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Kort was a 23rd century Janvarian man, a political leader who rose to become Supreme President of the planet Janvar.
Biography[]
By the 2260s, Kort was balding with a long, graying beard. He was aware that his culture used to inflict the death penalty, but the practice ended centuries before he assumed the role of president.
In the year 2267, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura from the Federation starship USS Enterprise contacted Janvar and arranged for Kort to speak on the viewscreen with Captain James T. Kirk. Kort offered him greetings, but was unfamiliar with a probe named Janvar Five that Kirk had encountered in interstellar space. However, the moment Kort saw the probe on the viewer, he panicked. He realized immediately the horrific danger the probe posed to his species and authorized launching a barrage of missiles to destroy the probe and the Enterprise.
When the assault was blocked by the ship's shields, he lamented that he had no choice but to resort to the aggressive tactics of his ancestors. Kort ordered the capital city's Neutralisation Centre to destroy the bodies held there in stasis. But he was too late, as six dangerous rebel minds within the probe awoke their bodies in the stasis chambers. Kort sent at least six armed ground vehicles to prevent them from escaping, but one of them used a disintegrator gun to destroy all opposition.
Later, after the probe had been neutralized, Commander Spock noted that they were free to continue first contact procedures with Kort. Kirk chose to leave him and his world in peace. (TOS comic: "The Mindless Ones")