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Korax is the secondary antagonist of the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" and the animated episode "More Tribbles, More Trouble".
In live action, he was portrayed by the late Michael Pataki, who also played Karnas in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Nicolai Koloff in Rocky IV and voiced Sewer King in Batman: The Animated Series. In animation, he was voiced by the late James Doohan, who also voiced Kor, Koloth and Keniclius 5, as well as M-5 in the original series.
Biography[]
Korax was a Klingon officer who acted as the first officer to Captain Koloth. The two of them headed to Space Station K-7, a Federation outpost storing the grain quadrotriticale intended for colonisation efforts. They requested shore leave which the staff there were forced to grant. In the station bar, Korax approached Lieutenant Commander Scott, Ensign Chekov and Lieutenant Freeman, goading them with insults about Captain Kirk. Scott initially tried to calm the situation, but when Korax added that the Enterprise should be towed away for scrap, Scotty punched him, sparking a brawl. Koloth and Korax later confronted Kirk in the station office to demand an apology, but ironically this led to Kirk uncovering Klingon agent Arne Darvin, who had poisoned the grain.
Korax continued to serve as Koloth's first officer as they dealt with another tribble infestation. Cyrano Jones had stolen a glommer, a genetically engineered creature that fed on tribbles, and the Enterprise crew felt obliged to protect him. Kirk eventually returned the glommer to the Klingons, but by now, Jones' genetic modifications had caused tribbles to grow to a giant size that was actually made up of many smaller tribbles, reducing the glommer's effectiveness.
According to the Crucible trilogy of novels, Korax later succeeded to command of Koloth's old ship and was killed piloting it in a kamikazi run on the Guardian of Forever. Other novels have him still alive in the 2280s and rising to admiral.
Trivia[]
For many years, it was believed that David Gerrold, the writer of the two Tribble episodes, voiced Korax in his animated appearance, until Gerrold denied this was the case.
Korax appears via archive footage in the Deep Space 9 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", where Worf, O'Brien, Bashir and Odo witness his goading Scott, with the first three getting involved in the subsequent brawl.
