Jaglom Shrek was an Yridian information dealer who lived during the late 24th century.
In 2369, Shrek traveled to Deep Space 9 and sold information on the fate of Mogh to Starfleet Lieutenant Worf, son of Mogh. Shrek claimed that Mogh was still alive twenty-five years after the Khitomer Massacre, and transported Worf to a Romulan prison camp in the Carraya sector in his shuttle. However, Mogh was not among the survivors in the prison camp. (TNG: "Birthright, Part I", "Birthright, Part II")
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Shrek was played by actor James Cromwell.
The role had to be trimmed when Cromwell broke his leg in the break between filming the two parts of "Birthright". (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, 2nd ed., p. 237) Writer Brannon Braga explained, "There was a whole scene in Part I in which Shrek comes clean as to why he's doing all these horrible things. He turns out to be a very sympathetic character who was once held in a prison camp himself, but that was lost from the entire storyline, so now he's somewhat one-dimensional." (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 36)
Braga coined the character's name from Henry Jaglom, an independent film director, and the old Yiddish word for "shriek". (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, 2nd ed., p. 237)
The character of Jaglom Shrek was extremely popular with the makeup department for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stated James Cromwell, "Shrek was one of the makeup department's favorite characters. When I went into makeup on Star Trek: First Contact, Michael Westmore told me that the guys were all rooting for me to be Shrek!" (Star Trek: Communicator issue 111, p. 68)
According to the script for "Birthright, Part I", his first name was pronounced as "JAG-lom". [1]