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Turkish Spider-Man and the weird world of foreign remakes

The Turkish Exorcist, the Pakistani Dracula, and how film industries around the world entertainingly remix and rip off Hollywood.

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Iain Smith had no idea what he was about to watch. The only clue was a cryptic note scrawled in pen on the recordable DVD: "Turkish Star Trek."  

Watching the DVD, Smith immediately recognized the film was indeed Star Trek... but not as we know it. The uniforms were pretty accurate, it was clearly based on actual episodes of the famous sci-fi show, and Spock even looked like Spock.

Only Turkish.

Little did Smith know when he watched that bootleg DVD 15 years ago that he'd discovered a familiar yet very strange new world. The world of Turkish Star Trek and Turkish Star Wars. Pakistani Dracula. Indonesian Rambo. Bollywood Nightmare on Elm Street. A Spider-Man and Captain America you'll never see in Marvel's wildest multiverse fantasies.

Welcome to the world of remakesploitation.

Today, Iain Robert Smith is a film studies academic at Kings College in London. He's the author of the book The Hollywood Meme , which explores how countries around the world remake and remix familiar stories from Hollywood in B-movie exploitation flicks. He's been involved in restoring and retranslating some of these cult films and screens them at the Remakesploitation Film Club , a gathering of film fans keen to learn more about these little-seen but highly unusual international oddities. 

I first encountered the soft-spoken Scot giving a lecture to the  Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies , illuminating horror history and culture with an increasingly bizarre array of clips from these weird and wonderful films.

Smith soon learned that the mysterious DVD marked "Turkish Star Trek" was in fact 1973 comedy Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda, one of a series of comedy films featuring scruffy oaf Ömer the Tourist bumbling into various scrapes. A community of cinema fans swapped this and other bootleg VHS tapes and DVD-Rs of foreign remakes like Şeytan, a beat-for-beat Turkish retread of The Exorcist, or the Indonesian action movie Lady Terminator.

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Beam down to Turkey for this Star Trek parody.

That's just scratching the surface: For decades Hollywood movies have been remade and reworked in India, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Hong Kong -- pretty much anywhere with a thriving movie business. "The fact they exist in so many different industries around the world is fascinating," Smith says, "and tells us so much about how Hollywood cinema travels, adapts, mutates and evolves."

Then there's the really wacky stuff. The most extreme remakesploitation flicks unapologetically recycle familiar characters and even actual footage from US hits, creating bizarre movie mashups to make a copyright lawyer's head explode. In the Philippines, the Lone Ranger, Barbie and Batman made 100% unauthorized appearances -- a 1966 flick entitled James Batman managed to spoof both the caped crusader and superspy James Bond all in one go.

Another classic example is 3 Dev Adam (3 Giant Men) in which Captain America, Spider-Man and Mexican wrestling legend El Santo do battle. Except Captain America is a Turkish policeman. Spider-Man is a criminal gang boss. And neither the Marvel Avengers nor the iconic wrestler were authorized for use in this ludicrous, incoherent and yet bafflingly entertaining rip-off.

The ultimate instance of remakesploitation at its most outlandish is 1982's Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, otherwise known as The Man Who Saves the World. Often described as "Turkish Star Wars," this absurd martial arts space opera steals a dizzying cornucopia of actual footage and music. It steals from Star Wars: A New Hope, Indiana Jones, Ben-Hur and other biblical epics, news footage of a real-life Soviet rocket launch, and oh so much more.

To be fair to director Çetin Inanç, he intended to make brand new special effects for the film. But a freak storm wiped out the expensive spaceship sets, so he resorted to bribing a security guard, stealing a print of Star Wars and projecting the space battles behind his actors. Problem solved! 

Filmmakers weren't too worried about getting sued, however. In the 1970s, Turkey's film industry produced over 300 titles a year -- it was, in terms of sheer numbers, the third biggest in the world -- and according to Turkish film historian Ahmet Gurata , as much as 90% of that output was remakes and rip-offs. But it wasn't until Turkey got serious about joining the European Union in the 1990s that it moved toward a more Anglo-American attitude to intellectual property.

"Until that point," Smith says, "there was a much more open culture of reworking elements without any licensing. A huge proportion of Turkish popular cinema at that time used soundtracks from elsewhere -- if you had a record in your collection and you wanted to use it on the soundtrack of your film that was perfectly fine."

