That was excellent! I really liked the look of what we saw of Gaila in the film (and what we heard from the writers about why she was in Starfleet, for that matter) and I love seeing her expanded on. You did a great job here, I really felt for her in that class. Loved it.

Gotta say, the little note about human bias was a nice touch, too. I like seeing stuff like that in ST fic.