Characters from the Star Trek: Discovery era.
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U.S.S. Buran
Gabriel Lorca
Voiced By: Jason Isaacs
The captain of the U.S.S. Buran and dire enemy of the Klingons.- The Captain: Lorca is an effective Starfleet Captain with a keen strategic mind and immense charisma.
- Doomed by Canon: Lorca is doomed to be lost in the Mirror Universe by the events of Star Trek: Discovery season one.
- Dramatic Irony: Captain Lorca possesses a personality very similar to the one that his Mirror Universe counterpart pretended to have despite the fact there was no way the latter could have known anything about him other than records.
- Good Counterpart: Due to the fact he's not his Mirror Universe counterpart, he is a heroic champoion of the Federation and its ideals.
- Good Is Not Soft: Like his Mirror Universe counterpart, Captain Lorca is more militant and ruthless than is typical for a Starfleet captain but, unlike him, is firmly on the side of good.
- The Mentor: Serves as this to the Discovery-era Starfleet captain, educating them in how to be a better leader.
Ellen Landry
Voiced by: Rekha Sharma
- Adaptational Sexuality: The canon version of Ellen Landry gives no indication of her sexuality or preferences but this version is married to a woman, Patel.
- Break the Cutie: Ellen goes from being a cheerful Happily Married young woman to a ruthless woman obsessed with Revenge
- Crusading Widower: The death of Ellen's wife at the hands of the Klingons results in her becoming determined to see their defeat.
- Doomed by Canon: Ellen is destined to die in the episode Discovery episode Context is for Kings.
- Happily Married: Ellen is very happy with her wife until she's killed.
- Revenge: Her primary motivation for becoming the ruthless officer we see in Star Trek: Discovery's opening episodes.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Ellen's introductiuon shows her to be a kind, sweet, and otherwise "normal" Starfleet officer.
U.S.S Discovery
Paul Stamets
Voiced by Anthony Rapp
A holographic recreation of Paul Stamets from the 23rd century. He later gains the real Stamets' memories and personality, becoming alive.
- Back from the Dead: Effectively resurrected by a combination of holographic technology and the Mycelial Network
- Borrowed Catchphrase: When activated, he borrows a quote from another holographic doctor.Stamets: Please state the nature of the Mycelial emergency.
- Composite Character: In-universe, he starts out as a Starfleet holoprogram based off of Paul Stamets' logs and research files from the 23rd century. Later he is augmented with the preserved memories of the real Stamets in the Mycelial Realm.
- Genetic Memory: Though not because he's a clone but because he's got the memories of his basis in the spore network.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Is a 23rd century man in the 25th century.
- Hard Light: Like most Star Trek holograms. Doubly so because he has a mobile emitter.
- Just a Machine: Is not sentient, just aping sentience until he merges with the Mycelial Network.
- Temporary Party Member: Helps you explore the Mycelial Network.
- What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Is not truly sentient until he merges with the Mycelial Network's copy of his memory.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: He's not entirely happy to be resurrected and finding out everyone he knows is missing and presumed dead, including his husband.
Michael Burnham
Voiced by Sonequa Martin-Green
An Excalbian simulacrum of 23rd century Starfleet science officer Michael Burnham, as she appeared in season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery.
- Awesome by Analysis: As a resurrected Starfleet science officer, she's able to discern a lot about what's going on in the Trials through simple observation and deduction.
- The Cavalry: At the climax of "The Measure of Morality Part 2", when the Borq Queen and her armada are bearing down on the player's ship, Burnham shows up in command of a recreated U.S.S. Discovery, followed by recreations of every hero starship from across the Star Trek Franchise,
- Discovering Your Own Dead Body: In one possible ending of the Red Angel Trial, she's forced to watch her future self die at the hands of Control, which leaves her quite shaken.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She's a 23rd century woman suddenly brought into the 25th, though she proves to be surprisingly adaptable to the situation.
- Temporary Party Member: She accompanies the player during both parts of "The Measure of Morality", alongside Seven of Nine.
- The Paragon: She's selected as one of the representatives of the concept of good for the Excalbians' trial.
- The Watson: As a Fish out of Temporal Water, the player and Seven of Nine often explain what's happening and the identity of the 25th century bad guys they fight in the Excalbian trials.
Klingons (House Mo'kai & Others)
General
House Mo'Kai, sometimes called the "House of Mo'Kai," was one of the Great Houses in the Klingon Empire until its dissolvment. Its last leader was Aakan.
- All There in the Manual: Their backstory is considerably enriched if you read the lore about them on the blogs.
- Back from the Brink: Ambassador B'Vat wiped out every living member of this organization. Except for Adet'pa. However, J'Ula brings back an army of them from the past.
- Blackmail: How the House maintained its vast power.
- Blue Blood: One of the Klingon Great Houses.
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: One of their members transported away a bat'leth during a tournament. All it did was get the rules amended and give the House a bad reputation.
