Although maintaining romantic relationships can prove challenging for Starfleet captains, Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" seems to have found his ideal match in fellow commander Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano). Like her significant other, Captain Batel is a highly competent and respected captain of her own ship, the USS Cayuga, until its destruction at the hands of Star Trek's villainous predator race the Gorn in the Season 2 finale, "Hegemony." But as we learn at the end of Season 3, she was always destined to be the Beholder, an immortal being charged with guarding the Vezda prison on the old Q home world throughout all of eternity.

As seen in a brief onscreen graphic in "Hegemony," Batel first takes command of her starship in 2245. 15 ye

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