Professor Vard was a Tandaran temporal physicist.
Vard was responsible for designing the phase discriminators that protected the Eridian Vault.
In 2381, Vard and his students were nearly killed aboard a hoverbus, but were mysteriously saved. Department of Temporal Investigations special agents Gariff Lucsly and Marion Dulmur investigated and found that temporal agent Jena Noi was responsible for saving Vard. (DTI novel: Watching the Clock)