Ikkabar (planet)

Ikkabar was a class M world near Federation space. Prior to the bombardment of the Iconian homeworld approximately 200,000 years ago, there was an Iconian outpost present on the planet. When the Iconian homeworld was attacked, Ikkabar was one of the three worlds that the surviving Iconians escaped to via an Iconian Gateway.

Ikkabar initially appeared to be one of the most promising worlds of the three the Iconians escaped to, however the nature of the planet's orbit around its sun subjected it to extreme climate change. Even with the advanced technology the descendants of the survivors - called the Ikkabar - had at their hands, the extreme enviornmental conditions on the planet proved to be too much for the Ikkabar. Over the centuries Ikkabar society regressed in the struggle for survival, with the race evenutally regressing to a hunter-gatherer state.

By the 24th century, Federation researchers visited Ikkabar, and it had become obvious that the Ikkabar were losing their struggle to survive on the planet. By 2355, the Ikkabar had lost the struggle, with only a single Ikkabar boy named Kanda Jiak surviving. That year the Federation sent the USS Clements to Ikkabar, and they rescued Jiak. (TNG novel The Devil's Heart and episode Contagion)

In 2365, Lieutenant Commander Data was able to use the Ikkabar language, plus the languages developed on DiWahn and Dynassia to help reconstruct the Iconian mother tongue. (TNG episode Contagion)