The Dread Pirate R'kah

[Nuclear Fridge]

There’s a note under the Raptor-class ship in Starships (Book 4, page 128) that I’m thinking of expanding for a scenario. The IKS Batlh was the vessel flown by the ‘infamous pirate R’kah’.

For some reason, I’m thinking that R’kah was a female. Due to her gender, she was forced to work ‘outside’ the Klingon system of operation – such as it was during the days of Enterprise and the Suliban. So she and her snaggle-toothed crew of thugs go around dropping the hammer on DY-500 freighters…

Anybody have thoughts on this idea?

[Dan Gurden]

Maybe once... But perhaps R’kah had grown so rich, she wanted to retire. She took her cabin-girl to her cabin and told her the secret. That she was not the Dread Pirate R’kah. 'My name is Re'yan; She inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate R’kah, just as her cabin-girl would inherit it from her. The woman she inherited it from was not the real Dread Pirate R’kah either. Her name was Cummerbund. The real R’kah has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.

[PGoodman13]

Damn. Somebody beat me to it....

[C5]

Ok I must confess I'm thoroughlsy missing the joke here... Care to explain ?

[WarriorKnight]

Princess Bride

[Nuclear Fridge]

"Good night, Wesley. Sleep well.
"I'll probably kill you in the morning."

Given the 'wild and woolly' level of 2150 tech, I was envisaging docking claws, boarding parties armed with bat'leths, and so on. Basically, R'kah is a nod to the 'gender division' we saw in TNG that kept Lursa & B'Etor from claiming the Chancellorship.

Heck, while we're mining the pirate movie trope, why not make her the exiled daughter of a noble house who got exiled/sold into slavery/dumped on a remote asteroid by a usurping cousin?

[Owen E Oulton]

What was amusing about the Lursa/B'Etor scen is that if you look carefully when they claim that women cannot be members of the High Council, there are indeed women on the Council. And, of course, Azetbur had previously been established as Chancellor... If Vulcans "cannot lie", it seems Klingons cannot NOT lie...

[Nuclear Fridge]

Hmm. Maybe the Council simply didn't want those women joining. Given the Duras family's covert dealings with Romulus, perhaps Lursa & B'Etor just had enough 'dubious provenance' to block their candidacy?

Ambition, skulduggery & base treachery seem to be acceptable in higher circles on Qo'noS, but being cosy with Romulans is just too far!