Doctor Maalot was a 24th century male Lekk astrophysicist. (VOY novel: Death of a Neutron Star)
Biography[]
In 2375 Maalot was on a medium-sized asteroid near the outer edge of the Lekk system, tinkering with a signal-enhancing device for a large array of radio antennae. From this he detected weak, rapidly variable, periodic signals from a binary pulsar which were incredibly rare.
From it pulsar's extremely short orbital period of eight seconds, Maalot was able to deduce the nature of the stellar bodies to be a binary neutron star. As this discovery was the rarest in known space, the doctor planned to present his findings to his government.
Two weeks later Maalot and Lieutenant Tyla of the Lekk Deep Space Force were present at the Congress Hall for an astrophysical report when the Qavoks kidnapped the First Citizen and his cabinet. Due to their presence Maalot and Tyla were also captured and taken to a Qavok world.
While in captivity, Maalot and Tyla overheard of the Qavok's plan to force the passing binary neutron star explosion and send it to the Lekk system. The pair managed to escape their captors and commander the Qavok prince's yacht. The pair were pursued by the Falcon commanded by Captain Qavim.
The doctor and the lieutenant were saved by the intervention of the USS Voyager, after Captain Kathryn Janeway decided to side with the Lekks after Qavim attacked her vessel. Once the Falcon was driven away, Maalot and Tyla were permitted to come aboard.
Upon boarding Voyager, Maalot was a bit shocked at meeting Seven of Nine, as she was a Borg, but he prioritized the urgency of the dying neutron stars. He informed the Janeway of the threat and although the captain was skeptical of his claims, she allowed him to explain the situation.
Maalot then told Janeway and her crew that the binary neutron star was only ten light years away and would be an imminent disaster as his findings on the lesser star indicated that it would become a mini-supernova, leading to the more massive star in becoming a runaway object that would fly away in space at a relativistic speed in the direction of the explosion of the lesser star. The rogue star would then destroy any solar system in its path, which he had not yet calculated, but feared that his home system was in the path of it.
Maalot and Tyla joined Voyager in traveling to the binary system, with Maalot promising to share his data on the neutron stars. And a day before Voyager reached the system, over a meal, Maalot answered numerous questions from Janeway, Seven and Harry Kim on the stars. When Maalot and Tyla informed the Federation crew about the Qavok alleged plan to direct the neutron stars, they were met with doubt as such a thing should not be possible. Maalot was in agreement with them, though he and his companion could not dismiss the threat.
In order to confirm if such a feat was possible, Maalot was given access to the Voyager's astrophysical instruments such as the X-ray imagingspectrometer.