For all those years of gleeful plagiarism, Hollywood didn't sue -- because Hollywood most likely didn't notice. The Man Who Saves the World was a huge hit in Turkey but was unseen elsewhere. While the Italian film industry deliberately created anglicized spaghetti westerns and giallo horror movies for export, Turkey and other nations churned out remakes for domestic audiences with no thought of selling anywhere else. 

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All hail Turkish Star Wars!

That meant filmmakers could get hyperlocal, tickling audiences with familiar American icons popping up in their neighborhood. Back in the 1950s, Turkey produced Drakula İstanbul'da, Tarzan İstanbul'da and Görünmeyen Adam İstanbul'da -- literally, Dracula, Tarzan, and the Invisible Man in Istanbul. Fun fact: Drakula İstanbul'da was the first film to give the bloodsucking villain fangs. And it was the first movie to connect Dracula with the real-life Vlad the Impaler, a detail now absorbed back into the Hollywood version.

These cheap copies were more than just a sign of "Coca-colonization," American cultural imperialism brainwashing us with action movies and fast food. They didn't just copy American tropes and styles. Nor did they explicitly rebel against Hollywood homogenization. Instead, they frequently twisted Hollywood ideas into something unique.

Rewind to 1973, when horror smash The Exorcist terrified filmgoers around the world. Turkish producers decided to cash in on the controversial American film with their own version, titled Şeytan. It's pretty much a shot-for-shot remake -- but Islamic iconography replaces the original film's Catholic elements, highlighting the tension between Turkey's traditional religious values and its increasingly secular westernized side. "Even a film that attempts on some level to be the same takes on different resonances," Smith says, "just by virtue of being within a different national context."

Here's a clip so you can see how Şeytan compares with the horrifying original (be warned, it's very bloody):

Then there's the version of Dracula seen in 1967 Pakistani film Zinda Laash. Dreamed up in Britain and immortalized by Hollywood, the parasitic vampire is often portrayed as a sinister outsider from the East threatening Western culture. Zinda Laash flips it round and presents the Dracula character as a secular, Westernized figure at odds with Pakistani culture and values. One crucial twist reveals his vampirism is not supernatural, but comes from meddling with science.

"It's useful to take yourself out of a Western way of looking at the world and world cinema," Smith suggests. Exploring how the same stories are told in different countries highlights culturally specific aspects, reminding us that what we assume to be universal is often merely a quirk of our own culture. Hollywood movies are so culturally dominant it's easy to forget they're only one country's tradition.

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Dracula sinks his teeth into Pakistan's culture in Zinda Laash, a 1967 horror film based heavily on Hammer film Horror of Dracula.

A familiar plot can be a handy reference point when you're looking to sample cinema from another country. If you're curious about India's vibrant Bollywood cinema, your entry point could be Ghajini, a smash hit Indian remake of Christopher Nolan's Memento. For a taste of something different, look beyond Netflix to streaming services and DVD marketplaces like  Mubi ,  Eros ,  Induna and Rakuten Viki . YouTube is also a goldmine for fans of esoteric cinema, even if it isn't quite as dramatic as a DVD with a cryptic label.

It has to be said though, the effects, performances and comically imprecise subtitles of these low-budget oddities often seem clumsy to Western eyes.

"There is a danger these circulate as weird, funny clips," says Smith, who treats the films with academic rigor as well as involving organizations like the Turkish culture Institute to ensure accurate translations. At Remakesploitation Film Club screenings -- set to resume in London in April 2021 with a screening of documentary Remake Remix Rip-Off if the  coronavirus allows -- academics and filmmakers from the relevant country answer questions and provide context.

"We love popular cinema, we love trashy fun B-movies," Smith says, "but we're conscious to make sure it's about informing the audience and not just a bunch of people in London laughing at these weird films."

Sadly, few of these remakes achieved critical or commercial success and were quickly forgotten, until some were rediscovered by a new generation of cult film fans in the VHS era. Rushed low-budget production clearly isn't ideal for creating a cinematic masterpiece -- but who says you can't enjoy them anyway.

"In many ways, The Man Who Saves the World is a great film," Smith insists of the ludicrously plagiarism-riddled Turkish Star Wars. "I acknowledge it's great in a so-bad-it's-good way," he adds carefully, "but it's just relentlessly entertaining. It doesn't rework Star Wars, it goes in a completely different direction and every single scene is designed to explode on the screen in front of you."

