Star Trek: Klingon Empire

Star Trek: Klingon Empire is series of interlinked Klingon-centric Star Trek novels written by Keith DeCandido. The series was published by Pocket Books from 2003 to 2008.

Star Trek: Klingon Empire

Cover of A Burning House (2008)
A Good Day to Die (2003) Honor Bound (2003) Enemy Territory (2005) A Burning House (2008)
Author	Keith DeCandido
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Pocket Books
Published	2003–2008
Media type	Print (Paperback)
No. of books	4
Website	startrekbooks.com

Originally published as Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon.

Production

Following positive reaction to his novel Diplomatic Implausibility (2001), DeCandido was curious if there was sufficient interest in a Klingon-centric series.^[1] In Voyages of Imagination (2009) by Jeff Ayers, DeCandido said "Pocket Books … was willing to take a chance." He had "already set it up" in Diplomatic Implausibility and The Brave and the Bold, Book Two (2002), so he "took it forward" with two novels.^[1] A third novel followed in 2005.

In 2008, the series was relaunched as Klingon Empire. The scope of A Burning House expanded the setting beyond the crew aboard the Gorkon.

Members of Gorkon crew appear in the Destiny (2008) miniseries, by David Mack, and in A Singular Destiny (2008), by DeCandido.

Only one relaunch novel has been published, though representatives of Simon & Schuster suggested new 'Klingon' novels were forthcoming as late as 2012. DeCandido explained in numerous interviews he has not queried new novels for the series since he submitted the un-related short story "The Unhappy Ones", later collected in Seven Deadly Sins (2010).^[2][3]

Flagship

The IKS Gorkon is a Qang-class, or Chancellor-class, war cruiser named for Chancellor Gorkon first introduced in The Undiscovered Country (1991). The cruiser is 500 m (1,600 ft) in length, and carries a complement of over 2,000 crew. When launched, the Gorkon, was among the first of the Qang-class cruisers in service.

A Good Day to Die (2003) begins sometime after Chancellor Martok ordered the Gorkon to the Kavrot Sector—an unexplored region of space—with the objective of finding new planets to conquer for the glory of the Empire.

Captain Klag, captain of the Gorkon, was introduced in The Next Generation episode "A Matter of Honor".

Novels

All novels written by Keith DeCandido.

I.K.S. Gorkon (2003–2005)

No.	Title	Date	ISBN
1	A Good Day to Die	October 28, 2003	0-7434-5714-5
2	Honor Bound	November 25, 2003	0-7434-5716-1
3	Enemy Territory	March 1, 2005	1-4165-0014-6

Klingon Empire (2008)

Title	Date	ISBN
A Burning House	January 29, 2008	978-1-4165-5647-3

Short fiction

Captain Klag's history was the subject of three short stories, with one set in the Mirror Universe. All were written by Keith DeCandido.

Work	Collection	Editor(s)	Date	ISBN
"A Song Well Sung"	Tales of the Dominion War	Keith DeCandido	August 3, 2004	0-7434-9171-8
"loDnI‘pu‘ vavpu‘ je"	Tales from the Captain's Table		June 14, 2005	1-4165-0520-2
"Family Maters"	Shards and Shadows   (Mirror Universe)	Marco Palmieri and Margaret Clark	January 6, 2009	978-1-4165-5850-7

Related novels

Novels that contain links to the series. The Gorkon and her crew were introduced in Diplomatic Implausibility (2003).

Title	Author	Date	ISBN
Diplomatic Implausibility   (The Next Generation, Book 61)	Keith DeCandido	January 30, 2001	0-671-78554-0
The Brave and the Bold, Book Two		November 26, 2002	0-7434-1923-5
Articles of the Federation		May 24, 2005	1-4165-0015-4
Gods of Night   (Destiny, Book 1)	David Mack	September 30, 2008	978-1-4165-5171-3
Mere Mortals   (Destiny, Book 2)		October 28, 2008	978-1-4165-5172-0
Lost Souls   (Destiny, Book 3)		November 25, 2008	978-1-4165-5175-1
A Singular Destiny	Keith DeCandido	January 27, 2009	978-1-4165-9495-6

See also

• Klingon
• Dominion War
• List of Star Trek novels
• List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels
• List of Star Trek: The Next Generation novels