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Karen Loews, MD, was a Starfleet psychiatrist with the rank of Lieutenant. Karen Loews was born on Earth in 2332.
Starfleet Career[]
She was the legal guardian of Sarina Douglas. In 2374, Doctor Loews was responsible for the care of a number of patients who had undergone a procedure called accelerated critical neural pathway formation. This procedure had left Loews' patients with extremely advanced mental abilities, but severe problems in fitting in to normal society.
Deep Space 9[]
In 2374, after the revelation that Julian Bashir had also undergone the procedure but had managed to maintain a normal life, Loews took four of her patients - Jack, Lauren, Patrick and Sarina - to Deep Space 9 in the hopes that Bashir could show them that it was possible to function in normal society. In 2375, she gave her consent for Doctor Bashir to attempt a procedure to stimulate the growth of new synapses in Sarina's thalamus.