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IKS Devisor
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| IKS Devisor | |
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| Class: | D7-class |
| Affiliation: | Imperial Klingon Defense Force |
| Launched: | 23rd century |
| Status: | scuttled (2270) |
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The IKS Devisor (Klingonese name 'OghwI' in translation) was a D7-class Klingon battle cruiser starship in Imperial Klingon Defense Force service in the 23rd century, operational around 2270, commanded by Captain Koloth. (TOS novel: Excelsior: Forged in Fire)
Devisor was fitted with an experimental weapon, a stasis projector. The Devisor attempted to use this weapon in 2270 to disable robot grain ships from bringing quintotriticale to Sherman's Planet.
After an encounter wih the USS Enterprise, over a dispute of the custody of Cyrano Jones, who possessed the Klingons' genetically engineered tribble predator called a glommer, the Devisor ended up being overrun by genetically engineered hyper-enlarged tribbles. (TAS novelization: More Tribbles, More Troubles)
Captain James T. Kirk and Jean Czerny were unnerved in 2270 when the Devisor was not in the area when disaster struck Sherman's Planet, as it was assigned to a nearby patrol. (TOS novel: Pawns and Symbols)
These tribbles also delivered a virus engineered by Klingon Scientists to eliminate the augment DNA from the Klingon bloodline as part of a controlled experiment. The Klingon Defense Force, however, ordered the destruction of the vessel. It was rescued by the IKS Klolode II and taken for further study. This would be the final voyage of the Devisor as the Klingon Defense Force ordered it to be scuttled shortly afterward due to the contagium. (TOS novel: Excelsior: Forged in Fire)
Crew manifest
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- Captain Koloth
- Lieutenant Korax
- Lieutenant Gherud, second officer (2269)
- Doctor Choq
- Kurr, chief engineer (2269)
BackgroundEdit
- The external appearance of the Devisor in the TAS episode marked the ship as different from some of its TOS predecessors, possibly a sub-class, portrayed (like all D7s in TAS) with an extended forward port, that was recessed on the TOS model. The TAS D7 rendering also featured extra outboard features on the warp nacelles.
- It was not revealed if the Devisor was scuttled as was ordered, but either the ship or a successor to the name was featured, tribble-free, in a concurrent story, "Pawns and Symbols".
- The name Devisor originated in the Star Trek Log Four novelization of the TAS episode and also in the Star Trek Concordance, indicating it might have been derived from an original script for the episode. If the name is derived from an irregular spelling of the English "deviser", it means a person who "devises" something, however, also in English, a "devisor" is a rare term that refers to a person who specifies how land ownership will be divided, based on legal surveys.
- ST novel: Excelsior: Forged in Fire, the name Devisor is mentioned to be a translation of the Klingonese name, 'OgwhI'.
