Not all pirates are Orions ... in order to be the now lieutenant junior grade D'Vana Tendi — the first Orion Starfleet officer (that we know of in the Prime timeline). According to Mike McMahan ...

At the end of the fourth season, a deal with her sister results in Tendi taking a leave of absence from Starfleet ... "The Pirates of Orion." Until that episode, every Orion in the Star Trek ...

In the first episode of the fifth and final season of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," called "Dos Cerritos," D'Vana Tendi (Noël ...

and Discovery did include an Orion Starfleet cadet, as did Star Trek (2009). The Titan-A also had an Orion ensign aboard. If not all Orions are pirates and criminals, however, it certainly hasn't ...