History Characters / StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry

* XanatosSpeedChess: Kirk has the ''Enterprise'' surrender instead of defending himself when ''Kronos One'' threatens to fire at them, and he and [=McCoy=] beam aboard ''Kronos One'' to offer aid? Chang has them arrested and stand trial for the chancellor's death and prosecutes them himself. The sentence of death is commuted because of Colonel Worf's defense? He arranges for them to be killed while trying to escape the penal colony of Rura Penthe. Kirk still manages to escape prison? He flies his prototype Bird-Of-Prey over to the meeting location to intercept the ''Enterprise''. Chang is nothing if not adaptable.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Refuses to invade the Federation or cancel the peace talks in response to her father's assassination and in spite of her earlier tensions with the Federation before the aforementioned tragedy, considering it sufficient to put the alleged assassins on trial.

ThoseTwoGuys who assassinate Chancellor Gorkon.

* CulturedWarrior: He is quite knowledgeable of Earth culture with a particularly fondness for Shakespeare, even quoting the bards plays to his enemies during battle.

* CulturedWarrior

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Despite being offered a full pardon in exchange for luring Kirk and [=McCoy=] to their deaths, the commandant vaporizes her anyway.

--> "You don't trust me, Captain. I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

* ThePolyanna: He summarizes the disastrous state dinner aboard the ''Enterprise'' as saying that the two sides "have a long way to go". He doesn't take Kirk's distrust personally and sympathizes with Kirk over their generation's difficulty with the prospect of peace. And in his dying breath, he begs the same distrustful Kirk to save the peace process. His last plea succeeded, as Kirk was shaken out of his old hatred and was the final instrument to achieve peace between the Federation and Klingon Empire.

* FamousLastWords: To Captain Kirk. "Don't let it end [[ThisMeansWar this way]], Captain..."

* IdenticalGrandson: Confirmed by WordOfGod to be the grandfather of his namesake in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. This, incidentally, makes Dorn one of only two people -- the other being Creator/MajelBarrett -- to appear on-screen in TOS, TNG and [=DS9=]-related works.

->'''Played by:''' B.J. Davis and Alan Marcus

->'''Played by:''' Michael Snyder

->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Gabriel Cattand

->'''Played by:''' Rosanna [=DeSoto=]

->'''Played by:''' Paul Rossilli

->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Jean Violette

--> "I can see you don't trust me, Captain, and I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

* BlindPeopleWearSunglasses: WordOfGod says that the Federation President is blind, and that's why he wears pince-nez-style sunglasses. Word of God says that these glasses let him see akin to Geordi's VISOR on ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' later.

->'''Played by:''' W. Morgan Sheppard

* NamesTheSame: No relation to [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine any of the hosts of the Dax symbiont]].

* PlayingAgainstType: An in-family example from Dorn. After so long playing as a [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration humorless warrior type]] who angsts over not being able to truly belong to the culture he idolizes, here he plays that character's grandfather, a high-ranking lawyer, firmly ensconced in Klingon society and to whom physical combat seems the furthest thing from his mind.

--> "You don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Green Blooded Space Babe]]: {{Downplayed}} in the same way as [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Lt. Saavik]]--attractive, but conservatively dressed.

* [[ShutUpKirk Shut Up, Chekhov!]] / WhatTheHellHero: However, everything is on ''her'' terms, and refuses to bend her knee at the Federation.

* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Grandfather]]: Confirmed by WordOfGod to be the grandfather of his namesake in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. This, incidentally, makes Dorn one of only two people -- the other being Creator/MajelBarrett -- to appear on-screen in TOS, TNG and [=DS9=]-related works.

* RememberTheNewGuy

* XanatosSpeedChess: Kirk has the ''Enterprise'' surrender instead of defending himself when ''Kronos One'' threatens to fire at them, and he and [=McCoy=] beam aboard ''Kronos One'' to offer aid? Chang has them arrested and stand trial for the chancellor's death and prosecutes them himself. The sentence of death is commuted because of Colonel Worf's defense? He arranges for them to be killed while trying to escape the penal colony of Rura Penthe. Kirk still manages to escape prison? He flies his prototype Bird-Of-Prey over to the meeting location to intercept the ''Enterprise''. Chang is nothing if adaptable.

* XanatosSpeedChess: Kirk has the ''Enterprise'' surrender instead of defending himself when ''Kronos One'' threatens to fire at them, and he and [=McCoy=] beam aboard ''Kronos One'' to offer aid? Chang has them arrested and stand trial for the chancellor's death. The sentence of death is commuted because of Colonel Worf's defense? He arranges for them to be killed while trying to escape the penal colony of Rura Penthe. Kirk still manages to escape prison? He flies his prototype Bird-Of-Prey over to the meeting location to intercept the ''Enterprise''. Chang is nothing if adaptable.

* BaldOfEvil: He was supposed to have long hair, but Christopher Plummer had liked his bald appearance, so Chang became bald..

[[folder:Commandant]]