Doctor Sarina Kaur was a Human woman, the head of the Chrysalis Project in India in the 1960s and early 1970s, and the surrogate mother of Khan Noonien Singh.
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A student of Har Gobind Khorana, her work was largely responsible for the creation of the first Human Augments. Kaur discovered a method of cloning that allowed her to create dozens of copies of a single fertile ovum, vastly increasing the rate at which the Augments could be born. Her ultimate plan was to destroy the human race, using several thousand specially-prepared biowarheads from the Soviet germ warfare program, Biopreparat, loaded with a genetically-engineered strain of necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating form of Streptococcus that the Augments were immune to. By doing so, she would clear the way for the Chrysalis children to take over.
Kaur was killed on 18 May 1974, by which time she was pregnant with another Augment child, when the Chrysalis Project facility was infiltrated by Aegis agents Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln. When Kaur interrogated Seven, his training allowed him to resist her truth serum for a time, even answering her questions in Klingonese, before she was able to learn about his extraterrestrial benefactors. After Isis and Lincoln found and freed Seven, the agent set off a chain reaction in Chrysalis' nuclear reactor. Though Kaur came very close to aborting the destruct sequence, Seven further damaged the reactor, leaving her to die when she refused to evacuate. Following Kaur's demise, Khan was sent to live with distant relatives of hers. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
Khan held his mother in high regard as he grew up. In 1994, he named his Typhoon-class supersubmarine the SGK Kaur in her honor. Later that year, Khan was approached by Dr. Donald Archibald Williams, one of Kaur's collaborators in developing the Streptococcus strain, who provided Khan with the chemical formula and informed him that Gary Seven had killed his mother. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)
In 2267, Khan and his Augment followers christened the River Kaur on Ceti Alpha V in her honor. (TOS novel: To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh)