Valdore Admiral Valdore was a high - ranking official in the Romulan military in the 22nd century . Career . Early in his career , Valdore served as a senator in the Romulan Senate , where he once considered Senator a friend . Valdore made the mistake of challenging the precept of unlimited expansion . Upon asking the question , " " Is conquest truly the best course for our people ? " " , he was expelled from the Senate . From that point on , he vowed never to repeat his error nor forget his birthright as a soldier of the Empire . ( ) In November of 2154 , he oversaw a plan to use a drone ship – capable of disguising itself holographically – to destabilize relations between the Andorian s , the Tellarite s , and many other species in a certain region of space . The project was backed by Senator Vrax . The drone ship was controlled from Romulus and piloted via telepresence by the Aenar Gareb , who had been abducted for this purpose . When the drone ship was boarded by Commander Tucker and Lieutenant Reed of , Valdore attempted to coerce them into complying by irradiating the vessel . Tucker was injured by the radiation , but Reed sabotage d the drone ship by setting a phase - pistol on overload on its bridge . The resulting explosion significantly damaged the drone ship . Subsequently , Tucker and Reed were rescued by " Enterprise " . As the drone ship plan began to unravel , Vrax threatened Valdore with his Reman bodyguards . Later , Valdore ordered Gareb to control two drone ships simultaneously . When Gareb was telepathically contacted by his sister Jhamel , he disobeyed his Romulan captors and used one drone ship to destroy the other . In response , Valdore shot Gareb in the neck with a disruptor pistol . Valdore ' s project was a complete failure because its result was exactly opposite of that which was intended . Under the leadership of Captain Jonathan Archer , the Tellarites , Andorians , Human s , and Vulcan s came together to locate and destroy the drone ship . This temporary alliance sowed the seeds for the formation of the United Federation of Planets . ( ) By the 24th century , Valdore was revered as a hero to the Romulan people , and the Warbird " " was named in his honor . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Valdore was played by veteran " Star Trek " performer Brian Thompson . In the final draft script of " Babel One " , Valdore was described as " a hawk - faced Romulan officer " . Brian Thompson " loved " the character ' s costume and make - up but did not find the wig for Valdore ' s hair easy to wear . ( ) A deleted scene from , available on the ENT Season 4 DVD , establishes that both Valdore and Vrax were placed under arrest for their failure . Apocrypha . In the Pocket ENT novel " The Good That Men Do " , Valdore i ' Kaleh tr ' Irrhaimehn was released from prison when the Romulans became concerned over the creation of the Coalition of Planets and decide that Valdore ' s strategic abilities were needed to disrupt the ceremony . The implication was that he was in charge of the Romulan military during the Earth - Romulan War . In 2160 , after the defeat of the Romulans at the Battle of Cheron and shortly thereafter during the negotiations that eventually established of the Neutral Zone , Valdore planned on using the defined border and buffer zone to rebuild the Romulan military to the point that they could successfully attack Earth and its allies . Valdore was assassinated by First Consul T ' Leikha because of the Romulan losses sustained in the war and for any " future embarrassment " for the Romulan Star Empire . She was in turn swiftly executed by Valdore ' s aide . ( Pocket ENT novel " To Brave the Storm " )