The Arkarian administrator of Arkaria Base, secretly in league with thieves, who holds the Enterprise-D's senior officers hostage in 2369 while trilithium resin is stolen from their ship.
Orton appears in the sixth-season episode Starship Mine. He seems a mild official overseeing the baryon sweep and attending Commander Hutchinson's reception, but his staff are armed, and when Geordi La Forge notices the weapons Orton has the officers held at gunpoint. Hutchinson is killed in the exchange.
His job is to keep Starfleet's people quiet until Kelsey's team has finished aboard the ship. Riker, Crusher, Troi, Data and the wounded La Forge are left to work out an escape under his eye.
Crusher and La Forge adapt the VISOR to give off a hypersonic pulse that knocks out everyone in the room except Data, who then takes control of the base. Orton was played by Glenn Morshower.