A female Klingon officer of the Bird-of-Prey Pagh who teases Riker in the mess hall during his exchange posting in the episode A Matter of Honor.
Vekma is a Klingon warrior serving on the IKS Pagh under Captain Kargan. She appears in the second-season episode A Matter of Honor.
When Riker joins the ship as first officer under an exchange programme, he sits down to eat with the crew. Vekma and another woman look him over openly, and she wonders aloud whether a human could endure a Klingon female, to the amusement of Lieutenant Klag and the rest of the table.
Riker takes it in good part, answers in the same spirit and tucks into gagh and other Klingon dishes, which wins him a measure of acceptance. The scene is one of the series' first relaxed looks at Klingons among themselves, laughing and joking off duty.