The blacksmith of a village on Barkon IV, who buys the radioactive metal carried by the amnesiac Data in 2370 and later leads the mob that attacks him.
Skoran appears in the seventh-season episode Thine Own Self. He is a large, blunt man who is unsettled from the start by the pale stranger, the more so when Data casually lifts an anvil that has fallen on a villager. He pays the magistrate Garvin for the strange metal Data was carrying and forges it into pendants, which are soon being worn all over the village.
When people begin to sicken, Skoran decides the stranger has brought a plague. He strikes Data during a confrontation and tears away part of his face, revealing the machinery underneath, which settles the matter for him.
He and others corner Data at the well just as the android pours in his cure, and Skoran drives a metal rod through his body. He was played by Michael G. Hagerty.