Qo'noS
Class:	M
Type:	Planet
Satellites:	At least one moon
Native Species:	Klingon
Location:	Klingon system
Affiliation:	Klingon Empire

"Only Qo'noS endures".

- Klingon death chant (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")

Qo'noS (transliterated to Kronos in English) was a planet in the Klingon system, homeworld of the warp capable Klingon species, and the capital of the Klingon Empire.

Contents 1 Astronomical data 2 Further information 2.1 Historical 2.2 Geographical 2.3 Zoological 3 Appendices 3.1 Appearances 3.2 Background information 3.2.1 The name of the homeworld 3.2.2 Location of Qo'noS 3.2.2.1 Star Trek: Star Charts 3.3 External link

Astronomical dataEdit

Using the Vulcan star charts, Qo'noS was first visited by Humans in 2151. It was about four days away from Sol at warp 4.5. (ENT: "Broken Bow") The coordinates of the planet were 43.89.26.05. (Star Trek Into Darkness)

Further informationEdit

HistoricalEdit

Main article: Klingon history

Qo'noS was the homeworld of the Klingons and the capital world of the Klingon Empire, and housed the Klingon High Council and other important institutions.

Qo'noS had achieved interstellar travel capability around the time of Kahless in the 9th century. Warp capability was achieved some time after 1947 and warp 6 had been achieved some time before 2152. (TNG: "Rightful Heir"; DS9: "Little Green Men"; VOY: "Day of Honor"; ENT: "Judgment")

In 2293, the Klingon moon of Praxis, a key energy-production facility for the Klingon Empire, exploded after an accident involving over-mining which sent out a subspace shock wave, causing severe damage to the planet's ozone layer. This event forced planning for the evacuation of the planet and led to the signing of the First Khitomer Accord with the Federation. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

Qo'noS joined the Federation at some point between 2327 and 2365. (TNG: "Samaritan Snare") The Treaty of Alliance was signed by both parties. (TNG: "Sarek")

GeographicalEdit

One region on Qo'nos was the Ketha lowlands, which were dominated by agricultural usage and was the birthplace of Chancellor Martok. (DS9: "Once More Unto the Breach")

Topography

• Caves of No'Mat
• Hamar Mountains
• Sea of Gatan
• Kang's Summit
• Kri'stak volcano
• Lake of Lusor
• Skral River

Regions

• Ketha Province
  • Ketha lowlands
• Mekro'vak region

Cities

• First City (capital)
  • Great Hall
  • Klingon nightclub
  • Old Quarter
• Qam-Chee
• Quin'lat
• Tong Vey

Landmarks

• Great Domes of Qo'noS

ZoologicalEdit

• Glob fly
• Goat
• Grint hound
• Grishnar cat
• Jackal mastiff
• Lingta
• Monster dog
• Octopus
• Kolar beast
• Pipius
• Saber bear
• Serpent worm
• Sark
• Targ

Appendices Edit

Appearances Edit

Background information Edit

The depiction of the Klingon capital, as seen in "Broken Bow", was visualized using a matte painting done by Illusion Arts, Inc.. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 10, p. 30)

For the planet's appearance in Star Trek Into Darkness, the filmmakers were inspired by Pripyat, the city abandoned due to the Chernobyl disaster that inspired Praxis in The Undiscovered Country. When asked if the damaged moon seen in the film was Praxis, Roberto Orci declined to comment. [3] Production designer Scott Chambliss took classical influence for the buildings in the Ketha Province. "The quadrant of the city where the action takes place is sort of an interpretation of the Roman Colosseum, the warrens below the Colosseum floor," he said. [4]

The visual effects team led by Ben Grossman developed the rest of its appearance, developing a toxic atmosphere from which the D4 class ships could appear from. Grossman added "We took reference from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai [...] What I liked was when you see pictures photographed from up there, the buildings are so tall that they peek through the clouds and you have no real sense of how far you are away from the ground. That gave us the idea to build the planet Kronos in atmospheric layers. We tried to imagine what a planet like Jupiter would be like underneath all these layers of atmosphere."[5]

The name of the homeworldEdit

• Kronos: The Klingon homeworld remained canonically unnamed until Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in which it was identified as "Kronos", spelled that way in the film's script. [6] The spelling "Kronos" was also used in most of the scripts of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes. [7] It was also used in the script of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Broken Bow". [8] According to the pronunciation guide in the script of DS9: "Tears of the Prophets", KRO-nos is the phonetic spelling of "Kronos". [9] The spelling "Kronos" was first seen on screen in Star Trek Into Darkness.

• Qo'noS: According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia and The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand, "Kronos" is the pronunciation and anglicanized form of the Klingonese word "Qo'noS". According to the script of "Tears of the Prophets" however, where the Klingon death chant is spelled in Klingonese: "neH taH Kronos. Hegh bat'lhqu Hoch nej maH. neH taH Kronos. yay je bat'lh manob Hegh." "Kronos" is the way the name is spelled in Klingonese as well. [10] The alternate spelling QO'NOS was sometimes used instead of KRONOS in closed captioning in the official DVD-releases of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes for example. On screen the spelling "Qo'noS" appeared on computer screens in Star Trek Into Darkness for the first time.

• Chronos: "Chronos" was a more rare alternative spelling used in the scripts of only two Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes, "Once More Unto the Breach" [11] and "Extreme Measures" [12]

• Kling: During the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an earlier alternate name for the Klingon homeworld has also been used. "Kling" was first mentioned on screen in TNG: "Heart of Glory" and depicted as a location on "The Explored Galaxy" star chart. According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, at the time "Heart of Glory" was written, "Kling" was in fact intended as the name of the Klingon homeworld, but once the episode was filmed, it was realized that the name sounded pretty silly. "Kling" was therefore referenced in the Encyclopedia as a district or a city on the Klingon homeworld. According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 56) however, "Kronos", "Kling" and "Qo'noS" are all alternative names for the homeworld.

