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Yarnek is the main antagonist of the Star Trek episode "The Savage Curtain".
He was portrayed by the late Janos Prohaska and voiced by the late Bart La Rue, neither of whom was credited for the role.
Biography[]
Yarnek was the representative of the Excalbians, a race who resembled vaguely humanoid rock beings with claws. On first encountering humans, they sought to understand their concept of good and evil. Yarnek brought Captain Kirk and Commander Spock to Excalbia, creating an Earth-like environment for them, and teamed them with simulcrams of Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan. He then presented them with four "evil" figures to combat: Genghis Khan, Colonel Green, Zora and Kahless. He allowed the Enterprise to monitor the conflict.
After an initial inconclusive encounter between the two groups, Yarnek decided that the "good" faction needed a cause to fight for. He thus rigged the Enterprise to explode in four hours and cut off all communication, saying they would only survive if Kirk and Spock won. After Kirk and Spock had killed or driven off their four opponents (albeit at the cost of the lives of their two allies), Yarnek conceded they had won but expressed confusion, saying good and evil seemed to use the same methods. Kirk argued that the cause was the difference: They had fought for the lives of their crew and the "evil" faction had been offered power. Yarnek allowed the pair to leave in peace.
In the novel Savage Trade, Kirk and his crew would again encounter Yarnek, who revealed the true purpose of the test had been to prove humans were lifeforms. His findings had been rejected and he and his associates had been sent into exile. After an encounter with pirates, slave traders and a victim of the Excalbians' gladiator games, they were allowed to settle on a colony.
In Star Trek Online, Yarnek made another attempt to understand good and evil by subjecting captured crew to various trials, initially favouring the ruthlessness of evil until the good faction saved him from the Borg Queen.
