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Revision as of 14:34, 20 August 2016
| “ | The revolution is successful, but survival depends on drastic measures. Your continued existence represents a threat to the well-being of society. Your lives means slow death to the more valued members of the colony. Therefore, I have no alternative but to sentence you to death. Your execution is so ordered. Signed, Kodos, Governor of Tarsus IV. | „ |
| ~ Kodos' fateful order |
Kodos the Executioner is a one-shot villain in the Star Trek franchise, appearing in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Conscience of the King."
He is played by Arnold Moss.
Kodos was the governor of the human colony on Tarsus IV circa 2246, until an exotic fungus ruined the colony's food supply. In order to save half of the 8,000 colonists, he had the other half executed so that the remaining food would be enough. A believer of eugenics, he personally chose which ones would live and which ones would die. His executions were later proved unnecessary, since the rescue ships arrived earlier than expected, and Kodos (presumed dead at that point) became a historical villain.
It was later discovered that he was still alive and living as an itinerant actor under the name Anton Karidian. In 2266, Captain James T. Kirk investigated Karidian when he was performing aboard the USS Enterprise. Kirk was almost killed by Kodos's daughter Lenore, who was trying to prevent her father's arrest. Kodos, apparently regretting his earlier actions and shocked that his daughter was a murderer, saved Kirk's life by taking the phaser shot.
Quotes
| “ | Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hands. | „ |
| ~ Kodos' first lines in the episode |
| “ | I hoped you would have respected my privacy, Captain. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, after Kirk barges into his guest quarters |
| “ | Do you believe that I am? [...] Then I am Kodos, if it pleases you to believe so. I am an actor. I play many parts. | „ |
| ~ Kodos' reply to Kirk asking if he's Kodos |
| “ | I find your use of the word "mercy" strangely inappropriate, Captain. Here you stand, the perfect symbol of our technical society--mechanized, electronicized, and not very human. You've done away with humanity, the striving of man to achieve greatness through his own resources. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, to Kirk |
| “ | Kodos, whoever he was... [...] Or is! Kodos made a decision of life and death. Some had to die that others might live. You're a man of decision, Captain; you ought to understand that. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, to Kirk |
| “ | In order to save four-thousand others. And if the supply ships hadn't come earlier than expected, this Kodos of yours might have gone down in history as a great hero! | „ |
| ~ Kodos, to Kirk |
| “ | If you're so sure that I'm Kodos, why not kill me now? Let bloody vengeance take its final course! And see what difference it makes to this universe of yours. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, to Kirk |
| “ | Blood thins. The body fails. One is finally grateful for a failing memory. I no longer treasure life, not even my own. I am tired! And the past is a blank. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, to Kirk |
| “ | My hour is almost come, when I to sulphurous and tormenting fires must render up myself. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, playing the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in a stage production of Hamlet |
| “ | There was a voice out of the past haunting me, torturing me. There was another part I once played long ago. I never told you about it. Now that same curtain rises again. The time has come. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, to Lenore |
| “ | All of them? All seven? More blood on my hands? | „ |
| ~ Kodos, after finding out that Lenore is the one responsible for the murders |
| “ | Oh, my child, my child. You've left me nothing! You were the one thing in my life untouched by what I'd done. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, to Lenore |
| “ | I was a soldier in a cause. There were things to be done, terrible things. [...] Murder, flight, suicide, madness. I never wanted the blood on my hands ever to stain you. | „ |
| ~ Kodos, to Lenore |
| “ | No, child! Don't! | „ |
| ~ Kodos' last words, before sacrificing himself to save Kirk from Lenore |
Trivia
- The characters Kang and Kodos on The Simpsons were named after Kodos the Executioner and Kang the Klingon, both villains from Star Trek.