Ro Laren

Ro Laren is a Bajoran Starfleet Officer and supporting protagonist of and a minor character in . 
She is a survivor of the Cardassian occupation of her homeworld who later joined Starfleet, becoming a controversial member until her transfer to the USS Enterprise-D where she slowly learned to trust others and find her place. Two years later, Ro Laren would eventually desert Starfleet for the Maquis cause due to their fight against the Cardassians. 
Ultimately feeling guilty for betraying her former side, Ro Laren also abandoned the Maquis and surrendered to Starfleet, serving a prison sentence until she was recruited by Starfleet Intelligence, earning the rank of Commander. 
In 2401, Ro Laren reconnected with Jean-Luc Picard, her former captain, to warn him of the Changelings' plot, the two eventually repairing their thirty-year-old bond, shortly before Ro Laren lost her life by buying Picard time to stop the infiltration against Starfleet. 
She is portrayed by , who also voiced Judith Mossman in Half-Life 2.
== Personality ==
Ro Laren is a particularly non-conformist and very stubborn woman. She has a certain pride in her Bajoran roots, refusing the distortion of the name and wearing her Bajoran earring against dress code. Initially, Ro was quite distant towards everyone and preferred to stay alone, more than once expressing remarks against the way her superiors did things, earning her many reprimand.
==History==
=== Childhood on Bajor ===
Ro had a sad and unhappy childhood on Bajor due to the Cardassian occupation, spending ten years in refugee camps with poor comfort and weak hope for a better future. When she was only 7 years old, Ro was forced by the Cardassians to watch her father torture her for two hours until he died. These traumatic events had the effect of making Ro ashamed of being a Bajoran since her people had remained subjugated by the Cardassians for decades, eventually leading her to flee Bajor, forever hating the Cardassians.
===Serving the Enterprise===
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One time, Ro and Geordi La Forge were presumed dead in a transporter accident during their investigation on a wrecked Romulan ship. But both officers survived and have actually been sent out of phase with the rest of the ship due to a flawed Romulan attempt to create a new kind of cloaking device. Ro 'gets chased by a Romulan named Parem, who ended the same way as the two did and attempts to kill the two victims in order to keep the secret of interphase technology away from the hands of the Federation. But luckily, Geordi saves Ro by knocking Parem through the ship's hull and out into space, killing him in the process. They return to their true phases in the end and reunited with their friends.
===Joining the Maqui===
When abducted by the Maqui and told them their goal and what's really been going on with them against the cardassians, she expressed sympathy for them and in the end joins as member of the Maqui, much to Picard's anger.
===Rejoins Starflet and Heroic Death===
Ro returns in Picard and has rejoined Starfleet and was ranked as Commander. She then came aboard the USS Titan-A to interrogate Picard and Riker for hijacking the ship and to question about Jack Crusher. But then she reveals to Picard that she has uncovered a Changeling infiltration of Starfleet and shared extensive knowledge about the threat with her former mentor Picard, even after she confirms that he is not a changeling himself and confess her real reasons she originally left starfleet. When leaving, Ro gives Picard a head start to get away but discovers that her team, who were actually Changelings impersonating her officers and had planted a bomb on the shuttle and beamed away and gave the Titan-A the opportunity to escape by navigating the doomed shuttle towards the Intrepid's port nacelle in an effort to cripple the vessel. Before boarding the shuttle, Ro gave Picard her Bajoran earring, which Riker discovered was a datachip containing files on her entire investigation. An incoming transmission revealed that she was Worf's handler. Picard was greatly affected by the loss. Worf than contacts the fugitives who reveals that Ro Laren was working for him after asking her whereabouts. Ro Laren's sacrifice was not in vain.
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==Trivia ==
*She is the very first Bajoran introduced in the franchise.
*If her name were written according to human standards, it would be Laren Ro.
*Michelle Forbes was asked to reprise her role as Ro Laren for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the main character but Forbes declined, leading to the creation of the Bajoran character Kira Neyris to compensate.
*Ro Laren was supposed to survive the ending of the episode Imposters, being teleported away by the Changelings for interrogation, but production didn't allow it to happen due to time constraints.
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