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	PLAYED BY: Angela Paton SPECIES: Krenim Male In the 2170s, the Krenim Imperium was in decline, due to losing a war with the Rilnar. At that time, Annorax was living on Kyana Prime with his wife. Realizing that their war with the Rilnar could not be won by conventional means, Annorax developed a weapon capable of pushing elements (anything from a molecule to a civilization) out of the space-time continuum, thereby creating an alternate timeline where that element never existed. If used against a species, it created a causality paradox in which history changed as a result of the non-existence of that species. With this weapon as the centerpiece, he constructed the Krenim weapon ship, assembled a crew, and set about restoring the Krenim to their former glory. The first target eliminated by Annorax was the Rilnar, and initially his weapon achieved spectacular results. However, he had failed to take into account all the consequences of the temporal incursion, one of which was a plague (due to the loss of a crucial antibody that the Rilnar had contributed to the Krenim genome) that devastated the Krenim. To correct this error, Annorax ordered a second incursion, and in doing so accidentally eliminated the colony on Kyana Prime, and with it his beloved wife. A lock of her hair was the only trace Annorax had left. Stricken by grief, Annorax struggled in vain over the next two centuries to restore Kyana Prime. He oversaw the repeated disappearance and restoration of billions of people over thousands of worlds, but he was never able to accomplish the full restoration of either the Imperium or his wife. From each civilization he removed from history, Annorax collected a sample of their culture to be stored aboard his ship. This included the Malkoth and the Alsurans. As the years passed Annorax came to believe that time itself had "colors" and "moods", and that it was punishing him for his hubris by withholding his wife from him. Therefore, irrespective of his guilt over eliminating so many civilizations, he refused to relent in his mission until he forced time to return his wife to him. Meanwhile, there was growing frustration and dissent amongst Annorax's crew over their repeated failures and their prolonged separation from their families. This tension escalated dramatically in 2374, when Annorax refused to end their mission after they achieved an unprecedented 98% restoration following the erasure of the Zahl. His reasons were obvious enough: part of the 2% that had not been restored included Kyana Prime. His subsequent incursion, against the Garenor, was a disaster due to the USS Voyager's temporal shields. Annorax was able to abduct Chakotay and Tom Paris to the weapon ship, though Voyager escaped his attempt to erase it from history.
	PLAYED BY: Peter Slutsker SPECIES: Krenim Male   The Krenim commandant attacked Voyager as it entered into Zahl space. His vessel was weak and did no damage to Voyager. He hailed her and informed Captain Janeway that the territory Voyager was in was no longer Zahl, but was in dispute. He threatened to destroy Voyager if Janeway did not turn around. Janeway ignored him and was informed by a Zahl official that she had nothing to worry about, that the Zahl defeated the Krenim years ago. The Krenim commandant returned and accused Janeway of assisting the Zahl and again threatened Voyager. Suddenly a huge energy wave overtook the ships and the Krenim commandant's ship doubled in size and firepower, the Zahl vanished and the commandant fired on Voyager causing damage, forcing Voyager to retreat.
	PLAYED BY: Jeff McCarthy SPECIES: Krenim Male Obrist was a Krenim officer and second-in-command of the Krenim weapon ship. He had a brother, whom he had not seen since he joined Annorax in his mission to restore the Krenim Imperium two centuries ago. Obrist celebrated the birthdays of his brother, parents, and closest friends for a century, until he realized that as a consequence of their isolation from the timeline, those people were either dead or had never existed in the first place.
	PLAYED BY: Scott MacDonald SPECIES: Zahl Male The Zahl ambassador represented the Zahl species in negotiations with USS Voyager for passage through Zahl space. This would cut years off Voyager's journey. While he was aboard Voyager, the Krenim, who the Zahl had defeated years before, approached the ship. The ambassador told the crew of Voyager not to worry since the Krenim were now a insignificant race with little weaponry. A few moments later, the Zahl ambassador was wiped from history along with his entire race by a Krenim time weapon.