V'Rel is the Vulcan captain of the USS Farragut under whom James T. Kirk serves as first officer, and whose injury gives Kirk his first taste of command.
Captain V'Rel appears in The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail, in the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. She is a measured commander who tempers her eager first officer, and the two are shown playing three-dimensional chess, a pastime Kirk will later share with Spock.
While the Farragut is surveying a planet, a vast alien scavenger ship attacks. The Farragut is badly damaged and V'Rel is wounded, which leaves Kirk in charge of a crippled ship with a handful of Enterprise officers to help him.
The episode treats the crisis as the first time Kirk sits in the centre seat, with his captain's caution weighing on his choices. V'Rel is played by Zoe Doyle.