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🪐 Klingon planet ⏳ Greek god of time

Kronos

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A planet in Star Trek that is the home of the Klingon people
  • proper noun
translation icon : Kronos
  • Starfleet ships are to head straight for Kronos, where they are to destroy Praxis.
  • Kronos One
  • course for Kronos
  • Enterprise fired on Kronos

Examples

  • When I first set eyes on the Great Domes of Kronos, I felt that I had finally come home.

  • You're coming with me to Kronos.

    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

  • You better think about what you did on Kronos.

    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

  • It's not coming at us from Kronos.

    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

  • But we can't allow them to be taken back to Kronos as prisoners!

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Plot a course for Kronos, Lieutenant. Lt. Valeris, Kronos, sir?

    Fiction book (1991)

  • May I remind you that he and Doctor McCoy boarded Kronos?

    Fiction book (1991)

  • He's on Kronos, sir.

    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

  • I will personally lead a landing party to an abandoned city on the surface of Kronos where we will capture the fugitive, John Harrison, and return him to Earth so he can face judgment for his actions.

    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

  • I come from Kronos, home planet of the Klingon world.

Surface Forms

Kronos main

Etymology

Kronos is also the name of the Klingon home planet in Star Trek. The planet's name was borrowed from the powerful Greek Kronos to give it a feeling of power and age, so it is easy to remember that Kronos is the harsh, warrior world of the Klingons.