Kahless (clone)

Kahless, Son of Kahless is a Klingon male. A clone of the original Kahless the Unforgettable, Kahless was created by the clerics of the Boreth monastery in 2369.

By the mid 24th century, the clerics saw that the Klingon ideals expressed by the original Kahless had become corrupted, and that the Klingon people had lost their way. Feeling that the people needed a spirtual figure to rally behind, they decided to take genetic material from the original Kahless and create a clone. They programmed the clone with the memories of the original Kahless - including the story of the original Bat'leth, which was known only to certain clerics. (TNG episode Rightful Heir).

The deception was soon exposed when Gowron defeated Kahless in combat. Worf felt that the Klingon people still needed a symbol, and proposed that the Kahless become the ceremonial Emperor of the Klingon Empire - with the actual power still resting in the Chancellor and the High Council. (TNG episode Rightful Heir).