Perhaps ironically, The Man Who Saves the World recycles bits of Battlestar Galactica, Moonraker and Flash Gordon -- Hollywood productions that were themselves blatant Star Wars cash-ins. As Smith points out about the industry that gave us remakes like The Magnificent Seven, Three Men and a Baby, Some Like it Hot and The Departed: "It's not as if all Hollywood films are entirely original."

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Although the newest 'Akıncı,' which is set to draw a huge audience, is the very first Turkish sci-fi TV series, the country’s film legacy in this genre goes back much further

Last week marked the start of Turkey’s first-ever science fiction television series, “Akıncı,” which tells the story of an Ottoman superhero tasked with guarding over the Istanbul of Sultan Mehmed II, also known as Mehmed the Conqueror, in contemporary times.

A teacher by day and a superhero by night, the handsome Akıncı, whose name refers to the advanced troops of the Ottoman Empire, is tasked with stopping terrorism while being followed by an equally attractive female journalist who has been on his trail for the past three years. An enthralling and entertaining watch, the highly anticipated Akıncı premiered on Jan. 1 and will continue to air on Friday evenings at 8 p.m. on ATV.

Still shot from 'Drakula Istanbul'da' ('Dracula in Istanbul').

In light of this exciting addition to Turkish primetime television, which is also the first of its kind within the genre of science fiction and superhero television series, it might be an opportune time to reflect back on Turkey’s famous legacy of its films in these genres.

While this may be Turkey’s entrance into the world of science fiction on television, the country’s film industry actually has an intriguing and entertaining legacy in this genre of movies. That is because starting back in the 1950s and throughout the country’s cinematic heyday, the Yeşilçam era, in which upward of 300 films were produced each year, Turkey also famously began filming its own versions of Hollywood blockbuster sci-fi films. From “Star Trek” to “Star Wars” and “E.T.” to “The Exorcist,” check out some of the hilariously entertaining remakes of some of your favorite sci-fi films.

‘Invisible Man’ in Istanbul

Abdurrahman Palay and Nese Yulaç in 'Görünmeyen adam Istanbul'da' (“Invisible Man in Istanbul”).

It all started in the 1950s when remakes of Hollywood films such as “Dracula” and “Tarzan” were produced for a Turkish audience, i.e. “Tarzan Istanbul’da” (“Tarzan in Istanbul”) and “Drakula Istanbul’da” (“Dracula in Istanbul”), released in 1952 and 1953, respectively. Little did they know then that these films and many more would go on to become cult classics over half a century later, screened in festivals and theaters all over the world. The first sci-fi variation of the remake genre was "Görünmeyen Adam Istanbul'da" ("Invisible Man in Istanbul"), which was released in 1955 and tells the story of a chemist who takes an invisibility serum to seek revenge on his wife and her lover.

A scene from “Kilink Uçan Adam’a Karşı” (“Kilink vs. Flying Man”).

‘Flying Saucers over Istanbul’

In Turkey’s first alien film, “Uçan Daireler Istanbul’da” (“Flying Saucers over Istanbul”), which was released in 1955, female Amazon aliens land their UFO in Istanbul to take men from Earth back to their planet with the help of a robot.

The Kilink series

In the 1960s and more specifically 1967-1968, a series of films was released in Turkey centering on Kilink, an anti-hero reminiscent of the Italian comic strip character Killing. In the Turkish productions “Kilink Istanbul’da” (“Kilink in Istanbul”), “Kilink Uçan Adam’a Karşı” (“Kilink vs. Flying Man”) and “Kilink: Soy ve Öldür” (“Kilink Strip and Kill”), Kilink is challenged by none other than Superman. There were also the related films “Female Kilink” and “Kilink against Frankenstein” that pretty much speak for themselves.

A scene in which a woman is sacrificed to the Octopus God in “Tarkan Versus the Vikings” (“Tarkan: Viking Kanı”).

Superpowers galore

In 1973, the Turkish film industry literally came up with the concept of superhero teams by combining the powers of Captain America, Spider-Man and Mexican wrestler El Santo in “3 Dev Adam,” in English "3 Giant Men." While Spider-Man serves as a mafioso and Captain America as a Turkish policeman, this is not the first time we have had a Turkish Spider-Man as a villain, as the 1966 film “Örümcek Adam” portrays the character as a con man pitting the police against the mob.

