A Kobali man who raised the reanimated Ensign Lyndsay Ballard as his daughter Jhet'leya and who follows her to Voyager in 2376 to bring her back to his people.
Q'ret appears in the sixth-season Voyager episode Ashes to Ashes, played by Kevin Lowe. The Kobali reproduce by recovering the dead of other species and altering their bodies, and Q'ret was given the transformed body of Voyager's Ensign Lyndsay Ballard to raise as his own child.
When Ballard's memories lead her to steal a shuttle and return to Voyager, Q'ret pursues her. He speaks to her gently, as a parent rather than a captor, insisting that her old life is over and that her true family is waiting for her.
Captain Janeway refuses to hand her over, and Q'ret comes back with Kobali ships that attack Voyager. Ballard, finding that she no longer fits among her old shipmates and that the Doctor cannot fully reverse her change, chooses to go home with him.