The Starfleet commander running the Pathfinder Project on Earth, who doubted Reginald Barclay's plan to contact Voyager.
Commander Pete Harkins leads the Pathfinder Project, Starfleet's effort to make contact with the lost Voyager, in Pathfinder. He orders Reginald Barclay not to trouble Admiral Owen Paris with his unworkable ideas, and is unimpressed by Barclay's growing reliance on a holographic recreation of Voyager and its crew.
When Barclay oversteps with Admiral Paris and is removed from the project, Harkins becomes increasingly convinced that his engineer is unstable. Barclay breaks back in and uses the MIDAS Array to open a micro wormhole near Voyager, proving his theory, and Harkins sees the first link with the lost ship established.