The 1971 “Tarkan Versus the Vikings” (“Tarkan: Viking Kanı”) has the Hunnic warrior Tarkan fighting off an Octopus God-worshipping Viking Clan to save a woman from being sacrificed. In 1972, “Yılmayan Şeytan” (“The Deathless Devil”) was a remake of the 1940 serial “Mysterious Doctor Satan” and pits the superhero Copperhead against Dr. Satan. The year 1973 also saw the releases of Turkey’s version of Batman, aka “Yarasa Adam.” Meanwhile, Turkey also produced its own Exorcist film called “Şeytan” in 1974.

A still shot from “Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam” (“The Man who Saved the World”).

‘Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek’

Ömer the Tourist was a popular comedic character played by renowned actor Sadri Alışık, who starred in eight movies depicting the Turkish hobo-esque character in different situations with the final edition being a “Star Trek” movie with many elements replicating scenes from the popular sci-fi television series. Forced into an arranged marriage, Ömer believes his wish to disappear has been granted when he is beamed away onto the Starship Enterprise equipped with Kaptan Kirk and Spock. Filmed in 1973 and referred to in Turkish as “Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda” (“Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek”), the production is a hilarious Turkish take on the film series. In a sense, the film came before its time as it was reproduced six years before the original “Star Trek” feature film was released. If you enjoy Alışık’s beloved character, you can also catch him in other escapades such as in Germany, in Saudi Arabia, bullfighting and even fending off cannibals.

‘The Man who Saved the World’

Dubbed the Turkish “Star Wars,” “Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam,” i.e. “The Man who Saved the World,” is actually a unique take on a number of sci-fi and adventure favorites including “Indiana Jones,” “Ben Hur,” “Battlestar Galactica” and “Flash Gordon.” Starring heartthrob Cüneyt Arkın and filmed in 1982, the film follows an original script in which two novice astronauts crash-land on a desert planet (Cappadocia) where an evil force is attempting to take over the world. This wasn’t the first time Arkın was filmed with superpowers as the 1975 “Kılıç Aslan” tells the story of the beastly powers of a man raised by lions. Meanwhile, in 2006, an unrelated sequel of sorts called “Turks in Space,” or in Turkish, “Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam’ın Oğlu,” which actually translates to “The Son of the Man who Saved the World,” tells the story of a Turkish family settling into life on a new planet.

Cem Yılmaz (L) as Arif and Ozan Güven as 216 in a scene from 'Arif V 216.'

Turkish ‘E.T.’

“Badi” was Turkey’s answer to the popular alien film “E.T.” and was released in 1983, however instead of being adorable, young Ali’s friend Badi is admittedly a bit frightening. Sadly, this was not the sole attempt to shoot a Turkish “E.T.” as the 1987 film “Homoti” also has us feeling bad for our beloved “E.T.”

Honorable mention to ‘G.O.R.A.,’ ‘A.R.O.G.’ and ‘Arif V 216’

Some of the highest-grossing films in Turkey of all time actually happen to be science-fiction comedies. Starring stand-up comedian, actor and filmmaker Cem Yılmaz, the trilogy that started with “G.O.R.A.” in 2004 and was followed by “A.R.O.G.” in 2008 and “Arif V 216” in 2018 is excellent high-quality, laugh-out-loud viewing of a series centered on a hilarious and endearing carpet salesman who is abducted by aliens to the planet G.O.R.A.

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Jay

Review by Jay ★★★ 3

literally nothing worth seeing in theatres right now so i paid to see a HD restoration of this

Jordan Beaumont Anderson

Review by Jordan Beaumont Anderson ★★★

Ömer the Tourist is cool. Star Trek is very cool. Copyright infringement is extremely cool.

Curtis

Review by Curtis ★★½ 4

Imagine if the crew of the Original Series beamed the Turkish version of Larry the Cable Guy onto the Enterprise, and embarked on a greatest hits mix of their first-ish season. That's literally what you've got in Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek .

Ömer is the weak link here, though I can tell that even without the cultural, language and temporal barriers, his comedy style wouldn't be the sort of thing I'd respond to. But the Star Trek stuff...hell, I've seen worse. There's even the Turkish Vasquez Rocks, so that's something.

