A list of characters featured in the Star Trek Novelverse series about the Department of Temporal Investigations.
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Department of Temporal Investigations
Marion Dulmur
One of the two agents seen on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine who inspired the series. Dulmur found his way into the DTI after he went out looking for a temporal physicist whose experiments cost him his previous job as a private investigator. Though he struggles with his work-life balance at first, he goes on to become one of the agency's best field agents, and later takes a quiet desk job running the DTI branch office on Denobula.
- Married to the Job: Dulmur had a wife before he worked for the DTI, but the demands of his job forced him to choose one over the other. He initially chose his wife, until he realized some months later that his work is just too important to him.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Lucsly is still giving him grief for saying he'd have asked Kirk for his autograph.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Dulmur is red to Lucsly's blue, being far more laid-back and people-oriented than his partner, but also more prone to emotional outbursts.
Gariff Lucsly
The other agent originally seen on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Lucsly is one of the DTI's oldest and most experienced employees, known for his unwavering professionalism and stolid character. Little is known about his past, at least to the audience.
- Berserk Button: One of the few things that gets under his skin are people who deliberately mess with the timeline. Particularly Starfleet since, in his view, they should know better.
- Clock King: Everyone at the DTI has a keen perception of time, but Lucsly takes this to the extreme, with a daily routine that he has planned down to the minute. Though he's not so inflexible that he can't adjust to the unexpected, which in this series is most of the time.
- The Confidant: Lucsly probably knows more about the future than any of his contemporaries, thanks to his reputation among his uptime colleages for being The Reliable One.
- Hidden Depths: He seems more familiar with Jena Noi than he should be, given their roles, and the Big Damn Kiss she once gave him understandably raised some eyebrows.
- Married to the Job: Lucsly has few interests in life beyond his work, and that suits him just fine. He has no problem handling the stress of the job so long as he knows he is doing his part.
- Mysterious Past: We get no real information on Lucsly's backstory, in contrast to almost every other major character within the DTI. Garcia once speculated to Dulmur that he might be one of the "leftover" humans taken by the Aegis to serve as their intermediaries on pre-warp Earth, because of his suspiciously precise knowledge of their procedures. She meant it half-jokingly, though neither of them seemed quite sure how seriously to take it.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Learning that Meijan Grey approved the Department's early disastrous experiments with time travel causes Lucsly to have a momentary breakdown, one so bad he can't tell the time any longer.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lucsly is blue to Dulmur's red, being more reserved, orderly, and logical compared to his partner, but with a deeply-held, almost religious belief that they inhabit the One True Timeline, temporal tomfoolery notwithstanding.
- The Stoic: Famed for his drab personality, with little in the way of passions or vices.
Laarin Andos
The Director of the DTI, a female Rhaadarite, who runs the agency from their headquarters in Greenwich.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She's been at the DTI long enough to know the rules, and when they need to be obeyed, bent, or broken.
- The Social Expert: Being a Rhaandarite, Andos has exceptional social senses compared to most humanoids. This makes her a good manager, since she can easily read peoples' emotions through their body language, inflection, and other subtle cues.
Teresa Garcia
A young human woman whose life is derailed when her ship is unexpectedly flung 15 years into the future. Dulmur sees potential in her during her debriefing and sponsors her for the agency, where she finds a new purpose as their newest field agent.
- Badass Normal: Garcia turns out to be not as telepathically Weak-Willed as humans are typically assumed to be. When faced with the full force of Lirahn's Charm Person powers, it is she, not Ranjea as one would expect, who is able to break through the spell and remember her duty.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: 15 years isn't that long, but it's still enough to throw all her life plans out the window.
- Doesn't Like Guns: Garcia carries a phaser, as required by agents for self-defense, but detests their use.
- Jumped at the Call: Dulmur warns Garcia that he's not doing her a favor by recommending her for the DTI, but she is undeterred, and ends up as the only candidate in her class to make the grade for a field agent.
