Expert: Justin Case - 6/8/2009

Question
The "Conundrum" alien's ship erased the memories of the Enterprise's crew. Would it be able to erase the memories of the following?

A) Hologram Doc
B) Kes
C) Species 8472
D) Excalbian
E) Horta
F) Odo
G) Jem'Hadar
H) Apollo
I) Gary Mitchell
J) Crystalline Entity (assuming it has memories)
K) Admiral Quinn
L) Calamarain
M) Borg drone
N) Power Play O'Brien
O) "Conundrum" alien
P) Roga Danar
Q) Armus
R) Nomad
S) Tin Man
T) Cytherian
U) Traveler
V) Ferengi
W) Superman

Better mind-eraser?
A) Nomad
B) Conundrum alien

Would a Douwd be able to put music in the ears of the following?
A) Cytherian
B) Species 8472
C) Horta
D) Odo
E) Armus
F) Gary Mitchell
G) Kes
H) Nomad
I) Data
J) Traveler

Answer
Hi John -

Yes the Satarrans seemed to be able to pretty effectively wipe out the memories of humans, a Bajoran, a Klingon, a hybrid (Betazoid/humans) and whatever other species might have made up the crew (like Crewman Daniel Qwan a human/Napean etc.).  hey also affected the main computer on Enterprise to a great degree.

So, if their mind erasing technology is sophisticated enough to do that, especially to a hybrid like Deanna Troi's whose physiology can not be too well documented then I think they could pretty easily wipe out the memories of everyone on the list you provided except:
The Calamarain, Cytherian, Armus, Nomad, Tin Man and the Traveler.

In the cases of those entities I can't believe that their radically different physiologies and biological peculiarities could be compensated for and that the mind erasing procedure would fail.

My guess is that Nomad is a better mind eraser.  The Conundrum alien's procedure left the subject with the ability to talk, interact, read, eat etc. whereas Nomad's reduced Uhura's mind to that of an infant.

Douwd - I think he could do it to everyone on the list except Nomad and the Traveler, probably wouldn't work on Armus either.

Thanks!

Deran