Gorkon

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The Basics

Chancellor Gorkon is the leader of the Klingon Patriots or “Hull Breach” crew in Star Trek Fleet Command. He’s an epic command officer.

You can get Gorkon recruiting shards from the Klingon faction store, Ultra and premium recruiting chests, as well as from Transporter patterns.

Captain’s Maneuver

Quick Victory – Gorkon increases the chances of dealing a Critical Hit by 10% for the first 2 Rounds.

Gorkon’s captain’s maneuver is good for hostiles, and where battles are quick. Not so great for PvP, where the battles last longer. So your opponent’s captain’s abilities will keep firing, and yours is done in two rounds.

During the Military Supremacy! events, when I’ve got to kill 500 level 40s, I’ll put Gorkon’s Hull Breach crew on my Saladin, and save the PMC crew for my Intrepid.

On the Saladin, you’re going to get a chance at a huge Critical Hit with that big gun, and combining him with Kerla and his officer ability to increase the critical hit damage that will amplify this effect. For a third, I use Azetbur and her armor-piercing ability.

Officer Ability of Gorkon

When the ship hits the opponent with a Critical Hit, Gorkon has a (70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%) chance of causing a Hull Breach for three rounds on the opponent’s ship.

The Hull Breach itself doesn’t do any damage. I know, you’d think a hole in the opponent’s ship would itself would be bad for a ship, but it really isn’t. What the breach does is trigger the abilities of other officers.

The problem is that there really aren’t a lot of officers who use Hull Breach. In fact, the officers who defend against Hull Breach might be better than those who use it.

When you compare this with some of the enormous boosts that you can get with morale crews – like Spock’s shield regenerating ability – it’s a bit underwhelming.

Officer	Officer Ability	Crew
Chang	Dogs of War – If the ship deals a Critical Hit to the opponent’s ship while it has a Hull Breach, Chang has a (30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, 50% chance of delaying its next weapon attack by 1 round.	Klingon Patriots
Koth	Open Them Up – As long as the opponent’s ship has a Hull Breach, Koth increases the damage dealt by Kinetic Weapons by (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%)	Klingon Patriots
Mara	Wife of a Dahar – As long as the opponent ship has a Hull Breach, Mara decreases its Dodge by (20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%,) at the end of each round.	Blood & Honor

The caveat to this would be when using a ship like the D4, which has it’s ship ability contingent on the opponent having a hull breach.

Gorkon Below Decks

When it comes to Armadas and PvP, Gorkon’s biggest impact is probably below decks, where he can provide you with a big boost to your attack stats. So if you’re running Kang, Linkasa, L’Nar, or Six of Ten, whose abilities all rely on the attack stats of your crew, having him on board will be very helpful.

Gorkon Rating

Gorkon is a good officer. He’s not as valuable as Kirk, or Pike, but he brings a lot to the table, in that you can use him to free up those other crews. The Hull Breach is disappointing, but his critical hits in the first few rounds can be very useful. Good but not great.

He is worth spending officer badges on, but he wouldn’t be the first one I’d spend them on. He’d be even more valuable if a few more good Hull Breach officers were added to the game.

David Warner Trivia

Born in 1941 in Manchester, England, the son of a nursing home owner. He trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. He worked for several years in Shakespearean plays in and around London, before transitioning to films and television in the mid-60s.

One of his earliest roles was alongside Bob Dylan in the 1963 play Madhouse on Castle Street. He was in The Omen with Gregory Peck 1976. Warner was regularly cast as villains, in films like Time After Time , Time Bandits and Tron .

In Star Trek

Warner made his Star Trek debut in Star Trek V as the crude, drunk, and depressed Federation Ambassador St. John Talbot.

He was then brought back for Star Trek VI as Chancellor Gorkon.

Gorkon was created by writer Denny Martin Finn as an amalgamation of Mikhail Gorbachev and Abraham Lincoln.

It was co-writer Nick Meyer who decided that Gorkon should be assassinated.

The original choice to play Gorkon was Jack Palance, who was a longtime actor in Westerns, and is probably most famous to people my age for starring in the Billy Crystal movie City Slickers. He later won an Oscar for that performance, and did a one-armed pushup on the stage. Really.

But Palance wanted too much money, and was hesitant to take the role.

So Meyer turned to his friend David Warner, and the role changed accordingly. Gorkon was to be the “peacemaker” Klingon that the audience wasn’t supposed to know if they could trust or not.

Gul Madred

Perhaps Warner’s best Trek role is that of Gul Madred in the Next Generation episodes “Chain of Command, Part I” and “Chain of Command, Part II“. It’s the one where he tortures Picard, and tries to get him to say that there are five lights, instead of four.

He based his performance on the “re-educator” from 1984.