"Star Trek" Universe - "R" Characters Quiz

Answer: Darem Reymi

Cadet Darem Reymi was a Khionian cadet at Starfleet Academy in the 32nd century. He usually appears human, but can shift to his Khionian form at will. ("Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" episode "Kids These Days")

He had a strained relationship with his parents, who expect perfection. Darem Reymi used to play a belaklavion, a Khionian instrument. At a recital, his parents were sitting in the front row. As Darem was playing, he missed a note. His parents got up and left before he finished the song. Darem said, "That's my family. You're either the center of the universe or you are nothing." ("Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" episode "Vitus Reflux")

Answer: Jett Reno

Commander Jett Reno was a Starfleet engineer. She served aboard the USS Hiawatha, then was transferred to the USS Discovery during its investigation of the red bursts. ("Star Trek: Discovery")

She was aboard when the Discovery traveled to the 32nd century. She eventually left the Discovery to be with her new partner and became the Temporal Mechanics instructor at the new Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. ("Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" episode "Vitus Reflux")

Commander Jett Reno was portrayed by Tig Notaro. Notaro is a writer, actress, and stand-up comic.

Answer: Alexander Rozhenko

Alexander was the son of Worf and K'Ehleyr. He was conceived after a tryst between his parents after they'd exercised in a holodeck battle ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Emissary"). K'Ehleyr didn't tell Worf that he was a father until she had to return to the USS Enterprise-D to discuss a civil war brewing in the Klingon Empire. She knew about Worf's discommendation, but not the details. When she learns that it's a cover-up to protect Duras, a candidate for the chancellorship, she goes to confront Duras. She is assaulted, and in her dying act, places Alexander's, Worf's, and her hands together, symbolizing that they are a family. Then she dies. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Reunion")

Worf, not being very paternal, sends Alexander back to Earth to live with his adopted parents, the Rozhenkos. But after a while, they don't have the stamina to raise a Klingon youth, and Alexander returns to the Enterprise to live with his father. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "New Ground")

Alexander was played by several actors: Jon Steuer ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Reunion"), Brian Bonsall (seven episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"), James Sloyan ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Firstborn"), and Marc Worden (four episodes of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine").

Answer: Ro Laren

Ensign (later commander) Ro Laren was a Bajoran Starfleet officer who had a rather up-and-down career. Because of an untoward incident on Garon II while serving on the USS Wellington, she was court martialed and demoted. Later, she was assigned to the USS Enterprise-D to act as liaison to a group of supposed Bajoran terrorists. She helped prove that they were innocent, since they only had access to sub-light space ships. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Ensign Ro")

She remained on the Enterprise-D for about two years. Then she left to study Advanced Tactical Training and returned as a lieutenant. She is assigned a covert mission to infiltrate the newly-formed Maquis, a group of Humans, Bajorans, and other species who are protesting the actions of the Cardassians in the demilitarized zone between their space and Federation space. But upon meeting with the Maquis, her loyalties shift, and she defects to the Maquis. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Preemptive Strike")

She is later captured and imprisoned by Starfleet. After serving her time, she is recruited and rehabilitated by Starfleet Intelligence, working back through the ranks to commander. In this role, she uncovered a Changeling infiltration of Starfleet and shared this information with her former captain, Picard, shortly before her death. ("Star Trek: Picard" episode "Imposters")

Ro Laren was portrayed by Michelle Forbes. Forbes appeared eight times as Ro Laren on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and once on "Star Trek: Picard". She also appeared in the fourth season "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Half a Life" as Dara, the daughter of Kaelon scientist Timicin.

Answer: Amanda Rogers

Amanda Rogers was a female Q born in 2351 in Topeka, Kansas, on Earth's North American continent. Unlike other Q, she was conceived as a Human by two Q who had left the Continuum. The Q Continuum executed her parents with a freak tornado, a weather phenomenon that is a rare occurrence in the 24th century. She was then raised by a human couple, two Starfleet marine biologists. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "True Q").

