Kodos, also known as Kodos the Executioner, is a character from Star Trek: The Original Series, appearing in the episode "The Conscience of the King." As governor of the Earth colony Tarsus IV in 2246, he ordered the deaths of four thousand of the colony's eight thousand residents under his own theories of eugenics when famine struck.
Presumed dead in a fire, Kodos resurfaced years later living under the alias of the actor Anton Karidian, leader of a traveling theatrical troupe, until Captain James T. Kirk, a survivor of Tarsus IV, uncovered his identity. He was portrayed by Arnold Moss.
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