Gwyndala

When he took all of you, I stood by and did nothing. I need to make it right.Gwyndala

Gwyndala, more commonly called Gwyn, later christened the Unifier, was a young female Vau N'Akat who lived during the late 24th century. She was the artificially created daughter of The Diviner and was sometimes referred to as his "progeny" or the "Progeny of Solum." (PRO: "Lost and Found", "Starstruck", "Kobayashi")

Gwyn lived on the Tars Lamora prison colony until 2383, when she was taken hostage by Dal R'El aboard the newly-discovered Federation starship USS Protostar. Eventually, she joined the crew as they fled the Diviner and searched for meaning and a new life in the Federation. (PRO: "Lost and Found")

Biography

Early life

Gwyndala's beginning
Gwyn's beginning

In 2366, having grown weak over the years in his search for the Protostar, and with his species on the verge of extinction, The Diviner decided to create an offspring who would continue in his place, should he one day perish. Drednok was against the idea of creating an offspring, citing that this action was in direct violation of the Order, but reluctantly assisted The Diviner when his master claimed that if he were to die with his mission incomplete, then the Order would be rendered defunct and thus meaningless. Gwyndala was taught to believe that she and her father were the last surviving members of the Vau N'Akat people. (PRO: "Kobayashi")

Gwyn spent her childhood on Tars Lamora studying thousands of alien languages, which she called "windows into other cultures," and assisting The Diviner with negotiating slave deals and interrogating those that worked at the prison colony.

Despite her work, Gwyn displayed a penchant of caring for "The Unwanted", which at times led her to step out of bounds and speak on behalf of The Diviner, a power solely given to Drednok. She also showed sympathy for some prisoners, by using softer interrogation methods than the violence employed by Drednok, and threatening a Kazon slave trader when he tried to sell a very young Caitian for half-price. She longed to leave Tars Lamora to see the stars.

USS Protostar

In 2383, The Diviner tasked Gwyn to interrogate Dal R'El for information about Zero. After Dal found the USS Protostar, Gwyn lost track of him, and eventually she was held hostage on the starship by Rok-Tahk, Jankom Pog and Zero after a fight. The Protostar then left Tars Lamora with Gwyn tied to the captain's chair. (PRO: "Lost and Found")

She was later transferred to the ship's brig. She briefly escaped when the ship was threatened by a binary star when power was transferred from non-essential systems. An attempt to flee the ship aboard an escape pod proved unsuccessful when all pods were jettisoned moments before she could board one. She then learned of the ship's vehicle replicator and attempted to use it to create a shuttlecraft, but even though she fought with her heirloom, which was made of malleable matter that she could control with telekinesis, she was stopped by Rok and was subsequently returned to the brig. (PRO: "Starstruck")

After being marooned with her de facto crewmates on Murder Planet, she briefly injured her leg and was forced to cooperate with them to survive. She was devastated when her father The Diviner chose to attempt leaving with the Protostar rather than rescuing her from the planet's dangerous Cilium-like vegetation. She ultimately fled the planet with the runaway crew, engaging the ship's Protostar drive to escape his pursuit in the Rev-12. (PRO: "Dream Catcher", "Terror Firma")

After fleeing The Diviner and joining the crew of the Protostar, Gwyn struggled to find a new role for herself on the ship as she recovered from her injuries and emotional trauma. With the encouragement of Zero, she realized her skills in language and interpretation were exceptionally useful, especially in cracking the unusual encryptions on the Protostar's logs written in the language of her homeworld, Solum, that were preventing Hologram Janeway from accessing some of her memories. These endeavors eventually revealed the identity of the ship's former captain, Chakotay. (PRO: "Kobayashi")

Gwyn proved instrumental in communicating with the Cymari, whose "language" was primarily told through manipulating matter via sound waves. (PRO: "First Con-tact") She also successfully altered Hologram Janeway's programming to prevent The Diviner from changing her code, and to give Janeway the ability to fight back against intruders.

