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(written from a Production point of view)
According to the script for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Ralph Seron was a scientist of the 21st century. In 2052, he was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he made the first conclusive advances on toroidal space-time distortions.
In 2286, on his memory test, Ralph Seron was mentioned in an answer that Spock gave to the computer.