Qo'noS

Facts

• Capital: Qam-Chee (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• Class M
• Moons
  • Praxis (destroyed 2293)
• Inhabitants: Klingon
• Nation
  • Antiquity - c.8th century: Non-unified
  • c.8th century - c.14th century: Klingon Empire (TNG: "Rightful Heir")
  • c.14th century: Hur'q (DS9: "The Sword of Kahless")
  • c.14th century - Present: Klingon Empire (TNG: "Rightful Heir")

History

• January 2293: The explosion of Praxis devastates Qo'noS, threatening to render it uninhabitable within 50 years without outside aid. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

Locations

Surface

• Locations
  • Mount Vor (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
  • qIj'bIQ (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind; TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
    • River running through center of Qam-Chee (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind; TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
• Cities
  • Qam-Chee (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru, Live by the Code)
    • Commonly known as "the First City" (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru, Live by the Code; VAN Novel: Harbinger, Reap the Whirlwind)
    • wo'leng (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
      • Main boulevard extending from Great Hall to qIj'bIQ (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
    • Population
      • 2379: "Tens of millions" (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
    • Great Hall (TNG: "Sins of the Father", "Redemption"; DS9: "The House of Quark"; TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
      • Center of government for the Klingon Empire (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
    • Old Quarter (TNG Novel: Available Light)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• bolmaq (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)
  • Herd animal (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)
• ghewpu'tIn (VAN Novel: Harbinger)
  • Venomous, multilimbed animal native to deep forest (VAN Novel: Harbinger)
• lIngta' (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind; DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Rapture"; TNG Novel: Q & A)
  • Often used for food (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind; DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Rapture"; TNG Novel: Q & A)
• qa'Hom (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
  • Domesticated as pets (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
  • Often used for food (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• qogh (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
  • Domesticated as pets (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
  • Often used for food (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• Sark (TNG: "Pen Pals"; TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
  • Riding animal akin to an Earth horse (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
• Targ (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru, To Brave the Storm)
  • Boar-like animal
  • Domesticated as pets (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
  • Often used for food (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• toQ vulture (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• wam serpent (TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)