Barbara Devereaux was a Federation Starfleet science officer on active duty in the 23rd century. Devereaux was born in the New Paris colony in the Omega Aurigae system. While the colony's members were known for their achievements in art, literature and music, Barbara herself gravitated towards the sciences, in particular astrophysics. One of Devereaux's classmates at the Academy was Spock. They were both students of Charles Gray in a seminar in astrophysics.