- The Watson:
- Since she's the new girl at the office, Garcia is usually the one asking newbie questions that the audience may also be wondering.
- Also, being 15 years behind the times, she is a good Watson for readers who are familiar with televised Star Trek, but aren't up to date on more current Novel Verse events, like the Typhon Pact.
Meyo Ranjea
A male Deltan field agent who becomes partner and mentor to Garcia. Formerly a security officer on his world, Ranjea took up the torch of protecting the timeline for a fellow Deltan who revealed herself as a temporal agent on her deathbed.
- Challenge Seeker: The reason Ranjea chose to work as a security officer on Dhei'Lta is because he is drawn to challenges and mysteries, and is what eventually leads him to work for the DTI. The personal sacrifices this required of him, great though they were, weren't enough to deter him from the adventure of a lifetime.
- The Charmer: Ranjea is a pretty suave guy, which is further aided by his Deltan pheromones and natural attractiveness. Though sexually liberal, Deltan intimacy can be harmful to other species, so Ranjea is unfortunately well-practiced at refusing women's advances.
- Ethical Slut: A trait shared by all Deltans, who consider physical intimacy of all kinds to be part and parcel of healthy social interaction.
- The Face: Deltans in general are very empathetic, pacifistic, and psychologically well-adjusted, which makes Ranjea the logical choice for missions requiring diplomacy or negotiation.
- Vow of Celibacy: Not for any religious or cultural reason — Deltans have exactly zero hangups about sex — but for the safety of other species for whom the empathic bond that adjoins Deltan sex would be psychologically destructive. Ranjea can still engage with other Deltans, or anyone else with sufficient mental fortitude.
T'Viss
The curmudgeonly Vulcan temporal physicist who heads the DTI's research division.
- Grumpy Old Man: Who started off as a grumpy young Vulcan, and evidently proceeded through to elderliness with no hassle. Scotty seeing her as a pristine sixty year old just figured she one of those people who were born old.
- Ms. Exposition: T'Viss lectures new recruits on the fine details of temporal mechanics. As stated by the author:T'Viss was where I poured all my tendencies to lecture in extreme technical detail, while keeping the viewpoint characters at a remove that's more relatable to the audience as they struggle to make sense of what she's saying.
- Other Me Annoys Me: They never meet, but a younger T'Viss was scandalized to learn that in an alternate timeline she was a reclusive artist.
Shelan
A female Suliban agent who joined the DTI in opposition to The Sponsor for all the trouble he has caused her species.
- The Fettered: In deliberate contrast to The Sponsor. As much as she wants revenge, she always puts her responsibility to the timeline first.
- It's Personal: Shelan joined the DTI hoping she would cross paths with The Sponsor and bring him to justice. Despite this, her devotion to duty is above reproach. If anything, her motivations make her even better at her job.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The Suliban are not a race of terrorists, but they still wear the stigma of the Suliban Cabal, so Shelan holds herself to the highest standard in response.
- Retgone: The Sponsor erases Shelan from history, but with such surgical precision that while she never existed, everything she did still happened anyway.
- Transhuman: Or transsuliban, as the case may be. Though in Shelan's case, her augmented genes are dormant. Jena Noi activates them after recruiting her for a mission.
Clare Raymond
A temporal displacee from the 20th century, originally seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation where she was rescued from cryostasis by the Enterprise crew. Initially frustrated by her lack of marketable skills in the future, Clare later found a place at the DTI as a counselor for others like her who have been displaced in time.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: She had less trouble accepting that some of her descendants married aliens than she did finding out some of them were gay.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She's one of the biggest cases, having been displaced nearly four centuries from her origin, which is why she realized she might be a good fit as a counselor for others in the same situation.
- Human Popsicle: Clare was displaced not by any sort of temporal technology or anomaly, but through "ordinary" cryostasis.
