A young girl in a Vori village who grows fond of Chakotay and whose apparent deportation by the Kradin drives him to take up arms.
Karya is a Vori child. She appears in the fourth-season Voyager episode Nemesis.
Wounded and separated from the patrol that found him, Chakotay is sheltered in a village. Karya is wary of the stranger at first, then asks him to carry a message to her brother, who is away fighting. She lives with an old man, Penno.
When Chakotay returns to the village he finds the Kradin rounding up the inhabitants. Penno is led away to be killed and Karya is taken off to a labour camp. Enraged, Chakotay joins the war in earnest. He later learns that the village and its people were part of a simulation built to manufacture exactly that hatred.