A senior member of the genetically engineered colony on Moab IV, charged with interpreting its founders' wishes, who opposes all contact with the Enterprise-D in 2368.
Martin appears in the fifth-season episode The Masterpiece Society. The colony, sealed under a dome for two centuries, has been planned down to the last individual, each person bred for a particular role. Martin's role is to guard the founders' design, and he argues against letting outsiders in even when a stellar core fragment threatens to destroy the settlement.
The colony's leader, Aaron Conor, overrules him. Martin watches with mounting anger as Hannah Bates works aboard the starship and as Conor grows close to Deanna Troi, and he treats the visitors, Geordi La Forge in particular, as genetically flawed.
He is proved right in his own terms: once the danger has passed, a number of colonists ask to leave, upsetting the balance he was meant to protect. Martin was played by Ron Canada.