Aeris

Aeris was a Starfleet officer and Captain in the late 24th and the early 25th century. (Star Trek: Phoenix-X, Earth Spacedock)

History

In 2361, Aeris and Kayl were Starfleet officers conducting a survey on a wormhole from a shuttlecraft and were abducted by an emerging Gordarion egg ship. There, they were experimented on and memories of the abduction erased before they were returned to their shuttle. ("Experimentalism")

USS Xena

In 2374, Aeris led her ship into the Tiloniam system to rescue the crew of the USS Phoenix from being destroyed by a Jem'Hadar attack. After this mission, her first officer was transferred to the USS Phoenix-X. ("The Tiloniam System", "The Links' Traitor", "The Tilonian System Flashback", "The Tiloniam System Remake")

Later that year, while visiting the Phoenix-X, she was swept into the Gamma Quadrant with the rest of the crew when Dawn Relic hijacked the ship. Aeris returned safely with the crew when the situation was resolved. ("Crash Bandicoots")

In 2376, she and her crew were kidnapped by a Gordarion egg-ship so that they could be medically experimented on. Fortunately, they were saved by a skeleton crew from the Phoenix-X before it would be too late. ("Experimentalism")

A few months later, Captain Aeris was entrusted with Klokian's timeship by Captain Daniel of the Phoenix-X. Since the vessel was small enough to fit in the Xena's shuttle bay, she would keep it secret for as long as possible. Aeris kept the timeship a secret from Starfleet Command, who never found out about it. ("Fight, Part III")

In 2383, Aeris arrested a time-looped Night Seifer from the year 2397, who had committed several robberies throughout the Federation due to a symbiont imbalance. ("Partial Recall")

USS Zephyra

In 2390, the Xena was destroyed by divergent-Hirogen attack ships. Aeris and her crew escaped death and transferred to the Sovereign-class starship USS Zephyra. ("Into Harshness")

In 2397, Aeris brought the cloned Trill host Lieutenant Commander Night from the USS Atlantis to the Phoenix-X where he was rejoined with the Seifer symbiont. ("Partial Recall")

In 2404, Aeris and several other starships were caught in a massive molecular reversion field, intermixed with an ion storm, the result of which caused her and many others to undergo a reduction in age. The trauma from the accident caused everyone involved to temporarily lose years of memories, and, in many cases, retake Starfleet Academy. ("Delta Recruit", "Kobayashi Maru")

During her re-taking of Starfleet Academy, she supported Oroku Seifer when he took the Kobayashi Maru scenario test, though they both quickly failed. ("Kobayashi Maru")

In 2410, Aeris, back to the rank of Captain, saved fellow Captains Oroku Seifer and Menchez from an undead-like infection both their crews came to be plagued with. While visiting them in the Zephyra's sickbay, the three Captains were confronted by Qu who swept them away to a Q-constructed realm with a holiday theme. In "Ou's Winter Wonderland", each Captain competed for the prize of getting what they wished for the most. In the end, Aeris won and her wish to have each Captain back aboard their ship and everything back to normal came true. ("STO Halloween", "Winter Wonderland Celebrations")

Earth Spacedock

Aeris was later temporarily assigned to security at Earth Spacedock. (Earth Spacedock: Page 3) She attempted to apprehend Lieutenant commander Elihu M'Konel but was ordered by Starfleet Intelligence to let him go. (Page 4) When Spacedock was attacked by Undine, Aeris took a security team to Cargo Bay 7 to confront the intruders, but by the time they got there, the Undine had been transported back to their realm by undetectable, phase-cloaked anti-Undine devices. (Page 6) When an unknown phenomenon began time-jumping herself from several minutes to hours to days, she found her and her ship suddenly transported into fluidic space after she interacted with Lieutenant Winry's highly experimental dimensional-scanning device. (Pages 8, 10-12, 15)

USS Viracocha

After the Zephyra was near-ruined in fluidic space, Aeris was given command of the Sojourner-class USS Viracocha, which, after being diverted from surveying a Class J nebula, she used to fight a Borg cube attack at Earth. (Earth Spacedock: Page 60-61)

Relationships

When Night Gotens was temporarily transferred to the Xena in 2376, they became close and Gotens planned to propose to her. After Daniel was rescued from peril, Gotens was transferred back to the Phoenix-X and both Aeris and Gotens decided to end things. ("Experimentalism")

In 2399, she and Night Seifer agreed to 'go steady' by-way of an official ceremony, during of which they decided announcing relationship statuses were not necessary for them. ("The Hangover")

In 2410, after Oroku Seifer included Aeris in an experiment about proving that "love" exists, his altering of said experiment, she realized, was an admission to having a real interest in her. ("L'amour est Parmi les Étoiles")

Later, she and Night Seifer would partake in an "officially dating" ceremony, only to realize how ridiculous announcing such a thing is before abandonning it all together. ("The Hangover")

Appendices

Task Force Zeta
USS Xena (-2390) / USS Zephyra (2390-) Aeris					USS Shark Jet	USS Ixion (-2390-) Aries Wasyati	USS Rune Blade	USS Atlantis Nemo

Background information

• Aeris was named after Aerith Gainsborough from the video game Final Fantasy VII, who was also known as Aeris Gainsborough in the English translation of the game. [1]

Images

External link

• Aeris on the Phoenix-X website