• Klingonii, Klinzhai, Kazh: Reference works, that predate Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country have offered several other names. According to the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual released in 1977, the Klingon homeworld was the planet "Klingonii" also known as "Epsilon Sagittarii B". According to Star Trek Maps (Chart B) released in 1980, the homeworld was the planet "Kazh" and the star it orbited was called "Klingon". In the reference book The Worlds of the Federation (pgs. 114, 154), the homeworld was called both "Klinzhai" and "Kling". The name "Klinzhai" first appeared in the 1984 novel The Final Reflection. "Kling" and "Klinzhai" have also been used in the FASA RPG and various other novels, as well as in the Star Trek: Starfleet Command video game series, before the release of Star Trek VI.

Location of Qo'noSEdit

On screen and in dialogue, the Klingons have been exclusively identified as an Alpha Quadrant race. The association with the Alpha Quadrant began to be established in Star Trek: The Next Generation. In "A Matter Of Honor", the Klingons and the Romulans were mentioned to have had a series of skirmishes along their border. In "Reunion", K'Ehleyr stated that Klingon wars were rarely confined to the Empire. These wars had a tendency to spread to the neighboring star systems, like the Tholians and the Ferengi. All three were later on established to be Alpha Quadrant powers, in such episodes as DS9: "The Search, Part II", "Call to Arms" and VOY: "Q2". The position of Ferenginar only a few sectors away from Cardassia was established on a star chart in DS9: "When It Rains...".

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine confirmed what had been already stated and added onto it. In "The Die is Cast", the Dominion identified the Klingons as a threat originating from the Alpha Quadrant. "The Way of the Warrior" was the first episode that implied that the Klingons and the Cardassians shared a border. The Klingon Empire launched an attack against the Cardassian Union for the best interest of the Alpha Quadrant. It was revealed in this episode that relations between the two great powers have been for the most part amicable, save for the Betreka Nebula Incident that began an eighteen-year-long conflict between the two powers. In "Blaze of Glory", Captain Benjamin Sisko and Martok were discussing the ramifications of Human terrorists killing millions of Cardassian citizens. They agreed that the Cardassian allies, the Dominion, would retaliate not only against the Federation, but against the Klingons and the entire Alpha Quadrant. In "In the Pale Moonlight", Sisko attempted to persuade the Romulan Senator Vreenak to consider having the Romulans join the offensive against the Dominion. According to Sisko, if Cardassia, the Klingon Empire and the Federation were all conquered by the Dominion, the Romulans would find their territory surrounded by a single enemy. In the "Tears of the Prophets", Sisko stated that the three great powers, the Humans, the Klingons, and the Romulans have one goal: to drive the Dominion out of the Alpha Quadrant. In "When It Rains...", Chancellor Gowron envisioned the Klingon Empire as the saviors of the Alpha Quadrant if they could drive the Dominion out of the quadrant.

The association of Qo'noS and the Alpha Quadrant was carried over to Star Trek: Voyager as well. In "Faces", Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres boasted that Klingon females were renowned in the Alpha Quadrant for their physical prowess and voracious sexual appetites. In "Flashback", Captain Kathryn Janeway reminisced about what it would be like to live in Captain James T. Kirk's era, with the Alpha Quadrant still largely unexplored and Humans on the verge of war with the Klingons. In "Flesh and Blood", Chakotay identified the Klingon bat'leth as an Alpha Quadrant weapon.

The close proximity of Qo'noS and Earth was established in the pilot episode "Broken Bow" of Star Trek: Enterprise. Qo'noS was located only four days away at warp 4.5. "Two Days and Two Nights" established that this was at most only 90 light years away, as that was the farthest away from Earth any Human had ever gone up to that point.

Reference works that predate Star Trek: The Next Generation depict the location of the Klingon Empire and their homeworld in what has been established as the Alpha Quadrant. These include such works as the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual (T0:02:07:00) and Star Trek Maps (Chart A). More recent reference works have however moved the Klingon Empire into the Beta Quadrant. They show that the Empire borders only the Romulan Star Empire and the United Federation of Planets. Despite the conflicting canonical references establishing the Ferengi and the Cardassians as neighbours of the Empire, they are depicted on the other side of the Federation, away from the Klingons in these graphics. Only one of these graphics depicting the Klingons in the Beta Quadrant made an illegible brief on screen appearance as a display graphic on a PADD in Star Trek: Insurrection. [13] [14]

Star Trek: Star ChartsEdit

The capital city for the uniglobal government and for the Klingon Empire was the First City on Qo'noS. The dominant species on the planet were the Klingons. Points on interest on this world were the Great Hall, Qam-Chee, Tong Vey, Quin'lat, Temple of G'boj, Kri'stak volcano, Lake of Lusor, and Caves of Kahless. The Klingons were warp capable in 930 A.D. The planet was on the front line during the brief Klingon Civil War of 2368. In 2378, there were 3.84 billion Klingons living on the planet. The planet Qo'noS (Kronos, Kling) was located in the Qo'noS system. The star system was located in the Qo'noS Sector, adjacent to the Archanis Sector. The star Qo'noS was a K-class star with a magnitude of +3, which was ten times brighter than Sol. In 2293, the USS Enterprise-A visited this system when escorting Kronos One to Earth. (pg. 55, 56, 61, 62)

External link Edit

• Qo'noS at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works