In 2384, Gwyn confronted The Diviner on the Protostar's holodeck, where she learned that despite what she'd been told, her species the Vau N'Akat had not been driven to extinction yet, and that The Diviner was from approximately fifty years in the future. She was created to carry on The Diviner's mission to destroy the Federation before first contact with Solum could occur, which would drive them to civil war and the destruction of their civilization. Gwyn chose not to join her father's cause, insisting that "you can't trade one tragedy for another." Before she could warn her crew of this dark revelation, she was accidentally exposed to Zero's true Medusan form by glimpsing a reflection in Dal's combadge, damaging her mind and causing her to lose her immediate memories of the event. (PRO: "A Moral Star, Part 1", "A Moral Star, Part 2")

Gwyn in uniform
Gwyn in Starfleet uniform

Guilt-ridden over what they'd almost done to Gwyn, Zero made it their mission to help her recover her lost memories. Though Gwyn did experience flashbacks, the details of the last conversation she had with her father remained elusive. Later, when the crew arrived at Federation outpost CR-721, Zero took Gwyn to the station's sickbay, which they believed would have better equipment. After placing Gwyn into a biobed, Zero stepped out. At that precise moment, the Diviner's weapon was activated, and the station's systems turned against itself, with multiple systems malfunctioning, including the doors to sickbay. Momentarily trapped in her biobed, which was filling with water, Gwyn caught some glimpses of memory, and was able to cut herself loose using her heirloom. When Zero was finally able to enter the room, Gwyn announced that she remembered everything – most importantly the devastating weapon, the Living construct, hidden onboard the Protostar. (PRO: "Asylum")

Though the crew was able to locate the Living construct, located in a subdeck beneath the bridge, the powerful weapon could not be disabled or removed. (PRO: "Let Sleeping Borg Lie") Eventually, thanks to the Living construct, the Protostar crew no longer had control of the ship and was headed for the heart of Federation space, where it was met by an armada of Starfleet vessels. At the same time, the Diviner, the Vindicator Asencia, and Drednok boarded the ship to ensure that the Living construct was activated. While Drednok immobilized the rest of the Protostar crew, the Vindicator and the Diviner went to the bridge where they found Gwyn. Concerned about his loyalty to his daughter, the Vindicator tricked the Diviner into checking on the Living construct and locked him in the subdeck.

Armed with her own Vau N'Akat heirloom, the Vindicator engaged Gwyn in a vicious sword fight. Though Gwyn was able to land a blow that left a scar on the other woman's face, the Vindicator got the upper hand, while calling Gwyn a "mistake that shouldn't exist".

When the Diviner escaped, the Vindicator quickly used Gwyn as a hostage so she could control him. However, he used his mind to send Gwyn's heirloom towards The Vindicator's face. Unfortunately, she countered this by catching it and throwing it straight into his abdomen, landing a fatal blow. As the Vindicator escaped with Drednok to complete their mission, the Diviner died in his daughter's arms and evaporated around her.

With the Living construct activated, Starfleet vessels became contaminated and began attacking one another. Universal translators were disabled as well, fleetwide. Luckily, Gwyn's knowledge of languages paid off and she calmed a terrified Rok and Jankom.

Suddenly, Dal got the idea that, since the Living construct only affected Starfleet vessels, they should ask others for help. With approval from Vice admiral Kathryn Janeway, Gwyn sent a distress call and successfully contacted a Klingon captain named Trij, who, after an impassioned plea from Gwyn, agreed to render aid. Unfortunately, thanks to automatic distress calls, more and more Starfleet vessels were arriving and becoming contaminated. (PRO: "Supernova, Part 1")

Finally, Dal decided that the only solution was to destroy the Protostar. When Jankom stated that that would destroy everything in this solar system, Rok countered that it wouldn't if they set the ship to explode as it was going into proto-drive. Unfortunately, since the self-destruct was off-line, the core would need to be detonated manually. Dal volunteered to go down with the ship. but Holo Janeway declared that she should be the one to stay behind.

As Gwyn and the others escaped on a bare-bones shuttle that Rok built using the vehicle replicator, the Protostar destroyed itself in mid-jump, disabling the Living construct.

