Omne developed the Phoenix Process, a method of using transporter technology to create perfect duplicates of people, thus resurrecting them after death. He staged the death of James T. Kirk, created an identical duplicate of the Captain, and threatened to use his technology to cause chaos within the Federation. He committed suicide after fighting Spock, knowing that the Phoenix Process would resurrect him. Omne then boarded the Enterprise, but was shot by Kirk. (TOS novel: The Price of the Phoenix) The two Phoenix novels implied that Omne may have been of vulcanoid ancestry.