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Petty Officer, 1st Class Samno was a male Human Starfleet enlisted crewman who lived during the late the 23rd century. He served as a yeoman aboard the USS Enterprise-A, under Captain James T. Kirk in 2293.

That year, Samno, along with Yeoman Burke, participated in the Khitomer conspiracy to sabotage peace talks between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Samno and Burke were on duty in the transporter room when Chancellor Gorkon and his party beamed aboard the Enterprise to attend a formal dinner with Captain Kirk and his crew. After the party had left the transporter room, the two traded racist remarks about the Klingons, Samno commenting "they all look alike."

Following the departure of the Klingon contingent, Gorkon's flagship Kronos One was attacked by a cloaked Bird-of-Prey, suffering severe damage. As the disabled Kronos One drifted out of control, Burke and Samno beamed aboard wearing EV suits and gravity boots, and began systematically murdering Klingons, including Chancellor Gorkon himself. After returning to the Enterprise-A, the pair hid their suits in a ventilation shaft in the ship's officers' mess. However, they accidentally brought aboard some Klingon blood, and their suits were later discovered by Montgomery Scott. When it became clear that the Enterprise-A crew was close to discovering the truth, Burke and Samno were murdered by fellow conspirator Lieutenant Valeris with a phaser set to stun fired at close range.

Later, in a ruse to discover the other conspirator, Captains Kirk and Spock initiated a sting operation, spreading misinformation that Burke and Samno had survived and were going to give statements at once to the court reporter. Kirk and Spock then waited in sickbay to catch Valeris in the act when she came to finish the job of killing the two yeomen. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

Samno was played by stuntman Alan Marcus and listed as "Hitman #2" on the call sheets.
The novel Cast No Shadow gives his full name as "Thomas Samno (β)".
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