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Picard: Ensign, you were recruited for one mission and if you wish to be relieved of further duty, I can certainly arrange it. But I'd like you to consider remaining in Starfleet.
Ro: You're not serious.
Picard: I think it would be a shame for Starfleet to lose someone of your potential.
Ro: Well, thank you, Captain, but this uniform just doesn't fit, and you know it.
Picard: That can change.
Ro: I don't think so.
Picard: I've noticed qualities in you that could be harnessed, moulded.
Ro: Don't count on it.
Picard: I think you've got a great deal to learn from Starfleet.
Ro: I always thought Starfleet had a lot to learn from me, Captain.
Picard: That is an attitude I've found common among the best officers I've ever served with. You're not one of them yet, but you could be, if you work at it.
Ro: That's an interesting challenge. And I rarely refuse an interesting challenge.
~ Ro Laren accepts Jean-Luc Picard's offer to remain on the crew of the USS Enterprise.
I wish, just once, that you could look into my heart and understand that I only did what I thought was best. All these years, I wish you'd known me and that I'd known you.
~ Ro Laren to Picard, thirty years later.

Ro Laren is a Bajoran Starfleet Officer and supporting protagonist of Star Trek: The Next Generation and a minor character in Star Trek: Picard.

She is a survivor of the Cardassian occupation of her homeworld who later joined Starfleet, becoming a controversial member until her transfer to the USS Enterprise-D where she slowly learned to trust others and find her place. Two years later, Ro Laren would eventually desert Starfleet for the Maquis cause due to their fight against the Cardassians.

Ultimately feeling guilty for betraying her former side, Ro Laren also abandoned the Maquis and surrendered to Starfleet, serving a prison sentence until she was recruited by Starfleet Intelligence, earning the rank of Commander.

In 2401, Ro Laren reconnected with Jean-Luc Picard, her former captain, to warn him of the Changelings' plot, the two eventually repairing their thirty-year-old bond, shortly before Ro Laren lost her life by buying Picard time to stop the infiltration against Starfleet.

She is portrayed by Michelle Forbes, who also voiced Judith Mossman in Half-Life 2.

Personality[]

Ro Laren is a particularly non-conformist and very stubborn woman. She has a certain pride in her Bajoran roots, refusing the distortion of the name and wearing her Bajoran earring against dress code. Initially, Ro was quite distant towards everyone and preferred to stay alone, more than once expressing remarks against the way her superiors did things, earning her many reprimand.

History[]

Childhood on Bajor[]

Ro had a sad and unhappy childhood on Bajor due to the Cardassian occupation, spending ten years in refugee camps with poor comfort and weak hope for a better future. When she was only 7 years old, Ro was forced by the Cardassians to watch her father torture her for two hours until he died. These traumatic events had the effect of making Ro ashamed of being a Bajoran since her people had remained subjugated by the Cardassians for decades, eventually leading her to flee Bajor, forever hating the Cardassians.

Serving the Enterprise[]

TBA

One time, Ro and Geordi La Forge were presumed dead in a transporter accident during their investigation on a wrecked Romulan ship. But both officers survived and have actually been sent out of phase with the rest of the ship due to a flawed Romulan attempt to create a new kind of cloaking device. Ro 'gets chased by a Romulan named Parem, who ended the same way as the two did and attempts to kill the two victims in order to keep the secret of interphase technology away from the hands of the Federation. But luckily, Geordi saves Ro by knocking Parem through the ship's hull and out into space, killing him in the process. They return to their true phases in the end and reunited with their friends.

Joining the Maqui[]

When abducted by the Maqui and told them their goal and what's really been going on with them against the cardassians, she expressed sympathy for them and in the end joins as member of the Maqui, much to Picard's anger.

Rejoins Starflet and Heroic Death[]

Ro returns in Picard and has rejoined Starfleet and was ranked as Commander. She then came aboard the USS Titan-A to interrogate Picard and Riker for hijacking the ship and to question about Jack Crusher. But then she reveals to Picard that she has uncovered a Changeling infiltration of Starfleet and shared extensive knowledge about the threat with her former mentor Picard, even after she confirms that he is not a changeling himself and confess her real reasons she originally left starfleet. When leaving, Ro gives Picard a head start to get away but discovers that her team, who were actually Changelings impersonating her officers and had planted a bomb on the shuttle and beamed away and gave the Titan-A the opportunity to escape by navigating the doomed shuttle towards the Intrepid's port nacelle in an effort to cripple the vessel. Before boarding the shuttle, Ro gave Picard her Bajoran earring, which Riker discovered was a datachip containing files on her entire investigation. An incoming transmission revealed that she was Worf's handler. Picard was greatly affected by the loss. Worf than contacts the fugitives who reveals that Ro Laren was working for him after asking her whereabouts. Ro Laren's sacrifice was not in vain.

Quotes[]

Picard: Yes, Ensign Laren, please have a seat.
Ro: Ensign Ro, sir.
Picard: I beg your pardon?
Ro: The Bajoran custom has the family name first, the individual's second. I am properly addressed as Ensign Ro.
Picard: I'm sorry, I didn't know.
Ro: No, there's no reason you should. It's an old custom. Most Bajora these days accept the distortion of their names in order to assimilate. I do not.
Picard: I wish to be candid with you, Ensign.
Ro: Please.
Picard: I'm fully aware of your Starfleet record, your problems on other ships, and the incident on Garon Two that led to your court martial. And I'm concerned about your presence on this delicate mission.
Ro: I don't want to be here any more than you want me to be here, sir.
Riker: Then why did you accept this assignment?
Ro: If I may be equally candid? It's better than prison.
Riker: Better than prison? There are officers who wait years to serve on this ship.
Ro: Being called back into Starfleet was not my idea.
Riker: Nor ours.
Picard: Nevertheless, we will all be serving together. Commander Riker and I have expectations of you.
Ro: Captain, I know the routine. You don't have to worry about me. We're stuck with each other. So let's just get this over with as quickly as possible and we can go our own separate ways, okay?
~ Ro Laren meeting Jean-Luc Picard for the first time, not in the best atmosphere.
Ro: Your Bajoran has improved.
Picard: Oh, I have been rehearsing this conversation for thirty years.
Ro: You have no idea what it was like living under your relentless judgement.
Picard: This wasn't about judgement. We had a bond based on mutual respect. Based on...You and I...
Ro: You and I what?
Picard: You betrayed everything I believed in.
Ro: No. You wanted to mold me in your image. Your mentorship. Your affection. It was conditional. You dare to question my honor? I joined the Maquis because belonging there meant standing up to injustice. Even if it meant betraying your beloved Starfleet. That was me. But you could never understand that because you confuse morality with duty. And that, Admiral, is your dishonor.
Picard: I believed in you.
Ro: Only when it was easy for you. If I meant so much, you would have understood.
Picard: You broke my heart.
Ro: And you broke mine.
~ Ro Laren and Picard confronting each other about Ro's betrayal thirty years ago.
Picard: Ro, don't do this!
Ro: I'm giving you what you gave me all those years ago. A fighting chance.
Picard: Ro, I… I do see you. Everything. Forgive me, it's only now. Ro?
~ Ro Laren's last words.

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Trivia[]

  • She is the very first Bajoran introduced in the franchise.
  • If her name were written according to human standards, it would be Laren Ro.
  • Michelle Forbes was asked to reprise her role as Ro Laren for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the main character but Forbes declined, leading to the creation of the Bajoran character Kira Nerys to compensate.
  • Ro Laren was supposed to survive the ending of the episode Imposters, being teleported away by the Changelings for interrogation, but production didn't allow it to happen due to time constraints.

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