Marie Batel

Captain Marie Batel was a female Human Starfleet officer who served as the commanding officer of the USS Cayuga during the mid-23rd century. She was also an officer in the Judge Advocate General's Office.

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Captain Marie Batel, played by Melanie Scrofano, held dual roles in the mid-23rd century. She commanded the USS Cayuga and also served in the Judge Advocate General's Office on Earth, under Pasalk.
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Melanie Scrofano portrayed Captain Marie Batel in Star Trek. Her character was a Starfleet officer and the commanding officer of the USS Cayuga in the mid-23rd century. She also held a position in the Judge Advocate General's Office.
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In Star Trek, Captain Marie Batel, played by Melanie Scrofano, commanded the USS Cayuga in the mid-23rd century and held a position in the Judge Advocate General's Office.
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Starfleet career

In 2245, Captain Batel was assigned to command the Constitution-class USS Cayuga. (SNW: "Hegemony" display graphic)

Sometime prior to 2259, Admiral Robert April would tell Batel that every good captain needs a first officer who will tell when he or she is wrong. (SNW: "Ad Astra per Aspera")

In 2259, she was in a relationship with fellow officer, Christopher Pike. She was scheduled to ship out the day after Pike was recalled to active duty by Admiral April. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")

Later that year, she, along with the Cayuga, were assigned to upgrade the Earth Outpost Stations, bordering the Romulan Neutral Zone. During that mission, she was ordered to go aboard the USS Enterprise to arrest Pike's first officer, Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley, for having illegally misrepresented her own genetically engineered heritage. Despite acknowledging that she personally disliked those orders, Batel took Chin-Riley into custody. (SNW: "A Quality of Mercy")

A short time later, Batel reluctantly acted as the judge advocate prosecutor in Una's court martial, under Vice Admiral Pasalk. Batel worked hard to get Chin-Riley a favorable plea deal that included dishonorable discharge without prison time, but Chin-Riley rejected the deal. Ultimately, the defense attorney (Neera Ketoul) successfully argued that Una Chin-Riley had essentially sought political asylum from Starfleet; the defendant was acquitted and allowed to return to duty. (SNW: "Ad Astra per Aspera")

Although Batel was up for a possible promotion to commodore, she was passed over in favor of William Geary because of "concerns." Both Pike and Batel believed that it was retaliation by Pasalk for Batel losing Chin-Riley's trial. (SNW: "Among the Lotus Eaters")

Later that year, the Cayuga and the Enterprise were assigned to a joint mission charting a new binary system.

Several days later, after the events on Rigel VII, Pike transferred Yeoman Zac Nguyen to the Cayuga for transport to prison and made amends with Batel. (SNW: "Among the Lotus Eaters")

Later that year, the Cayuga was located in the Alpha Quadrant near Gorn space when the Enterprise discovered a subspace fissure. Captain Batel and the Cayuga rendezvoused with the Enterprise, where she informed Pike that they had been assigned a priority one mission. (SNW: "Subspace Rhapsody")

While the Cayuga was helping out with vaccinations on Parnassus Beta, a colony just outside of Federation space, the Gorn attacked, destroying the Cayuga. Having been on the planet's surface with most of her crew, Batel managed to send out a distress call that was picked up by the Enterprise with the situation being complicated by the Gorn drawing a demarcation line and Starfleet not wanting to risk war over a planet that was outside of their jurisdiction. Pike and a landing party found Batel, but she had already been infected with Gorn eggs the day before which, in Humans, only had an incubation rate of a day and a half. After Spock and Nurse Christine Chapel destroyed the Gorn tower by crashing the Cayuga's wrecked saucer section into it, Pike, Batel and Lieutenant junior grade Montgomery Scott were beamed aboard the Enterprise where Chapel attempted to treat Batel, sedating her and placing Batel in a stasis field. Over Pike's objections, Batel requested to be killed if there proved to be no way of saving her life. (SNW: "Hegemony")

However, Batel turned out to be allergic to the cryoserum, preventing them from putting her into stasis, leaving Batel with a day at most to live. Spock and Chapel were ultimately able to devise a treatment in which they satiated the Gorn hatchlings to keep them from coming out, dissolved the hatchlings once they were no longer in defensive mode and then used Una's Illyrian plasma to fight the multitude of infections that would result from their reabsorption into Batel's body. After the Gorn were sent into a long hibernation, Pike visited Batel who still had a long recovery ahead of her. (SNW: "Hegemony, Part II")

With her ship destroyed, Batel spent the next three months recovering on the Enterprise as it underwent repairs and she contemplated whether or not to take up a new command. Doctor Joseph M'Benga told Una that Batel had mostly recovered by Federation Day: the Gorn embryos were fully reabsorbed into her body and the medical staff were only managing some minor aftereffects now. M'Benga credited Una's blood for giving Batel's body the strength it needed to withstand the metabolization process. (SNW: "Wedding Bell Blues")

However, just a few days before Batel was to assume a new command, her Gorn infection returned. At the suggestion of M'Benga, the Enterprise embarked upon an unauthorized mission into restricted space to get a chimera blossom to help her. Pike later learned to his dismay that the actual plan to save Batel's life was to turn her into a Human-Gorn hybrid. (SNW: "Shuttle to Kenfori")

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Background information

Marie Batel was played by Melanie Scrofano.

A demo video prepared for the court clerk's screen in the episode "Ad Astra per Aspera" gives Marie as the first name of this character, but it wasn't confirmed on screen until "Subspace Rhapsody". As a judge advocate she also bears the professional title of esquire. [1]

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