A Malcorian doctor on the staff of the Sikla Medical Facility, one of those who examine the injured stranger Rivas Jakara and realise he is not one of their own species.
Tava is a Malcorian physician who appears in the fourth-season episode First Contact, set in 2367.
She works at the Sikla Medical Facility on Malcor III, where a casualty calling himself Rivas Jakara is brought in after a riot. The staff, led by the administrator Berel with the doctor Nilrem, find that the patient's organs are in the wrong places and that his hands and feet are jointed like no Malcorian's. Tava is one of the doctors drawn into the argument over what he is and what should be done about him.
The patient is Commander Riker, surgically disguised for a covert survey. The alarm of the hospital staff, and the leak of their discovery to the security minister Krola, forces Picard to open contact with Chancellor Durken sooner than planned.