K'Ehleyr of the House of ...Kirk?
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eliyesMy fannish speculation OCD, let me show you it.
In the (excellent, btw) novel Sarek, Peter Kirk -- son of George Samuel Kirk, Jr., and nephew of famed Starfleet officer James T. Kirk -- falls mutually in love with Valdyr, niece of Kamarag, who is a Klingon. At the end of the book, possibilities of their relationship continuing look adorably promising.
Now, in the book, Peter (or, as Valdyr calls him, "Pityr") is 31 years old. Valdyr's a bit younger, though her age is never explicitly stated. I'm gonna ballpark her as 25 at that time.
Okay, so, Klingons have an average life span of 150 years, and are hale and strong right to the end, generally. The novel Sarek takes place shortly after the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country*, which took place in 2293. So let's say 2294.
Worf was born in 2340. I'm going to assume Worf and K'Ehleyr are the same age, for the sake of convenience and also as a nod to that non-canon Starfleet Academy book where they meet as students. ANYWAY.
IF we take Valdyr as 25 in 2294, then in 2340 she'd be 71. Given the health and longevity of Klingons, and the potential medical hoops they might have had to jump through to crossbreed initially, Valdyr and Peter Kirk could, possibly, have been K'Ehleyr's parents.
Which would be kinda cool, in a totally dorky way.
There are just two things about the theory that don't work.
First of all -- and this is just the nitpicker in me -- Peter really should have been 41, not 31. Otherwise he would have been 3 years old when he first showed up in the TOS episode "Operation: Annihilate!", which would have been very odd, since he was played by a 13 year old. This is the sort of thing I could pretend not to know for the sake of a good story.
The other thing, alas, is much harder to ignore, and that's that K'Ehleyr canonically has a Human mother and a Klingon father. She says so herself, saying she inherited her mother's humor and her father's temper (their worst traits). So, unless they got sex changes somewhere along the way, Valdyr and Peter Kirk can't be her parents.
But hey, she may have met their offspring, if they ever had any. ;3
* Interestingly, there is a Colonel Worf in this movie, also played by Michael Dorn. Supposedly he was the grandfather of the Worf in TNG. He was a lawyer and diplomat. ;3
In the (excellent, btw) novel Sarek, Peter Kirk -- son of George Samuel Kirk, Jr., and nephew of famed Starfleet officer James T. Kirk -- falls mutually in love with Valdyr, niece of Kamarag, who is a Klingon. At the end of the book, possibilities of their relationship continuing look adorably promising.
Now, in the book, Peter (or, as Valdyr calls him, "Pityr") is 31 years old. Valdyr's a bit younger, though her age is never explicitly stated. I'm gonna ballpark her as 25 at that time.
Okay, so, Klingons have an average life span of 150 years, and are hale and strong right to the end, generally. The novel Sarek takes place shortly after the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country*, which took place in 2293. So let's say 2294.
Worf was born in 2340. I'm going to assume Worf and K'Ehleyr are the same age, for the sake of convenience and also as a nod to that non-canon Starfleet Academy book where they meet as students. ANYWAY.
IF we take Valdyr as 25 in 2294, then in 2340 she'd be 71. Given the health and longevity of Klingons, and the potential medical hoops they might have had to jump through to crossbreed initially, Valdyr and Peter Kirk could, possibly, have been K'Ehleyr's parents.
Which would be kinda cool, in a totally dorky way.
There are just two things about the theory that don't work.
First of all -- and this is just the nitpicker in me -- Peter really should have been 41, not 31. Otherwise he would have been 3 years old when he first showed up in the TOS episode "Operation: Annihilate!", which would have been very odd, since he was played by a 13 year old. This is the sort of thing I could pretend not to know for the sake of a good story.
The other thing, alas, is much harder to ignore, and that's that K'Ehleyr canonically has a Human mother and a Klingon father. She says so herself, saying she inherited her mother's humor and her father's temper (their worst traits). So, unless they got sex changes somewhere along the way, Valdyr and Peter Kirk can't be her parents.
But hey, she may have met their offspring, if they ever had any. ;3
* Interestingly, there is a Colonel Worf in this movie, also played by Michael Dorn. Supposedly he was the grandfather of the Worf in TNG. He was a lawyer and diplomat. ;3