[SCENE:  Aboard the ISS Vengeance, in His Rudeness’ quarters.  He is reading a padd that T-Bone McManx has just brought him.  He sighs, moves to his console comm and touches a button.]
VENOMOUS (to embedded speaker/mic):  Venomous to Korrioth.
KORRIOTH (over speaker):  nuqneH
VENOMOUS:  Come to my quarters, if you please, General.
KORRIOTH:  (grunt) On my way.
[SCENE:  Five minutes later.  Korrioth is standing at…well, we won’t call it attention, but he looks like he’s ready to tear Venomous’ head off.]
VENOMOUS:  That’s his usual pose, Narrator.  No worries.
[Uh…yes, Admiral.]
KORRIOTH (slightly annoyed by now):  Admiral, I hope you had a good reason for getting me up here.
VENOMOUS (sighing):  No, Kor, I’m afraid I don’t.  I’m granting you extended shore leave.  You are to fly to Vulcan, pick up your mother and proceed to Q’ono’S.
KORRIOTH (now with a very  wary look):  Uh…why?
[The Admiral hands Korrioth the padd]
StarTrek.com is saddened to report that veteran character actor and iconic Star Trek guest star Michael Ansara passed away on July 31 at the age of 91 following a long illness.
Ansara had a remarkably long and prolific career that spanned from 1944 to 2001 and included Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Broken Arrow (on which he starred as Cochise), The Fugitive, Gunsmoke, I Dream of Jeannie, It’s Alive, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Fantasy Island, Murder, She Wrote, Babylon 5 and such late-career animated projects as Batman, SubZero, Batman Beyond and his final credit, 2001’s Batman: Vengeance; he voiced Dr. Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze in all of those Batman iterations.
Star Trek fans, of course, embraced Ansara for his performance as the Klingon commander, Kang, in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Day of the Dove.” Later, when Star Trek exploded into a cultural phenomenon, Ansara became a favorite at conventions and on cruises. Decades passed and, in 1994, Ansara made a triumphant return to televised Trek, reprising his role as Kang in the Deep Space Nine hour “Blood Oath.” Ansara played Kang yet again in the 1996 Voyager episode “Flashback”…
[Korrioth stares at the padd, a dispassionate look on his face.  A low rumble begins in his throat.  Then, almost without warning, Korrioth throws his head back and…]
KORRIOTH:  YYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[He straightens and faces Venomous]
KORRIOTH:  I will require K’hadibak’h & McCool to accompany me, Admiral.
VENOMOUS:  Take them, my friend. They’re on detached assignment to you for as long as you need.
KORRIOTH:  Thank you, sir.  With your permission…?
[Venomous nods his assent, and Korrioth exits.]
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The Realm™ extends its condolences to the Ansara family.
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Ansara had a commanding voice the likes you don’t hear much in Hollywood these days. Wish he coulda done an audio book of Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.”
RIP.