Natalia Kasyov

Natalia Kasyov was a neuroscientist assigned to the USS Anomaly as the ship’s science officer.

She and Lieutenant Shelly Marsden both attended Federation Magnet High School as teenagers, where they became friends.

Prior to serving on the Anomaly, Kasyov worked at the Neptune Research Station, where she had a number of brains that she looked after and studied. After Cabral commandeered the Anomaly, Kasyov was sent aboard to communicate with him, due to her expertise with disembodied brains. Once the situation was resolved, Kasyov decided remain aboard as the ship’s science officer to study Cabral. (If I Only Had a Brain [BG]) She was briefly kidnapped by one of her research subjects, Subject 241, who was upset that she decided to join the crew of the USS Anomaly. Kasyov was able to convince Subject 241 to release her. (One Track Mind [BG])

When the USS Anomaly traveled to the Andromeda Galaxy, Kasyov attempted to hide Cabral from the Associates, once she learned that they would confiscate any disembodied brains that entered the galaxy. She disguised Cabral as a work of art, but this did not fool the Associates enforcers. She then tried to hold them off with a phaser, but they were able to beam away and take Cabral with them. (Do You Have Anything To Declare? [BG]) Determined to find Cabral, Kasyov went with Tovar to search for information on Cabral's whereabouts. After coming up empty with Gyjik, they were both taken by the Associates to be part of an experiment. (Yes, We Do Indeed Have Something To Declare! [BG])

In the experiment, Kasyov and Tovar were to live as husband and wife. Kasyov was given a job at a testing facility, but most of what she did involved tasting various jam. While there, she met Balpar who introduced her to another disembodied brain, Loborus. Kasyov was taken with Balpar and his massive skull, and the group plotted to escape. Before they could put a plan into action, Tovar attacked the testing facility with a device constructed by his past life Totap. The Anomaly arrived in the chaos and rescued Kasyov and Tovar. (Domestic Tranquility [BG])

Three weeks later, Kasyov convinced Captain Reginald Bain to try and rescue Balpar and Loborus. He, Kasyov, and a security team returned to the Associates testing world aboard the USS Navigator at the same time a group of Pulsan from the resistance arrived to rescue Balpar and Loborus as well. Balpar traveled on the Navigator and Kasyov continued to grow closer to him. (Transparent Motives [BG])

After Loborus was able to locate Cabral on an Associates space station, Kasyov joined an away team with Captain Reginald Bain, Balpar, and Lieutenant Bre'zan Brazzell to rescue him. During this, Kasyov learned that Balpar was a complete coward who surrendered to the Associates in order to save his own skin. Leaving him behind, the Anomaly crew returned to the Anomaly and then the Milky Way galaxy. (Disassociation [BG])

When Subject 341 was taken from the Neptune Research Station by the Breen, Kasyov asked Bain to get the Anomaly assigned to find him. She was able to detect the Regularity in DeanSpace and beamed over to it with Bain to help Thot Luss defect to the Federation. (Every Space You Take [BG])

In order to give Cabral the ability to join in more of shipboard life and on away missions, Kasyov obtained a camera he could control remotely at the Green Borg Collective of Bargains. Marsden added anti-grav capabilities as well. The resulting device was Cabral's hovercam. (What Color Is Your Borg? [BG])

Kasyov and Cabral's hovercam transported down to Dulcolax Three to investigate if the source of transmetaquantaprotophasic radiation Starfleet detected was a Romulan weapons test. Kasyov was doubtful for multiple reasons. The away team ended up facing a Romulan team sent to investigate as well. The Romulans were not interested in her theories and instead blamed Starfleet for the blast. The situation devolved into a firefight, but Kasyov was able to stay out of harm's way until Commander Prosak was able to convince the Romulan commander Potluk that they were all in a trap set by others. (Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part One, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Part Two [BG])

While investigating an explosion inside the Imperial Governor's residence on the Romulan world of Nessidel (which turned out to be a kitchen accident), Kasyov was exposed to the highly-toxic Guella blossom, which attacked her inside and out. Dr. Fred Nooney put Kasyov into an artificially induced coma and submerged her into a healing tank to deal with the toxins. (Music Of The Spheres [BG])

