Roptojmey

His true Klingon name is unknown; being born with moderate Noonan syndrome, the young child was left abandoned on a trade planet to die. Discovered by a Tellarite newlywed couple, the pair reached out to the Klingon Government to find his family, but was told the child was ‘Roptojmey’, and they were best to let it die. The Tellarites did NOT take that well.

Roptoj in Klingon means scar, as a result of some sort of disease or infection, and –mey means plural or many. So, the pair raised the little Klingon boy and named him Roptojmey in defiance of his ancestral abandonment.  Though he had many special needs growing up, his Tellarite mother was a well-established Federation Doctor, and managed his symptoms to the point that by the time he was a teenager, they were hardly debilitating.

Roptojmey was raised as one of their own, and their disgust for Klingons (the culture, not him) was passed down to their son. Roptojmey chose to follow in his mother’s footsteps and become a doctor, in mockery of what was known of a Klingon’s Honor. “Klingons fight Mortals, Doctors fight Death itself! Therefore, I am the greater warrior!”