Eloise Arataki

While on routine patrol in 2373, the USS Belleau Wood (Excelsior-class) came across an old, derelict D7 Cruiser with one very faint life sign aboard. After repeated attempts to contact the vessel failed, a tractor beam was engaged to stabilize the old derelict and an away team was beamed aboard. The team discovered the bodies of about 30 men and women, all Bajoran, all dead. The team searched for the life sign, and discovered it was coming from a room that served as sickbay. There was a Bajoran infant that had been severely injured and was actively on her way out. Seeing that, the medic on the team grabbed her and beamed himself with the infant back to sickbay. Once back onboard Belleau Wood, the Doctor and her team began to work quickly to try and save the infant.

In the meantime, the rest of the team gathers what little information they can, including the suspicion that these group of people were attacked by Cardassians, though there is not enough evidence to conclusively say so. They try to gather information, but the banks on the D7 cruiser were so degraded they were not able to obtain any sort of detailed answers. After some discussion with Starfleet Command, Captain Evail made the decision to tow the D7 back to Deep Space Nine and let the station deal with it. Captain Evail also made the decision on her own to not mention that they had found a survivor, or that there was a child onboard, mostly because she didn’t think the infant would survive.

Fate, however, would have different plans.

After many hours and a few close calls, Doctor Siton Zh’shriarer and her team finally manage to save the infant.