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"A Vulcan."
"You know her?"
"'No, but I hear that she's very good at her job."
General Nedar, also known as Commodore Oh, was a 24th century female Starfleet officer. She served as the director of Starfleet Security in 2399. In reality, however, she was a Romulan-Vulcan hybrid loyal to the Zhat Vash, whose true directive was to eliminate all artificial lifeforms.
History
Oh infiltrated Starfleet in the mid-24th century, after Doctor Noonian Soong began creating androids that matched or surpassed Human capabilities.
In 2385, Oh presided over a Zhat Vash initiation ceremony on Aia for "Narissa Rizzo" and Ramdha before the Attack on Mars in 2385, of which she was an architect. (PIC: "Broken Pieces")
In 2399, Jean-Luc Picard was only aware that Oh was the Vulcan chief of Starfleet security, having never met her personally. (PIC: "The End is the Beginning")
Oh ran covert operations involving Romulan operatives "Narissa Rizzo" and her brother Narek, among others, aimed at obtaining information about the whereabouts of androids similar to Dahj and Soji Asha. According to Rizzo, she had profound reservations. At least one of these operations was inside the Federation on Earth. (PIC: "Maps and Legends")
After that operation resulted in the death of Dahj and Picard becoming aware of the androids, she went to see Dr. Agnes Jurati at the Daystrom Institute in Okinawa to discuss the doctor's meetings with Picard. (PIC: "The End is the Beginning") There, Oh initiated a mind meld with Jurati showing her conflated visions and images related to the supposed threat of artificial lifeforms that Oh herself experienced during her exposure to the Admonition on Aia (PIC: "Broken Pieces"), before convincing Jurati to swallow a bio-organic tracking compound called viridium (similar to a viridium patch). (PIC: "Nepenthe")
Oh kept a keepsake box on her desk that had the IDIC symbol displayed on the side, and a set of Vulcan bells in a shelving unit elsewhere in her office. (PIC: "Maps and Legends")
Abandoning her Starfleet cover, she led a Zhat Vash warbird squadron heading to Coppelius to destroy the synths living there, but encountered orchids and a fleet of Starfleet starships led by the USS Zheng He. (PIC: "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
Memorable quotes
"Picard again? And we all thought he was safely mothballed on that vineyard of his. All these years. The Hermit of La Barre. Now suddenly he is inescapable."
"That's one word for what he is."
- -Oh and Kristen Clancy, on Picard's return (PIC: "Maps and Legends")
"Admiral Clancy, I know I need hardly remind you if the Romulans were running clandestine operations on Earth, I would know. and then you would know. And then all of Starfleet would know, because clearly, that would be an overt and intolerable act of war."
- -Oh, to Kirsten Clancy, on Romulan anti-synth ops on Earth (PIC: "Maps and Legends")
"Do not insult me, lieutenant; it would not be advantageous for your career."
- - Oh, to Narissa Rizzo (PIC: "Maps and Legends")
Appendices
Appearances
- PIC:
- "Maps and Legends" (first appearance)
- "The End is the Beginning"
- "Nepenthe"
- "Broken Pieces"
- "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
- "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
Background information
Oh was portrayed by Tamlyn Tomita. Oh's real name, Nedar, was not spoken in dialogue, but given by closed captioning in the season 1 finale, Template:EpLink.
She is the first commodore to be seen in the 24th century.
On the observation that Oh is not a Vulcan name, Michael Chabon revealed on his Instagram page that Oh's name has a "curious relation to the Vulcan word for eight (ohkuh)". [1] See also: Conclave of Eight.
The sunglasses
In "The End is the Beginning", Oh is shown wearing sunglasses. This was specified in the script as a homage to Danish-French actress Anna Karina. [2] It was previously established by T'Pol in "The Forge" that Vulcans don't need eye protection due to the existence of an inner eyelid.
On that account, Michael Chabon said the following on this post's comment section: "Let me try to be clearer: Oh has read Jurati's psychological profile, and something in it, a tendency in Jurati's relationship to authority figures, has led her to prepare both her manner and her appearance very carefully. [...] This is behavior that cops, soldiers, and teenagers, among others, engage in all the time."
On Oh's background, Chabon stated that her parents (a Romulan mother and a Vulcan father) were (pretended) members of the movement which supported a Romulan-Vulcan reunification. [3]
A line in "Broken Pieces" firmly established Oh as being the first featured onscreen individual of Vulcan/Romulan descent. The script of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan had already included a introductory note that Saavik was intended to have also been of similar descent, ([4]; Star Trek Magazine issue 155, p. 62) but the reference did not make made it onscreen ultimately. A Scene 5 line establishing the fact was actually filmed, but was trimmed from scene as eventually featured in the released film, and had not been included – neither as reinserted scene nor as "deleted scene" special feature – in the later released "Director's Edition/Cut" home video formats either. The line was included though, in an early contemporary promotional short aired on television. [5]
Her name "Oh" is of korean origin.[6]
External link
- Oh at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works