Zoe Barnes

Zoe "Z" Barnes is a character on portrayed by Laura Harris.
==Biography==
===2047===
Zoe took part in the ISO training program for the Flight of the Antares. Whilst undergoing training Zoe was the first ASCAN in her class to receive the Bucket Award.
During this time, she had a short relationship with Maddux Donner. Both believing that Donner had had a vasectomy, they had unprotected sex resulting in a pregnancy. To remain in the Antares program Zoe chose to have an abortion, which was illegal at the time.
Both Ted Shaw and Jen Crane refer to Barnes as a space nun when she ignores Donner's advances during the training program
===2052===
==== Antares Departure ====
==== Venus Landing ====
Zoe was selected as the Antares crew-member to walk on Venus. The Crossbow lander, piloted by Maddux Donner, missed its landing mark by several hundred feet due to severe crosswinds. As a result, the object known as "Gamma" was deemed too far away to retrieve because Zoe's Venus suit was only certified to withstand Venus' atmosphere for a maximum of twenty minutes. However, upon leaving the lander, Zoe began hallucinating. Hearing a crying baby, she began walking towards the noise. 
During the walk, Zoe encountered the Chinese probe from 2043 and the two ISO probes that had been sent to recover Gamma, but had failed to do so. 
Despite constant pleas from her fellow Antares crew-members, Zoe did not return to the Crossbow. Upon reaching Gamma, Zoe saw only "her" baby and had already been on Venus for twenty minutes. Hallucinating heavily as she struggled back to the lander, Zoe referred to Gamma as "our baby" during a conversation with Donner, finally, unintentionally, revealing the truth behind her hallucinations. Learning this, Donner refused outright to leave Zoe on the planet and began looking for ways to safely prolong Crossbow's exposure to Venus. Only feet from the lander, Zoe's Venus suit failed at her right arm. The atmosphere seeped in and the temperature inside the suit quickly rose to over 90 degrees centigrade. She was able to make it into the lander with Gamma, however she had fallen unconscious by the time the lander had returned to the Antares. 
Zoe was quickly pulled from her suit and brought directly to the infirmary by Dr. Mintz and Jen Crane. Unfortunately, Mintz discovered that Zoe had suffered second and third-degree burns to most of her body. He believed Zoe should not have survived but speculated that the recent changes to the crew's genomes were the reason for her survival 
== Family ==
Zoe is the daughter of Beverly Barnes. She's from Canada but also votes for the next American president .
== Final Chapter ==
Following the cancellation of the series, James Parriott confirmed how Zoe's story arc would have ended.
Donner & Zoe – Probably already guessed or assumed by many, but Donner’s reversed vasectomy was part of the DNA change brought upon by Beta. Eventually, toward the very end of the series, the true reason for that happening would be revealed, when Zoe becomes pregnant again on the trip. So yes, even Zoe’s hysterectomy would be “reversed” in order for that to happen.
“They were all going to be tested. The idea was that they all had points in their lives that, if they could do them all again, then they would have chosen a different path. Beta — the ‘fractal objects’ — were going to put them up against those same situations and stand them up to themselves again, give them a chance to make another decision.”