| Nedar | |
 Nedar | |
| Full name: | Nedar |
| Known aliases: | Oh |
| Species: | Half-Romulan/half-Vulcan |
| Gender: | Female |
| Born: | 24th century |
| Affiliation: | Zhat Vash/ Federation, Starfleet |
| Family | |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Career | |
| Occupation: | Zhat Vash operative Chief of Starfleet Security (mole) Starfleet officer Flag officer |
| Assignment: | Chief of Starfleet Security |
| Rank: | Commodore (while undercover in Starfleet) General (Tal Shiar/Zhat Vash) |
| Insignia: |  
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 Oh in 2399 | |
- "Her name was Oh. Chief of Starfleet Security."
"A Vulcan."
"You know her?"
"'No, but I hear that she's very good at her job." - — Agnes Jurati and Jean-Luc Picard, 2399
Nedar, also known as Oh was a Romulan/Vulcan flag officer in the Tal Shiar with the rank of general, loyal to the Zhat Vash and part of the Conclave of Eight.
She became integrated into Starfleet as a mole, where she worked her way up through the ranks to eventually become a commodore, and served as the director of Starfleet Security from at least 2390 to 2399.
Biography[]
Oh infiltrated Starfleet in the mid-24th century, after Doctor Noonien Soong began creating androids that matched or surpassed Human capabilities.
In 2385, Oh presided over a Zhat Vash initiation ceremony on Aia for "Narissa Rizzo" and Ramdha before the Attack on Mars in 2385, of which she was an architect. (PIC episode: "Broken Pieces")
In 2399, Jean-Luc Picard was only aware that Oh was the Vulcan chief of Starfleet security, having never met her personally. (PIC episode: "The End is the Beginning")
Oh - a member of the Zhat Vash - ran covert operations involving Romulan operatives "Narissa Rizzo" and her brother Narek, among others, aimed at obtaining information about the whereabouts of androids similar to Dahj and Soji Asha. According to Rizzo, she had profound reservations. At least one of these operations was inside the Federation on Earth. (PIC episode: "Maps and Legends")
After that operation resulted in the death of Dahj and Picard becoming aware of the androids, she went to see Dr. Agnes Jurati at the Daystrom Institute in Okinawa to discuss the doctor's meetings with Picard. (PIC: "The End is the Beginning") There, Oh initiated a mind meld with Jurati showing her conflated visions and images related to the supposed threat of artificial lifeforms that Oh herself experienced during her exposure to the Admonition on Aia. (PIC episode: "Broken Pieces"),
Before convincing Jurati to swallow a bio-organic tracking compound called viridium (similar to a viridium patch). (PIC episode: "Nepenthe")
Oh kept a keepsake box on her desk that had the IDIC symbol displayed on the side, and a set of Vulcan bells in a shelving unit elsewhere in her office. (PIC: "Maps and Legends")
Abandoning her Starfleet cover, she led a Zhat Vash warbird squadron heading to Coppelius to destroy the synths living there, but encountered orchids and a fleet of Starfleet starships led by the USS Zheng He. (PIC episodes: "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2")
- Oh's true name, Nedar, was never spoken onscreen, but appeared in closed captioning for the episode "Et in Arcadia Ego".
Background information[]
Oh was portrayed by Tamlyn Tomita. Oh's real name, Nedar, was not spoken in dialogue, but given by closed captioning in the season 1 finale, "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2".
She is the first commodore to be seen in the 24th century.
On the observation that Oh is not a Vulcan name, Michael Chabon revealed on his Instagram page that Oh's name has a "curious relation to the Vulcan word for eight (ohkuh)".
The sunglasses
In The End is the Beginning, Oh is shown wearing sunglasses. This was specified in the script as a homage to Danish-French actress Anna Karina. It was previously established by T'Pol in The Forge that Vulcans don't need eye protection due to the existence of an inner eyelid.
On that account, Michael Chabon said the following on this post's comment section: "Let me try to be clearer: Oh has read Jurati's psychological profile, and something in it, a tendency in Jurati's relationship to authority figures, has led her to prepare both her manner and her appearance very carefully. [...] This is behavior that cops, soldiers and teenagers, among others, engage in all the time."
On Oh's background, Chabon stated that her parents (a Romulan mother and a Vulcan father) were (pretended) members of the movement which supported a Romulan-Vulcan reunification.
A line in "Broken Pieces" firmly established Oh as being the first featured onscreen individual of Vulcan/Romulan descent. The script of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan had already included a introductory note that Saavik was intended to have also been of similar descent, (; Star Trek Magazine issue 155, p. 62) but the reference did not make made it onscreen ultimately. A Scene 5 line establishing the fact was actually filmed, but was trimmed from scene as eventually featured in the released film, and had not been included – neither as reinserted scene nor as "deleted scene" special feature – in the later released "Director's Edition/Cut" home video formats either. The line was included though, in an early contemporary promotional short aired on television.