Klaang Klaang was a Klingon courier in the service of the Klingon High Council during the 22nd century . In his adulthood , Klaang was seven feet tall and became a primary protagonist of the Broken Bow Incident . In 2151 , Klaang met with a Suliban female named Sarin on Rigel X , where Sarin provided him with proof that the Suliban Cabal had been attempting to destabilize the Klingon Empire by staging attacks , making it appear as if one House was attacking another . To do this , she covertly injected the information directly into Klaang ' s DNA , so that it could be safely transported back to the High Council . Upon leaving Rigel , Klaang was pursued by two Suliban soldiers attempting to retrieve the evidence , forcing Klaang to crash land his vessel on Earth , in the town of Broken Bow , Oklahoma . Klaang was eventually successful in killing the soldiers by luring them into a grain silo and destroying it with his disruptor , but sustained serious injuries himself when he was shot with a plasma rifle by a farmer named , on whose land Klaang had crashed . Klaang was subsequently transported to Starfleet Medical in San Francisco , where he was put on life support and treated by Doctor Phlox . Soval , the Vulcan ambassador to Earth , recommended disconnecting Klaang from life support and allowing the Vulcans to transport his body back to the Klingon homeworld , Qo ' noS , but was overridden by Starfleet Admiral Forrest , who agreed to let the crew of return him alive . En route to Qo ' noS , however , " Enterprise " was boarded by a group of Suliban soldiers , who abducted Klaang and transported him to a helix , where he was interrogated by Cabal leader Silik . Klaang was later rescued by Captain Archer and returned safely to the Klingon High Council Chamber , where the proof given to him by Sarin was extracted from his blood , averting a Klingon civil war . ( ) Less than one month later , Sub - Commander T ' Pol mentioned Klaang twice while trying to explain to Vorok – the commanding officer of a Klingon battle cruiser who was threatening to destroy a Xyrillian starship – that the Klingons were in Archer ' s debt since he had returned Klaang to the Klingon Empire . ( ) Later in 2151 , Commander Tucker reminded Captain Archer that , if " Enterprise " s launch had been delayed any longer than it had been , Klaang ' s body would have been sent back to the Klingon homeworld " " in a box " " , a fact that Archer claimed he kept reminding himself of . ( ) News of Klaang ' s flight from two Suliban soldiers and of how he had eventually returned to his homeworld aboard " Enterprise " eventually reached the Tandaran intelligence agency . This knowledge was utilized by Colonel Grat in a conversation with Captain Archer . ( ) When Archer was transported back in time to the day before the Broken Bow Incident , he realized he wasn ' t dreaming as he still knew about Klaang and Phlox ; he also used this knowledge in a discussion with T ' Pol in 2152 . ( ) While deliberating how to deal with a band of Klingon marauders under , Archer suggested to ask the High Council for help since they had returned Klaang and helped the . ( ) The used to rescue Klaang from the helix was later used to rescue crewmembers from a planet . ( )