- You Can't Go Home Again: As medieval as the 20th century is compared to her new life, Clare nevertheless feels homesick sometimes. This is how the mutinous Bozeman crew attempt to recruit her when they want to go back to their own time.
Felbog Bu-Tsop-Vee
A young Choblik researcher who was in Garcia's graduating class.
- Non-Action Guy: As Choblik are small herbivores without the same physical strength as most humanoids, Felbog is content in his purely intellectual role as a researcher.
- Transchoblik: His species has cybernetic augmentations that improve their mental faculties, among other things.
- Uncertain Doom: Kvolan accidentally almost kills Felbog during the raid on the Eridian Vault. Andos and Lucsly manage to stabilize him in the Vault's sickbay, but it's never revealed whether he survived long enough to get the additional care he needed to fully recover.
Meijan Grey
A human who helped found the DTI in the 23rd century.
- Ascended Extra: She's the archaeologist who tagged along to the mission in "Yesteryear", and is a major character in Forgotten History.
- For Science!: Wanted to use the Guardian of the Forever to find out a little about Orion's lost history.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She's naturally horrified to find her actions nearly led to Spock's death.
- Oh, Crap!: The incident that finally pushes her to agree to Delgado's proposals in full was V'Ger's showing up on Earth's doorstep.
Admiral Antonio Delgado
A human whose extreme interest in time travel experiments lead to the founding of the DTI.
- Because Destiny Says So: Believes his actions might be being driven by destiny.
- Everyone Has Standards: When the first timeship crew suffer a similar incident to one the Enterprise-D would face in "Time Squared", he's as shaken as everyone else, and tries to be tactful about the horrific situation.
- First-Name Basis: Tends to address people by their first names, usually as a tactic of his faux-chumminess to get them on his side. It doesn't always work. Admiral Nogura makes a point of using rank to remind him that they are not buddies.
- Graceful Loser: Once finally caught out for good, in a way that could spell serious trouble for everyone if the Vedala weren't so isolationist, he calmly accepts being put into early retirement.
- Insane Admiral: Well, not insane, but definitely meddling and troublesome all the same, and with a serious inability to take "no" for an answer.
- It's All About Me: When the Enterprise crew breaks up, he seriously thinks Spock went into isolation on Vulcan just to thwart him. Reading the pages before show Spock's true motivation, wherein Delgado doesn't even merit a first thought, let alone second.
- Just Think of the Potential!: He's big on this one, but when people start going "think of the consequences", he brushes them off.
- Manipulative Bastard: Anthony has a knack for manipulating people around to his way of thinking, and will do anything to get his way.
- My Greatest Failure: His inability to manage his work-life balance. To his credit, he rejects the idea of using time travel to undo that, even when his daughter dies.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Becomes a mild one to get the Enterprise engines so he can run his tests, throwing a DTI agent at Kirk to try and get him off the ship. When that doesn't work, he throws an even more obstructive bureaucrat at him. That one works.
- Shout-Out: Named after two of the actors who played The Master the longest on the original run of Doctor Who, Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley. He even has a line of narration where he states his goal is to "master time travel". Not to mention like they are he's got a beard...
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Has a daughter with whom relations are severely strained, thanks to his poor work-life balance. Then she died during the V'Ger incident.
Other Accordists
The Aegis
A mysterious uptime temporal organization that concerns itself with the preservation of developing species.- Alien Abduction: The Aegis' standard procedure for making changes to a civilization's history is to abduct a small sample of the local population (typically from a mass casualty event that would have otherwise killed them, to avoid changing history by their absence), then create an isolated community for them where they and their descendants can be groomed to work for the Aegis. The ethics of this is perhaps a bit dodgy, but by all accounts these individuals live normal lives and have the freedom to decline recruitment without consequence. (It's not like the Aegis are pressed for time, after all.) Some agents continue to work for the Aegis in other capacities after business on their own planet is concluded, while it is speculated that others are returned to their society (one of whom might be Lucsly).
