Toran is a minister of the Bajoran Provisional Government in charge of the energy project on the moon Jeraddo, who presses Kira to remove the last farmers so that work can begin.
Minister Toran appears in the first-season episode Progress and is unrelated to the Cardassian Gul Toran of a later season. He is responsible for a scheme to tap the molten core of Jeraddo, Bajor's fifth moon, which is expected to supply power to several hundred thousand homes but will leave the moon uninhabitable.
When Major Kira finds the elderly farmer Mullibok and two companions still living there, Toran is unsympathetic. He points out that the evacuation order has been issued, that the project's timetable serves the whole of Bajor, and that three stubborn people cannot be allowed to delay it.
His impatience leaves Kira caught between an order she cannot fault in principle and a man she has come to admire, a choice she finally makes by burning Mullibok's cottage.