A Sikarian magistrate who lavishes hospitality on the crew of Voyager in 2371 but refuses to share the trajector technology that could carry them most of the way home.
Gathorel Labin is a senior magistrate of the Sikarians, a people famed across their region for their hospitality and their love of new stories. He appears in the Voyager episode Prime Factors.
Labin invites the crew to enjoy shore leave on Sikaris and takes a personal interest in Captain Janeway, showering her with gifts and attention. When Harry Kim learns that the Sikarians possess a spatial trajector able to fold space across tens of thousands of light years, Janeway asks for its use, only to be told that Sikarian law forbids giving technology to outsiders.
Labin stalls rather than refusing outright, hoping to keep his entertaining guests a little longer. Once Janeway sees that his kindness serves chiefly his own pleasure, she ends the visit, and he coldly asks Voyager to leave.