A colonist helping to plan the new settlement on Melona IV, who grows close to William Riker before she is killed when the Crystalline Entity attacks the planet in 2368.
Carmen Davila appears in the opening of the fifth-season episode Silicon Avatar. She is one of the people laying out a new colony on Melona IV, working alongside an Enterprise-D away team, and she and Riker are openly flirting and arranging dinner together when the Crystalline Entity appears in the sky.
As the colonists run for the shelter of nearby caves, Davila turns back to help a straggler and is caught in the Entity's beam, which strips the surface of all life. Riker has to be pulled away by Data.
Her death gives Riker a personal stake in the argument that follows over whether the Entity should be hunted down or contacted. She was played by Susan Diol.