Ro Laren is a Bajoran Starfleet officer introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation, a survivor of the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor who grew up in refugee camps after witnessing her father's death. A talented but rebellious officer, she carried the weight of a court martial stemming from a disastrous away mission before being reinstated and assigned to the USS Enterprise-D.
Aboard the Enterprise-D, Ro was mentored by Captain Jean-Luc Picard and formed an unlikely friendship with Guinan, only to later defect to the Maquis when an undercover assignment turned her sympathies toward their cause. Decades on, as recounted in Star Trek: Picard, she had rebuilt her career within Starfleet Intelligence, rising to commander and uncovering a Changeling infiltration of Starfleet before her death in 2401.
This overview is derived from cited Memory Alpha source material under CC BY-SA. Ro's chronological appearances are detailed in the Timeline.
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