The Sword of Kahless

ST episode
series = Deep Space Nine
name = The Sword of Kahless


ep_num = 80
prod_num = 481
date = November 20, 1995
writer = Richard Danus
Hans Beimler
director = LeVar Burton
guest = John Colicos as Kor
Rick Pasqualone as Toral
stardate =
year = 2372
prev = Little Green Men
next = Our Man Bashir"The Sword of Kahless" is an episode of the television series "", the ninth episode of the fourth season. It is also the name of the fictional Klingon artifact the episode focuses on.

Plot

Kor, a revered Klingon warrior, arrives on DS9 to recruit Worf and Dax to help him track down an ancient Klingon artifact, known as the Sword of Kahless, hoping it will help unite the Klingon Empire. Attacked soon after arriving by a telepathic alien, the group face a race against time to find the sword. Eventually tracking it to a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, the team fight off a mercenary attack and retrieve the sword. Soon tempers flare as both Worf and Kor wish to claim the sword as their own, but Dax takes possession of the sword to keep the two warriors from killing each other. Eventually they realise that if the sword divided two men as honourable as they, then it would do the same to the Klingon Empire, so they beam it into space, leaving it to drift until the Klingon Empire is ready for it.

External links

*StarTrekDS9 article|68244|The Sword of Kahless