Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) was a starship Captain before Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds. Batel is one of the new characters created for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, balancing out the younger legacy icons from Star Trek: The Original Series like Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck), Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and Captain Pike himself. Batel is the Captain of the USS Cayuga, and is in a relationship with Captain Pike.