- Alien Non-Interference Clause: The Aegis differ from most Accordist organizations in that they believe in a certain degree of temporal revisionism. Specifically, they consider it their mission to protect developing species from destroying themselves until they are mature enough to survive on their own. Whether others agree with this imperative doesn't matter, because no one has the ability to oppose them on a large scale.
- Casual Time Travel: They are subject to the same laws of temporal physics as everyone else, but their mastery of those laws is uncontested.
- Higher-Tech Species: The full capabilities of the mysterious aliens who run the Aegis are not known, but they are clearly formidable.
- Meaningful Name: "Aegis" was Zeus's shield from Greek mythology, and can also be used metaphorically to describe giving protection or guidance to another. That's exactly what the Aegis do throughout time and space.
- Might Makes Right: They are perhaps the only faction allowed to get away with altering time in violation of the Temporal Accords, partly because they have demonstrated their ability to do so responsibly, and partly because they're at the top of the Time Police food chain.
- Smart Animal, Average Human: The "pets" that Aegis supervisors carry are humanoid shapeshifters who are believed to be, if not the actual ruling caste of the Aegis, then at least superior in rank to their "owners".
- Time Police: Unlike many of the other organizations in the series, the Aegis' primary purpose isn't about maintaining the integrity of time, but they do their part to keep things tidy and conduct their work with scalpel-like precision.
- Transhumanism: Genetic enhancements are just one of the tools they give their agents to help them in their duties.
- You Are Number 6: Supervisor names frequently take the form of a common first name followed by a number.
Jena Noi
An alien woman of no definitive ancestry who represents the 31st-century Federation Temporal Agency. She visits the DTI far more frequently than any other uptime agents.
- Action Girl: Noi is athletic, combat-trained, and has an impressive suite of weaponized temporal gadgets hidden in her uniform.
- Death Is Cheap: Due to severe temporal anomalies, Jena dies several times through "Watching the Clock". She casually mentions offhand that this has happened to her before.
- Heinz Hybrid: She is part Vulcan, Ocampa, Cygnian, and Tandaran, among others.
- Hero of Another Story: Jena has a lot of offscreen exploits to her name, including several deaths and a visit to her own future.
- Meaningful Name: Her name phonetically sounds like "annoy", quite apt given her appearances do annoy Lucsly and Dulmur.
- My Greatest Failure: Shelan's death and erasure, since Jena was the one who talked her into doing it, and therefore feels responsible for her fate.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Which, among other things, allows her to remember Shelan.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Noi's method of time travel creates the uncanny perception that she was always there. Dulmur finds this unbelievably annoying.
Juel Ducane
A Starfleet Commander, briefly featured on Star Trek: Voyager, who belongs to the 29th-century Temporal Integrity Commission.
- Cutting the Knot: Part of Noi's distaste for the TIC is their habit of indelicately trying to bludgeon their way through problems and then stitch time back together afterwards.
- Jerkass: Ducane hides a nasty, arrogant streak, speaking dismissively of Noi and her future and vowing to try and prevent it if at all possible.
- Me's a Crowd: Thanks to the TIC standard operating policy, followed by causality going out the window, there are at least four Ducanes at the climax of "Watching the Clock".
- Mildly Military: Ducane is Starfleet, not a civilian like his 31st and 24th century counterparts. It is therefore noteworthy that this trope is actually downplayed, with the TIC being quite a bit more militant than the Starfleet we're used to seeing.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Ducane-1 falls through a hole in space and time, into the atmosphere of a space giant and dies, all in the span of a sentence.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ducane's department isn't really "bad", but they are quite a bit more aggressive than other Accordist agencies and prefer the "shoot first" approach to solving problems. Noi implies that the Federation of his century is a touch more fascist than she finds comfortable.
