Tolian Soran
Tolian Soran is an extraterrestrial film villain who features in Star Trek.
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Biography
Tolian Soran was born before 2071 where he came to have a wife named Leandra, and several children. His entire family was killed when the El-Aurian homeworld was destroyed by the Borg in the 23rd century, though Soran himself escaped. The traumatic loss transformed Soran from someone who 'would not hurt a fly' to a profoundly cynical and nihilistic man who believed that death was the sole constant in the universe. In 2293, Soran was among the El-Aurian refugees being transported to Earth aboard the SS Lakul. Outside the Sol system, the Lakul was caught in an extremely intense gravimetric distortion trailing from an energy ribbon which acted as an entrance to the Nexus. While trapped in the distortion, Soran and the other passengers experienced brief moments in the Nexus, where Soran was able to live a life in which the Borg had not killed his family. Soran's experiences in the Nexus were short-lived, however, as he and the others were beamed away by Captain Montgomery Scott to the USS Enterprise-B, which had responded to a distress call. Upon finding himself in the Enterprise's sickbay, Soran began ranting, demanding to be returned, forcing a nearby Commander Pavel Chekov to sedate him with a hypospray. Soran subsequently became obsessed with returning to the Nexus and dedicated the next seventy-eight years of his life to discovering a means by which to do so.
Soran was an El-Aurian who was rescued by the USS Enterprise-B from The Nexus. Unlike his companions (including Guinan), he was unable to accept life apart from the fantasy created by the Nexus, in which his wife and children (who in reality were killed by the Borg) were alive and well. Soran spent the next 80 years trying to find a way to get back into the Nexus.
By the year 2371, Soran had developed a plan whereby he would destroy two stars, thereby altering the gravitational forces near the energy ribbon, altering its course and bringing it to the planet Veridian III, where Soran would be waiting for it. To accomplish his goal, Soran entered into an alliance with the Duras sisters, who agreed to secure trilithium, a nuclear inhibitor with which Soran would destroy the stars, in exchange for research allowing the sisters to develop a trilithium-based weapon. As Soran prepared to fire a solar probe equipped with trilithium into the Amargosa star from the Amargosa observatory, the outpost came under attack by Romulans who were attempting to retrieve the trilithium, which the Duras sisters had stolen from them. Soran was rescued by the crew of the USS Enterprise-D, and was later able to return to the observatory and launch the probe, destroying the star. As the Enterprise crew attempted to rescue an away team from the observatory before the resultant shock wave arrived, Soran was retrieved by the Duras sisters and subsequently traveled to the Veridian system, where he intended to destroy the Veridian star. The Enterprise crew ultimately uncovered Soran's plot, realizing that Soran intended to destroy the Veridian star despite the fact that it would destroy all planets in the system, including Veridian IV, which supported a humanoid society of 230 million individuals.
The Enterprise-D later destroyed the Klingon ship, but Soran was already on the planet, on which he planned to launch another missile into the Veridian Star, the destruction of which would alter the gravitational fields in the system and now make the Nexus intersect with the planet. In fact, his plan worked, but Captain Jean-Luc Picard was taken into the Nexus with him. Later, Picard joined with Captain James T. Kirk and re-entered reality at a point in time before the missile was launched. Kirk sacrificed his life and helped to stop Soran. Seeing Picard at the launch controls, Soran thought he was aborting the launch and ordered Picard to get away. Picard ran away and Soran went up to see what he had done. Instead of aborting the launch, Picard had locked the rocket in place. The rocket backfired and destroyed the entire complex, taking Soran with it.
Overview
Personality and attributes
It was said that originally Soran was said to be unable to even hurt a fly.
As an El-Aurian, he remarked that his people were a race of listeners.
Exposure to the Nexus led to him having an intense desire to return to it. In fact, he had dedicated his life to ensuring the phenomena returned so that he could enter into it. Soran was shown to engage in any action that achieved that goal.
He came to be obsessed with the concept of time which he saw as a predator stalking all living beings. Tolian remarked people could try to outrun it using doctors, medicines and new technologies but ultimately it succeeded in its hunt and killed its quarry.
Powers and abilities
Tolian Soran was a male El-Aurian who had the inherent traits of the species such as their long life spans. By the 24th century, he came to be a noted scientist.
Notes
- Tolian Soran was created by Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga where he was portrayed by actor Malcolm McDowell and featured in the setting of the Star Trek universe.
Alternate Versions
In other media
Novels
- In Star Trek: Generations, Tolian Soran appeared in the non-canon novel adaptation of the film that was written by J.M. Dillard. In this version, Picard succeeds in disarming Soran's probe, preventing its launch and the destruction of the star, and allowing the ribbon to pass the planet by. Soran charges at Picard in a fury, who snatches up Soran's disruptor and shoots him dead in the chest. The novelization also notes that Soran was aware of Picard's trip into the Nexus, due to the lack of alternative explanations for Kirk's presence, increasing Soran's rage at Picard for depriving him of his wife again.
Appearances
- Star Trek Generations:
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