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Lorian's ultimate fate is unknown. His ship may have been destroyed, it may have escaped, or it may have been erased from history. ([[ENT]]: "[[E²]]") |
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Revision as of 13:29, 1 March 2006
Lorian
Lorian was the commander of Enterprise in an alternate timeline where the ship was thrown backwards in time in 2154 to the year 2037.
Lorian was son of Commander Charles Tucker and T'Pol; Doctor Phlox found a way of combining the Human and Vulcan genomes. He was influenced by both his parents; over his lifetime he came to balance emotion and logic.
Lorian's father died when he was 14, but Lorian taught himself engineering by reading his father's old logs. When Captain Jonathan Archer died, Lorian swore to continue his mission and stop the Xindi destroyer/probe from killing seven million Humans. Lorian became captain of Enterprise.
However, he was unable to stop the Xindi probe from reaching Earth when it launched in March 2153. He had planned on ramming the probe with Enterprise, but hesitated, unable to give an order that would kill his entire crew. The moment passed, and by the time he had made his decision, the probe was gone, en route to Earth.
In February 2154, Lorian took Enterprise to meet the present version of the vessel just before it entered the subspace corridor that would send it on its fateful journey. However, Lorian needed to provide an alternate way for the ship to reach its rendezvous at the Xindi Council planet, so he provided the present-Enterprise with Haradin schematics that would allow them to modify their plasma injectors and increase speed to Warp 6.9 for brief times. However, Archer rejected Lorian's plan on a recommendation from T'Pol, who demonstrated that there was a risk that if the ship exceeded Warp 5.6 the injectors would overload, destroying the ship.
T'Pol's alternative was reconfiguring the impulse manifold so it would not destabilize the corridor and send the ship back in time, but Lorian was not convinced it would work. He stole the plasma injectors of the present-Enterprise so that his ship could make the rendezvous, but Archer talked him into assisting with T'Pol's plan. With Lorian's ship's help, Archer's Enterprise made it through the Kovaalans and into the corridor safely.
Lorian's ultimate fate is unknown. His ship may have been destroyed, it may have escaped, or it may have been erased from history. (ENT: "E²")
- Lorian was played by actor David Andrews. According to episode writer Mike Sussman, the name Lorian was an homage to the Elvish forest Lorien, found in J.R.R. Tolkien's novel Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Incidentally, there was also a character named "Lorien" on Babylon 5