Erol Amaç is doing a decent Vulcan impression as Mister Spak, and Cemil Sahbaz's mulleted Captain Kirk kind of looks like the Tuvix-ing of William Shatner and Chris…

Jack🧠

Review by Jack🧠 ★★ 1

I can only assume watching this film WITH subtitles would've only confused me more.

Zak G

Review by Zak G

*Watched with Blank Check Commentary and no subtitles*

Could've used more Omer

MushiMinion

Review by MushiMinion ★★★ 1

You'll be disappointed going into Turkish Star Trek expecting it to be as madcap as Turkish Star Wars. This televised copyright infringement is actually very successful replicating an episode of the original series of Star Trek , mostly because they directly rip off the episode "The Man Trap" almost verbatim, plus a dash of "Amok Time" and Gorn thrown in. The only major difference is the inclusion of a self-insert Turkish "comedian" who babbles incoherently and makes no goddamn sense. BRRRRRRLP!

But, to give it credit, they do respectfully pay homage to beloved Star Trek icons such as Kaptain Kirk, Doktor MICK COY, and everyone's favorite Vulcan, Mister Spak.

laird

Review by laird ★½ 2

The greatest mystery (in space) is when doors open and the sound effect is clearly just someone going "SHHHIISHHH," is that supposed to be funny (this is ostensibly a comedy) or not?

EthanBrundeen

Review by EthanBrundeen ★★½

Would watch Star Trek if Ömer was in it.

Jonathan Boehle

Review by Jonathan Boehle ★★★ 2

Took an edible and watched this with Blank Check 's Patreon commentary and without subtitles. I might have yelled in excitement at the end when Spak's pulled the handshake trick on Omer. Fun shit.

mel

Review by mel ★★★

+ soo... it's like, DRUGS? - it's better than drugs Ömer.

emre

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Kasımpaşa dan 3 milyon ışık yılı uzaktayız

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Star Trek has a fascinating, feathered Thanksgiving Day connection

By mike poteet | nov 24, 2021.

LAS VEGAS - JUNE 24: A double-sided vinyl scrim of Gene and Majel Roddenberry is displayed at Julien's Auctions annual summer sale at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino June 24, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The auction, which continues through Sunday, features 1,600 items from entertainers including Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Cher, Elvis Presley and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Thanksgiving Day is the perfect time to watch a classic Star Trek story.

The fourth Thursday of November is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October. But wherever you live, if you’re a fan looking for Thanksgiving-themed Star Trek to watch, which of the franchise’s 800+ episodes or 13 films should you watch?

Certainly, Star Trek showcases its fair share of family gatherings around the table, arguably the holiday’s defining feature. In the Star Trek: Picard episode “Nepenthe,” for example, we saw Picard and Soji dine on bunnicorn pizza with Will Riker, Deanna Troi, and their daughter Kestra. Many long-time Trek fans loved the episode for its warm, “family reunion” feel . The welcome embrace Picard found on Nepenthe could symbolize the happy homecoming and unconditional acceptance so many people hope to experience when they travel “over the river and through the woods” at Thanksgiving.

Of course, not all families get to enjoy sweet and sentimental Thanksgiving gatherings. If you’d rather watch a Star Trek “family” dinner that takes a wrong turn, don’t miss the meal Captain Saru hosts for the senior officers of the Discovery in that series’ third-season episode, “Forget Me Not.”  (If someone at your Thanksgiving table suggests a haiku contest, just say no!)

Star Trek has served up many more examples of families, biological or “found,” breaking bread together. Some turn out well—think about Geordi and Ro showing up, to everyone’s joy, for their own wake in “The Next Phase.” Some go up in flames—like the diplomatic banquet Captain Kirk and his crew host aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .

But for my quatloos, the best Star Trek story of all to watch on Thanksgiving doesn’t even feature a meal. But it is a story set on the big holiday itself—or at least its 23rd-century equivalent.

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry talked turkey in this episode

In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Charlie X,” the Enterprise takes aboard young Charles Evans. Charlie’s strange, seemingly godlike ( or Q-like! ) powers of psychic control and matter manipulation pose an escalating threat.

Early in the episode, Charlie hears Captain Kirk tell an unidentified crew member presumably in charge of the ship’s galley, “On Earth today, it’s Thanksgiving. If the crew has to eat synthetic meat loaf, I want it to look like turkey.”

