Lily Sloane

Lily Sloane was a 21st century Human female who worked with Zefram Cochrane in the early 2060s to build Earth's first warp-capable spacecraft, the Phoenix, in Bozeman, Montana.
== History ==
A survivor of the devastation of Earth's third World War, Sloane was somewhat used to seeing murder and people getting "a thrill from murdering someone... all the time" in the society that was left in the 2060s. From her perspective, money was still very much the driving force in people's lives.
Though she was familiar with the story of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick, she had never read the book.
In working with Zefram Cochrane (whom she nicknamed "Zee") to develop Earth's first warp-capable ship, it took her six months to gather enough titanium for just the four meter cockpit.
=== First Contact ===
On April 4, 2063, the missile silo where Sloane and Cochrane were constructing their warp ship came under fire by a Borg vessel from the 24th century. Despite the unwillingness of her partner, Sloane sought to protect the Phoenix from what she believed to be an attack from the Eastern Coalition.
In the aftermath, Sloane remained in the missile silo where she encountered Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lieutenant Commander Data, there to repair the timeline. Armed with a Calico M960 submachine gun, Sloane opened fire on the two officers, believing them to be members of the Eastern Coalition. Sloane was, however, felled by theta radiation leaking from the damaged Phoenix and transported aboard the orbiting by Doctor Beverly Crusher.
Once aboard, Sloane was treated for severe radiation poisoning, but was revived by the medical staff when the Borg overran the Enterprise sickbay. Retreating to a Jefferies tube, Sloane slipped away from Doctor Crusher and her team, eventually coming across Picard. She held the Captain hostage until he was able to convince her that she was not in Montana anymore. Relinquishing the phaser to Picard, Sloane accompanied the captain in his effort to retake the ship.
Escaping from a group of Borg drones, Picard and Sloane entered the ship's holodeck. Dressed in satin, Sloane danced with Picard as Dixon Hill, attempting to blend into the holographic scenery.
Finally returning to the bridge of the Enterprise, Sloane was present for a heated exchange between Picard and one of his officers, Lieutenant Commander Worf. Following the captain into the adjacent observation lounge, Sloane chastised Picard for his actions, comparing him to Captain Ahab of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, despite the fact that she had never read it. Sparring verbally with the captain, Sloane was able to convince Picard to relent and follow Worf's recommendation to engage the ship's auto-destruct system.
Sloane departed the Enterprise along with the remainder of its crew in an escape pod bound for Gravett Island. Captain Picard refused to join the officers who were leaving the ship. When she questioned him, the captain admitted that he was going back to find Data. The Captain had told her that Data had helped save him from the Borg years before. The Captain, in turn, felt that he needed to save Data. Sloane was moved by this and told the captain to "go on and find your friend" She later reunited with Picard and his command crew, as well as Zefram Cochrane, back in Montana on the night of April 5, 2063. There, she witnessed Cochrane making his historic First Contact with a group of Vulcans. ()
== Personality ==
Sloane was outspoken and a little high-strung, yet she was also a capable judge of character; being the first to recognize Captain Picard's emotional demons.
== Alternate realities and timelines ==
In an alternate reality, Lily Sloane was the main driving force in building a quantum reality drive instead of the warp drive, with her reality's Zefram Cochrane serving as her assistant. She was eventually ranked Captain within her reality's Federation and commanded the to explore the various quantum realities to further their scientific knowledge. Inadvertently, the crew's inability to account for the dissipation of energy caused quantum fissures open up all over the multiverse, including in the prime universe, which weakened the fabric of the multiverse.
In 2382, the creation of these fissures caused the Anaximander -- a Section 31 starship from the prime universe but crewed by "interdimensional castaways" -- to track down the Beagle, shooting it down on Khwopa. Having been completely unaware of the effect that she was having on the multiverse, Lily agreed to help the crew return to their home universes, but her ship was hijacked by a deranged variant of Harry Kim who intended to return to his own universe with his kidnapped counterparts. Chased down by the Anaximander and facing resistance from his counterparts, Kim beamed his other selves to the Section 31 ship and refused to listen to warnings that the Beagle couldn't survive the trip in its damaged state. The Beagle was destroyed, disrupting the coherence of the rift and threatening to unleash soliton waves on the multiverse. Lily was able to figure out a way to direct the wave to just one universe using the Anaximanders navigational deflector and Captain William Boimler ordered her to send it to the prime universe, trusting his transporter duplicate Brad Boimler and his friends on the to find a solution in time. ()
After the Cerritos successfully stabilized the rift, the Anaximander returned to the prime universe with its interdimensional crew, including Lily and the Beagle crew. ()
== Appendices ==
=== Appearances ===
* 
* 
** 
** 
=== Background information ===
Lily Sloane was played by Alfre Woodard.
Her surname comes from the script. In the first draft of the script, she was named Ruby Sloane, a photographer and X-ray technician who was instrumental in helping Jean-Luc Picard repair the damaged Phoenix. The name Ruby was instead used for one of the Dixon Hill characters seen in the film.
As the prime Sloane was already an adult Human in 2063, it is unclear if the alternate Sloane in 2382 is extraordinarily long-lived, or if the Beagle can travel across time as well as realities.
=== Apocrypha ===
The short story "A Girl for Every Star" in Strange New Worlds V established that a statue of Lily Sloane was created and placed outside the Sol Museum of Aeronautical Science.
In the novel Captain's Peril, Sloane was considered a legend in space exploration, alongside Zefram Cochrane and Shaun Geoffrey Christopher.
In the novel Spectre, Sloane's descendants settled on Alpha Centauri IV, where the family name became a space exploration dynasty. Notable Sloanes included Zefram Sloane.
Sloane appeared via flashback in the second issue of the comic crossover mini-series Star Trek vs. Transformers where she and Zefram Cochrane are shown witnessing the Autobots leaving Earth aboard the Titan Fortress Maximus during the beginning of World War III.
=== External links ===
* 
de:Lily Sloane
fr:Lily Sloane
it:Lily Sloane
ja:リリー・スローン
Sloane, Lily