The Uprising was a Vau N'Akat organization dedicated to removing from power Asencia, the last remaining member of The Order, and overthrowing her warmongering reign over Solum. Their intention was to prevent her from initiating a war against the United Federation of Planets, which the rebels wished to secure peace with. The revolution was commanded in its efforts against Asencia by her present-day self and Ilthuran.
Among the other members of its organization, Elders Borom and Kathon were both part of the Uprising after being freed from being held in captivity by Asencia's followers. In addition, after rescuing the Elders and Ilthuran, the former crew of the USS Protostar and Maj'el effectively joined with the Uprising, assisting its members in their rebellion. Ironically, in her efforts to save her homeworld, Asencia's own actions caused the civil war that she was trying to prevent, a war which devastated the planet in Asencia's timeline. The Uprising was shown to have a great deal of support amongst the population, quickly turning the situation against Asencia once full-scale civil war broke out. With the help of the Protostar crew and the USS Voyager-A -- with the involvement of the latter in the conflict breaking the Prime Directive -- the Uprising was ultimately successful.
History[]
The Uprising was founded in 2384, when power over Solum was claimed by a version of Asencia that hailed from the future in an alternate timeline, who subsequently devoted her new authority to setting the planet on a warpath against the Federation, reorganizing the government into a militaristic state that controlled the Vau N'Akat people with an iron fist. This regime was met with resistance from those among the Vau N'Akat that disagreed with Asencia, who formed the Uprising with Ilthuran and Asencia's present-day self as two of its key members. (PRO: "Ascension, Part I", "Ascension, Part II", "Brink")
Using the wreckage of the Sacagawea to connect to the Watson Subspace Relays, Ilthuran made contact with the USS Voyager-A to warn them about Asencia's new temporal weaponry and ships. Ilthuran was captured and Asencia launched attack on Voyager and the USS Protostar, but the attack was repelled. In response to this new threat, Starfleet Command sent Voyager and the Protostar to Solum to find and neutralize the source of Asencia's weaponry. (PRO: "Ascension, Part I", "Ascension, Part II")
Although Starfleet was limited in its ability to interfere in the situation due to the Prime Directive, Gwyn, who was the daughter of Ilthuran from the same timeline as Asencia, proposed sending the Protostar crew to Solum. As they were not Starfleet personnel, their intervention would not be a violation of the Prime Directive. In addition, Maj'el resigned from Starfleet in order to stay together with them. Gwyn, Dal R'El, Rok-Tahk, Jankom Pog, Murf, Zero and Maj'el beamed to Solum, where they made contact with the present-day version of Asencia and by extension, the Uprising. Splitting up, the team rescued Ilthuran, Borom, Kathon -- who were being taken for execution -- and Wesley Crusher from Asencia's custody. The two Elders and the younger Asencia were then sent into hiding with the Uprising, while Ilthuran thanked their rescuers for joining the resistance cause.
However, Wesley revealed that in the future that he had predicted, they were never supposed to rescue Ilthuran. Instead, Ilthuran would have been fine once the Protostar was sent back in time to Tars Lamora using Asencia's temporal technology. Ilthuran would then lead the overthrow of Asencia and become the new leader of Solum, leading his people into a better future. Instead, the Protostar crew, Wesley and Ilthuran were captured by Asencia, leaving her on the cusp of victory by both controlling Wesley -- the source of her temporal technology -- and using the chance to eliminate Ilthuran, the greatest threat to her rule. However, before Asencia could kill Ilthuran, Dal managed to beam Wesley and Ilthuran to Voyager using a site-to-site transporter, removing them from her clutches. (PRO: "Brink")
Upon arrival on Voyager, Ilthuran was granted political asylum by Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway, as he held the best chance for peace between the Federation and the Vau N'Akat. With Asencia planning to execute the Protostar crew, Ilthuran aided Janeway in organizing a successful rescue mission for them.
Afterwards, Ilthuran made a broadcast encouraging the people of Solum to reject Asencia's war and revolt against her, announcing that he had met the off-worlders and they were not the enemy, pointing out what Asencia had turned their once-peaceful planet into. Solum broke out into a full-scale civil war between Asencia's forces and the Uprising. Gwyn was dismayed that even with the changes to the timeline, Solum had still fallen into a civil war. Having been reminded that boldness wasn't only for the young and that when Starfleet was united, they could always overcome, Janeway agreed to help save Solum. (PRO: "Touch of Grey")
The situation quickly turned against Asencia with the city being thrown into chaos by the resistance being mounted and the Uprising demanding peace with Starfleet. Desperate, Asencia began to launch her invasion of all key Federation targets, despite her scientists' warnings that opening up that many wormholes would tear apart the fabric of subspace. Asencia declared that Solum was already tearing apart and their enemies could join the Federation in death. Voyager detected dozens of rifts leading to every major Federation starbase across three quadrants, but this turned out to be part of Wesley's plan, which gave them the chance to send the Protostar back in time and fix the dying timeline. Rok realized that they could merge the energy of the rifts to create a temporal wormhole which would both stop the invasion and allow them to send the Protostar to the past where it belonged.
As Dal, Jankom, Murf, Gwyn, and Ilthuran beamed to the surface, Wesley, Rok, Zero, and Maj'el figured out the science regarding the opening of the wormhole, and Voyager and the Protostar engaged Asencia's fleet to buy time. At the research spire, Ilthuran stayed behind to hold off the Drednoks while Dal, Jankom, Gwyn and Murf climbed the spire. At the top, Asencia and her Drednok attacked. While Gwyn fought off Asencia, Murf attacked and ultimately destroyed Drednok, allowing Dal and Jankom to open the wormhole, causing the other rifts to close on Asencia's ships, destroying them and ending her attempted invasion of the Federation.
As Gwyn was about to be killed by Asencia, Ilthuran and the rest of the Vau N'Akat, including the younger version of Asencia, Kathon and Borom, united together behind her, giving Gwyn their collective psychokinetic strength. Gwyn was able to reclaim her heirloom and overpower Asencia, seemingly burning out Asencia's powers, causing her tendrils and facial markings to take on a darkened look. With the defeat of Asencia and her plans, the civil war ended and Asencia was taken to be imprisoned for her crimes. (PRO: "Ouroboros, Part I", "Ouroboros, Part II")
After the timeline was repaired, Voyager landed on Solum where the Federation, represented by Janeway and her crew, and the Vau N'Akat led by Ilthuran, made peaceful first contact, leaving them facing a brighter future together. Voyager's crew dismantled Asencia's temporal technology and removed it from Solum to ensure no one could ever use it again. (PRO: "Ouroboros, Part II")
Wesley suggested that Ilthuran would end up leading his people into a better future after Asencia's defeat. However, it was unclear if this was altered by Ilthuran's rescue from captivity which didn't happen in the particular future Wesley had forseen, in which Ilthuran would become the new leader of Solum following his defeat of Asencia. However, Ilthuran's leading presence at first contact with the Federation would suggest that he did indeed become the leader or at least one of the leaders of his people. (PRO: "Brink", "Ouroboros, Part II")