A month later, the Protostar crew made it to Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, where they found themselves in front of a Starfleet tribunal facing various criminal charges, such as stealing a Federation starship. Admiral Janeway argued on their behalf that the kids did everything in an effort to warn Starfleet. Thanks to the admiral's impassioned speech, all criminal charges were dropped. Although they weren't allowed immediate entrance into Starfleet Academy as they hoped, five of them would be permitted to serve under the admiral as Warrant officers-in-training. When the group asked why only five, they learned of Gwyn's intention to travel to Solum to try to unite her people and avoid the disastrous civil war. As a result of her mission, Zero christened her The Unifier. (PRO: "Supernova, Part 2")

Visit to Solum

During her trip aboard the Sacagawea to Solum in 2384, Gwyn stayed in contact with Dal aboard the USS Voyager-A. Gwyn and the Sacagawea's lieutenant discussed the protocols of first contact for her arrival on Solum. She was beamed down to the surface and introduced herself to her fellow shocked Vau N'Akat as a messenger from the peaceful Federation. However, Gwyn was accosted by several guards and taken before Solum's council of elders. She introduced herself, but they already knew of her from Asencia, who was revealed to have travelled to Solum herself. Gwyn was seen as a spy due to her not being born on Solum. Gwyn tried to convince the Council that she was on a mission of peace, but to no avail. Asencia's Drednok showed images of Solum's future civil war, and Asencia continued claiming that Gwyn will never belong on Solum. The guards tried to capture her, but she escaped. Gwyn tried to contact the Sacagawea, but the shuttle was shot down. (PRO: "Into the Breach, Part I", "Into the Breach, Part II")

As she avoided the guards, Gwyn was able to make her way to an observatory that the present-day version of her father, Ilthuran lived at. He was skeptical at first, but after Gwyn controlled his heirloom, he lovingly accepted Gwyn as his daughter. He and the Lorekeeper helped Gwyn by telling her about the Va'Lu'Rah. Knowing the elders would listen to her if she won, Gwyn decided to invoke this ritual. Gwyn was able to speak to the council, despite Asencia's warnings, using Ilthuran's voice. Despite Asencia's objections, the council agreed to let Gwyn and Asencia perform the Va'Lu'Rah challenge. The two of them fought each other until Gwyn was able to use multiple heirlooms to climb out of the challenge pit. However, due to Chakotay's and Dal's groups disrupting the timeline, Gwyn started to phase out of existence. When Gwyn fell back into the pit, she lost the challenge to Asencia. Gwyn was saved when an heirloom formed and caught her. (PRO: "Into the Breach, Part II", "Who Saves the Saviors")

Gwyn was soon found by Ilthuran. However, due to Gwyn's phasing he was unable to get her out of the pit. Amazingly, she was able to make contact with Dal and her friends in 2436. Her friends were able to turn the Infinity into a time machine, travel back to Gwyn's time, and stop Gwyn's phasing by using a chroniton hypospray. With help from a mysterious benefactor, Gwyn and the Infinity's crew were able to leave Solum. She promised Ilthuran that she would return to help prevent Solum's civil war.

USS Voyager-A

Aboard the Voyager-A, The Doctor was able to build a temporal stabilizer to stop Gwyn from phasing in and out of time as a temporary solution. Gwyn later recognized a symbol Murf made from a message he received. She and Dal identified it as a symbol used by the Rubber Tree People, Nicarao, and their descendants on Trebus, leading them to believe they were being contacted by Capt. Chakotay. Gwyn was able to convince Rok to help them translate what Murf knew about the message. She and Murf, with Gillian's help were able to translate the message as "Find Me". She then received a set of numbers on her temporal stablizer armband. Realizing they indicated a temporal frequency, Gwyn adjusted her temporal stabilizer and vanished from Voyager. She found herself floating in space for a short time, where she saw the Spiral nebula and heard someone say "Find me... before they do". Upon her return to Voyager, she told her friends that the symbol was also a map. (PRO: "Temporal Mechanics 101", "Observer's Paradox")

