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])