Amanda Rogers was played by actress Olivia d'Abo, d'Abo is best remembered as Kevin and Wayne's older sister Karen Arnold on "The Wonder Years".

Answer: Malcolm Reed

Lieutenant Malcolm Reed was the armory/security officer aboard the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise (NX-01) under Captain Jonathan Archer. The men in his family were all navy men, serving in the Royal Navy on Earth. However, Malcolm Reed had a case of aquaphobia, so instead he turned his service career to the stars.

Lieutenant Malcolm Reed was portrayed by Dominic Keating. In 2022, Keating and fellow Enterprise co-star Connor Trineer (Commander Trip Tucker) started a podcast called The Shuttlepod Show. In 2024, the podcast ended and was replaced by The D-Con Chamber.

Answer: Roger Korby

Dr. Roger Korby was a Human scientist, professor, and archaeologist. After becoming engaged to Nurse Christine Chapel, he led an expedition to planet Exo III. He became badly injured by that planet's severely cold temperatures. He lived long enough to discover an ancient android civilization that exists underground. Using their science, he created an android body copied to look like him, and transferred his consciousness to it. His biological body soon passed away.

Five years later, the USS Enterprise under Captain Kirk was assigned to discover what had happened to Korby's expedition. Upon entering orbit, they got a message from android Korby (though not revealed to be an android). He asks that Kirk come down by himself. But upon hearing his fiancée's voice, he agreed to have her come with Kirk. They beam down with two security guards.

As they entered the cave, Kirk stationed a guard at the cave entrance, and the second some distance further. However, one of the original androids, Ruk, sneaks up and kills them by pushing one into a bottomless pit, and breaking the other's neck.

Upon meeting with Korby-android and android version of Korby's associate Dr. Brown, Korby insisted that Kirk not call his ship. Kirk disagreed, whereupon Brown pulled a laser pistol on Kirk. They struggled, and Brown was shot, which revealed that he was an android.

Korby-android then had Ruk restrain Kirk, and he began the process to create an android copy of Kirk. As the process was proceeding, Kirk started muttering racist comments about Spock, hypothesizing that those comments would imprint on his android copy. Once complete, Korby-android sends Kirk-android to the Enterprise to gather some information. While there, Kirk-android sees Spock and responds to Spock's inquiries about Korby with the racist comments that the real Kirk implanted. This tips Spock off that something is amiss, and he forms a security team to follow Kirk-android back down to the planet.

On the planet, real Kirk attempted to confuse the remaining two androids by kissing a female, Andrea, sparking an emotional response. This initiated a civil unrest between the various androids, and Korby-android was injured and revealed to be an android. This horrified Chapel, despite his protestations that he was still the real Korby. Andrea then tried to express her now-discovered feelings of love for Korby-android, by kissing him. Korby-android then pulled the trigger on her laser pistol, destroying them both.

Soon thereafter, Spock arrived with his security team. He asked about Dr. Korby's whereabouts. Kirk replied, "Dr. Korby... was never here." ("Star Trek" episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")

Dr. Roger Korby (android) was portrayed by Michael Strong.

Answer: Cristóbal Rios

Commander Cristóbal Rios was a Starfleet captain in the late 24th and early 25th centuries. While he served on the USS Ibn Majid as first officer, Ibn Majid was patrolling the Vayt sector, and they came upon a small ship with two passengers. The passengers were androids built by Bruce Maddox and Altan Soong. Because of a black flag directive from Commodore Oh (actually a Romulan spy Nedar), the Ibn Majid's captain, Vandermeer, killed the two androids, lest his ship be destroyed by Starfleet Security. Out of remorse, Vandermeer killed himself when Rios witnessed the killing of the peaceful androids.