Before they stole the Infinity, Gwyn and the others left holographic versions of themselves on Voyager in order to fool Janeway and her crew. After a brief struggle between the real Protostar crew and their holograms, Gwyn and the others left Voyager-A and took the Infinity to find Chakotay. En route to the Spiral nebula, Gwyn and the Infinity's crew were pulled out of a Transwarp conduit by a drone and were forced to compete in a dangerous race against the Kazon-Oglamar's First maje Ekthi's racer. Gwyn and the others were eventually able to stop Ekthi's rogue AI computer and were allowed to leave. As they resumed their journey, Gwyn convinced Zero to accept Ion's offer to provide them with a physical body on Ovidia IV. After helping to rescue Zero following the Feast of Senses, Gwyn and the others returned to the Infinity and resumed their journey. (PRO: "Imposter Syndrome", "The Fast and the Curious", "Is There in Beauty No Truth?")

Gwyn and the Infinity's crew were able to find a time ziggurat on a hidden planet in the nebula. As they entered the ziggurat, they found Wesley Crusher, former Starfleet Nova Squadron cadet, USS Enterprise-D ensign, and Traveler. Gwyn demanded to know why Crusher was helping them. He told them that due to Dal's and the others' actions in 2436, the universe was unraveling, that other Travelers thought it was impossible to fix the prime universe, and that the Loom would be coming. As Crusher worked on his calculations to find a viable future, the Loom attacked. Only Crusher and Gwyn had temporal stabilizers that prevented the Loom from freezing time for them. Gwyn and Crusher were able to elude the Loom and find stabilizers for the rest of Gwyn's group. As they hid from the Loom, they were joined by Maj'el. They tried to make it to the Infinity to escape, but the ship was was erased by the Loom. As Crusher finished his calculations, once he realized that not just six but all seven of them needed to be together, Gwyn and the others were joined by Admiral Janeway. Crusher, Gwyn and the others were able to convince Janeway to let them find Chakotay. They stepped through the portal created by Crusher's machine, and found themselves on Ysida. (PRO: "The Devourer of All Things, Part I", "The Devourer of All Things, Part II")

Return to the Protostar

After Wesley transported the Protostar crew and Maj'el to Ysida, they finally found the Protostar, but they also came face to face with Chakotay and Holo-Janeway, who had been marooned there on a beach since 2374. Gwyn and the others told Chakotay who they really were and that they needed to return the Protostar to Tars Lamora in the 2360s. Chakotay was hesitant to trust Gwyn due to his capture by The Order when he had encountered the Vau N'Akat. The others were able to convince Chakotay and Holo-Janeway that Starfleet already knew about the Living construct, and how it had been stopped when they blew it up originally. At first, Chakotay refused to believe them, but allowed her and the others to come aboard at Holo-Janeway's urging. Gwyn and Maj'el knew they had to convince Chakotay to overcome his guilt over losing Commander Adreek-Hu and the rest of his crew. Together, they started to repair the Protostar and the Runaway. When Dal was taken by an Ysidan eel, Gwyn, Murf, Jankom and Chakotay took the Runaway to find him. Together, they rescued Dal, and also found Adreek's body and his Antimatter storage pod.

After giving Adreek a burial on Ysida's vapor ocean, Chakotay told Gwyn and the others Adreek's plan to leave Ysida. Together, they were able to build a sail for the Protostar to sail on Ysida's vapor ocean. As the Protostar sailed, Gwyn and Rok-Tahk kept its rigging taut. Gwyn then helped Chakotay with the jib to avoid a collision. After gathering dilithium from a storm, they were able to power up the Protostar's warp core and leave the planet. En route to Voyager-A, Gwyn, Chakotay, and the others stopped at a planet to find bosonite for the protostar drive. Unfortunately, the planet had a tribble infestation. These tribbles were a result of Dr. K'ruvang's experiments to slow their reproduction cycle. With Rok's help, he was able to synthesize a working retrovirus. In the process, Rok created a Brikar/tribble hybrid that Maj'el and Gwyn thought was cute. Together, they all gave the tribbles the retrovirus-laden quadrotriticale and retrieved the bosonite. (PRO: "Last Flight of the Protostar, Part I", "Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II", "A Tribble Called Quest")

