dRacLa, son of Vok and T'Var was a 24th century Klingon of the House of Ingka from the planet Taganika.
Biography[]
His house was enemies with Gowron and the House of SepIch; when he was but a child, his father died in the hands of Qua'lon, accusing him for an assassination attempt against Gowron and the murder of Torghn. Men from SepIch then ransacked their house from their treasures and beat dRacLa; he took a blood oath that day to kill Gowron.
Becoming his house's head upon his father's death, he joined forces with Lursa and B'Etor of the House of Duras to get his revenge by actually killing Gowron.
On Deep Space 9[]
In 2370, three weeks before a summit meeting between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire on Deep Space 9, he entered the station, ostensibly working on an agricultural exchange. However he was working on his own ends. He had entered a spartan room, and in order to minimize the logging of his movements, he used only a candle; he tampered with the room's door controls to open and close only manually.
He had studied Cardassian plans of the engineering section of Terok Nor, and during his time there he planted a timed charge in case he needed to sabotage the shields.
He hired trader Kathpa to stage Gowron's assassination. The exchange was spied by Odo and the plan was foiled. dRacLa reported the failure to the sisters on board the Q'uarath, and that he would retry personally.
Meanwhile Odo briefed Jean-Luc Picard and Benjamin Sisko about what he knew about the assassination attempt, admitting he had not enough evidence to arrest him. The two showed some familiarity with him, as Gowron had been telling them the story of Pok, son of Torghn from Taganika.
One evening, around the fourth after dRacLa got into the room, he expected the Saurian merchant and informant Nibo Hoq. His door was knocked, without using the chime so as not to be logged; consciously, the warrior opened the door manually and let Hoq inside. Standing across his single candle, he asked if he had news, and asked about his reward, the Klingon snorted and tossed at him a packet from Lursa. The Saurian then related what he observed about Gowron, his schedule after the meetings, including telling stories at Quark's, causing laughter by dRacLa, seeing that his enemy still believed that stories were important.
After some more details, the warrior stayed silent glowering at Hoq, who eventually moved to leave and indicated that he should open the door. Moving in front of it, dRacLa expressed his suspicions about his informant selling information about him. Hoq dismissed it, mentioning his professional code. dRacLa nodded and turned, but still not convinced, he pulled out his d'k tahg and stubbed the Saurian, who tried in vain to pull away; the warrior held him close with his strength, until he removed the knife and let Hoq fall to the floor, saying he did not wish to be harmed by two-edged information. The dying Saurian's last words were that there was no need for this, as he gave his word, causing the Klingon to laugh in disbelief.
It was not long after a station guard saw the dead body through the door that dRacLa left ajar. He attempted to enter but the Klingon neutralized him, emptied the room and disappeared, leaving the body and the guard behind. Using a cloaked channel, he reported to the Duras sisters that Gowron was the first leaving the station every day.
The guard reported the event, being aware that he was hit by a Klingon warrior; the room and the body was investigated by Odo with Sisko, Picard, Jadzia Dax and William Riker. He was unsure whether his message reached the sisters, as they had no way to contact him.
Eventually the sisters managed to abduct Gowron right before he was ready to beam to his ship. That time dRacLa was on his way to Quark's and ordered only ale and a loaf of Klingon bread, puzzling the Ferengi waiter. He saw two Federation officers entering, Dax and Riker, and the latter was urgently beamed to his ship, and it was then when he realised that something important happened. The Ferengi brought him ale, and noticed him laughing; dRacLa showed an Acta crystal. He downed the ale, and tucking the bread under his arm, he pretended to follow the other Klingons who left the bar, rushing to their stations for the crisis.
Hunting Gowron[]
However Gowron soon managed to escape and returned to the station.
The Duras sisters returned with a force of six birds-of-prey, and the station was on red alert. dRacLa pretended to be running for some duty, as all Klingons were doing on the station, but in reality he was looking a way to intercept Gowron on his way out. However the shields were up he could not approach the Ops where Gowron probably was.
He decided to go to the engineering so as to sabotage the shields and allow them to kidnap Gowron again. But there he was spotted by a Security guard; hearing a voice he turned and shot his Klingon disrupter against Odo, then shot one Federation officer, and ran around the corner fleeing the remaining man's shots. The corridor was then sealed with a force field and he blew a door lock to retreat into an office room. He fired outside, he rolled his explosive into small balls and blew the charge he had installed, destroying one coupling—not enough to cause the shields to fail.
dRacLa expected that perhaps the sisters would rescue him, or at least kill Federation guards before dying. Meanwhile, seeing that the ships were ready to defend the station, and that Cardassian ships were on the way, the Duras ships decided to leave. The fire and the explosion alerted the Ops, and Commander Benjamin Sisko, Admiral Edward Jellico, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Riker and Worf came to the location. With them was Gowron along with five of his guards, one of them being Pok, who stood outside dRacLa's hideout and called him to honor his blood challenge. dRacLa did not trust that the guards would not sure him once he stepped out.
Once the station guards left, dRacLa lunged against Pok, who succesfully dodged him. The two warriors circled each other crouched with knives in hand, and Pok drew first dRacLa's blood. Eventually dRacLa lunged again for Pok to dodge once more, and Pok stubbed him with an upward thrust, then removed it and let him fall down. His fellows slapped him on the back while ignoring dRacLa's body behind him. (TNG novelization: Klingon)