In order to protect the crew, Rios covered up the incident, beamed the bodies into space, deleted the transporter logs, and told Starfleet that Vandermeer had committed suicide for no apparent reason. Six months later, Rios was discharged from Starfleet, officially for post-traumatic dysphoria. ("Star Trek: Picard" episode "Broken Pieces")

Cristóbal Rios was portrayed by Santiago Cabrera.

Answer: Dal R'El

Dal R'el was a human augment/hybrid who was created by protégés of Dr. Arik Soong. He had the recessive traits of 26 other species. He was raised by a Ferengi marauder and con artist, DaiMon Nandi. Dal thought Nandi thought of him as a son. However, Nandi later sold him to The Diviner as a slave to work as a chimerium miner on his prison colony Tars Lamora. While on Tars Lamora, he and his associates found USS Protostar (NX-76884), an abandoned Starfleet vessel with an experimental drive. They used this to escape Tars Lamora, taking as a hostage The Diviner's daughter, Gwyndala. Dal appointed himself to act as captain of the Protostar. ("Star Trek: Prodigy")

Dal R'el was voiced by Brett Gray.

Answer: Richard Daystrom

Dr. Richard Daystrom was a brilliant scientist of the 23rd century. He was the inventor of the comptronic and duotronic computer systems. He also invented the M-5 multitronic computer system, designed to perform most, if not all, the necessary operations work aboard a starship.

He was aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) when the M-5 was installed on it. M-5 was going to be tested on its abilities with some basic mission operations, and then to be tested in war games against four other starships (with reduced-power phasers). At first, it performed well, assigning a landing party based on the crew's qualifications. It notably omitted Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy, counter to what Kirk himself suggested for the landing party. M-5 had deemed them "non-essential personnel".

When Spock was curiously asking Daystrom about M-5, he learned that human memory engrams were imprinted on M-5, so that it could make decisions like a human being, but at computer speed.

Later, M-5 sensed a passing automated ore freighter, the Woden. Instead of ignoring it, M-5 changed course to intercept, then fired torpedoes at it, destroying it. This alerted Kirk that something was amiss with M-5, and he tried to shut it down. Manual controls weren't working to disengage it, and when Kirk tried to go to the unit in Engineering, he was knocked back by a force field that M-5 was generating.

Kirk ordered that M-5's power connection be cut off, so an engineering ensign, Harper, went to disconnect. Just then, M-5 decided it needed more power and created a direct energy beam from the warp engines, which vaporized Harper. Daystrom was sorry for the ensign's death, but insisted that M-5 had no ill intent.

When the four starships - Lexington, Excalibur, Hood, and Potemkin - approached to start the war games, M-5 made the Enterprise attack, but with full-power weapons. This attack kills everyone aboard the Excalibur and many others on the other starships. It was then that it was discovered that the human engrams that were imprinted on M-5 were Daystrom's own. This was the cause of M-5's untoward actions, as Daystrom had an undiagnosed mental illness. When Daystrom realized that his M-5 had committed murder and how it would affect his reputation, he started to go mad. He started to lash out at Kirk, but Spock quickly subdued him with a Vulcan nerve pinch.

Kirk then talks to M-5, counting on Daystrom's guilt about the murders of the Excalibur crew to be imprinted on M-5. Kirk had M-5 scan the Excalibur, which now has no crew alive. M-5 then determined that it itself was the murderer, and deserved to be killed. It shut down, as well as dropped Enterprise's shields, in a capitulation to the remaining starships to kill it. But Kirk counted on Commodore Wesley aboard the Lexington to realize that the Enterprise was surrendering and called off a counter-attack. ("Star Trek" episode "The Ultimate Computer")

Richard Daystrom was portrayed by William Marshall. He is the cousin of "Star Trek" actor Paul Winfield (Captain Terrell in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and Dathon in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Darmok"). He is also famous for playing the title role in the movies "Blacula" and "Scream Blacula Scream".

