The IKS Gr'oth was a Klingon D7-class battle cruiser in service with the Klingon Defense Force during the 2260s, under the command of Captain Koloth. The starship's first officer was Korax.
In 2268 the Gr'oth entered Federation space and demanded shore leave rights at Deep Space K-7 after completing a six-month mission. It left the station with an engine room full of tribbles. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles"; DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")
Background
The Gr'oth was neither seen nor identified by name in the original episode. It was later inserted into the 2006 "remastered" version of "The Trouble with Tribbles", seen at a distance orbiting K-7.
The old-fashioned D7 model was built by Greg Jein specifically for DS9's special 30th anniversary tribute to The Original Series. While faithful to the original D7 model, Jein took liberties with the Gr'oth, including enhanced details similar to those of the Template:ShipClass starship. The model was also painted a vaguely greenish hue, similar to the color scheme of "future" Klingon vessels.
According to Star Trek: Voyager writer, Mike Sussman [1], dialog for the seventh season episode "Prophecy" – suggesting the appearance of a D7-class ship – was written with the intent of reusing the model of the Gr'oth. A K't'inga-class CGI model was used instead, resulting in an apparent discontinuity.
Star Trek Log 4 and the Star Trek Concordance make references to an IKS Devisor as being the ship commander by Koloth in the animated series episode "More Tribbles, More Troubles". Although this is not canon, it may have been acquired from an early version of the episode's script. It also may actually be meant as a reference to the Gr'oth.
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