Character Star Trek: The Animated Series · 2269

Devna

Orion interpreter of laws in Elysia

An Orion woman living in Elysia, the peaceful community of ships trapped in the Delta Triangle, who serves its ruling council as interpreter of laws in the animated episode The Time Trap.

Devna appears in the animated episode The Time Trap and is voiced by Nichelle Nichols. She is one of the representatives of 123 species whose ancestors were stranded in a pocket of space where time passes slowly and no ship has ever escaped.
When the Enterprise and Kor's Klingon battle cruiser Klothos are pulled into the region, she recites Elysian law to their captains before the council led by the Romulan Xerius. Violence of any kind is forbidden, and a captain answers for the acts of his crew.
Devna later entertains the visiting crews with a dance and speaks wistfully of Orion. Kirk offers her passage home when the two ships combine to break free, but she chooses to remain in Elysia, the only home she really knows.