Gabriel Lorca

Multiple realities
(covers information from several alternate timelines)

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Species:	Human
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Rank:	Captain
Occupation:	Commanding officer USS Buran
Status:	Unknown (2250s)

For the mirror universe counterpart, please see Gabriel Lorca (mirror).

Captain Gabriel Lorca was a male Human Starfleet officer who lived during the mid-23rd century. He served as the commanding officer on board at least one Federation starship, the USS Buran. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "Choose Your Pain")

Starfleet career

Commanding officer of the USS Buran

At some point prior to 2256, Lorca was assigned as the captain of the Buran.

Unknown to any one at this time, Lorca had been replaced by his mirror universe counterpart, who assumed the identity of the prime universe's Lorca. Despite the loss of the Buran, and given mirror Lorca's manipulative ways, he was given command of the USS Discovery. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain")

The fate of the original Lorca - and the precise timing of his replacement by his mirror counterpart - remains unknown. (DIS: "Vaulting Ambition", "What's Past Is Prologue")

In "What's Past Is Prologue", the mirror universe's Lorca tells his crew that they have suffered "one year, 212 days of torture". If that time is meant to indicate or approximate the time since Lorca's journey to the prime universe, then the exchange of Lorcas took place in 2255.

Relationships

Romances

Katrina Cornwell

Lorca and Katrina Cornwell seem to have had a sexual relationship in the past despite their differences in ranks. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain", "Lethe")

Key dates

• 2250s–2256: Commanding officer of the USS Buran. The Buran was later destroyed.

Appendices

References

• DIS:
  • "Context Is for Kings" (First mentioned)
  • "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"
  • "Choose Your Pain"
  • "Lethe"
  • "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
  • "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
  • "Into the Forest I Go"
  • "Despite Yourself"
  • "The Wolf Inside"
  • "Vaulting Ambition"
  • "What's Past Is Prologue"

External link

• Gabriel Lorca at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works