As they dropped out of proto-warp and approached the Voyager-A, Gwyn's temporal stabilizer began to glitch. When they beamed aboard Voyager-A, the Doctor and Admiral Edward Jellico told them Janeway had died in accident aboard the Infinity. The Doctor told Gwyn, Chakotay and the others that he would meet them in sickbay. However, when they got to sickbay, they found only Thadiun Okona. He told them that the Voyager-A had been abandoned and left for scrap. They then realized that the proto-warp broken their reality and Voyager-A was fractured into different realities. Despite their lack of trust in Okona, they asked him to beam them to the bridge. However, Gwyn felt faint, Maj'el was left behind, and they found themselves aboard the ISS Voyager-A in the mirror universe. Gwyn and the others were taken by Terran Admiral Janeway and Captain Chakotay for interrogation. After Murf rendered mirror Chakotay unconscious and Chakotay took his place, Gwyn and the others posed as his prisoners. However, they ran into mirror Janeway, who demanded Gwyn take off her temporal stabilizer. When she and Dal refused, mirror Janeway knew that Chakotay was impersonating his double. Despite being briefly captured in Cetacean Ops, Gwyn, Chakotay and the others were able to make their way to bridge. As Chakotay charged the deflector dish to seal the interphasic rift and return them to their own reality, both mirror Janeway and the Loom attacked. Gwyn modulated the shields to try to slow down the Loom, but despite mirror Janeway assisting them, the Loom were able to freeze time. Being the only one not frozen, thanks to her temporal stabilizer, Gwyn was able to activate the deflector herself. Gwyn and everyone returned to their own reality, where they met up with the Doctor, Counselor Noum, Commander Tysess and Admiral Janeway. (PRO: "Cracked Mirror")

Gwyn was not aboard Voyager-A for long before she learned that Asencia had disbanded Solum's council and assumed control, and planned to wage war on Starfleet using unknown technology to build a military fleet impossibly quickly. Gwyn, as acting first officer under Captain Chakotay, returned to the Protostar to help defend against the Rev-1, which was sent by Asencia to destroy both Voyager and the Protostar. (PRO: "Ascension, Part I", "Ascension, Part II")

Battle of Solum

Voyager and the Protostar were sent to Solum to stop Asencia from launching a war against the Federation with her new weaponry, a war that the Federation might well lose. Since Gwyn and the Protostar crew were not Starfleet personnel, and thus were neither bound by the Prime Directive nor likely to spark a war with their interference, they were sent to Solum to find the source of Asencia's temporal weaponry. Janeway placed her full trust in Gwyn to lead the team. After beaming down to the surface and learning from Asencia's younger self that Asencia had captured both Wesley and Ilthuran, Gwyn made the decision to split their team into two groups to save them both, going against Wesley's previous counsel for all seven of them to stay together.

Gwyn, Murf, Rok, and Zero used an experimental cloak generator to approach Asencia's lab to rescue Wesley, but the cloak failed and Gwyn was forced to incapacitate some guards. Inside the lab, Gwyn fooled some guards by speaking to them in Vau N'Akat while she and Zero moved an incapacitated guard like a puppet. Unfortunately, after Gwyn's group saved Wesley, Asencia captured Gwyn's entire team. However, to Asencia's dismay, Gwyn and Dal acted fast and beamed Wesley and Ilthuran back to Voyager. (PRO: "Brink")

While the crew was in captivity, Gwyn felt down in the dumps about splitting the party, but her crewmates gave her hope that they could find their way out of the mess, even though events had deviated from Wesley's plan. Despite Gwyn's desperate attempt to reason with her, Asencia brought the Protostar crew to an arena to execute them by feeding them to a captive Loom. Meanwhile, Janeway, Chakotay, The Doctor, and Wesley launched a daring rescue mission, in which Janeway blew a hole in the arena wall to allow the Loom to escape, doubly freeing Gwyn and her friends. As Solum descended into the civil war that the Diviner had been trying to prevent with his mission, Janeway agreed that the Federation would help save the planet from Asencia. (PRO: "Touch of Grey")

