Bright Eyes

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"Bright Eyes" was the name given to a young Tholian that was rescued by the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk in the 2270s. In 2270, Bright Eyes became Starfleet's first Tholian cadet. (TOS - Year Five - Experienced in Loss comic: "Issue 22")

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Following an attack on Lloyd Zeta-9, "Bright Eyes" was found under debris by several members of an away team under Captain Kirk from the Federation starship USS Enterprise. They were beamed aboard the Enterprise. They were tended to by Dr. Leonard McCoy and Nurse Christine Chapel in the transporter room. After leaving Lloyd Zeta-9 aboard the Enterprise after a confrontation with a Tholian ship, Captain Kirk attempted to speak with Bright Eyes to no avail. They were taken to Engineering where Chapel, Commander Montgomery Scott, and Ensign Satie created a force-field to help Bright Eyes breath aboard the ship. However, Satie was distrustful of them due to his sister's death aboard the USS Defiant^[1] and blamed the youth for a explosion in engineering.

Bright Eyes was protected from Satie by Commander Scott and Lieutenant Nyota Uhura until Ensign Pavel Chekov subdued Satie. After being given quarters, Bright Eyes was given visual stimuli test by Lieutenant Uhura, who gave them his name "Bright Eyes". They were able to understand by using the Fibonacci sequence. (TOS - Year Five - Odyssey's End comics: "Issue 1", "Issue 2", "Issue 3", "Issue 4")

Thanks to artifacts collected from Hesperides I, Uhura and Bright Eyes were able to overcome the language barrier, allowing Uhura to figure out how to solve a communication crisis. (TOS - Year Five - Odyssey's End comics: "Issue 5", "Issue 6")

With communication established, Bright Eyes told James T. Kirk and Spock of the attack on the colony before the Enterprise was caught in a Tholian web. Being able to feel the attackers who destroyed the colony, Bright Eyes attempted to punch through the hull in a panic, resulting in Spock briefly mind melding with them to try and calm them. Managing to breach the hull, Bright Eyes made a space jump to rescue Kirk before the Enterprise managed to escape the net. (TOS - Year Five - The Wine-Dark Deep comics: "Issue 7", "Issue 8")

Two weeks later, Bright Eyes, with a slimmed down suit, was in engineering when Gary Seven tried to destroy the ship, managing to point out the intruder and fire a blast of radiation. At Kirk's order, the crew then made for the escape pods landing on Circe V. When the Enterprise was sighted on a crash course with the escape pods, Bright Eyes and Montgomery Scott managed to jury-rig a transporter to beam Spock aboard, the captain and the XO managing to chase off Seven and regain control of the ship. (TOS - Year Five - The Wine-Dark Deep comics: "Issue 11", "Issue 12")

After the Enterprise had officially ended its five-year mission, the ship stopped off at Andoria to investigate the threat of the Originalist faction. Accompanying Kirk and Scott to the surface, Bright Eyes found that the candidate was Harry Mudd. Speaking with Scott, Bright Eyes hit on the idea of exploiting the programming of Mudd's android, Celia, to have her tell them what Mudd was up to, exposing his con. (TOS - Year Five - Weaker Than Man comics: "Issue 15", "Issue 16")

As the Enterprise passed near Vulcan, Bright Eyes began hearing a signal. Investigating, the crew beamed down to the planet to find an anomalous tower that suddenly activated, whisking Spock away. After the organics claimed to always recall the tower, Bright Eyes explained that their species' triangular perception of time allowed them to see the echoes of the original timeline in spite of the changes. Bright Eyes subsequently provided Scott with the Tholian equivalent to the Pythagorean formula allowing the Enterprise to signal and retrieve Spock. (TOS - Year Five - Experienced in Loss comics: "Issue 20", "Issue 21")

When the Enterprise finally returned to Earth, Kirk marked the occasion by officially granting Bright Eyes the rank of a cadet at Starfleet Academy. (TOS - Year Five - Experienced in Loss comic: "Issue 22")

When the Tholian Assembly suddenly declared war on the Federation, Bright Eyes was on the bridge of Enterprise. When the crew realized that the Assembly had been manipulated by Aegis into war, Bright Eyes asked to be taken to the Tholian shardship to speak to the Elders and impart their experiences with organics. After Spock's logic allowed them an audience, Bright Eyes spoke to the High Council, winning them over and ending the war. Bright Eyes subsequently left Earth with their people, acting as an interim ambassador and championing for peace with the United Federation of Planets. (TOS - Year Five - Experienced in Loss comics: "Issue 23", "Issue 24")

A year later, Bright Eyes returned to Lloyd Zeta-9, now the site of a joint "Enterprise colony" between humans and Tholians. Briefly reuniting with Kirk, Bright Eyes learned what had become of the Enterprise crew before they said goodbye to Kirk for the final time. (TOS - Year Five - Experienced in Loss comic: "Issue 25")

By 2378, the Tholian Assembly had attained at least a Type III status on the kardashev scale, being invited to the Pleroma to discuss the damage that Kahless' deicide had wrought to the Milky Way Galaxy, Bright Eyes being chosen as an ambassador. When a vote was held to resurrect the Organians, Bright Eyes voted to allow such an act before Lore entered with the Orb of Destruction, destroying the Pleroma and unleashing a wave of destruction across the multiverse. (ST - Pleroma comics: "Part 3", "Part 5")

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