Antaak

BIOGRAPHY
Antaak

Full Name:	Antaak
Species:	Klingon
Gender:	male
Died:	2173
Affiliation:	Klingon Empire
Family
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse(s):	B'Etris
Children:	Five children
Other relatives:	Grandson: Hurghom
Career
Occupation:	Doctor
Antaak without cranial ridges.

Antaak was a male Klingon who was a physician in the 22nd century. Born into a family of warriors, his father disowned him when he chose medicine over becoming a warrior.

During the 2150s Antaak was involved in mutagenic research. When the Klingons recovered several human augment embryos from a wrecked bird-of-prey in 2154, Antaak and his fellow researchers seized upon an opportunity to develop their own augments. Their efforts failed, with a virus unleashed on many Klingons which threatened the Klingon race with extinction. Thanks to the efforts of the Denobulan physician Phlox and Antaak, the disease was contained, but millions of Klingons were affected - losing their cranial ridges and becoming more human-like in attitude and appearance. (ENT episodes: "Affliction", "Divergence")

Antaak spent the remainder of his life attempting to find a cure for the disease. In 2173 he believed that he had succeeded, and released a retrovirus at the Qu'vat colony designed to reverse the effects of the augment virus. While the virus did restore the appearance of some Klingons, it killed them within minutes. Antaak himself died from this new plague he had accidently unleashed on the Klingons living on Qu'vat. (ST novel: Excelsior: Forged in Fire)

It was not until the late 23rd century that the Klingons were able to purge this augment DNA from their genome, thanks in part to the efforts of Antaak's grandson Hurghom. (ST novel: Excelsior: Forged in Fire)