Bele was a native of the planet Cheron. He was black on the right side of his face and white on the left side, making him a member of his planet's majority ethnic group. He was a chief officer of the Commission on Political Traitors.
Biography[]
He left Cheron circa 48,000 BC to hunt down Lokai, who was white on the right side of his face and was a convicted traitor and revolutionary for his oppressed people, deemed inferior by Bele's. He chased Lokai for 50,000 years, until the pair finally came about the USS Enterprise in 2268. Bele hijacked the ship to take it to Cheron, though relented when Captain James T. Kirk threatened to self-destruct it. When Bele and Lokai finally arrived at Cheron, they realized that they were the last survivors of a war that destroyed their race. Bele pursued Lokai down to Cheron to continue the conflict. (TOS episode: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
In 2270, Bele lived on a landmass at one of Cheron's poles whereas Lokai lived on a landmass at the other. (TOS novel: No Time Like the Past)
At some unspecified point, Bele relocated to the planet Faltos, where he was encountered in 2364 by the crew of the Enterprise-D. Mysteriously, his skin color was now reversed, and he seemed to have forgotten his prior life before coming to Faltos, though the name of Captain Picard's ship seemed familiar to him. Reconciled to never being able to leave the planet, where many life forms had become trapped and learned to live in peace, Bele had become a member of its ruling tribunal. (TNG comic: "Here Today")
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External link[]
- Bele article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.