John Kearney

John Kearney was a Starfleet officer in the late 22nd century. He served as Armory Officer aboard the USS Eridanus (NCC-T117).

Disappearance
In 2287, Kearney was serving aboard the USS Eridanus as it returned from a colony supply mission near the Romulan border. He disappeared along with the ship and was declared Missing In Action along with the Eridanus and the rest of its crew.

Rediscovery
In 2339, Kearney was discovered by the crew of the USS Tempest (NCC-10535) on the surface of an uncharted Class M planet, alive and near one of the Eridanus ' shuttlecraft. Despite the passage of over 150 years worth of time in the outside galaxy, only six years of time had elapsed since Kearney landed on the planet. The discrepancy was apparently due to the effects of a nearby temporal distortion, which affected the speed of the passage of time.

Kearney was, according to the logs found aboard his shuttlecraft, part of a larger landing party comprised of three shuttles and twelve personnel. While the other shuttles and their crew eventually returned to the Eridanus, engine problems with Kearney's shuttlecraft prevented it from doing the same. Kearney and three other away team members were stranded on the planet as a result. Over the intervening six years of perceived elapsed time, the other members of the away team perished, leaving Kearney alone on the planet.

Kearney was discovered in an agitated state, apparently affected by a psychotropic compound present in the planet's water supply. The Tempest crew subdued Kearney and, after bringing him aboard the Tempest, treated him of his induced psychosis.

Shortly thereafter, the Tempest discovered the Eridanus trapped within a temporal distortion close to the planet. Kearney beamed aboard the Eridanus with members of the Tempest crew and assisted in neutralizing the psychoactive compound, carried to the Eridanus by the other shuttlecraft that had successfully returned from the planet's surface. Kearney also assisted in regaining control of the ship and collapsing the temporal distortion.

Current Status
Following the closure of the wormhole and neutralization of the accompanying temporal distortion, Kearney was taken to Starbase 36, where he is undergoing psychological and temporal rehabilitation.

Appearances
A World With a Bluer Sun