Ballad of Krul

The Ballad of Krul was a classic work of Kellerun poetry.
In 3191, Captain Michael Burnham quoted from the Ballad of Krul when asking for Commander Rayner's blunt opinion: "Serve it without a grum of osikod."
Later, when Burnham and Cleveland Booker were attempting to escape a pocket of interdimensional space aboard the , Burnham set the ship's tractor beam to oscillate on a repeating pattern. This referenced section four, verse seven of the Ballad of Krul, when Krul calls to his war brother for rescue with a repeating drumbeat of three, four, one, four. Recognizing it, Rayner ordered the to lock onto the beam and pull the Enterprise out. ()
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