Mernat was a 23rd century Ferreth man. He was an investigator.
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In 2274, Mernat boarded the starship USS Enterprise at Starbase 18 and accompanied the crew on a journey to Mimit, in public as an alienologist to aid relations between the ship's crew and visiting insectoid Bebebebeque. Known to James T. Kirk and Spock, however, he was searching for theep smugglers, and he staked himself out in the ship's cargo bay looking for behavioral patterns that would expose smuggling. Two containers had been hidden there by engineer Mike Carpenter and his accomplice Lucy. Carpenter sparked a fight in the enlisted personnel mess hall as a diversion, and Kirk asked for Mernat's assistance there. As soon as he left, Lucy and Carpenter were able to relocate the containers elsewhere on the ship.
As the ship approached Mimit, Lucy became worried about their contraband, and she left her post in the cargo bay. Suspicious, Mernat followed her, where he found Carpenter fighting with Pete Conroy. He detected the scent of leaking theep and was able to warn security before the effects of theep exposure drove him to a killing fever. Leonard McCoy administered an antidote before he could harm any of the security officers. (TOS comic: "The Wristwatch Plantation")