Number One (Star Trek) - Morgan Primus (Star Trek: New Frontier)

Morgan Primus (Star Trek: New Frontier)

Much like the comic books, all novels based on Star Trek are not considered canon. Peter David's original book series, Star Trek: New Frontier, includes a character (mentioned above) who is strongly hinted to be Number One. Her name is Morgan Primus, and she is the mother of Robin Lefler, a regular character in the series. New Frontier greatly fleshes out the character, assuming that she is, in fact, Number One.

Morgan Primus (also known as Morgan Lefler) is an immortal. She frequently changed her name throughout her life, taking new identities each time so that no one would realize her immortality.

She left her husband and daughter, Robin, and faked her death. She then changed her last name to Primus. Years later, the Excalibur finds her in a prison on a planet in sector 221-G (the setting for the series).

Upon hearing of the impending arrival of a Starfleet ship, she expresses hope that it isn't the Enterprise, which she still mistakenly believed her daughter was serving on. The Excalibur picks her up and she begins living with her daughter again aboard the ship.

Later, she became a bridge officer on the Excalibur. However, during a battle, she was (seemingly) killed, despite her immortality. However, she survived as her consciousness was transferred into the ship's computer. She chose not to return to a human body, instead replacing the computer.

References are made to the fact that she sounds just like the normal computer voice, even before entering the computer. This is because the voice of the ship's computer, in all live-action Star Trek shows, were provided by Majel Barrett, the same actress who portrayed Number One. (David's earlier novel The Rift claims that the computer voice was derived from Number One's voice).

Similarly, in the New Frontier novel Double or Nothing, William Riker is somewhat taken aback by her, saying she reminds him of a woman he knows (presumably Lwaxana Troi, also played by Barrett). Likewise, when the aged Montgomery Scott meets her in Excalibur Book 2: Renaissance, he thinks she is "Christine" (Chapel).

In the novel Blind Man's Bluff, the Primus entity attacks New Thallon, the sight of a former assassination attempt on her daughter. Thousands of innocents are killed. Primus is later seemingly destroyed, leaving a four percent chance of her survival.