A Bajoran engineer on Deep Space 9 who works alongside Chief O'Brien in 2369 as he struggles with a clinging computer entity downloaded from an alien probe in the episode The Forsaken.
Anara is a Bajoran member of the station's engineering staff who appears in the first-season Deep Space Nine episode The Forsaken. She is on duty with O'Brien when an unidentified probe comes through the wormhole and its contents are transferred to the station computer.
The computer then begins behaving oddly, becoming unusually co-operative with O'Brien and causing faults whenever he tries to leave it. Anara helps him trace the problem to a non-biological presence that craves attention, which he likens to a stray puppy.
Their work goes on while a turbolift failure traps Odo with Lwaxana Troi and a plasma fire endangers a party of visiting ambassadors.