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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 Serran was surprised again when Star Fleet awarded her the Distinguished Service Globe for her achievements in the face of danger, keeping her Commanding Officer alive and getting the ship and crew back home during the Gamma Quadrant mission. The medal was only part of the reward that Star Fleet had for the Trill, promoting her to the following rank of Lieutenant Commander and sending her on a three months with further month advanced command training course at Starfleet Command, staying . Staying on Starbase Alpha and talking with her 'mentor', Kinziri Jal, who she was encouraged a long to 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. With a new sense of who she was as an integrated Joined being, but with this clone reflecting who she was in the '''past''', Serran became determined to find just who she could '''be'''. Putting everything into her training, she achieved high scores in Advanced Command. What she wanted more than anything now was to see how far she could go, to lead a team, to command a starship, to be the best that she could be. Star Fleet Command were impressed by her spirit and determination, as well as her high scores in the training. A new mission came up, and a command position available, and Command knew just the person for the job. Travelling to Starbase Bravo, Serran was given orders, and given Command of the USS Sheridan, the temporary rank of full Commander along with the job. Should the mission be successful, she might keep her rank and her command. Did she have what it takes? Time would tell.
===Symbiont History===
