Gart Kimlash was one of the Chodak dissident scientists who seized control of the Unity Device, arguing that its misuse by the Chodak Empire for the means of conquest would destabilize the universe.

Before disappearing, he sent a message to the Chodak people, explaining that the Unity Device will reappear in the future in an interval of 56,000 balchacks until the Chodak race would mature enough to reclaim the Device. (TNG video game: A Final Unity)