Character Star Trek: Deep Space Nine · 2372

T'Lara

Vulcan admiral at Worf's extradition hearing

T'Lara is a Vulcan Starfleet admiral who presides over the hearing on Deep Space 9 that decides whether Worf should be extradited to the Klingon Empire for destroying a civilian transport.

Admiral T'Lara appears in the fourth-season episode Rules of Engagement, played by Deborah Strang. She is sent to Deep Space 9 to act as the judge in an extradition hearing after Worf, commanding the Defiant in a convoy action, fires on a ship that decloaks in front of him and turns out to be a civilian transport.
She hears the Klingon advocate Ch'Pok argue that Worf acted out of bloodlust and Benjamin Sisko argue in his defence, and she allows Ch'Pok considerable latitude in questioning Worf's character while keeping both sides to the rules of the proceeding.
The hearing ends when Odo's investigation shows that the passengers supposedly killed had died in an earlier crash, and that the incident was staged by the Empire to discredit Worf and the Federation.