been returned to Eugene, decades after it went missing in the 1970s. (Josh David Jordan/Heritage Auctions via AP)

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DALLAS (AP) — The first model of the USS Enterprise — used in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” television series — has boldly gone back home, returning to creator Gene Roddenberry’s son decades after it went missing.

The model’s disappearance sometime in the 1970s had become the subject of lore, so it caused a stir when it popped up on eBay last fall. The sellers quickly took it down, and then contacted Dallas-based Heritage Auctions to authenticate it. Last weekend, the auction house facilitated the model’s return.

Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, said he’s thrilled to have the model that had graced the desk of his father, who died in 1991 at age 70.

“This is not going home to adorn my shelves,” Roddenberry said. “This is going to get restored and we’re working on ways to get it out so the public can see it and my hope is that it will land in a museum somewhere.”

AP AUDIO: Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from ‘Star Trek’ boldly goes home after twisting voyage.

AP correspondent Margie Szaroleta reports on the return of the original model of the USS Enterprise from the TV show “Star Trek.”

Heritage’s executive vice president, Joe Maddalena, said the auction house was contacted by people who said they’d discovered it a storage unit, and when it was brought into their Beverly Hills office, he and a colleague “instantly knew that it was the real thing.”

They reached out to Roddenberry, who said he appreciates that everyone involved agreed returning the model was the right thing to do. He wouldn’t go into details on the agreement reached but said “I felt it important to reward that and show appreciation for that.”

Maddalena said the model vanished in the 1970s after Gene Roddenberry loaned it to makers of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” which was released in 1979.

“No one knew what happened to it,” Rod Roddenberry said.

The 3-foot (0.91-meter) model of the USS Enterprise was used in the show’s original pilot episode as well as the opening credits of the resulting TV series, and was the prototype for the 11-foot (3-meter) version featured in the series’ episodes. The larger model is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

The original “Star Trek” television series, which aired in the late 1960s, kicked off an ever-expanding multiverse of cultural phenomena, with TV and movie spinoffs and conventions where a fanbase of zealous and devoted Trekkies can’t get enough of memorabilia.

This USS Enterprise model would easily sell for more than $1 million at auction, but really “it’s priceless,” Maddalena said.

“It could sell for any amount and I wouldn’t be surprised because of what it is,” he said. “It is truly a cultural icon.”

Roddenberry, who was just a young boy when the model went missing, said he has spotty memories of it, “almost a deja vu.” He said it wasn’t something he’d thought much about until people began contacting him after it appeared on eBay.

“I don’t think I really, fully comprehended at first that this was the first Enterprise ever created,” he said.

He said he has no idea if there was something nefarious behind the disappearance all those decades ago or if it was just mistakenly lost, but it would be interesting to find out more about what happened.

“This piece is incredibly important and it has its own story and this would be a great piece of the story,” Roddenberry said.

Thankfully, he said, the discovery has cleared up one rumor: That it was destroyed because as a young boy, he’d thrown it into a pool.

“Finally I’m vindicated after all these years,” he said with a laugh.

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The model, in the opening credits of Star Trek , had been missing since the 1970s. It popped up on eBay last fall. The seller helped facilitate its return to the family of the creator of Star Trek .

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The long-lost original model of the USS Enterprise, the one that could be seen in the opening credits of the TV show "Star Trek," has been returned. Missing since the 1970s, the model popped up on eBay last fall. The seller eventually took down the item and helped facilitate its return to Rod Roddenberry, the son of the late "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry, the son, says he now hopes to get the model into a museum for the public to enjoy.

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Captain Kathryn Janeway : Objection noted. Good night.

Seven of Nine : It is unsettling. You say that I am a human being, and yet I am also Borg - part of me not unlike your replicator. Not unlike the Doctor. Will you one day choose to abandon me as well? I have always looked to you as my example, my guide to humanity. Perhaps I've been mistaken.

• Soundtracks Star Trek: Voyager - Main Title (uncredited) Written by Jerry Goldsmith Performed by Jay Chattaway

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In 2372 , Lwaxana became pregnant with Jeyal's son , and Jeyal insisted that his son be raised only by men , as per Tavnian tradition. Lwaxana then left Jeyal and escaped to space station Deep Space 9 , where she sought the assistance of Odo .

Jeyal later arrived at the station on a transport in pursuit of Lwaxana, demanding her return and that of his unborn son. Odo announced his intention to marry Lwaxana, thereby nullifying the marriage and making Odo the rightful guardian of the child. Because such an arrangement could only be accepted by Tavnian law if the groom proclaimed his love convincingly and sincerely, Jeyal demanded to be present at the ceremony.

At the ceremony, Jeyal was not convinced by Odo's first attempts to proclaim his love for Lwaxana. However, Odo's words soon became more heartfelt , touching everyone in attendance, including Jeyal. Convinced that Odo's feelings for Lwaxana were sincere, Jeyal relinquished his claim on both Lwaxana and their son and returned home. Lwaxana subsequently returned to Betazed to give birth to her baby, and her marriage to Odo was also itself dissolved. ( DS9 : " The Muse ")

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• Jeyal at StarTrek.com
• Jeyal at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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