Unnamed Cryonics Seller

An unscrupulous, unnamed vendor who sold Sonny a fraudulent cryonics package launched into orbit. He remains off-stage and absent from crew interactions, yet his deceptive commerce precipitates the episode's central practical and moral dilemmas: survivors awaken displaced into the 24th century and require medical care, legal disentanglement, and logistical rescue. The vendor functions as a human source of harm and a catalytic antagonist whose negligence forces the Enterprise to absorb the consequences of predatory private commerce.