Earth is united in Star Trek’s future, but many of the nation-states we know still exist, at least in name. We don’t know whether Kirk is referring to Canadian Thanksgiving, the United States’ Thanksgiving, or perhaps—and I find this option most appealing—a global day of Thanksgiving. (Perhaps it’s the same Thanksgiving holiday Captain Sisko invites his crew to celebrate in “Blaze of Glory.”) But whatever else Thanksgiving in the 23rd century involves, it still involves turkey.

A few minutes later, shortly after Charlie has caused the destruction of the S.S. Antares , the Enterprise galley chief calls the bridge with a bizarre report: “Sir, I put meat loaf in the ovens. There’s turkeys in there now—real turkeys!” Charlie barely stifles a laugh before leaving the bridge.

As displays of Charlie’s “strange energies” go, it’s hardly the most dramatic. Viewers don’t even see it happen. But it’s memorable because the voice of the unseen crewman who calls Kirk is none other than Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, per The Star Trek Encyclopedia .

Any fan who’s ever heard Roddenberry’s voice will instantly recognize his distinctive, lilting voice.

How appropriate that the first, and still one of the few, direct references to Thanksgiving in Star Trek involves a vocal cameo from the man whose creation we continue to be thankful for 55 years later. And how amusing that “the Great Bird of the Galaxy” himself is talking about the great bird of Thanksgiving feasts everywhere!

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Star Trek: The Cruise announces it will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: Voyager next year during the 8th annual voyage of the world’s most immersive Star Trek experience.

Sailing from February 23 – March 2, 2025 from Miami to Costa Maya, Cozumel, and Belize City, the cruise will bring Voyager crew members Kate Mulgrew, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, and Roxann Dawson together, with additional stars from Voyager and the extended franchise also joining the cruise. The ultimate Star Trek event for fans, Star Trek: The Cruise VIII will take place aboard Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas and feature Star Trek -themed shows, events, activities, and parties every day and night, along with extraordinary performances by iconic actors and opportunities to interact with them like nowhere else in the universe.

"We’ve been planning our Voyager celebration for quite some time and are thrilled to share the news with Star Trek fans," says Chris Hearing, Partner and Executive Director of Theme Cruises at Entertainment Cruise Productions. "It will be a truly special experience for our guests to see so many of Voyager ’s crew members on Star Trek: The Cruise VIII."

Under license by Paramount Consumer Products, Star Trek: The Cruise ’s weeklong Caribbean voyage offers unprecedented engagement with favorite Star Trek celebrities – more than any other event in the show’s universe – in addition to the following immersive Star Trek experiences:

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Kurn , son of Mogh , was a male Klingon in the 24th century and officer in the Klingon Empire . He was biologically the son of Mogh, and Worf 's younger brother, but was raised by Lorgh . His true lineage was not generally known until 2366 , when Mogh was accused of being a traitor during the Khitomer Massacre . Kurn later supported Gowron during the Klingon Civil War , and afterwards gained a seat on the Klingon High Council . However, he fell from grace when Worf refused to support the Klingon invasion of Cardassia . To regain his honor, his memory was wiped and he assumed a new identity of Rodek , son of Noggra .

  • 1 Early life and career
  • 2 Civil war
  • 3 Dishonor and a new life
  • 4.1 Appearances
  • 4.2 Background information
  • 4.3 Apocrypha
  • 4.4 External links

Early life and career [ ]

Kurn was born in 2345 and not yet a year old, when his father Mogh left Qo'noS for Khitomer with his wife and older son Worf. However, because Kurn was so young, and since the trip to Khitomer was only meant to be a brief visit, he was left in the care of Lorgh, a family friend. After his parents were killed at the Khitomer Massacre, Lorgh accepted Kurn as his own son due to his own lack of male offspring. The High Council assumed that Kurn had actually accompanied his family and died in the attack that killed his parents. Kurn did not know his true family until he reached the Age of Ascension . Kurn eventually joined the Klingon Defense Forces and rose to the rank of commander . ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ")

He lived with his daughters at a house on Qo'noS . This house was near a lake which was so clear that the bottom could be seen. ( TNG : " Firstborn ")

Mogh brothers

Kurn in 2366

In 2366, Duras , a powerful member of the Klingon High Council, claimed that new evidence had emerged implicating Mogh of betraying the Klingons at Khitomer. Duras led the Council to judge Mogh guilty, believing that Worf would not care and that there were no members of his house left to oppose the accusation. Since Worf, as Mogh's heir, was responsible for challenging the Council's judgment, Kurn requested a posting aboard the USS Enterprise -D as part of the Officer Exchange Program to evaluate his brother as a warrior. Kurn was impressed with Worf, and told him of Duras' claims. The two of them returned to Qo'noS to clear Mogh's name, with Captain Picard providing Kurn with further reasons to admire his brother when Picard took the Enterprise itself to Qo'noS so that Worf's crew could stand beside him during his challenge.

