Liji Bragg was the leader of a band of pirates carrying out an illegal mining operation in the Ferrous-Asteroid Belt. When the pirates came under investigation by the USS Enterprise, Bragg's secret partner, vice chairman Hajara of the Federation Supreme Council, promised him twenty million credits if he were to plead guilty and implicate Captain James T. Kirk. Hajara also had Nuri Jakarz fake video evidence of Kirk meeting with Bragg on the planet Zeayana. (TOS comic: "The Trial of Captain Kirk")