Cabral

Cabral is a giant brain encased in a two-meter in diameter black metal sphere. In his culture, the sphere-encased brains were used to regulate the engine systems of starships. In order to accomplish this, their spheres rested in an advanced housing that transported highly-charged plasma.

Cabral and his housing were separated from their ship by an explosion. The housing was later picked up by the USS Secondprize. Cabral, meanwhile, zipped by the USS Explorer at warp nine. Almost 120 years later, Cabral detected his housing, which had been installed in the Hermes-7 by Lieutenant Shelly Marsden, who hoped that it would regulate the prototype anti-singularity drive. Cabral phased through the hull of the ship, settled into his housing, and took over the ship's engine systems in order to get to a date with Jacinda, another member of his species.

After learning that Jacinda was now seeing another brain, Cabral elected to remain aboard the ship, which was renamed the USS Anomaly. (If I Only Had a Brain [BG])