| File:Akoremlaan200px.jpg | |
| Akorem Laan | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Species: | Bajoran |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Played By: | Richard Libertini |
Akorem Laan was a Bajoran poet who lived during the 21st century (Earth calendar), and was considered one of Bajor's greatest poets. His work, Gaudaal's Lament, would be something Bajoran schoolchildren would learn by heart.
In the Bajoran year 9174, Akorem departed Bajor in a lightship, and disappeared. His vessel was damaged in an ion storm, and drifted into the Denorios Belt, where he opened the Bajoran wormhole, and entered the realm of the Prophets, who healed his injuries. They returned him to the Alpha Quadrant in 2372, two hundred years later. Akorem, believing himself to be the Emissary, advocated the return of the Bajoran people to the old d'jarra system. However, following several incidents, Benjamin Sisko - who had been considered by the Bajorans to be the Emissary at that time - challenged his legitimacy, and the two travelled into the wormhole. Akorem was returned to his own time by the Prophets, creating an alternate timeline. In the prior timeline, Akorem's greatest work, The Call of the Prophets, was left unfinished after the twelfth stanza; but upon his return, Akorem finished the poem - something Kira Nerys found confusing. (DS9: "Accession")
Akorem emerges from the wormhole.
- In this alternate timeline where Akorem Laan was never gone, his epic poem, "The Call of the Prophets" is finished - which it was not in the original timeline.