Krall (Star Trek)
Krall is a male extraterrestrial film villain who features in Star Trek.
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Biography
Balthazar M. Edison was a male human born in Murrysville, Pennsylvania on Earth. Edison came to serve in MACO, a branch of the United Earth Military, in the 22nd century. He began his military service history as a boot camp officer where, as a soldier, he was trained in survival strategies and tactical analysis. After he was promoted to major, he served in force command under Captain T. Ginwald. As an acting colonel, he served as a lieutenant under the command of Captain T. Pine. He fought in both the Xindi and the Romulan wars, during which he witnessed millions of Humans perish by alien hands. Following the founding of the Federation, MACO was dissolved. Edison became a Starfleet officer and was given command of the USS Franklin. However, Edison deeply resented what he saw as being put out to pasture, his perceived calling as a soldier rendered obsolete by the Federation's embrace of diplomacy and tolerance.
In 2164, the Franklin was displaced by a wormhole while inside the Gagarin Radiation Belt. The ship crashed on the distant planet Altamid, with Edison, Anderson Le, and Jessica Wolff as the only survivors. Edison sent out a distress call but, receiving no response, he came to believe that he had been abandoned by the Federation. As his resentment festered into violent hatred, Edison resolved to destroy the Federation and prove that peaceful coexistence led only to weakness. It was not until 2255 that Starfleet had him formally declared missing in action. On Altamid, Edison found technology left behind by a previous civilization, including Swarm ships, a drone workforce, and an energy transference process that allowed him to 'drain' other individuals to prolong his own life. Using their newly-acquired Swarm, Edison, Le, and Wolff captured scores of alien ships and drained their crews to survive, which also mutated their biology to resemble that of their victims. In time, Edison became Krall, suppressing much of his Human identity and ceasing to speak in English. Krall learned that the natives of Altamid once created a super-weapon called the Abronath, which they had split in two and launched into space. He located one piece after decades of work, but not the other.
By 2263, Krall discovered from Starfleet logs, accessed through a captured Magellan probe, that the second piece of the Abronath had been placed into storage on the USS Enterprise. He dispatched Wolff, now 'Kalara', to lure the Enterprise to him. Upon the arrival of the Enterprise at Altamid, Krall attacked with his Swarm. He destroyed the Enterprise, captured most of the crew, and eventually coerced Ensign Syl into relinquishing the second Abronath piece. His weapon complete, Krall departed Altamid with his Swarm to wipe out all life from the nearby Starbase Yorktown, whose multicultural population he saw as the epitome of the Federation's degeneracy. Krall's Swarm overwhelmed Yorktown's defenses and was on the verge of breaking inside when he was engaged by the Franklin, commanded by the Enterprise's former captain, Captain James T. Kirk. The Franklin, and later the starbase, used a VHF radio broadcast to disrupt the Swarm's internal communications network and destroyed most of the craft. Krall managed to enter Yorktown, but the Franklin physically stopped his ship short of his destination. Having drained many Enterprise crew members before and after the battle, Krall had regained much of his Human physiology and was thus able to disguise himself as a Starfleet officer. This allowed him to make his way, unimpeded, to the central atmospheric processor on Yorktown, where the Abronath's effects would be disseminated throughout the station. He was intercepted by Kirk, and the two fought while Montgomery Scott redirected the processor to vent into space; Kirk then ejected both Krall and the Abronath out of Yorktown. Shortly after, Krall was consumed by the Abronath, leaving only the Starfleet insignia from his stolen uniform.
Overview
Personality and attributes
After his transformation, he came to take the name of Krall.
Krall dedicated himself on destroying the Federation for abandoning him and his crew.
Powers and abilities
Originally, Balthazar M. Edison was an ordinary human with no special inherent abilities. By adulthood, he came to be a human senior officer within Earth's MACO organization.
On Altamid, he came to use alien technology to extend his life with this having the effect of mutating his body.
Notes
- Krall was portrayed by actor Idris Elba where he featured as an antagonist in the setting of Star Trek Beyond.
Appearances
- Star Trek Beyond:
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