- Face–Heel Turn: Adet'pa joins their ranks after helping save Martok.
- Fantastic Racism: All of them despise any race other than Klingons. The current Klingon Empire disgusts them with the near-equality it gives other races and its alliance with the Federation.
- Feuding Families: According to Cryptic's story blog "The Ascendant", in the 2280s they got into a century-long blood feud with the House of B'vat that ended with B'vat, son of Warat exterminating nearly every living member starting in 2389, after Mo'Kai's then-joH, Aakan, killed his son K'das.
- Loophole Abuse: They're very fond of this as we see above.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Inverted. They're Klingons with no sense of honor or decency.
- Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Her antiquated vessels get upgraded to 25th century standards by surviving members of her house.
- The Purge: Most of House Mo'Kai was killed off by the House of B'vat in the late 24th Century, with Adet'pa being one of the few survivors. At least, until J'Ula and her allies from the 23rd Century showed up.
- Replacement Flat Character: They pretty much replace J'mpok and B'vat as the Always Chaotic Evil Klingons.
J'Ula
Voiced by Mara Junot
J'Ula is a Klingon matriarch of the House of Mo'Kai. She commands the I.K.S. Lukara. She is the sister of T'Kuvma.
- 0% Approval Rating: Up until the end of "Partisans" she seems completely unaware that hardly anybody besides Adet'pa actually likes her: mainstream Klingon society views her as little more than a terrorist, Aakar pulls a Starscream on her, and even Martok and the Player Character have to be railroaded into an Enemy Mine. It reaches the point where when J'mpok is exposed as having used a Weapon of Mass Destruction (that she brought to the present day to begin with) against a civilian target, the other Great Houses remain neutral, preferring to let her and J'mpok fight it out, then gang up on the winner and pick a fresh Chancellor.
- Ambition Is Evil: Wishes to exceed Kahless' wife Lukara as the greatest female Klingon of all time.
- Big Bad: The head of House Mo'kai and the greatest threat to the Alliance since the end of the Hur'q.
- The Chessmaster: One of the smartest Klingons during the original war.
- Dark Action Girl: Combined with Lady of War.
- Didn't Think This Through: In "Partisans", she finally finds the evidence needed to reveal that J'mpok is the monster she claimed he was. All it did was cause the High Council, T'kuvma's greatest legacy, to be dissolved as they couldn't trust either of them.
- Her Mycelial superweapon, based on stolen data from the U.S.S. Glenn, has the potential to end all life across the entire multiverse by irradiating the Mycelial realm with Harg'Peng radiation. As Holo!Stamets notes, either J'Ula didn't know about that, or more likely, didn't care.
- Enemy Mine: After Aakar's betrayal in "The Khitomer Discord", she's forced into one of these with Martok and the player.
- Fantastic Racism: Loathes what the galaxy has become in the 25th century due to the Federation's continued existence and the Klingon Empire's (comparatively) cosmopolitan nature.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Is thrown into the future by the spore drive.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Aakar backstabs her and turns to J'mpok's side, she's forced to team up with the player (and Martok). Ultimately becomes L'Rell's second in command, which hopefully means she'll mellow out a bit and be less bloodthirsty. Or maybe the Federation and Empire will go to war again!
- Lady of War: Is a brutal wartime leader and noblewoman.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She's completely broken when it turns out her plan to turn the High Council against J'mpok goes south when they decide both people weren't worth following and the Council is dissolved. It ultimately leads to a full Heel–Face Turn on Boreth.
- Rebel Leader: Leads the fugitive forces of House Mo'Kai during the Klingon Civil War arc.
- Remember the New Guy?: T'Kuvma's previously unmentioned sister. Not that this is anything new for Star Trek: Discovery or anything...
- You Sound Familiar: Mara Junot previously did the voice work for Commander Tiaru Jarok, the captain of the Romulan Republic flagship RRW Lleiset.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: According to her, she's fighting for the spirit of Klingon culture as her brother claimed to have done. Nearly everybody else in The Alliance, the modern Klingon Empire included, considers her little more than an ultranationalist terrorist.
Aakar
Voiced by Robert O'Reilly
A Klingon Special Forces operative in the 23rd century, and an ancestor of the late Chancellor Gowron.
- Actor Allusion: His taunt of choice, "Experience bIj" ("punishment"), is a reference to the other other Klingon portrayed by Robert O'Reilly, namely Kavok from the 1993 Klingon Challenge board game.
- Bad Boss: Orders a gunner to fire on a civilian target rather than an orbital dock, then accuses him of doing it on purpose and kills him on the spot so he can't talk. Ouch!
- Bald of Evil: Unlike his merely morally ambiguous descendant Gowron, who has a full head of hair, Aakar is as evil as they come and is completely bald. This started as the standard look for the antagonistic Klingons of DSC season 1, but after he was recast as Robert O'Reilly he gained a Beard of Evil as well.
