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A member of the Klingon Empire's politically influential Duras family; the elder of Duras's two sisters. Following the death of Duras in 2367, Lursa, and her sister, B'Etor, conspired with the Romulan operative Sela to overthrow the Gowron leadership of the Klingon High Council. Their attempt to place Toral, the illegitimate son of Duras, as council leader split the council and plunged the empire into a Klingon civil war until their complicity with the Romulan Star Empire was discovered. Lursa subsequently dropped out of sight for almost two years until she and her sister attempted to raise capital for their armies by selling bilitrium explosives to the Kohn-ma, a Bajoran terrorist organization, in 2369. In 2370, she and her sister illegally mined a magnesite ore deposit on Kalla III which belonged to the Pakleds. They later tried to sell the ore to the Yridians in the Ufandi system. During this time, she became aware that she was pregnant with a male child. In 2371, Lursa and B'Etor assisted Dr. Tolian Soran in stealing trilithium from the Romulans for Soran's experiments so that, in return, they would recieve trilithium weapons technology. Lursa hoped that trilithium weapons could be a powerful tool to reastablish Duras dominance over the Klingon Empire. When the Starship Enterprise-D stumbled upon their activities with Soran at the Armagosa Observatory, Lursa and B'Etor attacked the Enterprise-D. Lursa was killed when the Enterprise-D returned fire, destroying her class D-12 bird-of-prey spacecraft. Lursa was first seen in "Redemption, Part I" (TNG). |
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