I'm fine with her being a Choblik, but otherwise, given the changes to the Klingons, maybe she's a re-visualized Binar? (There could be a second one we haven't seen.)
I wish Torvig was a live action character. I can imagine him so vividly in my head and he is ever so adorable.
Aren't their "enhancements" less effecient or useful than the real thing though? Picards heart is kinda iffy and Geordi can barely see shit.
IIRC Picard's heart works fine. Geordi has all types of vision powers that appear and disappear with the needs of plot.
I kinda wish they had given him much better "vision powers". Maybe some of the Discovery crew have more interesting enhancements.
So basically, you've got a split-second of some walk-on shuffling around under a ton of make-up and everyone's getting all excited and making up back stories for it? One wonders why CBS spends all that money to produce a TV show. They could probably scrawl "Star Trek" on a glittery hat and just pass it around. People would empty their pockets.
There are more split seconds to come, evidently. I just find the concept of an alien race mixing humanoid and synthetic components interesting. Doesn't mean it'll happen, obviously. That re-visualized Binar sounds intriguing as well, although if they do any development of that incidental character, however unlikely as it may be, I'd prefer something brand new.
Rather, it's a mix of inborn nanotech and surgical implants. As Torvig put it in Orion's Hounds, “We have nanotech chromosomes which are passed on in our gametes and allow the self-replication of many of our internal components. Further enhancements are surgically installed in our young as soon as they are ready. We receive several successive suites of upgrades as we grow toward maturity. ...These are celebrated rites of passage among my people.” Thank you! In fact, I came up with the idea for my original SF back in the '80s, long before I started writing Trek, but they sort of fell by the wayside as my original universe developed, so they were available when I needed to create aliens for the Titan novels. Although my original design for them was completely different. Couldn't be. They're non-humanoid: https://christopherlbennett.wordpre...ons-hounds/orions-hounds-annotations/torvig1/ Also, they wouldn't have been contacted yet. My intent was that they were relatively recent Federation members as of 2380. I doubt it. Given the changing descriptions of the character online, I get the impression that they originally envisioned Airiam as a human cyborg but changed their minds and made her alien, perhaps in response to continuity concerns about human augmentation.
They actually did that for a bunch of TMP alien figures. Who remembers the Arcturians, the 5-billion clone army of the Federation? They were well handy when the Dominion came along. Oh wait.
It was a particularly spectacular way to ruin an otherwise pretty solid book series. I enjoyed God of Night and Mere Mortals quite a bit, but couldn't bother with Lost Souls once TBBS spoiled the ending for me. No, she's actually going to become Mrs. Robau. Their daughter is destined to become the Borg Queen.
What a shame, too. That would have been badass. "Oh, you want to use your bred-for-war army against us? WELL TOUCHE BITCH!"
After watching After Trek, i can't help wondering if she's an Ex-Borg, who somehow ended up in Federation space with an memory loss and joined Starfleet. It's really strange that the crew profiles just showed her background as being a technological augmented alien without a name for her species. That's suspicious imo...