In Planet of the Apes, Nova was a beautiful (and ultimately tragic) primitive and mute human girl, one of the first inhabitants of the new planet that the astronauts encountered, who was captured by the apes as her tribe was raiding their crops. American astronaut George Taylor was also captured. They were taken to Ape City where she was used by Dr Galen for a blood transfusion to Taylor after he had been shot. Dr. Zira noticed the attraction between the two and permited them to share a cell. Taylor, having been shot through the throat by a gorilla, was unable to speak, but when his speech returned he befriended the chimpanzees Zira and Dr. Cornelius. When they and Lucius eventually organised Taylor's escape, he insisted on Nova coming with them to the Forbidden Zone where Taylor learned t