A lieutenant among the bridge crew of the USS Athena, the Academy's training ship, played by Rebecca Quin and seen in the opening episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Lieutenant Ya is an officer on the bridge of the USS Athena, the starship attached to Starfleet Academy in the 32nd century. She was played by Rebecca Quin, better known to wrestling audiences as Becky Lynch.
She is introduced in the first episode, Kids These Days, as one of the regular officers who run the ship under Chancellor Nahla Ake and her first officer Lura Thok while cadets train aboard. She is generally identified as the ship's tactical officer.
Like most of the Athena's bridge officers she is seen only briefly in the first season, which keeps its attention on the cadets and their teachers. Her casting was announced before the series began.