Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon is the name of a three-book series written by Keith R.A. DeCandido and published by Pocket Books

Pocket Books

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 that takes place in the fiction

Fiction

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al Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

 universe. The series focuses on the crew of the titular Klingon

Klingon

Klingons are a fictional warrior race in the Star Trek universe.Klingons are recurring villains in the 1960s television show Star Trek: The Original Series, and have appeared in all five spin-off series and eight feature films...

 starship

Starship

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 I.K.S. Gorkon. DeCandido's more recent Klingon-centric series is titled "Star Trek: Klingon Empire".

Inspiration

DeCandido envisioned his characters being "played" by certain actors: he wrote Lokor with Keith Hamilton Cobb

Keith Hamilton Cobb

-Career:He is best known for his roles as the ruthless Nietzschean mercenaryTyr Anasazi in the science-fiction series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda from 2000 to 2002, and as Noah Keefer on All My Children from 1994 to 1996...

 in mind, Lucy Lawless

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 was his inspiration for Leader Wol, and André the Giant

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 was the inspiration for beq Goran. Other characters on the ship have appeared on screen in various Star Trek shows.

Vessel

The Gorkon is a Chancellor-class war cruiser, named after the Klingon chancellor Gorkon. It is about half a kilometre long and has a crew complement of over 2,000. It is one of the first Chancellor-class ships, sent by chancellor Martok

Martok

Martok is a recurring character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by actor J. G. Hertzler.-Overview:Little backstory is given regarding the early life of Martok, except for a brief history sketched by himself in the Deep Space Nine episode "Once More Unto the Breach"...

 to the previously unexplored Kavrot sector, to find new planet

Planet

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s to conquer for the glory of the Klingon Empire. In addition to the Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon series, the vessel also appears in Diplomatic Implausibility, Brave and the Bold: Book 2, and A Burning House.

Novels

I.K.S. Gorkon

• A Good Day to Die (2003): The Gorkon finds a new planet, whose population is even more warlike than the Klingons
• Honor Bound (2003): The Gorkon is engaged in a Klingon civil war
• Enemy Territory (2005): The Gorkon helps a group of alien rebels overthrow their oppressive government

Klingon Empire

• A Burning House (2008): The Gorkon is forced to return to Qo'noS to undergo repairs.