Worf took on Kurn as his cha'DIch during the proceedings, but insisted that Kurn not reveal his true father so that he would not also suffer the consequences if Worf failed. Duras knew of Kurn's true bloodline, and had two assassins attack him before the Mek'ba . Kurn was stabbed and left in a coma , compelling Worf to ask Picard to take his place as cha'DIch . After Worf accepted discommendation to avoid civil war , Kurn continued posing as the son of Lorgh to preserve his honor and position. ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ")

Civil war [ ]

Sons of Mogh

The sons of Mogh: Worf and Kurn

After Chancellor K'mpec died a year later and the Klingon Empire again teetered on the verge of civil war, Kurn believed that Gowron was too weak to lead the Empire and prepared to assassinate him and battle the forces of the Duras sisters himself. Now in command of a Klingon squadron from the Bird-of-Prey IKS Hegh'ta , Kurn secured the allegiance of four squadron commanders in strategic sectors . However, Worf asserted his authority as the older brother and ordered Kurn to support Gowron. Kurn was able to convince three of his allies to join him, and came to the aid of Gowron when his flagship IKS Bortas came under fire while in orbit of Qo'noS. Once he was installed as chancellor, Gowron restored the honor of the House of Mogh. ( TNG : " Redemption ")

In the ensuing Klingon Civil War , Kurn served with distinction in several engagements. In one particular battle, he destroyed two pursuing Birds-of-Prey from a squadron commanded by Larg by triggering a solar flare . He led the forces which stormed the Duras family residence at the end of the war and captured Toral, son of Duras . In recognition of his support, Gowron gave Kurn a seat on the High Council. ( TNG : " Redemption II ")

In another quantum reality , Worf was unable to attend the bat'leth tournament on Forcas III in 2370 due to a malfunction in the Enterprise 's main deflector . Kurn attended the tournament in his place despite his lack of experience with the blade. ( TNG : " Parallels ")

Dishonor and a new life [ ]

Rodek

For a time, it seemed as though the House of Mogh was on the rise; it was rumored that his house might even be in contention for the position of chancellor if Gowron died. ( DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior ")

In 2372 , he learned of Gowron's and Martok 's plan to invade the Cardassian Union , and of Gowron's desire to end the treaty with the Federation in response to its disapproval. Kurn opposed the decision to break the treaty, since he thought Gowron underestimated the Federation, and did not want to provoke a war, a war he knew could come and that the Empire might lose. He was overruled in council. However, Kurn's position soon ended when Worf refused to join the Klingon invasion of the Cardassian Union after being asked by Gowron personally. In retaliation, Gowron seized the House of Mogh's lands and titles, and publicly expelled Kurn from the High Council in disgrace. ( DS9 : " Sons of Mogh ", " Rules of Engagement ")

Over the next four months, Kurn oversaw the dissolution of the House of Mogh. After this, he wandered as a persona non grata in the Empire, unable to commit suicide , as it was considered a dishonorable mode of death. He finally arrived at Deep Space 9 in a drunken state. He asked Worf to restore his honor by killing him in the Mauk-to'Vor ritual. Worf reluctantly agreed, but Jadzia Dax realized what Worf was about to do and with Odo's help secured medical treatment for Kurn in time to save his life. Since Captain Sisko made it clear that Worf could not attempt the Mauk-to'Vor a second time, he arranged for Kurn to join Odo 's station security forces. Odo complimented Kurn as being good at his job if a little stern. However, this ended after an incident where Kurn allowed the Boslic Tilikia to shoot him. Worf, seeing the depth of Kurn's despair, convinced him that it was the Empire who was acting dishonorably, by following Gowron against Cardassia and the Federation . Subsequently, Kurn helped to uncover the Klingon plot to mine the Bajoran system by infiltrating the attack cruiser IKS Drovana . During the mission, Kurn saved Worf's life by correctly spotting a guard's intent to kill, something Worf never had the chance to learn. Afterward, as Kurn had killed another Klingon warrior, he was prepared to accept the dishonor of direct suicide, however, Worf had arrived at a new solution at Dax's suggestion. The plan was that Kurn's memory would be wiped, his face surgically altered, and his DNA resequenced , allowing Kurn to assume a new identity. According to Doctor Bashir, the only things Kurn would remember were the Klingon language and the fact that he was a Klingon; essentially providing him the most basic set of skills to survive in the Empire.

