Moryana was a 20th century Russian sailing vessel from the planet Earth.
Service history[]
In the 1980s, Moryana served as a whaling ship, and was based out of Vladivostok. Her CO was Kolovsky. (TOS novel: Lost to Eternity, TOS - Strange New Worlds VI short story: "Whales Weep Not")
In 1986, Moryana was bearing down on two humpback whales – George and Gracie – but when the gunner fired its harpoon, the weapon deflected off of something invisible that saved the whales. Then the HMS Bounty decloaked above them, sending the whalers into a panic. (TOS movie, novelization & comic adaptation: The Voyage Home)
In 2024, a former member of her crew, Dmitri Katkov, recalled the incident and showed journalist Melinda Silver an oil painting he'd made of the Klingon bird-of-prey he saw that day in the Bering Sea. He told her that they headed back to Vladivostok at full speed. She was interviewing him for Cetacean, a podcast series investigating the disappearance of Gillian Taylor. (TOS novel: Lost to Eternity)
- The vessel was named in the novel.
Personnel[]
- Kolovsky, commanding officer
- Dmitri Katkov
Appendices[]
External link[]
- Moryana article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.