The senior Klingon councillor who presides over the Rite of Succession in Redemption and prepares to install Gowron as chancellor before Toral's challenge splits the High Council.
K'Tal is a member of the Klingon High Council who appears in the fourth-season finale Redemption, set in 2367. After the death of Chancellor K'mpec it falls to him to conduct the ceremony in the Great Hall that will make Gowron leader of the Empire.
The rite is interrupted when Lursa and B'Etor produce Toral, the illegitimate son of Duras, and claim the leadership for him. K'Tal turns to Picard, who is still Arbiter of Succession, for a ruling on whether the claim can stand.
Picard rejects it on the ground that Toral has done nothing to earn the position. Most of the council walk out to join the Duras side, and K'Tal later completes Gowron's installation before the few who remain.