The stern Nygean warden whose condemned prisoners are housed aboard Voyager in 2377, and who gradually reconsiders his view of the murderer Iko after the man's change of character.
Yediq appears in the seventh-season Voyager episode Repentance, played by Tim de Zarn. He commands a Nygean vessel carrying prisoners to their executions, and when it is crippled Voyager takes him, his guards and the convicts aboard.
Yediq regards the prisoners as beyond redemption and objects to Captain Janeway's insistence on humane treatment, especially after his guards beat the violent inmate Iko. He is equally dismissive when the Doctor reports that medical nanoprobes have repaired a defect in Iko's brain and given him a conscience.
During an escape attempt Iko has the chance to kill Yediq and instead hands over the weapon. Shaken, the warden supports Iko's appeal to the family of his victim, who under Nygean law decide the sentence, though they refuse to spare him.