A celebrated Klingon author whose novel The Dream of the Fire is Worf's parting gift to Data when the android resigns from Starfleet rather than submit to dismantling.
K'Ratak is a Klingon writer, the author of the novel The Dream of the Fire. He is the only Klingon novelist named in the series and the evidence that the warrior culture prizes prose fiction as well as opera and song.
His book appears in The Next Generation episode The Measure of a Man. When Data resigns his commission to avoid being disassembled by Commander Bruce Maddox, he packs his few possessions, among them a bound copy of The Dream of the Fire given to him by Worf. Data remarks on the gift and Worf observes proudly that the novel reached its full stature in Klingon hands.
K'Ratak himself is never seen and nothing is said of when he lived.