Palmer

"It's just cargo, open fire!"

- Palmer orders a officer

Captain Palmer was a human male Imperial officer who was ordered by Admiral Kirk to go to the Palshan system because there was a resistance cell there. Palmer protested until Kirk said that there was only 4 people. So he ordered the pilots to lay in course. However he was killed while a A-wing of Green Squadron crashed into the bridge of his light cruiser.

Behind the scenes
He is voiced by Michael Rider who also played the transporter officer in four episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Originally fellow TNG co-star J. Patrick McNamara (who played Captain Taggart of the USS Repulse in "Unnatural Selection") was gonna voice him, but he was unavailable.