Carol Marcus (Kelvin timeline)

This page details a counterpart of Carol Marcus in the Kelvin timeline; for Carol Marcus in the primary universe see Carol Marcus; for the Carol Marcus in the mirror universe see Carol Marcus (mirror).

Carol Marcus
Dr. Carol Marcus in 2259.
Known aliases:	Caroline Wallace
Species:	Human
Gender:	female
Eye color:	blue
Hair color:	blonde
Birthplace:	New York City, New York
Born:	2233
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Family
Mother:	June Marcus
Father:	Alexander Marcus
Career
Occupation:	science officer
Previous Assignment:	advanced weapons development group, Starfleet Command
Assignment:	USS Enterprise
Rank:	lieutenant
Insignia:

Carol Marcus was a Starfleet science officer who specialized in weapons technology. She was also the daughter of Admiral Alexander Marcus.

Biography

Carol Marcus was born in the year 2233 in New York City, New York on Earth. (Star Trek App)

It is unclear when the prime reality version of Marcus was born beyond being born in the same decade, and as such it is unclear if the two incarnations share any of the same history.

Marcus enrolled in Starfleet Academy in 2254. Her Starfleet commission was made official in 2258. The same year, she was appointed as a science officer at Starfleet Command. Carol Marcus received high marks in research and development, but fair marks with regards to working in a chain-of-command. At some point, she developed a theory based on a secondary speciality that she focused on in evolutionary biology. Her theory was that some weapons could "restore life on a dormant planet". (Star Trek (App))

The app mentions that Carol Marcus was assigned to the AWD, but it is not made clear whether this is the first assignment out of the Academy, or she was put there later.

In 2259, Marcus made her way onto the USS Enterprise under the guise of Caroline Wallace because she was tracking a secret batch of long-range photon torpedoes that she knew her father had developed. While boarding the Enterprise, she lied about her orders, claiming her father had stationed her aboard the ship, when really she had no orders to be on the ship without her father's knowledge.

Eventually, Spock discovered that Marcus had lied, but he failed to tell Captain James T. Kirk until later on, when Khan Noonien Singh convinced Kirk to open the torpedoes. Kirk assigned Marcus and Doctor Leonard McCoy to open a torpedo on a planetoid away from the Enterprise. Marcus and McCoy discovered that Khan had his fellow Augments inside of the photon torpedoes.

Later, Marcus tried to convince her father not to destroy the Enterprise with the USS Vengeance, but she was unsuccessful and her father merely beamed her onto the Vengeance. When she met her father, Marcus slapped her father and told him she was ashamed of him because he had worked with Khan. When Kirk and Khan boarded the ship, Marcus witnessed Khan kill her father by crushing his skull and had her leg broken. (TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek Into Darkness)

In 2260, Marcus stayed on the Enterprise for its first five-year mission of exploration. During that time, Marcus and the other science officers noticed Commander Spock spending more of his time alone. A week later, Marcus received permission from Kirk to join a landing party to New Vulcan in hopes of discussing the Helios Project with the Vulcans. Kirk advised her not to be late for the shuttlecraft down to the planet. When Spock joined the Sasaud following his pon farr, Marcus and Ensign Chekov then came up with a cure for him. Marcus and Chekov proposed to fool the transporter into thinking it was in orbit of Vulcan. Marcus also theorized that the pon farr cure was to return home in order to restore Vulcans' nervous systems. She, Chekov, Scotty, and Dr. McCoy were then given the go ahead to prep the transporters for the procedure. The procedure was successful in restoring Spock and the rest of the Sassaud to normal states. (TOS - After Darkness comics: "Part 1", "Part 3")

2260s

Marcus then accompained Captain KIrk, Dr. McCoy as they investigated the massacre on Khitomer. There she confirmed that weapons were the same as the one on the USS Vengeance. However, she and the landing party were then captured by the Klingons. (TOS comic: "The Khitomer Conflict")

Following that mission, Marcus then accompanied Kirk and his landing party as they explored Hinrichs V. After her the encounter with the Hinrichs 5 creature, Marcus saw that this creature had human DNA. (TOS - Lost Apollo comics: "Part 1", "Part 2")

Appendices

Background

This section is written from the Real World point of view.

• Carol Marcus was portrayed by English actress Alice Eve in 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness.

Appearances

2259 TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek Into Darkness TOS - After Darkness comic: "Part 1" "Part 2" "Part 3" 2261 TOS - The Khitomer Conflict comic: "Part 1" "Part 2" "Part 3" "Part 4" TOS - Lost Apollo comic: "Part 1" "Part 2"

External link

• Carol Marcus (Kelvin timeline) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.