Cmdr. Lauren Johannson

Lauren Johannson is an High Guard officer abord the SS Victory as ship's counselor and a member of the A-Squad Team.

Background
Lauren Johannson is from Melbourne, Australia, just two miles from Sydney, where High-Guard Academy is located. She is the daughter of former High-Guard Admiral Victoria Johannson and the late Professor Henrik Johannson. She is the younger sister of Australian civilian, Veronica Johannson. Lauren is always pestered by her mother because she isn't married and doesn't have any children. Lauren has psych abilities and sensing power.

High Guard officer
Lauren served on the Luna 15 Space Station with her best friend and fellow officer, Lt. Cmdr. Kaycee Horton, until both were transferred to the SS Victory in season 2 of ST: Ressurection, following the departure of Capt. Crusher and Dr. Michael Donaldson. Cmdr. Justin Mcleod was instantly attracted to Johanson from the moment he met her. But from seasons 2 and 3, he resumed his relationship with Kaycee Horton. Lauren stayed by Justin's side, when he fights an baterial infection in the season 2 finale.

Later that year, when Ira Graves downloaded his memories into S.E.G.A., Lauren Johanson was the one that discovered that the changes in S.E.G.A.'s personality were actually Graves. ( TNG : " The Schizoid Man  ")

During the 2402-2403, after Captain Crusher assumed commanding of the Victory, Lauren Johanson and Kaycee Horton stayed aboard befriended him. The next year she fell for a delegate, Devinoni Ral, at a conference for the rights to a wormhole. Ral and Johanson each had an instant attraction for each other. She learned that he was part Betazoid and had been using his mental powers to influence the negotiations which shocks her. When the Ferengi threatened to blow up the wormhole, stating that there was a secret deal between the Federation and the Barzan, Johanson suspected that this was staged by Ral to acquire the rights to the wormhole. The Barzan gave the right to Ral, but it was soon discovered that the wormhole was unstable and worthless. Ral quickly left and bid goodbye to Johanson. ( TNG : " The Price  ")

Lauren began studying psychology sometime in the 2350s. While studying at the University of Betazed, one of her patients was Tam Elbrun , a Betazoid male who had been suffering from mental instability due to his lack of the Betazoid's natural ability to "tune out" the thoughts of others. She met him again when he was being transported by the Victory to make first contact with an alien lifeform that looked like an organic spaceship. Having lost its crew years ago, Tin Man, as the organism was called, wanted to die and waited by a star that would shortly explode. After boarding the organism, Tam bonded with the alien and remained with it. He had found a way to relieve his mental pain and Tin Man had a companion.

While attending a trade conference on Betazed, she, her visting mother, Victoria Johanson, and a newly single Justin Mcleod were captured by the Ferengi. They wanted to use Victoria's psychic abilities to give them an advantage in negotiations. They used mind probes on Lauren and her mother. Mcleod was able to send a message to Victory giving them the location of the Ferengi ship, and they were rescued.

Next year, she temporarily lost her psychic powers when she came in contact with two-dimensional lifeforms that had caught the Victory in their magnetic force. They were heading for a cosmic string which would destroy the Victory. Crusher asked her to use her normal abilities to try to determine the aliens' intentions. She found out that the cosmic string was their home; the Victory was able to break free, and after the aliens left, her powers returned and Johanson began a relationship with Mcleod.

While investigating the USS Brattain, which had become stranded in space, the Victory found one crewmember alive, a Inarian science adviser. The rest of the crew had killed each other. They discovered that the ship was caught in Tyken's Rift which sapped all the energy from the ship. Additionally, the crew of the Brattain had succumbed to madness through sleep deprivation from an unknown cause. The same thing was happening to the Victory. The crew was on the verge of madness, and only S.E.G.A. and Johanson were unaffected, as S.E.G.A. did not require sleep and Johanson's partially psychic physiology processed dreams at a different frequency. S.E.G.A. believed that an explosion would get them out of the rift, but the plan failed. Johanson had experienced a single, recurring nightmare, but determined that it was an act of communication from other beings stuck on the other side of the rift. This communication had caused the dream states of the rest of the crew to become disrupted. In a dream state she relayed a plan of cooperation that would release each ship. The plan worked.

When the Victory was hit by a quantum filament which had caused major damage. Lauren helped Connie Porter with the injured officers, but also helped June Tate when she went into labor. Connie delivered the baby, while Lauren coached and vomited after seeing the baby being born, which showed that childbirth freaks her out.

She counseled Connie and her adopted daughter Alexa Porter, who had boarded the ship to stay with her. Her efforts helped stabilize their relationship. Connie was going to send Alexa to a Nietszchean school, but Johanson observed that the boy was difficult because of the death of her widowed father, leaving her a feeling of abandonment. Sending her away would only make the girl worse.

During a visit by telepathic aliens, Johanson was attacked and lapsed into a coma. On waking, she believed she was attacked by her boyfriend, Justin Mcleod. One of the aliens who participated in the attack had been using his psychic powers to make her think it was someone else. (TNG: " Violations")

While helping to save a closed society of genetically-engineered Earth colonists, Lauren had become bored with her relationship with Mcleod and wanted out, so she became romantically involved with their leader, Aaron Conor. She revealed her romance to Justin and he got hurt and leaves her quarters. After the colony was saved, the romance ended as she returned to the ship and he declined to leave his colony. She also apologized to Justin for hurting him, but he tells her he's not ready to forgive her, ending their relationship.

Her body was taken over by an alien spirit after the Victory investigated the disappearance of the USS Essex, an event that had occurred almost two hundred years previously. Johanson, along with Chief Tate and S.E.G.A., was possessed, and hijacked the Victory, taking hostages in the process. The Johanson alien stated that he was Bryce Shumar, captain of the Essex, and that he and his crew's spirits were caught up in the magnetic field of the moon. He asked that their bones, which were on the planet, be returned to Earth, so their spirits could rest. Crusher did not believe "Johanson", and found out that she wished to return to the planet to get the other alien spirits so they could take over the crew's bodies. The moon was a penal colony and the spirits were criminals. After Crusher threatened to destroy the Victory and their existences, the spirits decided to stay alive on their moon.

After boarding the Victory and announcing that she planned to marry (again), Victoria began to meddle in Johanson's attempts to counsel Alexa, Connie's now adopted daughter, about meeting her responsibilities. Lauren also told her mother about her breakup with Mcleod. Victoria was suffering a mid-life crisis, and in the end she ended her relationship with her stuffy suitor.

In 2369, Ves Alkar, a Commonwelth mediator, boarded the Victory. Alkar telepathically transferred his dark thoughts and emotions to other hosts so his mind was clear and able to mediate conflicts more effectively. The effect of this transfer caused rapid aging and death. He attacked Johanson and Cmdr. Horton put her into stasis to save her life. After that, Lauren and Justin Mcleod reconcile and are back as a couple.

Trivia

 * She is the first non-American High-Guard officer in the Ressurection franchise, the second was Dr. Zander Farrell.
 * Lauren and John Mcleod are the first High-Guard couple in the Star Trek Ressurection Franchise to have gotten married. The second was Jake Stewart and Michelle Carson. The third was Connie Porter and Jason Mitchell. The Fourth was Tim Walters and Lillian Crusher.
 * Lauren was the first to give birth via C-Section, the second was Michelle Carson.