A young woman of the People of Vaal on Gamma Trianguli VI, whose kiss with Makora in 2267, copied from the Enterprise visitors, alarms the machine that rules them.
Sayana appears in the second-season episode The Apple. Like all her people she lives a changeless life tending Vaal, the machine that controls the planet's climate and keeps them healthy and ageless. Vaal forbids love, which Akuta calls the touching, since no replacements are needed.
Sayana and Makora secretly watch Chekov and Yeoman Martha Landon embrace in the forest and, curious, try a kiss themselves. Akuta catches them, and Vaal responds by ordering the strangers killed.
After the Enterprise destroys Vaal's power, Sayana and Makora are among the villagers whom Kirk assures that they will work out for themselves what comes next. She was played by Shari Nims.