Ro and the remaining Maquis join forces with Picard and the USS "Enterprise"-E to defeat the Dominion forces that are attempting to build an artificial wormhole to bypass the one near Deep Space Nine. She began to appear in the beginning with the two-part "Avatar" by Perry. The relaunch novels show the events that occur after the final episode of the television series. In "Avatar", Ro enlists in the Bajoran Militia with the rank of Lieutenant, and is assigned to Deep Space Nine as the new Security Chief under the command of Colonel Kira. This move for Ro is also chronicled in the background to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game "Star Trek Online". In "Twilight" by David R. George III, the first part of the "Mission: Gamma" mini-series, Quark and Ro start to develop romantic feelings for each other. In Perry's "Unity", Ro re-joins Starfleet after Bajor joins the Federation and its military forces are merged. She is initially apprehensive about the prospect, but is convinced to accept a pardon for her time with the Maquis by Picard. Over time, Ro was promoted to Captain and as of the "" series of books, is in command of the new Deep Space Nine following the destruction of the original at the hands of a rogue element of the . Ro was also one of the characters included at launch in the strategy video game "Star Trek Timelines" by Disruptor Beam. An unproduced script to "Star Trek: Voyager" was to have had a flashback and revealed that Tom Paris and Ro had attended Starfleet Academy together. The Bajorans have been described as analogues for a variety of displaced peoples, with "Star Trek" novelist Keith DeCandido comparing them to "Palestinians, Jews, Kurds, Haitians; the sad reality is that you can pretty much pick and choose. History is full of people who have had their homes taken from them, forced to become refugees." The Cardassian occupation of Bajor (the Bajoran homeworld) has been compared to the Holocaust, with Ro singled out as a Holocaust survivor. In his chapter "Speakers for the Dead: "Star Trek", the Holocaust, and the Representation of Atrocity" within the book "Star Trek as Myth", writer Matthew Wilheim Kapell compared the experiences and reactions of Ro Laren and Kira Nerys following the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. He said that the impact on Ro represented the "non-american view of the holocaust" in that she does not fully recover from the trauma and continues to affect in, for example preventing her from connecting with her religious beliefs in "The Next Phase".