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original Star Trek series. At the time, they trying to protect her father from his accusers, (“The Conscience appeared as fairly ordinary humans with of the King" [TOS)). heavy makeup and mustaches. Beginning CN with Star Trek: The Motion Picture, y Kodrak. Cover name used by Odo in 2373. For a covert mission improved makeup techniques (and bigger vl to Ty'Gokor, Odo was surgically altered to appear Klingon, and budgets) led to their present elaborate ! he assumed the identity of Kodrak. ("Apocalypse Rising” [DS9)). forehead designs. The differences between the two types of Klingons have ~ KoH-man-ara. Prescribed move in the Klingon Mok’bara martial never been definitively explained on the ~ art form. It closely resembles the crane block of Earth's tai chi show, although Worf, in “Trials and Tribble-ations” (DSS), made it ~~ chuan. (“Second Chances” [TNG]). very clear that this is not something that Klingons discuss with outsiders. The issue was further complicated when three Kohl hibernation system, Sophisticated system designed to Klingons, Kor (pictured), Koloth, and Kang, who had appeared in keep a few members of the Kohl settlement alive in stasis while the original series with the original makeup design, appeared on their planet recovered from an extended period of glaciation. The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine wearing the motion-picture-style hibernation system preserved the survivors’ bodies in stasis Klingon foreheads. According to David Alexander (in Star Trek while their minds were kept occupied in a computer-created virCreator, a biography of Gene Roddenberry, Roc Books, 1994), tual reality. Survivors of the Kohl settlement used five hibernathe Klingons were named for Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan, a friend tion pods located 2 3 kilometers below the surface of their planet. of Roddenberry who served with him in the Los Angeles Police The recall subroutine within their hibernation system was proDepartment. grammed to revive the five sleepers when environmental conditions on the planet surface were again hospitable. (“The Thaw" kion peags. Chopstick-like Wadi implements that are highly [VGR]). SEE: Clown. sought after in their culture and have many different uses. Falow offered Quark kfon peags as a wager, but the Ferengi declined the ~~ Kohl physician. (Tony Carlin). One of the few members of the bid. (“Move Along Home" [DS9)). Kohl settlement who survived stasis in the Kohl hibernation system. In 2372, he and a Kohl programmer were rescued from Kloog. (Mickey Morton). Large, hairy drill thrall who fought Kirk their malfunctioning hibernation system by the crew of the in 2268 during one of the games on planet Triskelion. (“The Voyager. (“The Thaw" [VGR]). Gamesters of Triskelion” [TOS]) Kohl programmer. (Shannon O'Hurley). One of the few surviving KLS stabilizer. Engineering device used to maintain power out- members of the Kohl settlement in the Delta Quadrant. In 2372, put stability of a starship’s warp core. ("Phage” [VGR). she and a Kohl physician were rescued from their malfunctioning hibernation system by the crew of the Voyager. (“The Thaw" Kobayashi Maru scenario. A Starfleet Academy training exer- [VGR). cise in which command-track cadets were presented with a “nowin" scenario as a test of character. The simulation involved a Kohl settlement. Planned community of technologically distress call from a Federation freighter, the Kobayashi Maru, sophisticated humanoids on a planet in the Delta Quadrant. The which had struck a gravitic mine in the Klingon Neutral Zone. The ~~ settlement was a major trade stop in the area, with a population cadet had a choice of several options, none of which led toa numbering around four-hundred thousand. In 2353, a major “winning” conclusion, in that it was impossible to simultaneously solar flare occurred in the system, radically changing weather save the freighter, prevent destruction of the cadet's ship, and patterns on the planet, resulting in a glacial freeze. Five of the avoid an armed exchange with the Klingons. The Kobayashi Maru settlers managed to survive by enclosing themselves in an was regarded as something of a rite of passage for command- underground virtual reality controlled by the Kohl hibernation track cadets. James T. Kirk was reputed to have taken the test system, which was set to revive them in 2368. (“The Thaw" three times while he was at the academy. Prior to his third [VGR]). attempt, Kirk surreptitiously reprogrammed the simulation computer to make it possible to beat the simulation, and subsequent- Kohlanese stew. Meal served at Quark’s bar at Deep Space 9. A ly received a commendation for original thinking. (Star Trek Il: The ~~ food-replicator malfunction caused by an old act of Bajoran sabWrath of Khan). otage caused the Kohlanese stew to become particularly unpalatable on stardate 46423. (“Babel" [DS9)). Kobayashi Maru. In the Starfleet Academy's training simulation of that name, the Kobayashi Maru was a third-class neutronic fuel Kohms. One of two major ethnic groups on planet Omega IV carrier with a crew of 81 and 300 passengers. (Star Trek Il: The who fought a terrible bacteriological war centuries ago. The few Wrath of Khan). survivors of the conflict lived because they happened to have powerful natural immunity, and had extraordinarily long life Kobheerian captain. SEE: Viterian, Captain. spans. In 2268, Starfleet Captain Ronald Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter sided with the Kohms, supplying them with phasers with Kobliad. Humanoid civilization. The Kobliad needed the sub- which they struck against their ancient enemies, the Yangs. stance deuridium to stabilize their cell structures, prolonging Enterprise personnel, investigating the disappearance of the their lives. The demand for deuridium far outweighed its avail- Exeter, theorized that the Kohms might have been culturally simability, so some Kobliad took illegal routes to procure the sub- ilar to Earth's 20th-century Chinese Communists. (“The Omega REIS, (“The Passenger” [DS9]). SEE: Kajada, Ty; Vantika, Glory” [TOS]. ao. Kohn-Ma. Militant Bajoran terrorist organization that opposed Kodos the Executioner. (Arnold Moss). Governor of planet any outside influence in ruling their planet, including Interference Tarsus IV in 2246. When the colony's food supply was destroyed from the Federation. In 2369, Kohn-Ma dissident Tahna Los by an exatic fungus, Kodos seized power and declared martial threatened to destroy the Bajoran wormhole in hopes of decreaslaw. Kodos rationed the remaining food supply by selecting some ing Bajoran importance to the Federation and other factions. four thousand colonists to die, according to his personal theories (“Past Prologue” [DS9]). of eugenics. Shortly thereafter, Kodos was believed to have died. It was later found that Kodos had assumed a new identity, that of ~~ Koinonians. An ancient intelligent culture that was composed of actor Anton Karidian, and evaded detection for some 20 years two different life-forms, one of energy, and the other of matter. until Thomas Leighton identified him as Kodos. Kodos was acci- The physical Koinonians destroyed their civilization a millennium dentally killed by his insane daughter, Lenore Karidian, who was ago after several generations of war, leaving ruins that were stud-