Spear

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A spear (in Klingonese, a gIntaq) was a weapon used by many cultures, a hand-held weapon designed with a long shaft with a pointed end worked from metal or stone, that can be used to fight an enemy or to capture food.

While used as a mêlée weapon, the spear can also be launched or thrown, making it cross over into classification as a projectile weapon. The Klingon society is one of many known to use throwing spears. (TLE novel: The Art of the Impossible)

James T. Kirk was offered a spear to fight gladiators on Bavarya. (TOS novel: Mission to Horatius)

While trapped on Excalbia, James T. Kirk and Spock foraged for material to make spears to defend themselves. A replicant of Abraham Lincoln created by the Excalbians was felled by a thrown spear. (TOS episode: "The Savage Curtain")

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• spear article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• gin'tak article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.