Tars Lamora was a formerly inhabited planetoid in the Carina Nebula, located in the Delta Quadrant. In the late 24th century, it was the site of the Tars Lamora Labor Camp ruled by the Diviner, where a great number of slaves known as the Unwanted were brought to mine chimerium.
The surface of Tars Lamora, called the outer rim, was covered by jagged pinnacles of rock and lacked a breathable atmosphere. It was prone to violent gaseous eruptions. The prison colony extended from the surface down through massive subterranean caverns to the planet's deep core, which was illuminated by large veins of chimerium. The uppermost section of the colony was actually a large detachable starship called the Rev-12. (PRO: "Lost and Found", "Starstruck", "Asylum")
The entire planetoid could be rendered invisible by means of a chimerium cloak. (PRO: "Starstruck")
Deep in the planetoid's core, an area known as the Northwest Crevasse held a massive hidden chimerium chamber. Within it, prisoners Dal R'El and Rok-Tahk were mining when a partial cave-in revealed a long-abandoned Federation starship, the USS Protostar, which they and a few other prisoners used to escape. (PRO: "Lost and Found")
In order to get his hands on the Protostar, the Diviner threatened the Unwanted in order to force the crew of the Protostar to return the ship to Tars Lamora. However, though small in number, the crew pulled off a daring rescue of the Unwanted, destroying Drednok, stranding the Diviner on the planetoid, and allowing the former slaves to escape on the Rev-12. (PRO: "A Moral Star, Part 1", "A Moral Star, Part 2")
Tracking the Protostar's proto-warp signature, the USS Dauntless later found Tars Lamora and rescued the Diviner. (PRO: "Asylum")
Due to an accidental alteration to time, the Protostar was never sent through the wormhole to Tars Lamora, changing history. With the help of Chakotay, Maj'el, Wesley Crusher, and the USS Voyager-A, the former prisoners who had once used the Protostar to escape Tars Lamora sent their ship back in time to the prison colony, so that their former selves would be able to find the ship, fixing the temporal paradox that had been created. (PRO: "Who Saves the Saviors", "Ouroboros, Part I", "Ouroboros, Part II")
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- Tars Lamora at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works