Slave to a Klingon

Rogaine is an Orion slave girls that charmed a Klingon Admiral, but paid the price for it. Be careful who you seduce.

The 1984 novel "The Final Reflection" is widely accepted as the gospel of Klingon culture, if not the bible. Kethas epetai-Khemara, a Klingon admiral, has a female Orion consort named Rogaine. (Unfortunate name, for sure, but in the author's defense, the drug didn't come out until 1988.) Kethas introduces her to his adopted son Vrenn:

Another being, a female, came into view. She wore a long gown of some pale stuff that shimmered. Her skin was quite dark, and Vrenn thought for a moment she was Klingon, but then a white ceiling light showed the green cast to her complexion. Light gleamed on fingernails like polished green opals.

And then Vrenn felt something very strange, like an invisible hand squeezing inside his chest. It was not painful ... not quite. He spilled a little of his drink.

"Pheromonal shock," Kethas said. "At your age, the rush of hormones could be deadly." Vrenn had no idea what Kethas was talking about. He knew from the female?s color what she must be: half the ships Koth of the Vengeance captured had an Orion female aboard, all green, all beautiful past imagining ... but Vrenn realized now that they were all just Klingon females in makeup. And compared to this one, they were all dead things.

"This is Rogaine," Kethas said, Vrenn forced himself to listen. "She is my sole consort. Rogaine, this is Vrenn, whom we have taken into the line."

Vrenn bowed. Rogaine returned it, and sank with an impossibly smooth motion onto a cushion by the fire. "Please don?t stare," she said, in a fluid voice, one not at all suited to klingonaase. "It makes me feel that I have committed an error."

Kethas sat next to Rogaine, covered her hand with his. "In this House you are infallible," he said, and then said something in a language as ill-suited to his tongue as klingonaase was to hers. Rogaine laughed, a sound that melted in the air.

Pretty poetic for a Klingon. She continues to torment young Vrenn:

The female Rogaine was seated among the web ferns of the indoor garden, playing her harp. There was no light from above, and she was no more than a dark shape outlined in light, almost one with the reflections on the pool beyond. Thick mist floated, glowing, diffuse.

Rogaine turned, playing a complex chord, and Vrenn could see that the mist was all that covered her. He felt a stitch in his side, as if his air was short. It was not quite pain, and then it was something worse than any pain Vrenn had ever known. Rogaine?s long nails stroked the strings, and Vrenn heard himself groan.

Although a Klingon showing gentleness is odd, back then (1984) it wasn't uncommon, and it does set one up for bad times. Admiral Kethas the Affectionate was conspiring to build peace with the Romulans. So Vrenn changed his name and switched sides:

[Now Scout Captain Krenn] watched the taped deaths of Kethas and Rogaine twice through. They were competent kills, as the law of assassination specified: that indeed was the reason for taping at all.

Krenn was pleased to see that Rogaine fought very well, stabbing one assassin, blinding another with her nails after her body had hypnotized him. It served the fool right for such carelessness.

Kethas fell near his gameboards, firing back as he collapsed, upsetting the Reflective Game set that had been his favorite. Kethas?s hand closed on the green-gold Lancer, and then did not move. The camera swung away. On the second play, Krenn stopped the image, enlarged it; he realized that the epetai-Khemara had not been reaching for the game piece, but toward his consort?s body.

Krenn would go on to become a great warrior, but the memories of dear Kethas and the beautiful Rogaine will haunt him.

Star Trek books and novels aren't considered canon, i.e. what happens doesn't influence the Star Trek multiverse. However "The Final Reflection" is among the best sources of Klingon culture and diplomacy, despite the fact that, on the cover, Krenn has a carefully parted, normal hairline.

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