The Council of the Last Roundup
Character Gallery & Cosmic Index
“They came not to rule, but to remember — that even gods once needed grace.”
QYLARIN – The Gambler of Creation
Species: Q Continuum
First Canonical Appearance: Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Encounter at Farpoint” (1987)
Home Realm: The Continuum — a dimension outside time and space
Chosen Form: A North African man, dressed as a 25th-century diplomat and gambler; bronze skin, sharp amber eyes, and a silver pocket watch that ticks across universes.
Personality: Witty, defiant, and oddly empathetic. The youngest of his kind, he treats existence as a game whose stakes are moral rather than material.
Theme: Curiosity and Free Will
“Every hand’s a new beginning — even for immortals.”
TAVREL – The Elder of Stillness
Species: Organian
First Canonical Appearance: Star Trek: The Original Series, “Errand of Mercy” (1967)
Homeworld: Organia, near the Klingon border
Chosen Form: An Indigenous North American elder from the Great Plains, his translucent skin glowing softly beneath bead-patterned robes that shift like constellations.
Personality: Serene, patient, and unshakably kind. Tavrel rarely intervenes — but when he speaks, even starships fall silent.
Theme: Peace and Endurance
“Power ends. Patience remains.”
ZEYARA – The Judge of Light
Species: Metron
First Canonical Appearance: Star Trek: The Original Series, “Arena” (1967)
Home System: Uncharted sector beyond Federation space
Chosen Form: An East Asian woman with short silver-white hair and crystalline robes that refract color with emotion. Her skin gleams like carved pearl under starlight.
Personality: Detached yet hopeful; an arbiter of evolution who measures strength through compassion.
Theme: Judgment and Mercy
“Children with weapons — learning, at last, to put them down.”
ILIOS – The Keeper of Lost Children
Species: Thasian
First Canonical Appearance: Star Trek: The Original Series, “Charlie X” (1966)
Home System: Thasus, deep within the Beta Quadrant
Chosen Form: A West African man with luminous onyx skin and hair like white mist; his features shift fluidly, echoing his people’s energy-based nature.
Personality: Empathetic but haunted. Ilios lives in gentle atonement for once granting too much power to a human child.
Theme: Mercy with Boundaries
“I gave power to a child; now I give patience instead.”
VEDEK LIRA – The Voice Between Moments
Species: Prophet (Bajoran Wormhole Alien)
First Canonical Appearance: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “Emissary” (1993)
Home Realm: The Celestial Temple (Bajoran Wormhole)
Chosen Form: A Bajoran woman of Caribbean and South Asian heritage, with dark curls, warm brown skin, and crimson robes shimmering with nebular light.
Personality: Nonlinear, compassionate, and mysterious. She speaks in paradoxes, revealing glimpses of all timelines at once.
Theme: Faith and Time
“The past is not gone. It waits for the present to remember.”
KAELEN – The Walker Between Realities
Species: Traveler
First Canonical Appearance: Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Where No One Has Gone Before” (1987)
Home Dimension: Transdimensional space beyond known Federation territory
Chosen Form: A South American man of Andean descent, humble in gray robes with gold-threaded seams that resemble circuitry; his hazel-gold eyes shimmer like quantum fire.
Personality: Gentle, reflective, endlessly curious. Kaelen believes imagination is the universe’s true propulsion system.
Theme: Potential and Imagination
“The mind is a starship. The heart, its helm.”
MAELIS – The Forgiver of Worlds
Species: Douwd
First Canonical Appearance: Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Survivors” (1989)
Home Region: Hidden settlements throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants
Chosen Form: A woman of West African and Indigenous Brazilian ancestry, with rich brown skin, gray locs coiled in a loose crown, and eyes lit with galaxies.
Personality: Nurturing and remorseful. Once consumed by wrath, she now devotes herself to healing and renewal.
Theme: Forgiveness and Consequence
“I ended life to protect it. Now I nurture life to atone.”
SERAPHINE – The Duchess of Chaos
Species: Trelane’s People (possibly proto-Q)
First Canonical Appearance: Star Trek: The Original Series, “The Squire of Gothos” (1967)
Home Realm: Unknown sub-dimension of reality
Chosen Form: A European woman of Romani and French heritage, dressed in an opulent Victorian gown laced with stardust; her auburn curls shimmer like flame.
Personality: Flirtatious, theatrical, and unpredictable. Her chaos conceals deep compassion for flawed species.
Theme: Humility and Joy
“Every tragedy deserves a dance.”
🌌 The Council’s Purpose
Eight omnipotent species — ancient, powerful, and divided by philosophy — gather at The Last Roundup, a saloon between stars, to determine whether humanity deserves another dawn after the Eugenics Wars.
Each takes human form, not to deceive, but to understand. Each becomes both judge and student, learning through humanity’s struggle for mercy, imagination, and peace.
Their choices will echo through time — shaping not only the birth of warp flight and First Contact, but the destinies of Jean-Luc Picard and Benjamin Sisko, who will one day meet these same cosmic teachers in their own trials.
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