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Andrea Lopez was a 23rd century Human. She was born on May 23, 2248 at Starbase 2, UFP.

In 2266, she was a Starfleet Academy cadet assigned to a cadet vessel. During an inspection tour of this vessel by Fleet Captain Christopher Pike, there was an accident in engineering in which a baffle plate ruptured. After surviving the initial event, she and four other cadets were rescued by Pike, who was permanently disfigured by the delta radiation. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I"; DIS: "Through the Valley of Shadows")

Years earlier in 2257, Pike had a vision of these events on Boreth, which traumatized him so much that a year later he could relive the moment and name the five cadets in a conversation he had with his first officer Una Chin-Riley. Following that conversation, Pike had the computer perform a search for Lopez and the other cadets' names in the United Federation of Planets Citizen Database. (SNW: "Children of the Comet", "A Quality of Mercy")

Andrea Lopez was played by an unknown actress.
This character was not named in "The Menagerie, Part I" or "Through the Valley of Shadows", but was named in "Children of the Comet". Part of her database entry obscured in "Children of the Comet" was visible during the "previously on" intro in "A Quality of Mercy".