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[[Doctor of Philosophy|Doctor]] '''Telek R'Mor''' was a low-ranking [[Romulan]] [[scientist]] and minor functionary attached to the [[Romulan Astrophysical Academy]] during the mid-[[24th century]]. |
[[Doctor of Philosophy|Doctor]] '''Telek R'Mor''' was a low-ranking [[Romulan]] [[scientist]] and minor functionary attached to the [[Romulan Astrophysical Academy]] during the mid-[[24th century]]. |
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Doctor Telek R'Mor was a low-ranking Romulan scientist and minor functionary attached to the Romulan Astrophysical Academy during the mid-24th century.
History
In early-2350, Dr. R'Mor began a three-year mission conducting "secret research" aboard the science vessel Talvath. R'Mor claimed he had a wife and daughter who lived on Romulus. His daughter was born several months into his mission. R'Mor knew, when he accepted his assignment, that he would pay the price of missing his family. After a year away from his family, he began to realize how high that price was.
In mid-2351, while traversing Sector 1385 of the Alpha Quadrant, the Talvath discovered a microprobe lodged in an eddy of a micro-wormhole. Interested in the new technology discovered, the Talvath made four separate scans of the probe, each one on a progressively narrower band.
Dr. R'Mor received a transmission from the probe, which comprised a series of sub-harmonic pulses, and he responded by relaying a subspace signal through the probe. Soon after, R'Mor received a voice transmission from the other side of the wormhole, which identified itself as originating from "the Federation starship USS Voyager", stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Introducing himself as the captain of a cargo vessel, R'Mor was not convinced that Voyager was in the Delta Quadrant but instead believed it must really be from the Alpha Quadrant. R'Mor terminated communications in fear that he had been discovered by Starfleet spies on a covert surveillance mission.
After analyzing Voyager's hailing frequency for several hours, R'Mor was able to confirm that it originated in the Delta Quadrant, and he re-established contact with the starship. Also during this time, R'Mor worked to reconfigure the protocols of his signal amplifier aboard the Talvath to penetrate the radiation stream in the wormhole, and he eventually used it to make visual contact.
Upon re-establishing contact with Voyager and learning its situation, R'Mor proposed using the signal amplifier to enhance their communications to include a visual link. Voyager had little trouble configuring the protocols, other than encountering a phase variance in the radiation stream that gave the starship's crew a few problems.
R'Mor communicated with the Romulan Senate, with respect to sending Starfleet a series of personal messages from Voyager – or even to warn Starfleet of Voyager' ill-fated mission, an offer Captain Kathryn Janeway nixed because of the temporal implications. The Senate promised to take the matter "under advisement". Once visual contact was established with Voyager, R'Mor was unable to immediately recognize the configuration of the Starfleet Template:ShipClass vessel. This surprised Captain Janeway, who noted it was new but not classified.
Following a sympathetic plea from Janeway, R'Mor once again contacted the Senate, in an attempt to persuade his superiors to make their decision quickly and favorably.
Dr. R'Mor handles a Starfleet test cylinder
Upon further analysis aboard Voyager of R'Mor's com signal, its crew was able to determine a way to match the phase amplitude of his data transmission to their transporter frequency. This announcement startled R'Mor, who noted that Romulan Intelligence must have not been doing their job, as such a technology would be an incredible breakthrough in subspace field mechanics.
Dr.,R'Mor successfully transported a Starfleet test cylinder, and he then offered to have himself transported to Voyager and back again. If the transport were successful, he would arrange for a troop transport to join him.
On arrival aboard Voyager, he and its crew quickly realized that the phase variance in the wormhole was, in fact, a temporal displacement, and Dr. R'Mor had transported through a temporal shift 20 years into the future, to 2371. After further discussing the situation, R'Mor agreed to take the messages from Voyager's crew back with him to his ship and transmit them at the appropriate time: after Voyager became lost in the Delta Quadrant.
His scheduled time of return to Romulus was in 2353, when he would be able to see his daughter – who would be over two years old – for the first time.
Dr. R'Mor died in year 2367, four years before he could deliver the Voyager crew's letters to their families. While the messages were apparently not transmitted to Starfleet, the Romulans were interested in Voyager for years, according to Reginald Barclay. (VOY: "Eye of the Needle", "Message in a Bottle", "Inside Man")
Appendices
Background information
- Dr. R'Mor was played by Star Trek veteran Vaughn Armstrong. He was the first contact Voyager had with the Alpha Quadrant since becoming stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
- Had Dr. Remor communicated with Starfleet in 2351 – or any time before the events in "The Neutral Zone" – it would have preceded the contact made with the Romulans by Captain Jean-Luc Picard by up to 13 years and ended Romulan isolation much sooner (assuming his government would have allowed such communication at that time). Regardless, his contact with the Voyager crew represented the first known, non-hostile contact between the two factions since 2311, the year the Federation and Romulan Star Empire signed the Algeron Treaty.
Apocrypha
In the Voyager novel trilogy Dark Matters, R'Mor goes to Voyager a second time, this time to work with Captain Janeway and her crew in stopping an alien from destroying every universe in existence through altering the balance of dark matter present in each universe. He and the Voyager crew are successful, and he returns to his own timeline in the Alpha Quadrant, where he dies in 2367 per canon history.
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