A family friend, Noggra , agreed to take Kurn as his own son, who was renamed Rodek . Rodek was told he suffered amnesia during a shuttle accident. ( DS9 : " Sons of Mogh ")

Appendices [ ]

Appearances [ ].

  • " Sins of The Father "
  • " Redemption "
  • " Redemption II "
  • DS9 : " Sons of Mogh "

Background information [ ]

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Firstborn ", K'mtar /Older Alexander Rozhenko reveals that he has knowledge of Kurn despite them never meeting (at least on screen). K'mtar also mentioned that Kurn had no male heirs, suggesting that perhaps Kurn may have a daughter or daughters ( TNG : " Firstborn ").

It should also be noted that despite being his younger brother, Kurn outranked Worf (in the Klingon Defense Force ) and gave him orders in some of his appearances ( TNG : " Sins of The Father ", TNG : " Redemption ").

Kurn was played by Tony Todd in all of his appearances.

He is also the only Klingon seen crying on screen (contradicting Spock 's assertion in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country that Klingons have no tear ducts).

Apocrypha [ ]

The novel The Art of the Impossible establishes that Lorgh actually petitioned Mogh and his wife Kassin, to care for Kurn while they were on Khitomer so as not to risk the entire family if something should happen to them. According to the novel, Lorgh recognized that a Klingon had to have betrayed them to the Romulans. In doing so, the individual who was responsible or the person's family, might seek vengeance against Mogh's family. With Worf safely in the Federation, Lorgh knew Kurn would be a target so he took Kurn in as his son, making sure General Worf 's line would continue (as he had been a friend of Worf's) and vowing to make Kurn a powerful and influential warrior in the Empire.

The I.K.S. Gorkon book series indicates that Kurn, in his new identity as Rodek, continues to serve the Empire on board a ship named for the Klingon Chancellor, serving as both weapons officer and later also as second officer .

The Deep Space Nine relaunch novel Warpath and the Star Trek: Mirror Universe novella Saturn's Children feature the mirror universe version of counterpart ( β ), serving as a General in the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance .

Kurn (as Rodek) appears in Star Trek Online , voiced again by Tony Todd. By the game's setting in the early 25th century , Rodek has risen to the rank of General, and was involved in the "Reckoning" storyline involving the Lukari (a race introduced in the leadup to the expansion Agents of Yesterday ) and the Tzenkethi . [1] [2] He also appears in the feature episode "Brushfire", in which he and the player character raid a Son'a prison in the Briar Patch to liberate former Chancellor Martok , who recognizes Rodek as Kurn and reveals his true bloodline to him. Kurn later joins the player in repelling an assault on Bajor by the Tzenkethi, followed by the Hur'q , the latter reappearing to menace the galaxy after having been thought extinct for millenia.

Kurn (alternate reality)

Kurn of the alternate reality

The alternate reality version of Kurn appears in the third issue of the Star Trek: Ongoing story arc The Q Gambit where he is stationed on the Klingon colony of Earth after the Empire defeated the Federation and conquered Earth renaming it "Tera'." He meets with Benjamin Sisko and Odo after escaping from Terok Nor and sees James T. Kirk , Montgomery Scott , and Nyota Uhura with them. Unaware of who they are, Kurn notices how oddly familiar their outfits look. Kurn then escorts the group to meet with his brother Worf, who is Chancellor of Tera'. As Worf prepares to meet with the advisory council over Sisko's intelligence reports and the events that brought Kirk and his crew to the future while also having rooms prepared for Kirk and his party, Kurn then tells Worf that there's been a change of plans on a planetary scale as he and Worf's guards kill Worf, and it's revealed that they're actually Changelings who proclaim Earth is now under Dominion control.

External links [ ]

  • Kurn at StarTrek.com
  • Kurn, son of Mogh at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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