Gaila

Character
Name:	Gaila
Occupation:	programmer?
Relationships:	roommate Uhura, Kirk/Gaila
Fandom:	Star Trek AOS
Other:	played by the actor Rachel Nichols
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Gaila is Uhura's Orion roommate at Starfleet Academy in Star Trek (2009).

Fandom Response

Although she appears in only two scenes in the movie, many fans have embraced her and given her a new life in fanfiction. Common subjects in Gaila-centric fanfiction include differences between Orion and human sexual mores, whether or not she was a slave girl, and whether or not she survived the destruction of the ships sent to Vulcan.

She is sometimes shipped with Uhura.

Meta

• GAILA IS AWESOME COMMENTFIC EXTRAVAGANZA, ^{Archived version}

Notable Gaila-centric Fanworks

• Caged Bird Singing by igrockspock

photo art illustration of Gaila made by girlnamedpixley for fanfic War Games by seperis

• California Girls by darthjamtart
• The Dance by LJC
• The Loudest Noise (affannato, affettuoso, agitato) by zvi
• Lunch and Other Obscenities by Rheanna. Set in the reboot universe, this story is about the relationship of Gaila and her Academy roommate, Uhura.
• Paradise Found by skywaterblue
• The USS Breakfast at Tiffany's by igrockspock

Communities

• teamgaila, ^{Archived version} on Livejournal

Resources

• Gaila at Memory Alpha (canon resource)
• Gaila at Memory Beta (non-canon Star Trek works)