Telaka

Captain Telaka appears only in death—a withered, skeletal corpse sprawled across his desk, still clutching a communicator when discovered by Worf, Data, and Riker. His biologically aged remains provide the Enterprise crew with their first visceral evidence of the temporal contagion's horrifying effects: a Starfleet officer in his prime reduced to a centuries-old husk in moments. The gruesome contrast between his youthful appointment and rapid decay catalyzes the crew's shift from investigation to crisis response. Though his career and personality remain undefined, the extremity of his fate marks him as a symbol of the unseen threat's lethality.