‘For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison’d by their wives: some sleeping kill’d;
All murder’d: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court’

– Richard II, Act 3, Scene 2

The disappearance of Chancellor Martok threatens a seismic shift not only within the Klingon Empire, but across the galaxy. At the behest of Ambassador Hale, Endeavour is sent to Qo’noS to provide diplomatic escort and a fresh pair of eyes in the investigation. But the quagmire of intrigue and secrets, loyalty and betrayal, is rendered all the more challenging by the histories and blood between Rourke and Valance and the leaders of the Empire. After all, for Klingons, the personal is the political.

This mission depicts the events surrounding the Intelligence Office Fiction, ‘The Death of Kings.’