Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor was the title given to the leader of the Inquisitors which ruled their native planet.

In 2268, the Inquisitors seized the radio and other equipment of the crashed Federation shuttlecraft Galileo and took it to their castle for the current Grand Inquisitor to examine. When Spock, Pavel Chekov and Claire attempted to recover their radio, the Inquisitors captured them and brought them before the Grand Inquisitor, who denounced them as emissaries of the Dark One and ordered them to show how their machines worked. When Spock refused, the Grand Inquisitor had him tortured in their interrogation chambers. Spock resisted being tortured, but agreed to talk when the Grand Inquisitor threatened to torture Claire instead. However, he and the rest of the Inquisitors were soon afterwards captured by a group of rebels, presumably ending their rule.