- For other uses, see Rhea.
Rhea was one of the Onlies, the Human children of the parallel world of Earth, Miri's homeworld.
Biography[]
A girl, she was born in the mid-20th century before her planet's scientists attempted to synthesize a life prolongation agent. The prolongation agent mutated into a virus, killing all the adults and causing the children to have slow metabolisms allowing them to live centuries for they reached puberty and succumbed to the sickness they carried.
By 2266, Rhea's apparent age was 14 and she wore her hair in a ponytail. Rhea would hide in a room with Pal, where she would sing a song to him that Miri liked.
After 2266, when Starfleet teams arrived to care for the Onlies, Rhea showed aptitudes in applied sciences and mathematics. She built a small antigravity engine for a toy flying machine in her class, which her teacher Mrs. File thought was clever. She responded well to reason, but like Jahn was sometimes a disciplinary problem, enough for Dr. Voltmer to treat her with a neural neutralizer.
In 2269, after the Federation developed a treatment to allow the children to live normal lives, Rhea was convinced by Jahn to help him rebel against the Federation authorities on their world attempting to take charge of the wild children. Jahn commandeered Sparrow, a ship with a cloaking device, and Rhea joined him, bringing Pal with her.
After Jahn destroyed two ships and damaged an ore freighter in the Boacan system, Rhea plotted a new course, unaware that it took the ship into the Klingon Empire. She was unable to stop Jahn from destroying a satellite and two Klingon vessels, but combat damaged their ship's food synthesizers and life support. She disabled the cloak when Sparrow was confronted by the starship USS Enterprise and Kreth's Klingon battlecruiser, with Jahn calling her a traitor. Rhea saved Pal's life, beaming him aboard the Enterprise, just before Kreth imploded Sparrow with a tractor beam, killing her and Jahn. (TOS novel: The Cry of the Onlies)
- Jahn was shown to be alive in 2275 in TOS - Untold Voyages comic: "Past Imperfect".