Daughter
of Starfleet officer Miles O'Brien and Keiko O'Brien.
Molly was born aboard the Enterprise-D
in
2368 in Ten-Forward, and was brought into the world by the hands of Lt.Commander
Worf . She moved
to
station Deep Space 9 with her parents in 2369. Molly began to crawl into
bed with her parents at night
in
early in 2372, her way of trying to get attention, since her mother was
pregnant with Kirayoshi at the time.
During
a celebratory picnic with her parents on a nearby planet, eight-year-old
Molly falls into a vortex of
swirling
energy. When some crew members arrived to help, they determined that Molly
slipped through a
time
portal that had send her back 300 years, to a time when the planet was
uninhabited. They reactivated
the
portal and transported her out, but their calculations were off by a decade.
When Molly materialized on
the
transporter pad, she was an eighteen-year-old woman. Since
she had been without human contact for
ten
years, Molly was like a wild animal, terrified of her parents and unable
to speak. At Dr. Bashir's
suggestion,
a cargo bay was transformed with a tree, grass, and some boulders. There,
the O'Briens began
the
painful process of regaining their daughter's trust. When Keiko presented
her with her favorite doll, Molly
smiles
for the first time. Molly
continues to make progress and learns to follow simple commands. She soon
utters
her first word - "Home" and Keiko and O'Brien excitedly took her back to
their quarters. When she
showed
them a photo taken at the picnic site, they realize Molly regards that
planet as her home.
Later
when she was Scared by some hubbub of Quark's bar, Molly paniced
and stabbed a customer with a
broken
bottle.
Sisko and Odo
sadly informed O'Brien that Federation officials want Molly committed to
a
special
care center.
Knowing that forcing her to stay inside a confined facility over a long
period of time will
kill
her, O'Brien planned
to steal a Runabout and take Molly to her planet to send her back
through the time
portal
so no one would be able to find her. However, they were caught before
they could leave the station.
Odo
came to the scene and
allowed the O'Briens to proceed. They returned to the planet, where they
tearfully
send
Molly back through the
vortex with her favorite doll. When Molly arrived, she recognized her eight-year-
old
self hiding
behind a boulder. Little Molly was frightened, but her older counterpart
gave her the doll and
send
her through
the portal to be reunited with her family. |
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