Gabriel Lorca

Gabriel Lorca was a male Human Starfleet officer who lived during the mid-23rd century. He served as the commanding officer on board at least one Federation starship, the USS Buran (NCC-1422). 

Commanding officer of the USS Buran
At some point prior to 2256, Lorca was assigned as the of the Buran.

Unknown to anyone at this time, Lorca had been replaced by his $𝜇$, who assumed the identity of the prime universe's Lorca. Despite the loss of the Buran, and given mirror Lorca's manipulative ways, he was given command of the USS Discovery. 

After discovering what had happened to Lorca, Vice Admiral Katrina Cornwell came to the conclusion that no one would be able to survive alone in the mirror universe and assumed that Lorca was dead. However, the fate of the original Lorca – and the precise timing of his replacement by his mirror counterpart – remained unknown. 

Katrina Cornwell
Lorca and Katrina Cornwell seem to have had a romantic relationship in the past despite their differences in ranks. After learning that the Gabriel Lorca assigned to the USS Discovery was $𝜇$ from a parallel universe, she was angered at the deception and devastated that her Lorca was most likely dead. 

Key dates

 * 2250s–2256: Commanding officer of the USS Buran. The Buran was later destroyed.
 * 2257: Presumed dead by Vice Admiral Katrina Cornwell, who had assumed that no one could survive alone in the mirror universe.

Background information
According to Jason Isaacs, Gabriel Lorca was from the Southern United States, which influenced his personality. (SFX, issue 292, p. 82)

Apocrypha
The Pocket DIS novel Drastic Measures features the prime universe version of Lorca. Most of the novel takes place during the time of the Tarsus IV massacre, at which time Lorca was a Lieutenant Commander, stationed at a Starfleet monitoring outpost on Tarsus. The novel's epilogue reveals that in the present day, Lorca is still alive (having since been switched with his Mirror counterpart), held in a secure prison. Little else is revealed, but the ruthless nature of Lorca's captors suggests that he is still somewhere in the mirror universe.

The novel also shows that when he was a lieutenant, Lorca served as security chief from 2243 to 2246 onboard the under the command of Captain.

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