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James Sloyan has portrayed four different characters in theStar Trekuniverse , across three different shows . An accomplished character actor , Sloyan portrayed memorable client star in every one of hisStar Trekappearances . OnStar Trek : The Next Generation , Sloyan played Romulan Admiral Alidar Jarok in " The Defector , " and time - move around Klingon K’mtar in " Firstborn . " Sloyan appeared as Haakonian scientist Doctor Ma’Bor Jetrel inStar Trek : Voyager’s"Jetel,“and as Bajoran scientist Dr. Mora Pol inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine’s"The Alternate " and " The Begotten . "
Since he began acting in the seventies , James Sloyan has appeared in episodes of many democratic television show , includingBuck Rogers in the 25th Century , The Love Boat , Matlock , MacGyver , Murder , She Wrote , Quantum Leap , Baywatch , andThe X - Files . He also had use in 1973’sThe Stingand 1980’sXanadu , as well as numerous made - for - TV movies . Sloyan has also provided his voice to several commercials and cinema drone . From a Romulan defector to a Klingon time traveller to a couple of complicated scientist , here are James Sloyan ’s fourStar Trekroles .
Character
Show
Episode(s )
Admiral Alidar Jarok
Star Trek : The Next multiplication
" The Defector "
K’Mtar / Adult Alexander
" Firstborn "
Dr. Ma’bor Jetrel
Star Trek : Voyager
" Jetrel "
Dr. Mora Pol
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine
" The Alternate " & " The Begotten "
There are 11 Star Trek TV series ( and counting ) over 58 years . From The Original Series to TNG to Strange New Worlds and Prodigy , we rank them all .
4Admiral Alidar Jarok
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 10 - “The Defector”
InStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s " The Defector,“James Sloyan play Admiral Alidar Jarok , a high up - ranking Romulan officer who seeks asylum aboard the USS Enterprise - Dafter defecting from Romulus . Jarok once lead several campaigns against Federation outposts , but now believe anotherEarth - Romulan warwould demolish the Empire . After Jarok learn that Romulus was planning an invasion of the Federation , he stole a Romulan scout ship to admonish Starfleet , knowing he could never render to his dwelling planet .
" The Defector " has some truly amazing public presentation from Patrick Stewart and James Sloyan .
prompt by erotic love for his wife and daughter , Jarok conceive he was saving Romulus from being devasted by war . Jarok provides important tactical information to Picard , but it ’s later revealed that he was prey wrong information to go the Enterprise into a ambuscade . Captain Picard anticipated this and came accompanied by three Klingon Birds - of - Prey . Realizing that he sacrificed everything for nothing , Jarok tragically take his own life , leaving Picard to reflect on the Romulan ’s bravery . " The Defector " has some unfeignedly awing operation from Patrick Stewart and James Sloyan , and the episode is often cited as one ofTNG’sbest .
3K’Mtar / Adult Alexander
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 21 - “Firstborn”
Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s " Firstborn " begins with Lt . Worf ( Michael Dorn ) bewail that his son , Alexander Rozhenko ( Brian Bonsall ) , has no desire to become a Klingon warrior . To teach Alexander more about Klingon culture , Worf takes his untested son to the Kot’baval fete at Maranga IV . Not long after they arrive , however , three Klingons attack Worf and a cryptical Klingon mention K’Mtar jump to Worf ’s aid . James Sloyan brings K’Mtar to life , making the mystifying Klingon immediately compellingand selling his obvious obsession with his mission ( even if his mission does not quite make sentience ) .
K’Mtar finally reveals himself to be Alexander from the future , who has come to the past tense to prepare his unseasoned ego for an blackwash attempt on Worf ’s life story . The future Alexander think that if his younger self choose the path of the Klingon warrior , he would be able to lay aside his Church Father ’s life . At one point , the adult Alexander contemplates killing his younger ego , which would fundamentally erase him from existence . When K’Mtar sees that Worf has adopt more of an sake in the young Alexander ’s life-time , he return to his own metre .
Michael Dorn wants to see Worf ’s son Alexander in Star Trek : Picard ’s spinoff , and believes the Klingon ’s failings as a father would be a majuscule story .
2Dr. Ma’bor Jetrel
Star Trek: Voyager Season 1, Episode 15 - “Jetrel”
Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) may not have been the most popular ofStar Trek : Voyager’smain characters , but he shinny in this episode alongside James Sloyan ’s Dr. Jetrel . A Haakonian scientist , Jetrel was responsible for creating a weapon system of mass destruction that killed over 300,000 Talaxians on the moon Rinax , including Neelix ’s family . Neelix understandably wants nothing to do with Jetrel after Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) reserve him on panel . Eventually , Neelix allow Jetrel to try him , and the Haakonian bring out that Neelix has a fatal stemma disease called metremia , constrict from the weapon Jetrel created .
Jetrel ostensibly wants to aid Neelix , and the USS Voyager move to the Talaxian system so that Jetrel can make a cure for metremia . In the end , Jetrel reveals that he lie about Neelix suffer metremia , and that his real goal is to bring back the Talaxians killed on Rinax using Voyager ’s conveyer . His far - fetched design fails , and Jetrel die of metremia just after Neelix offers him forgiveness . Not only is " Jetrel " agreat episode ofStar Trek : Voyager , but it also gives Ethan Phillips the probability to portray a more serious version of Neelix , as he plays off of James Sloyan ’s fabulously compelling Jetrel .
The report of Dr. Ma’bor Jetrel and his superweapon has obvious ( and intentional ) parallel to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb .
1Dr. Mora Pol
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 12 - “The Alternate” & Season 5, Episode 12 - “The Begotten”
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine’s"The Alternate " introduces James Sloyan as Dr. Mora Pol , the Bajoran scientist who studied Odo ( René Auberjonois ) when he was first detect . Before Mora have sex that Odo was a sentient lifeform , he performed various , often painful experiments on the Changeling . Sloyan absolutely play Mora as a ego - focus , but realistic role , who tries to behave like a father bod to Odowithout recognize the pain his initial experiment make . In the remnant , Mora begins to understand thetragedy of Odo ’s historyand the two part on better term .
Much like Brent Spiner toy both Lt . Commander Data and Data ’s Lord , Dr. Noonien Soong , Dr. Mora Pol was originally meant to be played by René Auberjonois . However , the extended make - up and prosthetics required for Odo made it too unmanageable for Auberjonois to exchange back and forth between the two characters .
Mora returns in " The Begotten , " when Odo comes across an baby Changeling . The two instantly collide over how to arouse the Changeling , with Odo condemning the more invasive techniques Mora once used on him . Mora and Odo finally work together to learn the youthful Changeling how to shapeshift , and they share in their excitement . Tragically , the infant Changeling dies , commingle into Odo in its last moment . The experience aid Odo comfortably read how Mora must have feel when Odo left , and the two cease the episode with an embrace and a hope to remain in each other ’s lives . In only two appearances , James Sloyan makes Mora one ofStar Trek’smore interesting and memorable fall back characters .
Star Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek : Voyager , and Star Trek : Deep Space Nine are available to stream on Paramount+ .