Answer: Reginald Barclay

Lieutenant (later, Commander in an alternate timeline) Reginald "Reg" Barclay was a systems diagnostic engineer aboard the USS Enterprise-D under Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge. Even though he was talented enough to be assigned to the flagship of the Federation, he was initially nervous, uncertain, and introverted. This causes some crew to call him "broccoli" behind his back. He often visited the holodeck, where he acted out fantasies involving other crewmembers. His visits became frequent, to the point of missing meetings when he got too involved with his fantasies. But through efforts by La Forge and Counselor Troi, he gained enough confidence to become a more effective and likable crew member. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Hollow Pursuits")

Later, Barclay became a key engineer in solving many technical problems: helped preventing the Argus Array's reactors from going critical ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Nth Degree"), help trap the hologram Moriarty in a memory cube ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Ship In A Bottle"), helped repair Zefram Cochrane's warp ship, the Phoenix (movie "Star Trek: First Contact"), established two-way contact with USS Voyager when it was still in the Delta Quadrant ("Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Pathfinder"), and brought Voyager's EMH to the Alpha Quadrant to help cure Dr. Zimmerman ("Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Lifeline").

In an alternate timeline, he helped Admiral Janeway in her plan to travel back in time to direct USS Voyager to a Borg transwarp hub, getting them home in seven years instead of twenty-three. This was extremely selfless, as it would mean completely rewriting the last 16 years of his life. ("Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Endgame")

Reg Barclay was performed by Dwight Schultz. Schultz is best known for portraying "Howling Mad" Murdock in "The A-Team". He also portrayed J. Robert Oppenheimer in the movie "Fat Man and Little Boy".

Answer: Rom

Rom was a Ferengi who worked for his brother Quark at the latter's bar on Deep Space 9. He once plotted to kill his brother and inherit the bar after Grand Nagus Zek had (temporarily) appointed Quark as the new Grand Nagus. He was foiled in this attempt by Zek and security chief Odo. Ironically, Quark praised Rom for his treachery. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "The Nagus")

Even though Rom appeared slow-witted, he was actually a skilled engineer. He kept the various systems of Quark's bar operating, but with little notice from Quark. He later quit working for Quark and became a diagnostic and repair technician (junior grade) for Deep Space 9's maintenance team under the Bajorans. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Bar Association")

Quark later thought that Grand Nagus Zek was going to appoint him (permanently, this time) as the new Grand Nagus. However, the transmission was garbled, and Zek thought he was talking to Rom, who he was actually appointing to be his successor. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "The Dogs of War")

Rom was married to former Dabo girl Leeta. He took her with him to Ferenginar when he became Grand Nagus. Even though he had the title, it was Leeta who was the brains behind his negotiations as Nagus. When he was negotiating with Admiral Vassery and Captain Freeman about Ferenginar joining the Federation, he kept either going off-topic (talking about baseball) or negotiating more and more expensive provisions, to which Vassery kept capitulating. Captain Freeman, however, saw through the changes as just Rom and Leeta testing them to see how far they'd capitulate. So she put in some fine print that the Federation would accept their terms once Ferenginar got one other planet to join the Federation. Rom and Leeta thought that was a piece of cake, so they signed the contract. It was then that Freeman pointed out that it wasn't just any other planet, but the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS. That was a near-impossibility, but Rom was bound by the contract he just signed. ("Star Trek: Lower Decks" episode "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place")

Rom was portrayed/voiced by Max Grodénchik. Grodénchik has also played other "Star Trek" Ferengi characters: Sovok ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Captain's Holiday"), Par Lenor ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Perfect Mate"), Mirror-Rom ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Through the Looking Glass"), and Gint ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Body Parts"). He was also a Trill ensign in "Star Trek: Insurrection", but his scene was deleted in the final cut.

Answer: Janice Rand

Janice Rand was a yeoman to Capt. Kirk in the early days of his tenure as the USS Enterprise's captain. She seemed to have an attraction to Kirk, which may have waned after his transporter-formed evil half attacked her.