When Tovar sent a message to the Anomaly from the Romulan Warhawk Shakalak warning them that the Vulcans had taken over the ship and were heading to Earth, Kasyov checked the coordinates Tovar included and discovered, to her horror, that the Vulcans were heading to her house. She explained to Bain and Marsden that Starfleet Intelligence had a storage facility hidden under her parents' farm and joined the away team to rescue her parents and stop the Vulcans from leaving with the Kolch'ak Device. Once the Vulcans had been dealt with, Kasyov introduced her parents to Cabral and told them that she was in love with him. (Devastating Logic, Scratching The Surface [BG])

Kasyov decided that attempting a relationship with Cabral would be too complicated and broke the news to him while he was keeping the Anomaly at anti-sing on their way back to the Romulan Neutral Zone. He told her that he needed to be alone for the remainder of their journey. (In One Door, Out The Other [BG]) They made up and resumed their friendship after Kasyov needed Cabral's help in rescuing Marsden from a collapsed Jefferies tube. (Live Long And Conquer [BG])

After Centurion Nortal brought aboard what appeared to be a green gem that actually contained a creature designed to rip through metal and remain invisible to sensors, Kasyov discovered that the creature had been heavily genetically-modified and contained Earth crocodile DNA. She created a hologram of Steve Irwin to help Bain capture it, at which point it was relocated to an uninhabited world covered in swamps and rivers. (What A Ripper! [BG])

Kasyov was jealous at how close Cabral was to the Anomaly's computer because it was closer than she could ever be to him. She started working on a way to change that, which she had to put into action when Cabral was endangered by the James T. Kirk Hologram that had been uploaded into the Anomaly's computer and taken over. She connected her mind directly to the computer and took its place, since most of its code had been deleted by Holo-Kirk. Acting as the computer, she was able to take back control from Holo-Kirk and, working with Cabral, save Bain from being killed in a holodeck with the safeties off, where he was battling Holo-Kirk as well. Now closer to Cabral that ever, Kasyov informed Marsden that she had no intention of ever disconnecting herself. She was able to alter the gravity in the Jefferies tubes to prevent Prosak from plummeting to her death after being kicked off of a ladder by Selex. (Hollow Threats, Trial And Error [BG]).

Kasyov and Cabral worked with the Anomaly's Romulan officers to examine the sensor readings of the Breen outpost that the Anomaly destroyed while under the control of the Kirk hologram. They discovered that the Breen outpost was actually a weapons platform. They blackmailed Thot-Mutch into negotiating peace with Admiral Kristen Larkin (Trial And Error, The Bain Supremacy [BG]).

After multiple fights with Cabral because they were just too close and aware of every single thought that went across each other's minds, Kasyov insisted that Marsden disconnect her from the computer in the middle of efforts to stop the 2387 Hobus ultranova and send Spock and Nero's ships to a slightly different universe. While Kasyov was recovering in sickbay from the removal and her extended time connected to the system, Cabral came to see her using his hovercam, and they both apologized to each other. (We'll Always Have Romulus [BG])

When Harold and Ann Marsden discovered the location of the Pliggeri homeworld, Kasyov beamed down with Cabral to see where he was initially grown. While there, Cabral activated a long-dormant computer system, which latched onto him and Kasyov and interrogated them about their presence on the planet. They learned that the Pliggeri has abandoned the world over a century earlier and moved to a different galaxy to get away from what they saw as the child races of the Milky Way, which were starting to achieve spaceflight. The computer threated to send Cabral and Kasyov to the Pliggeri as data to be studied, and it also set in motion a series of events that would end in the destruction of the planet. Marsden was able to free them in time, and they returned to the Anomaly shortly the planet was destroyed. (Primary Sources [BG])

Kasyov narrowly avoided being killed by a bomb beamed into Science Lab Four by Selex and was only saved with Cabral sent both of them out of phase with the ship. After a short recovery in sickbay, she returned to the bridge and helped Bain defeat a fleet of Breen ships equipped with anti-singularity drives. Later, Kasyov and Cabral asked for Bain and Marsden's help to get to the new Pliggeri homeworld, so that Cabral could take Chindela and Gathering Point there. They hatched plan in which Marsden automated a lot of the ship's systems under the guise of a refit, and then, when things were ready, Cabral and Kasyov stole the Anomaly and took it to find the Pliggeri. (Going, Going, Gone... [BG])