- Dies Wide Open: After you defeat him in the Great Hall on Qo'noS.
- Dirty Coward: Transports away when fights don't go his way.
- The Dragon: He's originally introduced as J'Ula's Number Two and is The Heavy during the Discovery-era Federation tutorial, acting as a Trojan Prisoner to deliver a Computer Virus into Starfleet's computer network. Though he later pulls a Starscream on her, switching sides to J'mpok.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Played with. Before Season 20, he used to look like a more conventional Disco-style Klingon with a scarred left eye before he was retconned into being former Chancellor Gowron's grandfather.
- Famous Ancestor: Inverted: he's the paternal grandfather of former Chancellor Gowron, who defeated the House of Duras in the previous Klingon Civil War and then led the empire for most of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Prior to Season 20 he was a generic DSC-style Klingon with a scarred eye. Afterwards he was recast as Robert O'Reilly and had his character model remade to resemble Reilly's live-action role as Gowron.
- Hero Killer: Kills a number of Temporary Party Member characters.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Transports away when the fight goes poorly for him and leaves his men to die in his place.
- Sins of Our Fathers: His villainous and treacherous ways damned his son and grandson to Koth, the Klingon equivalent of Purgatory.
- The Starscream: He sells out his matriarch, Lady J'Ula during the Klingon Civil War, switching sides to J'mpok's faction and taking the Mycelial superweapon with him as an offering. During "Partisans" and "Knowledge is Power", he makes it clear he's planning to backstab J'mpok and become Emperor in his place.
- The Unfettered: Aakar plays to win at all costs, and has no problem engaging in decidedly un-Klingon tactics to do so. From throwing wave after wave of Mo'Kai soldiers at a target as a distraction, to using computer viruses to disable or take over enemy ships, to using blackmail and deception to advance up the ranks.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Commander Landry goes to elaborate lengths to save his life. He then leads a massive attack on her group of survivors, including her fiance.
- We Have Reserves: Sends hordes of Klingon soldiers into ambushes.
- Zerg Rush: His sole strategy is to send many Klingons into suicidal attacks.
Adet'pa
Voiced by Rekha Sharma
One of J'Ula's few hardcore loyalists, Adet'pa is a Klingon spy who first serves as first officer, then captain, of the IKS Kor under General Kurn.
- Ascended Extra: Adet'pa was previously a generic Klingon NPC who appeared in the Victory Is Life expansion for all of one dialogue chain in "Storm Clouds Gather". Come Season 20, she got a new character model and a retconned background that made her secretly a survivor of House Mo'Kai. She was such an extreme case of this that many players had no idea why their characters were supposed to remember meeting her previously.
- Expy: Her backstory is similar to Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars franchise. Both are the last survivors of their factions, who became enigmatic hermits on a desert world, far from civilization, eventually coming out of retirement to fight against The Empire.
- Red Baron: Known as "The Witch of Nimbus III" during her exile.
- Sole Survivor: She's one of the few remaining members of House Mo'Kai in the present day after B'Vat exterminated the House.
- You Sound Familiar: Post-Season 20, she's voiced and physically based on Rekha Sharma, who previously played Captain Gabriel Lorca's security chief Ellen Landry in Star Trek: Discovery and the game's Age of Discovery storyline.
L'Rell
Voiced by Mary Chieffo
Another 23rd century Klingon and follower of T'Kuvma, and her mother was of House Mo'kai, L'Rell is long dead by the events of the game - but, using the same ritual as created Kahless II, she is brought back to life on Boreth. As of House United, she is the new Chancellor of the Empire.
- Break Out the Museum Piece: Her flagship is a meticulously maintained D7-class battlecruiser that the monks of Boreth apparently had stashed in a hangar somewhere.
- Deal with the Devil: Long ago, she struck a deal with Fek'lhr to free the soul of her beloved Voq from Gre'thor, offering up her own soul in exchange so he could go to Sto'vo'kor in her place.
- Famed In-Story: Modern day Klingons know her as the "Mother of the Klingon Empire". She's often spoken of with the same reverence as T'Kuvma and Kahless.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She's been dead for a century and a half, give or take a few years.
- Klingon Promotion: By right of combat with J'mpok.
- Rescued from the Underworld: L'Rell is stranded in Gre'thor, as she traded her place with that of her lover; he would get to go to Sto'vo'kor, and she would take his place in Gre'thor. J'Ula, Martok, and the player captain thus go on a spiritual quest to rescue her, with help from Gowron of all people.
- Soulless Shell: The ritual is successful, but the L'Rell clone/body remains in a coma until the aforementioned rescue takes place.
- You Are in Command Now: J'Ula abdicates the throne in favor of L'Rell, in the hope of reunifying the fractured Klingon Empire after J'mpok is defeated.
Mirror Universe
I.S.S Discovery
I.S.S Discovery
