Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we review Kalita, a recurring character who appears in TNG and DS9.
Kalita is a Maquis resistance movement fighter who holds a lieutenant leadership role within the organization. While in the resistance cell led by Macias, she kept a close and suspicious eye on Starfleet officer Ro Laren for potential subterfuge and undermining of the Maquis agenda. However, Ro Laren proves her loyalty to the cause by fooling Federation sensors and helping steal medical kits from the Enterprise-D.
Ro Laren then fully defects from the Federation to the Maquis following these events. She is rescued by Kalita's vessel when she abandons her ship in this defection process. Thus Kalita serves a critical role in the fallout of the Ro Laren story line.
We later see Kalita in DS9, as she works with Thomas Riker to steal the U.S.S. Defiant from the space station. She mans the helm for missions and strikes against various Cardassian targets. But the Federation catches up with the Maquis and takes back the Defiant, at which point Kalita is arrested and put into custody.
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Kalita is one of those characters who made for a good tie across TNG and DS9, as those series were taking place in the same timeline around the same set of years. The Maquis is one of a few things that spans from TNG to Voyager, and this was another memorable small role in that organization and the complicated stories it presented for various regular cast members of these series.
Kalita was played by Shannon Cochran, who also played alien characters in another DS9 episode as well as in the movie Star Trek Nemesis. She's run the gamut from human to Klingon and Romulan, basically achieving the entire Star Trek experience. She continues to act today, with small TV and film roles including on ER, Frasier, Seinfeld, and the movie The Ring.
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