Phillipa Louvois

Captain Phillipa Louvois was a female Human 24th centuryStarfleet officer. She served in the Judge Advocate General office.

In 2355, she was the prosecutor in the court martial of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard had been charged in connection the loss of the USS Stargazer, which Louvois relentlessly prosecuted. Picard was later absolved of all charges, but his relationship with Louvois remained strained after the court-martial.

Picard and Louvois apparently had some sort of relationship that was more than just friendship, with Louvois commenting a decade later that Picard was still "a damn sexy man."

Shortly after the Stargazer court-martial, she resigned from Starfleet, but returned subsequently.

In 2365, she was appointed headed the JAG office of Sector 23at Starbase 173, near the Romulan Neutral Zone.

One of her first duties at Starbase 173 was entering a ruling on the rights of android Lieutenant Commander Data, when Picard challenged her finding that Data is the property of Starfleet, based on the Acts of Cumberland. This would prevent him from resigning in order to avoid a transfer order putting him under Commander Bruce Maddox who wanted to disassemble him for cybernetics research. Louvois' new office being short-staffed, Picard was appointed as Data's defense counsel, with Commander William T. Riker forced to advocate for Maddox's position, at peril of having Louvois' adverse preliminary summary ruling stand. Louvois, as magistrate, ultimately agreed with Picard that Data was not the property of Starfleet--and, indeed, had the right to choose. (TNG: "The Measure Of A Man")