Telek R ' Mor Doctor Telek R ' Mor was a low - ranking Romulan scientist and minor functionary attached to the Romulan Astrophysical Academy during the mid - 24th century . " Talvath " research mission . In early 2350 , Dr . R ' Mor began a three - year mission , conducting " secret research " aboard the science vessel " Talvath " . According to a claim he later made , R ' Mor had a wife and daughter who lived on Romulus . His daughter was born several months into his mission . He knew , when he accepted his assignment , that he would pay the price of missing his family . After a year away from his family , he began to realize how high that price was . " Voyager " encounter . In mid - 2351 , while traversing Sector 1385 of the Alpha Quadrant , the " Talvath " discovered a microprobe lodged in an eddy of a micro - wormhole . The " Talvath " made repeated scans of the probe and R ' Mor soon received a vocal transmission from the other side of the wormhole , which identified itself as originating from " the Federation starship , " stranded in the Delta Quadrant . Introducing himself only as the captain of a cargo vessel , he was unconvinced that " Voyager " was in the Delta Quadrant but instead believed it must really be from the Alpha Quadrant . He terminated communications , in fear that he had been discovered by Starfleet spies on a covert surveillance mission . After analyzing " Voyager " s hail ing frequency for several hours , R ' Mor was able to confirm that it had originated in the Delta Quadrant . Upon re - establishing contact with " Voyager " , he at first skeptically asked Captain Kathryn Janeway if " Voyager " was a Starfleet ship and if she was actually a Federation spy , to which Janeway replied that she wasn ' t and that her ship couldn ' t pose much threat to him while stuck in the Delta Quadrant . Janeway also used this opportunity to ask him if he might be willing to deliver a series of personal messages from her crew back to the Federation . He countered that , to ease his apprehension , they should " proceed one step at a time " and attempt to establish a visual link first . Once visual contact was established with " Voyager " , R ' Mor was unable to immediately recognize the configuration of the vessel . This surprised Captain Janeway , who noted it was new but not classified . In the meantime , R ' Mor had communicated with the Romulan Senate with respect to sending " Voyager " s messages . The Senate had promised to take the matter " under advisement . " Following a sympathetic plea from Janeway , R ' Mor once again contacted the Senate , in an attempt to persuade his superiors to make their decision quickly and favorably . Upon further analysis of R ' Mor ' s comm signal aboard " Voyager " , its crew was able to determine a way to match the phase amplitude of his data transmission to their transporter frequency . This announcement startled R ' Mor , who noted that the operatives of Romulan Intelligence must have not been doing their job , as such a technological capability would be an incredible breakthrough in subspace field mechanics . He offered to have himself transported to " Voyager " and back again , as opposed to having a member of " Voyager " s crew beam aboard his ship . If his journey was successful , he would subsequently arrange for a troop transport to join him for " Voyager " s crew . He successfully participated in a series of test transports of a Starfleet test cylinder to and from his ship , and then transported aboard " Voyager " . Upon R ' Mor ' s arrival , he and the Starfleet crew quickly realized that , due to a temporal displacement in the wormhole , he had transported through a temporal shift twenty years into the future , to 2371 . After further discussing the situation – including consideration of having the Starfleet crew beam over despite the temporal displacement or warning Starfleet of " Voyager " s ill - fated mission , offers Captain Janeway turned down because of the temporal implications – R ' Mor agreed to take the messages from " Voyager " s crew back with him to his ship and transmit them at the appropriate time : " after " " Voyager " became lost in the Delta Quadrant . ( ) Later life . R ' Mor ' s scheduled time of return to Romulus was in 2353 , when he would be able to see his daughter – who would be over two years old – for the first time . He died in 2367 , four years before he could deliver the " Voyager " crew ' s letters to their families . It was speculated by B ' Elanna Torres that he may have either included instructions in a will for someone else to pass on their messages or handed over the computer chip to the Romulan government . ( ) While the messages were apparently not transmitted to the Federation , the Romulans were interested in " Voyager " for years , according to Reginald Barclay . ( ) Appendices . Background information . In the series run of , Dr . R ' Mor was the first contact that the starship " Voyager " was shown as having with the Alpha Quadrant since becoming stranded in the Delta Quadrant . Had R ' Mor communicated with Starfleet in 2351 – or " any time " before the events in – it would have preceded the contact made with the Romulans by Captain Jean - Luc Picard by up to thirteen years and ended Romulan isolation much sooner ( assuming his government would have allowed such communication at that time ) . Regardless , his contact with the " Voyager " crew represented the first known , non - hostile contact between the two factions since 2311 , the year the Federation and Romulan Star Empire signed the Algeron Treaty . Dr . R ' Mor was played by " Star Trek " veteran Vaughn Armstrong . The character proved to be extremely popular , not only generally but also with Armstrong himself . He remarked , " " That was a very nice character to portray because of the conflicts he had within himself [ . . . ] I love that character . " " ( VOY Season 1 DVD special features ) The actor further commented , " " [ R ' Mor ] holds a soft spot in my heart because he was from a kind of mean race that still had great family values . He loved his children [ . . . ] That was a binding factor that I enjoyed about the character . " " ( ) In addition , the actor cited R ' Mor as " probably the most interesting character to do , " of all the alien characters Armstrong played on " Star Trek " . He went on to say about the Romulan , " " He ' s more subtle than the rest . There ' s sort of a heartfelt truth about all of us in any quadrant being connected by the love of our children . That was kind of a touching thing to play . " " Apocrypha . R ' Mor is featured in the " Voyager " novel trilogy " " . As such , he appears on the covers of the first two volumes in that series – " Cloak and Dagger " and " Ghost Dance " . The trilogy depicts him going to " Voyager " a second time , to once again collaborate with Captain Janeway and her crew . On this occasion , R ' Mor tries to help prevent an alien from destroying every universe in existence through altering the balance of dark matter present in each universe . He and the " Voyager " crew are successful , and he returns to his own timeline in the Alpha Quadrant , where he dies in 2367 ( per canon history ) .