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Maria Wallace was a human observer who was stationed on the Federation observation post on Iomides in 2369.
Biography[]
Maria Wallace was a human woman born in Iowa on Earth.
In the past Wallace attended Starfleet Academy. While attending the academy, she became familiar with William T. Riker who was her fellow student. The two attended the same classes for the first few semesters. Though the two were close, the relationship never went further as good friends, mostly due to Riker finding Wallace a little too intense for her ideals, causing him to doubt of her stability.
One example of her passionate attitude was during one semester, she led a protest on the Narsican Embassy to protest their treatment of the Dovinian League. This earned her six demerits which she worked off in a month and had no regrets. Wallace eventually majored in xenobiology, and specialized in economics and graduated.
By 2359, Wallace and Riker had lost touch with one another, with him advancing a career in Starfleet while Wallace became an observer at Iomides. While taking on an Iomidian identity of Galia Wade, Wallace had a small apartment in the city of Tornal and for month standard month interacted with the Iomodians and their society.
While observing the Iomidian culture as an economist, Wallace became impressed with the alien culture, being reminded of her neighbors from her hometown. Wallace wanted the Iomidians to succeed and become a member of the Federation. Her identity as an Iomidian found herself drawn to the administration of First Citizen Farra Chal who was seeking to peaceful united the planet under one world government, bringing Iomides a step closer to meeting the requirements of Federation membership.
However while was tapping into the financial records of the planet's tycoons, she came across Tok Grell's supporting the opposition party to Chal. She also learned of his assassination plot to kill Chal. Believing that Chal death would undermine everything the Iomidians were working towards, Wallace attempted to alert her superior Dr. Starn in order to take action to prevent the assassination. However since interfering was against the Prime Directive, Starn refused to act, preferring to let fate decide.
Wallace in her self-righteousness believed that it was the best interest of the Federation to save Chal, then went rogue to get out a warning to the First Citizen. She left the observation post without authorization in order to meet with Chal's advisor Tral Brak of Grell's plot. HOwever it proved to be a fatal mistake as Brak was in fact working with Grell against Chal.
Wallace was then taken to Grell's island retreat in order to have her interrogated, by his personal paramours and real brains of Grell's operation, Toma Sar. Through various means of torture, which included the removal of two of her toes and mind altering drugs, Grell and Toma learned that Wallace was an alien and his mission. In order to discredit and impeach Chal, Grell and Toma sought to implicate the First Citizen in being manipulated by alien parties. However they could not use Wallace, as being human was too similar to an Iomidian.
Upon learning about Starn and being a Vulcan he was deemed a prime candidate to be used against Chal. Wallace unwillingly was forced to provide the access codes to the observation post, leading to a raid that killed fourteen of the twenty-five observers. In the raid, Starn was kidnapped and taken.
Commander Riker having arrived with Reginald Barclay, Deanna Troi, Paul Vanderbeek, and Van Popering to assist in the situation, the split up in order to destroy Starn's body to prevent the contamination of the Iomidian culture and also to locate Wallace.
Riker, Barclay and Vanderbeek managed to infiltrate Grell's island, and found Wallace close to death. However just as they were leaving, they were ambushed by the island's security forces led by Toma. Toma seeing her newly fresh captives of aliens, decided that she had no use for Wallace and nonchalantly shot her dead.
After Riker and his allies overpowered Grell and his associates, Wallace's body was retrieved by the away team, leaving Grell and Toma without any evidence of alien interfernce.(TNG novel: The Death of Princes)