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| Name: | Tomalak |
| Gender: | Male |
| Species: | Romulan |
| Rank: | Commander |
| Actor: | Andreas Katsulas |
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| (2370) | |
Commander Tomalak (played by Andreas Katsulas) was an influental officer in the Romulan military.
Tomalak was in command of the Romulan D'deridex-class warbird that violated the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2366 to rescue the crew of the Romulan scoutship Pi, that had crash-landed on Galorndon Core. Tomalak denied that the scoutship had illegally entered Federation space by claiming that it had suffered a "navigational failure", and he also denied the possibility of a second crew member since the USS Enterprise-D recovered Patahk from the surface. He was prepared to fire on the Enterprise after Patahk's death, though he desisted after a second crew member, Bochra, was returned safely. (TNG: "The Enemy")
Later that year, Tomalak was part of an elaborate deception involving Alidar Jarok and a supposed Romulan military build-up on Nelvana III. He allowed Jarok's defection to the Federation, and when the Enterprise illegally entered the Neutral Zone to investigate Jarok's reports, Tomalak had a pair of warbirds waiting for them. Tomalak boasted how he intended to "dissect the Enterprise for all useful information," and then to display its broken hull in the capital on Romulus to both inspire the Romulan armies and serve as a reminder to any other traitors of the state. The crew members were to become prisoners-of-war. However, Tomalak was forced to withdraw when the Enterprise revealed it had brought along Klingon reinforcements. (TNG: "The Defector")
An illusory version of Tomalak was part of a fantasy future created by the alien Barash in 2367 from Commander William Riker's mind on Alpha Onias III. In the illusion, Tomalak was at first a Romulan ambassador participating in negotiations for a Romulan-Federation alliance. When Riker found discrepancies in this illusion, Barash created a second one, in which Tomalak was commanding a secret base on the planet and wanted to get the position of Outpost 23 from Riker, but this was no more real than the first illusion. (TNG: "Future Imperfect")
In a possible timeline caused by Q in 2370, Tomalak commanded the IRW Terix, one of thirty warbirds deployed along the Romulan Neutral Zone in response to the appearance of an anti-time eruption in the Devron system. Tomalak confronted Jean-Luc Picard concerning their mutual fleet movements, and each agreed to send a single vessel into the Neutral Zone to investigate. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
Appearances
- TNG:
- "The Enemy" (Season Three)
- "The Defector"
- "Future Imperfect" (Season Four)
- "All Good Things..." (Season Seven)
Apocrypha
- In the novel series Star Trek: Titan, Tomalak goes on to become proconsul of the Romulan Senate after the fall of Shinzon.
- In the Marvel Comics Deep Space Nine comic, Tomalak is given a son named Narak.