Wiped Clean

Joey Bonice

Chief Engineer Sophea Bennington-Fox has built a life around precision, loyalty, and love: her work aboard the starship Lexington, her wife waiting on Earth, and the daughter whose birthday she cannot attend. But beneath the quiet comfort of her quarters and the steady rhythm of her music, something broken and dangerous is stirring.

Months after surviving capture and torture at the hands of the Klingons, Sophea believes she has returned to herself. Yet memories of the mind sifter refuse to stay buried, and a voice not her own waits in the dark corners of her mind. When an innocent call from her captain awakens a command she does not even know she carries, Sophea may become the very weapon Starfleet rescued her from.

In “Wiped Clean,” the battle is not fought among the stars, but within one officer’s soul—where duty, identity, and love may be all that stand between the Lexington and disaster.