Elaine Kucera

Elaine Kucera was a Human woman, an admiral in Starfleet in the late 23rd century.

History
In 2250, she was a couple of years older than cadet plebe James T. Kirk at Starfleet Academy. She knew Gary Mitchell and remembered that he had once called Kirk a "stack of books with legs".

In 2273, she worked at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco on Earth along with her aide Belinda Fairweather. She approved Kirk's proposed clandestine trip to Neural despite misgivings that it seemed impulsive. She requested that Kirk's aide Giancarlo Rowland provide six security officers as protection during the trip. Later, when Montgomery Scott drew too much attention to Kirk's absence with Fairweather and others, Kucera told Scott about Kirk's trip and asked that he, Pavel Chekov and Nyota Uhura travel to Neural aboard the USS Potemkin (NCC-1657) in case there was trouble.