A Yridian dealer in information found in a bar on Dessica II in 2370, who tells the Enterprise-D's officers that he saw Captain Picard vaporised there by mercenaries.
Yranac appears in Gambit, Part I in the seventh season. Picard has vanished while on an archaeological trip, and Riker, Worf, Troi and Crusher follow his trail to a seedy bar, posing as traders looking for a missing associate.
Yranac at first denies everything, then bargains. He describes a fight in which a man answering Picard's description was shot and disintegrated, and the crew find residue that seems to confirm it. In exchange for the names and the heading of the people responsible he asks for a shuttle, and is taken aboard the Enterprise instead.
Under pressure from Riker he gives up what he knows, which leads the ship to Barradas III and to Baran. He was played by Alan Altshuld.