Chapter 5
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Captain Janeway assigned Seven of Nine to be prosecutor in the upcoming hearing, and T'Pol had already chosen Tuvoc to defend her. Both were present as Chakotay and Harry Kim searched Susan's quarters. Not surprisingly, they found very little.
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Chakotay: We couldn't afford to keep a lot of personal items on the Maquis ship, pretty much just what we could carry.
Harry: She had a picture of her son in her desk, and a letter from him that he wrote to her. Both of which she's had since we were stranded.
Tuvok: So in the midst of all the chaos of our being stranded, she still took the time to take those items.
Chakotay: She probably had them on her person, we always knew that incarceration could happen at a moment's notice.
Tuvok: Yet they were in her desk when she died.
Chakotay: What's your point?
Tuvok: Susan considered those items more valuable than anything. Perhaps she placed them in her desk for safekeeping, wanting no harm to come to them even after her death.
Seven: Or perhaps they were already in her desk when she died. Tuvok, if you were to commit murder, would you take the time to destroy your victim's most prized possessions?
Tuvok: That would be highly illogical.
Seven: Particularly if you designed the murder to look like a suicide.
Tuvok: That is true, however we have seen no evidence that this was homicide.
Seven: There are only three vulcans onboard Voyager, yourself, Vorik, and T'Pol. Of these three T'Pol is the only one who had motive to murder Susan.
Tuvok: T'Pol was not wrong when she said that captain Janeway knew nothing about their plans for desertion before Susan's death.
Seven: A miscalculation on T'Pol's part, she panicked.
Tuvok: Vulcan;s rarely panic.
Seven: Yet by her own admission Susan was unlikely to have commited suicide.
Tuvok: Unlikely perhaps, but not impossible.
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While Tuvok and Seven debated this, a thought occured to Harry Kim, why hadn't Susan written a suicide note? Harry would have thought that if T'Pol could use the mind meld to force Susan to end her own life, she could have also forced Susan to write a note. And if Susan genuinly wanted to die, wouldn't she want to say goodbye to her son? For now this was just a hunch, but it was worth following through on.