American actor who played Tarquin, the lonely telepathic exile who contacts Hoshi Sato across space and offers help in exchange for her company, in the third-season Star Trek: Enterprise episode Exile.
Maury Sterling is an American actor who guest-starred in the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise.
In Exile he plays Tarquin, a powerful telepath banished from his own people and living alone in a great house on a remote planet. He reaches into Hoshi Sato's mind from light-years away and proposes to use his gift to help find the Xindi if she will stay with him while he works.
Tarquin first shows himself in a pleasing human form and only later in his own. He has outlived several earlier companions and hopes Hoshi will remain for good. When she refuses and he tries to force the matter she threatens his equipment, and he lets her go with the information she came for.