Doctor Jo'Bril was a male Takaran scientist and an expert on subspace technology. He was also an accomplished pilot. In 2369, he was invited by Dr. Beverly Crusher to view a test of Dr. Reyga's metaphasic shielding aboard the starship USS Enterprise-D. Knowing the research had promise, he saw this as an opportunity to steal the technology. He was the most enthusiastic of the small number of scientists present, and awed by being able to observe the solar plasma reactions. Jo'Bril volunteered to pilot the shuttlecraft Justman on a test of the shielding and, at the same time, sabotaged the Enterprise-D sensors in order to make it appear as if the shielding failed and Jo'Bril himself had died. Takaran physiology was extremely resilient, and he put himself into a kind of hibernation state that