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Phillipa Louvois (born circa 2324) was a 24th century human female who worked as a lawyer. She served as a Starfleet officer, working in the office of the Judge Advocate General, part of Starfleet's legal system. She would later become the Attorney General of the United Federation of Planets.
Biography[]
Louvois was born in 2324. She would spend much of her youth on Tellar, where she "picked up the Tellarite fondness for a good argument." (TNG novels: Available Light, The Buried Age)
She was a friend of Jack Crusher's at Starfleet Academy. In 2354, Jack Crusher was killed and an inquiry into his death was held at Starbase 32. It was there after the inquiry that Louvois first met Captain Jean-Luc Picard and they soon began a relationship.
At some point early in her career, Louvois was stationed on Starbase 11. (TNG novel: Available Light)
By 2355, Louvois held the rank of Commander. That year, she was the prosecutor in the court martial of Captain Picard held at Starbase 32 following the loss of the USS Stargazer after the Battle of Maxia. In her zeal to show that she could prosecute Picard without bias, she overcompensated by relentlessly attacking Picard and even brought up something Picard had said in bed. She was removed from the case, given a formal reprimand, and told to submit to a court of inquiry to determine any further charges. In response, Louvois resigned her commission. (TNG novel: The Buried Age)
Sometime later, Louvois returned to Starfleet. By 2365, she was the newly appointed commander of the Judge Advocate General office for Sector 23 and she held the rank of Captain. The JAG office was stationed at Starbase 173, near the Romulan Neutral Zone.
One of her first duties in her new command on Starbase 173 was ruling on the rights of android Lieutenant Commander Data. She based her ruling on previous decisions and ordered Data to submit to Commander Bruce Maddox, as he was the property of Starfleet. Captain Picard challenged the ruling. Being short staffed, Picard was appointed as Data's defense, with Commander William Riker forced to prosecute. She finally agreed that Data was not the property of Starfleet and had the right to choose. (TNG episode: "The Measure of a Man")
Following Data's hearing, Louvois and Picard spent time together prior to the Enterprise departing Starbase 173 to survey planets in the area for possible colonization. (TNG novel: Metamorphosis)
In 2366, Louvois was asked to come to Starbase 104 by Admiral Jan Rosenstrum to interrogate Captain Picard and his staff for their apparent destruction of the USS Nairobi. (TNG comic: "The Noise of Justice")
A few years later, Louvois would head toward a legal conference via shuttlecraft. Starfleet rules prevented JAG officers from piloting shuttlecrafts themselves, so Louvois selected Data to serve as her pilot despite the fact he would miss his first chance to visit a circus; Louvois believed Data to be "one of the best helmsmen in the fleet". The captain also chose to take the opportunity to apologize to Data regarding the situation about his potential disassembly. (TNG comic: "The Rich and the Dead!")
Alternate realities[]
First Splinter timeline[]
In the year 2373, the timeline became fractured, with one permutation being referred to as the First Splinter timeline. Phillipa Louvois's career advanced in this version of reality, while in the prime timeline she may have followed a different path. (ST - Coda novel: Oblivion's Gate; PIC novel: The Last Best Hope)
Attorney General of the United Federation of Planets[]
In 2376, Louvois started working for the office of the Attorney General of the United Federation of Planets, advancing to the position herself in 2384. (TNG novel: Available Light)
In October 2385 Louvois arrested Baras Rodirya in front of the Federation Council. Baras was a collaborator during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor. He had assumed the identity of Ishan Anjar after Ishan had been tortured to death by the Cardassians in 2369. After the occupation he used the identity of Ishan Anjar to launch a political career that culminated in his being named President Pro-Tempore of the United Federation of Planets. Baras had committed highly questionable and illegal actions, including helping arrange the murder of President Nanietta Bacco. Louvois also had to deal with the various co-conspirators within the Federation who helped Baras during his time in office. (ST - The Fall novel: Peaceable Kingdoms, TNG novel: Available Light)
The following year was even busier for Louvois following the uncovering of Section 31 by Trill journalist Ozla Graniv and the deletion of the surveillance program Uraei by Data, Lal, Sarina Douglas, and Julian Bashir. The revelation of the rogue intelligence agency led to the downfall of a large number of prominent civilian and Starfleet personnel, including Alynna Nechayev, Edward Jellico, Tujiro Nakamura, and William Ross.
