Narendra III

**Narendra III** was a Class M planet in the Narendra system. A Klingon colony world, it was located near the Klingon-Romulan border, and Federation space in the Canopus Core region. The planet's landmass was divided into twelve continents. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise"; ENT: "Judgment"; *Star Trek: Star Charts*; *Star Trek: Pendragon*; *Star Trek Online*)

Some 90,000 years before the common era, the planet was known as **Horbin**, and it was an outpost of the Zalkat Union. (*ST* novel: *The Brave and the Bold*: *The Third Artifact*, *The Final Artifact*)

The Klingon colony on Narendra III was established long before the mid-22nd century. In 2152, Earth Starfleet Captain Jonathan Archer was put on trial at the Narendra colony for conspiring against the Empire, and sentenced to imprisonment on Rura Penthe. (ENT: "Judgment")

At its height, the Narendra colony had 47,000 inhabitants. (*Star Trek Online*)

During the mid-2260s, negotiations were held between the Klingon Empire and the Romulans at Narendra III. A treaty known as the Narendra Agreement was signed, and established a political and technological alliance between the empires. This relationship was always tumultuous and prone to conflict; by the late 2280s, the alliance had broken down completely and the treaty was abandoned. (LUG: *The Way of D'era: The Romulan Star Empire*)

In 2344, Narendra III was attacked by four *D'Deridex*-class Romulan warbirds. Answering the colony's distress call, the USS *Enterprise*-C arrived on scene and engaged the warbirds, in defense of the Klingons. Though both the *Enterprise* and the colony were destroyed, the heroic efforts of a Starfleet crew sacrificing themselves in battle to defend Klingon civilians helped strengthen the relationship between the Empire and the Federation. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")

The destruction of the Narendra III outpost would enable the Romulans to press further into Klingon space, leading to the attack on Khitomer in 2346. (*Star Trek: Pendragon*)

Undaunted, the Klingons would rebuild the colony. In 2353, while reconstruction was still underway, the Empire and the Federation held a summit on Narendra III where the Treaty of Alliance was signed. (LUG: *All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook*)

By the 2370s, the colony had been fully rebuilt, and boasted dozens of cities with many thousands of colonists. (*ST* novel: *The Brave and the Bold*: *The Final Artifact*)

## Legacy

The Battle of Narendra was commemorated by both the Empire and the Federation in numerous ways. Among them, the joint outpost Starbase 364 was dubbed "Narendra Station," and the *Narendra* class of Starfleet vessels was so named in honor of the colonists and the sacrifice of the *Enterprise*-C. (*Star Trek Adventures*; *Star Trek Online*)

Many songs and tales were sung and written about the colony, the battle, and the heroic sacrifice of the *Enterprise*-C, including a popular Klingon opera, which was the first time in the genre's history that Starfleet officers were portrayed as wholly honorable. (*Star Trek: Pendragon*)

## External links

* Narendra III article at ***Memory Alpha***, the canon *Star Trek* wiki.
* Narendra III article at ***Memory Beta***, the non-canon *Star Trek* wiki.
* Narendra III article at ***Star Trek Expanded Universe***, the fanon and fanworks *Star Trek* wiki.
* Narendra III article at the official ***Star Trek Online*** wiki