Susanna Leijten's battle against the alien transformation taking over her body, struggling to retain her humanity and help the crew while facing an inexorable change.

Susanna Leijten’s investigation of non-human footprints near the shuttle triggers a sudden, unsettling transformation in her behavior. She insists Mendez and Brevelle are alive, her voice laced with eerie certainty, …

In the dimly lit sickbay of the Enterprise, Susanna Leijten—now barely conscious and visibly transformed by the alien parasite—regains a fragile moment of lucidity as Geordi La Forge enters. Her …

Susanna Leijten disables the team’s palm beacons—knowing the light triggers the transformed creatures’ aggression—then leads the away team into Tarchannen Three’s treacherous underbrush. She uses her intimate knowledge of the …