Sela (Star Trek)

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Sela is a female television extraterrestrial character who features in Star Trek.

Biography

Sela was the daughter of the Human Tasha Yar and an unknown Romulan official with her being born at some point in the 24th century.

While the Enterprise-C was destroyed, several crewmembers survived and were taken prisoner by the Romulans, Tasha among them. After being interrogated, all of the survivors were to be executed, but a Romulan general became enamored with Tasha, and offered to spare the lives of the prisoners if she became his consort, a condition to which Tasha agreed. One year later, she gave birth to a daughter, Sela. When Sela was four years old, Tasha took her and attempted to escape, but sensing that her mother was attempting to take her away from her home and her father, Sela cried out, and Tasha was discovered and subsequently executed. (TNG: Redemption II)

Over the next eighteen years, Sela rose through the ranks of the Romulan military, achieving the rank of Commander. In that capacity, she was a major player in plots to disrupt the alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, one of which involved kidnapping Starfleet officer Geordi La Forge, and brainwashing him to kill Klingon governor Vagh. (TNG: The Mind's Eye) She was also involved in lending support to the House of Duras in their attempt to gain control of the Klingon Empire, ferrying them materials and supplies in cloaked Romulan vessels. Sela was foiled, however, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard led Starfleet to the Klingon-Romulan border and instituted a tachyon detection grid, making it impossible for any cloaked ship to cross the border undetected. Data, in command of the USS Sutherland, managed to use the tachyon signature that formed around Sela's ships, and ordering three photon torpedoes, lit up the tachyon field around the three cloaked Romulan Warbirds, causing them to reveal themselves, forcing Sela to withdraw back to Romulan space, causing the House of Duras to lose the civil war. (TNG: Redemption)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Sela was the daughter of an alternate timeline version of human Starfleet officer Tasha Yar and a Romulan officer. (TNG: Redemption)

Powers and abilities

By adulthood, Sela had joined the ranks of the military of the Romulan Star Empire. (TNG: Redemption)

Notes

• Sela was created by Denise Crosby where she featured in the setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In other media

Video games

• In Star Trek Armada, Sela appeared in the setting of the real-time strategy video game where she was voiced by actor Denise Crosby. Acting on orders from the Tal Shiar, Admiral Sela's mission over the course of the campaign is to acquire the highly unstable but extremely powerful Omega particle and bring it to Romulus. After the particle is stolen by the Borg, Admiral Sela forges a temporary and desperate alliance with Captain Picard of the Federation and Chancellor Martok of the Klingon Empire in order to prevent the Borg from using the Omega particle to fuel an invasion of the Alpha Quadrant.
• In Star Trek Online, Sela appeared in the setting of the MMORPG video game where she was once again voiced by actor Denise Crosby. She featured prominently in the Romulan portion of the game's future history, having become Empress of the Romulan Empire in 2408.

Other

Appearances

• Star Trek: The Next Generation:

External Links

• Memory Alpha Wiki Entry

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