Kang is an epic command officer in the Blood & Honor Crew in Star Trek Fleet Command. While he certainly has the look of a Klingon from the Kelvin universe, the character of Kang has his roots in the Original Series episode, the Day of the Dove.
You can get officer shards for Kang from Ultra Recruit and Premium Recruit packs, as well as from transporter patterns.
Kang’s Captain’s Maneuver
Dahar Master – At the start of battle, Kang has an 80% chance of dealing a Hull Breach to the opponent for 3 rounds.
The rub for Kang is that while synergy can get it up to 100% for the first three rounds, it’s over after that – so it’s going to be great for short battles, but much less useful in longer PvP battles, or armadas, or anything that goes much longer than three rounds. If you’ve got a D4, this could be useful, especially against hostiles (shorter battles.)
The rub is that Hull Breach doesn’t really have the officer abilities to back it up that morale and burning do. Adding Captain Tilly and her increased mitigation was good, but other than that, you’ve got Chang, Koth, Mara and Qa’ug. And none of those abilities are in the same ballpark as Spock, Paul Zhou, D’Jaoki, Admiral Marcus, Charvanek, etc.
Also keep in mind that the Pan crew is anti-hull breach, and Kang setting off a hull breach will activate all of their abilities.
Officer Ability
Blood Oath – At the start of a battle, Kang increases the Accuracy of the ship by (100%, 200%, 400%, 800%, 1,600%) of the Attack of the crew on the ship.
This is one of those officers, like Spock, Marcus, Charvanek, who really tiers up well. Accuracy isn’t generally the best trait for player-vs-player – but if you’ve got an 800% Kang on your explorer, you should do pretty well against interceptors. And now with Territory Capture in full-swing, having a third, fourth, or even fifth PvP crew is much more important.
Trivia
Kang’s captain’s maneuver and officer ability are references to his appearance in the Deep Space Nine episode, Blood Oath. That’s the one where three TOS Klingons return to avenge the murders of their sons, along with Jadzia Dax.
Kang made his last on-screen appearance in a flashback on the Voyager episode … Flashback. That’s the one where Tuvok relives the events of Star Trek VI, from his perspective on the Excelsior.
And as you may know, Kang of “Kodos and Kang” fame on the Simpsons is named for this character. (Kodos, by the way is named for the evil governor in the TOS episode, The Conscience of the King.)
And as is fitting at this time, “Go ahead, throw your vote away.”
All About Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara, in my opinion, has one of the best voices of any actor ever. He’s up there with James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, and maybe Pat Buttram. If you had that voice, the world would be your oyster.
Ansara was born on April 15th, 1922 in the Mandate for Syria and Lebanon (which existed between World War I and II after the Ottoman Empire was partitioned.)
When he was two years old, his family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts (north of Boston.) Ten years later, the family moved to California. It was there that he started taking acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse. He served as a medic during World War II.
After the war, he became an extremely busy actor, and finally had his breakout role playing Cochise in the ABC television series, Broken Arrow.
It was while working on that series that the 20th Century-Fox publicity department set him up on a date with pre-I Dream of Jeannie Barbara Eden. You can put this on the list of things that wouldn’t happen in 2020… but in the mid-50s, it worked, and the two were married in 1958. The two were married until 1974.
After Broken Arrow, Ansara starred as an Apache U.S. Marshall in Law of the Plainsman. In 1961, Ansara he appeared with his wife in the film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. His performance a the 1963 Rawhide episode earned him a Bronze Wrangler award.
And I can’t not mention that he appeared in the 1965 Elvis Presley film, Harum Scarum. So there’s that.
Ansara as Kang
Kang was the second Klingon commander to appear in TOS, but originally, he wasn’t going to appear at all. The original script of Day of the Dove called for John Colicos to come back as Kor, but Colicos was unavailable. (Just sayin’, Scopely, when we get the TOS arc, can we please, please, please get Kor and Koloth. I know I asked a while ago, but I’m askin’ again.)
Quick Quiz
Ansara was one of twelve actors to play the same character on three different Star Trek television series. And rather than list them out, I thought it might be more fun to let you guess.
After Day of the Dove, he remained extremely busy. Without going through all of his credits, he had a recurring character on Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century. He also appeared with Ricardo Montalban on Fantasy Island. He also showed up on CHiPs and Babylon 5.
I think that a lot of you might know him best as being the voice of Mr. Freeze on a number of animated Batman series and films.
And I couldn’t not include this. I’m happy to live in a world where this exists. Ansara and Jimmy “JJ” Walker from Good Times bowling against Dick Martin from Laugh-In, and pre-Airplane Leslie Nielsen.
And if that’s not enough for you… he also appeard on another episode of Celebrity Bowling, this time teamed with John Shuck (who played the angry Klingon ambassador in Star Trek IV), going against Dick Martin and Billy Barty. Yes, that Billy Barty.
And with that, I’m out. Have a great day my friends.
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