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Volnoth

Aged Gatherer of the clan Lornak

An elderly Acamarian Gatherer and member of the Lornak clan who is killed by the touch of Yuta at a camp on Gamma Hromi II in The Vengeance Factor.

Volnoth is an old man among the Gatherers, the Acamarian exiles who have lived as raiders for a century. He appears in the third-season episode The Vengeance Factor.
He belongs to the band led by Brull, which the Enterprise tracks to Gamma Hromi II while helping Sovereign Marouk seek a reconciliation. During the talks Yuta, Marouk's cook and food taster, finds him alone. Volnoth half recognises her from a time when he was young, and when she touches his face he collapses and dies of what appears to be heart failure.
Doctor Crusher later finds a microvirus that attacks only members of the Lornak clan. Yuta is the last of the Tralesta, altered to survive for decades and avenge their massacre.