A leader of the Kazon-Pommar sect and an old acquaintance of Neelix, approached on Sobras when Voyager seeks an alliance with one of the Kazon factions.
Jal Tersa is a majes of the Kazon-Pommar. He appears in the second-season Voyager episode Alliances.
Worn down by repeated attacks, Captain Janeway reluctantly agrees to look for a Kazon ally. While she deals with Seska and Culluh of the Nistrim, Neelix travels to a settlement on Sobras to sound out Tersa, whom he knows from his trading days.
The meeting goes badly. Tersa wants nothing to do with a crew that every sect regards as an enemy, and Neelix is thrown into a cell. There he meets Mabus and other Trabe prisoners, which leads Voyager into its short-lived pact with the Trabe and the disastrous conference of the majes.