Dr. Carolyn Burton

Dr. Carolyn Burton was a Commonwealth scientist who High-Guard Intelligence, who, with her husband Dr. Henry Burton, created a folded space drive prototype.

In 2371, Henry Burton installed their folded space drive prototype aboard the Rutherford and accompanied the crew on testing the device. Initial tests were successful until 2372, when the device malfunctioned, and the Rutherford jumped from the  Alpha Quadrant  to the Delta Quadrant.

In an attempt to protect the device from falling into Dominion  hands, Henry Burton triggered the device aboard a  shuttlecraft  on Lunar 15

Henry's disappearance, months after the disappearance of their sons Andrew and Steven aboard the Sweetest Sundance, drove Carolyn Burton to despair; her work on perfecting the folded space drive kept her sane.

Her work, however, was destroyed by undercover Na'arbi  agent  James Lee, and this action drove her insane.

Working aboard Dante Station, Carolyn Burton constructed two more prototypes, secretly hard-wiring one into the station's frame and another aboard her cloaked ship in the station's orbit.