Arturis
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| Species: | Species 116 |
| Gender: | male |
| Portrayed by: | Ray Wise |
Arturis is a fictional character from the Star Trek universe, portrayed by Ray Wise. He is humanoid in appearance. His head is completely hairless with a larger cranium than humans, paler skin and a light covering of large light-brown spots. He appears in the Voyager episode entitled "Hope and Fear." He is one of only a small number of his species to have escaped from the Borg's mass assimilation and incorporation of their home planet into Borg space.
The name of Arturis' species is never disclosed, though the equivalent Borg designation is Species 116. The species has exceptional linguistic aptitude far beyond the capabilities of any other race that Starfleet has ever encountered. Arturis himself claims to know over 4,000 languages. He is also highly proficient in computer programming languages and uses this as a means to mislead the Voyager crew by tampering with and rewriting a subspace message from the Alpha Quadrant.
Arturis is at first portrayed as a wise, patient and highly benevolent character, though it soon becomes apparent that his outward display of altruism is nothing more than a façade to deceive Captain Janeway and the crew of Voyager, with the intention of exacting revenge on them for allowing his home world to be destroyed by the Borg. Arturis disguised his ship as a Starfleet vessel, the USS Dauntless, and faked a message from Starfleet stating that the Dauntless was an experimental vessel intended to get the Voyager crew home. However, the Dauntless had been intentionally locked on to a course for Arturis' former homeworld - now part of Borg space. Arturis blames Janeway for his planet’s assimilation, noting that his species had managed to avoid assimilation for centuries until Voyager intervened in the Species 8472 conflict and aided the Borg in defeating their adversaries, allowing them to focus their efforts of assimilating Arturis’ species. Ultimately, Arturis’ plan to get the Voyager crew assimilated fails and backfires on him, and he is captured and (presumably) assimilated by the Borg as a result.
[edit] External links
- Arturis article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
