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Ktaran antiques. Treasured artifacts. Several Ktaran antiques homeworld of Bajor. (“The Collaborator” [DS9)). SEE: llvian were offered for sale at one of the shops on the Promenade at Proclamation. Deep Space 9. Also offered was a 21st-century plasma coil in near-perfect condition that caught the interest of Geordi La Kukalaka. Dr. Julian Bashir's beloved teddy bear. Kukalaka Forge. (“Birthright, Part I” [TNG]). became Bashir's first surgical patient when Julian was only five years old, when he stitched Kukalaka's leg closed. Bashir kept Ktaria VII. Planet. Home to the Ktarian civilization. The Ktarians ~~ Kukalaka on a shelf in his room, even after he'd grown up. (“The bury their dead in an elaborate manner by laying thousands of Quickening” [DS9]). sacred stones in the tombs, each stone representing a special prayer. As a Starfleet officer, Chakotay once visited Ktaria VII Kulge. (Jordan Lund). A Klingon officer who had sworn loyalty to During a tomb expedition, he picked up a rock from the burial site Gowron during the Klingon civil war of 2367-2368. But when and later learned, to his horror, that he had desecrated the grave ~~ Gowron's forces suffered multiple defeats, Kulge began to quesby taking a sacred stone. (“Emanations” [VGR)). tion Gowron's leadership. Gowron killed him in the High Council chambers. (“Redemption, Part II" [TNG]). Ktarian chocolate puff. Confection made with 17 varieties of chocolate. It was Deanna Troi's favorite dessert. (“Liaisons” Kumamoto. City in Japan on planet Earth. Home to Keiko [TNG)). O'Brien's mother. Although Keiko was committed to her career as a Starfleet botanist, she was so distressed at the living accomKtarian eggs. Large orange-and-red mottled eggs that were modations upon moving into station Deep Space 9 that she olive green on the inside. Fried Ktarian eggs were a favorite of threatened to go stay with her mother in Kumamoto. (“Emissary” Antonia. (Star Trek Generations). [DS9)). : ] Ktarian game. An ingenious recre- Kumeh maneuver. Combat tactic in which one sublight space ational device worn like a pair of head- vehicle maneuvers behind a planet to avoid detection by another. sets, used in the Ktarian attempt to ~~ Picard began the Starfleet battle simulation of 2365 by using gain control of the Federation Starfleet the relatively conservative Kumeh maneuver against the U.S.S. in 2368. The Ktarian game employed Hathaway. (“Peak Performance” [TNG]). small lasers that played directly on the optic nerve, creating a holographic ~~ Kunivas. (Robert Bauer). Klingon criminal killed in 2364 while tryimage of a game field on which the ing to avoid prosecution on the Klingon Homeworld. (“Heart of player used mental control to direct the trajectory of small flying ~~ Glory” [TNG]). SEE: Korris, Captain. disks into various target funnel shapes. The game had powerful psychotropically addictive properties that rendered the player WM Kurak. (Tricia O'Neil). Klingon warp-field extremely susceptible to external control. (“The Game" [TNG]). SEE: specialist. Kurak was invited aboard the Jol, Etana. Enterprise-D in 2369 to participate in the test of a new metaphasic shield Ktarian glaciers. Massive ice glaciers renowned for excellent invented by Dr. Reyga. When the inventor skiing conditions. Chakotay invited Captain Janeway to join of the shield was murdered, she came members of the crew on a holodeck re-creation of Ktarian glaci- under suspicion as the killer. (“Suspicions” ers shortly after stardate 50425. (“Macrocosm” [VGR]). [TNG]). Tricia O'Neil had previously played Enterprise-C Captain Rachel Garrett in Ktarian music festival. Celebration of Ktarian music. Ensign “Yesterday's Enterprise” (TNG). Harry Kim met his future fiancee, Libby, at a Ktarian music festival, because he was in her seat. (“Non Sequitur” [VGRY). /t seems ~~ Kurill Prime. Planet in the Gamma Quadrant, homeworld to a odd that the Ktarians would have any part in a music festival, civilization known as the Vorta. Eris reportedly was from Kurill since less than four years earlier they attempted to take over the Prime. (“The Jem'Hadar" [DS9)). Federation. (“The Game” [TNG]). Kurl. Planet located a considerable distance from Federation Ktarian vessel. A small spacecraft commanded by Ktarian oper- space. Kurl was once the home of a thriving humanoid civilizaative Etana Jol. This craft met the Enterprise-D near the Phoenix tion, but the Kurlans all disappeared thousands of years ago, Cluster as part of the Ktarian Expansion plan. When the Ktarian leaving behind a rich cultural heritage that is still being studied by plan failed, the vessel was taken in tow by the Enterprise-D and archaeologists. (“The Chase” [TNG]). SEE: Kurlan naiskos. delivered to Starbase 82. (“The Game” [TNG]). Kurlan naiskos. Archaeological 1 © Ktarians. Humanoids characterized by their enlarged frontal artifact. Small ceramic figures = - skull bones and feline eyes. Native to planet Ktaria VII. Although ~~ about 30 centimeters high, naiskos =~ y politically nonaligned, in 2368 the Ktarians devised a plan they statues were produced in ancient -~ referred to as the expansion, intended to gain control of the times by the people of planet Kurl. Federation Starfleet, and eventually of the Federation itself. They These statues were designed to be distributed a psychotropically addictive Ktarian game to mem- opened, revealing a multitude of bers of the Enteprise-D crew, planning to use the crew as tools in similar but smaller figurines inside, their planned expansion. (“The Game" [TNG]). SEE: Jol, Etana. representing the Kurlan belief that Ensign Samantha Wildman's husband, Greskrendtregk, was each person is made up of a comKtarian. (“Dreadnought” [VGRI). Ktarians have scales on some munity of individuals with different parts of their body and have cranial ridges running from the cen- voices and desires. Although many ter of their forehead over to the back of their head. (“Deadlock” ancient naiskos have been found by [VGRY]). archaeologists, relatively few are intact, and fewer still have all the smaller figurines. Professor Richard Galen gave an intact Kubus Oak. (Bert Remsen). Bajoran national who served as Kurlan naiskos to his former student, Jean-Luc Picard. That parspecial liaison between the Cardassians and the Bajoran govern- ticular artifact was even more prized because it was of the third ment during the occupation. After the occupation, Kubus was Kurlan dynasty, made some 12,000 years ago by the Kurlan artiexiled to Cardassia because of his alleged role in the death san known only as the Master of Tarquin Hill. (“The Chase” of many Bajorans during the occupation. In 2370 he returned [TNG)). In later episodes, Picard’s Kurlan naiskos could be seen to Deep Space 9, requesting to be allowed to return to his adorning a corner table of his ready room. Distressingly, Picard