Del Goren was a male human who belonged to the Alliance to Restore the Republic, functioning as an expert in communications and sensors within Alliance High Command. During 0 BBY, he occupied the war room at the rebel headquarters situated on the moon Yavin 4 during the Battle of Yavin, where the rebels launched an assault on the Galactic Empire's Death Star superweapon.
Goren monitored the battle via a display system, providing warnings to the rebel starfighters upon the war room's detection of approaching TIE/ln space superiority starfighters poised to engage them. Ultimately, the rebels achieved success in their mission, destroying the Death Star.
Within the Galactic Civil War, Del Goren, a male human, served as a communications and sensor specialist. He functioned as a control officer for the High Command of the Alliance to Restore the Republic in their conflict against the Galactic Empire. As a member of the Massassi Group, stationed at the Alliance's Great Temple headquarters located on the moon Yavin 4, Goren was present during the preparations for the Alliance's attack targeting the Imperial Death Star superweapon in 0 BBY.
As the thirty rebel starfighters commenced their attack, Goren accompanied Princess Leia Organa and the protocol droid C-3PO into the base's war room. As the trio began to observe the unfolding battle on a large display, an announcement indicated that the Death Star would be within firing range of the Yavin base in just fifteen minutes.
With the Death Star's arrival within firing range reduced to under seven minutes, Goren relocated to the war room's display screens, informing the starfighter squad leaders that the base had detected signals from Imperial TIE/ln space superiority starfighters preparing an attack. Red Leader Garven Dreis then identified the TIEs at point four to the rebel Red Squadron, with Goren reiterating the information over comms and requesting an update. However, Red Five pilot Luke Skywalker only had a vague awareness of the control officer's voice.
Following the engagement between rebel and Imperial forces, Goren returned to the display system as members of the rebel Gold Squadron initiated their attack run on the Death Star. He moved away from the display as the pilots attempted to estimate the number of enemy guns they would face, with only five minutes remaining before the Death Star could fire.
Both the initial and subsequent attack runs failed. With a mere thirty seconds left before the Death Star was within range, Goren and Organa approached the display again as the rebel pilot Biggs Darklighter perished during a final attack run. Skywalker, the sole remaining pilot on the run, deactivated his targeting computer, prompting Goren to turn from the display system and regard the screens with confusion. Employing the Force instead of the [computer](/article/computer], Skywalker successfully completed the attack run, destroying the Death Star just as it began its firing sequence. Shortly after the battle, the rebels conducted a complete evacuation of their forces from Yavin 4.
Del Goren's inaugural appearance occurred in the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The script identified the character only as "control officer," and he was portrayed by Burnell Tucker, who later played two additional rebel officers in the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back: Wyron Serper and Romas Navander. Goren's scenes were filmed on H Stage at Shepperton Studios between May 13 and May 18, 1976.
In Star Wars: The Original Trilogy – A Graphic Novel, a 2016 comic-book adaptation of the film penned by Alessandro Ferrari, Goren's line of dialogue is abbreviated. The 2017 reference book Star Wars: The Rebel Files, authored by Daniel Wallace, features a partial transcript from the Great Temple war room, where a control officer announces the Death Star's arrival in the Yavin system preceding the Battle of Yavin. The identity of this control officer, whether it is Goren or another character fulfilling the same role during that time, remains ambiguous.
Within the current Star Wars canon, Goren's designation was utilized in the mobile card game Star Wars: Force Collection, which initially launched in 2013. Despite Force Collection's launch preceding the Star Wars canon reset of 2014, Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee affirmed that the game received updates to align with canon. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, Goren made an appearance before the film's release in its novelization, written by Alan Dean Foster and released on November 12, 1976. The character's name also originated in Legends, initially appearing on a card in the 1996 "A New Hope Limited" set designed for the Star Wars Customizable Card Game produced by Decipher.