N'Vek was a Romulan Sub-Commander and a member of the Romulan underground movement active in the 2360s. Serving aboard a Romulan warbird, he secretly worked to smuggle high-value defectors out of the Romulan Star Empire and into the United Federation of Planets.
In 2369 he arranged the kidnapping of Federation counselor Deanna Troi so that she could impersonate a Tal Shiar officer, using her presence to move a covert cargo of three defecting Romulans — among them the senior senator Vice-proconsul M'ret — toward a rendezvous with the Enterprise-D. When the plan was threatened, N'Vek destroyed the intermediary freighter and ultimately transported the defectors to safety through a low-power disruptor beam.
His deception was discovered by the warbird's commander, Toreth, and N'Vek was shot and killed shortly afterward. He appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation. This overview summarizes cited, source-based statements; see the Timeline for chronology.
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