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The new assignment would challenge her in many ways, especially as it would take the Pegasus right to the furthest reaches of the Gamma Quadrant...
The mission to the Gamma Quadrant was a strange one, to be sure. Travelling through a Transwarp Gate, the ship escorted a flotilla of civillian engineering vessels assigned to build another gate at the other end. While they worked on that task, the Pegasus responded to a signal coming from a nearby system. Responding to a distress signal from a nearby system, they encountered an unidentified probe. Being unable to get more science personnel from the Alpha Quadrant, Captain Grant decided to reassign his staff to cover the roles required on this mission. This meant that First Officer, Commander Gregg, being the most experienced scientist on the ship, was reassigned to Chief Science Officer for the duration of the mission. To Serran's shock, Grant then assigned her to step in as First Officer. Having only recently completing her command training before this mission, Serran was familiar with what was required of her, but unsure whether she could handle it yet.
An Away Mission to investigate a long abandoned Dominion science facility led to their presence unwittingly activating a device that duplicated the crew of the Pegasus, using partly formed humanoid creatures created in the facility laboratories. That meant that everyone was cloned, including Serran. Returning to the ship, she found her clone in Sickbay. The woman she met there was missing the Zan symbiont, and so was an exact copy of how Serran had been before the encounter with the Trill ambassador on her parent's freighter. More problems appeared as the ship's environmental systems struggled to cope with the doubled number of people on board. Fights began to break out between crew and their clone counterparts, nobody really sure who the original and who the copy was. Some chose the time to settle old scores. DNA samples were used to identify people apart, then 'Serran Gamma', along with the clone of Shione Kurasa, Kaleesh Tarel, and other members of the crew, offered to be put into stasis and lighten the load on the ship. It would also offer them the chance to survive, given that the Dominion technology was flawed, and that clones did not live very long. The Dominion facility was destroyed and the Pegasus rejoined the flotilla of engineers. Their work done, the transwarp gate needed testing, and so the Pegasus returned to the Alpha Quadrant.
With the mission over, many of the crew were reassigned. Zan spent the following three months with further command training at Starfleet Command, staying on Starbase Alpha talking with her 'mentor', Kinziri Jal, who encouraged a long visit to the Trill homeworld to spend time in the caves of Mak'ala. Her encounter with her unjoined clone had troubled her deeply. It made her realise that she had not properly integrated with each of her symbiont's previous hosts memories. Not that unusual given that she was not given the years of preparation and training from a young age that readied most Trill who were on the Symbiosis program. Back at Starbase Alpha, the medical teams there worked to stabilize the clones. Zan visited 'Serran Gamma' regularly, making a connection with the woman that reminded her so much of how she had been before Joining with Zan.
===Symbiont History===
