Lieutenant Ilia was a female Deltan Starfleet officer in the 23rd century. She was in the navigation and helm branches of the Command division. In the mid-2270s, she served aboard the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk.
Years before her assignment, she had been romantically involved with Will Decker on her home planet Delta IV. She would meet him again on the Enterprise. She did, however, swear an oath of celibacy upon initiation of her service, a requirement for Deltans entering Starfleet.
In the aftermath of an attack by V'ger on the Enterprise, she soothed the nerves in Pavel Chekov's hand and wrist before Christine Chapel tended him.
Although Ilia was killed by the V'ger probe, V'ger created another probe that was an artificial near duplicate of her to collect information and act as a liaison between V'ger and the "carbon units" that "infested" the Enterprise. The probe mentioned that the Ilia unit was "no longer functioning". The duplicated Ilia probe was similar to Ilia down to the molecular structure, as a medical exam later revealed. The probe included both her memories and personality, though both suppressed by V'ger's programming.
When Spock entered V'ger's interior wearing a thruster suit, he saw a representation of Ilia floating in the expanse and attempted a mind meld.
Kirk later listed both Ilia and Will Decker as missing instead of killed, following the involvement of both in the conclusion of the crisis.
To Be Married and Loved[]
Ilia, as V'ger's probe, led Kirk, Decker, McCoy and Spock to its compute core during the docu-film; as Kate was consummating with EAD, Rick, Tinsel, Alias and Clank watched it inside Falcon's Fortress and she'd merge with Decker and V'ger.
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