Paris (Commodore)

Commodore Paris was a 23rd century Human FederationStarfleet officer.

By 2263, Paris had become the commanding officer of Yorktown, the newest and most advanced starbase the Federation had built to date.

That year, Starfleet Command had sent Captain James T. Kirk's application for a Vice admiral position at Yorktown to Paris for consideration, and requested that Commander Spock take command of the USS Enterprise in his stead.

Paris and Kirk later met an alien female named Kalara aboard Yorktown, whose escape pod drifted out of the nearby Necro Cloud and claimed that her ship and crew were stranded on a planet called Altamid in the nebula. Kirk volunteered the Enterprise to go into the nebula to rescue any survivors.

In the aftermath of Krall's subsequent attack, Paris closed the Starfleet files on the Franklin and its crew. When asked, she confirmed to Kirk that admirals didn't get to command starships, prompting Kirk to decline a promotion in favor of captaining the new USS Enterprise-A instead.