Regent of Palamar

The Regent of Palamar was an alien villain introduced Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Business as Usual.

He was portrayed by Lawrence Tierney, who had earlier played Cyrus Redblock on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The leader of an interstellar empire, the Regent groomed a woman named Nassuc to inherit his army. Nassuc decided to declare her homeworld independent, which the Regent took as a betrayal.

In response the Regent decided he wanted to make an example of the 28 million people on Nassuc's homeworld by deploying a biogenic weapon against them. The Regent sought out the weapons dealer Hagath to acquire such a weapon. However Hagath's associate Quark had a crisis of conscience, and arranged for Nassuc and the Regent to "accidently" meet on Deep Space Nine.

When the Regent and Nassuc met in a DS9 cargo bay, a firefight almost immediately broke out. The Regent barely managed to escape the station with his life, but Nassuc's purification squads caught up with him and killed him a day later.