General Rellk was a 23rd century Gorn individual, a military flag grade officer who was the commanding officer of a Gorn Space Command squadron. He had a sense of history and pride in the Gorn people. In the year 2282 Rellk's headquarters on a Gorn training planetoid detected the Starfleet shuttlecraft Kepler (NCC-1864/05) as it crash landed in sector 38. General Rellk believed this was a perfect opportunity to balance the scales for an act of mercy that the Human Captain James T. Kirk had shown to the Gorn Captain S'slee fifteen years earlier. He ordered a medical and rescue party to find and assist the humans.