A military officer of a pre-warp world who seizes Jonathan Archer and Malcolm Reed in a tavern, takes their strange equipment and interrogates them as suspected spies of the enemy Alliance.
Major Pell appears in the Enterprise episode The Communicator. He is an intelligence-minded officer in the army of a nation expecting to be attacked by a neighbouring power called the Alliance.
Pell's men detain Archer and Reed when they come back to a tavern to look for Reed's lost communicator. Finding scanners, phase pistols and the communicator itself, Pell assumes he has caught enemy agents carrying prototype technology.
He conducts the first rough interrogation and reports to General Gosis. Archer and Reed, unwilling to reveal that they are from another world, let him believe the cover story, which nearly costs them their lives on the gallows.