Yerzy Penalosa
Background
Yerzy Penalosa is a medical technician on the Trans Soma emergency medical rescue vessel Nightingale 229. He is in a relationship with Danika Lund.
During the events of Supernova (2000) played by Lou Diamond Phillips
Yerzy and Danika are having sex, and shortly afterwards, an emergency distress signal is received and Nick Vanzant tells them that the signal is five days old and is a direct call specifically to the Nightingale. Nick continues that the signal is from Pohl 6822, specifically the mining operation of Titan 37.
Sweetie tells them that Pohl 6822 was expelled from its orbit and is now a rogue body. A.J. Marley tells them that due to the distance they will have to make a dimension drive jump. Sweetie then tells them that the sender of the SOS is Karl Larson. They arrive at their location and find Marley's unit has malfunctioned causing him to partially fuse with the polyglass window. The Nightingale is hit by a debris storm and their fuel tanks are breached. Yerzy shows Danika an application for the Planetary Population Commission in order to have a baby. Nick explains the situation to the crew and a ship from the Titan operation starts heading towards the Nightingale. The spaceship docks with the Nightingale and Karl staggers on board. Kaela Evers doesn't think Karl is the Karl she knew as he appears to be in his early 20's.
Nick tells Yerzy to check Karl's ship to see if there is anything suspicious. Yerzy watches as Karl continues to flirt with Danika. While searching Karl's ship, Yerzy finds a glowing orb and tells Nick about it. Yerzy then puts his hand in the glowing orb. Kaela uses Flyboy to transfer the orb to quarantine. Karl tells the others that he heard a signal that ice miners had found something on a rogue moon and then he and his friends found the Titan colony. He tries to make a deal with the crew to sell it, but Nick makes the decision to get rid of it once they are in deep space. Yerzy continues to interact with the orb. Yerzy appears to have reversed his aging and is building large amounts of muscle mass from the orb. Yerzy goes to interact with the orb again, but the door code has been changed. Karl walks up to him and destroys the keypad and then attacks him. Yerzy repeatedly hits Karl in the face with a piece of metal, but it doesn't hurt Karl and Karl kills him and flushes him into space.
