Orilly Malar

Starfleet cadet Orilly Malar was a female Irriol from the planet Lru-Irr who majored in exobiology and performed her required academy field studies on the USS Titan under Captain William T. Riker in 2379 and 2380.

The Irriol are an empathic species that is very much in contact with the needs of their planet and all of the species, intelligent, plant and animal, that inhabit it, a connection that the Irriol refer to as the Gestalt. An Irriol would gladly give its own life if their death benefitted the other life on Lru-Irr.

One day Orilly's younger sister fell into a ravine and broke several of her legs. While trapped in the ravine a starving, pregnant voliro, a local predator, approached. Orilly and her sister could feel the need of the vorilo, as well as the need of the local ecology for the vorilo to survive.

Orilly's sister was willing to give her life to nourish the Gestalt, the vorilo and her litter, but Orilly was unwilling to sacrifice her sister and threw rocks at the vorilo until it fled. For this crime against the Gestalt, Orilly was banished from Lru-Irr.

Orilly entered Starfleet Academy with the hope that her service in the galaxy at large would help to redeem her in the eyes of her people.

While performing her field studies aboard the USS Titan, Orilly came under the influence of the mental abilities of the Star-Jellies of the Gum Nebula. while under the jellies influence, Orilly assisted with the release of classified technology that the jellies used against the Pa'haquel, a race of hunters the pursued the jellies and used their corpses as starships.

Orilly's feelings of guilt intensified after her unwilling role in the death of so many Pa'haquel, but nevertheless agreed to help ships Diplomatic Officer, Deanna Troi, in her effort to forge an understanding between the hunters and the hunted. An effort that was largely successful.

Captain Riker approved Orilly's request for an extended leave of absence from Starfleet so that she could continue to help the Star-jellies and the Pa'haquel forge an new balance, which she felt was similar to her worlds Gestalt. (Star Trek: Titan novel ''Orion's Hounds)


 * Special thanks to Orions Hounds author Christopher L. Bennett for permission to use his drawing of Orilly. His website has complete annotations for Orion's Hounds'' and other works.