A ballerina
Ballet was a specific type of dance. Performances of this dance were called ballets. The female dancers were called ballerinas, the male dancers were called danseurs. It was important for ballerinas to have good arches in their feet.
A crew member of the USS Enterprise-D hallucinated that she was a ballet dancer while the Enterprise-D was at the edge of the known universe. (TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before")
Julian Bashir was once in love with a ballerina named Palis Delon. The relationship ended when Bashir graduated from Starfleet Academy and accepted a posting on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "Armageddon Game")
Kathryn Janeway performed The Dying Swan during Talent Night aboard the USS Voyager in 2373. She had learned the dance while taking Beginning Ballet classes when she was six years old. (VOY: "Coda")
As the child Annika Hansen, Seven of Nine dreamed of one day becoming a ballerina. In 2376, she dismissed this to Chakotay as having been a "juvenile fantasy," but Chakotay commented that "Those are the ones that stick with you." (VOY: "One Small Step")
External links
- Ballet at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Ballet at Wikipedia