Paula Zarlenga was a human woman of the mid-23rd century. She was an archaeologist and a doctor. In the late 2260s, Doctor Zarlenga was a member of an archaeological team under Professor Jefferson Whitmore investigating an abandoned relay station on the planet Aprilia III. They spent several months studying the technology of the relay station but found it incomprehensible and inoperable. At some point, Cybermen infiltrated the facility and mind-controlled Zarlenga and the other researchers, making them unemotional and docile.