Marissa Stewart

Marissa Stewart was the first wife of High-Guard Captain Jacob Stewart. The two met while Marissa went to High-Guard to visit her uncle in 2354 and were married soon after.

Marissa and Jake planned to have children and their twin daughters Mary and Claire was born in 2355.

Marissa, Mary, and Claire accompanied Jake on his assignment to the USS Saratoga, where she was killed when that ship was destroyed by the Cyborgs at the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2367. Marissa's death devastated Jake and it was years before he began to move on emotionally. In fact, his bitterness and anger over her death, specifically toward Captain Crusher, whom the Cyborg assimilated and forced to lead their invasion of Earth as Locutus, almost led him to resign his High-Guard commission, before he accepted that he was trying to escape his memories of Marissa's death rather than High-Guard itself.

Marissa's image was later used in a vision projected to Ben by the Prophets in 2369.

Mary and her sister, Claire mentioned the death of their mother when he and Norg and Simon talked to the Varis Sul.

Marissa's death haunted Jake for years. He had trouble sleeping around the fourth anniversary of her death. Shortly after, he met Venna, who he told Jason Mitchell was the first person he'd "felt really drawn to" since Marissa's death.

When Jake began dating stellar cartographer, Michelle Carson he was initially uncomfortable being with her, as it was his job that got Marissa killed and he did not want the same to happen to her.

One of the ideas Claire had for Anslem was to make it semi-autobiographical, with the main character's mother dying.