Denise Murakawa

In David Falkayn's Star Trek: Sutherland series, Lieutenant Denise Murakawa served as the first officer of the USS Sutherland from 2371 through the end of the Dominion War. Promoted to lieutenant commander during the Dominion War, Dr. Murakawa continued to serve on the Sutherland for several years after the end of hostilities. After the War, she participated in the Federation relief expedition led by Captain Jean-Luc Picard into the Briar Patch, also known as the Klach D'Kel Brach during the brief Alshain-Son'a War as Acting Chief Medical Officer on board the USS Gibraltar NCC-1859.

Of mixed Human/Centauran ancestry, Dr. Murakawa embraces her Centauran heritage far more then her human, with one exception: her religion. She is a member of the Neo-Catholic Church, the most doctrinally and socially liberal of the three divisions of the Roman Catholic Church that emerged in the aftermath of the chaos of the twenty-first century.