Raytag M'Gora was a 23rd century Normedian man from the Orlian Quadrant.
Biography[]
At some point he was incarcerated, but managed to escape from a prison on Thallus in the 2270s decade. Preferring to die rather than be returned, he encountered Klingons. In exchange for his freedom, he agreed to be deployed as a weapon against Starfleet, having a receptor for a prototype Klingon thought enhancer implanted in his skull. He was then apprehended and held by Federation authorities on Earth, where he was medically determined to be insane. M'Gora insisted that those on Thallus made him insane. (TOS comics: "The Haunting of Thallus!", "The Haunting of the Enterprise!")
Because of Thallus' position near the Klingon edge of the Federation-Klingon Neutral Zone, the Federation starship USS Enterprise was dispatched to return M'Gora to Thallus in 2273. As he was beamed aboard, he escaped from his restraints and fled past security guards into a Jefferies tube leading into the warp engines. A sonic backlash transmitted through the intercom disrupted the Normedian's echolocation sense, and Spock was able to render him unconscious with a Vulcan nerve pinch. He was secured in the brig, babbling about the ship being trapped with him as they neared Thallus. (TOS comic: "The Haunting of Thallus!")
He admitted that a woman rescued from a floating haunted house was the key to understanding why various monsterous apparitions suddenly manifested aboard the Enterprise. A sudden shock to the thought enhancer operator sent a feedback pulse to the receptor, and M'Gora was killed by the psychic backlash. As a result, the monsters were redirected back to their source, a K't'inga-class battlecruiser. M'Gora's body was brought to Starbase 16. (TOS comic: "The Haunting of the Enterprise!")