Revelation of Section 31's centuries of unsanctioned activities shook the Federation to its very core, with the public's faith in the institutions such as Starfleet and the Federation badly shaken. Along with President Kellessar zh'Tarash and Fleet Admiral Leonard James Akaar, Louvois committed to seeking justice in as an aboveboard and transparent a manner as possible, and to ensure that none of Section 31's secrets were allowed to stay hidden.
Louvois narrowly escaped death when Federation Security Agency Officer Margo Dempsey decided to seek retribution for the death of her husband Clark at the hands of Section 31. While Louvois survived, Admiral Ross and his attorney Captain Rebecca Steeby were not so fortunate and died in the conference room of the FSA's San Francisco detention center.
As investigations progressed, Louvois also interviewed Admiral William Riker, promising him that if he had anything to hide in regards to Section 31, she would find it. She found that he was innocent, and as Admiral Akaar later promised Captain Picard, no harm would come to Riker's career. (TNG novel: Available Light)
She led an inquiry into the actions of Captain Picard into his actions on Tezwa. Her aggressive inquiry failed in the end as Picard was able to prove that he was innocent. (TNG novel: Collateral Damage)
In the year 2387, Louvois was killed when the entire Federation was destroyed as part of the Devidians' temporal apocalypse. (ST - Coda novel: Oblivion's Gate)
This character's death occurred in the First Splinter timeline. In the prime timeline, events unfolded differently, meaning this person might not have died at that point, or that they died in a different manner. |
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Connections[]
Starbase 11 personnel | ||
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Carlin • Hildebrandt • Kilgore • M. Hong • T. Hong • Humbolt • Kim • Mendez • Piper • Shaw • Stabile • Stone |
Starbase 32 personnel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dolores Arce • Richard Arnold • Richard Balder • Darya Bat-Levi • Rick Berman • Bob Blackman • Phillip Boyce • Brannon Braga • Dick Brownfield • Ed Charnock, Jr. • Joe Chess • Richard Chronister • Tom Conley • Daniel Curry • Dick D'Angelo • Doug Dean • Lolita Fatjo • Kim Fitzgerald • Arlene Fukai • Cosmo Genovese • Cheryl Gluckstern • Merri Howard • Phillip Jacobson • Richard James • Naomi Jerusalmi • Ralph Johnson • Heidi Julian • Mollie Katz • Carol Kunz • Peter Lauritson • Robert Legato • David Livingston • Joe Longo • Phillipa Louvois • Jim Magdaleno • Terri Martinez • Arlen McAteer • Scott McKnight • James Mees • Joe Menosky • Ronald D. Moore • Tom Moore • Andrew Neskoromny • John Nesterowicz • Wendy Neuss • Louise Nielsen • Ernie Over • Diane Overdiek • Bill Peets • Michael Piller • Tom Purser • Maricella Ramirez • Gene Roddenberry • Wendy Rosenfeld • David Rossi • Rick Rowe • Marvin Rush • Charlie Russo • Thomas Salisbury • Sartak • Fernando Sepulveda • Suzi Shimizu • Adele Simmons • Alan Sims • Waverly Smothers • Alex Smutko • Bob Sordal • Gary Speckman • Rick Sternbach • Eric Stillwell • Michael Stradling • George Stuart, Jr. • Jeri Taylor • Cari L. Thomas • Wil Thoms • Jim Thorpe • T'Lara • Murphy Wiltz • Edmond Wright • Herb Wright • Brad Yacobian |
Starbase 173 personnel | ||
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Phillipa Louvois • Tujiro Nakamura • Phylo |
External link[]
- Phillipa Louvois article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.