A senior Starfleet admiral, never seen on screen, whom James Kirk persuades to give him back command of the refitted Enterprise during the V'Ger emergency in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Admiral Nogura is a high-ranking officer at Starfleet Command in the period of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He is spoken of but never appears.
When the V'Ger cloud is detected heading for Earth, Kirk, then Chief of Starfleet Operations, goes to Nogura and talks his way back into the centre seat of the Enterprise, displacing Captain Willard Decker. Kirk mentions the meeting to Commander Sonak on arriving in San Francisco.
Nogura's name comes up again when a reluctant Leonard McCoy beams aboard and complains that the admiral used an obscure reserve activation clause to draft him back into service, something McCoy rightly suspects was Kirk's idea.