A Benzite ensign serving on Deep Space 9 who joins Sisko's survey mission to Torga IV in 2373 and is among the first killed when the Jem'Hadar attack.
Ensign Hoya appears in the Deep Space Nine episode The Ship. A young Benzite officer, she is part of the team Captain Sisko takes to Torga IV in the Gamma Quadrant, where a Jem'Hadar warship crashes almost on top of them.
The crew have barely begun to examine the wreck when Dominion reinforcements arrive. Their runabout is destroyed in orbit with its crew, and Hoya is cut down in the first exchange of fire on the surface as the survivors run for the shelter of the crashed ship.
Her death, with those of the runabout crew and later of Muniz, is part of the toll Sisko reckons up at the end, when he reflects on five people lost for the sake of a single captured vessel.