Lt. Cmdr. Shiro Takahashi
Shiro Takahashi served as the Chief Science Officer on the NX Atlantis.
In 2156 the NX Atlantis was caught in a temporal rift that caused the crew to experience such severe time dialation that after hundreds of years from an outside observer only a few years had passed inside the ship. During this time the crew brought on board an alien lifepod. The alien inside absorbed one of the crew triggering a panic. The crew quickly realized the being was a shapeshifter and with theories of it being some kind of Romulan attack the crew devoled into paranoia and accusations. Chief Engineer Darlene Phillips and First Officer Caitlin Mallory quickly came at odds and the crew split between the two of them. When Cpt. Suarez tried to break up a fight between Mallory and Phillips he was killed when a pistol went off. Mallory and Phillips both blamed one another causing the crew to completely fracture.
Takahashi and Chief Medical Officer Nikolaj Coster tried to avoid taking sides and the "science faction" took control of the sickbay, hydroponics, and science labs and are focused on trying to study the worm hole and learn more about the shapeshifter invader. With how ship cohesion has broken down they have resorted to trading fruits and vegetables grown in hydroponics and medicine developed in the labs to the other factions on the Atlantis in exchange for food, power, and safety.
While they were trapped Takahashi expressed strong opinions that the wormhole was a natural phenomenon, that the object at its center was a Romulan ship, and that the invader is some kind of Romulan bioweapon that was going to eat and devour the crew.
While the crew had resorted to tribalism, Takahashi had made a secret alliance with First Officer Mallory to use blood and tissue samples from living and dead crew to build a detector that can find the alien. Unbeknownst to the rest of the crew when Takahashi ran out of useful subjects he began kidnapping members of the crew to experiment on, killing them in the process of these experiments.
In the end his detector proved ineffective and the alien, disguised as Ens. Mendola revealed himself to the crew. Thanks to assistance by the crew of the USS Nightingale the alien ship was destroyed, the wormhole was collapsed and the remains of the Atlantis were dragged back to Federation space.
During the transport back, Takahashi tried to cover up his crimes but Ens. Vega discovered the truth and revealed it causing Takahashi to be stripped of his medical degree and be sentenced to twenty years in a penal colony for killing five crew members during his experiments or covering up these experiments from the rest of the crew.
Phillips took control of the engineering and most of the security personnel and secured the lower decks, namely engineering, life support, transporters and the cargo bays. She shut down all the protein resequencers except those under her control and used food and power to negotiate with the science and command factions.
Believing that the alien was a hostile invader taking advantage of the Human-Romulan war, Phillips prioritized trying to kill the alien above all else. In pursuit of this goal she cut off life support to many sections of the ship hoping to kill the alien but ending up only killing many innocent crew members.
In 2376 the USS Nightingale discovered the Atlantis trapped in the gravimetric wormhole and were able to transport aboard. The away team foiled an attack by the command staff but then sufficiently distracted the engineers to complete a stealth raid on engineering and captured Phillips. Mallory announced that they would be putting her on trial for the deaths of Cpt. Suarez and many others however before Phillips could be found guilty and executed the alien invader, disguised as Ens. Mendola announced he was taking control of the ship to destroy the cause of the wormhole. With the help from the Nightingale, the wormhole was disabled and most of the Atlantis was salvaged allowing the surviving crew to be towed back to Federation space.
In 2377, Phillips and several others of the Atlantis were charged by Starfleet for murder and dozens of other counts. Phillips was sentenced to life in a Federation penal colony for the deaths of over two dozen crew in her reckless attempt to kill the alien.
Current Status
Imprisoned
Species
Year of Birth
2112
269 Years old
Birthplace
Earth
Children
Gender
Male
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