Akorem emerges from the wormhole
Akorem Laan
Akorem Laan was a male Bajoran poet who lived during the 22nd century (Earth calendar), and was considered one of Bajor's greatest poets. His work, Gaudaal's Lament, would be something Bajoran schoolchildren would learn by heart.
In the Bajoran year 9174, Akorem departed Bajor in a lightship. His vessel was damaged in an ion storm, and drifted into the Denorios Belt, where he opened the Bajoran wormhole and entered the realm of the Prophets, who healed his injuries. They then returned him to the Alpha Quadrant in 2372, two hundred years later. Akorem, believing himself to be the Emissary, advocated the return of the Bajoran people to the old d'jarra system. However, following several incidents, Benjamin Sisko - who had been considered by the Bajorans to be the Emissary at that time - challenged his legitimacy, and the two travelled into the wormhole to allow the Prophets to adjudicate the challenge.
Akorem was returned to his own time by the Prophets, creating an alternate timeline in which Laan returned to Bajor, and lived out the rest of his days. One minor temporal paradox resulted from this action: in the prior timeline, Akorem's greatest work, The Call of the Prophets, was left unfinished after the twelfth stanza; but upon his return, Akorem finished the poem - something Kira Nerys found confusing, as her memories of the incomplete poem remained. (DS9: "Accession")
- Akorem Laan was played by actor Richard Libertini.