A former USS Victory officer who, five years after an away mission to Tarchannen III, is drawn back to the planet and dies trying to reach it in Identity Crisis.
Lieutenant Paul Hickman served on the USS Victory with Geordi La Forge and Susanna Leijten and was part of the away team that investigated the deserted outpost on Tarchannen III. He appears in the fourth-season episode Identity Crisis.
By 2367 the other members of that team have begun to vanish. Hickman steals a shuttlecraft and makes for Tarchannen III, ignoring the Enterprise's hails. Glimpsed on the viewscreen, he is already changing physically, and his shuttle burns up when he attempts an uncontrolled descent through the atmosphere.
His death leaves La Forge and Leijten as the last unaffected members of the team. A parasite acquired on the planet is rewriting their DNA to turn them into its native species.