Valerie Stevens

 was a supporting character featured in the 2009 television series V. Played by actress Lourdes Benedicto, she debuted in the series pilot episode and appeared in all twelve episodes of season one.

Biography
Valerie Stevens was a Latino woman and psychologist living in New York City. For several years, she had been romantically involved with an African American man named Ryan Nichols. Valerie was unaware that her boyfriend was in fact a member of an extraterrestrial conqueror race who called themselves the Visitors. Disguised as a human, Ryan was originally sent to Earth some time around the year 2000 to assassinate a traitor named John May. The more time he remained on Earth however, the more he became disconnected from the "Bliss" of the Visitors. When Ryan met Valerie, their passion fired something in Ryan's soul and he began to realize that humans were worth protecting. Though he fulfilled his mission to sanction John May, Ryan then took up May's cause and betrayed his own people. Valerie and he fell in love and moved in together.

Valerie was unaware of Ryan's alien heritage, but he was prepared to take the next step and propose to her. Fate had other plans however. On the day he bought her engagement ring, a fleet of Visitor mother ships arrived on Earth, openly revealing themselves to the world. However, they only opened up to the extent that they were an alien race who had come to Earth, supposedly on a mission of peace. The Visitors disguised their true reptilian features so that they all appeared to be human.

Valerie was at home on the day the Visitors arrived. Like many New Yorkers, she was startled by the earth tremors caused by their arrival. She stepped outside her house to gaze up to see a Visitor mother ship positioned in the sky above her. An image of the Visitor High Commander, Anna, appeared on a monitor on the belly of the ship and addressed the world at large. She endeared herself to the populace with her agenda of peace and offered citizens the benefit of their wondrous technology. Within the span of only three weeks, most of the world had willingly embraced the presence of the Visitors.

Their arrival had more of an affect on Ryan than it did on Valerie. Knowing what the Visitors had in store for Earth, Ryan helped to establish an anti-Visitor movement called the Fifth Column. Knowing that this would endanger not only his life, but also that of his girlfriend and unborn child, he decided to leave her for her own protection. Before Ryan could act on this decision however, Valerie began to grow suspicious as Ryan had received numerous telephone calls from an unidentified person. She found the ring and knew that Ryan had intended on proposing. When she confronted him with this, Ryan decided to stay with Valerie for better or for worse.

One of Valerie's patients was sixteen-year-old Tyler Evans. Tyler had joined the Visitor Peace Ambassador Program and told Valerie about the new Visitor Healing Centers. Valerie wanted to take advantage of the centers, in the hopes of finding a solution to an existing heart condition, but lamented the long waiting list. Since Tyler was a member of the program, he promised to help her bypass the line. She was examined by a Visitor named Leah Pearlman, who revealed that Valerie was pregnant.

Valerie returned home and told Ryan the news. The pregnancy came as a great shock to Ryan since humans and Visitors were genetically incompatible.

Notes & Trivia

 * The character of was created by Scott Peters and Yves Simoneau, based on concepts originally developed by Kenneth Johnson.