With Asencia poised to launch an attack on every major Federation base across three quadrants using multiple spacetime rifts, Wesley and Rok realized how they could use the technology Asencia had developed to turn Asencia's spacetime rifts into a wormhole that could send the Protostar back in time to its proper place in the timeline, both preventing the invasion of the Federation and fixing the temporal paradox. Gwyn, Dal, Jankom, Murf, and Ilthuran beamed down to the surface to manually enter the correct spacetime coordinates at the top of Asencia's research spire.

Rok, Zero, Maj'el, and Wesley came up with the proper spacetime coordinates to use to open the wormhole, realizing that maybe their present selves were actually the ones who created the wormhole that sent the Protostar to Tars Lamora in the past all along. While the rest of Gwyn's team on the surface of Solum used Asencia's technology to open the wormhole, Gwyn engaged Asencia in hand-to-hand combat. Gwyn struggled at first when Asencia took Gwyn's heirloom from her, but many Vau N'Akat gathered around the fighters and used their collective psychokinesis to pass their power to Gwyn, which allowed her to overpower Asencia and claim both heirlooms. Asencia tried to reassert her control over the heirlooms, but ended up burning out her own psychokinesis in the attempt. The wormhole that was opened closed the rifts that Asencia had created, destroying her attack fleet. Everyone prepared to send the Protostar back in time, only to have the Loom swarm out of the wormhole. (PRO: "Ouroboros, Part I")

Running out of time, Voyager escorted the Protostar into the wormhole, allowing it to safely pass through. Before beaming to Voyager, Dal left a combadge on the bridge's floor for his and Rok's younger selves to find, and Chakotay had The Doctor copy Hologram Janeway to an EMH backup module so that her program could be saved this time. The Protostar was successfully sent back in time to Tars Lamora, repairing the broken timeline, saving the universe from destruction, and allowing Gwyn to finally remove her temporal stabilizer armband. Afterwards, Voyager landed on Solum to make peaceful first contact with the Vau N'Akat, leaving the Federation and the Vau N'Akat facing a brighter future together. (PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II")

USS Prodigy

Gwyn later received a field commission to ensign and, alongside the rest of her friends was posted aboard the new Protostar-class ship, the USS Prodigy. With Dal's and the crew's support, she became the Prodigy's acting captain. (PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II")

Personal interests

Gwyn was trained extensively by the Diviner in starship mechanics, astrophysics, linguistics, and information technology, which she eventually realized was all to prepare her for operating the Protostar. She spoke many languages besides her native language, including Klingonese and Federation Standard, as well as those used by the Kazons, Caitians, and Dal R'El. At the Tars Lamora prison colony, she had a facility that allowed her to study languages, which she believed allowed her to understand new cultures. She favored speaking in Standard; her father considered the language "primitive", but nonetheless consented to communication with it between the two of them. (PRO: "Lost and Found", "Starstruck", "Dream Catcher")

She also possessed a professed level of martial arts skills and was equipped with an heirloom composed of malleable matter that she could control with telekinesis. (PRO: "Lost and Found", "Terror Firma", "A Moral Star, Part 2")

Holograms

Gwyn hologram
Recording of Gwyn in the Solum-1 holoprogram
Gwyndala (Holograms All the Way Down)
Recording of Gwyn observing... something

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Background information

Gwyn is voiced by Ella Purnell.

According to her official Nickelodeon description:

This 17-year-old Vau N'Akat always dreamed of exploring the stars. Gwyndala is an expert in languages and heir to an otherworldly weapon made of living matter. She was tricked into joining the U.S.S. Protostar crew, and reluctantly becomes their Communications Officer. Even though her father, the Diviner, is an evil tyrant, she still highly regards his opinion of her. Gwyn is smart, strategic, fearless, and always calculating her next move. [1]

According to StarTrek.com, she possessed a natural ability known as neuroflux. [2]

Concept art for the character was developed by art director Alessandro Taini.

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