Gorgan, the "Friendly Angel"
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Gorgan (also known as the "Friendly Angel") was a noncorporeal being preserved in a cave on the planet Triacus. Spock's research suggested that Gorgan was possibly the last survivor of a race of marauders who used Triacus as a base from which to pillage the Epsilon Indi star group, until their victims rose up and destroyed them. The same space legends suggested that one survivor fled to a cave where it awaited the right "catalyst" to send it once again marauding across the galaxy.
In 2268, Gorgan was accidentally released from his cave by the Starnes Exploration Party. He forced the adults of the Exploration Party to become mentally unstable and commit suicide and manipulated the children of the Exploration Party to follow him in his quest of conquering the universe.
On stardate 5029, Gorgan used the children to establish mind control over the crew of the USS Enterprise and forced the ship on a heading for Marcus XII. Gorgan's hopes were that nearly a million children on Marcus will join the other children as their friends, and the rest will be their enemies.
The children could collectively summon Gorgan by twice chanting:
(The children chant "High, high fire and snow", instead of "Hail, hail", during their second summoning of the Gorgan.)
Gorgan was defeated by Captain Kirk, when he turned the children on him by recalling their lives with, and deaths of, their parents. Losing the children's obedience, Gorgan lost his power and dissolved into oblivion. (TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead")
Apocrypha
In The Q Continuum series of books by Greg Cox, Gorgan, along with the Beta XII-A entity, the Sha Ka Ree God, and a malevolent being known as 0 were brought into this dimension by a much younger Q. The group committed a number of atrocities, including the destruction of the Tkon Empire before being defeated by the Q Continuum.
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