Non-Accordists
The Sponsor
Also known as "Future Guy" from Star Trek: Enterprise, he is one of the most prominant and antagonistic anti-Accordist leaders. His real name is Jamran Harnoth, from the 28th century genetic supremacist group, the Order of Omega.
- Atrocious Alias: Actually called "Future Guy", though only momentarily and only because his pursuers had no idea what to call him, and they immediately retract it.
- Fantastic Racism: Believes augments are superior to everyone else and makes no secret of it.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Jena Noi suspects he's responsible for the rise of Khan and his augments, but despite deep probing on the part of several agents, and the Aegis, no-one can prove it.
- Heinz Hybrid: He's got Romulan, Suliban and Tandaran in him, and that's just the stuff Lucsly and Dulmur can identify on sight.
- Holographic Disguise: As in Enterprise, he only shows himself through remote communication as a featureless holographic shadow.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Watching the Clock ends with him finally getting caught, after years being hunted down by Noi and her associates, thanks to Shelan's last transmission, and she was only chosen because she had Augment DNA in her from the Sponsor's experiments on her ancestors.
- Mysterious Employer: His identity is eventually uncovered, but until then, neither his allies nor his enemies have any idea who he is.
- Oh, Crap!: His smug attitude momentarily vanishes when Daniels suggests handing him over to the Temporal Integrity Commission of the 28th Century, who while not as fascist as their 29th century counterparts, would be very happy to "talk" with him...
- Smug Snake: Even captured, he maintains his attitude of smug superiority, rubbing his victories in everyone's faces.
- Stable Time Loop: He claims the genetic upgrades he gave to the Suliban, and others, are what eventually create the Order of Omega, meaning he is responsible for his own origin. Naturally, he's smug about that, too.
- Transhuman: He has given numerous groups advanced genetic enhancements in exchange for their loyalty, and appears to be one of his own best customers as well.
- The Unfettered: He has no concern for rules or ethics, using every tool at his disposal to push his agenda of augment supremacy regardless of the consequences.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In at least one timeline, he experimented with Omega Particles and nearly rendered the galaxy uninhabitable. He just shrugs and says it was an interesting experiment.
Lirahn
A woman from a now-extinct race called the Selakar who once ruled an empire. She sits on the Axis Council as the leading proponant of temporal deregulation.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seems honest and reasonable on the outside, but deep down, she cares only for herself.
- Charm Person: Her species has telepathic powers that allow them to gradually control the feelings of others. Beings without similar telepathic defenses will, with enough time, become enthralled by her.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Lirahn wants a psychic amplifier from her time, ostensibly to restore her species to its former glory, when in fact she knows this is beyond her abilities. Instead, she wants it for herself, so she can enjoy a life with "only" a few billion psychic slaves to rule over.
- Straw Nihilist: Having seen the rise and fall of countless empires (including her own) from the lofty perspective of the Axis, she rationalizes her evil deeds by contrasting them against the scale and inevitability of galactic entropy.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Though only because of her mind control powers. Those who are able to resist it know she's up to no good, even if they can't prove it.
Daiyar
A Tomikan woman, formerly of the Aegis, who finds herself at odds with the DTI after leading a Vomnin raid on the Eridian Vault.
- Anti-Villain: She has a reverence for life that matches the Federation's, though she makes it clear that it still comes second to her objective, which she insists is for the greater good.
- Dark Action Girl: Daiyar's lithe figure belies her extraordinary speed and strength. This comes from genetic augmentations given to her by the Aegis.
- Everyone Has Standards: Though Daiyar is willing to resort to violence to achieve what she believes is for The Needs of the Many, she is otherwise a Technical Pacifist. When Kvolan accidentally kills Felbog with a temporal artifact that worked differently than he expected it to, she mourns what a stupid and pointless death it was.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her goal is an understandable one, and all too common among disillusioned time travelers. She saw the destruction wrought by the changes the Aegis was making to the timeline and felt she had a duty to create a better version of events, despite the risks involved.
