Cut to a dark dorm room. There are two figures on the bed: a man kissing his way up a woman’s stomach. His lips reach hers; they kiss, and when they part for air, a smile shows on her silhouetted face and she tells him she thinks she loves him. His response? “That is so weird.” The woman, unimpressed, commands, “lights” and the room illuminates. The man is James T. Kirk.
And the woman is green.
More specifically, the woman is Orion, which is unexpected for a variety of reasons. The least of which not being that this particular dorm room is at Starfleet Academy, the peacekeeping armada of the United Federation of Planets, of which the Orions are not a member. In fact, Orions are ninety times more likely to be trafficked or arrested in Federation space than to immigrate themselves, due to their popularity as slaves and pirates.
Yet here we have Gaila – just Gaila, as true to the norms of her race she has no last time – the roommate of one Nyota Uhura and quite clearly a Federation citizen. As soon as said roommate returns, Gaila kicks Kirk under his bed, but to little avail as he is quickly discovered and ejected from the room entirely. He bids Gaila a short “see you later” to which she smiles and nods, and she isn’t seen or heard from again until the emergency deployment of the Enterprise and other starships to answer Vulcan’s distress call.
If you discount the deleted scene, in which Gaila is seen in the theatre of the Kobayashi Maru simulation, opening an email from Kirk at exactly three o’clock, as instructed, as he undertakes the test below. An attached file opens automatically and releases a patch that shorts out the computers for a few brief seconds before the system comes back online as if nothing happened. This cheat allows Kirk to be the first Starfleet cadet in history to actually beat the Kobayashi Maru – and all he had to do was use one Orion.
Following this, and resuming strict film canon, Gaila is in the auditorium during Kirk’s hearing, which is interrupted by a distress call received from Vulcan. A sea of cadets exits into the deployment dock to receive their assignments. As names and their corresponding ships are called out, Gaila spins on her heel to grin at Uhura, seemingly pleased with her assignment, and hurries off to find the shuttle that will take her to her ship.
For the rest of the film, Gaila is not seen nor mentioned. There is no head of titan curls and round green face at Kirk’s change-of-command ceremony at the end of the film. Because of this, interpretations of her fate are open. The Gaila as played by radiocakes is assigned to the USS Saratoga, one of the many, many ships destroyed by the Narada in its ambush. However, Gaila is one of the lucky few who manage to make it to an escape pod, and of the even fewer whose pod is not destroyed by the maelstrom of debris surrounding the planet, as well as the singularity created at the heart of Vulcan.
Gaila’s distress signal is picked up by Keenser on Delta Vega and her pod recovered by Starfleet. On her way back to Earth, she is treated for dolamide poisoning, a fractured tibia, and various cuts and bruises from the Saratoga coming apart around her. During Kirk’s change-of-command, she is still being hospitalised, though is well on her way to healing thanks to the medical equipment of the twenty-third century. Gaila is expected to make a full recovery – but Kirk might not after she gets her hands on him for using her.
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Cut to a dark dorm room. There are two figures on the bed: a man kissing his way up a woman’s stomach. His lips reach hers; they kiss, and when they part for air, a smile shows on her silhouetted face and she tells him she thinks she loves him. His response? “That is so weird.” The woman, unimpressed, commands, “lights” and the room illuminates. The man is James T. Kirk.
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radiocakes is assigned to the USS Saratoga, one of the many, many ships destroyed by the Narada in its ambush. However, Gaila is one of the lucky few who manage to make it to an escape pod, and of the even fewer whose pod is not destroyed by the maelstrom of debris surrounding the planet, as well as the singularity created at the heart of Vulcan.
And the woman is green.
More specifically, the woman is Orion, which is unexpected for a variety of reasons. The least of which not being that this particular dorm room is at Starfleet Academy, the peacekeeping armada of the United Federation of Planets, of which the Orions are not a member. In fact, Orions are ninety times more likely to be trafficked or arrested in Federation space than to immigrate themselves, due to their popularity as slaves and pirates.
Yet here we have Gaila – just Gaila, as true to the norms of her race she has no last time – the roommate of one Nyota Uhura and quite clearly a Federation citizen. As soon as said roommate returns, Gaila kicks Kirk under his bed, but to little avail as he is quickly discovered and ejected from the room entirely. He bids Gaila a short “see you later” to which she smiles and nods, and she isn’t seen or heard from again until the emergency deployment of the Enterprise and other starships to answer Vulcan’s distress call.
If you discount the deleted scene, in which Gaila is seen in the theatre of the Kobayashi Maru simulation, opening an email from Kirk at exactly three o’clock, as instructed, as he undertakes the test below. An attached file opens automatically and releases a patch that shorts out the computers for a few brief seconds before the system comes back online as if nothing happened. This cheat allows Kirk to be the first Starfleet cadet in history to actually beat the Kobayashi Maru – and all he had to do was use one Orion.
Following this, and resuming strict film canon, Gaila is in the auditorium during Kirk’s hearing, which is interrupted by a distress call received from Vulcan. A sea of cadets exits into the deployment dock to receive their assignments. As names and their corresponding ships are called out, Gaila spins on her heel to grin at Uhura, seemingly pleased with her assignment, and hurries off to find the shuttle that will take her to her ship.
For the rest of the film, Gaila is not seen nor mentioned. There is no head of titan curls and round green face at Kirk’s change-of-command ceremony at the end of the film. Because of this, interpretations of her fate are open. The Gaila as played by
Gaila’s distress signal is picked up by Keenser on Delta Vega and her pod recovered by Starfleet. On her way back to Earth, she is treated for dolamide poisoning, a fractured tibia, and various cuts and bruises from the Saratoga coming apart around her. During Kirk’s change-of-command, she is still being hospitalised, though is well on her way to healing thanks to the medical equipment of the twenty-third century. Gaila is expected to make a full recovery – but Kirk might not after she gets her hands on him for using her.