"Beverly," Deanna called, sticking her head in Alex's room in sickbay. "Can I speak to you for a minute?" Dr Crusher got up and left. As soon as she'd gone, Alex laid down on the bed facing away from the door and curled up into a foetal position.
"Have you found something?" Dr Crusher asked as they went to her office. Deanna spun the computer around, bringing up a file on Alex.
"It says she went missing on the 19th of June, 2014," Deanna explained. "She was presumed dead when there was no sign of her after several years, no remains found."
"Her poor family," Dr Crusher said sadly as a family image came up. "What about them, what have you found?"
"It seems Alex's disappearance drove a wedge in her family," Deanna admitted. "Her mother and father separated less than six months later." Dr Crusher raised her eyebrows. Things must have hit them hard. "Her father went on to have two other marriages, both ending with divorce filed by the wife. Her mother went back to university and managed to get an arts degree. She never remarried, or got over Alex's disappearance."
"What about her sister, Maria?" Dr Crusher asked.
"She was slightly harder to track down," Counselor Troi admitted. "It turned out that in 2015 she went on student exchange to England studying two semesters of a course in mathematics. Her theories are actually some of the work that inspired Zephram Cockrem." Dr Crusher whistled her amazement. "This is where it gets really interesting though, while she was on exchange, Maria visited Paris where she met a Geraud Picard. They fell in love, married three years later."
"An ancestor of Captain Picard?!" Dr Crusher was astounded.
"Possibly, I'm still looking into it," Deanna admitted.