Vel

Vel was an Akritirian who lived in the in the 24th century

He was a member of the terrorist faction know as Open Sky, a group of self-proclaimed patriots. In 2373, he extracted paralithium from his own freighter and synthesized it to trilithium in order to conceive an explosive device.

This device would later be used in the bombing of the Laktivia recreation facility on Akritiri. The bombing cost the lives of forty-seven Akritirian and landed two Humans, Harry Kim and Tom Paris, that were visiting from the USS Voyager were wrongly accused and sentenced to the Akritirian maximum security detention facility.

However in order to save his sister Piri, who was also an Open Sky member, from prison he led Voyager to the prison where Paris and Kim were detained. Eventually Captain Kathryn Janeway let the duo go without facing the Akirian autorities.