Miracle Workers (SCE Books 5-8) - Keith R. A. DeCandido_. [et al.] [112]
Enterprise for three-and-a-half years before being promoted to full lieutenant and being assigned to a one-year project on the U.S.S. Oberth, which ended her relationship with Duffy (Invincible Book 1). That project ended with a life-or-death encounter with the Romulans (Invincible Book 2). She did not get involved with anyone else after leaving the Enterprise (Hard Crash). In 2371, she was on Neural and was wounded by a mugato (Invincible Book 2). During the Dominion War, she was assigned to the U.S.S. Sentinel as chief engineer. At one point, the Sentinel was damaged behind enemy lines, and Gomez managed to reconfigure the warp field so that Breen sensors would think them to be a Cardassian freighter (The Belly of the Beast). This bought her time to get the warp drive back on-line (Invincible Book 1). Also during the war, Gomez was able to modify an away team’s hand phasers so they weren’t affected by a Breen scattering field, though they were only able to attain light stun. Gomez repeated this trick in 2376 on Eerlik’s moon (Fatal Error). After the war, she was promoted to commander. While at the Academy, she wrote a paper on subspace accelerator s. The quality of the paper so impressed Captain Montgomery Scott that he recommended her to Captain David Gold to fill a vacancy on the da Vinci (Invincible Book 1). On the da Vinci, she was reunited with Duffy, and the two were not sure how to approach their personal relationship (The Belly of the Beast). Gomez’s first mission on the da Vinci was an encounter with Overseer Biron of the Androssi on the planet Maeglin (Cold Fusion). Gomez was uncomfortable when La Forge was temporarily assigned to the da Vinci, as he was her first commanding officer out of the Academy and now she outranked him, though she got over this problem in relatively short order (Fatal Error). After the heart-wrenching encounter with the Omearan Starsearcher called Friend, Gomez decided to indulge in a rare hot chocolate (Hard Crash). She and P8 Blue engineered the warp pulse that got the U.S.S. Defiant out of interphase after it fell further into that interspatial phenomenon following a Tholian attack (Interphase Book 2). After dropping the Defiant off at Spacedock, Gomez was given a special assignment to head up a project to construct a subspace accelerator on the planet Sarindar in the Nalori Republic. She was not treated well on her arrival, since the Nalori view both Starfleet and women who do “men’s work” with disdain, but she won some of them over after fixing the antigrav units, and more of them when she killed a monster shii that was threatening the project. They started referring to her as the sañuul, the lifter of curses, which made Gomez uncomfortable (Invincible Book 1). After a second monster shii attacked the camp and the death count grew, Gomez had a harder time maintaining morale. However, she did figure out a way to get partial tricorder readings on the chimerium-laced planet. She was also able to determine the monster shii’s origin as a creation of the owners and communicate with it, but to little avail. The trap she constructed to stop the monster shii failed. She finally stopped the creature by catching it in the annular confinement beam of the SA. She received two scars that matched the coming-of-age scars in Nalori culture, which she had removed, though she was tempted to keep them. After that harrowing experience, she decided to renew her relationship with Duffy (Invincible Book 2). Gomez first appeared in “Q Who” [TNG] and also appeared in “Samaritan Snare” [TNG]. Her relationship with Duffy was established in The Belly of the Beast.
Great One, the. Name sometimes given to Ganitriul, the world-running computer on the planet Eerlik (Fatal Error).
Grelin. Officer in Starfleet Intelligence. Commander Grelin was surprised to hear that the U.S.S. Defiant had reportedly appeared in Tholian space, since the ship was supposed to be docked at Deep Space 9. Montgomery Scott corrected his assumption, pointing out that it was the Constitution-class Defiant, not the newer Defiant-class