The Young Hunter: A Klingon Folktale

The Young Hunter: A Klingon Folktale
Attribution
Series:	Star Trek
Written by:	Paul Plunkett
Production information
First aired:	2003

The Young Hunter: A Klingon Folktale is an eight-minute animated Star Trek short, featured on the official website, Startrek.com on a page titled Klingon Fable: The Legend of Gorath. The short features an original story set on the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS, in two time periods, an unknown present day, and a story from the era of Kahless the Unforgettable.

Publisher's decription

From startrek.com (2003)

Cultures throughout the galaxy have relied on stories as a means of passing wisdom and history down to succeeding generations. On Earth, storytellers like the Brothers Grimm or Aesop have imparted morals to children and adults alike with their rich tales. So why shouldn't Star Trek's rich and vast tapestry of alien cultures have their own fables and folklore? Well, they do ...

In the "The Young Hunter," a Klingon boy on his first Targ hunt learns a valuable lesson about honesty, honor and boasting when his Grandfather tells him "The Legend of Gorath."

Summary

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References

Characters

Bronal • Gorath • Grack • Krak • unnamed Klingons

Referenced only

Kahless the Unforgettable

Locations

Praxis • Qo'noS • Road to Kalmooth

Races and cultures

Klingon

States and organizations

House of Bronal

Other references

ambush • assassin • bandit • bat'leth • beggar • blood wine • cave • jungle • mek'leth • mountain • river • shoulder • spear • Story of Gorath • Targ • warrior • water

Appendices

Background

• Before the title card appears a title of "Star Trek: Fables and Folklore" is given, presumably indicating this was to be the first volume in series. However, no other films in the series were made.

Cast and crew

• Phil LaMarr as the boy, Grack and Bronal.
• Jonathan Goldstein as Gorath and the spy.
• Adam Bitterman as the grandfather and Krek.
• Camille Ameen as the aunt and barwench.
• Written by: Paul Plunkett
• Produced by: John Sylvain
• Art and animation: Bernard Chang
• Editing: Les Hidvegi
• Sound engineer: Ira Ingbar

Related stories

• "Four Thousand Throats..." (TOS comic) - The device of recounting a Klingon fable from both the era of Kahless and a later period was also used in this comic.

Timeline

The present day of the story is described as "many years ago". In its year of release the series Star Trek: Enterprise set in the 22nd century was in production, and the movie Star Trek Nemesis had been released the previous year. In that context the short was probably set before the 22nd century, although it is entirely ambiguous about its chronology. A moon is seen in both the present and past sections of the story, in the past it is established as Praxis; so if the moons seen are the same moon the story would have to be set prior to 2293, the year in which Praxis was destroyed.

Images

Gorath

Bronal

External links

• The Young Hunter: A Klingon Fable on Startrek.com
• The Young Hunter: A Klingon Folktale article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

In-universe short films
DVD Extras	Starfleet Academy SCISEC Briefs (SCISEC Brief 001: "Mystery Behind Voyager" • SCISEC Brief 002: "Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI" • SCISEC Brief 003: "Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer" • SCISEC Brief 004: "The Whale Probe" • SCISEC Brief 005: "Nimbus III" • SCISEC Brief 006: "Praxis" • SCISEC Brief 007: "Trilithium" • SCISEC Brief 008: "Temporal Vortex" • SCISEC Brief 009: "The Origins of the Ba'ku and Son'a Conflict" • SCISEC Brief 010: "Thalaron Radiation")
Commercials	Transporter Commercial • Brilliant Enterprise Commercial • Collision insurance commercial • Bold Explorers
Other	The Young Hunter: A Klingon Folktale • Untitled Titan short