A small civilian trading vessel impounded during an earlier incident involving Mudd, which Kirk borrows in 2259 for a covert landing on Kronos in pursuit of John Harrison.
The K'normian trading ship appears in the film Star Trek Into Darkness. With the Enterprise stalled at the edge of Klingon space, Kirk decides that sending a Starfleet shuttle to Kronos would be an act of war. He recalls a ship confiscated the month before in what he calls the Mudd incident and has it brought out of the hangar.
Kirk, Spock, Uhura and two security officers put on civilian clothes and fly it down to the abandoned Ketha Province. Klingon patrol craft pick them up and chase them through a ruined industrial landscape, with Kirk squeezing the ship sideways through a narrow gap.
They are forced to land and are surrounded. Uhura's attempt to negotiate is cut short when Harrison opens fire on the Klingons, and the trading ship plays no further part in the story.