Clowns

Patricia Hawkins developed an outright phobia of clowns after being trapped on a holodeck with fifty of them that continually pelted her with pies. (Star Traks 1 [TRK]) She started aversion therapy soon after this incident to try to cure herself. She put herself in a jungle setting on the holodeck and attempted to kill several bands of rampaging clowns. Travis Dillon found Hawkins in this program when he offered her the first officer job on the USS Edsel. (Star Traks 3 [TRK]) The Security Entity of Guulamia scanned Hawkins for her worst fear when she trespassed onto that world and then attacked the Secondprize in the form of a giant clown. After failing in its first attempt, the Security Entity commandeered a battalion of Borg, turning the entire group into Borg clowns. The Borg clowns captured Hawkins and assimilated her into Sunshine Of Borg just so they could drop her off of a fake burning building at their circus and kill her. (Fear Has A Red Nose [TRK]) This didn't increase Hawkins' love of clowns at all. On the SS Pomposity a couple of months later, she immediately opened fire on Ragoo when the Changeling took the form of a clown mistakenly believing that Hawkins liked them. (Cruising For Trouble [TRK])