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B’aht Qul challenge. A traditional Klingon names were created, in part, Simply to acknowledge that the ship | ro game of strength in which one contestant had different apparent sizes in different episodes. (“Yesterday's holds both arms forward, while the other Enterprise” [TNG]) i— places his or her arms between the first, wrists touching. The first contestant attempts ~~ B'tardat. (Terence McNally). Science minister of planet Kaelon Il to press the arms together, while the second In 2367, B'tardat initiated hostile action against the Enterprise-D attempts to force them apart. (“The Chase" [TNG]). when Dr. Timicin requested asylum aboard the ship in defiance of his planet's laws. (“Half a Life” [TNG]) B'Etor. (Gwynyth Walsh). A member i pe of the Klingon Empire's politically A > B'Zal. Ferengi signal code that used alternating patterns of light influential Duras family, B'Etor was of i 4 and dark to transmit simple text messages. In 2370, Bok the younger of Duras’s two sisters. gees vd FJ exploded a probe near the Enterprise-D, which created a series Following the death of Duras in 2367, of light patterns. In B'Zal, these translated as, “My revenge is at B'Etor plotted unsuccessfully with pa pl hand.” (“Bloodlines” [TNG)). her sister, Lursa, to seat Duras’s ille- . gitimate son, Toral, as leader of the B-Type warbird. Federation Starfleet designation for the Romulan Klingon High Council, plunging the D'deridex-class warbird spacecraft. (“The Defector” [TNG]) empire into a Klingon civil war. (“Redemption, Parts | and II” [TNG]). B'Etor subsequently dropped out of sight for two years until she and her sister attempted to raise capital for their armies by selling bilitrium explosives to the Kohn-ma, a Bajoran terrorist organization in 2369. ("Past Prologue” [DS9]). In 2370 she and her sister illegally mined a magnesite ore deposit on Kalla lll that belonged to the Pakleds. They later tried to sell the ore to the Yridians. (“Firstborn” [TNG]). In 2371, B'Etor and Lursa obtained trilithium weapons technology from Dr. Tolian Soran, in hopes of making another attempt to reconquer the Klingon Empire. When the Ba'el. (Jennifer Gatti). Daughter of a Klingon Starship Enterprise-D stumbled upon their activities with Soran at ~~ woman, Gi'ral, and Romulan officer Tokath. [3 the Amargosa Observatory, B'Etor and Lursa attacked the Ba'el was born and raised at the Romulan va Enterpnse-D. B'Etor was killed when the Enterprise-D returned fire, prison camp in the Carraya system, and wr destroying her bird-of-prey spacecraft. (Star Trek Generations). thus had an unusual sense of tolerance - toward both cultures. Although the existence B'hala. Legendary ancient city on of the camp remains a secret from the J —— planet Bajor that disappeared some Klingon Homeworld, Ba'el did once meet a - 20,000 years ago. Bajoran archaeol- Klingon from the outside when Worf discov- - C1] ogists searched for B'hala for the ered the camp in 2369. The two became romantically involved, but - past ten millennia, but it was notuntil Ba'el felt she could not leave Carraya because of the racial intoler= ball Benjamin Sisko, the Emissary of ance she would experience in either the Romulan or Klingon Bajoran prophecy, experienced empires. (“Birthright Parts | and II” [TNG]) pagh'tem’far, that the ruins of B'hala were uncovered in 2373. Up until that point, one of the few ~~ Balt'masor Syndrome. Disease. Klingon exobiologist J'Ddan sufrecords of the sacred city was an ancient icon painting that fered from Balt'masor Syndrome. He required regular treatments, showed the city 20 millennia ago. The painting showed abantaca given by injection, for the condition. (“The Drumhead” [TNG]) at the center of the city. (“Rapture” [DS9]). SEE: Zocal's Third Prophecy. The painting of B'hala was done by scenic artists Doug ~~ baakonite. Type of metal. The blades of a modern bat'leth sword Drexler and Mike Okuda. are made of baakonite. (“Blood Oath” [DS9)). B'iJik. (Erick Avari). Minor bureaucrat serving the Klingon High Babel Conference. Interstellar meeting held on planetoid Babel Council in 2368. B'iJik was reluctant to convey a request from in 2267 to consider the admission of the Coridan planets to the Captain Jean-Luc Picard to High Council leader Gowron in 2368 United Federation of Planets. Among the attendees at the conferwhen Picard requested the loan of a Klingon bird-of-prey. B'iJik ence were representatives from the Andorian, Tellarite, and eventually relented when Picard’s arguments proved highly per- Vulcan governments. (“Journey to Babel” [TOS)). Vulcan ambas suasive. (“Unification, Part |" [TNG]). Erick Avari also appeared as ~~ sador Sarek spoke in favor of the Coridan admission, and is Vedek Yarka in “Destiny "(DS9). credited with passage of the measure. (“Sarek” [TNG]).

B'Nar. A Talarian mourning ritual. The B'Nar is a rhythmic high- 2 pitched wail that is expressed for hours at a time. The Talarian boys rescued from a damaged observation craft in 2367 made £ - the B'Nar in protest for being held aboard the Enterprise-D 5 Ra (“Suddenly Human" [TNG]) & I 7% ) yp. "Si ; . B’rel-class bird-of-prey. i AY 4 Small Klingon bird-of- \ ! + BB rT prey with a crew of about r ~ ¢ v pen a dozen, commonly used “- [o 3 | as a scout ship. (“Rascals” - ’ 2 [TNG]). We assume that the bird-of-prey in l= . Star Trek Ill was a B'rel-class ship, while | the larger versions of that ship | | [| sometimes seen on Star Trek 2 |) The Next Generation were = ob K'Vort-class vessels. There — was no difference in the design of the two ship types, since the Babel. Code name of a neutral planetoid, site of the Babel same model was used for visual effects photography. The two Conference in 2267. (“Journey to Babel" [TOS])