Antaak

Antaak was a male Klingon who was a physician in the 22nd century. Born into a family of warriors, his father disowned him when he chose medicine over becoming a warrior.

During the 2150s Antaak was involved in mutagenic research. When the Klingons recovered several human augment embryos from a wrecked bird of prey, Antaak and fellow researchers seized upon an opportunity to develop their own augments. Their efforts failed, with a virus unleashed on many Klingons which threatened the Klingon race with extinction. Thanks to the efforts of the Denobulan physician Phlox and Antaak, the disease was contained, but millions of Klingons were affected - loosing their ridges and becoming more human-like in attitude and appearance. It was not until the late 23rd century that the Klingons were able to purge this augment DNA from their genome.

Antaak spent the remainder of his life attempting to find a cure for the disease. In 2179 he believed that he had succeeded, and released a retrovirus at the Qu'vat colony designed to reverse the effects of the augment virus. While the virus did restore the appearance of some Klingons, it killed them within minutes. Antaak himself died from this new plague he had accidently unleashed on the Klingons living on Qu'vat.( and )