Through the years, Rand attained officer rank, eventually becoming a commander on USS Excelsior under Captain Sulu as communications officer. It was during this assignment that the Klingon moon Praxis exploded, catching the USS Excelsior in its blast wave.

Janice Rand was played by Grace Lee Whitney. She was in eight of the first 14 episodes of "Star Trek" that were broadcast. A combination of factors led to her contract not being extended. Writers weren't sure of what to do with her, she herself didn't want to become "Kirk's woman", and there was a sexual assault by an unnamed executive that led to her dismissal.

Whitney returned to the "Star Trek" universe in four of the first six "Star Trek" movies, as well as an appearance on "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Flashback", where Tuvok is remembering an incident (the Praxis explosion) when he served on the USS Excelsior.

Answer: Rudy Ransom

Captain Rudolph "Rudy" Ransom was the Captain of the USS Equinox, a Nova-class starship (NCC-72381). It was another Starfleet vessel that was seized by the Caretaker and brought to the Delta Quadrant, just as the Val Jean and the USS Voyager later were. The Equinox apparently took a different path back towards the Alpha Quadrant. In its first week in the Delta Quadrant, they were in a conflict with the Krowtonan Guard, which killed 39 of its crew, roughly half the crew.

The Equinox crew chose to abandon the principles of the Federation and Starfleet, believing that these would not be effective in their dire situation. In contrast, Captain Janeway on Voyager clung to these principles.

In one of their last actions to get back to Federation space, they found a way to summon interdimensional nucleogenic lifeforms, whose bodies contained material that would enhance their warp drive greatly; in one two-week jaunt, they covered 10,000 light-years. But these lifeforms couldn't survive long in our universe, so the ones the Equinox summoned died. Eventually, the life forms realized what was happening when they were summoned and took it upon themselves to attack the Equinox. It was so relentless that the Equinox crew found it nearly impossible to make repairs before another attack. ("Star Trek: Voyager" episodes "Equinox" and "Equinox, Part II")

Captain Rudy Ransom was portrayed by John Savage.

(There was another Star Trek character named Ransom - Jack Ransom - who was the first officer of the USS Cerritos ["Star Trek: Lower Decks"]. But there's been no canon mention that he was related to Rudy Ransom.)

Answer: Robin Lefler

Ensign Robin Lefler was an engineer assigned to the USS Enterprise-D under the command of Captain Picard and Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge.

She had a list of personal adages that she called "Robin's Laws". She created a new law every time she learned something essential.

She helped La Forge prepare the Enterprise for combat with a Tamarian cruiser that had kidnapped Picard and beamed him down to a planet with their captain, Dathon. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Darmok").

When Wesley Crusher came to visit from Starfleet Academy, Robin and he started a friendship. As they got to know each other, she revealed a few of her laws. They soon became embroiled in a plot by a group of rogue Ktarians to take over the Enterprise by introducing an electronic game that interfaced with the player with a visual interface on a visor. Data was attacked by Dr. Crusher and deactivated, because the game devices would have no effect on him. Robin and Wesley avoided being taken in by the devices and used his mother's equipment to analyze what the game was doing to the crew, addicting them and bending their will to the Ktarians. Robin succumbed to the device at one point, but Wesley was able to distract the crew after he'd reactivated Data. Data then found a way to free the crew from the control of the games.

Before Wesley returned to the academy, Robin gave him a copy of "Robin's Laws" as a gift. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Game")

Robin Lefler was portrayed by Ashley Judd. She is the daughter/younger sister of the members of the country western duo "The Judds".

She appeared on the cover of Time magazine as a "Person of the Year" issue in 2017, not as herself alone, but as one of the "Silence Breakers", in reference to the #MeToo movement. This movement led to the downfall of not only Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein but also that of CBS Corporation head Les Moonves.